Chapter 38: The reappearance of the tiger spirit, and the master passing on the teachings

Tricked, retreat? My scalp went numb. Not to mention the shout from my master, even the scene I saw with my eyes told me that something was definitely wrong. Why would the bark of a normal tree suddenly burst open?

But was it still possible to retreat? The bark of the tree burst open very quickly, and the next moment, the bark fell off in pieces. A strange hand appeared, and as the bark fell, a monster that I would never forget was revealed!

I can hardly describe what it was. It was barely humanoid, wearing a strange robe, and had no hair at all. It was barely possible to see its facial features, but they were not human at all. They were… a bit like those of a doll, but far less delicate and cute! The most terrifying thing about this monster is its eyes. They are lifeless, with a lot of blood clots floating on them, and they don’t have any luster. Unlike normal human eyes, the monster’s eyes are completely exposed, like someone has been stripped of their eyelids.

Moreover, the moment I saw the eyeball, I knew it was the eyeball of a dead person!

What words can never describe is the sense of time. From the moment the master shouted to the moment the monster appeared, it was only a matter of a few seconds. My brain only had time to react to the appearance of the monster, and I didn’t even have time to think about what it was. Where did I have time to step back?

The originally clear and peaceful weather changed the moment the monster appeared, at least in my eyes. It suddenly became dark and oppressive, and the strange wind blew up the sand and stones in the open field, dazzling my eyes. Or maybe it was that indescribable black mist. In an instant, I couldn’t even see the surrounding scenery clearly.

In the haze, I could only see the monster twisting its joints in a strange and stiff manner, and it was rushing towards me.

It was just a matter of seconds, and in those few seconds, I only had time to do two things. One was to subconsciously take a few quick steps back, and the other was to instinctively tear open the seal on the tiger’s paw.

I was very lucky that I was able to maintain this instinct in a state of high panic. I took two quick steps backwards, which allowed me to avoid the monster’s clawed hands. It was a clawed hand, because there was no flesh on the hand at all, it was as thin as a twig, and the sharp nails on it only reminded me of one kind of monster鈥攁 zombie.

But is this monster a zombie? Obviously not!

The monster lunged at me again. My vision was already at its limit due to the dust and the looming black mist. I didn’t know what my master and the others were doing, so I just punched the monster as hard as I could. I didn’t know what kind of magic to use against such a thing. In addition, Taoist magic, unless it is a talisman, requires a certain amount of preparation time to be deployed. Obviously, in this situation, I didn’t have time to perform any magic.

I didn’t expect my punch to have any effect, I just hoped to temporarily repel the monster. At that moment, I was in a trance, and a familiar roar seemed to explode in my head…

“Roar…” A tiger roar. The tiger spirit, which usually didn’t pay much attention to me and seemed to be nonexistent, was once again stimulated and awakened.

I had a flash of insight. When my emotions reach a limit, or when I face a powerful evil spirit, this tiger spirit will appear. This should be the rule.

When the tiger spirit appears, my consciousness will fall into a trance-like state. After years of nurturing, it and I have become symbiotic souls. When it takes the lead, my own consciousness will of course enter a very clear, but not autonomous state.

With a roar from the tiger spirit, the dust and black mist in the sky seemed to have met a nemesis, and were suddenly shaken apart, revealing the clear sky outside.

At this moment, I finally saw clearly that the monster’s claws were about to collide with my fists. I couldn’t help but smile bitterly. Fists against claws, I could see that my fists would be bloody from the claws, and God knows what the claws of these strange things made by the witches of the Black Rock Miao Village were capable of.

My consciousness was becoming more and more hazy, a kind of lucidity with a hazy feeling, just like the last time in the wormhole, except that it was much more lucid, and the perception of external events was much clearer. It was just that this haze had plunged me into a strange state, and the world I saw was as hazy as opening the eyes of the heavens.

In this state, the monster I saw was no longer the monster, but had become a woman with black blood tears hanging from her eyes, a vengeful look, and a huge wound on her body.

On the woman’s shoulders, a blood-red baby was lying, with a strange smile, sticking out its black tongue, staring at me with its eyes that had turned completely black.

“If the hatred of a ghost is so strong that it can be seen in its eyes, you must avoid it immediately when you open your third eye and see a ghost with black eyes. Do not provoke it in any way, and do not use any magic or self-defense methods. Because such a ghost has already transcended the level of a fierce ghost, and has transformed into a pure monster of resentment. It is already doomed to have no reincarnation, and its eyes are black, which means that it only has hatred in its eyes, a hatred so great that there is no possibility of its being converted.

This is a common sense that my master explained to me when I first learned to control the heavenly eye. He also said that this kind of monster is very rare, and there is almost no chance of encountering it, and if you encounter it, you will basically die! At that time, I was still a child, and I had not yet learned any magic. My master just told me this.

But I never thought that I would encounter such a monster in my lifetime in the Black Rock Miao Village.

But after the initial panic, my mind was already calm. I don’t know if it was because of the tiger spirit’s awakening, but I was already certain of what the monsters in front of me were. They were undoubtedly the angry mother and the infant spirit. Although the infant spirit had already been used to summon the angry mother in Master’s words, now the two angry spirits had merged into one, which was somewhat different, but it was still them.

What I didn’t know was what I was, because I saw with my own eyes that the fist I had extended had turned into a tiger’s paw, and the tiger’s claws on the tiger’s paw were no less fearsome than the claws of the monster.

In reality, my hand and the monster’s claws did not touch, but in the state of the heavenly eye, the tiger’s hand had already slammed down on the vengeful spirit, bringing out five dark wounds. At the same time, the vengeful spirit’s claws also grabbed onto the tiger’s hand, and I clearly saw that the lifelike tiger’s hand dimmed a bit.

The tiger roared and took two steps back, while in reality I took a few big steps back.

“Chirp, chirp, chirp…” “Ha, ha, ha…” The resentment emitted a very strange and venomous sound, and it also took a few steps back. The chirping sound was emitted by the infant spirit, and the venomous and terrifying laughter was emitted by the resentment mother. The two sounds mixed together, giving me goosebumps.

I couldn’t help but curse in my heart, “I know you’re pitiful, but you can’t become a chicken after being pitiful, can you? And you’re still chirping!

The process took only a dozen seconds. Afterwards, someone described the scene to me. It was as if a strange wind blew up around me, blowing away a small clearing. Then the monster pounced at me with its claws, and I weirdly swung my fist, and then… the monster and I both took two big steps back.

“Good, the tiger spirit has grown to such a degree that it is almost ready to give birth to a soul. Chengyi, quickly retreat to the position I said, listen carefully to what I say next, and master will teach you how to use the tiger spirit to buy us some time.” The voice of the master came, and I looked back in a daze. I didn’t know when the master had already been in the clearing, and he wasn’t too far away from me.

I was moved. My master had clearly been standing outside the clearing. This was a group effort, and everyone had to follow the plan. My master must have seen that I was in danger and rushed over without thinking.

He must have seen the appearance of the tiger spirit and stopped.

“Hurry, listen carefully. I only have time to say the incantation once!” Master shouted.

I hurriedly listened carefully, not knowing if I would be able to perform the so-called method of controlling the tiger spirit completely.

The speed of the master’s speech was very fast, and I concentrated on my breathing and quickly acted. As the spell unfolded, I felt the tiger spirit gradually leaving my body. Just when there was only a trace of connection left, the master shouted, “Bite your tongue. Half of the blood will spray on the tiger spirit, and the other half will spray on the tiger’s claws. Hurry…”