Chapter 84: The Cat Spirit

Looking at the crowd that continued to flock from all directions, I thought about the few minutes I had gained, and I gritted my teeth. If the heavens allowed such a village to go against the heavens, and if I had to bear the great consequences of this formation, then I would accept it.

When Yin Yu enters the formation, he steps on the five-pointed star and the incantation of the formation is slowly recited as I step on the five-pointed star. Such a formation still requires the power of the person who set it up.

Fortunately, the formation itself is the main force, like a bag of ready-made explosives, containing infinite power. The blessing of the magic power is just like igniting the flame of that bag of explosives, which is not too exhausting.

After a minute, with my last step of the five-pointed star and the last chant, the formation was activated. In general, Taoist formations are not very spectacular, except for some special formations.

But this Ten-Demon Array is a typical special array. When the array is activated, a gust of wind immediately blows up, and then a gray mist gathers from all directions at a speed visible to the naked eye. Then comes the cold, not the cold of the senses, but the cold of the heart.

The formation has been activated and the effect is immediate. Even the three of us have a cold and weak feeling. If we stay for a while, the curse effect will inevitably come out.

I looked up and was secretly shocked. The formation was not what I had planned. It was getting bigger and bigger. I had originally only intended to cover this small grove, but now the scope had far exceeded the small grove.

There was too much evil energy gathering.

I immediately figured out why this was happening, and it was clear how much blood had been shed in this village!

“Huigen, bless yourself with your own spiritual power.” I hurriedly ordered Huigen, “The formation has no eyes. It won’t hurt the three of us just because I set it up. I just know how to get out of this formation.

As for me, I began to recite a spell to drive away evil spirits, and then I pulled Ling Ruxue over, holding her hand tightly. This was not because I wanted to take advantage of her, but purely because in the face of Taoist formations, Ling Ruxue did not have the power to protect herself. I held her hand just to give her some positive energy to ward off evil spirits.

I don’t need to worry about Hui Gen, he is better than me at exorcising evil spirits.

Ling Ruxue’s cold hands finally warmed up a little when I held her hand. After all, she was a woman, and I guessed she was a cultivator of evil spirits. Naturally, her yang energy was not very strong, and it was certain that she would be the first to be corroded by these evil spirits.

“Follow me.” The formation was complete, and I wouldn’t worry about the Hmong people chasing me in the mist, so there was no need to run in a panic.

Ling Ruxue finally didn’t have to transform into a woman like the wind.

In the formation, the sounds of wailing and moaning could be heard everywhere. The sins of the ancestors gathered together a negative energy field, and the descendants came to bear the consequences. This can also be considered a small cause and effect in this village. My heart is as hard as stone, and I don’t think these sounds of wailing and moaning sound like I need to be soft-hearted.

Under my guidance, we moved forward step by step, and in the thick fog and darkness, we didn’t worry about who would see us.

This is the formation I spent all my energy to set up. Back then in the deserted village, the old village chief was able to turn the place into a thick fog of grievances just with his own grievances.

I still remember the route that Gao Ning took me last time. It was hidden and fast, and it made use of almost all the blind spots in the visual field. As long as we took that route, we could rest assured.

If the trip goes smoothly, we will be able to escape from this Black Rock Miao village tonight.

Thinking this way, my pace quickened a little, but it seemed that the seemingly easy walk was also very unclear to me. When chanting, it is generally required to concentrate fully. I had to lead the way and concentrate on chanting, using two minds at once. In fact, at that time, my head was already throbbing, and if I couldn’t get out in a little more time, I estimated that I would not be able to hold on either.

After a few minutes, we finally managed to get out of the formation, but then, something strange happened again. I heard a very strange sound coming from the woods.

It was a human voice, but the voice was very strange. It was chanting a language I didn’t understand, like a madman, and it sounded like singing. The most puzzling thing was that his voice didn’t sound very loud, but it spread easily throughout the forest.

I heard the voice, but I was too afraid to ask anything because of our current situation. However, Ling Ruxue, whose hand I was holding, suddenly trembled inexplicably. She suddenly whispered, “Oh no, the witch is practicing witchcraft.”

Hearing this, I was very anxious, and the spell was interrupted by this emotion. In an instant, the coldness surrounded Ling Ruxue and me again. I didn’t know much about witchcraft, but I had no doubt that the witch’s power was far superior to mine. Taoism originated from witchcraft, which was different but common. This witch was practicing witchcraft at this time, so even if he couldn’t break my formation by normal means, he could catch us in some way.

“Hui Gen’er, stop chanting and run with me.” At this point, even if I had a small amount of evil spirits cursing me, I couldn’t care less. I had to quickly run out of this foggy area. I held Ling Ruxue in one hand and Hui Gen’er in the other, closed my eyes, opened my heavenly eyes, and without thinking twice, I took them and started running again.

The sound of the witch, like a ghost, always followed us, as if we could hear his crazy voice wherever we ran, and it became more and more urgent, like the drumbeat beating on our hearts, making it hard to breathe.

After a minute or so, I finally made it out of the fog with Ruoxue and Huigen, and set foot on the path that Gaoning had taken me on last time. This location was more secluded, and I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Strangely, once we left the foggy area, the sound gradually became faint and inaudible. I closed my third eye and leaned against the wall to catch my breath. The burden I had just felt was not light at all. I had to hurry and recover.

Ling Ruoxue thoughtfully took a jug of water from her bag and gave it to me. In fact, water is a good thing for Taoists. Without the kind of pills that restore the spirit against the will of heaven, a jug of water can temporarily clear the mind and stimulate the spirit.

I took the water bottle and drank two sips, then poured some on my head. I felt better. I knew that we were only taking the first step in our escape. I couldn’t use too many of my trump cards. It was already pretty good to be able to recover like this.

“He is practicing evil witchcraft. In the area where the evil spirits are present, the sound gathers and does not disperse, spreading everywhere. That is a characteristic of evil witchcraft.” Ling Ruxue said calmly to me while I was drinking water.

No one would believe that she, as a Bai Miao witch, did not have a certain understanding of witchcraft.

I don’t know how to practice witchcraft, but that doesn’t stop me from having a little understanding of it. In my opinion, witchcraft is always weird, uncontrollable, and even cold and ruthless, because the cost of casting it is particularly high, but the effect is also particularly strong. Once cast, it is always out of control, not to mention the misery of the person being cast, and even the innocent will be affected.

After hearing Ling Ruxue say this, I handed the kettle back to Ling Ruxue and said, “Let’s run.”

I just had a hunch that we had to run, and I didn’t want to wait for my words to finish before they were interrupted by a particularly miserable and heart-rending sound from the foggy area not far from us!

The sound was not at all strange, and people should be familiar with it because it was just a simple cat’s meow, but it was so uncomfortable to listen to.

It was like the sound of a cat in heat, like a baby crying, and it made everyone who heard it feel uncomfortable. This sound was even more miserable and ten times more miserable than that sound.

I kept walking, but my face suddenly became heavy. After the cat’s cry, I also heard people’s even more miserable cries. In a panic, people’s cries were naturally in the Miao language. I couldn’t hear it clearly, but I could hear the despair and panic in the cries.

My palms were sweating, and I suddenly felt that I was too cruel to have set up the Ten Deadly Traps and then led the witch to perform her rituals. If I caused dozens of people to die because of this, the consequences would be severe, and how could I bear it?

This thought occupied my mind like a demon. Ling Ruxue did not understand my confusion, and as she ran after me, she suddenly said in a very agitated voice for the first time, “Cat spirit, cat spirit, the witch actually summoned this!”

My heart was in a whirl, and I asked, “What is it?”

“That is the most evil thing. It will cling to anyone it sees, and the person it clings to will immediately develop sores and pus all over their body, and their condition will be miserable. Your Yin Qi Array is its favorite, and it can’t be trapped at all. Moreover…” Ling Ruxue’s face had already become very ugly when she got to this point.

I couldn’t help but ask, “And what?”

“And it will never stop pursuing its targets. We have lived here for so long, and the person who cast the spell must have our scent, so these cat spirits will always be after us.” Ling Ruoxue said to me.

What is the scent trail? When did we lose this thing? My heart was in a whirl, and I was even more panicked. As if to match my panic, the cat’s howl in the foggy area was getting louder and louder, and it sounded like a group of cats were wailing in agony. More and more people’s cries for help had also come, and I was afraid that I would see a group of cats suddenly escaping from the foggy area.

The graveyard behind the ancestral hall was getting closer and closer. At this moment, I dared not hope that the witch who cast the spell would not know our movements. Although the cat spirit was a little less controllable, I believed that the spirit and the witch must be connected in spirit. The cat spirit tracked us here, so the witch would naturally know our movements.

Hurry, hurry!

Ling Ruxue seemed to know what I was thinking, and said to me, “The scent of the spirit is undoubtedly something that has been contaminated with human scent, such as bodily fluids and hair. Even if these things of yours have not been collected by them, your blood…”

My face fell, and I immediately thought of the Nanyang jiangtou technique, which I had never had the opportunity to see. At least from this point, I was sure that they originated from witchcraft.

At this point, there was no other way, no other way out. There was only one thing to do: find Gao Ning quickly, and try to buy a few minutes to think. Gao Ning knew this village so well, maybe he had a way to control the cat spirit?

Thinking this way, my pace quickened, and Huigen and Ling Ruxue obviously knew the gravity of the situation, and followed me, almost running to the limit of their speed.

The road was originally very secretive, and as long as we were careful, we would definitely not be discovered. However, we were running so arrogantly that people had already seen us along the way and started to shout.

But at this point, who cares? Just run, run, run…

We finally ran out of the hidden path, past the ancestral hall, and into the graveyard, but behind us, the sound of a group of cats was heard. I didn’t dare to look back. As for the cat spirits, even if I looked back, I couldn’t see anything without opening my heavenly eyes.

But I was sure that the cat spirits had already broken through the fog and were following us. While running, I had already prepared the hand gestures. This was an auxiliary hand gesture that only stimulated my power to instantly activate.

Because I knew that there were four men guarding the abandoned cemetery, I was prepared to use Taoist roar power to instantly subdue them, after all, my time was running out.

However, when I arrived at the abandoned cemetery, I was pleasantly surprised to find that no one was there. It wasn’t until I got closer that I saw the four men lying on the ground, looking like nobody was there under the cover of the weeds.

Without thinking, I knew it must have been Gao Ning. Could Gao Ning have done this? I suddenly felt that I couldn’t see through him anymore.

At the same time, under these circumstances, I couldn’t help but notice that Ling Ruxue’s face had changed slightly.

As soon as I stepped into this graveyard, I heard a voice shouting at us, “Over here! Hurry! Hurry over!”

I looked up and saw a figure guarding the entrance to the tunnel at the large grave. Without thinking, it was Gao Ning. I was slightly relieved. Just as I had judged, Gao Ning had indeed seen the wind chimes and came here in advance to help us.

In the night, in a state of shock, I ran to Gao Ning’s side. I didn’t have time to take a look at him. I first shoved Hui Gen into the hole, then pulled Ling Ruxue in, and then climbed in myself. Naturally, Gao Ning was behind us.

Naturally, we were followed by the cat spirit, and as soon as Gao Ning entered the cave, he suddenly asked, “How did you get into this?”

And when I saw Gao Ning’s outfit, I was stunned too.