Chapter 97: The final battle (3)

Not only did I let out a curse, but Hui Gen’er also followed suit and cursed in the Shaanxi dialect. However, I didn’t hear it clearly because my attention was completely drawn to the big head.

What was even more exciting was Ling Ruxue. She grabbed my arm with one hand, and it hurt so much that I could feel the pain. She muttered, “I can’t believe I was able to invite this one.”

Yes, I am familiar with this head, because I have seen it before, but some things are not that you have seen it once, and it is not shocking when you see it a second time, because this is a snake spirit!

Snakes can only be called snake spirits after they have grown to a certain size! Gao Ning actually invited a snake spirit! I originally thought he would invite a spirit, but why a snake spirit?

Is the snake spirit neurotic? I originally thought it was a spirit body, but how could it be a snake spirit?

Unlike the snake spirit I’ve seen before, this snake spirit’s head is a strange black color, with a pair of green eyes that convey a sense of cruelty, tyranny, and even helplessness. I’ve long known that snake spirits have emotions in their eyes.

However, I subconsciously thought that this snake spirit was not something to be trifled with, at least not as difficult to deal with as the one I had seen before. The eyes of the last one were cold, but that was a kind of lazy, human-resistant cold, unlike this one, which was full of tyranny.

It was just a fleeting glimpse, but the snake spirit’s big head suddenly appeared. The image was shocking and terrifying. No matter what, the psychological pressure brought on by the huge body was inevitable.

The snake head stopped in front of Gao Ning, looking up and down at him with a strange look, while Gao Ning looked back at it with excitement. At this point, I admitted that this snake spirit was a little bit crazy.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, as if they had exchanged some information, the snake spirit suddenly moved. It raised its body strangely, then fell heavily, sweeping away the insects that had been gathered by the snake spirit.

Gao Ning turned to me and said, “This is something my grandmother left behind. Is it good?”

My god, his grandmother left him a big snake?! I was shocked by this strange family relic, but I didn’t expect Gao Ning to change the subject the next moment and yell at me, “The snake spirit can’t take these bug people out, otherwise the mother and the old monster will wake up! I can only summon it to obey me for five minutes, so hurry up.”

The snake spirit rolled the pile of bug people directly to the corner, leaving me a space, while Gao Ning took out a bamboo tube, which contained blood of some unknown substance, a strange red color.

He casually sprinkled it on the ground not far away, and then told me, “Don’t go beyond here.”

I understood what he meant. Beyond that point was the 3-meter cordon, but that was enough for me to step into the qi.

I pressed my hands together, and my heart suddenly felt a surge of pressure. If I couldn’t summon the thunder, would I have to use secret techniques like Yuan Yi? If I could summon the thunder, how would I get to this secret room? There was a hole smashed through the wall, but it had already been blocked by the snake spirit’s body.

I don’t know how big this snake spirit is, but it’s body is only part of it that has entered. The rest is in the hole that was smashed out. As for how deep the hole is and how much of its body is outside the hole, it’s not within my scope of consideration.

The chaotic thoughts in my head were not suitable for the practice. I took a deep breath, silently recited the mantra three times to calm my mind, and then began to pinch the fingers, chant the incantation, and step on the first step.

Once I started the ritual, I entered a wonderful state of mind. Even if I saw what was happening outside, I wouldn’t have any other thoughts or emotions.

Between the steps and the steps, the brain is thinking, and the power follows the established route, rushing up to the spirit platform. What is clear in my mind is only the Big Dipper. I can feel the laws of heaven implied in each star, and their cold starlight bathes me.

Gao Ning’s figure was scurrying around me, and I was too weak to think about what he was doing.

I just watched him coldly as he took out a plastic jug from his backpack, then sprinkled the liquid in the jug on the ground within a certain range. Then I saw him take out a metal rod, a telescopic metal rod. He spread the rod and inserted one end into the ground and the other into the top.

The water had no peculiar smell, so it must have been clean water. I didn’t need to think about the function of the rod, I knew it only had one purpose: to attract lightning.

Trees conduct electricity, and this room is under a tree. Metal conducts electricity, and it can concentrate electricity and channel it here. The ground is covered in water, and Gao Ning has simply arranged it to become a lightning field.

That’s not all. At the end, Gao Ning took out a stack of folded wire mesh from his large backpack, spread it out, and carefully and densely laid it on the ground.

I couldn’t think, and I tried hard to suppress the strange emotions that arose in my heart. Ling Ruxue just whispered, “You’re really careful in every step, and you’ve been preparing for this day for a long time.”

Yes, everything was really carefully prepared, with no loose ends.

Gao Ning did not directly answer Ling Ruxue’s question, but said, “I have tried it before. Ordinary thunder and lightning are useless, only Taoist thunder and lightning are effective. I don’t understand the difference, but the combination of Taoist magic and simple technology will be more powerful. Girl, when you have focused on one thing since birth, and now it has been decades, you will be more careful than me.

Ling Ruxue didn’t say anything, and at this time, my step-gong had already finished, and I began to retreat to a certain position, pinching the five thunder formulas, the thunder formula, and reciting the thunder incantation, officially beginning to attract the thunder.

This process was extremely difficult. I could feel the surrounding air field was full of frantic lightning, but it was so difficult to gather them together that when I was performing the incantation, I felt the flow of breath was obscure and difficult.

I felt like I was holding on for dear life. The feeling of fighting with someone at the entrance of a deserted village came back to me. That time, I also had to use the thunder formula, and I also felt extremely difficult. I was only supported by a violent emotion, and I didn’t dare to imagine the consequences.

This time, I went further, and the thunder spell was almost complete, but my legs were already fighting. In the world of spiritual awareness, I already had a sense of being there and not there. Under a layer of obstruction, the thunder points had already been gathered and were ready to go, just waiting for me to trigger the thunder and lightning to pierce through the barrier and fall down.

I guided the thunder and lightning, striking the barrier again and again, but it never broke. Just like the thunder and lightning I was pinching, the last finger could never fall and close, forming a complete thunder and lightning.

I can’t see my own face, but I can’t exhale in one breath. I feel my neck swelling, my face turning red, and my legs and hands shaking.

I heard Gao Ning shouting anxiously, “Is it going to work or not?”

I heard Ruoxue say, “Chengyi, don’t force yourself!”

Is it a constraint? Why did I start using the lower-level Taoist techniques so conservatively? Why didn’t I… I was a little annoyed. My emotions were churning in my heart. This was a very bad phenomenon. If I wasn’t careful, I would be bitten back. I already felt that the lightning I was pulling was showing signs of being uncontrollable and about to dissipate.

No, I can’t let that happen. If the lightning doesn’t come down, we’ll all die. I can’t afford to lose Ruoxue, I can’t afford to lose Huigen, and I can’t afford to lose my own life.

I roared, and then I stopped the incantation. I reached into my backpack and took out a golden needle. The next moment, I flipped my hand, and the golden needle pierced my neck, near the brain stem. Then my brain twitched, and I felt my thoughts concentrate as never before. It was as if my brain was filled with cargo, about to explode, and the swelling pain almost burst my head open.

At this moment, I started to recite the thunder spell again, and began to quickly recite it again. This time, I felt it. Many streams of thunder and lightning were twisted into a thick stream of thunder and lightning, which slammed down hard under the barrier.

A loud boom echoed in my head, the barrier shattered, and the lightning poured out like a flood!

I succeeded in successfully inducing the thunder, but at the same time, my throat felt sweet, and a mouthful of blood couldn’t help but spurt out. My nose was also itchy, and I guessed I had a nosebleed.

My consciousness was a bit fuzzy, but I still had to guide the thunder, otherwise the thunder would be scattered.

In the haze, I seemed to see my master again. He was holding a golden needle and said to me, “Chengyi, this method of acupuncture with needles should not be used indiscriminately, especially since we are not medical practitioners. If the acupuncture points are not accurately located and the needle hits the brain stem, the person could die.”

“Then why do you have this secret technique? Only a fool would use it,” I said disdainfully.

“The magic of acupuncture points is something you can never understand. I only know a little about it. But I know that in our Shanzi school, all the obscure powers, whether they are spiritual or soul powers, rely on the brain. And when the brain is in danger, it will burst out with magical potential that you can’t explain. It will also be highly concentrated under pressure, and the mind will run many times faster than usual at that moment. This acupuncture point is close to the most dangerous part of the brain stem, which actually creates a dangerous illusion for the brain, and then stimulates potential. But after this false danger alarm is lifted, the person will fall into weakness. The reason is very simple. The brain power is concentrated in advance, and then… then a bunch of brain cells die.

“Master, you’re talking nonsense…”

Master, I silently mumbled to myself.