Chapter 897 - 267: [Wealthy Family]
Chapter 267: [A Wealthy Household]
The yellow Talisman Paperman danced forward, only to quickly scatter in all directions. Each took its own position to disperse.
Shortly after, as the Talisman Paperman flew a certain distance forward, they all began to emit light.
Following a surge of jade-colored fire, the Talisman Paperman turned to flying ash and burned away completely with the flames.
Among the eight yellow Talisman Paperman, only the one heading southwest did not burn, lightly floating forward on its own.
This time, Chen Yan didn’t need Shen Shiqi’s reminder; he naturally knew what to do.
Without hesitation, he tucked Shen Shiqi under his arm and quickly chased after.
The paper doll flying southwest floated forward for about several miles, gradually losing momentum, slowing down and stopping mid-air, spinning before gradually descending, and then the paper doll also burned away in a blaze of jade-colored fire.
Chen Yan stopped and leapt onto a higher rock, setting down Shen Shiqi.
Shen Shiqi was already dizzy and faint from the bumping, his face looking pale as he knelt on the rock and vomited for a while, almost throwing up everything he had eaten in the morning.
Seeing Shen Shiqi was on the brink of collapse, Chen Yan transferred some Primordial Qi to regulate his blood and meridians, and after a moment, Shen Shiqi came to some senses, albeit speaking weakly, saying softly: "One Guiding Talisman isn’t enough, we need to use it again. That evil cultivator was beaten heavily injured by the old Daoist and fled. Although his whereabouts are unknown, he can’t have run too far."
He paused, took a few breaths, and continued: "The old Daoist told me, back then when he fought that evil cultivator, the evil cultivator fled while fighting, heading here to Iron Spear Mountain. I suppose there must be a hiding place nearby here in these mountains over the years!"
Chen Yan made another Talisman Paperman, activated it with the Six Ding Six Jia technique, and used the Guiding Technique taught by Shen Shiqi again.
However, when Shen Shiqi took out the blood-stained Broken Sword’s peach wood blade, he shook his head: "There isn’t much blood residue left on it. Using the Guiding Technique once absorbs some of the residual blood essence, and after a few uses, when the blood residue is depleted, it won’t be usable anymore."
Chen Yan remained silent, casting spells, and moments later, as the eight Talisman Paperman dispersed, seven automatically burned their way out, leaving only one heading due south...
Thus they repeated until the third use of the Guiding Technique was exhausted. By this time, Chen Yan had wandered in these mountains for an unknown duration—it’s not easy to track a flying paper doll.
In simple terms, because the Talisman Paperman flies, it basically follows a straight line!
Without paths, it flies.
Facing cliffs, it floats across swiftly in thin air; if not for Chen Yan being this kind of cultivator, anyone ordinary trailing would have long lost the lead.
Yet, even so, after the third spell Guiding Technique was exhausted, watching the Talisman Paperman burn to ash, Chen Yan couldn’t help but sigh.
His clothes were already smeared with plenty of dust and plant juice, appearing black and green. Moreover, since wading through a river earlier, his pants were wet.
"The blood essence on the peach wood sword is depleted; we can’t use the Guiding Technique anymore." Shen Shiqi sighed as he looked helplessly at the surrounding mountains, holding the remaining Broken Sword blade.
Chen Yan drank some water and looked at the sun overhead.
The place was a mountain ravine, flanked by a mountain stream, overgrown with weeds along the creek banks. The steep ravine felt eerie and frightening, as if the sky was compressed into a blade-like long space by the peaks.
The sunlight could only penetrate into a thin strip.
This terrain was standard "Eagle’s Sorrow."
He glanced at the time; setting out in the morning, entering the mountain, it was now past one in the afternoon.
Chen Yan took out a bag of bread to hand to Shen Shiqi, passing a bottle of water along with it.
As Shen Shiqi ate and drank heartily, Chen Yan squinted around.
"Without the blood essence, we can’t use the Guiding Technique. Now we can only rely on ourselves to find that evil cultivator’s hiding place... He must be nearby. The three times with the Guiding Technique should have gotten us close! I feel..." Shen Shiqi tried his best to say something to boost morale.
"No need to feel." Chen Yan smiled lightly and bent down to pick up a stick from the ground, tossing it into the air.
The stick landed on the ground, pointing toward the south.
"Let’s go that way." Chen Yan pointed with his hand.
Shen Shiqi was momentarily stunned: "Is it that casual?"
Chen Yan laughed.
But then he slowly replied: "The mountain terrain is steep, the peaks on both sides form a surrounding Qi gathering pattern, the so-called ’Left Azure Dragon, Right White Tiger.’ Yet the right mountain is higher than the left, creating a ’White Tiger Turning Head’ evil Qi place in Fengshui!
With this terrain, the Qi gathered here would be evil Qi.
And the terrain here, north high and south low!
Flowing along the ups and downs of the terrain, the gathered evil Qi will flow southward... since that evil cultivator is an evil cultivator, his hiding place would likely require some sinister elements, and this naturally formed evil Qi is the best place for cultivation."
Shen Shiqi, hearing this, widened his mouth and looked at the stick on the ground: "So that stick..."
"I was just teasing; I threw it intentionally." Chen Yan patted the dust from his hands, looking at Shen Shiqi: "Are you full?"