Above the Great Dao
Chapter 126 - 74: Someone in the Belly

Chapter 126: Chapter 74: Someone in the Belly

Chen Shi didn’t respond, then suddenly said, "The evil spirit is nearby, how can you still dare to approach?"

As soon as his words fell, the crowd around him immediately dispersed.

"Move further away."

The crowd retreated even farther.

Chen Shi took out a stick of incense, lit it, and placed it at the feet of the grey-clothed rat, saying, "You are from elsewhere, right? May I ask which mountain is your precious place?"

The grey-clothed rat sniffed the fragrance of the incense, showing a look of intoxication, and said, "How do you know I’m not from Qianyang Mountain?"

Chen Shi smiled and said, "I’m most familiar with Qianyang Mountain, I’ve seen all sorts of evil spirits, but I have never seen you. Did you transform from a rat into an evil spirit?"

The grey-clothed rat said, "I belong under Granny Black Mountain and reside in Black Mountain. Today, I was passing by this precious place to catch some autumn breeze. I heard there was a demon transformation here, and Granny said if too many fellow Daoists died, we might move here."

Chen Shi slightly furrowed his brows; Black Mountain was located on the other side of Dejiang, much smaller in scale compared to Qianyang Mountain. The evil spirits of Black Mountain and those of Qianyang Mountain always kept to themselves; this time the grey-clothed rat coming to Qianyang Mountain to consume humans probably meant it thought many evil spirits had died during the demon transformation and saw it as an opportunity to take over the mountain.

"So, you are under Granny Black Mountain. I have long heard of Granny Black Mountain’s reputation."

Chen Shi’s expression relaxed, and he smiled, "Please convey a message to Granny Black Mountain for me, tell her..."

The grey-clothed rat was listening when Chen Shi suddenly stepped forward, threw a punch, and the grey-clothed rat, unable to dodge or counterattack quickly enough, immediately raised its tail, its tip reaching above Chen Shi’s head!

A thunder sound echoed beside its ear; before Chen Shi’s fist could even hit, the rat’s soul was shattered!

"Bang!"

The punch landed on its chin; the grey-clothed rat’s neck twisted into a knot, its body spinning and flying up, falling several meters away, twitching a few times, then motionless.

But before Chen Shi’s punch touched it, it was already killed by the thunder sound produced by the punch.

Such a low-level evil spirit was most afraid of thunder sound. It needed to hide on thunderstorm days, or it would be killed by the thunder noise.

Despite experiencing the pain of losing his grandfather, Chen Shi had come out and diligently trained day and night; the Beidou Seven Refinements refined his bones, heart, blood, flesh, skin, energy, spirit, and strength grew ever more formidable, and the thunder sound produced by his punches and kicks grew louder, capable of shaking souls and damaging spirits effortlessly.

Although the thunder sound he produced was not a spell, it was as potent as a spell.

"Just say, ’If you want to establish yourself on my Qianyang Mountain, have you paid respects to the mountain?’"

Chen Shi shouted those words, then suddenly felt sleepy, involuntarily closing his eyes, a smile on his face, and he actually fell asleep standing.

Suddenly, he woke up, a chill running down his spine.

He had attacked first but still got hit by the grey-clothed rat’s tail tip; it had merely touched his head a couple of times, and he had fallen into a deep sleep! frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

This was a miraculous skill that he had never encountered before!

"This evil spirit is tricky! It knows spells!"

Chen Shi strode forward, reaching the grey-clothed rat’s side when suddenly, a sound came from the corner of the rat’s clothing; a paper talisman hidden underneath caught fire.

In the firelight, Chen Shi saw clearly that the talisman depicted an Invisibility Talisman.

Drawing an Invisibility Talisman was extremely difficult; it had to be drawn on clam paper.

Producing clam paper was also a troublesome affair.

Clam, which referred to the mirage, was skilled in concealment, able to spew out misty illusions like mirage towers to hide its true body.

A thousand-year-old mirage was indeed a clam.

By harvesting the clam’s shell, grinding it into powder, mixing it with pulp, and drying it into paper, that was clam paper.

Then using vermillion black dog blood as ink, inscribing imperatives above, the texts of The Three Pure Ones below, followed by the names "Yu Cheng," "Yu Hu," "Yu Qing," representing Han Zhongli, Lv Dongbin, and Han Xiangzi, further below were the Beidou Hidden Text, three kinds of trigram hidden texts, and jade rings.

Not many talisman masters who knew how to draw an Invisibility Talisman were around; Chen Shi and his grandfather sold talismans around Qianyang Mountain and had never encountered such a talisman master.

But this rat that had turned evil, carrying an Invisibility Talisman to harm people, was quite strange.

"What exactly is Granny Black Mountain’s background? Why can her underling rats carry such a precious Invisibility Talisman? Why do evil spirits also know spells?"

Chen Shi was greatly puzzled.

At this moment, the man whose forearm had been eaten woke up, holding his hand, crying out in pain, then fainted again.

Chen Shi quickly had someone carry him to seek medical treatment to save his life.

As for the grey-clothed rat, after its death, it did not dissolve into blood and vanish; its corpse was still there, which greatly intrigued Chen Shi.

After he and Li Tianqing had killed the Traction Worm, it turned into a fishy-smelling blood water, but the grey-clothed rat was obviously not the same as the Traction Worm.

"How strange. Could there be different kinds of evil spirits?"

Chen Shi took out paper and pen, drawing the features of the grey-clothed rat, especially its tail, with great attention to detail.

Next to the drawing of the grey-clothed rat, he wrote down this kind of evil spirit’s characteristics and its fear of thunder sound.

"It can be executed with a Thunder Talisman."

Chen Shi put away his pen, blew on the still wet ink, put it into his book basket, then took out a small knife, stepped forward, cut off the grey-clothed rat’s tail, and closely examined it.

The rat’s tail tip seemed either tempered or naturally formed, glinting like red jade, crystalline and flexible.

Chen Shi used this tail tip to press on his own head a few times, then suddenly collapsed, falling asleep with a bizarre smile on his face.

After a while, he woke up, suddenly shocked as he looked at the rat’s tail tip.

Nearby, Black Pot rolled his eyes; the little master was being silly again, using himself as a test subject.

Chen Shi realized he should not use himself for experimentation, so he proceeded to massage the dog’s head with the rat’s tail tip a couple of times; Black Pot stuck his tongue out, stiffened its limbs, and collapsed, sleeping soundly.

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