Chapter 119: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas

There were no spells, no yellow paper talismans, and not even any Taoist techniques, just with a single leaf, Teacher Liu Ke was invisible.

I can't believe it!

I got up and walked up.

I'm going to figure out what the hell is going on.

I stepped up to the podium and asked into the air:

"Teacher Liu, where are you?"

No one answered.

"Teacher Liu? Can you see me? ”

Then I stretched out my hands and touched them up and down to the position where Mr. Liu Ke was standing just now.

I thought I couldn't touch anything, but I clearly touched Mr. Liu Ke's body.

Hair, head, chest, belly......

There will be no false sense of touch.

That is to say, Mr. Liu's stealth technique is just stealth, others can't see him, but his body hasn't disappeared, it's real.

"Stinky boy, where are you going?"

Suddenly, there was a sound in the air in front of me.

Guys, you are walking and suddenly a voice floats in the air in front of you, how do you feel?

If I hadn't been prepared, I would have been scared.

Even so, I was so frightened that I retreated.

I really want to shout:

"Elder Sun, quickly collect the supernatural powers!"

It's a pity that Mr. Liu's surname is Liu, not Sun.

I returned to my seat, and Mr. Liu, like before, suddenly came out of the air.

We were all dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.

Who would believe it if they didn't see it with their own eyes!

Teacher Liu carefully put the leaf back into the box, locked it, and put it away.

It seems that the key to stealth is that leaf.

But a leaf can be invisible, isn't that nonsense!

If it's true, then if it's replaced by a tree, the whole world will not be hidden.

But Mr. Liu Ke let this nonsense come true!

Teacher Liu Ke looked at us with a confused look and said to us:

"I have long known that Maoshan technique and stealth technique are incompatible, especially the stealth technique of our Maoshan righteous path, which is not easy to steal against demons and monsters!

Using the Maoshan technique to practice stealth will only fall into a dead end and I can't extricate myself, so I turned to find other ways, but I'm incompetent! ”

To our surprise, Mr. Liu Ke began to blame himself:

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault for being dull and incompetent, I've studied it for most of my life, tried countless methods, but I haven't been able to develop the stealth technique, if the stealth technique could have been created by me decades earlier, Maoshan Academy wouldn't have ...... back then Senior winemaker, he won't be like this! Alas! The past is unbearable......"

Teacher Liu Ke didn't finish his words, but we also vaguely felt that Maoshan College had an unknown bloody past, and it was this past that caused Teacher Jiufeng Zhe to stand in this strange appearance and strange character.

Mr. Liu Ke is reluctant to mention it, and it is inconvenient for us to ask, so as not to cause memories of the sad past.

Teacher Liu Ke gradually recovered his emotions, and then began to get excited again:

"However, the emperor lives up to his wishes, and with the blessing of my ancestors, the stealth technique was still discovered by me."

Note that the words used by Mr. Liu Ke to say this sentence were discovered by him, not developed by him.

That is to say, the stealth technique has existed before, but for some reason it was forgotten by later generations and rediscovered by Mr. Liu Ke.

Things are getting more and more unbelievable.

Stealth is also becoming more and more mysterious.

Teacher Liu Ke then recounted the origin of the stealth technique:

"Many years ago, I read a literary story, translated into vernacular, which means that there is a Chu people, most of their lives have lived a very poor life, once when reading the book "Huainanzi", I accidentally saw the first half of the book explaining "the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind", why such an alert cicada can be captured by the praying mantis, the reason is that the praying mantis uses a leaf to cover its body when it snoops on the cicada, and it can hide its body in this way", so this Chu person has the mentality of trying, Climb up under the tree and pluck a leaf, which is the leaf that the praying mantis makes invisible when it watches the cicada.

But it was also the Chu man who was unlucky, this leaf was held by the Chu people, but it accidentally slipped and fell under the tree, and there were already many fallen leaves under the tree, and it was no longer possible to distinguish which one was the leaf that the praying mantis was invisible.

The Chu people had no choice but to sweep and collect several baskets of leaves under the tree and take them home, cover themselves with leaves one by one, and then ask their wives, "Can you see me?"

At first, the wife of the Chu people always replied, "I can see it", and after a whole day, the wife of the Chu people was so tired and tired that she could not bear it, and finally had no choice but to deceive him and say, "I can't see it." ”

The Chu people were secretly happy in their hearts, so they carried the leaf into the bazaar and took other people's belongings in front of others, but they were caught, so the servants tied him up and sent him to the county yamen. The county magistrate interrogated him in court, and the Chu people themselves told the story from beginning to end, and the county magistrate laughed and released him without punishment.

This story is just for the ancients to educate future generations, don't be delusional about getting something for nothing, if you have evil intentions, you will do some stupid things.

So I didn't pay attention to it at the time.

It wasn't until three days ago, when I failed again and was helpless, that this story popped into my head again, and then it occurred to me that we all seemed to ignore a question, that is, if that Chu man didn't slip off the leaf that the praying mantis used for stealth, but instead held the leaf, would the result be completely different?

You must know that our ancestors, nothing they did was nonsense, it was all grounded.

So I quickly flipped through the book "Huainanzi", and really found this sentence in this book:

"The praying mantis can be invisible when it leaves its self-avoidance", I am even more convinced that that leaf is definitely not an ordinary leaf.

It's summer now, there are a lot of cicadas, although there are few praying mantises, but in our Maoshan Academy, there are still some, it didn't take much effort, I found one, sure enough, when I put the leaves on my eyebrows, I was really invisible, I passed in front of the wine junior brother and the head junior brother, they really couldn't see me.

But I'm not satisfied, because you Teacher Gao can see me, and those ghosts in Maoshan Academy can also see me, what is the difference between this and the stealth technique in history? It's not the stealth I want.

The stealth technique I want is not simply invisible to people, but to make ghosts not visible, and I want it to be used in our demon slaying and demon slaying.

And I guess the key to this is the difference in leaves.

So I took you Teacher Gao, and the two of us tried all the leaves of Maoshan Academy for three days, and finally at noon today, on a willow tree, I put a willow leaf covering the mantis at the center of my eyebrows, you Teacher Gao, you can't see me.

I know I succeeded.

I finally followed the teachings of my grandfather and my master, and pioneered and innovated the art of catching ghosts and subduing demons. ”

After saying all this, Mr. Liu Ke smiled even brighter, just like a child, grinning and happy.

(End of chapter)