Chapter 17: Invisibility
Just as the bat demon was once again giving orders to the five beautiful girls in white, a burst of blue light suddenly appeared on the surface of the already dim fireball at the top of the passage, and through this burst of blue light, a spell could be faintly seen on the surface of the sphere. Yu Fei'er understood that this must be Wen Yiyang's spell that had worked, and he hurriedly concentrated his energy and concentrated his five elements qi through the ground under his feet to the stone hand he had turned out at the top of the passage, and then controlled the stone hand on the top floor of the passage to quickly turn the fireball in his hand.
After Yu Fei'er completely flipped the fireball in the palm of Shi Shou's palm up and down, the spell that had faintly appeared on the surface of the sphere and emitted blue light slowly returned to the sphere. As the spell disappeared, and the fireball lost its light again, a blue bright spot appeared in the center of the bottom of the sphere, and this blue bright spot continued to expand at the bottom of the sphere, and soon spread across the entire surface of the sphere.
It is too late to say that it is too late, but in fact, this series of changes that occur on the surface of the sphere is extremely rapid. Just as the five beautiful girls in white were about to pounce on Yu Fei'er and the three of them after receiving the order of the bat demon, the entire surface of the fireball was completely covered with a layer of blue light, and began to emit a soft light blue light outward. I really didn't expect that this fireball that was still burning before had turned into a transparent crystal ball with a constant blue glow, and the blue light that continued to emanate from the crystal ball had already covered the rocks in the entire passage with a light blue veil at this time.
Although the light in the passage changed rapidly again, this time the five beautiful girls in white ignored it and just waved the dagger in their hands and pounced on the three of them. Seeing that the daggers in the hands of the five beautiful girls in white were about to stab Yu Fei'er and the three of them, several white lightning bolts suddenly struck out from the blue crystal ball at the top of the passage, and then countless water columns sprayed out from the surface of the crystal ball.
The five beautiful girls in white saw that they were about to succeed, but unexpectedly, after a few white lights suddenly flashed above their heads, countless water columns rushed down, and the five people who were defenseless rushed to the east and west. These jets of water sprayed from the crystal ball had a strong impact, and the five beautiful girls in white had to let go of the shawls they were holding in their hands in order to control their bodies and prevent the water jets from being washed down. But despite this, they still did not resist the impact of the water column, and finally all five of them were washed to the ground by the water jet sprayed from the crystal ball.
As the five beautiful girls in white loosened the white shawls in their hands, the white shawls tied to the three of them immediately seemed to have lost their mana, and slowly disappeared from the three of them. The white-bearded old man said while moving his muscles and bones: "It's really strange, how can this white shawl disappear by itself after touching the water." But then again, thanks to these shawls, the old clothes were not wet with water. Oh no, those five little monsters are still alive, if the five of them are allowed to get up from the ground, won't the three of us suffer again?" After seeing the five beautiful girls in white who were struggling on the ground, the whitebearded old man couldn't help but scream.
The strange thing is that at this time, the five beautiful girls in white all seemed to be drunk, struggling to climb up from the ground halfway up, when they heard a "pop" and fell back to the ground, unable to get up from the ground. Wen Yiyang saw all this in his eyes, but he really couldn't understand the reason, so he couldn't help muttering: "What the hell are these little demons doing?"
Although Wen Yiyang couldn't see the reason for this, Yu Fei'er was not surprised at all by this phenomenon in front of him, only to see him prompt unhurriedly: "Brother Yiyang, you take a closer look at the ground under our feet. ”
After hearing Yu Fei'er's prompt, Wen Yiyang hurriedly looked at the ground under his feet, but he didn't see anything unusual after looking at it for a long time, so he had to reply to Yu Fei'er: "Brother Dao, there's nothing special about this ground, isn't it just a little more water." ”
The old man with the white beard seemed to have noticed the clue in this, and deliberately reminded: "When did the ground under this foot become so flat? If all the ground in this passage was so flat, then the old road would be much easier to walk." ”
Wen Yiyang said this through the white-bearded old way, and only then did he notice that the ground that was still uneven had become smooth and flat at this time, like a mirror. This Wen Yiyang is not a stupid person, after seeing this change in the ground, and thinking of Yu Fei'er before, he wanted to turn the fireball at the top of the passage into a water ball that can spew water, he instantly figured out what method Yu Fei'er used to deal with the five thousand-year-old bats, and immediately said to Yu Fei'er with admiration: "I think Brother Dao must have come up with such a perfect way to deal with them after knowing that these five beautiful girls in white were transformed by Chitose bats, right?" According to Wen Yiyang, although the bats can fly with their own wings like birds, their wings are not composed of feathers like birds, but are composed of a very thin wing membrane, which cannot be separated by feathers when it touches water, so the bat's wings will lose the ability to fly immediately after touching water. The reason why Brother Dao uses water to deal with these five thousand-year-old bats should be aimed at this weakness of the bats, right? Once their bodies are wet with water, their mobility will be greatly reduced, Brother Dao, is Wen Yiyang right? As for why these five thousand-year-old bats can't get up after falling to the ground? That's because the bats must rely on the height difference of the ground before they can take off, and now the ground is as smooth as a mirror, and the five of them naturally can't get up, it seems that this is your masterpiece again, Yufei'er?"
"Bats can't walk on the ground on their own legs, and the reason why these five beautiful girls in white who are made of Chitose bats continue to dance after coming to the ground is to keep them walking on the ground with the power of their wings. Thus, this dance of death not only has a magical power that can be used to confuse others, but it is also a unique way for them to hide their weakness of not being able to walk on the ground. Speaking of the wings that this bat uses to fly, it is indeed as Brother Yiyang said, its structure is completely different from the wings of birds, so although bats can fly, they do not belong to birds. I really didn't expect that Brother Yiyang also knew this bat very well. Yu Fei'er kept nodding and said.
"The bat is a very common pattern in my Taoism, so the Taoist disciples have some understanding of this bat, and for a sect like our Zhengyi Sect that specializes in cultivating talisman spells, this bat also has a special meaning. Wen Yiyang's words suddenly stopped at this point, and he seemed unwilling to continue to talk further.
Yu Fei'er knew that if Wen Yiyang continued to elaborate, he might involve some secrets in the Zhengyi Sect's talisman spells, so he didn't continue to ask, and immediately turned his head to the five embarrassed white-clothed beautiful girls on the ground and said, "Now that the five of you have no way to escape, don't show your original form and be captured, otherwise Hugh Xiaodao will be unkind." As soon as Yu Fei'er's voice fell, the five beautiful girls in white immediately turned into five bats as white as snow.
The bat demon hanging in the air saw all this, and after he saw that all the five thousand-year-old bats had returned to their original form, he was so angry that he screamed wildly, and said viciously to Yu Fei'er and the three of them: "It seems that this hero has to personally go out to clean up a few of you." With that, the bat demon danced quickly in mid-air. He seemed to feel a little tired after dancing quickly in mid-air for a while, so he stopped dancing again, and then hung his whole body upside down on the top of the stone wall of the passage and did not move, like a stone pillar hanging upside down at the top of the passage.
Yu Fei'er and the three of them saw the bat demon hanging upside down at the top of the passage and didn't move, and they didn't know what the hell he wanted to do. At this time, Wen Yiyang pulled out the peachwood sword on his back and said to the bat demon hanging upside down at the top of the passage: "Bat demon, you don't pretend to be a ghost, just use it if you have any ability." ”
"Hmph, Ben Daxia said at the beginning, everything in my territory is up to me, don't think that if you crack a few small spells of Ben Daxia, you will win Ben Daxia, Ben Daxia's most powerful spell has not yet been used, and then let the three of you take a good look at Ben Daxia's most terrifying attack, haha. At the bat demon's wild laughter, his body hanging upside down at the top of the passage began to blur.
Yu Fei'er and the three of them only felt that a flower suddenly appeared in front of them, and the bat demon hanging upside down at the top of the passage had disappeared from their sight in an instant. This feeling of déjà vu in her eyes was familiar, and Yu Fei'er suddenly remembered the scene when Wen Yiyang suddenly shot out a fireball before the bat demon first appeared. At that time, the bat demon was trying to avoid the fireball that Wen Yiyang suddenly shot at him, and his body suddenly disappeared from his sight as it is now. "I thought I was dazzled, but now I think it should be a spell cast by the bat demon. Could it be that this spell cast by the bat demon could really be that type of spell?" a thought just flashed through Yu Fei'er's mind, when she saw that the bat demon suddenly appeared behind Wen Yiyang.
"Wen Yiyang, be careful behind!" Before Yu Fei'er's reminder fell, Wen Yiyang already felt that his back was hit by something, and then Wen Yiyang's feet were mixed, and the whole person immediately staggered forward and threw himself out. Fortunately, Wen Yiyang was already a little alert after hearing Yu Fei'er's reminder, and after rushing forward for a while, he finally stabilized his body and did not fall to the ground, but the peachwood sword in his hand flew out of his hand again.
After Wen Yiyang stabilized his figure, he hurriedly looked back, only to see that there was no bat demon behind him, and at this moment, the bat demon's proud voice came from the air behind him: "Little Taoist, can you see this hero? Don't waste any more energy, with the naked eyes of the three of you mortals, you can't see the figure of this hero at all, but for this hero, the three of you are in the open, and I can take the lives of the three of you at any time." Now you three must be terrified, right? haha. ”
"Could this be the legendary stealth technique? If this monster really has such magical powers, then wouldn't the three of us just sit back and wait for death?" Wen Yiyang said with a blank look around the passage.
The white-bearded old Taoist was also frightened when he heard Wen Yiyang's words: "Now you can't hide and can't hide, you can't escape, are the three of us really going to die at the hands of this bat demon?" ”
At this time, Yu Fei'er had already fallen into deep thought, he stood still and did not move, he didn't listen to what Wen Yiyang and the white-bearded old man were talking about, but kept repeating in his mind the scene when Wen Yiyang was attacked by the bat demon before. He clearly saw that the bat demon suddenly appeared behind Wen Yiyang, and then quickly disappeared into the air after Wen Yiyang kicked him in the back. Although the whole process was fleeting, the astute Yu Fei'er still found some clues from this process, that is, the moment this bat demon appeared and disappeared, his entire body did not appear or disappear at the same time, but started from a certain part of his body and quickly extended to his entire body. "There must be some hidden reason for this. Around this suspicious point she discovered, Yu Fei'er pondered for a long time and finally found the secret of this stealth technique performed by the bat demon in her heart.
After Yu Fei'er cracked the secret of the bat demon's stealth technique, she immediately planned a method to deal with the bat demon in her heart, but to realize her plan, she couldn't do without Wen Yiyang's help. In order to allow Wen Yiyang to better cooperate with his plan, Yu Fei'er first had to let Wen Yiyang know that the stealth technique performed by this bat demon was actually different from the stealth technique created by his own Taoism, so Yu Fei'er began to talk about some of the basic principles involved in his own Taoist stealth technique: "It seems that the two of you have not noticed some clues in the stealth technique performed by this bat demon, so let Xiao Dao Xianchou first talk about some mysteries in my Taoist stealth technique." I remember that my master, Puci Daoren, once talked about my Taoist stealth technique when he was teaching his disciples in the sect, and he said at that time that in order to practice my Taoist stealth technique, the practitioner must first understand the mysteries of 'emptiness' and 'existence'. And this 'emptiness' and 'existence' is a summary of all things in the world in my Taoism, and it is also an explanation for transforming the 'Tao' from abstract to concrete. This interpretation ultimately sums the seemingly trance-like thing of 'Tao' into a unity of 'being' and 'nothing'. The 'nothing' in this is the 'emptiness'. The reason why the word 'emptiness' is used instead of the word 'nothing' in the existing Taoist scriptures is based on Yu Fei'er's guess, it is likely that it is intended to correspond to the word 'emptiness' in Buddhism. Although both Buddhism and Taoism use the word "emptiness" to describe their understanding of all things in the world, the status of this word "emptiness" in the two religions is very different, in Taoism 'emptiness' and 'being' are completely equal, but in Buddhism 'emptiness' represents all things in the world and has an absolute status, so in Buddhism there is a saying that 'everything in the world is empty'. ”
As soon as Yu Fei'er talked about the difference between the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, he immediately gushed out, but when he saw Wen Yiyang's dazed look after hearing his words, he quickly changed the topic again: "The description of this 'emptiness' seems to be a bit far away, and Taoist disciples like Brother Yiyang, who have never been in contact with Buddhist academics, naturally can't understand the difference between the two religions for a while, so let's go back to my Taoist stealth technique." Since this 'Tao' is the unity of 'being' and 'nothing', then where does 'being' come from? Only the existence of 'emptiness' makes 'existence' possible, and it is precisely because of 'emptiness' that 'existence' can have space for movement and change. The Tao is in a trance, emptiness is its support, the Tao does exist, and the existence of the Tao is its driving force. 'Being' is constantly moving in 'emptiness', 'emptiness' is also moving with it, and the things that exist gradually disappear, 'being' becomes 'emptiness', which is the most basic mystery of my Taoist stealth technique. ”
That Wen Yiyang listened to Yu Fei'er talk about "yes" for a while, "nothing" for a while, and "emptiness" for a while, and his mind was already confused. He looked at Yu Fei'er blankly and said: "Brother Dao, you don't look at what time it is now, you still care about explaining the mystery of my Taoist stealth technique, even if you really want to explain, then it is not too late to explain after you have eliminated this monster." ”
To be honest, Yu Fei'er's understanding of Taoist stealth only lies in some basic principles, and he has already said that the basic principles he knows are extremely simple, if he really wants to elaborate on the mysteries of this Taoist stealth technique, then even if he lets the current Yu Fei'er listen to it, he will be confused. After hearing Wen Yiyang's complaints, Yu Fei'er had no choice but to compensate: "Forgive Yu Fei'er for making a fool of yourself, in fact, Yu Fei'er said so much just to say that the stealth technique performed by the bat demon is fundamentally different from my Taoist stealth technique, and it is far less subtle than my Taoist stealth technique." If Yu Fei'er guessed correctly, his stealth technique is to quickly switch his body between two different spaces to achieve a seemingly invisible state. ”
"What a terrible little Taoist, I can't imagine that the speed of this hero is so fast that you can still see the secret of my stealth, but even if you know the secret of this hero's stealth technique, so what? Now you can't see me, and you can't avoid my attack, you can't just wait for death. Wait for the next appearance, this hero will no longer be so simple as playing with you, and this hero will definitely take your life. ”
As soon as the bat demon's voice fell, the passage was instantly filled with killing intent.