The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 136: Training trip (9)

While Inuyama Heita was still practicing this awkward seal, Qian Xiaoyi said, "Where's Ah Jian? Stop pretending to be dead. You can't escape by pretending to be dead. Come out."

Ah Jian floated out in dismay, sighing, "Brother Yi, I don't need it... The style of passionate training is totally incompatible with a geek like me."

"Stop complaining." Qian Xiaoyi said, "Did you understand what I just said?"

Ah Jian shook his head: "No, I don't understand the theory at all. I just know that the traditionalists and the cognitiveists are hostile to each other."

Qian Xiaoyi smiled and said, "That's right. If you understand, then you are not a ghost, but a ghost cultivator in the novel. Don't worry, I am not asking you to participate in the battle, but I have other arrangements."

Ah Jian heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "That's good. What do you want me to do?"

Qian Xiaoyi pulled Ajian aside and whispered something to him, so that Inuyama Heita wouldn't hear. After a while, Qian Xiaoyi asked, "Heitaro, have you mastered the seal yet?"

Inuyama Heita nodded: "Although it cannot be formed instantly, it should not go wrong... But Brother Yi, are there really fox demons nearby?" Since there are ghosts and slit-mouthed women, it is reasonable for him to accept the existence of more monsters.

"You'll know in a moment." Qian Xiaoyi said, "It's time to talk about the rules. Next, I will temporarily close your Yin-Yang eyes and send you into the ghost realm here. You can only observe the surroundings through the Bagua Seal, which is the small window of the Fox Window, to see through the illusion of the ghost realm and find the right way. Remember, only by finding the correct cognitive state can the seal be successfully cast."

Qian Xiaoyi took out a brush and wrote a spell on his palm with cinnabar. He continued, "After you find the right way, you need to go to the cemetery we visited today. I placed a spell there. After getting the spell, return to the shrine and stick the spell on the fox statue over there. In this way, your training today is completed. Do you understand?"

Inuyama Heita sighed and said, "Go to the cemetery to get the keepsake, and then return... Isn't this the procedure of the test of courage?"

Qian Xiaoyi said: "You are too timid. Isn't the courage test competition a good opportunity for you to practice your courage? Come on, stretch your head over here, and let me give you a BUFF."

Qian Xiaoyi slapped Inuyama Heita on the forehead, forcing him to step back. He covered his forehead and complained, "It hurts!"

"How does it feel?" Qian Xiaoyi asked.

Hearing this, Inuyama Heita rubbed his forehead and looked around. Ajian, who was originally beside him, was now completely invisible. The oppressive atmosphere that he had been able to feel in the shrine also suddenly disappeared. He now felt like a person who lived near a construction site and suffered from the noise suddenly came to a library. He felt that everything was quiet and his heart was empty.

"This is..." Inuyama Heita widened his eyes.

"This is the feeling of ordinary people. You have forgotten it for a long time, right?" Qian Xiaoyi said: "Slow inspiration can make people feel peaceful. Unfortunately, it is only temporary. If you can use the cognitive method skillfully, you won't need my help when you want to be quiet for a while in the future. You can adjust it by yourself. How about it, very convenient, right?" Inuyama Heita suddenly felt full of motivation. He nodded excitedly and said: "Brother Yi! Please start quickly!" He couldn't wait to learn this trick.

"It has already started, Heitaro, didn't you notice?" Qian Xiaoyi suddenly laughed cunningly: "Why don't you use the Bagua Seal to observe the surroundings?"

Inuyama Heita shuddered all over. He formed the Eight Diagrams Seal and looked out from the small opening in the middle with one eye, but still saw nothing.

"Feelings, Heitaro." Qian Xiaoyi's smile grew wider and wider: "Recall how it felt when you could still see. You are an ordinary person now. Didn't I just say that you should find the correct cognitive state, forget the cognitive theory, and make yourself believe that everything is true."

Inuyama Heita tried hard to recall how he felt when he was a psychic. At that time, strange feelings were everywhere, so he didn't care at all. But now that he has become an ordinary person who can't see anything, he can't remember that feeling.

"Feeling...feeling..." Cold sweat appeared on Inuyama Heita's forehead. Although he could no longer see the existence of ghosts, after Qian Xiaoyi's reminder, he realized that he was already in the ghost realm. This feeling of being on edge was even worse than when he could see them.

Just when the fear in his heart reached a certain level, he forgot the so-called cognitive theory for a moment, and there seemed to be a blur in the gap of the Bagua Seal, like a window separated by glass.
"That's the feeling! Maintain it!" Inuyama Heita found the trick. He is a psychic himself, so he knows what the so-called "feeling" is like. So once it appears, he will be able to know whether he has opened the Bagua Seal correctly.

Inuyama Heita placed the Eight Diagrams Seal in front of his left eye and looked around through the gap. It was still pitch black and there was nothing around. He did not dare to relax, fearing that there were ghosts standing around him without knowing it. But he turned around and did not find anything, so he asked Qian Xiaoyi:
"Brother Yi, why didn't I see it...Ah!!!"

The moment the gap in the Bagua Seal moved to Qian Xiaoyi, Qian Xiaoyi's appearance in the gap changed completely. He had a fox head, his mouth grinned to his ears, his slender eyes flashed with cunning light, and his fangs were exposed in his mouth.

"Fox demon!" Inuyama Heita took a step back in fear. He didn't expect that the fox demon really existed and had already turned into Qian Xiaoyi's appearance.

"The game has begun, Inuyama-kun." The fox demon Qian Xiaoyi chuckled, transformed into a white fox and jumped into the darkness, leaving only the clothes on the ground. As the fox left, the surrounding lights suddenly lit up, and red lanterns illuminated the shrine and the mountain path leading down the mountain. The lanterns kept swaying in the air, making a playful sound. In the darkness that the lanterns could not reach, it seemed that countless pairs of eyes with vertical pupils were staring at him.

Inuyama Heita swallowed his saliva and muttered with a tingling scalp: "I can't feel anything. So this is what it feels like for ordinary people to enter the ghost realm..."

In the brightly lit shrine, the cries of foxes that sounded like both crying and laughing could be heard one after another. Inuyama Heita even saw a short fox in a kimono waving at him in the originally ruined shrine, smiling as if it wanted to give him something.

"These are all illusions of the fox... Find the feeling, find the feeling..." Inuyama Heita muttered to himself, formed the Bagua Seal again, placed it in front of his eyes, and then walked nervously in a certain direction.

(End of this chapter)