Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 1195 (One Thousand One Hundred Ninety-Five)

At that time, the Taoist priest asked Wu Xunsheng to stand in front of the sobering jar but far away from it. He moved a chair behind Wu Xunsheng and asked him to sit down slowly. In this way, he decided where Wu Xunsheng would sit next. He decided that Wu Xunsheng would sit in front of the sobering jar so that he could test whether the sobering jar in his room was damaged when he pretended to perform a ritual facing Wu Xunsheng. The reason why Wu Xunsheng was far away from the sobering jar was because he wanted to make it difficult for Wu Xunsheng, who had his eyes closed, to hear or feel that he was actually doing something else when he tried the sobering jar.

After Wu Xunsheng sat down, the Taoist priest asked him to lean back on the chair and put his hands on his knees, palms facing down, and relax. The Taoist priest said all this to him, but it was just a pretense, just to make Wu Xunsheng and Zou Gong feel that what he did was related to Wu Xunsheng's body.

Soon, the Taoist priest followed his instructions and asked everyone except himself to close their eyes. Wu Xunsheng and Zou Gong really closed their eyes. Tie Wandao pretended to close his eyes, but he was actually squinting. This was also what the Taoist priest had agreed with him.

The Taoist priest took out the incense burner and placed it on the ground in front of Wu Xunsheng, ten feet away from him. He took out other things from his bag, and inserted the thick incense stick into the incense burner and lit it. This is because the thick incense stick can reduce the thinking ability of people ten feet away from it for a period of time after being lit. The Taoist priest did this to prevent Wu Xunsheng from getting suspicious after occasionally opening his eyes and seeing his actions. By lighting the incense stick at that position, even if Wu Xunsheng really saw something by chance, he would not easily think too much.

The Taoist priest walked towards the sobering jar while chanting the spell, and stopped in front of the sobering jar to test it. He did not turn around immediately, but turned his back to Wu Xunsheng, because at this stage he needed to look at the sobering jar and continue chanting the spell before he could take the next step. During the chanting process, he moved his hands to his chest and the subsequent actions were all preparations for the actual test of the sobering jar after turning around. He changed to chanting another spell and turned around, and only then did he face Wu Xunsheng.

The action of turning around was a secret signal agreed upon with Tie Wandao before. He used this action to remind Tie Wandao that it was time to take out the ring from his pocket, put it on his hand and do those things.

When Tie Wandao saw him turn around and received the signal, he took out the big ring from his pocket as agreed before, put the ring on the thumb of his left hand, put the tip of his right thumb in the shallow pit of the ring, squinted his eyes and looked at the sobering jar and silently recited the "Simple Ring Mantra". Because the "Simple Ring Mantra" is only effective when you look at the sobering jar, he is not sure whether Wu Xunsheng and Zou Gong really closed their eyes and whether they would occasionally open their eyes, so in order to prevent others from seeing that he is open, he squinted his eyes and looked at the sobering jar and recited the "Simple Ring Mantra".

Then the Taoist priest looked in the direction of Tie Wandao, and made a small movement. He confirmed that Tie Wandao had put on the ring on his left hand, and his right thumb was touching the ring, and he was ready to touch the sobering jar with his finger for testing. He immediately looked at Wu Xunsheng, which was also a signal to Tie Wandao, indicating that he was ready to touch the sobering jar with his finger for testing. Since Tie Wandao had to look at the sobering jar when reciting the "Ring Mantra", and the Taoist priest was right next to the sobering jar, it was very convenient for Tie Wandao to see the Taoist priest's actions.

(End of this chapter)