Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 1729 Shut Up

"That's not what I meant..." said Hou Jizhuan.

"Answer me!" Tie Wandao asked, "Did you nod just now?"

Hou Jizhuan really didn't want to admit that he nodded, but the fact was that he had already done this. Moreover, he knew that Tie Wandao was looking at him just now and had indeed seen him nod. If he didn't admit it, it would be equivalent to lying in front of Tie Wandao, and Tie Wandao would certainly not let him off easily, so he had to say: "I nodded, but..."

Hou Jizhuan wanted to say, "But this matter may have nothing to do with the young patriarch touching the invisible curtain." However, before he finished speaking, just saying the word "but", Tie Wandao shouted, "Shut up!"

"Clan..." Hou Jizhuan wanted to explain.

"Shut up!" Tie Wandao said, waving the whip and whipping Hou Jizhuan, knocking him to the ground.

Tie Wandao said, "You don't listen, do you? You don't even understand 'shut up'?! Those who don't understand what people say should be used as tools just like them! From now on, if I don't let you talk, don't talk nonsense to me! Don't say a single word! If you dare to say another word before I allow you to talk, I will whip you to death!"

Hou Jizhuan felt pain all over his body and broke out in a cold sweat. He seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat. He nodded but did not dare to say "yes".

"Stand up!" Tie Wandao shouted.

Hou Jizhuan was worried about being beaten again, so he stood up immediately despite the pain. "Follow me!" Tie Wandao said.

Hou Jizhuan wanted to tell Tie Wandao immediately that there was another way to reverse the current situation. Although he estimated that it would be difficult for him to use that method successfully, if he succeeded, it would still be possible to save the situation.

The method Hou Jizhuan wanted to talk about was to use a wooden stick to perform a ritual at si hour on the second day after he had a problem with the ritual in the gray house. He had to find a new person with a certain characteristic within a quarter of a second from the beginning of the ritual. As long as that person was found to have that characteristic within a quarter of a second after he began the ritual, that person could help him undo the consequences of his previous mistake.

If he was the one who discovered the mistake within a moment of starting the practice, and he had indeed just discovered that the person had this characteristic, but he did not discover it at the hour of Si on the second day after the mistake was made, then that person would not be able to help him.

If he discovered a new person with such characteristics during the Si hour, but when he discovered that person, more than a quarter of an hour had passed since he started performing the ritual, that person would be unable to help him.

If he knew in advance that someone had those characteristics and then started to perform the ritual, then even if he found that person within a moment of starting the ritual at the hour of Si on the second day after the mistake, that person would not be able to help him.

That is to say, the three points of "Si time", "within a moment" and "new discovery" are all necessary. This is also the reason why Hou Jizhuan has no confidence in the success of this method. It is not easy to find people with such characteristics, and with those restrictions, he feels it is too difficult.

However, although he felt that this was extremely difficult to do, Hou Jizhuan really wanted to give it a try when he could not find any other way to reverse the situation. He felt that he would not be satisfied if he did not even try. Seeing that it was not far from the time of Si, Hou Jizhuan plucked up his courage and said, "Patriarch, there is..."

(End of this chapter)