From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

These three guys are now unable to move. Dad will remove the demonic power from them and send them to prison later, but what if they go to find an active volcano after they get out of prison?

It will cause many innocent people to die!

"You're still the same as always, mischievous yet possessing a heart of justice."

The longhorn beetle covered its head and explained with a smile, "Actually, this magic doesn't actually cause the volcano to erupt. There's also a matching incantation. If you don't recite the incantation and just make the recipe and activate it with righteous energy and dark energy, it will only create an unprecedented strawberry jam eruption!"

It was a slightly scary prank, but there was no danger whatsoever!

# Chapter 841 Stripping Away Repressed Emotions

"A curse?"

Xiaoyu was curious to know what would happen if she added a spell, "Would it really cause the volcano to erupt?"

“No, not at all. In fact, the full version of this magic is used to awaken another self deep within your heart,” the longhorn beetle explained.

"An evil version of myself?" Xiaoyu thought of the Tiger Talisman, which could split a person into two sides, yin and yang.

"Humans are not just two sides of the same coin, but also a hypocritical and angry side."

The longhorn beetle sighed, "Human communication sometimes requires wearing a mask, suppressing our hypocrisy and anger. And as performers, we often can't show our true selves..."

To relieve our stress, the first master of the Magic Theater created a spell that could strip away our repressed emotions and seal them into a Monkey King puppet.

"The Monkey King Puppet!"

Xiaoyu was surprised; she never expected that the puppet actually came from the magic theater.

"Do you know how to deal with that puppet?" Chen Long asked.

"You found the puppet?"

The longhorn beetle was surprised, but then shook its head. "If your friend has been turned into a puppet by him, there are only two ways to turn him back."

First, have him pull your friend's leg.

Secondly, recite the incantation: "Om Lan Jing Fa Jie, Qian Yuan Heng Li Zhen," drawing upon the Qi within your own body to forcibly return the Monkey King's body to your friends.

"This spell!"

Xiaoyu was startled and said to her father, "Father, Om Lan Jing Fa Jie, Qian Yuan Heng Li Zhen, is the same incantation that Jiang Liu chanted when he was concocting the magic potion."

"My father knows this spell. It also exists in 'Journey to the West,' and it's the spell that Sun Wukong uses when he casts his spell."

The old man took off his round glasses, wiped them, and put them back on. "Longhorn Beetle, how did the first troupe leader create this spell?"

"You might not believe it, but this is how it's described in the tradition passed down through generations of troupe leaders: When the first troupe leader created the Monkey King from the core of a sacred tree, his consciousness seemed to transcend the universe... When he came to his senses, this incantation appeared in his mind."

The descriptions given by the longhorn beetle were so bizarre that even he himself didn't believe them.

However, after learning that Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, Duanmu Ying, and others came from another parallel universe, Xiaoyu immediately believed the spell.

Are you alright?

At this moment, Lu Jin arrived carrying Wang Wu and Zhao Liu, threw them to the ground, and then looked at the three members of the Black Hand Gang who had already staggered to their feet. He raised his hand and pulled them, using the "Reversal of Eight Directions" technique to throw them into a daze again. Then, with a wave of his hand, he grabbed the Valon puppet.

"Of course we're fine!"

Xiaoyu, somewhat distracted by her victory over Zhou, skipped and hopped like a rabbit, rushing to Lu Jin's side. "Lu Jin, do you know? You missed my incredible display of power, my heroic defeat of the lizardman..."

"Alright, Xiaoyu, you defeated Zhou, but you're still just a child. Don't get too excited."

Chen Long stepped forward and reminded them, then looked at the bound Wang Wu and Zhao Liu and asked, "Did you and Jiang Liu go to catch these two thieves?"

"Strictly speaking, it was like waiting for the rabbits to run into the tree stump at my father's antique shop." Lu Jin succinctly recounted how they captured Wang Wu and Zhao Liu.

"Oh no! They actually stole things from Dad's antique shop!"

Upon hearing this, the old man covered his head and scolded the longhorn beetle, "You old geezer, you really don't know how to teach your apprentices!"

"what?"

The longhorn beetle glared at him, "They're no longer my apprentices! You can't say I taught them!"

"How irresponsible of you, you longhorn beetle!"

"If you were in charge, you wouldn't have raised a nephew who stole the Pink Lion diamond!"

"Hey! Do you want to go toe-to-toe with your old man?"

"..."

And so, the two old rascals got into a disagreement and argued endlessly, but in the end they just smiled at each other.

Their friendship did not suffer a crack as a result; in fact, it grew even stronger.

"Old Tianniu, I hope we won't have to wait another sixty years to meet again."

The old man bid farewell to the longhorn beetle and instructed Chen Long to tie up Lasu, Afen, and Zhou San and take them back to the antique shop to remove the magic from them. He then ordered Sheriff Black to send them to jail.

On the way back, Xiaoyu was still excited about defeating Zhou all by herself, and she kept practicing her punches and kicks as she walked.

Seeing this, Chen Long was quite annoyed and scolded, "Xiaoyu, walk properly. I know that as a little girl, you're excited to have defeated a bad guy, but you don't need to be happy for so long, do you?"

“Uncle Long, I didn’t just defeat a bad guy, I defeated a lizardman,” Xiaoyu stopped her arm and corrected him, dissatisfied.

"Just be thankful if you don't hit people at school anymore."

Chen Long didn't care, but reminded him again, "You've broken Zhou's jaw."

Where is it broken?

Xiaoyu pointed to Zhou's chin, which had returned to normal, and asked in a serious tone.

"Don't deny it. Don't bully your classmates at school, or I, your uncle, will go to jail..."

Chen Long continued his incessant nagging, which gave Xiao Yu a headache. She thought to herself, "This is so annoying! When will I be free from this nagging?"

Seeing that Xiaoyu wouldn't listen, Chen Long had no choice but to ask his father for help.

But who is Dad?

I've been there!

He raised Chen Long the same way back then!

Now that it's the nephew's turn, how can he suffer again?

You'll have to deal with it yourself.

"They always treat me like a child."

Xiaoyu muttered to herself, recalling the curse the longhorn beetle had mentioned: kiwi juice, cane sugar, goat milk, a tuning fork for tuning a guitar, a sandwich, and three pounds of wood—

Think about it carefully, Xiaoyu. These recipes themselves are not important. What's important is what they represent when they are combined.

According to the Five Elements classification, kiwi juice is wood, cane sugar, the component of sugar... should be considered earth, goat milk represents water, tuning fork is metal, three pounds of wood is also wood, but wood can make fire... and sandwiches—I remember my teacher in school saying that carbohydrates?

Jiang Liu once said that the human body is a combination of the five elements and yin and yang, and the five internal organs represent the five elements.

This magical recipe, compared to Qi refining, is roughly as follows:

Kiwi juice is the liver's wood element, cane sugar is the spleen's earth element, goat milk is the kidney's water element, tuning fork is the lung's metal element, and three pounds of wood should be used to invigorate the heart's fire element.

Humans are carbon-based organisms, and sandwiches, being carbohydrates, are key to carrying the five elements.

The reason these recipes are poured into the magma is that the process of making them into potions requires heating, which is analogous to refining Qi, which requires circulating Qi throughout the body to harmonize the five elements.

But how should the proportions be allocated?

Three pounds of wood... three pounds, three... I've got it, it's three! As long as I mobilize three parts of the fire energy while chanting the incantation, unifying the five internal organs, the other four elements (metal, water, fire, and earth) should automatically draw upon their corresponding energy!

Although Jiang Liu did not teach Xiao Yu how to cultivate the Qi of the five internal organs, she learned the theory of grasping the essentials and the details. Moreover, due to the coverage of the Qi in this world, it was quite easy to cast spells.

Xiaoyu did this simply to release her repressed emotions...

# Chapter 842 "The Doppelganger Curse"

"Om Lan Jing Fa Jie, Qian Yuan Heng Li Zhen".

Xiaoyu silently chanted the incantation, and with the rhythm of the incantation, her nine orifices trembled. She internally cultivated the five elements of Qi, combining them with her heart that longed to be free from constraints, and then—

Nothing happened.

It seems the magic has failed.

"Xiaoyu, what are you muttering to yourself?"

Chen Long seemed to hear Xiao Yu reciting something.

"Nothing much, it's just... what are we having for dinner?"

"Didn't we already eat?"

"I mean, late-night snack."

You need to go to bed early.

"Ok."

"..."

Silent all night.

Day two.

Daiyu, Tru, the Bull Warrior, and the Little Snake returned and successfully brought back the second Ghost Mask.

"This is information about the third mask." Lu Jin took out paper and pen and drew out the style, location, and features of the third mask.

"Where is this place?"

The little snake picked up the piece of paper with the pattern of swirling clouds and mist, looking puzzled. "Is it on a mountaintop that is always shrouded in clouds and mist?"

"This is the Shadow Kingdom!"

The old man snatched the design, then looked at the mask's design. His pupils widened in disbelief. "This is the symbol of the Great Demon! This design is on the cover of the spellbook compiled by the Holy Lord and other demons!"

"A complete encyclopedia of spells?" Duanmu Ying asked. "May I take a look at it?"