Chapter 123: Psychological Trauma
Xuan Xia followed Hu Yue to her home door.
Just as she was about to open the door, Xuan Xia called out to her to wait a moment.
Xuan Xia first surveyed the Feng Shui condition of this floor.
For the Ren Family’s Spirit Control Technique to achieve optimal effect, it needed to be paired with Five Elements Numerology Feng Shui.
And this Feng Shui layout could be large or small; large ones like the entire residential community’s Feng Shui were relatively hard to change. But smaller aspects, like just this one floor’s Feng Shui, could be easily altered by adding a bit more stuff or removing a bit of stuff.
Xuan Xia looked up and carefully checked once over, and sure enough, she found something under the acquired Kan Palace Position.
This was Human Plate Jing Gate falling in Kan Palace.
Xuan Xia silently recited in her heart: Jing Gate was originally suitable for bewitching the masses, sowing doubt, and setting ambushes, and as for falling into Kan Palace Position, it was… to completely drain this floor’s momentum.
That pervert Ren Tongli really was up to something.
Once confirmed, Xuan Xia quickly readjusted it with disgust.
Only after resealing the momentum did she walk back to Hu Yue’s door. “Alright, let’s go in.”
Hu Yue couldn’t tell what Xuan Xia had been doing, but she knew she must be helping her, so she obeyed every command.
As soon as they entered Hu Yue’s home, Xuan Xia immediately felt envious.
Hu Yue’s home was clearly much larger than hers or An Qi’s!
The interior decoration adopted a comfortable Victorian style, with every piece of furniture matching it.
Xuan Xia couldn’t help but sigh: “Your home is really nice.”
“Thank you.” Hu Yue didn’t understand Xuan Xia’s envy and indifferently replied before greeting her, “There’s only soda water at home, but there’s also hot water. What would you like to drink?”
“Hot water is fine.”
“Okay.” Hu Yue wanted her to sit first, but Xuan Xia had no intention of sitting.
“Can I take a look around?” Xuan Xia asked.
Hu Yue nodded: “Feel free.”
Xuan Xia didn’t stand on ceremony.
She said she was touring, but in reality, she checked the entire house over.
What could be confirmed was that the home was still safe for now.
Who knew when Ren Tongli’s little things would appear.
Returning to the living room, Xuan Xia looked at Hu Yue waiting by the sofa and said with a smile in her voice, “You don’t need to worry. Rest when you should rest.”
Hu Yue nodded. She was just about to say she’d go wash up when her eyes suddenly widened.
Xuan Xia followed her line of sight and saw that the hot water in the glass water cup on the coffee table was trembling on its own.
But that wasn’t the point. The point was the rising water vapor—it was a mass of black Yin Energy!
As the trembling frequency grew more rapid, that mass of black energy gradually solidified, twisting crookedly into a snake shape.
The next second, two points of red light emerged at the top, solidly becoming a Shadow Snake.
The Shadow Snake raised a pair of red pupils, its tail connected to the water cup, hovering in midair as if confronting the two of them.
The breath Xuan Xia had been holding when she first saw the black energy take shape was now slowly exhaling.
Her facial expression unchanged, but her heart was already wildly agitated and twisted.
Aaaah, psychological trauma!!!
Ren Tongli, drop dead, drop dead! How is anyone supposed to drink water now?!
While Xuan Xia was screaming internally, Hu Yue also swayed and stepped back.
As she retreated, the Shadow Snake’s red pupils instantly burst with brighter red light, and its mouth area suddenly opened wide…
Xuan Xia almost instinctively struck out, the talisman pinched in her palm accompanied by a demon-subduing spell, “Heavenly Gang quakes, all demons bound in form!”
Like swinging a slap, she fiercely smacked the snake head.
“…”
Hu Yue only saw a black shadow fly past her eyes and smash directly into the wall, then stick to the wall without moving.
Perhaps it was smashed to death, or smashed unconscious, or some other possibility, but clearly Xuan Xia wouldn’t stop after one slap.
She had already rushed a few steps to where her bag was, quickly grabbing a handful of talismans.
Perhaps her handful of talismans startled the Shadow Snake embedded in the wall awake; it suddenly lifted its head, but not to counterattack—instead, it rushed straight toward the balcony.
It wanted to escape?!
“Ah, where do you think you’re going!” Xuan Xia threw out a Lightning Talisman, followed by a Thunder Spell.
Just as the Shadow Snake was about to reach the gap in the floor-to-ceiling window, a burst of blue lightning appeared out of nowhere, striking directly on the snake’s head.
From above, it came down, directly scattering the Shadow Snake’s form; the solidified shadow dispersed into a puff of black smoke.
The black smoke scattered, seemingly formless now, but the Thunder Spell’s power hadn’t dissipated yet. Blue sparks crackled amid the black smoke, flashing like a thundercloud.
Inside the floor-to-ceiling window, there was crackling, and outside the floor-to-ceiling window, there were also sounds.
It was like something was lightly bumping against the glass window, tempting someone to go check.
Xuan Xia turned her head and said to Hu Yue, “You stand still and don’t move.” Then she pinched two talismans and rushed straight to the floor-to-ceiling window.
When Xuan Xia pulled open the floor-to-ceiling window curtains, even though she had mentally prepared herself, she was still startled by the thing outside.
However, the shock only lasted a second, This was followed by a strong sense of tu cao, (a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or critical commentary)..
The thing bumping the window was a paper figure.
It was the kind of boy figure or girl figure from funeral shops.
The one outside was a boy figure, but deliberately uglified. The paper figure was made short and fat, with narrow eyes and thin brows, and two large red patches on its pale cheeks.
The mouth position was an arc line connecting from one cheek to the other.
More ugly than scary!
The paper figure was using this ugly appearance to bump against the
“……”
Pervert! Psycho!
Xuan Xia kept a straight face, directly slapped a talisman onto the glass window, and then pulled the curtains back.
As the talisman on the window took effect, the sounds outside abruptly stopped.
Xuan Xia turned around to look again at that mass of black smoke in the room. The black smoke was subjected to a good thrashing wrapped in the Thunder Spell. It originally wanted to flee in all directions, but all attempts failed. Ultimately, the scattered black smoke condensed back together, forming the Taoist priest’s shadow.
The person’s shadow lunged toward Xuan Xia, crouching low and directly kneeling before her.
After kneeling, he kowtowed to her again.
It looks like she’s begging for mercy.
Xuan Xia: “……”
What on earth is the thing Ren Tongli is controlling?!
She hasn’t done anything yet.
But she was now preparing to do something.
Did this Shadow Snake think that by kowtowing to her once, she would let it go?
It’s hard to say whether her psychological trauma will require a lifetime to heal!
……
Even after the smoke truly dissipated, Xuan Xia still felt uncomfortable.
The room was completely silent.
She didn’t know how much longer it had been when Hu Yue spoke up: “I don’t seem to be that scared anymore.”
She thought that no matter who saw Xuan Xia’s earlier series of defensive and offensive maneuvers, they would feel most of their fear numbly recede.
Suddenly felt that it wasn’t so scary.
Xuan Xia relaxed her tense expression and locked eyes with Hu Yue for a moment.
Then she said: “It’s good that you’re not afraid.”
After speaking, she continued waiting for the other things summoned by Ren Tongli to appear.
But after waiting and waiting, both indoors and outdoors, everything was perfectly fine.
The two looked at each other in bewilderment, and Xuan Xia couldn’t help but feel suspicious: That’s it? Nothing else?
