"Is that so..." I murmured with my head bowed.
"What's wrong?"
"Then this Gu Eagle." I finally plucked up the courage to ask, "Did it break through the seal and escape before?"
Wen Jiubai's expression seemed to change, he looked at me, "How do you know?"
"No, I'm..."
But Wen Jiubai did not continue to ask, but nodded, and recalled, "Well, there was indeed one time."
"Ah? Really?" I replied with a guilty conscience.
"About fifty years ago." Wen Jiubai said, "There was indeed one time when the Gu Eagle escaped from my previous seal. That time the Gu Eagle also attacked a village and ate a third of the village's population. But the local villagers thought it was done by a female ghost who had been wandering in the village for a long time, so they came to entrust me to exorcise them. Captured her."
My heart skipped a beat, and I hurriedly asked, "Then what happened next?"
"Later, I checked and found out that this matter had nothing to do with the female ghost, but that the Gu sculpture that was sealed back then was too powerful to break free from the seal and ran to the village to look for food." Wen Jiubai chuckled lightly, and said calmly, " I quickly sealed the Gu Eagle again, and that female ghost, I also sent her to leave the village and go where she should go."
"Is that so?" I couldn't help asking.
"That's it?" Wen Jiubai frowned, "Of course that's it, what gossip do you want to hear?"
"No, no." I shook my head guiltily, "Well, I just wanted to ask... the name of that female ghost, do you still remember?"
"No, I don't remember. It's been such a long time, how could I still remember it. Besides, it's hard to say if the ghost has a name." Wen Jiubai looked at me strangely, "However, you Why would you care about this?"
"Uh. Nothing, nothing! I was just curious." Afraid that Wen Jiubai would ask, I hurriedly changed the subject, "Gu Diao, is it so powerful? What method did you use to seal him?"
"Yeah, it's a tough guy to deal with. I can only seal it for a limited time, but—" Wen Jiubai suddenly turned his head to look at me, showing a sly smile, "This time it's different , this time I have you by my side."
I don't think Wen Jiubai will say anything about love at this juncture, but even though I said so, my face still turned red unsatisfactorily.
"What, what are you doing, I don't know anything, I'm just a drag bottle." I quickly backed away. Trying to avoid Wen Jiubai's plot, "Don't look for me, don't look for me."
"Oh, don't be so indifferent." Wen Jiubai approached me with a smile, "Your power is much greater than you imagined, you must know that saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, help me this time, won't you You don't know how many lives you have to save."
Knowing that Wen Jiubai was just making excuses, but I was still persuaded by his reasons. I nodded in frustration, looking like I was being slaughtered.
"Okay... what on earth are you going to do?"
"The fan should still be in your hand, right?" Wen Jiubai asked.
I nodded hesitantly.
"Take it out, unfold it and hold it in your hand."
"Oh, oh!" I took the fan out of my backpack and held it clumsily in my hand, "Uh, so?"
Wen Jiubai looked at me helplessly, as if he was looking at a mentally handicapped person, "Hold it upside down."
"Oh, oh, is this so?" I turned the fan around again.
Wen Jiubai seemed to have a headache even more, sighed, and stretched out his hand to hold mine, "Like this, stretch your fingers flat, open the fan, with the blade facing forward, and strengthen your wrist."
"Okay, okay!" My heart beat faster suddenly, and even the voice of the answer unconsciously raised its voice.
What's the situation? Wen Jiubai was like an action coach, with his arms against my arms and his chest against my back, teaching the clumsy me how to hold the fan steadily.
"Okay, did you see the eyes of the gu carving opposite?" Wen Jiubai's voice drifted past my ears, and I nodded nervously.
"Look into its eyes, don't look away." Wen Jiubai grabbed my hand, and pointed the blade of the cyan folding fan straight at the gu carving, "Then read to me, I say something, you repeat it. It doesn't matter if you slow down, But don't make a mistake, understand?"
I was so nervous that I couldn't even speak, so I could only nod my head vigorously.
Then, Wen Jiubai began to speak slowly, "The way of heaven is complete, three to five percent, the sun and the moon are complete."
"Uh, the way of heaven is complete, three to five percent, the sun and the moon are complete." I repeated.
"Out of the slender, into the dark, the qi spreads the Tao, and the qi connects the spirit."
"Out, out of the slender, into the dark, the breath preaches, and the breath connects the spirit."
"The treacherous ghosts and thieves all perish when the qi moves."
"When Qi acts evil, ghosts and thieves will perish."
The Gu Eagle on the opposite side roared, as if sensing pain, and began to struggle.
Wen Jiubai held my hand holding the folding fan, drew a pattern in the air that seemed to be in Sanskrit, and then said, "Hurry up like a law!"
"Hurry up like a law!"
After I yelled this sentence, there was a vibration on the paper fan. Afterwards, the Gu carving let out a loud roar, and the complex Sanskrit patterns on the ground emitted light visible to the naked eye.
The vibration on the paper fan became more and more obvious, and the vibration was so violent that I could barely hold it.
"Hold tight." Wen Jiubai whispered in my ear, and at the same time squeezed my hand tightly.
What he did made me want to let go even more!
But in the end I gritted my teeth and maintained this strenuous posture until the gu carving turned into a thin wisp of green smoke at some point, leaving only a thin piece of paper figurine on the ground.
"Knot, is it over?" I was still holding the paper fan tightly and didn't dare to let go.
Wen Jiubai stepped forward, picked up the paper figurine, turned around and smiled at me, "It's over, thanks for your hard work."
I let out a long sigh of relief, squatted on the ground weakly, and the paper fan fell from my hand, "It's so dangerous, I almost couldn't hold it."
"If you can't hold it, I think we will all be eaten by angry gu carvings." Wen Jiubai said with a smile.
I immediately protested, "Hey! Can't you say something nice!"
"You just sealed one of the nine most powerful monsters in ancient China." Wen Jiubai looked at me with a smile, "And it was very successful. As expected of my Gu Yu, he was so powerful for the first time."
I didn't expect Wen Jiubai to praise me so bluntly, I smirked and scratched my head, "Thank you, thank you!"