Chapter 907: Side Story 4: 144

This perception seems to be one-sided for now; the other party sensed Xiao Jiu and helped her as much as they could, but Xiao Jiu still couldn't accurately sense their exact location.

It's not hard to imagine that after so many years, the Xuètóng Hānsī still has her, which already shows her importance; therefore, around where she is imprisoned there must be many seals, which is the fundamental reason Xiao Jiu couldn't locate her right away.

But she is crucial to Xiao Jiu.

We must find her first, then the rest will be easy.

To find her, the first step is to suppress the Xuètóng Hānsī, seal this area's magical field, giving Xiao Jiu and the other party a chance to catch their breath.

Based on past experience fighting the Xuètóng Hānsī, the only means to achieve this effect quickly and well in a short time is… to draw heavenly thunder.

Xiao Jiu bit open her right index finger, blood instantly spilled out; using the bleeding finger, she quickly drew a thunder-attracting talisman on her left palm, made hand signs and chanted, and at the moment she slapped her left palm toward the sky, a bolt of lightning pierced the blood mist and shot straight toward the Xuètóng Hānsī.

Immediately after came rolling heavenly thunder, lightning spreading like a spider web everywhere, with water droplets continually falling on Xiao Jiu's face; her first reaction was that the heavenly thunder also brought rain.

But when she wiped her face, she realized the falling drops weren't rain at all—they were clearly blood!

The blood mist is merely a direct reflection of the Xuètóng Hānsī controlling the magical formation, and heavenly thunder has a natural countering effect on it.

This time Xiao Jiu exerted all her strength to draw down heavenly thunder, its power far greater than usual; it seems to have broken part of the blood-mist formation, the formation collapsed, and the blood mist condensed into blood droplets that fell scattered.

And the eye that the Xuètóng Hānsī had opened earlier closed again at this moment.

Even those white bone spirits disappeared; all that could be seen were the dense white bones hidden in the bloody soil.

Heavenly thunder is really effective.

The only pity is that its duration is short; it comes quickly and goes just as fast.

Xiao Jiu must quickly seize this moment-by-moment time to find the useful information she seeks.

Actually, this art of drawing heavenly thunder is such that most people, like Xiao Jiu, can only summon one bolt at a time; if they summon successive bolts, the drain on themselves will be great.

Moreover, as one's stamina and mana are heavily depleted, the intensity of each summoned heavenly thunder varies greatly; unless in dire straits, one should not lightly put oneself in a reckless, loss-making situation.

Of course, there are those in this world who can summon multiple heavenly thunderbolts at once, such as Mao Shan Taoists, etc.

At this moment, Xiao Jiu actually found herself missing Yu Nian.

Yu Nian is very skilled at drawing talismans; if I had known earlier, I would have asked her for some thunder talismans to keep on hand.

When drawing heavenly thunder, adding a few thunder talismans would greatly increase both endurance and explosive power compared to now.

Who would have thought that this thing we encountered would be so troublesome!

Fortunately, the heavenly thunder Xiao Jiu summoned also temporarily controlled the situation; she must seize the Xuètóng Hānsī's brief dormant period to successfully find a breakthrough.

Xiao Jiu summoned the Soul-guiding Lamp and released those few ghost faces.

As soon as those ghost faces appeared, they darted around in all directions; shortly, one ghost face locked onto a direction and signaled to Xiao Jiu.

Xiao Jiu immediately ran over and discovered that the spot the ghost face locked onto was precisely the center point beneath the deity statue enshrined in the Baiqi Temple—the pupil position corresponding to where the Xuètóng Hānsī opened its eyes!

It seems this place is also where the formation's eye is located.

This discovery isn't necessarily good news; although the Xuètóng Hānsī's eyes are closed, it doesn't mean the formation's eye is undefended at this moment.

On the contrary, if Xiao Jiu acts improperly, she won't solve the problem and might even endanger herself.

Xiao Jiu crouched there, staring at the ground for a while, weighing the pros and cons.

She must achieve the maximum effect in the safest way with the least loss.

Xiao Jiu considered giving it all she had in one go, summoning another bolt of heavenly thunder to strike directly at this formation's eye, but she couldn't guarantee whether that would achieve the expected effect.

The Xuètóng Hānsī's greatest weapon is its eye; after being attacked it closes its eye, which is a self‑protection mode, but it also shows that as long as it keeps its eye closed, it can block most of the damage heavenly thunder would inflict on it.

Therefore heavenly thunder exerts pressure on it, but is not lethal.

Facing the Xuètóng Hānsī, brute force is the most basic method.

Then the only option is to try another method.

Xiao Jiu hesitated, stretched out her hand, stared at her palm, gritted her teeth, and still pressed her hand onto the spot corresponding to the Xuètóng Hānsī's pupil.

The Weaving Dreams Five Chapters, Xiao Jiu hasn't used them in a long time.

Building Dreams, Breaking Dreams, Expanding Nightmare, Regression, Weaving Dreams Come True.

So far, Xiao Jiu hasn't encountered anyone who could truly evade the successive attacks of these five chapters.

Unless the other party lacks the Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

It's obvious the Xuètóng Hānsī is not a desire‑less, desire‑free existence.

The very reason it does all this happens to lay bare its desires in the open.

The first three chapters of the Weaving Dreams Five Chapters, when used against the Xuètóng Hānsī, might not be very effective.

Regression…… Xiao Jiu plans to save it for last use.

She wants to achieve it in one step, directly weaving for the Xuètóng Hānsī a dream it desires…… to fully master the Mòyù Bānzhǐ, a thousand li of scorched earth, with no one able to oppose.

While Xiao Jiu is activating Weaving Dreams Come True, she cannot be disturbed or interrupted by any external force; the reason she dares to act so decisively is because she knows Liu Junyan hasn't truly left.

He is just outside, less than two li away, guarding this land.

Although annoyed by him, having him present makes Xiao Jiu feel relieved.

At the same time, Xiao Jiu also hasn't recalled the Soul-guiding Lamp and Feng Wu.

Feng Wu watches those white bone spirits; the Soul-guiding Lamp hovers above Xiao Jiu's head, with several ghost faces circling it, guarding Xiao Jiu.

The instant Xiao Jiu's palm touched the ground, a surge of Yin Cold Qi struck, and the skin of her palm instantly suffered two completely different kinds of force.

One feels like it comes from hell, a bone‑chilling cold; the other comes from the Xuètóng, as if the skin were being scorched by fierce fire, and between skin, flesh, and bone it feels as if countless tiny knives are slicing her in a lingering death.

Xiao Jiu bit her lip hard, endured the discomfort, chanted the incantation for Weaving Dreams Come True, then closed her eyes and waited quietly.

At first, Xiao Jiu's mind was a blank; this is the sign that the Weaving Dreams Come True art has not been successfully activated.

Xiao Jiu frowned, wondering if her cultivation was insufficient, unable to cast a spell on the Xuètóng Hānsī.

Or perhaps she hasn't used this method in a long time, grown unfamiliar with it, and failed to achieve its intended effect.