I saw the blood drops that I flicked from my fingers splashing onto the black shadow's body, and the black shadow also swayed a few times before disappearing. When I didn't see it anymore, I quickly took out a small flashlight from my bag, turned it on, and suddenly lit up in front of me. I started shining the light around me with the flashlight.

  Before long, I found a few drops of blood hanging in the air in front of a tree. I was overjoyed and thought to myself, "This time, where can you run? It's also time for me to take revenge!"

  But I didn't show it on my face, if it knew that I already knew where it was, then all my previous efforts would be in vain. So I still pretended to be very anxious, turned off the flashlight again, and slowly approached it while walking around randomly.

  I deliberately turned my back to it, and while clenching my fists, I said: "Where did you hide?" Before the words fell, I made a swift turn with a palm symbol in the direction of those few drops of blood!

  The sensation from the palm of my hand made me feel that I had indeed hit it, with a "slap" sound. The slap was clean and neat, and the thing was obviously stunned by me. The sudden shock made it reveal its shape again, but after seeing that its stealthy form was broken, it pounced on me again.

  The two of us fell to the snowy ground and started fighting non-stop. Unexpectedly, this thing was quite resilient, its fists kept hitting my body, and I couldn't show weakness either, so I used my hand with the palm symbol drawn on it to strike back at it with all my might.

  His fist hit it, and it let out a very human-like grunt. I was pinned under him and beaten until I couldn't see clearly. I thought to myself, you monster, although you don't like strangling my neck like the others I've met before, but I also can't just keep getting beat by you?

  So I grasped it with my left hand, enduring the beast's fists pounding on me nonstop, and reached into the compartment of my bag with my right hand to take out a 'Jiawu Yuqing Po Sha Fu'. I thought to myself, you demon, see if you can still avoid being blasted away this time?

  He suddenly stuck to its body and shouted loudly: "Hurry up like a law enforcement order!!"

  But a very strange thing happened, the talisman I stuck on it didn't take effect. It just paused for a moment and then tore off the talisman.

  The seal didn't work and almost scared the pants off me. What's wrong with me? Is it because I drew this six months ago and the spell has expired?

  Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat again. If talismans really have an expiration date, then my buddy's flesh and blood would be almost worthless by tonight.

  It's strange that it didn't continue to attack me, but instead stood up. No matter what trick it had up its sleeve, I had to get up first. As I stood up, I found that it seemed to be searching for something on its body. Before long, a faint blue light appeared in its hand.

  As the light came on, I was shocked to find that the dark shadow in front of me was actually a man in his twenties! This is too strange! It's unbelievable. I quickly turned on my flashlight again and shone it at him.

  Under the bright light, I saw him clearly, and he was indeed a human being. Because I could see the mist coming out of his nose when he breathed. He was about 1.75 meters tall, with a slender build, wearing a purple down jacket with a flying feather pattern. He wasn't wearing a hat, but had a neat short haircut, with sword-like eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. At that moment, he was holding a strange small lamp in his hand, staring at the 'Jia Wu Yu Qing Po Sha Fu' in a daze.

  I was stunned, fighting back and forth, but I didn't expect my opponent to be a human. But this doesn't make sense, how can a person suddenly disappear and then reappear out of thin air? How can a person not have any aura at all? Thinking about this, I started to worry again, this guy looks very ordinary, but he definitely won't be a good person.

  Was he just an adult night fox wearing clothes?

  Forget it, since my spell doesn't work on him, I'd better use my verbal skills to probe his true intentions first. So, I plucked up the courage and shouted at him: "I am Shi Nidi, the 108th generation successor of Maoshan, are you the one in charge from that Night Fox?"

  After he heard me finish speaking, he was stunned again, and then asked me: "What's your name?"

  I thought to myself, what's my name? My name is your dad. But I didn't dare say it out loud, seeing that he hadn't heard clearly, so I had to repeat what I just said: "My humble self is..."

  He suddenly waved his hand and began to recite to me:

  "The Jade Pure One's teachings are subtle and profound, difficult to exhaust; in two generations, he returned home to the Nineteenth Palace."

  "If one can grasp the principle of yin and yang, then all under heaven is in the palm of one's hand."

  I was shocked to hear these four lines of poetry coming from his mouth, and I couldn't believe it. The man in front of me, who looked about my age, had also studied the "San Qing Shu"?

  The poem he spoke is exactly the verse that describes the Qimen Dunjia in the "Sanqing Book"! So, he should be a person with Qimen Dunjia. This also explains why he suddenly disappeared and reappeared inexplicably just now, but this still doesn't make sense! How could someone who knows the "Sanqing Qimen" appear in this countryside? Why did he attack me earlier?

  It seems that no matter how hard I think, I won't be able to figure out why. Instead of thinking about it myself, it's more convenient to just ask him directly. After all, now I know he's human and roughly in the same line of work as me. So I replied to him:

  "The ancestral temple where the Lingbao is located, six Ding and six Jia oppose it."

  "The imperial edict is like a purple cloud covering the sky, I will not meet with the dragon until the time is right."

  After seeing that I answered correctly, he let out a sigh of relief and said to me in a somewhat complaining tone: "Oh dear, it's been such a commotion all this time and it turns out it was one of our own people after all. You scared me to death."

  Looking at him, I silently thought to myself, "Big brother, but you attacked me first, how come now you're turning the tables?" So I asked him: "Are you a successor of the 'Three Pure Ones' book? How did you end up here? And why did you attack me?"

  He quickly walked over and said to me: "Brother, the situation is very urgent now, let's talk while we walk."

  After finishing speaking, he also didn't see outside, directly hanging on my shoulder and taking me deep into the woods.

  His name was Yi Xinxing, 24 years old this year. His ancestral home is Henan Province, like Mr. Liu's family, the Yi family has been passing down a strange book for generations, which is "San Qing Qi Men". His ancestors had many famous 'Masters', belonging to the White Sect Yin Yang Master Family. At that time, the Yi family did not escape this disaster either. Fortunately, his ancestors brought the whole family to Northeast China to escape the disaster, so this strange book did not disappear.

  By the time of Yi Xin Xing's generation, he was intelligent and had a natural talent for mathematics from an early age. With his extremely agile mind, he managed to grasp the general idea of the "Three Pure Ones Mysterious Gate", a book known as the most difficult technique, and by the age of eighteen, he could already enter the realm of the "Three Pure Ones Book".

  Two years ago, he was introduced to the "Yifuge" across from "Fuzetang" and became an apprentice of a geomancer like me. It was also unexpected that the boss of Yifuge, "Lin Shu", was just like my boss Wen Shu, an old swindler on the Taoist path. However, forced by life, he had to stay in the shop and work, and if he encountered those who were really affected by evil spirits, he would secretly help them.

  The snow was still falling, and we were walking deeper into the forest, one foot deep and one foot shallow. After hearing what he said, I sighed in my heart: It turns out that this guy's experience is so similar to mine. It seems that his heart shouldn't be bad either. Unexpectedly, I actually have a fellow comrade appear, and it's even someone who has studied the "Three Pure Books".

  But why did he appear here? I asked him: "How did you find this place?"

  He replied to me: "It's not difficult to find the lair of these monsters through the combination of divination, I found their old nest in the northern suburbs of Jiangbei after setting up the divination at night, and it was close to me so I took a taxi. But the taxi driver took me to the edge of University Town and didn't dare to take me anymore, so I had to walk over myself, freezing to death."

  I thought to myself, this unlucky kid, I really doubt how he can understand the Qimen technique with that brain of his. He doesn't even know how to be flexible and won't learn from me, pretending to be a ghost just to get here comfortably.

  So I asked him again: "Then why did you attack me just now?"

  He smiled wryly and said, "I took you for a monster, didn't I? Think about it, who else could come to this desolate place at this hour? As soon as I entered the forest, I heard your footsteps, and what's more, I couldn't sense any aura from you. So I hid my body and prepared to eliminate you. Haha, I never expected that not only are you not a monster, but also a descendant of the 'Three Pure Ones' book! We really didn't know each other until we fought!"

  I'm speechless. It turns out that we both thought of each other as monsters, because we both used different means to cover up our own anger, and that's how this joke came about.

  Looking at him smiling, I couldn't smile back. In my heart, I despised this brainless guy, didn't he realize that when I shone the flashlight on him, I was a human being?

  It's really amazing to think that there are so many coincidences in the world. Who would have thought that two successors of "San Qing Shu" would meet in this way, and their age difference is not big either. The most surprising thing is that the workplaces of the two people are actually facing each other, because the bosses of the two companies don't get along, so usually everyone hasn't seen each other.

  What a coincidence, I almost dare not believe it. I thought the 'Lin Shu' in his mouth should be the 'Old X' in Wen Shu's mouth. Unexpectedly, the two old Taoist apprentices turned out to be orthodox White Sect yin-yang masters.

  This fate is really too capable of playing tricks on people.

  He asked me what was going on and where I learned the "San Qing Shu". Seeing that time was pressing, I told him that I would explain it to him slowly later. He nodded and didn't say much either.

  I asked him if he could find the specific location of the night fox.

  He replied to me, "A small dish, doesn't even look at what I'm studying." After finishing speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and revealed a strange watch that seemed to be modified by himself. There were six hands on the watch, three red and three black. He looked at the watch and pointed northwest, saying to me, "Not far away, it turns out that the monster is called Night Fox. Right, I still don't know what your name is. You told me earlier that you're called Shi..."

  I hastily took over the conversation and said to him: "You heard it wrong, I'm Cui Zuofei."

  He gave me a contemptuous glance and said, "Cut the crap, buddy. What you just said sounds like 'Shi Ni Diao'. How come we're so familiar with each other and you're still trying to deceive me? Is that funny? We're both local foxes, why play tricks on me?"

  Thank you for everyone's support. Starting tomorrow, I will increase the number of words per chapter. Here again thank my brothers who supported me.