PD -Chapter 52 Xuāhuǒ True Form Incantation

Thunder is of the Zhen trigram, fire is of the Li trigram—both are forces that counter water-based yin entities. What I taught Wang Ke’s father to use at that moment was the extremely powerful Xuāhuǒ True Form Incantation.

Boom…

A massive pillar of lightning, wrapped in yellow flames, struck the head of the yin entity in an instant. In a flash, its entire body was ignited, and the yellow flames surged violently across it.

The yin entity let out a scream of agony. Its hand, which had been gripping Wang Ke’s father’s neck, loosened instantly. It swung its arm in the air, drawing water from the deep pool, trying to extinguish the flames on its body.

But it didn’t know—this was heavenly thunderfire. How could mere pond water put it out?

Seeing that the rising water waves were ineffective, the yin entity flashed, attempting to retreat back into the depths of the pool—its nest. But the dark clouds in the sky struck again. Another enormous pillar of lightning slammed directly into the water’s surface, erupting into towering waves, like a heavy bomb detonating underwater.

Wang Ke’s father was directly blasted away by the shockwave. I immediately threw out my Soul-Binding Ruler, using spiritual energy to catch him and pull him back to shore. By then, he was already charred all over and unconscious.

Where the lightning struck the pool, after the turbulent waves subsided, violet electric currents mixed with yellow sparks still surged across the surface, like countless small snakes swimming through the water.

Moreover, above the pool, a massive mist had been vaporized into existence—and within that mist seemed to linger traces of electricity.

“Ah…”

Another piercing, miserable shriek rang out, sharp enough to tear through eardrums.

Tang Shanshan and the others couldn’t help but cover their ears.

The yin entity was once again forced out of the water by the power of the lightning. And even after emerging, the thunderfire clinging to its body had not been extinguished—it was still burning fiercely.

“You’ve already harmed nine children. I can’t let you continue harming others. Those connected to your death… I will make them face punishment. As for you…”

I said loudly.

The yin entity seemed to understand what I meant. Its small body suddenly swelled, especially its abdomen.

Then it opened its three-lobed mouth again, making a sound that made one’s scalp crawl, and vomited out nine small bodies from its stomach.

Plop. Plop…

Nine bodies fell into the pool one after another.

They were the nine children that everyone had desperately searched for but never found.

But at this moment, they lay motionless.

Their spiritual essence had already been devoured by the yin entity formed from Wu Yi. After death, they didn’t even have the chance to become vengeful spirits.

Boom!

With the third pillar of lightning striking down, the dark clouds above the yin entity finally began to disperse. Under the moonlight, blue lightning and yellow flames intertwined across its small body.

It had completely lost the ability to struggle. Within the fire and electricity, it let out its final wail—and then turned into a wisp of black smoke drifting toward the shore.

I seized the opportunity and quickly formed the seal of the Refining Spirit Technique, directing it toward the black smoke.

The smoke was instantly captured by the formation and refined into pure spiritual energy glowing with light.

I waved my hand, expecting the spiritual pill to fly back to me as usual.

But unexpectedly, the spiritual pill flew straight toward Tang Shanshan beside me—and in an instant, it merged into her forehead.

Everything fell silent. The water of the deep pool covered all traces…

Only I stood there, stunned, staring at Tang Shanshan.

“You… how did you do that?” I asked, eyes wide.

“I didn’t do anything…” Tang Shanshan replied, equally confused. She had clearly seen the spiritual pill merge into her forehead and was now touching it, checking if anything felt different.

I immediately stepped forward, placing two fingers on her forehead to probe. Indeed, her soul power had strengthened slightly after the spiritual pill entered her body…

And the yin jade consciousness inside her seemed to have been suppressed a little further. This kind of push-and-pull balance was normal—but the fact that the spiritual pill had entered her on its own was something I couldn’t understand at all.

Fortunately, Tang Shanshan herself was fine. And this was not the place to dwell on it further.

At that moment, Wang Ke’s father was still lying on the shore, barely conscious.

Wang Ke was holding her father beside him. Liu Xiaopeng said from the side, “I checked him. There’s no life-threatening injury, but the wounds are quite serious.”

“Take him to the hospital first,” I said.

I called Liu Xiaoqiang over, and together we carried Wang Ke’s father back into the car and headed again toward the town hospital.

“You… how did you manage to teach him the spell in such a short time?” Tang Shanshan asked from the passenger seat.

I gripped the steering wheel and explained what had happened half an hour earlier.

On the way here, while we were rushing toward the deep pool following Tang Shanshan and Wang Ke, Wang Ke’s father finally admitted the truth—that he and the other nine children had caused Wu Yi’s death back then.

At that moment, I concluded that the yin entity formed from Wu Yi harbored the strongest hatred toward Wang Ke’s father among all of them. If there was anyone it most wanted revenge on, it would definitely be him.

So on the road, I negotiated with Wang Ke’s father. Moreover, if things became irreversible, he was willing to sacrifice himself to save his son—after all, he had to bear responsibility for the mistake he made years ago.

Along the way, I let Liu Xiaopeng drive while I used the limited time to carve a small spirit-gathering formation onto Wang Ke’s father using a SIM card pin. I wanted to channel my spiritual energy into his body.

Although ordinary people cannot sense or use spiritual energy, I temporarily stored mine inside him through the formation. It was time-limited…

When it expired, the spiritual energy would erupt from his body, so he didn’t need to control it himself.

All he had to do was learn from me: when the spiritual energy was released, he would use the command and guide of borrowing the power of heaven and earth—that is, the incantation and hand seals.

Normally, spiritual energy must be cultivated through long-term practice after opening one’s spiritual channels. Without understanding its essence, ordinary people cannot access such power.

In essence, this energy is like a thread, a switch. Once you grasp the switch, you can borrow the forces of nature and unleash great power.

Of course, the stronger the spiritual energy, the greater the natural force one can draw upon. But the key of Taoist incantations is not spiritual energy itself—it is the momentum of heaven and earth.

So as long as the timing is right, even an ordinary person like Wang Ke’s father could use my spiritual energy to trigger celestial phenomena and execute the Xuāhuǒ True Form Incantation.

And that timing was precisely when the yin entity stirred the pool water, forming a vortex and raising the humidity in the air to the exact conditions needed for the thunder-attributed dark clouds of the Zhen trigram to appear.