NOVPUBSeeing Wu Bin and Song Bing both looking at him with confused expressions, Wang Xing wasn’t surprised.
After all, only those genuinely trained in Taoist methods could access such things; ordinary people couldn’t even come close to touching these so-called formations.
"Alright, explaining too much to you wouldn’t make you understand, just watch."
Wang Xing finished speaking, took out five yellow talismans, and attached them to the five directions: east, south, west, north, and the center.
Then he took out a bamboo tube, unscrewed the lid, poured out all the dog blood within, and used the dog blood and yellow talismans to set up a formation.
Wu Bin and Song Bing were both stunned.
In the past, they had only seen Taoists setting up formations on TV that seemed to involve moving in circles and chanting, creating a sort of mystical babble.
But only by being truly present at the scene could one feel an intense oppression.
This feeling was like the air pressure around them had decreased, making their chests feel stuffy as if something was pressing on them.
After circling the formation three times, Wang Xing took out five small flags and placed each on top of the yellow talismans, then stepped back and said, "There, the formation is now complete. Step back a bit, don’t stand on those dark things."
Hearing what Wang Xing said, everyone stepped back, all the way to near the door.
Soon, a cold breeze blew in from outside the window, and the five small flags fluttered in the wind, rustling loudly.
At first, Wu Bin thought it was his imagination, but he quickly realized he could indeed smell a dry scent, reminiscent of burning wood in the countryside.
"Old Wu, look!"
Song Bing patted Wu Bin’s shoulder, pointing ahead with a terrified expression.
Wu Bin focused and saw that with the movement of the flags, one after another, faint apparitions appeared in the room.
While Wu Bin couldn’t clearly make out what these apparitions looked like, they all uniformly wore the old edition of the university’s anniversary jackets and were sitting cross-legged on the ground, with vacant stares.
Around them were all the flammable wooden desks and chairs of the classroom.
In the middle of the classroom sat a metal drum filled with gasoline, and a teacher holding a lighter slowly approached it.
Their mouths seemed to be moving, as if they were chanting something together.
However, since these were all apparitions, they couldn’t hear what exactly was being chanted.
But given the atmosphere, it was definitely not an appropriate gathering.
Just then, the teacher holding the lighter walked step by step toward the gasoline drum and, under everyone’s watch, threw the lighter into it.
Boom!
A burst of white phantom flames swept through the entire classroom!
Seeing the wave of flames approaching, Wu Bin and Song Bing instinctively raised their hands to shield themselves.
It wasn’t until the white apparition passed through their bodies that the two realized this was just a replay of the scene using the formation by Wang Xing.
The white phantom disappeared, and the five yellow talismans that Wang Xing had laid on the ground were all burnt out.
Song Bing looked at Wang Xing with admiration.
"Master! I was blind not to recognize your greatness before. If I’ve offended you in any way, I hope you won’t take it to heart."
"Master Wang, can you tell fortunes? Could you, perhaps, tell me when I might get rich in this lifetime? Or maybe you could calculate how long I will live?"
Watching Song Bing eager for knowledge, Wang Xing’s lips twitched.
"You call this guy timid, yet he still dares to ask you to tell his fortune at a time like this."
"But if you say he’s brave, ever since he entered the old building, his legs have been trembling nonstop, not even as composed as young miss Zhu Ling."
Wang Xing coughed and then explained, "Although I am a Taoist, not all Taoists know fortune-telling. Some senior brothers specialize in it, they are more accurate, and also they do not attract any retribution."
"If you really want your fortune told, I can introduce one of those senior brothers to you later."
Wu Bin found it amusing as he listened on the side.
He hadn’t realized that Taoists were subdivided into so many specialties. 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
But thinking about it makes sense, since there are many branches in Taoism, each with its own focus.
Some practice martial arts, some cultivate immortality, some catch ghosts, some tell fortunes, it all makes scientific sense, since each craft has its specialization.
"Master Wang, the scenes we just witnessed, those must have been a reenactment of past events, right? Did you figure anything out from it?"
After pondering for a moment, Wang Xing said, "I don’t recognize any of these people, but from their actions, they seemed to be performing a summoning ritual."
"And judging by the final outcome, they must have summoned something formidable, otherwise, they wouldn’t have sacrificed so many lives. What worries me most now is just what this thing is. After so many years, the summoned entity doesn’t seem to have shown any signs."
No wonder Wu Bin felt this eerie scenario was so familiar right from the start.
Now he remembered, wasn’t it the Barbaric Dragon’s awakening earlier that had the Dragon Slave slaughtering extensively on the island before enough Spiritual Power was amassed for awakening?
In other words, the old building incident was essentially the same event as the Barbaric Dragon’s awakening.
The person who planned this event is very likely a descendant of some dragon!
Just as Wu Bin was about to ask more, suddenly a flashlight beam shone on his face.
Wu Bin instinctively raised his hand to block the bright light, and at that moment, Ma Baoguo’s agitated voice came from a distance.
"I knew there were sounds coming from this old building, I thought it was haunted, but it turns out it was you guys!"
"Haven’t I said that you can’t come in here? Quickly, you all need to get out now!"
Before Wu Bin could react, Ma Baoguo came over and started pulling them, urging them to leave quickly.
Wu Bin felt embarrassed.
"Uncle Ma, we came in to investigate something important, please just let us finish, we’ll be done soon."
"No! No matter what you say, you can’t stay here. Don’t you know this place is off-limits by the school?"
"Hurry up and go, otherwise don’t blame me for being inhospitable!"
At this time, Ma Baoguo was very angry, completely different from how he usually treated Wu Bin.
It’s known that Ma Baoguo is usually very courteous to Wu Bin, who is regarded highly by Principal Xu Wenyao.
But now, Ma Baoguo couldn’t care less about that, he just had to drive them away.
Reluctantly, they could only walk towards the exit of the old building.
It looks like they had no chance to return and continue their investigation tonight.
As Wu Bin walked downstairs, he said, "Uncle Ma, we really came here on serious business, not just to mess around. How about I talk to Principal Xu and get him to give us a permit, would that work?"
"No, cough cough... I said you can’t come in, and that means you can’t... "
"You young people... really have guts... not knowing the immensity of heaven and earth, cough cough."
