Chapter 130: Has this damn thing started cheating?
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“Ah, this…”
Xu Yang was stunned on the spot; he subconsciously glanced at Yun Mengxi sitting in the coffin.
Yun Mengxi was angry and pouting.
Her hair was messy from her own scratching.
The clothes she was wearing were bought at a shopping mall during their shopping trip yesterday. The upper half was a white short-sleeve with a cartoon pattern printed on the chest, which was stretched out by her magnificent breasts.
Swallowing saliva, Xu Yang stammered, “This isn’t very appropriate, is it… Men and women should keep their distance. Should we go to the bed or your coffin?”
“What coffin?”
At that moment, the door was pushed open.
Liu Shishi, Yang Yin, and Yue Yuluo returned from shopping, and Yue Yuluo curiously asked, “Hubby, haven’t you gone to sleep yet? I heard you mention a coffin just now…”
Xu Yang bluffed, “Your elder sister Mengxi couldn’t fall asleep and asked me to tell her a story. We were discussing where to do it… Why did you guys buy so many things?”
Speaking, he deliberately changed the subject.
Yun Mengxi blushed, and with a ‘pah,’ she closed the coffin lid.
Liu Shishi quietly glanced at the stone coffin and then laughed, “These are just some small interesting items we saw and bought… And some things for a human world wedding, I bought them together.”
Xu Yang reached out, took Liu Shishi’s hand, and said affectionately, “We should have bought these things together. You guys worked hard.”
Comparatively speaking,
Liu Shishi was more conservative in temperament.
Her face turned red, but she didn’t pull her hand back. Instead, she said, “We sisters should help share your burdens. You’re busy these days, and there are still some things to consult you about, so we can buy them when we return to WuCity.”
“My Shishi is so understanding!”
“Pa!”
Xu Yang hugged Liu Shishi’s face and kissed her.
“Ah!”
Liu Shishi, feeling shy, quickly pushed Xu Yang away and scolded, “Yuluo and Yang Yin are here too, aren’t you embarrassed?”
“What does this count as?”
Xu Yang shamelessly said, “Now society is more open, so holding hands and kissing on the street isn’t a big deal. I heard there are people in the West even doing XXOO in public.”
Liu Shishi and Yue Yuluo both looked at Yang Yin.
Yang Yin looked surprised, “During my time studying in the West, I found it was indeed more open, but I never saw or heard of people doing… that kind of thing on the street.”
Inside the stone coffin, Yun Mengxi listened attentively with her ear close to the side. At this point, she couldn’t help but giggle.
The three women and Xu Yang looked at the stone coffin simultaneously. Yue Yuluo said, “Elder sister Mengxi, we also brought some snacks. Would you like to share some?”
Yun Mengxi lifted the coffin lid again.
The four women chattered happily, enjoying the human world’s snacks and delicacies together. Things like chips, spicy strips, bread, and small cakes were all quite novel to them.
Having eaten a few spicy strips, Xu Yang took the opportunity to ask, “Yuluo, how do you give spirits to the paper people with the Paper-cutting Skill?”
“Does hubby want to learn the Paper-cutting Skill too?”
Yue Yuluo said, “This Paper-cutting Skill was an esoteric art that my sister and I studied in our previous life. I don’t know why, but after we died, we could still use it… If hubby wants to learn, I can teach him.”
“I’ve already learned the Paper-cutting Skill, but I don’t know how to give spirit to the paper people to make them come alive.”
Xu Yang took the scissors and yellow talisman paper. In less than a minute, he cut out a faceless paper man that was six inches tall and shaped like a stick figure.
He picked up the paper man and asked, “How do I make this paper man come alive now?”
Yue Yuluo blew out a breath of Yin energy.
Whoosh!
The Yin energy entered the paper man, and the next moment its arms and legs began to wriggle.
It stood up on the table, running back and forth on the tabletop. Then, after a few backflips, it landed on the edge of the table, sliding down the table leg.
Despite being only six inches tall and looking easy to poke through, it had surprisingly great strength. It grabbed the table leg and lifted it directly, almost flipping the entire table over.
Xu Yang watched intently with fiery eyes, cut another paper man, and tried to blow on it like Yue Yuluo.
The paper man floated up and fell to the ground.
Xu Yang:
He looked at Yue Yuluo and asked, “Yuluo, how did you do it?”
“That’s it!”
Yue Yuluo blew another breath.
The second paper man also “came to life”. She said, “I only remember that in my past life, my sister and I studied esoteric arts under a martial world’s unique and extraordinary master who was good at the Art of Paper-cutting…”
“But I can’t remember the specifics of how to cut and control the paper man after I died.”
After thinking, she said, “Anyway, now I just pick up any paper man, blow some Yin energy onto it, and it comes alive after absorbing the Yin energy.”
Xu Yang frowned, wondering why his own breath didn’t work.
Was it because Yue Yuluo was a ghost, and the Yin energy she blew was different from his own… breath?
Many things could change when tainted by Yin energy. For example, Xu Yang had once encountered a “stiff spirit” in the Ghost Market, which, strictly speaking, was a type of ghost.
That spirit was formed by a “door bar” that was stained with blood and then Yin energy. Gradually, it broke free from the “door bar” and became the so- called “stiff spirit.”
As for his own breath, it was merely “breath.” If it could give spirit to the paper man, that would be truly weird!
Seeing Xu Yang in low spirits, Yue Yuluo said, “When we return to Wu City, you can ask my sister about it. She might know the reason.”
Yun Mengxi, who was eating a chicken leg and drinking cola, raised her head, her mouth full, and said unclearly, “Why ask? Yue Yuluo is a ghost, and you are a human. The Paper Cutting Skills they learned in their lifetime have become their innate ability or talent after death.”
“You are human. If you want to learn Paper Cutting Skill, you should put effort into cutting, not fiddling after cutting.”
Hearing this, Xu Yang fell into deep thought.
After a moment, he picked up the scissors and started cutting the paper man again.
This time, he cut very slowly.
He integrated his energy, Daoist rhyme, and vitality into the paper man…
After spending a full hour, Xu Yang finally finished cutting the paper man… However, the paper man only raised its arm at an almost invisible angle, then stopped moving altogether.
Yue Yuluo keenly caught that slight change and happily said, “My husband is truly talented. He has grasped the essence of the Paper Cutting Skill so quickly!”
Yun Mengxi also praised, “For the first day of practicing Paper Cutting Skill, this progress is remarkable. If you keep it up, it will take a year at most or half a year at least for your skill to become proficient. Even within your Daoist sect, there are masters who practice Paper Cutting Skill. During battles, flying paper can transform into protective Daoist soldiers, which are immune to water and fire and difficult for ghosts and evil to approach. They are very powerful!”
Half a year?
The corner of Xu Yang’s mouth twitched…
If it really took half a year, the flower would have withered… Moreover, this was not his first time practicing Paper Cutting Skill, he had already “brushed” the skill many times before.
It would probably still be difficult to become “proficient” in a year.
Xu Yang was very interested in Yun Mengxi’s “protective Daoist soldiers.” He immediately said, “Alright, you guys keep eating… I’ll practice for a while.”
He sat down and silently opened the system attribute panel.
With a thought, he gently touched the small “+” sign behind the word “Paper Cutting Skill.”
“Ding!”
“Merit points -100, Paper Cutting Skill +1.”
“To increase Paper Cutting Skill by one, it costs too merit points?”
Xu Yang blinked. Although it was much less than the Wulei Rules, it was 50 points more than the Fire Manipulation Skill and Water Manipulation Skill. But on second thought, it seemed normal.
Both Fire Manipulation Skill and Water Manipulation Skill are basic “Daoist skills.” Even some cultivators who have practiced for a long time but haven’t entered the Dao can master these two “Daoist skills.”
However, the Paper Cutting Skill was different.
This was one of the esoteric arts and was a special Dao.
Xu Yang didn’t lack merit points, so he didn’t skimp and clicked on the small “+” repeatedly.
“Ding!”
“Merit points -100, Paper Cutting Skill +1.”
“Ding!”
“Merit points -100, Paper Cutting Skill +1.”
“Ding!”
After spending 2,000 merit points and raising the “Paper Cutting Skill” 20 times, Xu Yang suddenly felt a unique insight and a subtle Daoist rhyme emanating from his body.
“So that’s how it is…”
“This Paper Cutting Skill is also a type of Dao!”
“Before, I only knew the skill but not the Dao. Using my own thunder Daoist rhyme to integrate it naturally wouldn’t succeed!”
Xu Yang spent another 1,000 merit points and raised the Paper Cutting Skill ten more times. This time, the Daoist rhyme on his body became more obvious, and the “Entered Dao” was added to the “Paper Cutting Skill” in the system attribute panel.
Unlike the previous “Wulei Rules” Entered Dao, Xu Yang’s “Entered Dao” this time didn’t cause much commotion. However, Liu Shishi, Yue Yuluo, Yun Mengxi, and Yang Yin, who were in the same room, noticed something was off.
“Damnit!”
Especially Yun Mengxi, with her moodiness erupting again, she cursed, “What’s going on? Entered Dao again? Did this bastard cheat?”
Xu Yang opened his eyes slowly and said with a smile, “It turns out… This Paper Cutting Skill is a branch of puppetry, and the paper figures made are not given life but programmed like robots.”
He picked up the scissors and started cutting paper figures again.
This time, Xu Yang didn’t cut too fast or too slow. It took him about 15 minutes to finish the first paper figure.
After the paper figure fell to the ground, it began to dance.
When he finished the second paper figure, he even cut a paper knife for both of them. The two paper figures immediately began fighting each other.
After playing for a while, Xu Yang controlled the paper figures to slip through the door gap and went outside.
At this time, it was past 4 am. The inn was quiet, and no one noticed the two 5- 6 inch tall paper figures… The two paper figures happily jumped into the inn owner’s room.
Through the “vision” of the paper figures, Xu Yang “saw” everything in the room.
In the room, the inn owner and his wife were wearing clothes, bound up in the bathroom, with their mouths stuffed and taped shut.
In the outer room, a woman wearing a fox mask was sitting on a computer chair with her legs crossed, eating instant noodles, while the computer screen displayed the surveillance footage of the inn. Through the surveillance, the situation outside each room could be seen.
“What is this…”
Xu Yang hesitated in the room.
Was this the one that Yang Yin had drawn before?
Possibly… an Asura Sect killer?
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