In the early hours of the morning, Li Chenghe, who was wrapped in a coat, yawned and pushed open the door of the villa in the middle of the mountain. When he looked up, he saw that the main hall was brightly lit, and someone was already there.

Gu Zhisang, who had changed into pajamas, with black hair drooping, stood in front of the ancient shelf with her back to the door. She was looking up and staring at the word ‘jing’ as if whispering something.

Hearing the movement behind her, she turned her head. Her eyes were deep and beautiful but also looked cold and clear.

In the middle of the night, Li Chenghe was so shocked that he was completely awake.

He touched his nose while smiling and said: “Gao Zhi is my friend, I’m here to accompany him to practice.”

After the live broadcast last night, the relevant entries and high-edited clips of the second half of the game show rushed into the trending searches. And 80% of which were contributed by Gu Zhisang.

As for the two fierce formations in the Gao Family’s house, many Taoists and enthusiasts have conducted intense discussions and found that in theory, this reversal formation was feasible, and the ‘Suzaku Evil’ was also real.

Some netizens even found Gao Zhi’s identity based on clues.

But Gu Zhisang, the protagonist who stirred up all this turmoil, still didn’t show up. She was having a one-on-one conversation with Song Tang in a separate live broadcast room to help him change his luck.

Li Chenghe didn’t know exactly what the two said. Song Tang quit the live broadcast room more than half an hour later and sent him a private message to thank him. He didn’t say anything else, which made him even more curious and unbearable.

The reason why Li Chenghe organized this program was that he was a serious fan of metaphysics. He knew that someone could break the curse. He was so curious that he wanted to witness it with his own eyes.

But the matter of breaking the yin formation was Gao Zhi’s private affair. He had nothing to do with the program team, so can only cheekily ask Gao Zhi to let him watch.

Thinking of his impatient and disgusted attitude towards Gu Zhisang when she first arrived, he felt his old face burn a little.

Gu Zhisang said ‘oh’: “I asked him to go shopping at the foot of the mountain.”

Fortunately, Gao Zhi was also eager to break the formation. He didn’t let the two of them wait for long. After a few minutes, he arrived panting with a lot of things.

He was carrying a large black plastic bag, and in the other hand, he was holding the paws of a live chicken upside down. His suit and hair were a little messy.

The frightened live chicken was screaming and flapping its wings, very noisy.

“Gu, Master Gu, I am not too late, right?”

“No, the time is just right.”

Thousands of years ago, the country’s timekeeper divided the day into parts. The house hour was from one to three in the morning, and now it was five minutes away before one o’clock.

Gao Zhi heaved a sigh of relief. Because he was physically and mentally exhausted and suffered a huge blow, his two eyeballs were covered with bloodshot eyes.

“Master Gu, please see if the things I bought are alright.”

Li Chenghe on the side watched Gu Zhisang take out the contents of the black bag one by one. There was a stack of yellow talismans, a black writing brush, five or six thin transparent jade plates, and a box of cinnabar. The most eye-catching was, of course, the noisy big rooster.

Seeing that the time reached one o’clock in the morning, Gao Zhi suddenly looked at Gu Zhisang, “Master!”

Gu Zhisang waved his hand, “Don’t be so excited, it’s not the right time, you sit down and wait.”

Seemingly aware of the doubts in their hearts, she explained in a flat tone:

“This kind of fierce formation is full of yin energy. I don’t know how many evil spirits have been nourished in this house. Some of those things are lonely ghosts in the mountains, and some are naturally born creatures. All these are attached to the formation—and are, eating your father’s soul. After so many years, they have been clinging to your father’s soul like leeches, and they have also weakened your father’s soul. Breaking the formation rashly will only stimulate these evil spirits. It’s very easy for your father’s already weak and damaged soul to fly away.”

Gao Zhi’s complexion changed again, “Then what should we do?!”

“I chose to break the formation at the time of chousi because of these considerations. This node of the day is when the yang is at its peak. It’s a good time to restrain the yin energy and purify it. Breaking the formation at this time can directly let the evil spirits hiding in the formation breakaway and scatter.” Gu Zhisang said: “I will draw a few soul-suppressing charms in advance to protect your father’s soul from being impacted by the yang energy.”

Yang energy? Li Chenghe looked at the pitch-black forest outside, and hesitatingly asked:

“Didn’t everyone say that it is not advisable to go out at night when the yin energy is heavy, and noon time is when the yang energy is at its peak?”

Gu Zhisang nodded and said: “That’s true. Yang energy increases during the daytime, but it’s not the same thing as the ‘Yang Energy” I mentioned. What I want is the so-called “Supreme Yang Energy’, which is the exchange time of morning and night. When the morning just breaks, the purple air comes from the east. That purple air is the Supreme Yang Energy.”

Zishi was the most cloudy time of the day. Old people often say: that halfway through Zishi, all ghosts walk at night.

But when the sun starts to rise, the first ray of sunlight will dilute the yin, and let the yin begin to turn into yang. This node was the ‘Zhi Yang’ point.

In the same way, the sun at noon was the strongest and the yang energy was the strongest. But when the sun starts to set, the yang will turn to yin, until the last bit of sunlight completely falls into the sea level, then it is the “Zhi Yin” point.

After explaining, Li Chenghe suddenly realized: “So to say, the most effective time to break the formation is when the first ray of sunshine appears, but we are in the villa in the mountains, the shade of trees will block the light, right?”

Gu Zhisang replied: “That is why I asked Mr. Gao to buy a rooster.”

Roosters were livestock with strong yang energy and psychics. It can be said that apart from cats, they were the animals with the most sensitive perception of yin and yang.

“Chousi is also known as ‘wild chicken crowing’. When the rooster announces dawn, it is the first ray of ‘Zhi Yang’ energy. People in the past woke up when the rooster crowed because they knew it was dawn.” Looking at the rooster still making loud noises, Gu Zhisang’s lips curved up a bit: “You now know that the key to breaking the formation and saving your father’s soul lies in this rooster, you have to take good care of it.”

Gao Zhi lowered his head. He saw that the big rooster was angrily clucking and also dropping some chicken feces at his feet.

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