Black Pot also trotted along the entire way. When complete chaos had just broken out a moment before, Chen Shi had told everyone not to move, but no one had listened to him. Only Black Pot had stood there without moving an inch.
Everyone had been caught by the thread-pulling worms, yet Black Pot alone had emerged unscathed.
Even Chen Shi's book box was right beside it, not lost amid the great chaos.
Chen Shi fetched the writing brush, inkstone, paper, and ink, having Li Tianqing draw the patterns on the bodies of the thread-pulling worms, while he himself took some black dog blood to grind the cinnabar.
He lifted the brush, carefully observing the patterns Li Tianqing had drawn. True Qi poured into the tip of the brush, and the brush followed his intent. The strokes were executed in one go, and soon the talisman patterns on the body of the thread-pulling worm were drawn on the yellow paper!
Chen Shi clamped the talisman between his index and middle fingers, giving it a gentle shake. The True Qi contained within the talisman generated high heat from friction with the cinnabar, causing the talisman to burn.
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing each took a step back, both of them sensing that some inexplicable force was at work.
From within the burning flames of the talisman, a strange squeaking sound suddenly came, and then a tiny thread-pulling worm actually crawled out from the flames and the ashes of the paper!
Chen Shi and Li Tianqing froze in a daze, watching as the thread-pulling worm hit the ground, opened its mouth, and spat out a thread that stuck fast to Black Pot. Without a word of explanation, it dragged the dog, attempting to pull it into its mouth!
Its size was many