Interception
"Spiritual energy?"
Li Bai could gather the spiritual energy permeating the air, but Zhao Ziwu couldn't.
He copied Li Bai, reaching out and trying to grasp at the air for a long while, but still couldn't get the hang of it.
Even after taking several deep breaths, all he noticed was how fresh the air was. He couldn't sense anything unusual.
Zhao Ziwu shook his head, half-convinced, and gave up, following closely behind Li Bai.
He was on the wrong path. He practiced the secret art of talismans, using talisman paper, ink, and brushes to invoke natural phenomena within the bounds permitted by the Heaven and Earth Rules. He had never stepped outside those bounds, which was why his talismans worked.
In reality, though, the talisman paper still didn't directly interact with the stagnant spiritual energy.
After Zhao Ziwu had flailed around like a madman for a while, the baffled Professor Yamada and Miyazaki Jiro followed suit, waving their hands about too. Naturally, they got nowhere either.
If Li Bai had turned around, he would surely have said, Damn, mental illness really is contagious.
The Kakaya people they had encountered outside the "Meteorite Crater," along with the beasts and Wizards they had come across after rappelling to the crater floor, were merely scattered scouts keeping watch around the outskirts. They hardly counted as a real defensive force.
Besides, there were only four of them. In terms of numbers alone, they weren't worth mobilizing a large force to deal with.
At most, they had triggered a certain level of alarm. It wasn't enough to make the Kakaya tribe, with its home-ground advantage, and Academy Under Heaven, which had settled here, join forces and come out in full force as if facing a grave threat. If they really did that, they