After listening to me, Aunt Tang nodded.
"Close the door first."
"Okay!"
I shut the front door.
Then I saw Tang Wenwen take a tiny, slender stick of incense from her bag.
It was purple, with a slightly sour and spicy scent that was quite distinctive.
From the looks of it, this incense would only burn for three to five minutes, if even that.
Holding the thin purple incense, Tang Wenwen spoke to me.
"This is Insect Lure Incense. It's extremely precious. We only have three sticks left, and this one is for teaching you how to lure insects. Learn carefully."
"Got it!"
The Insect Lure Incense was precious. I had never lured insects before, so naturally I knew nothing about this.
But since the incense was made so thin, it clearly had something special about it.
"Wenwen, begin!"
"Okay, Auntie!"
With that, Tang Wenwen lit the incense.
The moment it was lit, the sour and spicy smell became even stronger. Anyone unaware of what was happening might have thought we were about to stir-fry shredded sour and spicy potatoes!
Still, it was bearable.
Aunt Tang's expression turned serious.
"Xiao Jiang, you don't cultivate insect arts, so you can only lure insects through this incense.
After forming the hand seal, chant the incantation and guide the incense.
It works much like guiding qi—you need to sense it with your heart.
As long as you can guide qi and guide incense, you can guide insects..."
I said nothing, merely committing every word Aunt Tang said to memory.
Before long, Aunt Tang began teaching me the hand seal.
This hand seal was not complicated. It resembled the basic hand seal of the Qi Guiding Art.
Whether summoning souls, sending off ghosts, reading Feng Shui, or anything else, the hand seals all contained