After Aunt Tang heard me out, she nodded at me.
"Close the door first."
"Okay!"
I shut the front door.
Then I watched Tang Wenwen take a tiny, slender stick of incense from her bag.
It was purple, with a slightly sour and spicy smell. Very unusual.
To me, this incense looked like it 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."
"Right! I understand."
The Insect Lure Incense was very 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, that sour and spicy smell became even stronger. Someone who didn't know better might have thought we were about to stir-fry shredded sour-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 with this incense.
After forming the hand seal, recite the incantation and guide the incense.
It works on the same principle as guiding qi. You need to sense it with your heart.
As long as you can guide qi and guide incense, then you can guide insects..."
I said nothing, merely committing every word Aunt Tang said to memory.
Very quickly, Aunt Tang taught me the hand seal.
This hand seal was not complicated. It resembled the basic hand seal of the Qi Guiding Art.
For example, summoning souls, sending off ghosts, reading Feng Shui, and so on