Feng Laosi had gone back and would not be returning anytime soon.
We used this time to go over the subsequent plan once more.
Mao Jing also gave the few of us a more detailed deployment of positions.
Tian Yong began busying himself at this time. He took out all sorts of tools, which were really just pots, bowls, ladles, and basins.
They were all small, mainly used for making Yin Dishes in case of emergencies.
He found three wooden sticks and set up a tripod, placing an iron pot on it.
He gathered firewood from the surroundings and took out a fire-starting talisman.
He directly ignited the talisman fire and lit the woodpile.
This was no ordinary talisman. The flames it produced were green.
From afar, the blaze looked like a cluster of green ghost fire, eerie beyond belief.
As the flames burned, the iron pot gradually heated up.
Tian Yong then took out a lump of pungent beef tallow and opened a bottle of mineral water, pouring it into the pot.
Anyone unaware of what he was doing might have thought he was cooking soup base for a beef tallow hotpot.
But the things Tian Yong added afterward began to get strange.
First came several pieces of snakeskin, followed by crushed cockroaches, dried earthworms, locust tree bark, apple seeds...
They were all "ingredients" of various kinds from a small box.
Besides these, Tian Yong kept chanting incantations and occasionally tossed a talisman into the pot.
Some talismans were drawn on the spot, while others had already been in his pack.
With every talisman he threw in, the contents of the pot changed a little, and the temperature inside dropped slightly.
Toward the end, even though there was still a fire burning beneath it, the Yin Soup in the