The Guardians: The Swordsman of the Moon

Spells.

Bao Yu walked into her study and picked up a book before sitting down to the table. Reopening what he was reading earlier, Bao Yu heard his students in the courtyard laughing and arguing.

Gazing from the window, now Wu Jiao Xing who was holding Mo Xian with his armpits was arguing with Bai Ruo. Shaking his head, Bao Yu smiled at the behavior of his student. Recalling the first time he raised them as disciples.

Originally Bao Yu was only interested in a child named Mo Xian, but because Mo Xian rejected his offer there was a great disappointment in his chest and an unwilling desire to budge to make the child his disciple.

Bao Yu did not expect his decision to take five disciples at once turned out to bring good things. Not only were the two children heaven-blessed, but the other three disciples also had an incredible spirit to learn and advance. Their speed even exceeded Bai Lian's sect disciples.

Not only did they have a good learning spirit, their personalities also made the life of Bao Yu who had been widely used to meditate and ignored while teaching moral education, slowly more lively. That feeling carried his memories into his vigorous and fragile youth, even a breath of air could change the direction of his goal.

Staring back at his students he swore that he would take his students down a path better than his and would not let them fall down the wrong path. Guide them and take care of them.

Falling into a daydream, Bao Yu heard a knocking sound and told the person knocking on the door to enter. Mo Xian opened the door.

"Teacher, Master called me?"

Bao Yu nodded. "Come here, sit down."

Closing his book, Bao Yu looked at Mo Xian and asked, "Bai Yue said you have something to ask, what is it?"

Mo Xian understood his teacher's intent and nodded his head, he then took out a small jade bottle onto the table.

"Is this the ghost you sealed in the Dead Village?"

Mo Xian nodded back.

"Then why did you bring her back and not destroy her, I heard from Bai Yue that the ghost is a third-rate evil spirit type that is trying to take the blood of two Miss Chen."

Mo Xian nodded his head again.

"Teacher, there's something else I want to show you."

Mo Xian then spread out the spell paper he got on the table.

"This spell, does Master know anything about it?" asked Mo Xian.

Bao Yu watched the spell closely, but after seeing it a few times her eyebrows were increasingly cluttered and her face was becoming increasingly unsightly.

"It's a pretty complicated spell, the one who made it try to pull the dark energy and make it a power. Did you also get this from the Dead Village?"

Mo Xian nodded. "This ... It belongs to Mr. Kong, ah, I mean it belongs to that ghost."

Bao Yu stroked his beard, returning to notice the spell on the paper. "Is there anything else you found there?"

"Murid met with Madam Hu, could it be that Master also knew her?"

Bao Yu nodded. "Did he do something to you guys."

Mo Xian shook his head. "No, Teacher. Madam Hu is a good person she who told me about the spell belongs to the ghost that occupies the body of Lord Kong. Teacher ... Lady Hu also said there were strangers who had spread the spell among ghosts for them to use." Mo Xian stopped his sentence, looking at his Master.

"Teacher ... Is it possible that Master could ask this ghost about who cast this spell on him?"

Bao Yu took a deep breath and exhaled, stroking her long white beard.

"That might be possible, but the answer given will not be one hundred percent correct."

Mo Xian gasped. "Why Teacher?"

"This evil spirit,"—Bao Yu picked up the jade bottle sealed with spell—"have entered the third level, Xiao Xian would have known this type was difficult to deal with, already, not only had he had regained his wits while being a human, he had also become even more ruthless and cunning. It would be difficult to extract information from it, the words issued by evil spirits were usually vague and made people stray."

"Then, what should we do, Master?"

"I'll try as I can to retrieve the information, but why did Xiao Xian ask this?"

Mo Xian looked at his teacher, a moment of silence was created and enveloped the room. His mind was raging about the things that had happened lately, he asked about it because he thought maybe his teacher could take the information from the evil spirit, and Mo Xian only wanted to help his two parents find out who spread the spell.

"This spell ... disciple had never seen it before, and lady Hu also said that this spell was spread among ghosts but nothing was clear where this spell came from," mo Xian replied in the end because he could not tell that there was the same spell that had attacked him in the past.

"It's only natural that Xiao Xian doesn't recognize this spell, even I've only seen this spell for the first time."

Mo Xian gasped. "Then, how can Master say that this spell attracts dark energy?"

Bao Yu picked up the spell paper lying on the table.

"Xiao Xian .. Spells made by great people will have different patterns as well as different uses. The spell then teaches to his students if that person has a disciple. However, sometimes even a great person could be defeated by his own disciple who could see the weakness in the spell, even that disciple could refine the spell and refine it. Xiao Xian understood what I meant?"

Mo Xian nodded for a moment, but then he nodded.

"When I pay attention to this spell, I hope I'm wrong, but this spell comes from lost people who take the path of darkness or Xiao Xian can say this is from the demon sect."

Mo Xian's eyes widened. "Demon sect?"

Bao Yu nodded. He then took a brush and a piece of paper, drawing another pattern on the paper.

"Xiao Xian could see these two spells were actually almost the same, right?"

Mo Xian then looked at the two papers, watching them closely. It looked the same, but it was obviously different because there were other additions present in the spell that he found, there were even patterns removed from that spell.

"This is a spirit summoning spell made by a master cultivator of demonic science."

Bao Yu then took out another paper and drew a familiar spell for Mo Xian.

"It's also a spirit summoning spell created by the white path Immortal Cultivator master. Xiao Xian already knew about this spell, but if we distinguish it from the usefulness of these three spells, will Xiao Xian be able to tell?"

Mo Xian looked at his teacher and shook his head.

Bao Yu smiled, stroking his long beard.

"These three spells are both used to summon spirits. The people of the white path always use this spell,"—Bao Yu pointed to the third— spell" while performing the spirit sealing ritual so that the spirit can be free and detached from the mortal world as well as the world's desires."

"Then this spell, used by the demon path people to summon spirits to make it a controllable fruit, therefore there is this pattern here." Bai Yue pointed at the second spell. "This pattern is the key pattern so that the spirit summoned cannot resist the caller and obey his commands."

"However, if Xiao Xian could deduce which one was actually better than these two spells?"

Mo Xian was again pensive, thinking of the two spells that his teacher had pointed out. He thought back to the use of those two spells. Mo Xian had already practiced a white path spirit summoning spell and could tell the spell was quite effective when used to summon level one and two evil spirits, respectively, but if it was used for the third level it would require many spells and at least four people who had to do spirit summoning by representing the four winds.

However, upon hearing his teacher's explanation of the spells belonging to the demon path people, he suddenly felt interested and remembered something.

"Teacher ... What spell did Master teach before was a combination of white-track and demon-path spells? That's why the spell I used could make Master Kong's ghost unable to move not even resist as I told him to get into the bottle?"

Bao Yu smiled. "Xiao Xian is right. I combined the two. These two spells had their own flaws and advantages. Xiao Xian already knew that if the spirit summoning spells belonging to the white path people could only be used to summon spirits, then the release of spirits and sealing of spirits would be the duty of a cultivator."

"While spirit summoning spells belonging to demon path people have the advantage of being able to command spirits and even spirits cannot fight against it. However, this spell had the disadvantage of requiring more spiritual energy than the spirit summoning spells belonging to the white path people. This spell has no balance, therefore sometimes the wearer will be seriously injured if this spell fails, there are even times when the relationship of the summoner and the summoned has a living thread bond."

"Will live?" Mo Xian asked curiously, he had never heard of it.

Bao Yu nodded. "That means that when the spirit has a problem, the caller will also get problems such as being injured on the inside. In fact, it would also have an effect on his spiritual energy."

Mo Xian gasped to listen to his teacher's explanation. He thought his teacher was really a person who had a lot of knowledge, he was lucky to get a chance to become his student.

"Then, what about the spell made by Master?"

Smiling, Bao Yu replied. "The spell I made was not just a combination of two spells from different factions, I fixed it so that the spell was balanced. Therefore, the spell will not make a living thread between the summoner and the summoned one. The spell I made also could only be used to capture and seal evil spirits, if Xiao Xian thought that this could be used to control evil spirits as a subordinate, that's not gonna work at all."

Mo Xian nodded, increasingly understanding what Bao Yu was saying.

"Then, what about this spell?" Mo Xian pointed at the spell he had found.

Bao Yu took a deep breath and closed her eyes, stroking her beard she looked like she was thinking hard until she slightly raised her head. A moment later Bao Yu opened his eyes and said, "This is a really complicated spell, although I said that the person who made this spell was trying to attract dark energy. This spell pattern is obviously used to summon evil spirits, but you said it was spread among ghosts. Right now I can't make up my mind yet, I'll learn it first."

Mo Xian sighed, it turned out that this spell was truly a mysterious spell.

"But, Xiao Xian was also right. We could try asking this spirit who gave him this spell and what his excitement was for the ghost faction."