The second book in the Oolong Wizard series, titled The Normal Mind

Chapter 17

That little devil is already entangled with Ashen, and with my punch, it's doomed!

In the blink of an eye, the cunning girl, while dealing with Ya Xian, turned around and looked back at me with a sad and miserable smile. Her innocent face showed that she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and her school uniform and pitiful appearance were exactly like those of Zhao Di, the student who had fainted!

I was taken aback, my heart clenched, and I quickly flung my fist away. The force of my punch, generated by spiritual energy, was naturally reduced by five-tenths, only striking the left side of the ghost spirit's body and missing its vital points.

With a loud thud, I took a step back.

The ghost flew away, leaving the area controlled by the Asura.

At this moment, Fang Long appeared, blocking its way and saying with a grin, "My dear fox demon, you can't escape this time. Come back with us obediently, or you'll die!"

---janeadam

Reply [31]: Chapter Fifteen: The Potion of Oblivion

The fox demon gave him a sad smile, her eyes filled with endless sorrow and longing.

Fang Long quickly turned his head away and said, "I won't look, I won't look. What, do you think you can fool me? — Unless you perform a striptease for me."

With a clear whistle, the fox demon spun around and instantly created a five-meter-high blue water curtain in front of Fang Long, like a small waterfall, which poured down on Fang Long.

At that moment, the fox spirit disappeared into the water curtain.

"The Water of Oblivion!" Ya Xian exclaimed in surprise, her expression changing drastically. She quickly flew over, trying to stop Fang Long in front of the water curtain and save him.

Although I don't know what kind of sorcery it was, I now understand that this fox demon is no ordinary creature. It uses spiritual power to instantly condense the water within a one-kilometer radius to form such a large water curtain. This kind of water-based magic is breathtaking. If it were purely for artistic appreciation, it would be a feast for the eyes.

Fang Long was overjoyed. He muttered incantations, and a talisman flew out, turning into a gray light that entered his brow. Then, his whole body was enveloped in a layer of hazy gray light, making even his face indistinct.

A curtain of water covered Fang Long, and two figures, one gray and one green, were fighting fiercely inside. Fang Long could be heard laughing inside, saying, "Earth overcomes water, your move doesn't work on me."

Ashen suddenly stood up, laughing and scolding, "What method didn't work? You even petrified yourself!"

My fist energy had already surged into the water curtain along with my body. After all, Fang Long is now my savior, and I must help him and bring the demon fox to justice.

The moment I entered the water curtain, everything was blue, but strangely, I didn't feel wet. It was as if my whole body was tightly wrapped in layers of plastic film. Feelings of suffocation, powerlessness, coldness, and despair welled up in my heart. It felt as if millions of moving germs were trying to invade my body.

"Gather your spiritual light, keep your heart as one, and don't let resentment take over your will!" Asen shouted anxiously.

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I immediately suppressed all sensations and concentrated all my thoughts on my dantian. A surge of heat flowed out continuously, and then the protective true energy that had been suppressed throughout my body spread out again, its outer edges like sharp spears. As soon as any nearby water curtain approached, it was immediately dissolved into nothingness.

But the water curtain seemed endless, like a vast ocean. And although the water curtain was blocked, the endless coldness and bewilderment still invaded my heart, as if it was determined to resonate with the gloomy side of a person. This was irresistible. Fortunately, I had Xiaoyue. Those happy scenes floated into my eyes when I was most sad, and a warm current flowed through my body without obstruction.

"To catch the thief, first catch the king, boss!" Fang Long, who had been out of sight, suddenly laughed close to his ear.

"This is unbelievable! What is the origin of this fox demon?!" I muttered to myself, using my spiritual power to search for the fox demon's origin.

In a corner to the north, I finally sensed a massive spiritual entity.

I rushed northward, a process that felt both long and incredibly short, as if I had traversed several different time periods.

Suddenly, I felt completely empty and fell into a large, spherical, waterless space. Outside, there were rippling blue waves, while inside, there was only air. A turquoise ice fox stood a meter away from me, its emerald eyes flashing with an eerie light. I felt that all the spiritual power came from its eyes.

"Do you still love Yu'er?" It suddenly asked in my mind as I was about to rush over and settle the score.

I was jolted awake, stunned. Yes, do I still love her? Ever since my suicide attempt turned me into a great wizard, and then I fell in love with Xiaoyue in a flash, I haven't thought about my online lover Yu'er for a long time!

"If she hadn't loved you, she wouldn't have returned to China; if she hadn't returned to China, she wouldn't have died tragically in the plane crash. She died for you, yet you sought a new love, heartless and fickle, worse than an animal. What right do you have to fight evil and uphold justice?" it said.

"Who are you? How do you know so much about me?" I shouted, but deep down I felt incredibly guilty. Yes, am I really that kind of person? How could I have done so wrong to Yu'er? Her grave in America hasn't seen a single flower laid in ages. She must regret knowing me in the afterlife! I love Xiaoyue, but there's no reason to forget Yu'er!

---janeadam

Reply [32]: I suddenly felt utterly hopeless, sat on the ground, and my mind was in complete chaos.

"Boss, don't fall for this fox demon's tricks. It's best at spying on and reading people's minds, then targeting their weaknesses to break their will and make them control it. Especially now that you're in the space created by its crystal inner core, you have no privacy left. Listen to me, cover your ears."

The "Potion of Forgetfulness" is said to erase emotions, but in reality, it awakens and amplifies the emotions one most desperately wants to forget. If even water can do this, how much more so can emotions!

From the moment I was lured to the top of the tree and fell, I knew that its specialty was psychological hypnosis. It was even more powerful than Xiaoyue because it could directly touch people's hearts and turn passivity into initiative, but I was powerless to resist.

I groaned inwardly and said, "Fang Long, isn't that obvious? It's using telepathy; no matter how much I cover my ears, it won't help."

"The devil is born from the heart, my lord. If you can block out the outside voices, no one can affect you. It is because you have unresolved psychological problems that you are controlled by demons."

"What can I do now? I can't bring myself to do it without a very good reason," I lamented.

At this moment, Asen, who was guarding outside, said, "Kenshin, everything you have encountered is fate. There is nothing you can choose. What you need to do is go with the flow and do your best to fulfill your responsibilities in this life."

When I heard what Ya Xian said, it was like a ray of brilliant sunshine piercing through the gloom and shining straight into my heart. Yes, going with the flow, isn't that what I've always been pursuing?

Meeting Xiaoqingzi brought me back from the brink of death, making me realize that life and death are merely a cycle, that life is death and death is life. I thought Yu'er was dead, but isn't she living happily in another time? Falling in love with Xiaoyue is just an extension of Xiaoqingzi's love, a love that has been accumulated through countless reincarnations. This sudden and profound love, this love that transcends life and death, this love that is both love at first sight and unforgettable, fills me with hope for the future. The future brings not only mystery and pain, but also a happy wait and sweet longing.

The fact that I can't forget Yu'er to this day shows that she is an important part of my life. There's no question of forgetting her; she exists in every moment of my life.

Thinking about this, I finally understood. The psychological problem that I had never dared to face was finally confronted and resolved under these circumstances. I felt extremely gratified and full of strength.

"You monster!" I shouted in the style of Peking Opera, dragging out the last syllable, "Your time to die has come! My student almost died because of you, how can I tolerate you! To prevent you from causing further harm to the world, I will destroy you!"

As my emotions soared, my spiritual energy also surged, spreading throughout my body along my meridians. I focused my energy in my dantian, guarded my spiritual gate, and shouted: "Divine soldiers, act swiftly as commanded! Manifest the holy spirit with this incantation!"

The several lightning talismans he had specially brought with him immediately flew up, transforming into streaks of lightning that spat out scorching white tongues of light as they shot towards the fox demon.

The icy fox demon's green eyes flashed with a cold light, and it immediately shot out a series of ice arrows from its mouth, blocking the lightning formed by my thunder talisman. However, it could not stop my figure. In sync with the thunder talisman, I unleashed the most powerful protective spiritual light in my body and charged towards it with the strongest fist force.

When my fist struck the fox demon, I realized I had struck a block of ice. As the ice shattered, I felt some of the spirits attached to the ice fox disappear. Or rather, this fox demon wasn't a single spirit, but rather composed of multiple spirits, and what I had just shattered was only one of them!

A surge of spiritual energy appeared behind me, and I immediately turned around. Now I was in the form of another woman, about sixteen years old, but very alluring. She had a rosy face, clear eyes, and a body of creamy skin. She wore a turquoise dress and a classical moth-shaped crown on her head. The most striking feature was a one-inch-long purple hair between her left eyebrows.