562: Chapter 562 The Heaven-Deceiving Talisman!

The three of them looked at each other in dismay.

A talisman?

What kind of talisman?

What could drawing a talisman do?

Invisibility?

Earth tunneling?

Or turning into a fly to fly inside?

Countless thoughts flashed through Li Mu's mind, each more ridiculous than the last, but he didn't dare ask out loud.

He just silently turned around, opened the glove compartment in front of the passenger seat, rummaged through it for a while, and pulled out a neatly folded piece of A4 paper.

"Mr. Ye, this is all I have."

Ye Chen took the paper, unfolded it, and laid it across his knees.

Then.

He raised his right hand to his mouth and bit the tip of his index finger without hesitation.

The moment blood welled up, he had already begun writing on the paper.

His movements were smooth and fluid, completed in one go.

Yan Qingwu and the other two grew even more curious, staring intently at the piece of paper.

They couldn't understand the runes on the paper; they were crooked and twisted, looking like nonsensical scribbles yet also like some ancient, lost script.

But strangely...

The trails of blood spreading across the paper seemed to contain some indefinable rhythm.

The final stroke landed.

Ye Chen held the paper covered in runes in his palm and tightened his fingers.

Then.

He suddenly exerted force.

The paper shattered in his palm, turning into countless tiny fragments that drifted out from between his fingers like a swarm of startled butterflies.

The fragments fluttered in the air, emitting a faint golden light before vanishing.

Ye Chen brushed the paper scraps from his palm, looked up, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly upward.

"Alright, I'm heading over."

Having said that, he reached out to push open the car door and stepped out unhurriedly.

Yan Qingwu: "???"

Li Mu: "???"

Ning Shangshan: "???"

The three of them sat in the car, completely stunned.

Initially, they thought Ye Chen was going to draw an invisibility talisman or something and then vanish into thin air to sneak into the port unnoticed.

Of course, even that kind of operation would have been shocking enough.

After all.

Invisibility talismans were things rumored to exist only in Taoism.

And how many years has it been since Taoism declined?

How could they possibly exist!

But now...

Where did Ye Chen look like he was invisible?

He stood there by the car quite brazenly, hands in his pockets, even stretching and rolling his neck like a passerby out for a stroll after a full meal.

"Wait..."

Li Mu was the first to snap out of it. "Mr. Ye isn't planning to just walk right in, is he?"

Ning Shangshan leaned against the car window, eyes wide as saucers, watching Ye Chen start walking toward the port entrance.

"He... is he really just walking over?"

"Wait, he just drew a talisman!"

"Shouldn't he be invisible after drawing a talisman? Why is he still acting so conspicuously?"

Li Mu swallowed hard, his expression a sight to behold.

"Could it be he just did that for show to put us at ease???"

Ning Shangshan's mouth twitched. "It's not impossible..."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Yan Qingwu spoke coldly, "Look ahead!"

The two immediately shut their mouths, and three pairs of eyes stared out of the car in unison.

In the night, Ye Chen's figure had already reached the vicinity of the port entrance.

The entrance was brightly lit, with a dozen high-powered searchlights making the surrounding hundred meters as bright as day.

Over a dozen Yamaguchi-gumi members in black suits were scattered in small groups on either side of the entrance.

In the center of the entrance, a burly bald man sat on a folding chair, holding a bowl of ramen and slurping it down noisily.

Ye Chen walked over.

Unrushed.

With a steady pace.

Hands in his pockets, he was even humming an unknown little tune.

Ten meters.

Five meters.

Three meters.

The hearts of Yan Qingwu and the others were practically in their throats.

But a bizarre scene unfolded...

Ye Chen walked right through the middle of the patrolling Yamaguchi-gumi members like he was taking a stroll, acting as if no one was there.

And that group of Yamaguchi-gumi people...

Seemed to see absolutely nothing.

The bald man was still eating his ramen, his mouth glistening with oil.

Two young men nearby, smoking and chatting, were discussing who won last night's shady horse race.

Further away, several people leaning against containers were scrolling through their phones, fingers sliding across the screens.

No one looked up.

No one looked at him.

No one had any reaction whatsoever.

It was as if...

Ye Chen were a puff of air.

No.

Even more transparent than air.

Li Mu's mouth formed an 'O' shape, and his eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.

"This, this, this..."

He stuttered for a long while, unable to squeeze out a complete sentence.

Ning Shangshan's reaction was even more exaggerated.

He was pressed against the windshield, his nose almost touching the glass, eyes wide like bronze bells.

"My god..."

"He's clearly right there, the lights are shining on him, his shadow is stretched so long on the ground..."

"But why can't those people see him?"

"It's that talisman!"

Yan Qingwu was the first to recover, her voice filled with excitement. "It must be that talisman working!"

That was it!

Ye Chen drawing the talisman earlier wasn't some empty gesture to comfort them; he was truly performing the art of talismans.

That was simply too marvelous...

Li Mu couldn't hold it in anymore, his breathing becoming rapid.

"Taoist talismans?"

"Heavens, even those old Taoist priests might not be able to draw such a talisman, yet Mr. Ye can?"

It wasn't that he hadn't heard of talismans.

In the Dragon Country cultivation world, Taoist talismans had always been a legendary existence.

Rumor had it that true talisman masters could draw runes containing the laws of heaven and earth using cinnabar and yellow paper.

With a single thought, they could become invisible! Tunnel through the earth! Call forth wind and rain!

But that was all hundreds of years ago.

In today's Dragon Country Taoism, those who truly understood talismans could be counted on one hand, and those who could draw practical ones were even rarer than phoenix feathers.

Even if there were one or two reclusive old priests, the talismans they drew were just minor things for warding off evil, nothing like Ye Chen's...

A single talisman making a living person disappear right under the noses of a dozen people?

The most ridiculous part was...

It was selective disappearance!

They could see him, but others couldn't, as if there were a switch controlling it...

This is so damn ridiculous!

Ning Shangshan's voice was trembling with excitement.

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"It shows that our Dragon Country's Taoism hasn't declined; it still has real capability!"

"In the past, those foreigners always said our Dragon Country's Taoist arts were feudal superstitions and deceptive tricks. What about now?"

"Let them see with their own eyes what the true art of talismans is!"

As he spoke.

He even excitedly slapped the car door, his face full of vindication.

Li Mu glared at him and lowered his voice: "Keep it down!"

Only then did Ning Shangshan realize he had lost his composure. He quickly covered his mouth, but the excitement in his eyes couldn't be suppressed.

The three of them turned their gazes back outside the car.

In the night, Ye Chen's figure had already passed the entrance area and was walking along the main port road.

Soon.

He disappeared from their sight.

...

Ye Chen walked along the wide passage of the port, with mountains of containers on either side and dim yellow lights overhead.

[Deceiving the Heavens Talisman], that was the name of the talisman he had just drawn.

As the name suggested, it could deceive even the heavens, let alone the eyes of mere mortals.

The principle of this talisman might sound profound, but it was actually simple.

It didn't make a person truly invisible; instead, it formed a force field around the user that distorted light while simultaneously interfering with the mental perception of nearby biological beings.

To put it simply...

It wasn't that they couldn't see him, but that they wouldn't care even if they did.

Just like when you walk down the street, you see the utility poles, trash cans, and fire hydrants, but your brain automatically filters them out because they are "unimportant."

The Deceiving the Heavens Talisman made the user as "unimportant" as a utility pole in the eyes of others.

As for why Yan Qingwu and the others could see him?

Because Ye Chen drew the talisman, he could set an "exemption list" within it.

Just now, he had included the aura of the three people within the talisman's perception range, so they were not among those "being filtered."