Li Ang's right thumb pinched between the second and third joints of his little finger. His ring finger was bent below his thumb, and his index and middle fingers were joined and stretched straight, forming a standard Sword technique.
With his sword finger, he quickly drew a pattern in the air and shouted, "The Supreme Heavenly Master taught me to slay the deceitful, Divine Master to strike down foes, fearless of the powerful, first the demons, then the nocturnal spirits! What deity would not yield, what ghost dare resist? Swift as the mandate!"
The sound was so loud that Xing Hechou and Wanli Fengdao, who were awakened by it, nearly spewed out a mouthful of water.
Both of them had read the notes written by Scholar Zhu, and knew that the incantation Li Ang recited was indeed authentic. But from their vantage point, the pattern Li Ang gestured in the air clearly looked like a chicken pecking at grains.
