Chapter 152: What is Resonance

"No... I..." Qi Xia felt the situation was a bit odd. "Are you saying that what I just wrote is this?"

"Are you okay? Qi Xia... You look really tired," Lin Geng said. "People need to learn to relieve their own stress, or they won't be able to handle it."

Qi Xia frowned and looked at the paper in his hand. He knew he was completely clear-headed and couldn't possibly go mad here.

The bell from earlier must have been Aunt Tong activating her ability.

She might have altered the content he had written.

Her ability was perhaps similar to Jiang Ruoxue's "Yin Guo" power, where whatever Aunt Tong said would unconditionally become what Qi Xia had written.

The terrifying aspect of this ability was that no one else would notice anything amiss, as if the text had always been that way in their memories.

Only the person who wrote the text might realize that the content had changed.

Aunt Tong smiled slightly and said, "The principle will be revealed later. Does anyone else want to guess?"

A few people in the room raised their hands sporadically, and Aunt Tong answered without hesitation.

Clearly, her answers differed from what everyone remembered, but they matched the content on the paper.

This made the crowd start whispering among themselves.

Once no one else raised their hands, Aunt Tong turned around, scanned the group, and then fixed her gaze on Qi Xia, asking lightly, "Young man, do you think I'm right?"

Although Qi Xia knew her answer was wrong, he had no evidence to prove it.

"Yes," Qi Xia nodded. "Could you perhaps tell me why you're right?"

Aunt Tong nodded slightly after hearing this. "That's a clever question. You're a very smart child."

She turned and wrote another character on the blackboard: "Xin."

"In fact, many people can hear the 'Hui Xiang,' but very few can fully control it," Aunt Tong said gently, tapping the character on the blackboard. "The key lies in 'Xin.'"

The crowd still didn't quite understand.

Qi Xia only knew that Yun Yao had once said that "Hui Xiang" is a kind of "belief." Was that statement from Aunt Tong?

"'Hui Xiang' comes from the Mu Shen; she grants us this power so we can protect ourselves in times of danger. But how many truly give thanks to the Mu Shen? Those 'Hui Xiang' users wield their abilities without showing their devotion," she said.

Hearing this, Qi Xia realized his earlier assumption had been a bit optimistic.

The "Xin" that Aunt Tong wrote meant "faith."

Aunt Tong continued, "Among the 'Hui Xiang' users I've met, no one has a higher success rate in activating 'Hui Xiang' than I do. Ultimately, it's because I believe the Mu Shen will surely protect me, as I am her most devoted child."

Based on this explanation, Qi Xia felt that Aunt Tong's success rate in activating "Hui Xiang" was indeed very high.

Back then, Jiang Ruoxue had only activated her "Yin Guo" ability twice and claimed it was due to "good luck," but Aunt Tong had stated the content on seven or eight pieces of paper without a single rebuttal, meaning she succeeded every time.

"Xin..." Qi Xia pondered silently.

He felt like he had grasped a faint clue.

Believing in the Mu Shen...?

A moment later, Qi Xia slowly widened his eyes...

Yes...

So that was why Aunt Tong appeared at "Tian Tang Kou"!

Her theory was extremely important!

He had been too biased from the start and hadn't taken her words seriously at all.

"Aunt..." Qi Xia raised his hand again, asking seriously, "Are you saying that to successfully activate 'Hui Xiang,' we must believe that this instance of 'Hui Xiang' will definitely succeed?"

"Yes, you really are a smart child," Aunt Tong said with a smile. "You have to completely believe in the Mu Shen's power from the bottom of your heart to catch a glimpse of it."

With that explanation, everything became clear.

"If..." Qi Xia continued to test his idea, "my 'Hui Xiang' is to pull out a stack of banknotes from my pocket, how should I do it according to your theory?"

"It's simple—that means your subconscious truly believes that there's a stack of banknotes in your pocket. You can't have any doubt or hesitation; only then can you borrow the Mu Shen's power to pull out the banknotes."

"I see..." Qi Xia lowered his head, a bit dazed, murmuring to himself.

Trains wouldn't enter the city, and meteors couldn't rain from the sky.

Han Yi Mo was safe.

Because those absurd disasters wouldn't happen in reality, his subconscious couldn't believe they would occur.

Even if he was always "bringing disasters," the ones he attracted were still within the realm of possibility.

The harpoons flying around the room happened because he believed he would be pierced, which was reasonable.

But what about the "Qi Hei Jian"?

This was an interesting question—why would Han Yi Mo believe that a "Qi Hei Jian" truly existed in the world?

There was probably only one answer.

As a writer, to better advance his story, he always believed that such a sword really existed in the world. He immersed himself as a storyteller, not as the fabricator of the story.

If a writer doesn't believe in what he's writing, how can the readers?

So, in that pitch-black dawn, the "Qi Hei Jian" materialized out of thin air, and just as he imagined, it pierced him exactly as planned.

Officer Li's actions were also explained. When he first pulled out the lighter and cigarette, he was already nearing unconsciousness from blood loss, probably not even aware of where he was.

So, his subconscious believed that his pocket should always have a lighter and cigarette.

This also proved why he only pulled out a "Dao" at the very last moment before death. When he clearly knew he had only three "Dao" on him, he absolutely couldn't pull out a fourth.

But when he was about to give up and die, he forgot that he had given one to Qi Xia.

So, the fourth one appeared.

Aunt Tong's ability to activate "Hui Xiang" with such a high success rate wasn't because she controlled her "subconscious" well, but because she completely believed that there was a "Mu Shen" in the world, and everything was the power of the "Mu Shen." She thought that as long as she devoutly prayed to the Mu Shen, she would succeed 100 percent in borrowing that power.

This fortunate coincidence made her a powerful "Hui Xiang" user.

"This makes so much sense..." Qi Xia murmured to himself. "This is the perfect explanation for 'Hui Xiang'... It's not a 'superpower'; it's truly a 'belief.' It's latent; it's persistent..."

Lin Geng and the others saw Qi Xia deep in thought and exchanged glances, not knowing what to say.

"Lin Geng..." Qi Xia suddenly turned to look at Lin Geng. "Could you do me a favor?"

"A favor?"