The Spirit-Attraction Flag (召阴旗, Zhào Yīn Qí) is one of Wei Wuxian's inventions that attracts all spirits, ghosts, corpses, and evil creatures within a certain radius to the user.
Description[]
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Spirit-attraction flags are black talismans with incantations drawn on them. The more experience the user has drawing the incantations and motifs, the greater the flag's effective range and the more powerful spiritual beings it can attract. Multiple spirit-attraction flags may be set in a formation to draw creatures to a specific area instead of a single person or building.[1]
Names[]
Spirit-attraction flags are also called "target flags" for their ability to turn whatever person or building the flag is set on into a target, or "black wind flags" due to the sinister energy that often accompanies them.[1]
Use[]
After re-emerging from the Burial Mounds, Wei Wuxian invents the spirit-attraction flag for revenge against against Wen Chao, Wang Lingjiao, and Wen Zhuliu. After discovering a massacred Wen hideout, Lan Wangji notes that the incantation on supposed evil-suppressing talismans have been written backwards in human blood, resulting in the attraction of evil spirits.[2]
Many years after Wei Wuxian's death, the cultivation world continues using this technique. Gusu Lan Clan disciples use a formation of spirit-attraction flags to clear Mo Village of walking corpses, unknowingly attracting the dismembered left arm of Nie Mingjue that was set in Mo Village.[1]
Unfortunately, Mo Ziyuan steals one of the spirit-attraction flags from the formation set in the West Courtyard, leading to his death.[3]
Later, during the events of the Second Siege of the Burial Mounds, Wei Wuxian draws a spirit attraction flag on himself to lure all the fierce corpses in the area away to allow everyone else to escape.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Novel, Chapter 3
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 61
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 4
- ↑ Novel, Chapter 81
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