Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 18
This kind of answer made me even more uncomfortable. I had a lot of troubles waiting to be solved. You are adding fuel to the fire and adding salt to the wound.

"If you agree, I'll take you as an apprentice. If you don't agree, then you can just fend for yourself." Now that he's finished talking here, I can't say anything else.

After all, after worshiping him as a teacher, his heart knot must also become my heart knot, and the bond between us was born.

Seeing me nodding and agreeing, I didn't engage in those formalistic things, just let me kneel in front of Zhang Tianshi's god statue, and the master said a lot of things about God, I didn't have the heart to listen, I just kept agreeing, never From this moment on, the burden on my shoulders is even heavier.

"Thirteen, although your aptitude is mediocre, as a teacher, I can feel that there is a sense of righteousness in your body. I hope you can devote yourself to practicing Taoism in the future, helping the world and saving people!" The words of the master made my blood surge, although I I have been letting my own way before, and I am ignorant, but now I have a clear goal, which is not a bad thing.

After paying homage to the patriarch, I remembered that there were three pages of torn text in the travel book my master gave me, so I asked the master what was going on.

"Do you think I tore it up because I didn't want you to know?"

I nodded in agreement, and he went on to say, "Actually, I want you to know, but now that you know, you can't do anything, so let's not mention it for now, let's talk about it later." It's not small.

"Who tore it off?"

"Your great grandfather, Zhong Zhengshan." In fact, when he didn't say it, I guessed it myself, because only the two of them knew about it.Since he didn't want to tell the cause of the matter, I didn't bother to ask.

He picked up the tea and drank it again, and slowly told me some things that were not recorded in the notebook.

Zhang Muzhen's family was not native to the Northeast. When Zhang Muzhen was five years old, he had to go to his distant relatives in the Northeast because of the warlord's scuffle. But on the way, Zhang Muzhen and his family got lost.Fortunately, I met his master. Although his master has a weird temper, he has a very kind heart.Therefore, Zhang Muzhen was accepted as a closed disciple.

His master used to learn Taoism in Longhu Mountain. After he came down from the mountain, he often sent out to eliminate violence and Anliang, and met many people of the same way.

Although it is not as exaggerated as in the movie, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it can be regarded as a half-immortal body.Although the master is not proficient in divination, he has an unusual talent in spells.

When traveling in Jiangsu, he learned that a Taoist priest of the Maoshan School taught him many spells, and with the accumulation of long-term experience, he realized many spells, such as medicine charms that can cure diseases; large ones that exorcise demons The ghost's wind, fire and thunder talisman.

The so-called talisman refers to the secret texts of the names and taboos of immortals, Buddhas, gods and devils recorded among various talismans. Fulu refers to the words, graphics, symbols, etc. written and drawn on paper or other media that can write talismans. Fulu is generally written on yellow talismans. Paper, red talisman paper, white talisman paper, talisman cloth, talisman silk, or objects on which spells can be written.

A mantra is a mantra that is recited orally. The mantra is combined with talismans, seals, gangs, tactics, magic tools, etc. in the process of spells to perform spells.Mantras refer to mantras with special audio effects, which are widely used by warlocks of various sects and sects to assist in maintaining health, praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, or driving ghosts and gods to achieve the special purpose of the performer.

That is to say, if there is only a talisman without a mantra, the talisman will not have the blessing of mana, just like ordinary paper.After the master finished speaking, he took a sip of tea and continued:

"I have three talismans here. Pick them up and let me see if you are suitable for using talismans." After finishing speaking, he took out three talismans from the drawer under the coffee table. They were different from the ones he had seen before. The talismans are all opened, and the ones I got before are all stacked.

"The talisman is also divided into yin and yang. The yin talisman is mainly for protection, so most of it is stacked and wrapped with cinnabar thread. The yang talisman is the one I have. This kind of talisman is mainly used Those who come to perform rituals will drive away ghosts and ward off evil spirits.”

I picked up a piece of rough yellow paper with symbols and words that I couldn't understand.

"Come on, this is the most basic fire talisman, recite the incantation talisman!"

"What mantra?"

"Urgency is like a law, I don't know it's so simple, stupid!" I curled my lips, thinking that in the movie, Uncle Ying and others were not all gesticulating, and even chanted a bunch of obscure spells. read something.

"Actually, that kind of cumbersome mantra is basically useless. There are no such fierce things in this society. As long as you can activate the talisman, that's enough." I held the talisman in my right hand, pointed at my sword with my left hand, and shouted :
"Hurry up like a law!" The fire talisman in my hand immediately burned, and it looked like an ordinary flame. I trembled with excitement, "It's caught, it's caught!"

"What, this talisman can be activated by any child. Hurry up and try the second talisman!" I quickly stamped out the flame with my foot, but I was still very happy.

"The second talisman is the Heart Purifying Talisman. It is mainly used to dispel some ghosts and wall-breaking attacks, but it is not a one-stop shop. It depends on the situation. Just recite the incantation and activate the talisman!"

As soon as the master finished speaking, I immediately picked up the talisman and recited it as urgently as a law. This time the talisman burned immediately, but the flame was light green.If you see this at night, you will be scared to death. The green flame is very strange, like a phosphorous fire.

The strange thing is that the flame has no temperature, but a little coolness.

"This kind of talisman has no effect. As long as it can be burned, it means that the talisman has been fulfilled. However, I am a little confused. Logically, it is difficult to activate this talisman with your cultivation. The Fox Pill you ate at Yinshi has greatly improved your cultivation?" The master frowned while talking, so I asked if there were any side effects after taking the Fox Pill.

The master said that there are no side effects, but the fox itself belongs to yin, and the fox seen in the underworld when passing through the yin is even more yin on top of the yin. In severe cases, he died.

I don't know how to explain these things. I thought to myself, you don't know about your cultivation base and experience for so many years. I just learned Taoism for less than two hours. How can I comprehend the secrets in it?

Without wasting any more time, I hurriedly urged the master to give me the third talisman. The master shook his head and said that the third talisman should not be used casually, otherwise it will easily backfire on the caster.After speaking, let me help him up. Although he looks young, the nearly hundred-year-old master is still a little powerless.

"You put on your coat, let's go out."

The master led me to a wild suburb in the west of the city, handed me the talisman in his hand, and asked me to wait for the opportunity.After finishing speaking, he began to get lucky. After he finished his luck, he bit the fingers of his right hand with his teeth and started to draw symbols on his left hand.

"The spirit of the land god here ascends to heaven and reaches the earth, goes out of the dark and enters the underworld, and plays for me. Don't stay on the day of meritorious deeds. The famous book is clear, and it is as urgent as a law!"

Although I have no cultivation, and there is no movie camera in front of me, and there are no special effects, but I can feel that the ground really trembled when the palm was shot.

Immediately afterwards, in a pine forest directly in front of him, a huge black shadow appeared.This is probably the largest body I have seen so far, it is more than three meters high.

"When he gets within eight meters of you, remind the talisman and throw it out." Zhang Muzhen's tone seemed a little excited.

"Master, this thing is not summoned by you, is it? I seem to have seen your posture just now? Is this what you call, there is no difficulty, even if you create difficulties?" I can feel my confidence when I speak insufficient.

"What are you talking about, your master hasn't learned psychic psychics, I can still do it? This resentful spirit is the victim of the forest murder case before, and the murderer has never been found, so it is immortal and has been wandering here. Let you save him, don't hesitate for a while!" Zhang Muzhen explained quickly, his eyes still fixed on the black shadow in the woods.

"Master, how about I use the jade pendant to capture him? Is this talisman safe?"

"Let me tell you, I didn't want to say it, you don't use this jade pendant. Although I don't know its origin, I know that the soul absorbed by it can't be reborn. It's too damaging to Yin. This talisman is called ghost killing talisman , the main thing is to break the resentment of the ghost, it’s almost here, prepare the reminder!”

I was too busy listening to him to speak, completely oblivious to the fact that the black shadow was approaching.

"Hurry up like a law!" After chanting the mantra, he found that the talisman didn't respond.

"I forgot to tell you, this mantra needs to be recited more, follow me, Taishang Laojun taught me to kill ghosts and my gods, wind, fire, thunder and lightning are as urgent as laws!" I followed the master to finish the mantra, and the mantra burned immediately stand up.

The flame this time is white. I don’t know if you have ever seen electric welding. Yes, it is that kind of dazzling arc light.I was about to be stabbed blind, so I quickly threw the charm towards the shadow.

The dazzling light streaked across the night sky, as if it was scratching the skin of the night, and then quietly flew towards a tree beside the shadow.

"Fuck! Throw it crooked!"

"Damn it!" Zhang Muzhen grabbed my collar and threw me backwards, and threw me a ghost-killing talisman by the way.

He turned around and quickly cast a talisman. After the black shadow was hit, his speed slowed down.Taking a closer look, although this behemoth is tall, it is not very scary.The face is wrinkled, as if it has been soaked in water for a few days, the whole body is pitch black, and a viscous unknown liquid keeps oozing out, but only the face is white, so it looks a little Like the "faceless man", it feels cute.

Suddenly he raised his head and opened his mouth slowly, only then did I realize that those feelings just now were all wrong, good guy, with this opening of the mouth, the entire mouth is cracked all the way to the ear, and if you open it a little more, your head will fall off.The mouth is not too scary, but the teeth in the mouth are densely packed, like shark teeth, with several layers.

My Ma Ying, stand up quickly, and recite the mantra to remind you, but you can't let him bite, or you have to score the corpse.

"Tai Shang Laojun taught me how to kill ghosts and my magic formula. The wind, fire, thunder and lightning are as fast as the law. Go to hell!" The last one, go to hell, is Fazi's inner cry, what's the matter?It's too creepy. The main thing is, as soon as the spell ignites, I aim and throw it.

This time it wasn't crooked at all, but I didn't expect such a huge body to be so agile, and I dodged aside in a flash, passing my ghost-killing talisman.

This time it was over, and the two talismans were all empty. I turned my head and looked at the master with help-seeking eyes.

"You, you, this hand is too inaccurate!" The master rolled to the side helplessly.

"Hide away, the blood curse I cast on him just now has passed its time, now he can run fast, don't be bitten by him." As soon as the words fell, a red flame flew from his hand It went out and flew straight to the big black fat man.It made a strange cry and took two steps back, but it gave me the feeling that he didn't suffer too much damage. Immediately afterwards, the master took out a human-shaped piece of paper from his arms, pinched the spell and quickly stuffed the paper into the ground. in the snow.

I watched in a daze like a melon-eating crowd, and saw the fat black man galloping towards the master quickly after eating the pain.Regardless of his age, the master is quite agile.

Seeing that the fat man had changed his target, he immediately ran towards the woods, stuffed a second small piece of paper on the snow in front of the forest, and when the fat man was seven or eight meters away from him, he stepped forward. A big jump flew to the front left of the woods, ready to put down the third little paper man.

"Come to me quickly!" The master called me to go over, and I didn't dare to neglect, so I ran over quickly, rolling and crawling.

The master sat cross-legged on the ground, with his five hearts turned to the sky, and he was chanting, "There are many grievances among all living beings, and it is difficult to untie the grievances. The grievances are formed in the first life, and the retribution will never stop in the third life. I will teach the wonderful method to relieve all grievances. After hearing the chanting, listen to the grievances and let them disperse by themselves!" Urgency is like a law, open!"

After listening to the master's words, the positions of the three little paper figures shone with light, and then three bowl-thick iron chains with hooks emerged from the snow, and they were quickly pierced into the fat black man's body.

The wailing of the black fat man resounded through the sky, and I thought to myself, whoever is pierced will suffer!I can't help feeling pity, but there is no balance between good and evil, and sooner or later I have to pay back when I come out to mess around.

"This is my last ghost-killing talisman. If you throw it wrong again, I will expel you from the master's door. Do you hear me?" The master's tone seemed serious.

The pressure in my heart is actually quite high, why?In the past, I was used to the days when there were people around me to help me, and I thought about the uneven road every day and someone would shovel it.This time, when I got serious, I realized that it was really not easy. If the master wasn't here today, how could I have dealt with this evil thing by myself?

I took a deep breath and told myself to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and to maintain a peaceful heart.Pointing the sword, holding the talisman, and chanting the mantra in one go, and then threw it at the immobile black fat man.

The fat man swallowed the talisman into his mouth in one gulp.

"Damn it? No way, master, did he eat the talisman?" The master didn't respond, but just looked straight ahead.

After a while, the chains around Fatty Hei disappeared, but he was still standing there with his head bowed motionless.Immediately afterwards, the black flesh on his body fell off little by little, and his height, which was only three meters just now, was now less than 1.7 meters. The rotten flesh that fell off disappeared little by little on the snow.

In two or three minutes, he changed from a black fat man to a normal human appearance.There was still a faint white light emitting from the body, which disappeared after a while, and only the two of us, the master and the apprentice, were left on the snowy ground.

"What are you doing in a daze, help me up quickly!" The master's voice was a little tired, it was a tossing night, the main reason was that I was too unlucky and lost two talismans in a row.When I went back, I asked the master what the names of the three little paper figurines were interesting.

The master scolded me, saying that I didn't even know the basics but still wanted to learn advanced ones, so I should just practice drawing talisman quickly.

After returning home, the master rummaged through boxes and cabinets and found a thread-bound book, which seemed to be quite old.There is no title, and no author. The master said that this is one of the relics left by the master before his death. There is also a Mingwen dagger, but it is lost.

Speaking of this, the master's face was full of self-blame.I didn't ask too much, so let the master rest first.

I told Zhang Feng what happened that night, and he said with a smile, not bad, I don't have a root of wisdom, so it would be great to be able to remind the talisman.I have no choice but to accept my fate, not everyone who cultivates the Tao can become a fairy, and I am satisfied if I can save my life.

(End of this chapter)