Chapter 10 Drawing Symbols
Four dishes, two meat and two vegetarian, were placed on the table, along with a jug of wine.
It can be seen that Taoist Master Simu's living standard is much better than that of Uncle Jiu. He can hardly eat meat all day long, and there are very few vegetables.
Jiale obediently poured the wine for his master. Taoist Master Simu glanced outside and asked, "Is that bald donkey back?"
"Master hasn't come back yet. Master, do you miss him?"
"miss him?"
Taoist Priest Four Eyes glared at Jiale hatefully, snorted coldly, and said, "Are you kidding me? I want him to die soon. He has been aware of his salvation by chanting sutras all day long. The noise makes my head growl."
After venting, Taoist priest Simu picked up Kuaizi and said: "Eat!"
Seeing that his uncle was already in a hurry, Shen Jian immediately picked up the fragrant white rice. He was already starving.
Fragrant, so fragrant!
Jiale's craftsmanship is indeed good, even better than his literary talent.
After dinner, Shen Jian took out the Maoshan Taoist Scriptures, flipping through them and making gestures.
Taoist Priest Four Eyes murmured: "What a madman!"
Just yesterday, Shen Jian successfully entered the late stage of refining Qi.
With the help of the fox demon's inner elixir, he reached the threshold of the late stage of refining and transforming qi. In the past few days, Shen Jian never stopped, and was jokingly called a cultivation madman by the four-eyed Taoist priest.
Talisman can be divided into four levels: low level, middle level, high level and spiritual level.
It was originally taught by Uncle Jiu, but when he came here with Taoist Master Simu, Uncle Jiu gave Taoist Master Simu the task of teaching how to draw talismans.
As a Taoist priest from Maoshan, Master Simu can also draw talismans, but he is better at refining corpses and exorcising corpses.
Taoist priest Simu brought a stack of talismans, put them on the table, and told Jiale, "Go kill a black rooster. Eat chicken tonight and put more chili peppers in it."
Generally, Taoist priests who can draw talismans will keep some black roosters for use in drawing talismans.
Just now in the yard, Shen Jian saw a dozen handsome black roosters, which were the best materials for making spiritual ink.
Jiale took the order and went out. After a while, he came in with a bowl of chicken blood that was still warm.
Taoist Master Four Eyes picked up the cinnabar and mixed it with the chicken blood.
After doing this, he came to the statue of the ancestor, picked up a grain of rice from the incense burner, put it in the palm of his hand, rubbed it with both hands, and the grain of rice suddenly burned.
Throw it into the chicken blood mixed with cinnabar, and the chicken blood will bubble like a boil.
He stretched out his right index and middle fingers and put them into the bowl of chicken blood and stirred it a few times.
Then he pushed the bowl and said to Shen Jian: "Hurry up and enjoy the fragrant chicken blood soup!"
"Give me a spoon...a brush."
To draw a rune, you use your own magic power to outline the runes on the yellow paper, and the spiritual ink is the carrier that carries the magic power.
There must be no mistakes in the runes, and they must be completed in one go without stopping midway.
Otherwise, the mana that penetrates the body will backfire, which may cause the talisman to burn, or worst case, backfire on itself.
The backlash from a low-level talisman is not great, but if a high-level talisman backfires, it will require at least three liters of blood.
Shen Jian chose the exorcism talisman, which is a low-level talisman that can restrain evil spirits.
Because he didn't know that one day, Taoist priest Qianhe would come here with zombies.
Exorcism charms are used to deal with ghosts. They have some effect on zombies, but they are not very effective.
If a mid-level talisman is used to draw the thunder talisman, or even the power of thunder reaches the peak of the sun, a small zombie like a wandering zombie will be immediately blasted to pieces by the thunder.
In the past few days on the road, he had practiced drawing talismans many times with ordinary pen and ink.
Closing his eyes slightly, moving his fingers gently, Shen Jian adjusted his breathing and allowed himself to meditate.
Opening his eyes, he picked up the pen and was stained with spiritual ink. The magic power emerged from the spiritual sea and entered the Langhao pen along his arm.
The magic power is condensed in the tip of the pen, but not released.
This is also the most difficult part of drawing the talisman, allowing the magic power to penetrate the body without collapsing.
Many people fail to draw talismans because they cannot control their magic power freely.
But for Shen Jian, it was extremely easy.
"Swipe, swipe, swipe..."
The red spiritual ink penetrated into the talisman paper, leaving behind a series of red lines, which were combined into an evil-killing talisman.
A faint red light flashed on the talisman paper.
Jiale asked: "Is it done?"
Like Wen Cai, he was in the early stage of refining Qi and could not draw talismans yet.
Taoist Priest Four Eyes nodded and said: "It's definitely done. The first time I draw a talisman, I can succeed in one go. I am as smart as your uncle and I, and have great talent in drawing talismans. Come on, I can just draw a few more for my uncle."
The corpse-fixing talisman is used as compensation for the material cost."
The zombie amulet is used to immobilize zombies. When exorcising the corpse, the corpse needs to be refined into a wandering corpse.
In order to prevent the wandering corpse from wandering around, a corpse-fixing charm should be affixed to his forehead.
Knowing that Taoist Master Simu regarded him as free labor, Shen Jian happily agreed.
Because Uncle Jiu had no money, he used ordinary ink instead when practicing drawing talismans.
Taoist Priest Simu is a young rich man who doesn't care about a few black roosters, just for Shen Jian to draw talismans.
The corpse-fixing talisman is the same as the evil-expelling talisman. It is a low-level talisman. However, the structure of the runes is different and the difficulty is not high.
Shen Jian tried it with his fingers and was about to start drawing the corpse-fixing talisman.
"call!"
The yellow paper under the pen suddenly burned. Shen Jian was startled for a moment. He paused when he turned the pen just now.
"Come again!"
After adjusting my mentality, I dipped my pen tip in spiritual ink and started drawing again.
The talisman paper flashed red, indicating that the corpse-fixing talisman was successful.
Taoist Master Simu praised: "Not bad, very good. After you finish drawing this stack of talisman papers, Uncle Master will treat you to chicken."
Whether you want to eat chicken or not is a secondary matter, but drawing talisman requires more practice, which Shen Jian knows very well.
Until sunset, Shen Jian drew more than ten corpse-fixing talismans.
The mana in his body had been exhausted. He put the pen away, endured the mental fatigue, and sat down cross-legged to restore his mana.
The Fourth-Eyed Taoist Master happily put away these talisman papers and said to himself: "You brat, the success rate of drawing talismans is actually higher than mine. Why don't you let him draw more and I'll sell them to the Fenglin Pavilion for some money."
Jiale scratched his head, feeling something was wrong.
"Master, aren't you a little... a little unkind in what you did?"
The four-eyed Taoist priest glared and cursed: "Doesn't it cost money to raise a pig like you? You eat a lot and do little."
Jiale shrank his neck in fright and whispered: "Then you still praise me for being cute!"
"cute?"
The four-eyed Taoist priest seemed to have heard something funny and said with a smile: "Even a pig is cuter than you. Don't be an eyesore. Go cook quickly and remember to add more chili peppers."
Chen Jian woke up from trance and smelled the smell of meat.
"Dinner is ready, why are you hanging around!"
Taoist priest Simu urged him and signaled Jiale to pour him some wine.
There is a large plate of fried chicken on the table, mixed with red pepper, which looks very appetizing.
As he ate, he thought that after his mana was exhausted, the effect of practicing meditation would be even better than usual.
I just don’t know if Uncle Four Eyes will let me help him draw talismans in the future.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Jian asked tentatively: "Uncle Master, are the corpse fixing talismans enough?"
Taoist Master Four Eyes nodded, then immediately shook his head, showing a big bad wolf-like smile.
"Not enough, far from enough. I still need a lot of other talismans, uncle. Starting from tomorrow, I will teach you the soul-fixing talisman and the mind-calming talisman... From now on, you will be the one to draw these low-level talismans."
Before Shen Jian could agree, Jiale tilted her head and winked at him.
Shen Jian asked strangely: "Jia Le, what's wrong with your eyes?"
Taoist priest Simu sneered and said, "Jia Le has something growing on his eye. Come to my room after dinner and let me take a good look at it."
Jiale was about to cry but had no tears, so he said with a sad face: "I...I'm fine."
Chapter completed!