"Senior brother, these are the mushrooms and wild vegetables I picked yesterday afternoon. You can let a few senior brothers pick and wash them, especially the mushrooms. I don't know if I admit my mistake." Early in the morning, Xu Zhipeng ran to Xifei Temple and picked up yesterday's mushrooms. The picked wild vegetables were handed over to Zhichen.
"Junior Brother Hunyun, these are all trivial matters. Don't worry about it." Monk Zhichen took the bag with a smile and passed it to an old monk next to him.
There are three monks in their Xifei Temple, but except for Zhichen, the other two are ordinary people and have not practiced.
This world is already depleted of spiritual energy, and cultivation resources are scarce. It’s good to be able to retain a legacy, but how can we still have the energy and financial resources to spread the branches and recruit disciples?
Xu Zhipeng understood the meaning of Zhichen's words and told him not to worry about it. He could still afford a meal here. Cultivation was the most important thing, so don't be distracted by it.
Keren has to be shameless after all. Even though he is so heartless, he still wants to pursue something that is acceptable. Didn't you see a smile on the face of the old monk who came to pick up the food? It should be a smile of relief, relieved that he is not just a freeloader after all.
Xu Zhipeng secretly speculated.
"I also went to eat after dinner, but I didn't know there would be so many on the roadside. Oh, by the way, junior brother also encountered a persimmon tree and picked a lot of persimmons. You senior brothers should also have a try." After that, Xu Zhipeng handed over another bag, which contained eight persimmons. They were red and very pleasing to the eye. These are the best-looking persimmons picked, and they are just right for giving away.
"That's good, that's good, Junior Brother Hunyun, but that senior brother is being disrespectful." Old monk Zhichen had a kind look on his face and accepted the persimmon happily.
After being promoted yesterday, Xu Zhipeng became more interested in training again. At sunrise early in the morning, he completed his morning homework and carried it for three weeks. After returning from Xifei Temple, he began to study the talismans.
His experience in drawing talisman comes from the inheritance of his master Jun An Laodao. He knows it but doesn't know why.
This is a big taboo in the way of cultivating talismans.
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and skill makes essence. It is also said that as long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle, but making a talisman is much more difficult than these. Without the master's teachings, you would not be able to distinguish the writings that are like ghost drawings. What is more important is the layout and connection of the vitality in these ghost writings. If you are not careful, you will lose everything.
Their Xuanwei team was originally famous for their dual cultivation of alchemy, Taoism, talismans and talismans. Let’s not talk about alchemy. It has been abandoned for hundreds of years. Except for some experience talks of our ancestors, its inheritance has long been discontinued.
Talisman is much better. Drawing talismans and making talismans does not require the support of too advanced vitality. Well, to be precise, low-level talismans do not rely too much on the strength of the true energy, but on experience. Therefore, even if this inheritance has not been carried forward, it has been well preserved. Come down.
The talismans that Xu Zhipeng can now roughly master include peace talismans, exorcism talismans and amulets. As for making urn, I still lack experience. Talisman and Talisman are often thought to be just one word, referring to the same thing, but this is not the case. They have similarities but also differences and cannot be confused.
From a common point of view, they are all tokens that can command the heavenly soldiers and gods. From a functional point of view, the talisman is used to summon ghosts and gods and suppress evil spirits. Every time something happens, one or several talismans are drawn to perform the law; As a proof of identity, the gods on the urn will return their troops and horses to the recipients of the urn for mobilization. The basic function of the talisman is to summon ghosts and gods, summon them and wait for their dispatch.
In other words, one of the talisman and the urn is active and the other is passive, and looking at its origin, the level of the urn is higher than that of the talisman. Therefore, Xu Zhipeng's development of the urn still remained based on what his master taught him, and he never put it into action.
He had no intention of making a talisman today, but instead set his sights on the offensive talisman that he could barely draw at present, the Lingbao Thunder Drawing Talisman.
Thunder, the most steely and fierce, is the nemesis of all evil spirits. Among Taoist offensive spells, thunder spells also account for a large part, and the thunder charm is the most basic and simple thunder spell among these thunder spells.
The thunder talisman also has requirements for the caster. Generally speaking, low-level talismans can also be used by ordinary people. Although ordinary people can use this thunder talisman, they have to guide the thunder and lightning in thunder clouds on thundery days. However, it is much simpler for cultivators. Guidance can be exerted. So this can be regarded as an offensive talisman used by cultivators.
As a cultivator, even though he is still a rookie, he still has to live up to his reputation. Therefore, although it was a bit reluctant to draw this thunder talisman, Xu Zhipeng had great expectations. Who told you that he can't cast any small spell!
Although he has reached his forties, he is still a bit energetic. If I use a more derogatory word to describe it, it means that he still likes to show off even if he does not show it to outsiders, but he likes it when he looks at it.
To draw a thunder talisman, first draw a picture of thunder, then write the word "Thunder" in the order of Chinese strokes, then start from the left side of the bottom of the word "Thunder", draw a large outer circle clockwise, surrounding the word "Thunder", and draw three in the meantime Small circles clockwise. He recited the Thunder Technique in his mouth: The Lightning Mother and the Thunder Lord, use their magical powers to quickly cure diseases with me. Boom, boom, boom, boom. I am following the order of the Supreme Lord.
It's a pity that although the drawings and formulas are correct, and the talisman is finished, the talisman is not completed.
How can it be so easy to draw a talisman! Don't think that if you trace the runes correctly, the talisman will become it. Even if the spell is correct, if the layout of the zhenqi is not well drawn in some twists and turns, the power of the talisman may be low, or if it is more serious, a talisman will be useless. .
Today's exercises were basically in vain. Xu Zhipeng painted two pictures in one go, but both were useless. This was also due to his master's teachings. At least the talisman paper was retained and did not turn into ashes because it was not a talisman.
"Oh~" He sighed slightly and stopped writing. This time, apart from the problem of lack of experience in drawing symbols, the biggest problem was that he was too ambitious. If your cultivation level is barely enough, he will force it. He is not a genius, it can even be said that he is not the material yet. The reason why he has achieved some achievements is entirely due to the teachings of his master. A poor student actually tried to get involved in Olympic exercises! Even if I give you the steps to solve the problem, you still understand everything from seven to six.
If you still can’t master it, then you might as well let it go first. Xu Zhipeng is also an open-minded person.
The four qi in the body became a little sluggish due to the talismans. It was still early before noon, and he had no plans to go sightseeing, so he simply found an inner chapter of "Baopuzi" and read it with great interest.
"Baopuzi" Dengshe, Baopuzi said: "Anyone who wants to combine medicine with the Tao and live in seclusion to avoid chaos will enter the mountain. However, those who do not know the method of entering the mountain will often encounter disasters. Therefore, the proverb says, Taihuazhi Under the ground, bones are scattered. They all say that they know one thing and are not fully prepared. Although they have the will to survive, they are forced to die. Mountains are not big or small, they all have gods. If the mountain is big, the gods are big, and if the mountain is small, the gods are small. When you enter the mountain, there are no gods. Skills are bound to cause harm. You may suffer from diseases, wounds, and fear; you may see lights and shadows, or hear strange sounds; you may cause big trees to break without wind, rocks to fall for no reason, striking people; or you may be confused. If you walk wildly, you will fall into the valley; you may be attacked by tigers, wolf poisonous insects, etc. You should not enter the mountains lightly...
I published an article about the taboos of entering the mountains and ways to ward off evil spirits. The article points out that mountains, big or small, all have gods. If the mountain is big, the spirit will be big, and if the mountain is small, the spirit will be small. If you enter the mountain without skills, you will be in danger. There are many techniques for warding off evil spirits when entering the mountains, such as fasting for seven days before entering the mountains, not passing through dirty places, carrying a mirror, holding the inner texts of the Three Emperors, the true shapes of the Five Mountains, etc. The article also introduces several kinds of talismans, such as the Shengshan Talisman, the Laojun Entering the Mountain Talisman, etc., and also involves many Taoist magic methods, such as Qimen Dunjia, Yubu method, and the Five Elements method. In addition, Xu Zhipeng also discovered that it actually involved the Taoist nine-character mantra of "all those who face a battle are arrayed in front". Later in the article, a pair of Taoist seals are mentioned - the Huang Shenyue Seal. These two seals can avoid tigers and wolves, and can attract scary ghosts and gods...
Although the text inside was awkward and difficult to understand, Xu Zhipeng watched The Sun Set with relish and completed a complete translation of the vernacular text before putting the book away.
Think about it carefully, after all, today is different from the past. With the development of science and technology and the continuous progress of human civilization, the wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains have long withdrawn from the human activity area; even the mountain gods and ghosts, with the depletion of spiritual energy, have also It lost its due divine power and degenerated into myths and legends.
In the Age of Dharma End, science and technology are in power, human race is prosperous, and gods and ghosts are easy to avoid.
