Ah Shui used all his strength to raise a hand and grab Wang Qiming's arm. He opened and closed his mouth as if he wanted to say something?
I said: "Only Ah Shui knows all the truth. Wang Qiming, it seems that she is still a little conscious. You try to awaken her consciousness, communicate with her, and ask her what's going on?"
Wang Qiming wanted to know the truth more than we did, so he said anxiously: "Ah Shui, tell me, what did you do? What happened to that book? The tattoo on your back..."
Ah Shui's body trembled even more.
"Ask her where the book is?" I said loudly. As long as I can find the book, I should be able to solve the mystery.
But after Ah Shui sacrificed himself, the book disappeared and was no longer in Wang Qiming's hands.
"Ah Shui, tell me where that book is?"
"Water... water... medium." After Ah Shui's lips trembled to a certain extent, he finally uttered two words with difficulty.
In water? So that book is in the water?
She trembled and uttered a few more syllables, but they were unclear. Wang Qiming anxiously put his ear close to her mouth, trying hard to hear what she was saying.
"Water...Water...Son of God..."
After spitting out these words, Ah Shui's trembling body suddenly stopped, and the hand holding Wang Qiming's arm relaxed.
"What did she say? Water Goddess? Is she talking about Water Goddess?" I asked anxiously.
Wang Qiming burst into tears and choked with sobs as he said, "No, she is talking about the son of the water god."
Then he hugged Ah Shui, who had lost all movement, and cried loudly.
There was a thump in my heart, as if I had captured some truth.
Son of the Water God?
Water Goddess? A child's face? Son of the Water God?
An idea flashed in my mind, and I suddenly understood something.
"I know, that child's face tattoo is actually the child of the Water Goddess..."
"Ah?" They all looked at me dumbfounded.
"I'm not sure if the one in the transparent coffin is the Water Goddess? Why does another child of the Water Goddess pop out now?"
I said, "Let's not talk about whether she is the Water Goddess. This title may just be given to her by people, but the soul of the child in the tattoo is indeed her child."
"Then what's the next step?"
I was about to speak when suddenly Wang Qiming stopped crying and looked up at me.
I was stunned.
"What's wrong?"
He said: "I remembered that every picture in that book seemed alive, as if something was imprisoned in the picture."
"When I tattooed the child's face on Ah Shui, the tattoo was originally not pretty, but when I finished the last stroke, the face suddenly became lifelike, as if there really was a human face on her body. And I clearly felt that something was in Ah Shui’s body.”
The female Taoist priest suddenly said: "Is there a total of eight pictures in that book?"
"Yes." Wang Qiming nodded firmly.
"The child's face Ah Shui asked me to tattoo was the last picture on the last page. After the tattoo was completed, the picture became blank."
The female Taoist priest continued: "Besides the child's face in these eight pictures, are there other faces, such as men's or women's faces? Or animal faces?"
"right."
"Is that book the legendary picture of divine thorns?"
"Divine thorn diagram? What divine thorn diagram?" I was confused, and Xia Qingqing was also puzzled.
The female Taoist priest looked at me doubtfully and asked, "Don't you know the divine thorn diagram?"
I shook my head: "I've never heard of it."
She became even more confused.
"You are a soul assassin master, but you don't know the divine assassin diagram. Why do I not believe it so much?"
I was shocked.
"I really don't know what it is, please tell me."
The female Taoist priest said: "When Wang Qiming mentioned that book, I felt a little strange. Later, Ah Shui asked him to tattoo one of the pictures on her body, and I became associated with the tattoo."
"Just now Ah Shui said, Son of the Water God, I immediately thought of the Divine Thorn Diagram."
"This Divine Thorn Picture, as the name suggests, there is a god or immortal in each picture. It is also called the Immortal Thorn Picture."
"It is said that there are two volumes of divine thorn pictures. The first volume has eight pictures, and each picture contains a god or immortal. The next book has sixteen pictures, and each picture also contains a god or immortal. .”
"Those two Yin gods back then, the Soul Piercer and the Yin Opera Master, mastered these two Yin arts that were unparalleled in the world, so do you think Soul Piercer is just about inserting the souls of things that can exorcise evil into tattoos? "
"Is not it?"
The female Taoist priest said: "It seems that you don't know much about the soul-piercing lineage. I guess when you tattoo people with soul-piercing souls, you tattoo some low-level evil-expelling beasts. The so-called soul-piercing beasts are just some tattoos. The soul of a low-level beast or demon.”
"Are these divided into low-level and high-level?" I was a little surprised, because Yao Laosan never said this when he taught me how to tattoo.
There was no mention of any divine thorn diagram.
"Of course, all spells are divided into high-level and low-level. Especially for the two peerless Yin arts of stabbing the soul, the distinction between low-level and high-level is even more obvious."
"That book, that is, the Divine Tattoo Picture, contains the highest-level divine objects. Tattoo them on your body and pierce their souls into the tattoo. That is the real highest-level soul tattoo."
The female Taoist priest narrowed her eyes at me.
"Now I seriously doubt whether you are a descendant of the Thorn Soul lineage? You can't be a fake, right?"
But immediately she said: "No, Bai Xiaoxue said you are true, so it must be true, but since you are a soul stabbing master, you shouldn't even know the divine thorn map."
Yes, it really shouldn't be.
I remembered that night, I overheard the conversation between Lao Hu and Yao Laosan.
That's right, it was Yao Laosan who had a hand in teaching me how to tattoo from the very beginning.
So for such a long time, my soul-piercing skills have not improved much.
If there is a real distinction between high and low levels, I guess I can only be considered low level.
The tattoos he asked me to get were really just the lowest level.
He didn't even tell me about Shen Citu.
I looked at my ghost-patterned hand again. I always thought that my ghost-patterned hand was being upgraded. I was once proud of it, but now it seems that it may have been tampered with by that guy.
I felt panicked, and it felt really bad to be plotted against.
Seeing my ugly face, the female Taoist priest also guessed that there might be a hidden meaning, so she stopped mocking me.
But since I encountered the Divine Thorn Picture today, I must understand it clearly.
So I asked: "Where did this divine thorn pattern come from? Why is there an immortal or god in every pattern?"
The female Taoist priest didn't hide it.
"It is said that since a hundred years ago, there have been immortal slayers in the world."
When I heard the words "immortal slayer", my heart beat hard, but I didn't interrupt her.
"Specializes in killing the immortals or gods that appear in the world, and imprisoning those who cannot be slaughtered in the immortal tombs. So in the past hundred years, there are almost no traces of immortals or gods in the world, causing the balance of yin and yang to be lost, and evil spirits and heretics are everywhere."
"However, not all immortals or gods were killed or imprisoned by the Immortal Slayer. It is said that there was a prophet who collected some immortals or gods in the world early and stabbed their immortal souls into a painting. In the painting, it is called the Divine Thorn Picture.”
"This is the origin of the Divine Thorn Picture."
"This is done to protect the twenty-four immortals from being killed by the Immortal Slayer."
I was surprised and wanted to hear more, but the priestess shook her head.
"I only know this much, and I heard it from my master."
"The person who stabbed them into the divine thorn diagram was the soul stabbing master back then, right?"
"Master only said it was a certain prophet, but he didn't say who it was. But since it is related to the soul stabbing, it should be the soul stabbing master back then."
"Only he has such a superb soul-piercing technique. He used this method to pierce the immortal souls of twenty-four immortal families into the painting, temporarily protecting them from being discovered by the Immortal Slayer."
"But then something happened to the two Yin gods, you should know this, so the upper and lower divine thorn diagrams disappeared without a trace."
"Some people say that this divine thorn map fell into the hands of the Yin Alliance because they hunted the two Yin gods over and over again."
"Some people also say that these two books were taken away by the mysterious man in black, because after the two Yin gods were defeated, they were eventually taken away by the mysterious man in black."
"There were many people in the world who wanted to find this divine thorn map, but they all failed. I never expected that one of them would be in Ah Shui's hands."
The female Taoist priest's eyes narrowed and she stared at Ah Shui who was held in Wang Qiming's arms.
"Now I am even more suspicious of Ah Shui's identity. She is definitely not an ordinary mountain village girl. Otherwise, she would not have the divine thorn map in her hand."
The female Taoist priest asked Wang Qiming: "Is this the only one in Shui Shui's possession?"
Wang Qiming nodded: "I have been with Ah Shui for a long time. All her possessions are that small package, and there is only this book in it."
The female Taoist priest looked at me.
I asked: "The gods who were pierced into the divine thorn pictures can actually come out of the pictures. You only need to tattoo them on people's bodies, and then their immortal souls can be summoned to be attached to the tattoos. For example, Ah Shui, she used this method to tattoo the son of the water god on her back, and then sacrificed it to the water god empress."
The female Taoist priest nodded.
"It seems that you have already deduced the general truth. You are smarter than I thought. In that case, don't hide it, just tell us your inference so that we can have an idea."
All of them were stunned.
Especially Yang Guoping and Yang Zhan, after all, they are ordinary people. Now they are dumbfounded when they hear about the divine tattoos and gods.
"Damn, it's so exciting. Are there really ghosts in this world? If there are gods, what kind of immortals are there?" Yang Zhan said.
We ignored him, and Xia Qingqing urged: "Li Yang, please tell me what the truth is?"
