So, I became silent.
Master has always wanted me to learn Qin Bukong's techniques, but I never formally agreed, but now I can't help but learn a lot. The craft of metaphysics is very particular about the inheritance of masters. In other words, if you don't have the Dharma lineage of another sect, just learning a trick is actually useless against the enemy.
But even if you just memorize a bunch of moves, it's better than nothing. At least if you really inherit the Dharma lineage in the future, you will be able to understand it immediately. The master saw that I was silent, so he said to me, in the past few days, the skills that the masters of our own sect know have been basically taught to you. The rest is for you to practice diligently over time to improve. If I don't teach you anything, you just have to draw talismans on your own.
I still don’t speak. In fact, I have been avoiding this problem for a long time. It’s not that I don’t want to learn. For people in metaphysics, this powerful skill will make everyone who sees it eager. I just have concerns, but I don’t I know what I am worried about, maybe deep in my consciousness, I still vaguely feel that one day in the future, Meng Dongxue and I will be in another state again, and if I learn the art of making talismans by then, I am afraid that Let her down again.
Of course, these are my unilateral thoughts. Master asked me, at first, I thought you had something you couldn't let go of, such as girls. But for more than half a year, you have never mentioned Meng Dongxue to me, and you have never written to her. Although Master is an old bachelor, Master is not stupid. Master also knows the behavior between you young men and women. of.
A trace of regret flashed in Master's eyes, because I knew that Master actually liked Meng Dongxue very much. However, when Master said this, the part that I had not thought about for a long time started to tumble again at this moment. I began to regret it and recalled the tossing and turning in Meng Dongxue’s room that night. Then I smiled bitterly and asked Master: So you are all knew.
These pale and feeble words actually triggered a burst of sadness in my heart when I said them, and those happy times in the past flashed back in my mind with great clarity. Master said, you can guess it. When you didn't notice it before, I never mentioned the matter of learning to draw talismans to you, but it's different now. As long as you let go of some things in your heart and won't regret this decision in the future, Master is I can teach you anytime.
I didn't agree with Master at that moment, he just told me to think about it again. Master didn't force me, but patted me on the shoulder and went back to bed anxiously and tremblingly to rest.
That night, I was tossing and turning again. Perhaps because of what Master mentioned, I had to compare Meng Dongxue and Fu Fu together again. The comparison now is completely different from before. Meng Dongxue and Fu I said goodbye, maybe it's time to say goodbye to the Meng Dongxue in my heart.
So the next morning, before Master got up, I knelt beside Master's bed. He opened his eyes and looked at me in astonishment. I told Master that I wanted to learn to draw amulets.
So from that day on, I would study with Master whenever I had free time. The technique of spelling is simple and crude, but before that, you need to master the hand skills and the incantation silently in your heart. The most difficult thing is drawing the runes, which is a relatively time-consuming task. It usually takes half an hour to draw a rune, and you will be sweating profusely. Master told me that I can prepare part of it in advance when I have the energy, and I can respond when necessary. The master emphasized that talisman fighting is a gesture of one person facing off against another. Using admonitions to command the Yin Bingshen to restrain, harm, or even kill the other party is a relatively ruthless technique, and should not be used as a last resort. Never use it indiscriminately. Master also said that when we learn these things, we are equivalent to increasing our own strength, and our strength is not used to dominate others, but to protect and help those who are weaker than us.
This is the biggest difference between Master and Qin Bukong. Master is kind-hearted, while Qin Bukong is selfish and incomparable.
One noon in June 1971, Qin Bukong asked me to follow him into the tunnel after lunch. This time, he even brought Ganmu with him. We have been stuck at the broken door, tried many methods without success, and encountered danger several times. Each of the eight gates in this formation will gather various dead souls of the same type according to the hexagrams and the attributes of the five elements, forming a ghost with greater power. Usually when we kill a ghost, we usually mean beating it to pieces, because for traditional ghosts that have specific reasons for their formation, if they are scattered, each scattered part will not actually form a big impact. Threats, but the ghosts who hurt the door are different. Even if they are scattered, each one can fight alone.
Qin Bukong and I are only two people, but this ghost is hundreds of the same type of ghosts gathered together. You can imagine the difficulty and danger. According to what Qin Bukong and his master often discuss, most of the ghosts in the Shangmen are the souls of humans and animals lost due to various serious injuries, whether in wars, natural disasters, or being killed by humans. The deaths of these humans and animals are not their own. The will is where the will is, so resentment is the heaviest among the eight gates.
And these existing ghosts are not left behind thousands of years ago, but as time goes by, the old ones slowly weaken and disperse, while the new ones join in and gather together because of the formation here. This means that if we cannot defeat this gathered whole, we will face hundreds or thousands of attacks from different directions.
Although Qin Bukong is powerful and I am not a fool, we don’t think we have the ability to deal with so many ghosts at the same time. The most terrible thing is that if Qin Bukong and I enter this door, as long as we retreat, there will be another ghost inside the door immediately. To get back to the status quo, we have to break the door again. This is an endless process, and the longer it takes, the worse it is for us. Because people need to eat and sleep, but ghosts don’t. The longer this group of ghosts have stopped offering incense, the hungrier they become and the greater the threat to us.
Qin Bukong said that we are the first people in thousands of years to find and prepare to break the formation. We have no experience before and can only explore on our own. The purpose of bringing Gan Mu this time is to try to get Gan Mu into the door to see if we can find the Vajra Prong and bring it out. If possible, we can lure the ghost that hurts the door to the outside of the formation and then destroy it, just like I did back then. It is the same principle to destroy all sentient beings and ghosts at the door of death. However, Qin Bukong also admitted that he did not know whether he would succeed. However, Ganmu has been domesticated for many years and is deeply spiritual. In addition, snakes are good at moving underground. If the people who originally set up the formation were to prevent people from intruding, If you use the Eight-door Strange Formation, you may not be able to guard against snakes.
After Gan Mu was directed by Qin Bukong to enter the Shangmen, he and I had been squatting at the door waiting. Seven or eight minutes later, there was a clanking sound from inside the door. I recognized that sound, it was the sound of the vajra prong hitting the ground. Qin Bukong had an excited look on his face, stood up as soon as he slapped his thigh, and said loudly, success! So the two of us approached the door, intending to grab the Vajra Prong the moment Ganmu emerged.
But when Ganmu's snake head came out of the hole, I saw a big wound on its yellow and white torso. I was shocked and knew that it was injured. But even so, it still tried very hard to get out of the hole, but its movements were obviously much slower than before.
I was a little anxious, so I said to Qin Bukong, please help it quickly and pull it out. Qin Bukong didn't say anything, just waiting for the back half of Gan Mu's body to come out. The door hole we dug was big enough for Ganmu to drag the Vajra Prong out. But just when the Vajra Prong was exposed outside the cave, Ganmu's tail suddenly straightened, as if it was grabbed by something, and it struggled to break free outside. , but couldn't move at all.
Although I don't know about cold-blooded animals like snakes, I know that once such animals are tamed, they will be extremely loyal. The end of its tail was wrapped around the vajra prong, but the end was still in the cave. Even if Qin Bukong reaches out to take down the Vajra Prong at this moment, it seems impossible because it is already tightly entangled by Ganmu. I watched Ganmu start to be pulled back little by little, and I knew that it was the ghost behind the door who was trying to get the Vajra Prong back, but Ganmu kept pushing outward with great effort, which looked very anxious. . So I didn't care about the possibility of being bitten by Ganmu, so I leaned over and picked up the thickest part of Ganmu's body. Using my hands and feet, I started to pull it out, trying to rescue it from the hole.
Ganmu seemed to know that I was helping it, so he actively cooperated and slipped the snake's head under my arm holding it, and circled it several times, as if it was tied to my hand. But when I pulled, I found that the opponent's strength was obviously much greater than mine, and the scales on Ganmu's body were a bit slippery, so my hands slipped several times. So Ganmu was like a tug-of-war rope, with me on one end and the ghost on the other end, pulling each other.
In desperation, I shouted to Qin Bukong, please help me, I won't be able to hold on anymore! My feet were propped up on the ground and had already left several marks on the ground. Ganmu opened his mouth wide because both ends were exerting force at this moment, and even his eyeballs seemed to be about to burst out.
But Qin Bukong squatted down at this time, and instead of helping me drag Ganmu out of the cave, he grabbed the vajra prong that had been exposed outside the cave with one hand, and pulled out the short knife from his waist with the other hand. .
There was a bang, which was the impact of the blade hitting the ground. There was a violent tightening sensation in my hand. My body rolled backwards due to the loss of strength. When I got up and took a look, there was blood all over the floor. At the entrance of the hole, There is also a severed snake tail.
