Chapter 33 Talismans (Part 2)
Fang Yi was taught to draw talismans by the old Taoist priest when he was five or six years old, but at that time he had not yet cultivated his true energy. The talismans he drew were just showing their own merits and had no magic power at all, and they could not be called any Taoist talismans.
After practicing drawing talismans for two years, Fang Yi could draw any more complicated talismans. At that time, the young Fang Yi felt that drawing talismans was as fun as graffiti. The old Taoist priest also let him paint all the walls of the Taoist temple with talismans.
However, just after Fang Yi completed the foundation building for a hundred days at the age of ten and a trace of true energy was generated in his body, the old Taoist priest asked him to instill this trace of true energy into the talisman pen every time he drew a talisman, so that the talisman could produce spirituality and become a real Taoist talisman.
After the old Taoist priest asked this, Fang Yi truly realized the difficulty of making talismans, because with the true energy contained in his body at that time, let alone making a complete talisman, his true energy could not even be written down a word.
One stroke consumes all the true energy in the body. Fang Yi can only practice while making talismans, but if he cannot make the spiritual power evenly instill, accidents will often occur in the process.
Sometimes when Fang Yi finishes writing the first character, when he recovers his true energy and writes the second character, he often fails to make the talisman because the two characters cannot communicate. Sometimes, when Fang Yi writes the last stroke of the entire talisman, there will be failure.
Fang Yi practiced hard almost every day from ten years old to fifteen. It took him five years to create his first complete talisman in one go. It can be seen that the difficulty of making talismans is far from being drawn as they were in the movie.
Even now, when Fang Yi makes talismans, he still needs to mobilize his true energy in his whole body and focus on his mind to make his debut talisman. There is still a chance of failure.
Therefore, before preparing to make talismans, Fang Yi must adjust his condition to the best, otherwise if there is breathing disorder, it will cause the true qi to stop, and the drawn talisman will be equivalent to a piece of waste paper.
Fatty and Sanpao often see Fang Yi draw talismans, and they are not surprised by his current appearance. However, this was the first time Boss Man saw him, and he seemed a little restless from the side. He wanted to open his mouth several times to remind Fang Yi to start. After taking a look at the expressions of the other two, he still closed his mouth.
After closing his eyes and resting for about ten minutes, Fang Yi finally raised his brush with his right hand and dipped the brush in cinnabar. Fang Yi took a deep breath. The brush in his hand was as heavy as a pound, and he wrote on the cut yellow paper.
"Five Dingdusi, Gao Diao Beigong, swallowing demons and eating ghosts, drinking wind across the body, snatching corpses for thousands of miles, removing ominousness, and being as anxious as the rule of the Supreme God..."
The words written by Fang Yi on yellow paper are not as crooked and difficult to identify as many words on talismans, but are very serious in strokes. He didn't write a single word, and Man Jun next to him could recognize them, and his lips were squirming, silently reciting them.
However, just as Fang Yi was writing the last word "Ling", Man Jun recited it out loud with excitement, which made Fang Yi tremble when he pressed the last point, and the point of the word "Ling" was a bit too long.
"Brother Man, didn't you not let you speak?"
Looking at the filth-expressing talisman that had no spiritual power fluctuations, Fang Yi felt like he was crying but not crying. In fact, he was in good condition when drawing the talisman today. He thought he could make a talisman in one go, but he was finally disturbed by Man Jun and made a mistake in the last stroke.
"I...I didn't say anything..." Man Jun looked at Fang Yi for some reason and said, "I just guessed that your last word is Ling, and it just made a little sound..."
Man Jun knew every word about the illusion talisman written by Fang Yi, but he didn't know what it means when it was coherent. It was rare that the last sentence was as anxious as the words "The Lord of God" and the Lord's Ruling" were seen in the movie, and then he read the sound with excitement.
"A little sound?"
Fang Yi smiled bitterly. He still had the chance of failure when drawing talismans in such a quiet place in the mountains. At this moment, it was not easy for Manjun to draw the last stroke in the residential house in the residential area. However, he still failed.
"Fang Yi, I think the words on your talisman are very good. Isn't it useless?" Man Jun is a businessman in antiques. Although he knows how to write, he knows how to appreciate them. In his opinion, the small seal script written by Fang Yi is difficult to do without a 10 or 20 years of experience.
"It's just a testimonial..." Fang Yi shook his head and said, "Brother Man, it's not your fault. I don't have enough cultivation. Let me rest and continue writing..."
Fang Yi did not mean to blame Man Jun, because he had seen his master make talismans on a rainy day, and let the heavy rain pour out and thunder sounds deafening. The talismans drawn by his master were all done in one go without any pause. It was really a mountain of Tai collapsed in front of him and was not surprised.
"I am still far from the Master's state of mind..."
Fang Yi knew that the gap between him and his master was not the amount of true qi in his body, nor the gap in his cultivation level, but the experience of his state of mind. When he could successfully make talismans under the conditions of many interference from the outside world, then his state of mind would be considered to be a minor achievement.
Fortunately, Fang Yi's cultivation at this time was no match for when he was ten years old. With his current true energy in his body, he could support Fang Yi to make talismans three times in a row. So after resting for more than ten minutes, Fang Yi washed the cinnabar on his brush, dipped it ink again and started making talismans for the second time.
This time, Man Jun never dared to make any sound, and even held his breath. The years of experience in making talismans made Fang Yi not affected by the last production failure. Five or six minutes later, he finally wrote out the last word "Ling".
After pressing the last point, Fang Yi's eyes condensed, he drew a symbol in his left hand, and recited: "Sincerity will be spiritual, heaven and earth will move, faith will be clear, and the magic power will be boundless, and urgently as the law will be ordered!"
While Fang Yi made a sound, his left hand pressed the yellow paper full of red small seal script.
I don’t know if there was an illusion in my eyes. Man Jun and others on the side seemed to see the talisman flashing with golden light, and an indescribable pressure enveloped the hearts of several people. At this moment, they even felt that their breathing was a little unblocked.
But it was just a breathing time. When Man Jun looked at it intently, the golden light in his eyes had disappeared. A very ordinary piece of yellow paper was quietly placed on the table, as if the scenes just now were just hallucinations.
"Fang Yi, this...is done?"
Man Jun asked carefully, for some reason, after Fang Yi made this talisman, he felt an indescribable sense of fear in his heart. Perhaps the situation just now was a bit too mysterious.
"It's done, Brother Man, I'll take a break..."
Fang Yi nodded tiredly. If you look closely, a thin layer of sweat had already oozed out of his forehead in the living room where the air conditioning was full of air conditioning. It can be seen that the action of making the talisman just now had consumed a lot of attention.
"Hmph, has this kid's ability to pretend to be a god and become a fool again?"
Seeing Fang Yi's actions, Fatty and Sanpao looked at each other, and both of them read what they wanted to say from each other's eyes. They had seen Fang Yi make talismans before, so how could they be so tired?
In the past, Fatty and Sanpao often said that if Fang Yi lived seventy or eighty years ago, he would definitely become a master of his generation by drawing talismans and chanting scriptures. However, this master had to add the word "fool". If it weren't for the outsider Man Jun, this time, Fatty and Sanpao would have ridiculed Fang Yi for a few more words.
However, Fatty and Sanpao didn't know that due to the scarcity of cinnabar in the mountains, Fang Yi mostly used black ink when practicing in front of them, but only purely painted talismans without instilling true energy. As for Fatty and the others saw the talismans posted in the Taoist temple, they were made privately by Qin Feng when the night was late.
"Let me see what the difference between these two talismans?" Seeing Fang Yi sitting cross-legged on the chair and meditating, Man Jun picked up the two talismans on the table, one that was invalidated before, and the other one that Fang Yi had just drawn.
"Hmm? It's really a little different..."
The most important thing to want to hang out in the antiques business is to have good eyesight. When Man Jun looked at it, he immediately found that although the words of the two talismans were exactly the same, the first one seemed a bit dull, while the second one gave people a feeling full of spirituality.
If you just hold a talisman, Man Jun will never be able to distinguish it, but when the two are held in your hands, the difference will immediately appear. The last point of the front one is to add to the snake, while the one behind is just the finishing touch, which makes the two talismans completely different.
"Fatty, Sanpao, is this thing really useful?"
After comparing the two talismans, Man Jun looked at the two people beside him. Although Man Jun believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, the yellow paper in his opponent with only some words could drive away rats and reptiles, and he was really a little lacking in confidence.
"Of course it's useful, hehe, I think Brother Yi'er's drawing this time is better than before, and maybe the effect is better..." The fat man looked like an expert and put his head in front of two talismans and commented.
Chapter completed!