Chapter Twenty-One
Without alarming Lin Ziyue, after Ye Yian and Lin Zixing simply said goodbye, they quietly left Fengge Mountain on that morning full of dew.
After going down the mountain, Ye Yian did not go directly to Xiangzhou City, but quietly reached the depths of Wuyin Mountain, which was more than a hundred miles away from Xiangzhou City.
Go up the clear mountain stream, and when you walk to the end of the water, you will see a wild bamboo forest. After passing through this dense bamboo forest, you will find an irregular hole on the cliff wall ahead.
The ancient cave hidden behind the dense bamboo forest is dark and gloomy, which makes people feel cold in their hearts at first sight, but in Ye Yian's eyes it is so friendly, just like a wanderer who has been away from home for a long time.
After observing quietly in the bamboo forest for a long time but not seeing any abnormalities, Ye Yian walked out of the bamboo forest and walked into the stone cave step by step.
Without lighting, Ye Yian knew the terrain in the cave as he was. After two incense sticks were the lightest, the sky light ahead gradually appeared.
At the end of the cave is a valley surrounded by mountains. The valley is not big. A mountain stream flows through the valley. The wild peach forests on both sides are lush and leaves are lush. Several elegant thatched huts are built on the green grass surrounded by peach forests and mountain streams.
A warm current surged from the bottom of my heart. After seeing the pheasant and hare in the valley coming and going boldly, Ye Yian did not hesitate anymore and stepped out of the cave and walked towards the hut.
It has been unattended for a long time, and the hut is obviously dilapidated. There is no master inside, but only scattered and dusty everywhere.
Fortunately, there were no obvious signs of fighting here, nor were there any bloody corpses or anything else. Ye Yian, who was prepared in his heart, was relieved a lot.
After walking through several huts, Ye Yian did not find any clues about the whereabouts of his master. After calming down his emotions, he went out of the hut and came to a small cave behind the peach forest in the valley.
The entrance of this cave is small and hidden. The only unique part inside is that it is dry, the temperature does not fluctuate much throughout the year, and there are no insects and ants.
This is simply a hidden storage room made of heaven and earth.
At first, Ye Yian used this place as a storage place for daily necessities, such as grain, salt, tea, and of course wine. Later, he also included some of his own collections.
Perhaps it is related to the experience of an orphan when he was a child. Ye Yian always has a little bit of a habit of hiding things. His master Ye Tianwen laughed at him for this and said he was petty, but he couldn't get rid of this habit.
After finding the wooden box with a hand nailed from the deepest part of the storage hole, Ye Yian felt sincerely happy.
The things contained in the box are actually very common. A set of pen, ink, paper and ink, the paper is yellow talisman paper, and the ink is made of cinnabar. This set is a must-have talisman painting for talisman monks.
In addition, there are some finished talismans, most of which were drawn by Ye Yian himself, and only three or four of them were sample finished products left by his master. He has never been willing to use them, so he has been left until now.
After inspecting the objects one by one, Ye Yian took them into the universe in his sleeve.
After walking out of the storage cave, Ye Yian came to the hut and recited Yunwen, pinched the magic formulas with his hands, stepped on the steps of the Gang, and the coordination between his hands, feet and mouth was smooth and natural. Then he saw a piece of talisman paper flying out of his sleeve like a pull.
Unlike Lin Zixing's talisman when he was running the talisman that day, Lin Zixing's talisman paper floated out and spontaneously ignited without wind, and then an ice cone exploded to attack the enemy. However, the talisman paper floated out from Ye Yi'an's sleeve did not spontaneously ignited immediately, and slowly floated to the beams and pillars of the hut in front before it only spontaneously ignited.
After the spontaneous combustion was completed, a slight explosion sounded, and four blue light balls suddenly appeared at the foundation of the four corners of the cottage. The light balls appeared fleeting, and the cottage was shaking slightly, and it was as stable as a mountain in a faint dusty ashes.
This is the Anshan technique used specifically for housekeeping in the White Talisman Technique. Although it has not been used for several years, it is no stranger to pick it up now.
The test of Niu Dao was successful immediately, which made Ye Yian feel much better. He vaguely felt that his pill power seemed to have increased a little more than three years ago. Both of them were the first condensing Yuan Dan, but the Yuan Dan condensed this time was stronger than the ones that were more than three years ago. Although there were not too many differences, he could clearly feel it.
Without thinking about the change, Ye Yian almost couldn't wait to enter the hut, took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and the black talisman technique given by Lin Ziyue, spread it on the table and prepared to draw the talisman according to the book.
During the journey from Fengge Mountain to this little valley, Ye Yian had already read the book carefully during the rest. There were quite a few black talisman techniques recorded in it, but unfortunately, because his cultivation was too low, and the first time the Yuan Dan was the first to drive those high-level magic. So there are only five basic talisman techniques that can be used at present.
Gold invocation talisman, long wood talisman, ice talisman, fire talisman, earth talisman, gold, wood, water, fire and earth are missing.
After purifying his hands, burning incense, laying the talisman paper, and mixing the cinnabar, Ye Yian concentrated his mind and thought about about half a stick of incense, and then began to recite the talisman in a soft voice. The pronunciation of this mantra is ancient and strange, with many nasal sounds, lingering sounds and rolling tongue sounds, which are definitely different from the common language and characters today.
After reciting the talisman, it was already a scent of incense. After reciting the mantra, Ye Yian immediately carried the power of the elixir. When the power of the elixir was transported in place, he reached out to lift the sheep brush full of cinnabar, and the light of the two colors of green soap was faintly emitted from the pen tube, especially the tip of the pen.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Yian waved his wrist and a very irregular red line suddenly fell on the spread yellow talisman paper.
With this tone, Ye Yian's hand did not pause at all, and he finished painting the entire piece of talisman paper in one go. It seemed to be flowing, but his nervous look and the fine sweat beads oozing from his forehead were enough to illustrate how difficult this process was.
After the last stroke was completed, Ye Yian let out a long breath, "I haven't drawn talismans for more than three years, but I've been born after all."
The bright red cinnabar on the yellow talisman paper is neither painted nor ink, but a collection of some strange lines. These lines are neither straight nor curved, coiled and kneaded together, and the pattern formed is like a kind of ancient text and a scroll with complex meanings.
Looking at the freshly baked Lihuo Talisman, Ye Yian's thoughts naturally floated to the scene when his master Ye Tianwen first explained the white talisman magic to him a few years ago, and even those words were clearly recorded:
"The "Sutra of Spiritual Treasures of the Unlimited Man" says: "The talisman is the coexistence of heaven, and the immortals are summoned and descended with the talisman's talisman'. The fundamental of the talisman is that people use the power of the natural five elements of heaven and earth for me. The so-called "thinking to keep the heavenly gods and the gods of oneself and write the talisman to communicate with the post" by a piece of talisman paper drawn by Yunzhang, I want to borrow the power of the five elements of heaven and earth. How can the talisman method be so simple? When each talisman is used, there must be a stance method to match it with it, and there must be a finger technique to cooperate with it in the hand, and there must be a rune in the mouth to recite. Only when these four are combined and driven by the power of the elixir can the power of the talisman be truly exerted. The talisman method is different, and the footwork method to match it, the finger technique, the Yunwen and the talisman map are different. For example, when I used the Shangqing talisman just now, I used the Tiangang talisman in my hand, and when I used the Anshan talisman, I changed it to the Diling Technique."
The pictures in my memory unfolded one by one, and suddenly I seemed to see the master pointing at the strange ancient lines on the talisman and asking him: "What do you think of this object?"
"If you look at the elephant painting for the first time, you will look at the word elephant in close proximity, but if you look at it in general, it will look like the 'ghost painting talisman' mentioned by the folk."
Upon hearing this, the master smiled without commenting. After a moment, he pointed to the lines in his pen and said, "Look carefully, what does it look like?"
This time, Ye Yi calmed down and looked carefully. He slowly felt that these lines that seemed ordinary had an indescribable fluency. The twists and turns of each stroke were so natural, as if these lines themselves had their own life, and they just led the brush and ink to flow naturally.
Looking at the winding lines on the paper, at that moment, Ye Yian's mind suddenly appeared in the mountain streams that he saw every day, the sea of clouds, and the clear mountain springs in the stream flow naturally descended, just like the white clouds in the sea of clouds, everything was natural and extremely harmonious. The blessing in his mind was to the heart, and he said naturally: "This line is like the stream flowing between mountains, and the white clouds rolled!"
"It's three parts of spiritual energy! What I'm painting now is Yunwen." Ye Tianwen looked at Ye Yian who was staring at the talisman paper, and smiled slightly and handed the pen in his hand and said, "Come and try it!"
Hearing this, Ye Yian was not polite, and took a pen and imitated the rune dots drawn by his master. He was still smart, so he thought it was extremely relaxed to do things like this three-year-old child when he was just learning calligraphy.
Who knows that the facts are very wrong. From the first stroke, it is not smooth. Since then, every stroke is not smooth. After copying it, I feel that my breath is suffocating and my chest is tight, and I can only feel unspeakable. In this state, the Yunwen he focused on painting is really clumsy, and the gap between the copy and the master's model cannot be calculated.
He picked up the Yunwen he copied. After looking at it, the master looked at it but smiled but didn't say anything. However, his faint smile made Ye Yian, who was so strong in his temperament, blushed, "What's the use of Yunwen?"
"Yunwen is derived from the image of heaven, earth, clouds and air. Many highly savvy predecessors in the world have guessed that it is no different from what we say now and what we write in our writing. In fact, it should be a language. The art of alchemy is traced back to the root of the power of heaven and earth. The method of communicating with the natural power of heaven and earth is Yunwen. The talisman used by Taoist priests and the runes recited in their mouths are all made of Yunwen. In short, it is the medium for the talisman cultivators to borrow the power of heaven and earth, and the foundation of magic. Unfortunately..."
Seeing that the master suddenly showed an extremely regretful expression on his face, Ye Yian asked, "What a pity?"
"It's a pity that Yunwen's true meaning has long been lost. Even though there are many monks who have wanted to reveal its mystery for more than a thousand years, their achievements are still limited, and there are still many errors. Tianwen, Tianwen, hey! I really want to ask who this ancient and difficult Yunwen was made? When did it become? What mystery is contained in it?"
Since then, Ye Yian has added the most important one in his studies, and he has learned the cloud literature he has learned from.
This learning is full of complaints.
Among the master's teachings, Yunwen is like the common language at present, and there are also words and sentences. It consists of words and words into sentences. It has a specific grammatical structure in the process of word into sentences, and it is impossible to make any mistakes. Other nouns such as mountains, rivers and five elements also have specific expressions in Yunwen, and the difference between strokes is completely different. These are all fine, especially Yunwen's pronunciation is too special, with many nasal sounds and mostly made with tongue curling, which is vague, and it is difficult to recite, and it is very easy to make mistakes. Ye Yian, who claims to be smart, is it painful to be miserable. He has been rushing several times and rarely throws away the handbook drawn by Ye Tianwen and said in his mouth: "It is so difficult to learn Yunwen. Can everyone know so many talisman monks in the world?"
The master seemed to never get angry, and of course he was not overjoyed. There was always a diluted smile on his face, and the faint tone was exactly the same as the tone he spoke.
Seeing Ye Yian's hairy learning, Ye Tianwen still said indifferently: "Not everyone knows it, even those who are proficient are nowhere in a thousand. As for proficient, the mystery of Yunwen has not been fully revealed, so how can there be proficient people?"
Hearing this, Ye Yian became interested and leaned forward on the desk and said with a swaying voice: "How can I do Yunwen? If they can do this, why should I suffer this crime?"
"People who are illiterate may not be unable to write? The practice of talismans has been passed down from ancient times. For example, the writing standards and pronunciation of commonly used talismans such as Shangqing talismans and runes have been fixed. Even if they do not know how to write, they can use it if they can draw a cat and draw a tiger. Among the talisman monks in the world, nine out of ten stops are used to memorize these commonly used talismans. Although they can be used, they do not understand the true meaning of talismans and cloud texts."
He respectfully picked up the handbook on the ground, and Ye Yian smiled and said, "Since that's the case, why do you have to know what Yunwen means? Can't you draw a cat and a tiger? Anyway, you can also use talismans. Master, what are the benefits of learning Yunwen?"
"The talisman map and runes are made of cloud text. If you don't understand cloud text, how can you understand the true meaning of talismans? You dare to be called a talisman cultivator in this way? Even if you are diligent, your achievements are limited. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools! Only by being familiar with cloud text can you understand the true meaning of the talisman path. You can move forward quickly. This is what the people say that sharpening a knife will not delay chopping wood!"
After the master held his hands and talked around the room, his expression was similar to the great scholars in the world. "This is a big thing, and in the small things nearby, if you practice cloud writing, you can draw talismans by yourself, and you can even innovate talismans by yourself when you are in a high state of progress; and if you are pronunciating well, you can understand the rules of it, or shorten the time for chanting runes. In this way, the talismans will naturally be much faster than now."
After slowly saying this, Ye Tianwen glanced at Ye Yian in a shallow tone and said in a faint tone: "In this way, do you want to continue learning?"
For Ye Yian, who had just started, the master's words "understanding the true meaning of the talisman" did not touch him much, but it was really tempting to shorten the time of talismans. It was actually the same as starting the first step to make the move. The quicker talisman is, the more powerful it is. The faster the hand, the slower the hand, the better. Ye Yian, who used to fight for food with others for beggars, couldn't understand this simple truth. Ye Tianwen's seemingly unintentional words really scratched the most itchy part in his heart.
He respectfully poured a cup of mountain spring water to serve it to his master. Ye Yian said with a rare and serious expression: "Disciple is very educated, please ask your master to start the lecture!"
After memories flowed like water, Ye Yian focused his mind again and drew the ice talisman.
The key to drawing talismans is to be coherent. From the moment you start writing, there is no pause in the middle, let alone breaking the pen. One pause and one pause means that this talisman picture has become a waste, and the elixir and mental power consumed in front will naturally be wasted.
This time the drawing is much better than just now. Even so, you need to take a long rest after drawing. Drawing two talisman pictures in one day is the limit of Ye Yian's current cultivation level, and he will no longer make a futile third attempt.
After packing up everything and practicing for more than an hour, he used the intra-eye vision technique to detect that the alchemy power had recovered, Ye Yian walked out of the hut and faced a peach tree to test the Lihuo Talisman.
In the book of black talismans given by Lin Ziyue, there are detailed records about how to cooperate with the hand, mouth, foot, and talisman diagram when walking the Lihuo Talisman. The runes recited by oral even marked the sound of reciting with the current text. Ye Yian has long remembered these well.
While reciting the runes on your mouth, you will change your fingers and palms on your hands to pinch the Sun Lord's Dharma, and step on the foot under your feet. Therefore, there is a foundation for the white talisman technique before, and there is no problem with the cooperation between hands, feet and mouth.
Just as the last Yunwen note was recited in his mouth, the magic formula in his hand and the steps under his feet had also ended at the same time. The Lihuo Talisman, which was previously painted and put into the sleeve, floated out of the void like a pull, and then there was no wind to ignite. When it burned out, with a slight explosion, a fire ball as big as a wooden tub suddenly appeared in the air and rushed straight towards the selected peach tree.
Thirty steps away, Ye Yian saw that the peach tree as thick as a bowl was instantly blown into two pieces. The fireball emitting a dark and dark light still refused to stop and attached to the trunks of the fallen tree to burn continuously. However, in just half a cup of tea, the peach tree that was still lush in the past had turned into ashes.
Chapter completed!