Chapter 8: Drawing Talismans to Move Souls to the Heavens (I)
Early the next morning, Yan Luo went to go through the discharge procedures for Yan Fang, but was strongly opposed by Yan Fang's attending physician.
Because Yan Fang's current physical condition is so poor, a sudden discharge from the hospital can easily lead to further deterioration of the stabilized condition.
But Yan Luo, who was an immediate family member, insisted on this, and they could only compromise and agree to Yan Fang's discharge from the hospital in the end.
After hiring a car to bring Yan Fang back to the house, Yan Luo told his sister Yan Xia to stay at home to take care of her mother, and then go out alone to buy the items needed to take over the spell casting.
After working for a long time, Yan Luo successively bought a bag of cinnabar, a wolf pen, a stack of yellow paper, long incense and incense burners, and also ordered a paper figure with no facial features in the paper shop.
After all these things were arranged, Yan Luo came to the jade shop and bought a piece of jade that was the size of a palm and the color was not bad.
After everything was ready, Yan Luo returned home and began to work in his room.
He remembered that Lao Dao had taught him a kind of talisman called the Heaven Covering Talisman, which, once sacrificed, would allow the user to shield his Heavenly Destiny for a short period of time, making it impossible for other monks to detect it.
This talisman was also researched by the old man himself when he had nothing to do, saying that he would experience the mortal world in the future, so as not to be seen by others.
Yan Luo, on the other hand, was dismissive of this, after all, in his opinion, this talisman had no use other than shielding himself.
But this talisman is the best to use on Yan Fang's body now, once Yan Fang's Heavenly Destiny is hidden, then the success rate of Yan Luo helping him hide his life can be increased by at least thirty percent.
It's a pity that Yan Luo has only seen Lao Dao draw it a few times, but he has never painted it, and he doesn't know if he can successfully restore the Heaven Covering Talisman.
Yan Luo first used some water to dissolve the cinnabar, and then used a wolf pen to dip it in the scarlet cinnabar water, and then began to concentrate on preparing to draw the talisman.
Cinnabar is also known as cinnabar, the color is vermilion, it is bright red like blood after dissolving, it has the effect of driving away evil spirits and suppressing evil since ancient times, and many Taoist priests also use it instead of blood to draw the formation opening method.
The color of the yellow paper is biased towards the earth, and the five elements are in the center, which is the natal color of the ancient Yellow Emperor, so it has the effect of harmonizing heaven and earth and communicating yin and yang.
This is also the main reason why people use yellow paper as paper money to burn to the deceased after death, and of course, there is also the meaning that yellow paper represents gold.
Once the cinnabar used to ward off evil spirits is paired with the yellow paper that communicates yin and yang, it will produce a special power, which is called 'Kailing'.
As the name suggests, it is a power to open the aura, and when used properly, it can assist the caster to achieve the desired effect.
Throughout the ages, countless monks have tried every means to draw various patterns on yellow paper with cinnabar water in order to maximize the power of enlightenment, thus deriving various spell inscriptions.
This also gives the yellow paper with the power of enlightenment another name, that is, 'talisman'.
Since ancient times, there has only been one person who can really be called the master of Fu Gong, according to Yan Luo's master, that is, Zhang Daoling, the founder of Taoism, who is also known as Zhang Tianshi by the world.
It is said that Zhang Daoling's talisman can do one stroke of heaven and earth, two strokes of ghosts and gods, three strokes of the world, four strokes of the common people, a talisman can live the dead flesh and bones, and the heavens and the earth are omnipotent.
Of course, these are just legends, after all, Zhang Daoling has been dead for so many years, and no one has ever seen how awesome he is.
However, it is said that there are a few talismans drawn by Zhang Daoling during his lifetime, and they are still in the Heavenly Master's Mansion in Longhu Mountain, Taoism, as the treasure of the town faction.
Zhang Daoling's earth-shattering ability to draw ghosts and gods, Yan Luo must be inferior to himself, but he still has the ability to draw gourds according to the scoop.
At this time, in my mind, I recalled the charm of the old way when I drew the talisman and the strength when I put down the pen, and began to outline it on the yellow paper.
Drawing is different from drawing, the position and force of each stroke are exquisite, a little more or a little less is not good.
Moreover, each stroke requires the cultivator to inject his own spiritual power and the cultivation power in his body when he moves the pen.
However, this talisman is also divided into grades, from low to high, it is divided into low, medium, high, excellent, and heavenly grades.
The higher the level of the talisman, the more strokes need to be outlined, and the more complex the pattern becomes.
As for the effect of this heaven-shielding talisman, although it is not so powerful as to make the heavens and the earth change color, it is a talisman that shields the heavens after all, and it can be regarded as a kind of middle-grade and upper-grade, and the strokes used are naturally a lot.
Yan Luo is now only two-thirds of the way through the drawing of the talisman, and he is already panting and sweating profusely, which is actually related to his cultivation.
If his cultivation could reach the early stage of the Xuan Rank instead of the late Yellow Rank and get infinitely close to the Great Perfection, it would not be like this.
After the last stroke of this talisman was finished, Yan Luo was already a little tired and out of breath, and this feeling was more tiring than running a mother's thousand-mile marathon.
Yan Luo put down the wolf pen, shook his sour wrist, and frowned when he picked up his work.
Although the Heaven Covering Talisman he drew looked similar to what Lao Dao had drawn, there was always something in the whole that made Yan Luo feel wrong.
In particular, the aura and spiritual power on the whole talisman are completely different from what Lao Dao drew back then.
If the old talisman is compared to the light of the bright moon, then the talisman of Yan Luo is simply not even the light of fireflies.
"Failed?"
Yan Luo frowned and looked at the talisman seriously, and recalled it again in his mind, and after a long time, he picked up the wolf pen again, and used the spiritual power in his body to draw again.
One, two, three......
Yan Luo didn't stop, drawing a full five talismans over and over again.
He is such a character, he wants to do something, and he will never give up easily until he achieves his goal.
Just when Yan Luo's whole person was so tired that he couldn't even open his eyelids, he finally shook his spirit at the moment when the last stroke of the sixth talisman was completed.
"It's done!"
Yan Luo's bloodshot eyes stared intently at the sixth talisman on the table.
I saw that the original ordinary yellow paper color of this talisman had turned into an extremely deep golden yellow, and the blood-colored cinnabar on the talisman was faintly emitting a faint red glow.
The whole of the talisman reveals a looming, erratic and mysterious rhyme.
Obviously, this talisman is on the table, but if you don't stare at it, it will be as if there is no talisman on the table, which is extremely strange.
Yan Luo carefully picked up the Heaven Covering Talisman that he had completed alone, and looked up and down as if he were admiring a handicraft, and the more he looked at it, the more he couldn't put it down.
He didn't expect that he would be able to successfully draw a mid-grade and high-grade heaven talisman for the first time, and if he had the opportunity to meet Lao Dao in the future, he would have to brag about it.
But before Yan Luo could finish admiring his masterpiece, an irresistible sleepiness suddenly invaded, and then Yan Luo involuntarily fell to the ground and fell asleep......
Outside the window, the sky slowly darkened, the sun set, the stars hung high in the sky, and the moon became brighter and brighter.
Yan Luo slept until eleven o'clock at night before waking up, and after waking up, Yan Luo patted his head and only felt a splitting headache.
But when he raised his head and saw the time, the next second he trembled, and he cursed in his heart.
There was still an hour before it was time for Yin Cha to come and hook the soul, but he hadn't set up a formation to cast a spell, and he regretted that he shouldn't have told Yan Xia not to disturb him.
Otherwise, if I haven't gone out for so long, at least my sister will come to wake me up.
Yan Luo also knew that now was not the time to regret, so he hurriedly got up and grabbed the heaven-covering talisman he had drawn during the day, as well as cinnabar water and wolf brushes, and ran outside.
When he came to Yan Fang's room and pushed the door in, he startled Yan Xia, who was sitting on the edge of the bed and was asleep.
What scared Yan Xia was not only Yan Luo's sudden intrusion, but also Yan Luo's current state that looked like an addict who hadn't slept for several days.
Not only was his hair messy, but his dull pale skin and big dark circles made Yan Luo look even more haggard at this time than when he saw him in the hospital yesterday.
"Brother, why have you been so haggard for the past two days? Seeing this, Yan Xia's nose was sour, and his big watery eyes blinked and he was about to cry, but he was stopped by Yan Luo.
"Don't cry yet, I don't have time to explain to you, you go to the living room and bring in the things I bought. Yan Luo's eyes were red and bloodshot, and his voice was extremely hoarse.
"Okay, I'll go now. ”
Yan Xia was stunned by Yan Luo's shouting at first, but immediately nodded and ran out.
Yan Luo, on the other hand, came to Yan Fang's side, and his fingertips lightly swiped on Yan Fang's index finger, only to see a slight cut appear on Yan Fang's index finger.
Yan Luo hurriedly pressed the piece of jade he had bought from the jade shop on it, leaving a bloody handprint on the jade face.
After all this was done, Yan Xia also ran back, holding a one-man tall paper figure in his left hand and a bag of incense burners and long incense sticks in his right hand.
Reaching out to take the things in Yan Xia's hand, Yan Luo said, "You go out first, go back to your room, from now until dawn tomorrow." No matter what sound you hear, you are not allowed to step out of the door. ”
"Brother, what the hell are you going to do. Yan Xia looked at Yan Luo with some concern, firstly, Yan Luo's state made her worried, and secondly, Yan Luo actually bought a faceless paper figure from outside, which really made her a little panicked.
"Leave it alone, I'll explain it to you later. Yan Luo took the incense burner out of the bag and said to Yan Xia without looking back, "Remember, don't come out when you hear any sound." ”
Although Yan Xia was not at ease, he nodded obediently, and then returned to his room.
Yan Luo placed the incense burner on the ground, just three inches away from Yan Fang's bedside.
Then he took out three long incense sticks, and broke the other two into one section respectively, so that the three long incense sticks were just different from high and low, and then inserted them into the incense burner.
After preparing these, Yan Luo took the paper figure with no facial features, and then pressed Yan Fang's index finger, which was oozing blood, on the center of the eyebrows where the paper figure was supposed to depict the position of the eyebrows.
After doing this, Yan Luo wrapped Yan Fang's broken index finger in a piece of gauze, and then took a wolf pen and dipped it with cinnabar water, and wrote Yan Fang's birthday on the back of the paper man.