Chapter 409: Drawing Symbols
The place where the talismans are drawn is in a spacious and flat martial arts practice field on the mountain behind the Shangqing Palace, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people to stand in a gymnastic formation, and the Zhengyi Taoist priests practice martial arts or collective meditation here on weekdays.
At this time, about 300 long strip-shaped tables were placed on the martial arts training ground, and if you look closely, these tables are all tables that have been moved from the dining hall, and all the tools needed to draw talismans are placed on them.
For Taoist priests, drawing talismans is an extremely serious and pious matter, just as a writer must first be able to write.
First of all, you must put the incense table, then put on the incense to invite God, clean your body and hands in advance, and then clean your mouth, and clean the pen, paper, inkstone, etc. Then pray, after the prayer is finished, take a pen dipped in cinnabar and wave it, and the stroke is completed.
At this time, don't think that the talisman has been drawn, you must also spray the water, and then pray, bow and send it to God, the steps are indispensable.
For the layman, they only see the action of the Taoist priest drawing the talisman, but they don't know that there is a lot of attention in the process of drawing the talisman.
In front of the more than 300 incense tables, there were already nearly 200 Taoist priests praying on the table. These people are old and young, male and female, but without exception, everyone's expression is extremely serious.
One after another, a number of Taoist priests walked up to the empty incense table, and then began to recite the mantras of quieting the mouth, body, and mind.
When Qiu Changsheng saw Liu Xi, he walked over leisurely and asked, "What talisman are you going to draw?"
The four Miaoyin people beside Liu Xi hurriedly greeted Qiu Changsheng.
Qiu Changsheng is the junior disciple of the contemporary Heavenly Master, and his status is very noble in Taoism, Liu Xi can ignore him, but it does not mean that Miaoyin and others can do so.
Qiu Changsheng smiled slightly, signaling that the four of them did not need to be polite.
Liu Xi didn't answer, but asked, "What are you going to draw?"
"Me?"
Qiu Changsheng smiled and said lightly: "It's a little hot today, and it should be cooler when it rains." ”
Liu Xi immediately understood that Qiu Changsheng wanted to draw a rain prayer talisman.
But...... With those mundane things on the dining table, can you draw a rain prayer talisman? I think that Qiu Changsheng has already refined the jade talisman with jade, and then activates the jade talisman later, and then pretends to burn the yellow paper, and it is done.
Of course, Liu Xi's plan is the same.
Just those ordinary yellow paper and cinnabar, there is not even a trace of aura, and the talisman drawn has a ghost use?
Moreover, the talisman is just a tool for storing spells, and the spells themselves are poured into them by the person who drew the talisman. These Taoist priests don't have their own spells, so how can they make rune paper produce spells?
Seeing that Qiu Changsheng was already standing in front of an incense case, Liu Xi also walked to another empty incense case.
Like Qiu Changsheng, Liu Xi didn't burn any incense to pray, let alone chant any mantras to purify her mouth and heart, she didn't even put on incense.
Such a scene fell in the eyes of the older generation of Taoism, and they immediately frowned.
However, the two young people, Qiu Changsheng and Liu Xi, were the highest seniors among the two largest sects of Taoism, the Zhengyi Sect and the Quanzhen Sect. In Taoism today, there are almost no people who can preach to them.
Unless it is the dust-free Taoist leader of the Xiaochun Yang Temple, or the contemporary heavenly master Zhang Qiankun of the Zhengyi Sect.
If you want to see the dust-free road chief, the difficulty is second only to seeing the immortals.
And Zhang Qiankun and a group of old Taoist priests sat on the viewing platform, looking at their junior disciples with a smile on their faces, their eyes were gentle, and they had no intention of disinforcing at all.
Yes, people don't care, what do you care about?
Qiu Changsheng picked up the pen and dipped it in cinnabar, and then with a wave, it took less than twenty seconds to draw the talisman.
He put down the pen, blew on the freshly baked talisman, and walked off the field in style.
The other participating Taoist priests looked at him with surprised eyes, although the talisman was meticulous in drawing with a single stroke, it was not really written in cursive script.
Drawing talismans is a high degree of unity of the essence, qi and spirit of the painter, and it seems that there is only one stroke, but the speed is extremely slow. Not only is it slow, but it is also very strenuous, and after drawing a talisman seriously, the whole body often collapses and is weak.
Qiu Changsheng, when he came up to write, he could do it in less than twenty seconds, and he ended up in a dashing manner.
Is this a glyph?
This is blasphemy at all, blasphemy against Taoism, blasphemy against the ancestors of the Three Qing Daoists, and great disrespect to all the people in the Daomen!
If it weren't for his identity, he would probably have been beaten all over the place.
What's even more infuriating is that if only Qiu Changsheng is so profligate, there is actually another one next to him.
Liu Xi was even more excessive, she picked up her pen and wrote three words on a small rune paper: Huohuo Huo.
These three words are in ancient Wu script, and the Wu clan is the first life form produced between heaven and earth.
After the opening of heaven and earth, only heaven, earth, and the witch clan coexisted, and the three can be said to be the same greatness, immortal and immortal.
Judging from the word "witch", the upper horizontal represents the sky, and the lower horizontal represents the earth. The middle one is vertical, representing the sky and the earth. The two people refer to the people of the Wu clan.
The whole literal meaning is that the Wu clan stands up to the sky and the earth, and shares the world with heaven and earth.
If humans and other races are acquired, then the Wu clan is a creature that was formed congenitally and existed at the beginning of heaven and earth.
The words of the Wu clan are inherently powerful, and when they are recited, they are spells. When written on paper, it is a talisman.
Where else do we need to ask God to send God and purify your mouth and heart?
After Liu Xi finished writing, she also threw away the pen, walked back to her seat and sat down, Miaoyue brought her a cup of hot tea, and she took a sip.
On the viewing platform, a group of old Taoists looked at each other and were speechless.
After a while, finally an old Taoist couldn't help but ask Shoujing Daoist: "Shoujing Dao brother, please forgive the poor Dao for being clumsy, may I ask what kind of method your little uncle uses to draw talismans, the poor Dao seems to have never seen it." ”
Shoujing Lao Dao glanced at him and said lightly: "The law of freedom." ”
There was an old Taoist next to him who heard this, and said in surprise: "What is the method of freedom, and I hope that Brother Shoujing Dao will not hesitate to give advice." ”
Shoujing Daoist sneered in his heart, these bastards, they didn't dare to provoke Zhang Qiankun, but they came to provoke me, do you really think that my Quanzhen Sect is a soft persimmon?
He was about to open his mouth to fight back, when he suddenly felt that someone was lightly stepping on his feet, tilting his head slightly, and seeing Mingyi sitting next to him, he quietly gave him a look.
The look that Ming Yi gave him was very understandable, and asked the head of Shoujing Dao to throw the ball to Zhang Qiankun.
The head of the Shoujing Dao smiled slightly, although he and Ming Yi were usually incompatible, but it was an internal contradiction in the Quanzhen Sect. In the face of outsiders, the Quanzhen Sect has always been very united.
"The so-called method of freedom, the poor way only knows what it is, but does not know why it is. Presumably, Zhang Tianshi has studied this deeply, otherwise it would be impossible for the Autumn Dao Chang's method of freedom to be used so skillfully. ”
The head of the Shoujing Dao arched his hand towards Zhang Tianshi and said.
Zhang Qiankun laughed and said: "It's too early to say it, let's wait for the results to come out." ”