At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a party named Zuoci, the character Yuan Fang, the road number Mr. Wujiao, a native of Lujiang, Jiangxi.

He knows astronomy and geography, and is good at seeing celestial phenomena.

One day he watched the sky at night, and saw that the Han Dynasty was about to run out, and the world would inevitably rise in all directions, so he sighed secretly: "At this point of decay, the high-ranking officials are in danger, the wealthy are dead, and the glory of the world is not enough to be greedy." ”

It means that today's fortune is very weak, the higher the status of the prince and the general, the more dangerous it is, and the more people who have more property, it is easier to attract the disaster of killing, and the short-term glory and wealth in the world are not worth coveting, so he devoted himself to studying Taoism.

Once in today's Anhui Tianzhu Mountain to refine the Taoist arts, I stumbled upon a hole in which there are nine kinds of utensils, such as ding, qin, staff, shield, sword, axe, etc.

From these artifacts, he felt a strong True Yuan Qi, and with these True Yuan Qi, he condensed a blue internal force crystal, a yellow physical strength crystal, and a red life crystal in his body.

Then he found that birds and beasts can also be refined by the Qi of the True Yuan, as long as the Qi of the True Yuan is drawn on the rune paper, the birds and beasts can be refined into the Qi of the True Yuan, although it is hidden in the internal force crystal in the form of gas after refining, it can be driven by people and can be retracted and released freely.

He named the magic he sensed "Runecraft".

After Zuo Ci cultivated the rune, he also realized the true meaning of life, and that cultivation is not only for individuals, but also for all sentient beings, and he felt that he should help the common people in the world to overcome the troubles of war.

So he walked in the rivers and lakes, hoping to help a hero to lay down a peaceful and prosperous era, and successively met Cao Cao, a heroic man who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, Liu Biao, a heroic man in Jingzhou, and Sun Ce, a little overlord in Jiangdong.

Although these people could be regarded as the overlords of the party at that time, they were short and long, and they did not have a foresight, and they did not see the huge potential hidden in the rune arts.

Once in Yecheng, Zuo Ci attended Cao Cao's banquet.

At the banquet, the others were respectful to Cao Cao, only Zuo Ci sat there, as if no one was around.

Cao Cao had the intention to make things difficult for Zuo Ci, so he deliberately smiled and looked around at the guests, and said, "Today's VIP gathering, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are roughly complete. What is missing is only the perch in the Song River of Wu Guo. It would be nice to be able to eat Matsue sea bass! ”

At that time, it took three days to get from Yecheng to Songjiang, and it was very difficult to eat fresh sea bass.

Zuo Ci said: "This is easy to get. I only ask the prime minister to give me a fishing rod and a copper plate filled with water. ”

Cao Cao immediately called for a fishing rod, and then prepared a copper plate for Zuo Ci and filled it with water.

Zuo Ci used a bamboo pole to set up bait to fish in the plate, secretly used runes to summon a perch, put it on a copper plate, and then instructed the perch to bite the hook, and a live perch was dropped as soon as the rod was lifted.

Cao Cao complained again that the fish made of ginger made from Shu was delicious.

Zuo Ci used the same rune technique to get Shu ginger.

Cao Cao was humiliated and hated Zuo Ci even more, and finally became murderous, but Zuo Ci used rune magic to cleverly escape.

"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Fangshu Liebiography, Zuo Ci" recorded this incident, but everyone thought that Zuo Ci had immortal magic or magic techniques, and no one knew that it was rune art.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is also a record of Zuo Ci teasing Cao Cao with rune arts, "The Sixth and Eighth Ganning Hundred Horsemen Robbed Wei Ying, Zuo Ci Threw a Cup to Play Cao Cao":

Zuo Ci took the jade cup on the table, poured it full of fine wine, and said: "The king can drink this wine and live for a thousand years." Cao said: "You can drink first." Ci then plucked the hosta on the crown, drew it in the cup, and divided the wine into two halves; Drink half of your own and serve half of it. it. Ci threw the cup in the air, turned into a white dove, and flew around the temple. The officials looked up at it, and Zuo Ci didn't know where to go.

Zuo Ci thought that Cao Cao was a hero in the world and had the heart to assist, but when he saw that Cao Cao was moody and narrow-minded, he used runes to tease him and left.

After coming to Jiangdong to inspect Liu Biao, Sun Ce and others, he found that these people were also similar to Cao Cao.

Especially after Sun Ce killed Yu Ji, a monk who was also a cultivator, Zuo Ci was even more disheartened.

He concluded: "The world is dull and greedy, and the hegemony of the bosom is nothing but selfish lust." If you teach them rune arts, it can only be a success, and you will be killed. ”

He also sighed: "There is a lack of kindness and love between heaven and earth, and everything is treated like pigs and dogs, leaving everything to fend for itself." The heroes also have no benevolence, and they also treat the people like pigs and dogs, and let people do their own thing. The multiplicity of decrees is even more confusing and unworkable, so it is better to remain quiet. ”

So he decided to go into seclusion and continue his cultivation.

Of course, later generations don't know what runes are, they all regard it as Zuo Ci's immortal method, and Zuo Ci is also described as an immortal.

Folklore also misrepresented the nine treasures he encountered as the "Yellow Emperor Nine Ding Shendanjing".

In fact, this is a big misunderstanding, but it is no wonder that future generations, because the series of changes that followed made it more difficult for people to find accurate answers.

Before his death, Zuo Cixian passed on the rune technique to Ge Xuan.

Ge Xuanzi filial piety, after learning runes from Zuo Ci, with the help of "Yellow Emperor Yin Rune Sutra" and "Yellow Emperor Yang Rune Sutra", the rune technique was more abundant.

After combining the attributes of the five elements, the scope of rune art is expanded, not only can you refine summoning beasts, enchantments, weapons, spells, instantaneous and other virtual but offensive runes, but also can conjure up physical mount-type summoned beasts.

Ge Xuan's personality is completely different from Zuo Ci's, he likes to talk and travel in the mountains and rivers, so he asked dozens of young people to follow him to learn, and took out the nine treasures that Zuo Ci saw in the cave to help everyone practice rune arts.

There was no shortage of well-informed among his disciples, and they actually recognized that these artifacts were not ordinary, but artifacts left over from ancient times.

They are: Shennong Ding, Houyi Arrow, Xuanyuan Sword, Pangu Axe, Suiren Hammer, Kuafu Staff, Xingtian Shield, Fuxiqin and Nuwa Stone.

Each of these artifacts has its own spirituality, either to help the rune master speed up the progress of refining summoned beasts, or to protect the rune master from harm, or to prolong the life of the rune master, or to make the rune master speed up the summoning speed, or to let the rune master enhance the attributes of the five elements.

Soon after, someone found Chiyou Horn in the land of Nanban, and together they were called "the Ten Great Artifacts of Antiquity". ”

Before his death, Ge Xuanxian distributed the ancient artifacts to the disciples and asked them to broadcast rune arts.

In the following two hundred years, the rune masters opened a mountain and established a school, and the rune art spread everywhere, and the rune masters all respectfully called Ge Xuan Ge Tianshi, Ge Xian Weng, also known as Tai Chi Xian Weng.

The Tai Chi sect, which is regarded as the authentic sect of runic arts, also regards Ge Xuan as the founder of the mountain.

By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, rune art had blossomed and borne fruit in the land of China, rune masters could be seen everywhere, without the constraints of ethnicity, sect and religion, everyone could practice, and everyone could be a rune master.

For a while, the number of rune masters reached its peak, becoming the most powerful group of people in the rivers and lakes, and even began to control the fate of the country......