This is the third time I've come to Boss Su to learn how to tie couples. Ever since I agreed to his "special" terms, he has been teaching me this secret technique.

The spells of the puppet technique are very complex, and in the process of origami, the paper puppet must be constantly fed with yin power, so that it can absorb and give vitality. Each link also has different particulars, such as the choice of rune paper, the material of pen and ink, and the shape of the charm. For me, whose cultivation is not too high at the moment, it is actually quite difficult.

Boss Su taught me only two of the simplest paper puppets: paper cranes and paper frogs. The folding method of the paper crane is similar to the shape of the paper crane I learned when I was a child, but once activated, it can really fly! It's just that with my level of control, the altitude, time and distance that the crane can fly are still very limited. The structure of the paper frog is also very simple, and at first glance it looks similar to that of a kindergarten child. Fold it and throw it on the ground, and the paper frog can jump and jump.

I asked Boss Su, these paper cranes and paper frogs don't seem to have much combat power!

Boss Su gave me a blank look and said, "With your current cultivation, what kind of paper puppet do you want to fold?" No matter what you learn, it must be from easy to difficult, from simple to complex. I've been learning this puppet technique for more than ten years, so you want to go to the sky in one step? ”

I scratched my head and said, "Boss Su, can you teach me some useful paper puppets first, even if you don't have combat power, you can scare ghosts!" ”

"There's no such flashy thing!" Boss Su directly shook his head and denied.

I was disappointed. It's not that I'm impatient, but I always feel like folding these kindergarten-level paper puppets and taking them out to be seen by ghosts, not to mention that I can fight ghosts, and whether I can make ghosts laugh is a problem!

Boss Su was not happy when he saw that I was discouraged. He pulled me to sit down and began to tell me about the history of the paper golem.

"Don't you see that our paper puppet sect is only a small sect now, but it has a long history and a long heritage, which can be traced back to ancient times! At that time, our ancestor was honored as 'Ten Thousand Ghost Ancestor'! ”

"Ten Thousand Ghost Ancestor? Is he a human or a ghost? ”

"Of course it's people! It's just that he can command 10,000 ghosts at the same time, like arms and fingers, no one can beat him, so others gave him this honorific title! ”

"Wait! Boss Su, don't brag too much! When you say '10,000 ghosts' here, do you mean 10,000 ghosts or 10,000 paper golems? ”

"10,000 ghosts!"

"Impossible, right?"

"What do you mean impossible? This is recorded in the Eight Classics of the Eight Classics on the oldest chronicle bamboo slip in our paper puppet gate! You think I'm fooling you? ”

"How can one person control 10,000 ghosts at the same time......

"Then you're alone! At that time, the sect founded by the Ten Thousand Ghost Ancestors was not called the Paper Puppet Gate, but the 'Ghost Puppet Gate'! The control is the real ghost, not the current paper golem! ”

"And this kind of domineering exercises? Isn't he the best in the world? ”

"I don't dare to say that I am the first in the world, but in the Yin Cultivation Realm at that time, he can be ranked second."

"Who's the first?"

"The strongest person in the Yin Cultivation Realm has been the King of Yama since ancient times!"

"Wow grass! King Yama lived so long? So is he a few thousand years old now, or tens of thousands of years old? ”

"Don't talk nonsense! King Yama is just a position, not a specific person. However, those who can become the king of Yama can generally live for hundreds of years. ”

"Well, that's pretty good!"

"Hey, there are some things I shouldn't have said, but Yin Gong originally evolved from Ghost Gong, and the living have learned the exercises of the dead and practiced to the extreme, isn't it already the same as the dead?"

"That's what I said, it's almost the same as a thousand-year-old demon."

"Don't go too far! We continue to tell the story of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Ancestor. The ghost puppet sect and ghost puppet technique he created were very popular at that time, and they were the first sect in the Yin cultivation world! Ghost puppetry is a spell that controls ghosts, and if you are a high-level person, one person can control multiple ghosts at the same time. The Ten Thousand Ghost Ancestor who cultivated to the highest level could control the Ten Thousand Ghosts, and he was in the limelight of Yin Cultivation for a while! ”

"Awesome! But what? Generally, when the story of a particularly awesome character is told at this time, it will be followed by a 'but'! ”

"You bastard...... Ahem, but! After all, the Ten Thousand Ghost Ancestors can't live forever, and there are a number of Yang Shou after all. After his death, fierce civil strife broke out within the Ghost Puppet Sect in order to compete for his position as the head! Alas, the descendants are not talented, and the other sects covet the various secret techniques in the ghost puppet sect, and they actually attack it, causing the ghost puppet sect to be almost wiped out! Many peerless exercises and secret techniques have also been destroyed or lost in this catastrophe, which is really regrettable! ”

"And then?" But there will always be a 'later' when it's over! ”

Later, there were still a small number of disciples of the Ghost Puppet Sect who escaped and tried to rebuild the sect. But at this time, they were weak and did not dare to use the name of the ghost puppet sect anymore, so they changed to other names. Even so, the newly established sect was constantly pursued by the enemy, and it was constantly divided and rebuilt, and finally gradually declined. ”

"Where's the ghost puppetry?"

"There are all kinds of ghost puppet techniques, not only spells to control ghosts, but also methods of catching ghosts, taming ghosts, raising ghosts, and refining ghosts. The complete ghost puppet technique has long ceased to exist, and later generations have differentiated into several schools on its basis, and dozens of new sects have also been formed, and the paper puppet sect is one of them. The opening master of our paper puppet sect is called 'Origami General'. His original surname is Zhe, he is a descendant of the famous general family of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he once served in the army, but he was degraded because of the defeat of the army, and he could only cut hemp and make paper as a business. The general was disheartened, and lived in the army for a long time, so in his spare time, he folded some paper men and paper horses to arrange troops and demonstrate military battles. Later, he apprenticed to learn Yin Gong and learned some of the secret techniques of the original ghost puppet technique. He changed the art of controlling ghosts to manipulating paper people and paper horses, and joined the art of military formation, so he was also known as the 'origami general'! ”

"So, the puppet technique is a low-level version of the ghost puppet technique?"

"Stinky boy! Do you know how to speak? What is a low-profile version? It's called an improved version! If you want to control the real ghost, you have to catch the ghost first, and then you have to tame the ghost, and if you tame it, you have to find a way to raise it, and finally in order to increase its strength, you have to refine the ghost, how troublesome! Isn't it much easier to change this to a paper figure and paper horse, as long as there is rune paper, yin pen and cinnabar, you can fold as many as you want! As long as your cultivation is high enough, it's no problem to fold thousands of troops! ”

"Okay, if you say the improved version, the improved version! However, Boss Su, I just heard you talk about raising ghosts and refining ghosts, do those ghost raisers have anything to do with your paper puppets? ”

"Ahem, don't talk nonsense! The method learned by the ghost keeper is indeed also evolved from the ghost puppet technique, but it was separated eight hundred years ago, where does it matter? ”

"That's the same ancestry, right?"

"What about the same origin? Our paper puppets and those scumbags are not the same thing! ”

"That's true, dragons give birth to nine sons, each of them is different!"

"That's right! You kid finally said a human thing! ”

"However, Boss Su, what you said just now was so lively, the ancestors of the paper puppet sect are all bullish characters, but why are you so miserable now? Do you have to rely on that 'spirit child' to generate income? ”

"Hey! I told you, don't always make fun of our spirit children, everyone has to support their families! Although our paper puppet sect is now in decline, the cultivation of the gate people is still the highest among the many Yin cultivation sects in the provincial capital, otherwise they will not be able to get the privilege of printing the Xiling ghost city dark coin. We just deliberately keep a low profile, usually we are in the business of catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, selling funeral supplies such as shrouds and incense candles, and we don't want to compete with other sects for benefits in the Xiling Ghost Market, so you think we are worse than them. This is called Taoguang Yanghui, do you understand? ”

"Hehe, your rhetoric reminds me of our return to the mountain!"

"How?"

"I went out to sign up, every time people only know Feng Daozhang, and I haven't heard of the name of the Guishan faction!"

"That's not strange! The Guishan Sect is just a new sect created by your master, and now there are only the two of you, of course no one knows. If you want it to become famous, you have to work hard in the future! ”

"Forget it! However, I think my master is also quite hidden, maybe he is also the inheritor of a major sect? ”

"Hehe, your master is amazing!"

"What's a great way?"

"Why don't you ask him yourself?"

"I asked, but he refused to say, Boss Su, you just tell me!"

"No, he won't tell you, then I don't dare to talk nonsense! In short, many people in the Yin Cultivation Realm have heard of his name, but there are different opinions about him, and it is not easy to talk nonsense. Alas, when he is willing to tell you one day, you will know! ”

"It's boring! Hide everything from me, I'm not a child anymore! ”

Boss Su nagged me so much, but it was a bitter mouth. However, as I heard him talk about these old stories, including the ghost puppet technique that could control ghosts, it occurred to me that the remnants of the talisman in my hand also contained secret techniques related to possession of ghosts. So, I took it out and showed it to Boss Su and asked him if it was also related to ghost puppetry?

Boss Su flipped through it casually, nodded and said, "Well, it should have something to do with it!" However, you are too lacking in this remnant exercise, and a lot of things are made up randomly, so I suggest you don't practice it casually. ”

I said, "There are no Yin Gong exercises here, but I have experimented with some talismans, array diagrams, and secret techniques, and at least a few of them can be used." For example, this ghost possession technique, I have used it before, and it is quite useful. ”

"The ghost you got from is willing to let you perform this secret technique on it?" Boss Su was surprised.