Chapter 30: The Nine Runes
The sand that spilled out of the Nine Talismans was very fine, like mineral sand without the slightest dust and debris, and each grain was the purest earthy yellow, as if they all came from some unknown desert...... Dry, barren, that death-like breath is like a kind of materialized energy, which can not only make the owner feel, but also the people around and even the surrounding materials will be infected by this breath.
When the grit touches the ground, the valuable wooden floors quickly "dry up" until they crack into a myriad of strange cracks.
These cracks are like snakes that can destroy other material structures, whenever they touch something else, whether it's a desk, or a chair, or a ceramic pot with orchids planted on it...... Everything will be in a state of "withering" at a rapid pace.
Regardless of what substance the opponent is made of, they will be forcibly assimilated by the grit upon contact until it turns into dust and melts itself into a part of the grit.
The anomaly lasted for a very short period of time, perhaps only two or three seconds from the time the cracks appeared, to the time they began to spread, and then to their final termination...... Not to mention that outsiders are stunned, even Xu Yanan, the person concerned, is confused, she can't think of any explanation for the previous anomaly, she just feels that this matter is a bit unbelievable.
"Grandpa, is this the power of the Nine Fu?" Xu Yanan asked cautiously.
"No...... No...... The power of the Nine Talismans would not be so evil...... It's a decent magic weapon with a regular Taoist verve, it can't possibly cast these weird things, is it sand......" Xu Baigong squatted on the ground, carefully studying the traces on the table legs that had withered due to the spread of the gravel, "Is this sucking their vitality?" ”
"They're supposed to be assimilated, right?" Xu Yanan looked at the nine talismans in his hand suspiciously, and then looked at his arm, only to feel that the previous vision should be inseparable from this arm...... Why does that grit look familiar...... It's like coming from the desert that I've been dreaming about a lot lately......
They are the most natural yellow sand, but they can faintly shimmer with gold in the sun, and there is a biting chill under that strange color, as if it is much cooler than the temperature of ice slag, and that chill seems to be some kind of high-level embodiment of the breath of death...... This can not only be felt by Xu Yanan, but also by Xu Baigong.
If you look at it with the naked eye, you may only be able to perceive the faint trace of "dead air", but if you touch the grit directly with your hand, you can only feel it in an instant...... The horror of the death of this small grain of sand is like a cemetery where millions of corpses are buried!
Just by touching it at random, you can see countless wandering spirits and wild ghosts walking in front of you.
"Grandpa, this sand overflowing from the Nine Runes...... Could it have something to do with the energy in my arm? Xu Yanan asked tentatively, wanting to analyze with Xu Baigong, "I heard Chen Xian and them say that this arm is a parasite from ancient Egypt, and it seems to have something to do with the legendary Osiris......
"Ancient Egypt?" Xu Baigong frowned, feeling that this matter seemed to be much more complicated than he imagined.
After thinking about it for a long time, Xu Baigong's analysis still made no progress, and he couldn't find a clue at all, so he could only try again.
"You come with me."
"Good!"
Xu Baigong hurriedly took Xu Yanan to the backyard of the villa, the area of this place is not as small as in the house, and some magic techniques are much more comfortable here, at least it will not make Xu Yanan feel constrained......
"There are five elements and four elephants hidden in the nine runes, each of the five elements has thirty-six techniques, and each of the four elephants has nine techniques...... Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, can you try them one by one, and see the nine wooden thorns behind the nine runes? ”
Hearing this, Xu Yanan casually flipped through the nine talismans and found the wooden thorns that Xu Baigong said on the back of the wooden card, just like those barbs that grew out of some plants, perhaps only two to three millimeters high, as thin as silver needles.
They seem to have formed two circles on the back of the nine runes in a certain sequence, with the outer ring surrounded by five wooden thorns and the inner ring consisting of only four wooden thorns......
"The wooden thorns in the outer circle correspond to one of the five elements, and the wooden thorns in the inner circle correspond to one of the four elephants, and the gravel you just made should be earthy...... Now you can try if the magic of the Five Elements Earth Formation can be used! ”
"The magic of the Five Elements Earth Formation?" Xu Yanan looked at the old man in confusion, and replied cautiously, "I haven't learned those magic techniques yet, and you haven't taught me ......."
The use of the nine runes of the Xu family is a secret that is not passed down, and it is also one of the "important information" inherited by the Xu family elders in the past dynasties...... But now Xu Yanan is indeed a big exception.
She is only the future heir of the Xu family in name, but she has not really controlled the Xu family, and when Xu Baigong passed on the Nine Fu and the Nine Fu Fang to Xu Yanan, he not only broke the family rules of the Xu family for generations, but also cut off the opportunity for others to become the head of the family.
To put it bluntly, Xu Yanan is determined.
This point cannot be shaken, and no one can shake Xu Baigong's will.
"The Nine Runes Technique doesn't need to be prepared too much, and it doesn't need to be practiced, those cumbersome procedures are omitted by the Nine Runes, you just need to recite the Magic you want to use." Xu Baigong patiently taught his granddaughter and pointed to a certain wooden thorn behind the wooden card, "You can press it with a finger casually, remember to pierce the skin and bleed, and use blood as a guide to truly drive the nine talismans......"
Xu Yanan nodded, then looked at his five slender fingers, picked the most convenient thumb and pressed it...... That posture made Xu Baigong look very familiar, and after thinking about it, isn't this the posture of playing with a mobile phone?
After piercing his fingers, the blood that overflowed from the wound was instantly absorbed by the nine runes, and at the same time, Xu Yanan also sensed that the energy in his body was running rapidly, and the nine runes were like a pumping machine, constantly pumping out those energy that belonged to him......
As more and more energy poured into the Nine Talismans, this wooden plaque gradually lit up, and the whole body emitted an earthy yellow soft light, which corresponded to the soil of the five elements......
"I say a word, you read a sentence."
Xu Baigong said, and then without waiting for Xu Yanan to react, he slipped out more than thirty meters and began to talk to Xu Yanan at an almost shouting volume.
"The Land of the Five Elements! Listen to me! ”
Xu Yanan looked at the old man with black lines on his head, and said in his heart, Are you so careful?
"The land of the five elements, listen to my orders."
After reading this sentence, Xu Yanan looked at the nine runes that had no reaction, and then looked at the old man who was dozens of meters away, and shrugged helplessly.
"No response...... Am I really not going to need the Nine Talismans? Xu Yanan muttered in her heart, although she had been mentally prepared for a long time, she couldn't hide her loss on her face.
At this moment, Old Man Xu, who was hiding in the distance and was extremely vigilant, shouted again.
"Wujimen!"
Seeing that there was a spell behind him, Xu Yanan also repeated it in the same way.
"Wujimen."
At this moment, Xu Baigong cautiously ran out more than a dozen steps, he seemed to sense some kind of danger, and his eyes were full of undisguised vigilance when he looked at Xu Yanan from afar.
"Quicksand!"
Xu Yanan couldn't figure out what Xu Baigong was doing, but he couldn't help but glance at him confusedly, and he didn't dare to ask more at this juncture, so he whispered.
"Quicksand."
Perhaps these last three words are the key to unlocking the nine runes.
The moment Xu Yanan recited "Ground Quicksand", the nine-rune wooden plaque trembled wildly, and the earthy yellow halo that covered the wooden plaque became more and more brilliant, like the sun in the sky blocked by flying sand and rocks, and it became dazzling in an instant.
Without waiting for Xu Yanan to prepare mentally, countless yellow sand gushed out of thin air in the Nine Fu!
Jiufu is like the drain of a water pump, and the speed of those fine sand gushing is so fast that it even seems that the fine sand has "liquefied"...... It seems to be the unstable and liquefied quicksand in the desert, and after they hit the ground, they began to frantically devour the surrounding grass, turning this red-grass backyard into a terrifying quicksand area with a speed visible to the naked eye.
I have to say that Xu Baigong is indeed the forerunner of empiricism, these quicksands that are spreading wildly on the ground are not endless, with the spell caster Xu Yanan as the center, they spread outward for nearly thirty meters or so before stopping, this is their limit, at least the limit that can be reached at present......
At this moment, Xu Yanan saw at a glance that in this area covered by quicksand, everything was falling uncontrollably...... Whether it's flowers, trees, or boulders, these eerie yellow sands are like monsters that can devour everything, dragging them into the sand in an instant and then completely disappearing completely.