Chapter 40: The Soul Talisman
My attention was so focused on the various ancient books in front of me that I almost forgot about my business: "By the way, Lao Xiao, do you say there is anything special to show me?"
Lao Xiao took out the delicate box, there was a cloth bag inside, Lao Xiao carefully opened the cloth bag, and the thing contained in it was a mutilated ancient book, to be precise, it was seriously missing, maybe this was just a small part of an ancient book, Lao Xiao held it in his hand and cherished it very much, and it could be seen that Lao Xiao regarded it as a treasure.
"This is the ancient book you're going to show me."
Old Xiao took out a specific glove and turned a few pages: "See."
Lao Xiao didn't think about what he said, I understand a little that his intentions are clearly hinting, don't say I didn't show it to you, you can't understand it anyway, but he inevitably underestimated me, since I was a child, I was exposed to my grandfather's ears and eyes, and those strange runes and ancient characters are not difficult for me.
"Wait for Lao Xiao, don't be in a hurry to turn the page, I haven't finished reading the content yet."
Old Xiao froze suspiciously, and then began to observe me again.
"Soul Talisman." When I read those three words, Lao Xiao's eyes flashed with surprise, he hurriedly closed the pages of these ancient books, and looked at me with an incredible expression, "How can you, this is impossible, how can you know the runes in this at a young age, you, can you really understand," but Lao Xiao was a little incoherent.
"I think I can read it." I can understand Lao Xiao's mood, these strange ancient characters and runes, I'm afraid there are not many people who really know them, even Ji Ran and Zhou Xuran may not know as much, even if they come in, they may not be able to read it, but more importantly, I also saw the urgency in Lao Xiao's eyes, and he seemed to be eager to know the secrets in this book.
"Old Xiao, don't you know either, and you also want to know what is written in this book, I can understand it and tell you the content."
Lao Xiao was still a little hesitant: "I don't know if you really understand, but you can actually see the spirit talisman, which means that you are not simple, no wonder you are with Zhou Xuran, I underestimated you, I originally thought that a little girl was so foolish, whether you really understand it or not, what is your purpose, I am willing to take a risk to show you this book." β
The old portrait was very determined, and he carefully handed the book to me, but I was not so urgent.
"Old Xiao, there are still some things I want to know."
Lao Xiao is a smart man, he looked at me: "What do you want to know?" β
"All. Tell me everything, including the things you just ignored and didn't tell us. β
"Miss Yang has good eyesight, the matter has come to this, I can tell you everything you want to know. Our family is a scholarly family, so many ancient books, when I was a child, whether I liked to read or not, I still read a little more. When I was young, I couldn't calm down when I loved to play, but now I slowly start to like watching some. Some of the books are very interesting, recording some ancient myths and stories, of course, the more famous ones are "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".
However, I have a few uncommon ancient books similar to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which also record some ancient myths and bizarre stories, and one day I accidentally read a few interesting stories that aroused my interest.
I don't know why I always feel that some stories are true, and this curiosity has always stimulated me to find out.
There is a record about the evil mountain in it, which probably says that a certain mountain is evil, both good and evil, and can produce spiritual objects and gather demons. According to the details of the record of the evil mountain in the book, I have verified it for a long time and studied it for a long time, and I feel that this evil mountain seems to be Ma Mountain.
I collected a lot of stories about the spirit of the gods, and I guess that it was basically the side of the evil mountain mentioned in the book, but what was the other side of the mountain, which aroused my interest, and I decided to check it out. β
"It turns out that this is the real reason why you want to go to Mashan." Lao Xiao smiled slyly: "It's the main reason, the scenery there is said to be very beautiful, after all, I am also a photographer." β
"What happened next?"
"As I described, that paradise and the mysterious forbidden place, as well as Lu Zhi's death, I can guarantee that it is 1510 to tell you, there is no concealment."
Looking at my skeptical expression, Lao Xiao said: "The story on the mountain, for me, this is not the end of the matter, but the beginning.
The scene in the mountains, the words of the patriarch, and the legend of the ghost voice of the ten thousand faces are deeply reflected in my mind, and I am the one who will not give up until I figure it out.
I began to frantically collect legends about the ghost sound of the Ten Thousand Faces, but there was very little information about it, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
In order to figure it out, I began to make some special friends, and I also began to study some ancient books of strange texts day and night, but fortunately I didn't give up, it turned out that there was really a record of this ghost sound with ten thousand faces.
I found a record of the 10,000-faced ghost sound from an old scholar who studied ancient books more than me, that is, the 10,000-faced ghost sound that I knew from him is an invisible sound, because people's desires and greed are transformed into monsters, which can conjure up 10,000 kinds of sounds to confuse people, and can also penetrate people's inner desires and weave illusions.
I told him what I had experienced, he was different from others, he believed me, we had similar interests, we studied together, we wanted to know what secrets were still hidden in these ancient books, what unknown truths were. When Lao Xiao said this, he was suddenly full of sadness.
"He was in great interest that day, and told me that he had gotten a treasure by chance, and asked me to study it together. We couldn't read the strange runes and ancient characters drawn on it. We asked around to find a way, but no one could understand, and then we went to great lengths to meet the legendary Master Zhang.
Master Zhang is hard to see, but I didn't expect that Master Zhang was also very interested in this thing, in fact, he didn't know these strange characters inside, but the runes drawn in it He said that this was the legendary spirit talisman.
Master Zhang wanted us to leave the things with him, and he said that he had a way to find someone more powerful than him to help us figure out the secrets in this ancient book, but my friend was very precious to this hard-won thing, so he did not agree, just in case of accident, he quietly deposited this thing with me, but he didn't expect to be killed because of this thing in the end. β
"So that's the real reason why you chose anonymity." I looked at Old Shaw.
"Sort of, but I didn't expect to be discovered no matter how deep I hid."
"So Zhou Xuran's real purpose in coming to you is not only the incident of Mashan's 10,000-faced ghost sound, but also the matter of this ancient book."
What I suddenly couldn't figure out was that we were all working together to find the Book of Heaven to eliminate this evil spirit as soon as possible, why did Zhou Xuran have reservations and hide from us in some things.
It was probably my contemplation that caught Lao Xiao's attention: "It seems that there are some things that you really don't know, what kind of treasure is this incomplete ancient book, but it can attract the attention of the Zhou family and the Jiang family, even I don't know what it means." β
"The Jiang family?" My heart trembled, "Yes, the Jiang family, my friend's death has something to do with the Jiang family, and it is a force that we people can't afford to offend, so there are some things we can't pursue." What I hesitated about Zhou Xuran from the beginning was whether he was reliable or not, the Jiang family and the Zhou family had a close relationship, so did this matter have anything to do with the Zhou family, did they work together or did they have their own calculations? We don't know. Miss Yang, if you can really understand it, tell me what you know, my friend is a scholar, and he wants to know the story of this ancient book until he dies, and I can be regarded as having an explanation for that friend. β
"Hmm" I nodded in agreement, but my mood was a little heavy, I sat at his desk with Lao Xiao, and I began to look carefully at the mutilated ancient book. This ancient book should be completely unrecorded in the literature, and the true origin is unknown, Lao Xiao's hand should only be a small part, I know most of the ancient rune characters, I looked through it carefully, but the content in it was something I didn't expect at all.
The above describes the ten thousand faces of the ghost sound to accumulate grievances in the world, it can see through the desires and weaknesses of people's hearts, demagoguery, take people's lives and continue to strengthen themselves to endanger the world, the world's grievances and injuries converge, monsters are born, in order to maintain the peace of the world, the family protector uses the divine book to recover this monster, and they use this town spirit talisman to seal this monster in the demon mountain.
There is a detailed picture of this town spirit rune in this remnant ancient book, which says that the town spirit rune is the biggest weapon in the god book, the town spirit rune is huge, it can seal any monster, and stimulate the maximum mana of the town spirit rune, everything in the world instantly turned to ashes, but I want to enable this town spirit runeγγγγγ It's a pity that the content came to an abrupt end here, and the secret of the activation of the spirit talisman is unknown.
"I've finished reading the Old Xiao Book, and what I told you is indeed about the records of the Ten Thousand Faces Ghost Sound and the Soul Suppression Talisman." I chose to tell Lao Xiao the content inside, I didn't tell Lao Xiao about the book of gods and the family protector, I just told him that it recorded that the ghost sound of the ten thousand faces bewitched the world, this town spirit rune is a divine thing that can destroy all things in the world, and there are capable people in the world who use this town spirit rune to suppress this monster and suppress it on the top of this evil mountain, and the things behind it are not recorded because of incomplete information.
"It's such a mythical record that looks like a legend, why are they all looking for it?" Lao Xiao has some doubts and questions, but in fact, this is also a question in my heart.
Does the spirit talisman depicted in this book still exist? And whether the family protector in it is related to our big families, and whether this implied divine book is the "Book of Heaven".
This is a bigger question is why the Jiang family is involved, there are many things that clearly point to the Jiang family, is the Jiang family implying unknown things, every time as long as the Jiang family is mentioned, Zhou Xuran is silent, I can't understand what Zhou Xuran's intentions and positions are, but the biggest gain is that the true words described in the book undoubtedly point out a new direction for us to seal the evil spirits.