Chapter Twenty-Four: Let's Go Down the Mountain

As soon as he closed the door, the master said solemnly, "I will give you two magic weapons today, which can only be used for punishment and self-defense, and you must not provoke the creatures of the underworld at will." If there is disobedience, the Dharma weapon will be withdrawn and expelled from the school. As he spoke, he walked behind the altar.

When I heard the master say that he wanted to give the Dharma weapon, I immediately came to the spirit, this kind of thing that I had only heard about can finally be seen today, and it is still for me.

But when I saw what Master had brought out, I was a little disappointed.

The two things in Master's hand, one was an ordinary wooden stick, a small section of yellow at both ends, red in the middle, and some places had been discolored, looking like it was some years. The stick is only about a foot long, about an inch in diameter, and the same thickness from top to bottom. The stick is carved with some black relief patterns, and it seems that two lines of words are written.

The other one is more ordinary, just a rope, look at the material should be just an ordinary palm hemp rope, the difference is that one end of the rope has a black wooden handle, the wooden handle is a dragon head shape, the rope is connected from the dragon's mouth, if it is not for the rope body and the wooden rake looks a little old, I must suspect that this is just a very ordinary handicraft.

When Master saw me looking at the two Dharma Weapons in a daze, he asked suspiciously, "What?" Don't want it? ”

"Thank you for the Dharma utensils, and the disciples will follow the master's teachings." I quickly knelt down and bowed my head, and withdrew my hand in the form of a catch.

The master did not put the magic weapon in my hand, but said, "These two magic weapons, one is a ghost torturer stick and the other is a magic rope, they are all leftovers of the masters, you should cherish them." No matter what kind of magic weapon, if it's not yours, you won't be able to play a great role in holding it. Just because I've given you the artifacts doesn't mean they can protect you. Dharma weapons are spiritual, and it is only through your own continuous blessings that it can slowly recognize you. ”

"Master, how can you bless it?" Hearing Master's words, my heart suddenly felt cold, this magic weapon is not a finished product.

The Master didn't speak, but just picked up a book from the altar and brought it to me and said, "You need to memorize the mantras in this book, and when you memorize them, you must recite them silently, and don't read them out loud. There are methods and mantras for the blessing of the magic weapon inside. ”

I took the book, and it was actually a handwritten book, written down word by word with a fine brush, and the paper in it was all yellow, and I don't know if it was because it turned yellow after a long time or because the paper was originally yellow. The cover is dark yellow brown paper, and there is not even a title on it, and the first page you open is the end. I opened the last page again, and it turned out that this book was to be read backwards, and on the last page there was only a big brush word: Mantra.

This book, called "Spells", has a spell on every page, ranging in length from three or four sentences to almost an entire page.

Before I could take a closer look at the contents, Master handed over another book, the size of the book called the mantra, and it looked a bit like the upper and lower volumes. I also opened the last page, which was also a big calligraphy: Fu.

A cursory flip through the book called "Fu" shows that there is a character drawn on each page, and there is no explanation other than the name of the character given below.

Master saw that I was flipping through the book, and neither spoke nor told me to get up.

I found that the two books are related, the first page of the "Fu" is a seemingly simple rune, with the words "Suppressing Evil and Worshipping the Fu" written below, and then opening the "Mantra", there are three annotations written on it: function, mantra, and stroke order. Looking back, there are still some blank page numbers.

The book doesn't have a table of contents, not even page numbers, and if you want to read it, you need to read two books together, and I really can't understand why the person who wrote the book didn't put the content of the two books together, so that it wouldn't seem to be so laborious.

The Master said, "Do you wonder why the talisman and the mantra should be written separately?" ”

I nodded and looked up at Master.

Master smiled and said proudly, "Because many of these two books are our exclusive methods, they are not suitable for external transmission, so it is safer to do so." You must remember that these two books cannot be taken out of this ancestral hall, and they cannot be copied or copied by hand. This is also the content of your morning class in the future, you must practice the talisman and memorize the mantra well. The combination of the two is not until it works. ”

"Okay." I continued to look down at the book. The Master said, "You get up first, your morning content is to find a way to bless the Dharma Weapon, and then start to bless the Dharma Weapon, and the blessing time of each Dharma Instrument is a quarter of an hour, which is also a compulsory course in the morning class in the future, and it cannot be delayed." ”

"Understood." I stood up, walked over to a set of chairs next to me, sat down, and began to look for the method of blessing the ritual with my heart.

"There is pen and ink in the drawer behind the tribute, if you don't understand anything, ask Wen Jing first, if she can't answer, you can ask me again, and in the next three days, you can learn it yourself. How much you can learn depends on your own efforts. After three days, you must go down the mountain to solve your problems. As he spoke, Master walked out of the gate.

In the next three days, I began to study for the college entrance examination. Except for eating and washing dishes, the rest of the time I locked myself in the ancestral hall to recite mantras, draw talismans and bless those two ritual vessels.

I slept after twelve o'clock for two consecutive nights, and got up at five o'clock in the morning, during which I also asked my sister some questions, and she answered them to me. Gradually, I had more and more communication with this senior sister, and she seemed to enjoy the process of asking her for advice. Sometimes I even took the initiative to come to the ancestral hall and ask me if there was anything I didn't understand.

But she only has time in the afternoon, goes out after dinner in the evening, rushes back for breakfast in the morning, and sleeps in the morning. I also asked her what she was doing at night. She just mysteriously said two words to me: "Work." When I asked her what she did, she kept silent.

After dinner on the third day, Master called me to his room and handed me a thick notebook, which was densely packed with many words, and he said that the second half of this notebook was a record of the steps he had taken every time he dealt with things over the years, and the first half was the characteristics and methods of dealing with various ghosts, as well as some basic methods and experience summaries. Methods include how to see ghosts, how to resettle souls, how to quickly exceed, how to quickly drive away ghosts, how to summon spirits, how to determine whether ghosts are haunting, and so on.

In comparison, this book is much more interesting than the two books of "Fu" and "Mantra". So on the last night, I read the book and saw that it was only finished at three o'clock in the morning, and it was only a rough glance. However, after reading this book, I began to have a basic concept of catching ghosts, collecting ghosts, super-ghosts, and even scattering ghosts. It also gave me a little more confidence in going down the mountain to deal with the evil ghost in Yu Man.

The next morning, after only two hours of sleep, I woke up early, thinking about blessing the Dharma weapon before going down the mountain. Senior Sister didn't go out last night, and everyone still didn't speak when they had breakfast, and after eating, I should go down the mountain to solve the trouble, but in the eyes of Master and Master, this is a very small time, and they didn't even say a word. But to my surprise, my sister was also going down the mountain, and she said to do something, so the two of us went down the mountain together.

One of us walked down the road with a light backpack on our backs, like two ordinary mountain climbers.

I secretly asked my sister, "Why don't Master and Master live together, aren't they husband and wife?" ”

Senior Sister shook her head and said: "I don't know, they lived separately like this when I came, and they usually communicate very little, but I can see that they have a deep relationship, and a lot of things have happened in the past two years, but Master Guang has always been loyal to Master." Why do you ask this? ”

"No, it's nothing, I'm just curious, senior sister, what are you doing out there? Do you want me to help? I said.

To be honest, I was a little uncomfortable to call someone who was only shoulder-high and looked very young.