I thought it would take me a long time to memorize these charms, but I didn't expect that when the train entered Hubei Province, I had already memorized most of the charms in the book. In this regard, Zhang Guanshan was both happy and sighed. He is happy because his disciple has a great talent for practicing Taoism, and his Taoist skills are finally successors. sighed because this gifted person was not him, and it was inevitable that he would be a little disappointed.

By the time we got out of the car, I had memorized the entire rune.

Zhang Guanshan's family lives in a small mountain village in Jintan County, which is located in the old area of Maoshan, which is much more backward than other areas in southern Jiangsu!

After getting off the Changzhou railway station and transferring two shuttle buses to the town, Zhang Guanshan bought me a few sets of clothes and some daily necessities in the town, and we walked for more than two hours to come to Zhang Guanshan's home!

Zhang Guanshan lives in the mountains, and there is not a single household within 500 meters around, probably because he often comes into contact with ghosts and monsters when he practices Taoism, so he will stay away from the crowd! Zhang Guanshan's house is very large, with five rooms and a large courtyard. The door of the middle of the five rooms is open, and a high desk is placed in the center of the room, on which is placed an incense burner, and behind the incense burner is a clay sculpture with a long beard and long eyebrows, which should be Zhang Daoling, the ancestor of the Zhang family. The two rooms on the left are bedrooms, and the two rooms on the right, one of which has a lot of large and small tile jars, which are very similar to the jar that houses Zhou Qianqian. In the other room, there is a long table, on which is a bamboo pen holder with brushes of various sizes. Next to the pen holder is a large stack of clean gold watch paper, which is supposed to be used to draw yellow symbols. Inside the room was a large cabinet against the wall, the door of which was closed, so that it was impossible to see what was inside. There are several mahogany swords and a few gossip mirrors hanging on the wall, as well as some other magic weapons and props to catch ghosts and drive away evil spirits. The yards are fenced with mud walls, and under the corners are small square-shaped vegetable patches filled with peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, and green beans. When I saw the big red tomatoes, my mouth was hungry again. Zhang Guanshan saw that my eyes were nailed to the tomatoes, and smiled helplessly and said, "Lin Xi, if you want to eat it, go pick it!" ”

"Thank you, master!" I smiled brightly, rushed to the tomato field, picked two large tomatoes, scooped a scoop of water in the kitchen, washed them, and handed one of the large ones to Zhang Guanshan. Zhang Guanshan looked at me and smiled with satisfaction.

Zhang Guanshan took the tomato and did not eat it first, but walked to the ancestor with the tomato and put the tomato on the offering table. Seeing this, I also followed Zhang Guanshan's example and put the tomato in my hand on the offering table. Zhang Guanshan nodded with a smile, picked up two sticks of incense and lit them. After giving me a pillar of incense, he kowtowed three times to the statue of Master Zu and said, "Master Zu, Lin Xi is the thirty-eighth generation of my Zhang family, and I am here to meet Master Zu today." Please bless him with healthy growth and carry forward my Zhangjia Taoism! ”

After speaking, he turned his head to me and said, "Lin Xi, come and kowtow to Master Zu!" I knelt on the futon with incense, and bowed respectfully to the statue in the same way as Zhang Guanshan, "Master Zu is on top, Lin Xi, the thirty-eighth generation disciple, meet Master Zu!" ”

Zhang Guanshan inserted the incense into the incense burner, and I followed his example and also inserted the incense in my hand into the incense burner. Zhang Guanshan looked at the incense burning in the incense burner and said to me: "Lin Xi, in addition to drawing charms, there is also incense burning. Runic paper is to catch ghosts and ward off evil spirits, and incense is to guide the way. Especially when inviting the gods to set up a array, incense is indispensable. However, unlike the talisman paper, incense does not have the blessing of a mantra, it all depends on the depth of one's path or the strength of one's mind. By burning incense, we can also predict bad luck. Before you travel, you light a pillar of incense in front of your ancestors, and if all three incense sticks go out at the same time, it is a good omen. Two long and one short are great omens, and two short and one long means that there will be no return. ”

Hearing this, my eyes widened in surprise, there are so many sayings about lighting incense, the world of Taoism is really amazing!

Seeing my surprised look, Zhang Guanshan smiled lightly, "Lin Xi, the Tao is the source of all things, and the mystery in it is by no means something you can think of, and you will understand it when you truly reach the supreme realm of the Dao Law!" With that, he touched my head.

Zhang Guanshan seemed to remember something, walked out of the house and brought a high stool, he put the stool next to the statue of the ancestor master, stood on the stool and took off a round square hole hanging from the grandfather's neck like a copper coin-sized jade.

"This piece of soul locking jade was handed down to me by my father, and I didn't need to hang it on my ancestor to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, and I have been worshipping it for so many years! You should be able to cover up the fact that you are missing one of your three souls! "Zhang Guanshan hung the jade around my neck, and for some reason, when the jade hung on my neck, I felt something run out of the jade and burrow into my body, and my spiritual platform instantly became clearer. I picked up the jade curiously, and saw that although the appearance of this jade was ordinary, the jade body was carved with runes, and if I looked closely, the runes seemed to exude a faint golden light.

"Thank you, master!" I knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Guanshan, Zhang Guanshan helped me up, and said earnestly: "Lin Xi, this piece of jade can only cover up your incomplete soul, but it can't change your physique, you have to remember not to say your birth date to anyone." In the future, when you have achieved the Dao Fa, the master will help you go to Huangquan Road to find your lost soul and soul! ”

"Yes, the disciple remembered!" I nodded, and secretly vowed in my heart that I would practice the Dao diligently in the future so that I could recover the lost soul as soon as possible.

Because I drove for two days, after dinner, Zhang Guanshan did not let me practice drawing charms, but let me go to bed early! I had no dreams all night, and when I woke up again, it was already dawn, and I quickly got out of bed. Seeing Zhang Guanshan's watch on the table, I picked it up and saw that it was only past six o'clock, and I knew that it was much brighter here than in Sichuan. It's just that I'm already up, and I don't want to go back to sleep, so I think I'd better cook breakfast for the master first!

When I came to the kitchen, I found that Zhang Guanshan had already lit a fire. When he saw me getting up, he said to me, "Lin Xi, the master doesn't need you to cook!" You go and run fifty laps around the yard first! ”

"Oh!" I nodded, and ran around the yard. I used to hear my grandmother say that the heavier the yang fire, the more afraid people and ghosts are, and the healthier the people, the heavier the yang fire. As a Taoist, you must have a healthy and flexible body. Otherwise, it would not be good if the ghost was not caught but was caught by the ghost! Moreover, I also know that some ghosts can fly, so when fighting ghosts, you must be flexible and know some martial arts.