Chapter 40: The Fighting Method
"Li Jianming, do you know why I have always been respected in the base for so many years?" Zhao Yicheng asked.
I put my hands behind my head and shook my head. "Hmph, I'll tell you. It's just because I've never lost since I was 15 years old! And the person who lost to me will never be able to use spells again in this life! Zhao Yicheng said arrogantly.
"Oh." I said lightly. I think I'm so cold that he has black lines all over his face.
"Don't talk nonsense, look at the tricks." Zhao Yicheng shouted at me, and then began to close his eyes and step on the gang. To be honest, the speed at which he steps is already very good for his age, and seeing that he still has a relaxed face, I shouldn't be behind him!
Now that I know he's going to use the Wandering Corpse to fight me, I have a way to deal with it. As the saying goes, the magic is one foot high, and all things are endless. Since the ancestor left such a perverted corpse control spell, he will definitely leave a solution. In the "Sanqing Talisman" I learned, there is a spell called "Soul Arrest Talisman", this spell was originally used by Xiangxi corpse chasers to walk (corpse chasers generally say to drive corpses as walking feet), but slowly, some Taoist priests found that using the soul charm can also make the zombies that have turned into corpses stop moving, and it has become a spell to deal with zombies.
It is mentioned here that the corpse chaser is not a Taoist priest who fights zombies, but a profession, and in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the corpse chaser technology appeared, which was to transport the corpses of Hunan immigrants who died in Sichuan back to their hometowns. In the initial transportation process, the body was transported by water, and there was no need to "rush". However, in this section of the Three Gorges, the water is turbulent, the whirlpools and reefs are dense, and ships often sink. The ancients were superstitious and were unwilling to carry the dead on the dangerous river, so the profession of "driving out corpses" was born.
In fact, the scope of the "corpse expulsion" activity is very small, and it is only limited to the mountainous areas of Xiangxi, and there are no other terrible corpse transportation activities in other parts of the country. Xiangxi, refers to the western part of Hunan Province, mainly in the Yuanjiang River Basin, it is said that the four places of Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Lipu are the most popular. The Yuanjiang River basin in western Xiangxi is mostly steep mountains, and the roads are rugged, and it is very inconvenient for people to walk, and it is even more troublesome to carry the coffin back to their hometown. Many people who work here to earn a living often entrust their relatives and friends with the hope of transporting their bodies back to their hometowns for burial before they die, so that they will not be buried in this desolate mountain wilderness. In order to avoid carrying the coffin on a bumpy road in the mountains, this unique method of transporting corpses came into being.
However, according to relevant literature, there is a saying of "three rushes, three non-rushes" to drive out corpses.
Those who are beheaded (their heads must be sewn together), those who are hanged, and those who stand in cages and die are to be driven out. The reason is that they are all forced to die, they are not convinced, they miss their hometown and their relatives, they can use spells to hook their souls, use charms to calm their corpses, and then use spells to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, and even get on a boat and cross the water to return to their hometown.
Those who die of illness, those who die voluntarily by hanging their necks by throwing themselves into the river, and those whose limbs are incomplete by thunder and fire cannot be rushed. Among them, the souls of those who died of illness have been hooked by Hades, and spells cannot summon their souls back from the ghost gate; And the souls of those who throw themselves into the river are "replaced", and they may be in the process of handing over, if the new soul is recruited, the old soul cannot be replaced, will it not affect the reincarnation of the old soul? In addition, those who died from the thunder were all guilty people, and those who were burned by the fire were often incomplete in their flesh and skin, and these two types of corpses could not be driven away either. And the time to drive the corpse can be both day and night, but in order to avoid frightening passers-by, the corpse is mostly carried out at night, which also casts a veil of mystery on the corpse. In short, the corpse chaser drove those ordinary dead corpses, and there was no corpse transformation, forming zombies.
Back to the main story, when Zhao Yicheng stepped on Bugang and prepared to control the zombies, I also opened my bow left and right and quickly drew talismans together on the rune paper that had been prepared on the ground with both hands. Don't think that the corpse chaser you see in the movie can get a talisman paper on the zombie's head, in fact, before chasing the corpse, the corpse chaser first checks the deceased's birthday and death taboo to see if there is a chongke, and then recites a spell next to the corpse, muttering a mantra in his mouth for a while, suddenly, the peach wood sword in his hand, forcefully inserted into the wooden board where the corpse is parked, if the peach wood sword should enter, it means that the corpse is willing to accept the corpse chaser's order and guidance, and the corpse chaser is willing to accept the contract of chasing the corpse. However, if the peachwood sword repeatedly failed to penetrate or suddenly broke, the corpse chaser immediately turned around and walked away, because it meant that the corpse would not obey his orders, and it was likely that something would happen on the way, so even if the price was higher, the corpse chaser would not agree to drive the corpse.
Before attaching the talisman, the mage also needs to place the cinnabar (the best cinnabar) in the deceased's head, back heart, chest and heart, left and right hand plate heart, and foot palm, each place is pressed with a rune, and then tied with five-colored cloth strips. According to legend, these seven places are the places where the seven orifices enter and exit, and they are sealed with cinnabar runes to retain the seven spirits of the deceased. After that, some cinnabar is stuffed into the ears, nose, and mouth of the deceased, and then plugged with runes. Legend has it that the ears, nose, and mouth are the places where the three spirits enter and exit, and in doing so, they can remain in the body of the deceased. Finally, the corpse's neck is covered with cinnabar and a soul charm is affixed, tied tightly with strips of five-colored cloth, and the incantation is recited. This is the case where the corpse will listen to you.
Fortunately, all the magic weapons, rune paper, and cinnabar in this fighting field are very complete. So I don't need much time to find materials, I already have a few drops of sweat on my head, but I still draw very quickly, I looked at Zhao Yicheng's side, he is already very difficult, it seems that the time for our duel is coming! But the strange thing is that I didn't notice the slightest movement of the wandering corpse under the black cloth over there, maybe Zhao Yicheng's spells were not good enough to control him at all, I thought so.
Finally came to the most critical juncture, I drew a total of 11 soul talismans, I bit the tip of the tongue with my teeth, because the tip of the tongue blood is very spiritual blood, sometimes when you encounter a ghost, you might as well bite the tip of the tongue and spray towards the ghost, you can also drive away evil spirits! I sprayed the blood on the tip of my tongue towards the rune paper and began to chant the incantation: "Five thunder generals, train generals, soar to the sky and fall to the ground, drive thunder and clouds, fight tens of millions, command the divine soldiers, open the flag and summon urgently, and must not stop." Haste as a law! And Zhao Yicheng's side has also reached the stage of the final hand-to-hand decision. We are racing against time, in this case, whoever is one step faster wins! When I saw the rune paper shining with golden light, I quickly drove 11 runes towards the wandering corpse, and saw that Zhao Yicheng had just finished the last hand duel, I laughed, I am one step ahead of you after all, you lost.
"Poof!"
There were shouts, screams in the audience.
Because I squirted a big mouthful of blood!