Chapter 9: Sandalwood

Zhao Yi knew that only by breaking through to the realm of night travel could he be regarded as having a little dependence, otherwise he would not even be able to refine the corpse talisman, and how could he subdue Tian Cheng. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info From the soul to the night tour, although it is not as good as breaking through the Heyuan realm in a few days, it is not too difficult, and the most important thing is that there are external objects in this realm to rely on.

The so-called Dharma Companion Wealth Land, cultivators must not only have the highest mental method, but also have Taoist companions, Dharma weapons, and cave heaven and blessed land. The reason why the Shangqing Great Cave Sutra is considered to be the supreme magic method is that it minimizes the practitioner's dependence on external objects, but the lowest level does not mean that there is none. In the realm of parasitic souls, although night travel can be achieved without external objects, the speed is greatly slowed down. Zhao Yi has calculated, according to the experience in memory fragments, if you want to achieve a night tour, it generally takes a year and a half if there is no external help, and if there is a foreign help, it can be shortened to less than half a year.

Of course, Zhao Yi didn't dare to think of the Nine Heavens Turin Flag, the Colorful Purple Golden Lotus and other divine objects that nourished the yin soul, and after careful consideration, Zhao Yi finally selected a foreign object with the highest feasibility, that is, soul-calming sandalwood.

Soul sandalwood is estimated to be the best thing that Zhao Yi can find to protect the yin soul, this kind of incense was made in the Ming Dynasty before the Taoist temples and temples, used to worship the gods and Buddhas, and can also be used for Taoist monks to meditate and practice, the price is cheap and sufficient, we have been using it. It's a pity that after hundreds of years of changes, there are only a handful of people who still have the craft of making soul-calming sandalwood. But no matter how few there are, they are not more reliable than those legendary gods.

Zhao Yi added countless groups and entered countless forums on the Internet, and finally found some clues of soul-calming sandalwood. According to netizens, he found a handicraft workshop that still retains the production process of soul-calming sandalwood. In fact, the production of soul-calming sandalwood is not complicated, Zhao Yi himself found countless production methods in memory fragments, the key is that no matter which method is made, soul-calming sandalwood needs to be dried in the shade for 36 months, that is, three years. It's really hell, what Zhao Datianshi lacks most now is time, so he can only find a workshop with finished products to save the emergency.

It is a small incense candle manufacturing workshop on Mingxia Street in Laoshan, and the craftsmanship handed down by the ancestors has been declared as an intangible cultural heritage that year, so the record can be found on the Internet. Zhao Yi only found the address, but did not find the contact information, so he had to make a trip to determine whether the workshop was in stock.

Laoshan is in Qilu Province, not far from Linzi, this place is the prosperous place of Taoist practice since the Western Han Dynasty, Louguan Dao, Lingbao School, Shangqing School, Quanzhen Sect have left Taoism here. Of course, Zhao Yi is also a descendant of the Shangqing faction, but he, the ninth generation true master of the Shangqing faction in Maoshan Mountain, is self-appointed. Although he couldn't figure out which branch of the Shangqing faction he belonged to, he thought that it should be after the Sanshan Fu Gong returned to the one, a certain branch of the Shangqing faction in Maoshan was not convinced, and broke away from the single line, leaving the Taoist system for himself to pick up.

Zhao Yi does not have the slightest psychological obstacle to go to Laoshan Mountain, such as today is the era of the end of the law, and he is tall among the short people, how can he be worthy of the title of Heavenly Master. If you are not convinced, you can come to the competition, although the soul realm was not even a trick in the past, but at this time it is definitely the protagonist's life.

Zhao Yi drove his second-hand pickup truck on the highway and went straight to Laoshan, this pickup truck was just bought by Zhao Yi, 2060 Lux pickup, displacement 2.4L, load 1T, has traveled 40,000 kilometers, spent Zhao Yi 50,000 oceans. For Zhao Yi, this kind of durable and cheap pickup is what he needs most at this stage. But there is also a disadvantage of the low quality and low price, that is, the speed cannot go up, this pickup truck is as meat as a box of goods, and I can't wait for the speed to go up to 100, which makes Zhao Yi anxious.

I was not familiar with the road conditions, and the pickup truck was not equipped with navigation, and it took five hours to complete the journey of more than 200 kilometers, and when Zhao Yi found Mingxia Street, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon. Fortunately, in summer, the days are long and the nights are short, and Mingxia Street at this time is still very lively, and the cars loading and unloading are parked everywhere.

Relying on the mountain to eat the mountain and rely on the water to draft, relying on a huge scenic spot of course to eat the scenic spot, Mingxia Street is actually a workshop street, the whole street is crowded with workshops that make incense candles, statues, incense burners, amulets and other Taoist supplies, the largest workshops can even reach hundreds of thousands of daily flows.

Zhao Yi drove his second-hand pickup truck to toss and turn in the traffic of loading and unloading, and finally came to the door of a Huangting incense candle workshop at the end of the street, which was the destination of Zhao Yi's trip. This workshop, like other workshops, is a front shop and a back factory, but it is smaller than other workshops and takes the boutique route. Although the face of the door is not as big as the small Malatang shop on the street of Shimen City, Zhao Yi knows that the meat of the bun is not on the folds, and only a pair of white marble lions in front of this store know that this store has a deep heritage.

The stone lion was strictly particular in ancient times, but all stone lions were generally placed at the door of mansions, temples, and yamen, and the stone lion at the door of the shop was to be ridiculed for not understanding the rules, and would be regarded as an upstart. But this pair of white marble money lions are different, money lions are a common shape of stone lions, because the stone lion shape is often decorated with a string of ancient money and named, often placed in front of temples or ancestral halls. The reason why this pair of money lions can be placed in front of the workshop in a grand manner is because this pair of stone lions is an old thing in the Tang and Song dynasties.

In the Later Tang Dynasty, Liu Ruozhuo went to Laoshan to visit his uncle Li Zhexuan, and saw that the environment of Laoshan was quiet and suitable for Qing cultivation, so he stayed in Laoshan to practice. At that time, Laoshan was not as prosperous as the current scenic spot, but in the wilderness, tigers and wolves were rampant. Liu Ruozhuo drove the tiger and chased the wolf, protected the party, built various Taoist temples in Laoshan Mountain, and after Li Zhexuan's death, he entered the Taiqing Palace in Laoshan Mountain.

This pair of stone lions was once used by Liu Ruo, the real person of Huagai, to suppress the leylines. This pair of money-giving lions already existed before the prosperity of the Quanzhen Sect in the Jin and Yuan dynasties, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are top-level antiques. To this day, there are still many Taoist believers who come to Laoshan from thousands of miles away, not to visit the peaks of Laoshan Mountain, but to pay homage to this pair of stone lions. With such a background, it shows that this workshop is not only a thousand-year-old shop, it must have some kind of origin with Laoshan Taoism, and it may even be the real location of the Taoism left by Liu Ruozhuo, no wonder it dares to take the name of "Huangting".

Zhao Yi took a deep look at the pair of stone lions, got out of the car and entered the store. Inside, a young man in his twenties in a T-shirt guards the counter, flanked by two rows of solid wood shelves filled with samples of incense candles. Seeing Zhao Yi come in, the young man asked, "What do you want to buy?" ”

"You're the boss here? I'm afraid the boss is in charge of what I'm looking for. Zhao Yi asked rhetorically.

The young man smiled: "The shop belongs to my father, and he accompanies the guests in the factory behind him to see the goods." I'm on summer vacation to help out at home, as long as we have something in the store, I can do it. ”

"I want Soul Calming Sandalwood, do you have it now?" Zhao Yi asked straight to the point.

The young man's face changed, and he said, "I don't know where you know the name of Soul Suppression Sandalwood, but this incense is actually not as good as the legend, I recommend another incense to you." After speaking, he took down a bundle of incense sticks from the shelf next to him, "This agarwood incense is made of agarwood resin imported from India, and it is very good for the body after use." ”

"I just need Soul Calming Sandalwood, if you can't be the master, call your family to come." Although Zhao Yi is not a few years older than the young man, he has been practicing the Shangqing Dadong True Scripture for more than a month, and his temperament is refined, and he is no longer what he was at the beginning.

The young man couldn't and said, "Okay, you come with me to the back to ask my father, I don't know if there is anything else at home." Soul sandalwood is only made by my grandfather and my dad, and there hasn't been much to save, and just now there was a boss to buy, and my dad is talking to him in the back, if not, see if you can ask him to give you some evenness. After speaking, he turned around and shouted, "Brother Fan stares at the store, I'll take the guests to the factory!" Waiting until someone answered, he took Zhao Yi to the back of the store.

Zhao Yi's face was silent, in fact, he couldn't help but feel shocked, it seems that it is not a coincidence, someone has come to buy soul sandalwood one step ahead of him, hoping that there will be some surplus. In fact, there is not much you need to practice by yourself, as long as you can practice until the night tour, after the night tour, there is a method of luck in the Shangqing Dadong Sutra, and the dependence on the soul suppression sandalwood is much smaller.

Coming out of the back door of the shop, I walked along an alley for thirty or fifty meters, and after turning the corner, I saw a workshop in front of me. The workshop was on the side of a four- or five-meter-wide dirt road, and what attracted Zhao Yi's attention was that there was a Ford F-U50 and two Mercedes-Benzes parked at the door of the workshop, which seemed to be driven by the boss who came to buy incense as the young man said.