Ning Que looked at the half of the cold tea in front of him, concentrating on the spirit of the master's speech at this time, and actually felt a little settled.

Master Yan Se smiled slightly, raised his thin arm, and drew a very simple picture with his index finger in the air in front of him.

The air in the pavilion suddenly became dry, and a faint flame magically and inexplicably appeared in front of Ning Que's eyes, and then disappeared with a pop, so bluffing that he almost jumped up from the ground.

Master Yan Se smiled and said, "That friend of yours said that the snow mountain qi sea is a string, which is a good statement. The lines of the fu can also be regarded as strings, playing a song that heaven and earth can understand, but I still think it is more accurate to describe it in an article, the fu not only allows heaven and earth to understand the beauty of the melody, but also can convey ideas more clearly, and find more detailed differences in addition to movement and static. ”

After saying this, Master Yan Se raised his right hand again, and his index finger drew six lines in the air.

Ning Que only felt a sense of wetness, rising from the air where the master's finger had broken it, and then rushed to his face, with a soft snap, he subconsciously reached out and touched it, and found that his face was wet, as if he had just washed it.

"Different minds, different lines, can write a completely different article and cause a completely different effect. Master Yan Se looked at Ning Que, who kept making a face like a nymphomaniac, and said with a smile: "I teach you Fu Dao, which is to teach you how to write articles." ”

"How do you write an article? After studying the classics of the sages and perceiving the laws of heaven and earth vitality, how do you put the last stroke on the paper and let heaven and earth vitality know your mind? There is no other trick in this final step, or it can only be tricky. What does the word "qiao" mean? It refers to talent, you can write it, you can write it, you can't write it, even if you don't sleep day and night and soak in the inkpool of the river, you still can't write after all. ”

Master Yan Se looked at Ning Que and said: "The final realization of the Fu Dao depends on talent, talent is the most precious gift given to us by Haotian, only a very few people can have this kind of luck, and you have this kind of luck." ”

"This ...... It seems to be too difficult. ”

Ning Que's feelings were a little dazed, he saw the magic but didn't know how the magic happened, the master said that in the end, he still walked back to the old metaphysical path, and he didn't hear any actionable guidance, talent is something that can't be explained, not to mention that he still has to use this kind of inexplicable thing to achieve the most critical one?

"If the rune path ultimately relies on talent, then the first cultivator in the world to discover the rune path, seeing the traces of the rune between heaven and earth, subconsciously copying the meaning, writing the first rune, according to you, the rune cannot be inherited, then how can he shake the ......"

He pondered his words and continued, "Passing on this civilization?"

Master Yan Se pondered for a moment and said, "Although the rune cannot be inherited, the spirit of the rune can be inherited, and the words can record the thoughts and record the past. How the earliest talisman discovered and wrote the first talisman must be a coincidence. ”

"Perhaps countless thousands of years ago, that great cultivator walked to some kind of cliff, looked at the cracks in the mountain rocks, and suddenly felt something in his heart, condensed in the sword on his waist, and condensed the vitality of the mountain cliff in it with a random wave. ”

"The first talisman must be a coincidence and spontaneous existence, and when the great practitioner discovers the secret hidden by those sword marks, he will inevitably try again, and if he succeeds again, then the second talisman is no longer a coincidence, but a conscious existence.

Ning Que asked, "But it's also possible that the cultivator hasn't written a second talisman in his life. ”

Master Yan Se looked at him and said, "The first cultivator did not succeed, there is a second cultivator, there is a third and fourth, the beginning of heaven and earth is endless, the cultivators are endless, and the secrets of the world are constantly explored, then there will definitely be a successful and self-conscious sage, and this is undoubtedly something that will happen." ”

Rather than being taught.

Master Yan Se said: "In the same way, the rune path cannot be transmitted, but the spirit of the rune can be transmitted. That cultivator will definitely tell his disciple before he dies, and his disciple will try again, and it is possible to succeed, or it may fail, and it is even possible that the lineage will be cut off. But I believe that in countless years, another great practitioner will discover the secret of the Fu Dao and pass it on to his disciple, and that disciple will try again, and if he succeeds, he will pass it on again, until finally there is a successful lineage that has been passed down to this day. ”

Ning Que raised his head and said with emotion: "It's really a big wave, I don't know how many great cultivators' skills have not been passed on. ”

"It's not a big wave, it's more like climbing a mountain that will never reach the top. Some people were forced to stop at the foot of the mountain, some people climbed the mountainside, but were blown off the cliff by the mountain wind, and the rune path has been passed down to this day, and it has reached the peak of the present moment, but if you look into the future, you will know that this mountain peak is infinitely high. ”

Master Yan Se looked at him and sighed and said: "It is too difficult and difficult for the rune to appear, and it is no longer possible to use the word hardship to express it today, it is as tragic as a husband, so when I find out that you have potential, I will be so excited, and since you are lucky to have this potential, you must cherish it, not only for yourself, but also for the sake of the rune itself." ”

Ning Que sighed with emotion when he heard the vicissitudes of life, his body stiffened slightly, and his thoughts drifted back to countless thousands of years ago with these words.

In ancient times, a tribal sorcerer dressed in animal skins came to rest in a cave after presiding over a ritual to worship the heavens. The tribal wizard sang an incomprehensible song as he picked up a red stone and drew a picture on the cave wall.

The wizard wanted to describe how well the fire burned today, but he didn't expect that the painting would only be half finished before it burned on the cave wall!

The sorcerer screamed in amazement, and the wolf fell to the ground, kowtowing to the burning picture, and the skin on his hips trembled with fear. The people of the tribe, hearing the screams of the sorcerer, rushed into the cave, and then they also saw the burning picture, and fell to their knees in fear, crying and shouting that they thought it was some kind of evil worship.

The wizard was the wisest man in the tribe, and when he came to his senses and calmed down, he drove everyone out of the cave. The burning picture gradually died out, he looked at the scorched black marks left on the cave wall, hesitated for a long time, nervously stretched out his finger and gently touched the mold, gradually his eyes lit up, turned around and found the red stone from earlier in the cave, trembling and trying to redraw the picture.

After that day, the wizard never drew a burning picture again, but he had become the greatest wizard on the plateau.

There was a big battle between the Central Plains and the wasteland, countless people died, blood soaked into the black field, soaking the grass and mud into something spicy, a cultivator from Minshan squatted silently on the field, looking at the body of his brother in front of him, holding a branch in his hand that he didn't know where to pick up, and unconsciously drawing between the blood and mud.

Not far behind him, the black-red wasteland seemed to come to life, constantly arching and opening and scattering, and countless earthworms and insects scattered in panic, as if there was a mutated large earthworm underneath.

There are disciples holding the original runes left by the teacher, and they keep copying on the yellow paper, from the young to the old until the white head, and the yellow paper behind him fills the room, and the cobwebs are knotted on the beams, and he is still copying.

Someone sits on the top of Zhongli Mountain, holding a painting wrench in his arms, with various colors of paint beside him and watching the clouds in the mountains, painting from early morning to dusk, and then ushering in the sunrise, winter to spring and summer without words, he is still painting.

From ancient times to the present, those who are extremely lucky or stumble into the rune path, as well as those disciples who want to master the rune path, they keep copying the traces of heaven and earth, keep meditating on the article in their hearts, they finish writing the paper in the chalk, write the pen bald, paint the rivers and mountains, and dye the pool black.

Maybe they succeeded, maybe they failed, but they have been working hard and trying hard, and it is precisely because of this desperate effort and attempt that this mysterious gift given by Haotian to mankind has not been completely withdrawn, but has been passed down to this day.

"Every talisman master has the obligation to pass on what he has learned in his life, or rather, this is a responsibility that we cannot resist, because those former sages did exactly that, and they used all their strength and spirit to make our world still have talismans. ”

Master Yan Se looked at Ning Que, who was bowing his head, and said with a solemn expression: "I can find a successor like you, I will be satisfied in my life, but what is sad is that the inheritance of the rune is as I said before, it can only inherit its spirit but cannot inherit its technique, so whether the spirit of the rune can not be cut off on my line depends on you after all."

Ning Que bowed down and responded, "I will definitely try not to disappoint the master." ”

"Disappointment? What is disappointment? If I only hope that you can pass on the rune path, then I am sure that you will not disappoint me, because I have the eyes of a rune, and I know that it is not difficult for you. ”

"But my hope for you is by no means limited to that. I always thought that there was a power in the underworld that was restricting the inheritance of runes, you must know that including me, the rune masters who have appeared in the world have not been able to really see through the word runes, since we can't see through them, naturally we can't pass on the core of runes and should be the simplest truth. ”

"I'm too old to cross that threshold, and if you have a chance to cross that threshold in the future, then I believe that the inheritance of the rune path will be an easy task. At that time, with the road of runes, wave the mountains and rivers...... It may sound like a miracle, but I firmly believe that one day people can do it, and this should be something that Fu Dao must do. ”

Master Yan Se looked at him and said quietly, "Ning Que, I hope you can become that kind of person. ”

How heavy the disappointment comes from how much hope is placed, if Ning Que doesn't want to disappoint Master Yan Se, he must carry this heavy hope, he looked at the other side in a daze, and felt as if two mountains were installed on his shoulders.

"Can I be like that?"

"You have to be like that. ”

Ning Que looked at Master Yan Se's old and sentimental face, and suddenly said, "Master, please teach the students the most basic things. ”

Master Yan Se stared at Ning Que's eyes for a long time, the expression of emotion on his wrinkled face disappeared, and a smile gradually rose, Lao Huai comforted, and said in a harmonious voice: "The journey of ten thousand miles starts at your feet, I wish you a smooth journey." ”

"How can I draw a talisman?"

"You first have to perceive the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, the more delicate the better, and then draw the traces of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi flow according to what you see. ”

"How can I draw if I can't see it?"

"When a practitioner looks at the world, he never sees it with his eyes. ”

"That's what it feels like?"

"Yes, draw by feeling. ”

"Whatever you want?"

"Then you're blinding yourself first. ”

Master Yan Se glared at him angrily, reached out and took out a few books from behind him and threw them to him.

Ning Que was almost stoned to death.

Because he caught not a few books, but dozens of books, each of which was very thick, and together seemed to be heavier than Chen Pipi, and he didn't know when the old Taoist priest secretly moved it from the carriage.

Ning Que picked up a book and opened it to look at the winding and undulating lines on the homepage, and found that it was not words, and it was so ugly that it was not even an abstract painting, so he asked in a daze: "Is this ...... Is it a symbol?"

"Yes, this is the runes I have collected in my life, and most of them are Dao runes. ”

Master Yan Se poured himself a cup of tea and moistened his throat, raised his head and continued: "These are the crystallization of the wisdom of the previous sages, don't forget to refer to these runes when you refer to the traces of heaven and earth in the future. ”

"As I said before, these are the articles that belong to them written by the previous generation of Fu masters with their words, even if you have strong plagiarism skills, you can write all the model texts silently, but the grading teacher still can't understand it. ”

Ning Que said regretfully: "I know that the teacher is illiterate. ”

Then he asked puzzledly: "Since I can't plagiarize, what's the use of me learning these previous runes?"

"Just like perceiving the natural talisman of heaven and earth, these runes are only for you to borrow, and you must not be bound by these traces, but you should understand their spirit through these traces, and finally find the traces that you are applicable to. ”

Forgetting the traces and comprehending the spirit? Isn't this just forgetting its form and keeping its meaning? Ning Que suddenly thought of the process of reading books in the old book building in the past year, and couldn't help but be shocked and speechless, it turned out that he had come up with a Yongzi Eight Methods should be used at this moment!

Master Yan Se looked shocked at him, frowned and asked a few words. After Ning Que was silent for a moment, he honestly told the master about his past reading in the old book building of the academy, and then mentioned the origin of the chicken soup post.

"I found that day that I could barely understand some of the words left by the talisman master with the Yongzi Eight Method, so I went to the red sleeve to drink and celebrate, but I drank too much and wrote that chicken soup post. Probably drunk and thoughtless, some of the pen meanings that Yongzi Bafa comprehended were all written into that post, and they will enter the eyes of the master. ”

After saying this, Ning Que subconsciously turned his head to look at the sky outside the pavilion, thinking to himself, could it be that there is really a providence in the dark?

Master Yan Se smiled and said, "It's not that Haotian chooses you, but that you have the ability and talent to win this choice. ”

"Master, when you drew it casually, a stick of water hit me in the face. I know that this is a talisman, but can I draw a talisman with my fingers in the air? If each talisman is unique, then each talisman should also be absolutely the same.

"Even pen and ink can't guarantee that every character will be exactly the same, because the speed at which the ink travels varies depending on the paper. The talisman moves with the talisman master's mind, and the subtle differences are not too important, on the contrary, this subtle difference, as long as it is not against the will, can often fit the talisman master's mental fluctuations at that moment, and the effect is good. ”

Master Yan Se continued: "As for the finger drawing talisman in the air, it is more unstable compared to the pen and ink, but the talisman master who can achieve the talisman of nothing, he has completely mastered his mental power fluctuations, in other words, the finger painting of the previous moment is different from the finger painting of the next moment, but the effect that comes out in the end is exactly the same. ”

Ning Que asked, "What kind of talisman can fully grasp the fluctuations of his own telekinesis, so as to draw the talisman of nothingness?"

Master Yan Se stretched out his hand to his nose and said with a smile, "Rune Master." ”

Ning Que's spirit was deeply affected and frustrated.

"I divide the symbols into two kinds - fixed and infinitive. Stylistic talismans rely on external objects - whether it is a pen and ink cut or a statue, it takes a long time to draw a talisman, but in the end it produces more power. The Nothingness Talisman is infinitive, which can be completed in an instant, but the power is average. ”

Listening to the words fixed and infinitive, Ning Que's mind was lifted, and he remembered the familiar characteristics of verbs, [Shaolin abbot www.xstxt.org after the 80s] wiped his face and asked: "Since this is the case, then why bother learning infinitives...... This thing seems to be difficult. ”

Master Yan Se looked at him like an idiot and said, "Although the power of the rune path is huge, it is impossible for a cultivator in the same realm, even if he is a Nian master, to defeat the rune master, but this is only a statement on paper. What if I really want to fight with other cultivators? Liu Bai's flying sword broke through the air, do I still have to rush around looking for pens and ink?"

"When I sensed that damn flying sword in the clouds was coming, I only needed to use my mind as ink, and the aura was in the air, so that I could block it and then find a way to draw a talisman to fight back, what is the use of pen and ink at this time?"

Listening to Master Yan Se's proud explanation, the more Ning Que listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and after hesitating for a moment, he asked curiously: "Master, have you ever fought with that Sword Saint Liu Bai, the strongest man in the world?"

"Figuratives! I mean parables!"

Master Yan Se roared angrily, but he thought in his heart, this Dao Ye was injured by Liu Bai's sword back then, but he also erased half of that guy's eyebrows, will this kind of glorious record tell you?

"In the future, if you don't want to be shot through by an enemy as soon as you go to battle, you must learn the infinitive. ”

"But...... You said earlier that only rune masters can master the Talisman of Nothing. ”

"Your talent in the rune path is excellent, and when you meet a great rune like me......, what is the difficulty of becoming a rune master?

Ning Que looked at the pile of thick books like a hill beside him in a daze, thinking that this is a pamphlet?

Master Yan Se frowned and said regretfully: "You kid is still in the realm of confusion, and you can only initially understand the law of the flow of heaven and earth vitality. If you are already in the Cave Xuan Realm and are fused between the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, or you have simply advanced to the Knowing Destiny Realm, you have fundamentally mastered the laws of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, and your talent for the Fu Dao, it is much easier to cross the first level. ”

Ning Que was speechless and thought to himself, if I could know the destiny of heaven, then why should I learn such a troublesome rune?

"Master, in your opinion, how many years will it take for a student to become a rune master like you?"

"If you concentrate on the Dao and leave the academy and follow me into the mountains to cultivate, probably...... Ten years can be done. ”

Ning Que sighed regretfully and said, "It's going to be ten years away."

Master Yan Se said angrily: "Ten years later, you are not yet thirty, if you can really become a rune master at that time, then you can at least rank in the top three in the thousand-year cultivation history, do you still feel dissatisfied with this?"

Ning Que was scraped and lowered his head, of course he didn't feel ashamed, but a little proud, thinking that his talent in the rune path could be ranked in the top three in history, after Chen Pipi knew about it, would he feel ashamed?

Master Yan Se looked at his head, his face became foggy, and he thought silently in his heart, It's a pity that I may not be able to teach you for ten years.

Ning Que suddenly thought of an extremely important matter, raised his head and looked at Master Yan Se and said seriously: "Master, since the student is determined to follow you to learn the talismans, should I change my mind and call you a teacher?"

After thinking for a moment, Master Yan Se shook his head and said, "Since you have entered the second floor of the academy, and the master is your teacher, then there is no second person in the world who is qualified to be your teacher...... You might as well call me a master, it sounds good. ”

Ning Que heard Master Yan Se's respect for his master, and after a moment of silence, he said with a smile: "Is that called Shibo?"

Master Yan Se smiled slightly, thinking that this was really a smart child.

Of course Ning Que is very smart.

He proved himself in his previous life, and he is constantly proving himself in this life. However, calling Master Yan Se a master has nothing to do with innate intelligence, but the ability to observe words and colors and sycophants that have been tempered by the difficult survival in the world over the years.

According to Master Yan Se, there is no second person in the world who is qualified to be compared to Master, who is now his teacher, and others are naturally embarrassed to be his teacher. But after listening to it for so long in the Leaving Pavilion, Ning Que deeply felt that Master Yan Se attached great importance to the inheritance of the Fu Dao and his own heir, of course he wanted to have an official name as a teacher and student.

"After I started to call Master Yan Se, tsk, the atmosphere in the pavilion was good, the teachers and students were harmonious, and the old man finally gave me a meeting gift, why didn't he give it at the beginning?"

In the old pen restaurant in Lane 47, Ning Que sat in a circle chair with a teapot, spitting like a storyteller.

Sangsang took a hammer to repair the damaged shop door the day before yesterday and ignored him.

Unable to get a response, Ning Que was a little uneasy, and said, "Can you concentrate on listening to me?"

Sang Sang was comparing the size of the plank he had asked for at the carpenter's shop during the day, and replied, "I'm busy." ”

Ning Que said angrily: "Your young master, I will be a legendary rune master in ten years, why aren't you excited at all?"

Sang Sang turned his head, looked at him and said, "Young Master, that will be ten years away, and we must fix the shop door today." ”

Ning Que put the teapot on the table and said, "Don't fix it, go buy me something first." ”

Sang Sang asked suspiciously, "What are you in a hurry to buy at this time?" ”

"Pen and ink, cinnabar, and these messy materials. ”

Ning Que picked up a pen and wrote a note, handed it over, and said, "It takes ten years to become a rune master, which is indeed too slow. ”

"I'm going to start learning the rune right away!"

"Seize the day!

Sang Sang opened his bright willow eyes, looked at him dancing, and hesitated to call: "Young master......"

"What's the matter?"

"Are you happy and confused?"

"Kind of. ”