The black carriage driving on the official road was fast, and the spring tree Qingtian outside the window was about to be pulled into a pure green color block. Ning Que looked at the scenery outside the window, his mood was a little complicated, he had just seen the proud goose and strange people in the mountain behind the academy, and in the blink of an eye, there was a new and mysterious world about to open the curtain on him, and he really felt a little dizzying.

For the most mysterious talisman in the legend, Ning Que didn't know much about it, except for watching a certain old Taoist burn Zhang Fu like a trick in a Taoist temple somewhere in Chang'an City, but sitting in this carriage made of stainless steel, which should have been extremely heavy, he vaguely felt that he was already in the world of runes...... No matter how fast the carriage went, the people in the carriage could not feel the slightest bump, and the lonely horse in front of the rope did not know how to carry such a heavy weight.

Yan Se looked at the look on his face and said, "You seem to be thinking about something. ”

Ning Que turned his head, looked at the dirty old Taoist priest, hesitated for a moment and asked, "I was thinking, what kind of talisman is engraved on this carriage, it can actually reduce the weight, it's like magic." ”

He didn't ask if there was a talisman engraved on the carriage, but directly asked what talisman was engraved, this answer made Master Yan Se quite satisfied, but the last word made him extremely unhappy, frowning and said: "The rune is the rune, what does it have to do with the Demon Sect?"

Ning Que just subconsciously classified this magical method beyond daily experience as magic, and he didn't expect how harsh this magic word was for the worship of the south gate of Haotian Dao.

The soft and cheerful sound of hooves gradually slowed down, and the black carriage made of stainless steel stopped on the official road in the southern suburbs of Chang'an City. Master Yan Se took Ning Que and walked out of the carriage. He glanced at the pavilion next to the official road not far away, as well as the thin poplar trees outside the pavilion, turned around and said to Ning Que: "Since you know that there are talismans engraved on the car, try to feel it." ”

Ning Que was slightly stunned, walked to the carriage according to his words, and looked at the black carriage seriously. He looked very carefully, and confirmed that the compartment was indeed made of stainless steel, and that the intricate ornamentation was made of some kind of sharp blade deep into the steel, and then coated with a kind of exterior paint with a faint light, so that it was extraordinarily beautiful, beautiful but somewhat mysterious.

The ornamentation is so intricate that it even violates the principles of aesthetics. He didn't see anything strange in it for a long time, and a judgment gradually came to his mind: the runes that really worked should not be so complicated, and those lines that looked like branches and vines might be used to cover up the real runes.

He had read a few books on runes in the old book building, but those books were only introductions, and he did not have any objective understanding of the runes themselves, and it was basically an impossible task to find the runes that really worked from such complex patterns.

However, since Master Yan Se wanted him to feel it, he thought it should be an assessment.

After a moment of contemplation, he slowly closed his eyes, raised his arm and gently brushed his fingertips over the deep steel talismans.

Suddenly, his brow furrowed.

Before, when he opened his eyes to see, there was nothing unusual about the intricate ornamentation on the carriage wrench, but at this moment, when he closed his eyes and used his mental power to manipulate the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to perceive, he found that there was a faint extra layer of things on his fingertips, and that layer of things was very thin and thin, like an invisible membrane between his fingers and the carriage board.

After a moment's thought, the perceptual layer of film disappeared in an instant.

Ning Que was silent for a moment, entered the meditative state that he was best at, and began to use his telekinesis to perceive the most subtle changes in the vitality of heaven and earth, and sure enough, the invisible film appeared between his fingers and the carriage wrench again. This time he was more prepared, his perception was more delicate, and he could clearly feel that the film was flowing slowly.

Master Yan Se's voice rang in his ears: "What do you feel. ”

Ning Que felt it seriously, and after being silent for a long time, he replied seriously: "Very faint Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi flows. ”

Master Yan Se continued to ask, "What kind of flow is it? Like what?"

Ning Que replied calmly: "It's like water, but it's lighter than water...... It's empty, more like the wind, but it can't be the wind. “

Master Yan Se looked at Ning Que beside the carriage, his brows slowly furrowed, and asked, "Why can't it be the wind?"

Ning Que was silent for a moment and then replied, "Because...... The flow of Yuan Qi on the rune is too regular, as if it is following a certain established route, as if it is within a complete system, and the wind is the flow of air, which should not be so regular. ”

Master Yan Se's frowning eyebrows gradually relaxed, looking at Ning Que's back, his eyes glowed with bright luster, as if he was appreciating and marveling, because Ning Que's expression at the moment was far beyond his best imagination.

Ning Que left the carriage with his fingers, he looked back at Yan Se and said unconfidently: "Master, I am talking nonsense based on my feelings. ”

"Feeling is the most important qualification for cultivating the rune path. ”

Master Yan Se gently stroked the sparse beard on his chin, looked at him lovingly, and laughed hoarse and weird, like an old farmer digging a cellar in his backyard digging antiques: "You are very sensitive, more sensitive than my resemblance, I like it very much." ”

Ning Que didn't know how to answer.

"If the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi you feel is the smell of the wind, because I drew the wind charm on the carriage. ”

Master Yan Se looked at him and said, "As for why the wind walks according to the established route and why it is so regular, in your words...... Within a complete system. The reason is simple, because the character sets the direction for it. ”

"Follow me......"

Master Yan Se flicked his sleeves lightly, and slowly walked towards the poplar tree next to the road.

Ning Que walked to the horse in front of the car, looked at its big black eyes and said with a smile: "You must be the most comfortable horse in the world." ”

The steed snorted lightly, bowed his head and munched on the hay in the bag, silently acknowledging the statement.

Ning Que looked at Master Yan Se's back, and quickened his pace to follow.

Master Yan Se sat cross-legged in the chalky pavilion, and there was a small charcoal stove and tea set beside him. Ning Que walked into the pavilion and saw that the master was preparing to cook tea with his own hands, so he hurriedly stepped forward to snatch this errand. Although it was this rune master who cried and shouted that he wanted to accept him as a disciple that day, he would never be so arrogant as to miss this opportunity to serve the teacher to please him.

The water boiled and the fragrance of tea gradually rose, Master Yan Se looked at Ning Que who was quietly dividing the tea, nodded appreciatively, tapped the tea tray with his index finger, motioned for him to sit down, and said: "There are many cultivation methods, there are so-called swordsmanship, body skills, formation techniques, like ours, the ability to draw talismans is generally called talismans, but we don't call it that, we call it talismans." ”

Ning Que respectfully placed the teacup in front of the master, and sat down to listen carefully.

Master Yan Se picked up the teacup and sipped it gently. , and asked, "Do you know what runes mean?"

Ning Que pondered for a moment and then asked tentatively, "Enter the Dao with a talisman?"

"Hahahaha......"

Master Yan Se laughed out loud, looked at him and shook his head again and again, and said: "Everyone wants to seek the Tao and enter the Tao, enter the Tao with a sword, enter the Tao with a sword, enter the Tao with love, even the Xiling Temple can't get rid of this kind of thinking mode, let alone you? ”

Ning Que thought to himself what this meant, but he couldn't figure it out.

"What is a talisman? A talisman is a pattern, a line is a trace. ”

Master Yan Se gradually smiled, looked at him with a stern expression and said: "The trajectory of the snake crawling through the sand is a talisman, the veins between the dead leaves are the talisman, the ruts left on the muddy ground of the avenue are the talisman, the blood vessels in the chalk of the beast are the talisman, the trajectory of the water flow is the talisman, the flow marks of the wind are the talisman, the cracks of the earth are the talisman, and the clouds in the blue sky are also talismans. ”

Very simple words, very clear words Ning Que was shocked and speechless when he heard it, and he was speechless for a long time, according to Master Yan Se, every trace in the world is a fu, and this concept is completely beyond his thinking realm!

After a long silence, he asked in a daze, "Master, could it be that drawing talismans is to simulate all the traces in nature?"

Master Yan Se was slightly stunned, looked at him and said with a smile: "That's a painter, not a talisman." ”

A few green leaves were blown off the branches by the wind beside the official road, and before they could fall into the slightly wet field, they were blown up by a gust of wind, and gently floated above the pavilion, and landed on the dim tiles washed by the rain, making a few soft snapping sounds.

"The veins in the chalk of the beasts are talismans, which can only sustain their survival: the traces of the flow of water are talismans, which can only make them go from high to low according to Haotian's will: The veins between the dead leaves are talismans, which can only allow them to pour the nutrients and water absorbed from the roots into the leaves as they have done for hundreds of millions of years. ”

Master Yan Se said calmly: "These talismans are all talismans of nature, born in nature, adjusted to nature, and coexist with the vitality of heaven and earth, just like the truth of each of us to survive in this world. ”

However, whether human beings practice or study runes, they have gone beyond their original mission in heaven and earth, that is to say, beyond the needs of survival, so the true sense of runes must come from nature, but they must be higher than nature.

Ning Que listened silently, and faintly felt that although the master's words were about the Dao, they contained a lot of great truths.

Master Yan Se drank the remnants of tea in the cup, looked at him and continued: "The talisman that comes from nature but is higher than nature must go through several processes: copying, understanding, induction, simplification, purification, and empowerment. The so-called talisman is the trace of those lines that human beings have learned from the talisman of nature for countless years and extracted the essence. ”

Ning Que filled the teacup for the master, sat back and asked, "Then what is the Tao?"

"The Word is knowing. ”

"Who knows?"

"Let the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi know. ”

Ning Que was stunned and asked, "What do you want Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to know?"

Master Yan Se looked at him with a smile and said, "Let Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi know what we want to do?"

"All the means of human cultivation are inseparable from the manipulation of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi. Swordsmanship uses telekinesis to control the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to remotely control the flying sword, which is too indirect after all. Although Nian Shi directly controlled the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to attack the enemy, it was too simple after all, and he could only attack the opponent's Zhihai. ”

"Only the Fu Dao is between the two, but the realm is higher than the two, because the ultimate goal pursued by the Fu Dao is to tell the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi what you want to do, and then the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi will help you do what you want. ”

"Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi has no eyes, no ears, it will never know what strange thoughts you have in the sea of consciousness, and it will never know that you want to condense the rain into thousands of sharp and invisible knives, so how can you let it know what you mean?"

"Fu is the bridge between human telekinesis and the vitality of heaven and earth, the talisman master condenses the vitality of heaven and earth with telekinesis in these line traces, once stimulated, and the surrounding heaven and earth vitality induce, it can make the wind and water move the clouds to destroy the clouds and destroy the sky and dry things. ”

Ning Que vaguely grasped the crux of the matter.

Master Yan Se looked at the expression on his face and asked, "You seem to understand something." ”

"I once heard a friend say that the snow mountain qi sea in the human body is like a musical instrument, and the mental power is the air, which can only be blown into the instrument and become a beautiful music, so that the vitality of heaven and earth can be heard and resonated with. ”

Ning Que looked at Master Yan Se and said, "Listening to the master's previous explanation, I think that since the rune is to use the rune to tell the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi what you want to do, can it be said that the rune is equivalent to the Qi Sea Snow Mountain in our body?"

"That friend of yours is very high-minded, and his words are wonderful. ”

Master Yan Se looked at it with a smile and said, "Of course, you can also teach. You have too little knowledge of the snow mountain qi in your body, and it is very troublesome to practice swordsmanship or anything else, but the rune path is different, as long as you can perceive the vitality of heaven and earth, be able to perceive the subtle differences between them, and resonate with them with rune descriptions, you can succeed. ”

Ning Que was puzzled and asked, "Since the rune master has been learning to record the talisman of nature for thousands of years, isn't there a ready-made rune? If there is a current rune, wouldn't it be possible to cultivate the rune path without perceiving the fluctuations of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi?"

Master Yan Se laughed, stroked his beard and asked, "Are there two leaves in the world that are exactly the same?"

Ning Que thought to himself that if you were asking about eggs, I would really doubt whether I was Da Vinci, so I replied, "No." ”

"Is it possible that there are two people in the world who are exactly the same?"

"Of course not. ”

"In that case, you can't be me, and your telekinetic power can't be the same as mine, so why write an identical talisman, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi can know that it means the same thing?"

Ning Que didn't understand at all.

Master Yan Se looked at him and said calmly: "For the talisman master, our telekinesis is like a myriad of different words and words, and the so-called fu is the combination of these words and words. The problem is that I am a Chang'an person who speaks official dialect, and you are a Nanhai fan who speaks Huolu language, and we stuff our respective words into the same combination, and it is absolutely impossible for it to be exactly the same article. ”

"There may only be dozens of languages in the world, but the mental power of each talisman is a completely different language, I made a four-six major endowment, and the heaven and earth vitality can hear the impassioned words in between, you also do a four-six major endowment, but the heaven and earth vitality scroll is at a loss, thinking why this guy doesn't match the preface and the afterword, what do you want to say?"

Ning Que understood, and bowed deeply to Master Yan Se, grateful.