7: The lights of the world
The dojo is a place for a practitioner to cultivate the Tao.
For example, last night, when he was in a dream, if someone came to sneak attack, it would still be a little dangerous.
If you build a dojo, you will not be afraid of the sneak attack of those ghosts and demons.
The construction of the dojo is not difficult to say, but it is not easy to say.
The Chijun Temple that Zhuang Xiange went to renovate outside the city, if he could invite the god of 'Chijun' to stay and open the statue, then it would be his dojo.
Building a dojo is a kind of comprehensive ability, to know the magic array, and you need a formation weapon, and the array weapon is divided into the main array and the auxiliary array.
When he went down the mountain to catch ghosts, he got a piece of lightning jujube wood, which he carved into the statue of 'Chijun', which was engraved by him with the curse of Chiyan, and then opened the light and secretly wished, which can be used as a vessel of the main array.
The statue of the Red Monarch was placed in the dark room, shining, a pure yang qi spreading, and there was a terrifying divine power emanating like nothing.
This wisp of his divine thought is in one place with the divine power of Chijun, which is the benefit of refining this divine image, and he can feel the divine power in it at all times and reach a state of fit, so that his own 'divine will' will will grow, and his own divine will will be contaminated with the charm of Chijun.
He wants to set up a magic circle with the 'Red Monarch Statue' as the main weapon.
Then the other array weapons should also be fiery and fire-based, so that they can be compatible with the divine power and law nature of the Red Monarch.
It's just that Zhao Yingyun didn't have any other formation weapons except for the thirty-six fire needles, but when he was in the mountains, he had already thought about this and flipped through the relevant formation maps.
Now is the time for experimentation.
He took out some neatly cut little horns of silver, and he took the needle bag with him, closed the door in the backyard, and went out.
He's going to buy some lamps and come back.
If you want the kind of lamp that has been used for many years, such a lamp, which gathers the fireworks of the world, and then combines it with the fire of the 'Red Monarch', it can form a true fire of duality, which can burn all the things of the Yin genus.
The divine fire is formless and substantial, mysterious and powerful, burning yin and burning evil, and practitioners want to obtain divine fire, which is obtained by drawing talismans and reciting mantras.
Therefore, the 'fire of the talisman' is also called the divine fire.
The divine fire is domineering, but after combining it with the fireworks in the world, it has more lingering nature, but it can remain in the world for a long time, and it will not be extinguished every time.
Walk through the alleys.
Because there is a lot of rain in this Wuze County, there is a lot of moss on the walls of the alley, and there will be some wild flowers and weeds on the walls, just like the people in this place.
He went out of this street, because this street is inhabited by rich people, and no matter how difficult a place is, there will be a difference between rich and poor.
Out of the block, he smelled a faint stench.
The inhabitants of the city are pigs, cattle raisers, donkey raisers, chickens, dogs, and miscellaneous among them, and the stench wafts in the wind.
Someone used a dung bucket to carry the dung to the outside of the city, and on the dung bucket there were fresh branches folded on it to cover it to prevent the dung water inside from swinging out, but the yellow, white and black things under the branches and leaves could still be seen, and when he walked by, even Zhao Yingyun had to hold his breath.
Rubbing shoulders with the dung pickers, lifting the hem of his trousers, carefully stepping on the stones in the mud on the ground.
In a small courtyard made of rocks, a little girl and a little boy were squatting on the ground and playing with fire.
They built a small stove out of a few bricks, and in it they made a fire with dead branches and roasted something on it.
When Zhao Yingyun stopped at the gate of the courtyard, they raised their heads, their faces were covered with black ash, and the clothes they were wearing looked too large, as if they were not their own, and the cuffs and collars were sewn.
The two children looked at Zhao Yingyun who was wearing a brand-new light blue robe, their eyes were a little afraid, in their cognition, the people who could wear such good-looking clothes were those big people, not those they could touch.
Zhao Yingyun walked in, came to the side of the two people, and smiled at them: "Two children, what are you baking?" ”
The eldest boy among the two children blinked his eyes, glanced at Zhao Yingyun, did not speak, and lowered his head.
The little girl was not afraid to say anything: "Squeak! ”
Zhao Yingyun saw the four 'cicadas' roasting on it, and understood what she was talking about.
"Is it delicious?" Zhao Yingyun asked with a smile.
"Delicious!" It was still the little girl who answered.
"Would you like to give me one?" Zhao Yingyun joked.
The little girl just laughed, scribbled on the ground with a stick, and peeked at her brother.
"Not cooked yet!" The little boy spoke suddenly.
"Forget it, do you have a light in your house?" Zhao Yingyun squatted down and asked with a smile.
"Lights? What lamp? The little boy asked.
"Is that the light you lit at night?" Zhao Yingyun said.
"We want it ourselves at night, it's dark everywhere at night, give it to you, and we won't have it." The little girl replied quickly.
"I'll buy your lamps with money." Zhao Yingyun said and took out a dime of broken silver from his arms and said.
The children of the poor were in charge of the house at an early age, and they obviously knew the role of silver.
Seeing the silver that Zhao Yingyun was holding in the palm of his hand, his eyes had changed, and the little boy immediately got up and said, "I'll go and call Eminem back." ”
The little boy got up and ran a few steps, then came back and took his sister with him.
Zhao Yingyun didn't want to follow, but when he saw them walking towards the back of the house, and there was a faint sound of talking, and then he didn't seem to be able to say it clearly, he heard a conversation with the two children was a woman, and she didn't seem to believe that anyone would come to buy a lamp at all.
So Zhao Yingyun walked over, and there was a well behind their house, and some women were here to draw water and wash their clothes.
When he saw Zhao Yingyun coming, the women who were washing clothes by the well all looked at him, and when they saw Zhao Yingyun's white and delicate skin, as well as the clothes he was wearing, there was also a trace of fear in his eyes.
And the little girl pointed at Zhao Yingyun and said, "It's him, he wants to buy our lamp." ”
A small woman next to her immediately reached out and pulled the little girl's arm, and said in a panic, "Don't talk with your finger." ”
Then he smiled apologetically at Zhao Yingyun.
Zhao Yingyun smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just a child." ”
After speaking, he made a Taoist salute to the women present, and said, "In Xia Zhao Yingyun, I want to ask your sisters-in-law, can you have a lamp at home for a long time?" I want to buy a few and go back to drive away the black. ”
He's known here these days, and people here generally call these married women sisters-in-law, but of course, this has to be your own age than others.
The implication in it, of course, is that everything is discussed from the other party's husband's side, which can be regarded as a kind of evasion, and the customs of various places can be seen from the title.
"My lord, you want to buy a lamp?" The little boy's Eminem stood up and said, "I have two lamps at home, and when my man comes back from fishing, let him make a new one for the adults." ”
She didn't think that an old lamp that had been used for so long would still be able to sell for money.
"I don't need new ones, I just want lamps that have been lit for at least three years, and of course, if they are already broken, then I don't need them."
"Do you really want it?" The woman asked, still.
Before Zhao Yingyun could answer, a woman next to him was already saying, "My lord, I have two lamps in my house that have been used for more than three years. ”
The former woman was holding her daughter's hand, but she did not speak.
"I don't want to have one, if you have one at home, you can bring it, I'll pick one." After Zhao Yingyun finished speaking, the others immediately got up and went home, and the boy's and girl's mother wiped her hands on her clothes, and then went home to get it.
Zhao Yingyun followed, she pushed open the unlocked wooden door, entered the room, and after a while, she had already taken out three lamps.
As soon as she took it out, it was still in her hand, and Zhao Chengyun saw that one of the three lamps was made of clay pots, and the other were made of a piece of bamboo.
Of the three lamps, one seems to have been useless for a long time.
The other two have the kind of 'fire' that ordinary people can't feel.
Zhao Yingyun can feel the lingering and adhesion in the 'fire qi', which is a characteristic of the red dust and fire in the world, so that the 'divine fire' can stay in this world for a long time and become entangled.
"Both." Zhao Yingyun pointed to the clay pot and the lantern made of bamboo and said.
"That, that, these two ......," the woman handed the two lamps over, and retracted them a few inches, and she wanted to ask how much they could sell, but she was too embarrassed to ask.
"Two dimes of silver!" Zhao Yingyun said, a dime of silver, but the size of a bean, is a lot for poor people, but for Zhao Yinyun, this is nothing.
The young woman nodded hurriedly, and after Zhao Yingyun took the two lanterns, the others had already come with the lanterns.
Some even brought all the things that had not been used in the house for a long time, some grabbed one in one hand, and some wrapped a dozen or so in cloth.
Many of them are lamps that have been exhausted, Zhao Yingyun doesn't want them, only picks those that are still in use to buy, he collects the lamps here, the news spread, and there are people who keep sending them with lamps at home.
Zhao Yingyun didn't refuse, he actually received more than 50 lamps, then stopped, and bought some lamp oil, and the mother of the little boy and girl also used a big bamboo basket to help him pack it and send it to his residence.
When he returned to his lodgings and sat down, he looked at the lamps on the table that had been neatly laid out by the woman, and his heart was full of joy, and here the idea of the time in the mountains could be tested.
He's going to set up a seven-star array.
The Seven Star Array has a very different evolution, he receives these lights, and the thing in the main array is the 'Red Monarch Statue', so the Seven Star Array he wants to put is the 'Red Monarch-Seven Star Lantern Array'.
These lamps are divided into three types: pottery, bamboo, and copper, of which bronze is the least lamp, and pottery and bamboo are the most.
The lamp made of three kinds of utensils will have subtle differences in the 'fire qi' formed by the combination, which will contain the characteristics of metal, wood, and earth, but it has nothing to do with the overall situation, because the characteristics of human fire are all there.
Some of the lamps were clean, some were stained with oil.
A clean lamp should always be used in the bedroom, while a stained one should always be used in the kitchen.
He sat there, first wiping some of the oily stains off with a cloth.
Then he took out the carving knife and began to carve the 'Red Flame Divine Mantra' on these lamps, the Red Flame Divine Mantra was not long, but it was more than twenty words.
He carved it carefully and attentively, and it took a day to carve it alone.
This made his spirit tired, and he first meditated, and then went to the courtyard to eat and dew in the night sky, and the whole person's spirit was mostly restored.
He took out his 'Red Monarch Statue' and placed it on the ground, and he himself sat opposite the 'Red Monarch Statue', like two 'people' seated.
The lamps were lit and formed a circle around the idol and the man.
There were seventy-seven and forty-nine lamps in all, and many of them were set aside.
In the darkness, a circle of lights illuminated the room, and as he closed his eyes and recited the Red Flame Divine Mantra, his body and the statue of the god were glowing red, and this red light was full of gold.
These golden and red colors began to spread again.
It started with the words engraved on the lamps, which shimmered in the firelight.
This brilliance soaked into the flames, making the originally dull yellow light even brighter.
The original yellow and white outer flame seems to be dyed with a hint of gold.
The mortal fire in the world, at this moment, turned into a spiritual flame.
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A black snake climbed on the windowsill and peeked into the house from a gap, the fire in the room surged, a light was like a sword, through the gap in the window, shining in the eyes of the black snake, the black snake was hit hard, and suddenly overturned, and then slid down the windowsill, as if it had no strength, after a while, it began to crawl, and fled away towards the courtyard.