Chapter One Hundred and Nine. Master is out of the horse
As soon as Master said this, I suddenly became excited. Originally, I was often troubled by whether or not to learn to play talismans from Master, after all, I have never seen Master "play talismans" with my own eyes in all these years since I apprenticed to him. Sure enough, as he just said, he wanted to "open my eyes".
So, I hurriedly took out the Lu Ban ruler that Master had given me earlier and handed it to Master. The master took the ruler, then squatted on the ground and took out a piece of talisman paper on which to write and draw. The long strip of rune paper has the character "Yin" written on the front, and then a small circle with a tail is drawn to wrap the character. Then a strange spell-like spell-like text was drawn underneath.
The left side of the text is a left-right structure, with a "rain" on the top and a "ghost" on the bottom. However, the word "ghost" is not a conventional way of writing, and there is no such thing as the first stroke. So the head of the "ghost" became "Tian". And the combination of "field" and "rain" above becomes "thunder" again. Master told me that this writing method is still borrowed from the writing of the god's head and ghost body, but in this way, this non-existent character has the effect of "thunder and fire suppressing ghosts". And the last vertical hook of the word "ghost" extends a lot on the right, and on top of this stroke, the master wrote the word "kun" from top to bottom. The last vertical of the word "kun" is extended to the last stroke of "ghost", perpendicular to it. And a short horizontal was added, so that this vertical became the shape of a sword. And on either side of the sword, the master wrote down the name of the ghost and the date of death recorded.
This is different from the charms I have been exposed to in the past, because the charm is divided into three parts: the head, the gall, and the foot, and a seemingly complex charm actually explains its existence and efficacy simply and directly. And this kind of left-right structure, although it is not unseen, but when I saw it in the past, I never thought about how it should be used.
Master said, "This is what we need to prepare in advance before we play the talismans." As long as you have the name of the other party and the date of birth and death, unless the ghost's ability is much more than your own, it can generally be managed. As he spoke, the Master wrote the date of birth of the ghost on the lower part of the rune paper, crossed out the date with a horizontal stroke, and added a tip and a tail to both ends of the stroke, and this stroke became a bow and arrow that shot through the ghost.
Immediately afterwards, the master turned the rune paper over again, wrote "yang" on the back, and drew a circle with a tail as before, this side was much simpler, he just wrote the three words "Hu Shengli" in block letters below. Master told me that Qian is yang, kun is yin, yang is life, and yin is death. Hu Shengli is still alive and well, so the set of suppressing ghosts has no effect on him, but we write on both sides of the spell the people related to yin and yang, that is, for a short time, before this spell is burned out, so that the relationship between the two people exists on the spell. But it is not always possible to find people on both sides of the yin and yang, if it is just to fight ghosts, then it is enough to draw only the "yin" side.
Although I can understand some of them, most of them still seem to understand. Sure enough, just like the master said, this craft is too profound, and the master must pass on the experience orally before he has the opportunity to learn and understand.
After drawing the spell, Master asked Dr. Huang to stand outside the range of the incense ash formation, so as not to wait and hurt people if something went wrong. Then Master asked me to sit down on the bed and relax as much as I could. I cursed in my heart how could I relax, that ghost was so fierce, my blood pressure rose just thinking about what happened just now, I was bait at the moment, and I was still letting me relax, wasn't it a joke? But there was no way, and although I was reluctant, I sat down obediently.
The master walked to the window, put the side of the yang hexagram on the Lu Ban ruler downward, and first slapped the three characters "Hu Shengli" on the talisman paper a few times, each time with an interval of about two or three seconds, and each stroke would become heavier and heavier. Then the master switched to the yin hexagram, and at the same time turned the charm on one side, and changed it to the ghost's side. With a slightly faster rhythm than before, while clapping, he said in his mouth:
"The ruler in the disciple's hand, the public loss law ordered, a thousand knives can not be killed, ten thousand knives are restless, there is no evil left in the world, ten thousand arrows pierce the heart without stopping, I respectfully invite the six stars of the Southern Dipper, the seven stars of the Big Dipper, I am as anxious as the law!"
This mantra master recited three times, the voice changed from weak to strong, and the rhythm changed from slow to fast, and after each recitation of "Hurry as a law", he used the Luban ruler heavily to hit the rune on the spell and hit it heavily. It was still raining outside, but there was no thunder or lightning, and Master was standing by the window again, so when he finished reading the three paragraphs, a gust of wind blew in from the window, but although the wind was not small, it could not blow away the incense ash on the window edge. Master gave me a look and said, "Be careful, it's coming."
At this time, the incense that had not been lit by leaning against the window, the incense head suddenly fell in my direction and fell to the ground, the master seemed to feel something, and immediately stopped the action of slapping the charm in his hand, felt out the remaining incense ash, and sealed the incense ash array that had originally left an entrance. When it was sealed, Master shouted at me, "Run!"
So I immediately jumped out of bed with a roll, and then ran with my legs, but after all, I was wounded, my legs and feet were sore, and when I ran to the door, the door of the ward slammed and slammed shut, as before. I was shouting in my heart that something was wrong, so I immediately turned around, ignoring the soreness in my arm, and immediately prepared as before, with my left hand purple and my right hand resolutely, but when I turned around, I found that Master was standing as stupidly as I was, and there was no one in the room except for the two of us.
But Master and I both understood that this ghost was in the house right now. The master glared at me and scolded in a low voice, where is the food you kid eats on weekdays, you can't run away from such a little road, and she is still an old woman! I said I want to run out too, what's wrong with the old woman, people are still ghosts! Master probably didn't have time to play tricks with me, he was half-bent over, his left hand put the charm flat in the palm of his hand, and his right hand held Lu Ban's ruler about an inch away from the charm, while he was on full alert, he slowly moved towards me, and the direction that Master's eyes were looking at was the seven-star lamp in the center of the room.
So I couldn't help but look over, and found that although there was a slight wind in the room at this moment, the flame of the candle did not obviously feel blown by the wind, but was burning very naturally, but the flames of the seven candles were all slightly inclined in one direction, and that direction was also the direction that the master was looking at.
Soon Master moved to my side and protected me with his own body, and I stood behind his body and stared at the flame of the seven-star lamp with him. Master whispered to me, "Pay attention to the direction in which the flame is moving, and the direction in which it is pointing, the ghost is in which direction." I nodded and said I understood, and with Master, I slowly retreated to the corner of the wall, and then stood still.
This stalemate lasted for a few minutes, the flames were left and right, or they were backwards, and it wasn't the ghosts coming in the direction we were coming. Maybe it is also testing Master and me, and has no intention of running away for the time being. At this time, the flames suddenly wanted to be blown by the wind, and the seven flames suddenly moved in the direction of me and the master, I was shocked, knowing that it was the meaning of the ghost rushing towards us, and I was about to beat out the purple micro and thunder in my hand regardless of the thirty-seven twenty-one, when the master suddenly slapped the Lu Ban ruler of his right hand on the spell quickly, at this time the master's two hands were actually fit together, and his originally flat left hand was erected parallel to his face at this time, and then a backhand, and pushed the spell straight ahead.
I only heard a muffled bang, and I, who was standing behind the Master, also noticed that the Master's body trembled slightly backwards due to the impact of some external force. And just as this muffled sound appeared, the room began to echo with the heart-rending and painful ghost screams. The cry was exactly the same as I had heard when I was first here, only more miserable. And what struck me the most strange thing was that I thought that Master had turned the power of the talisman into the palm of my left hand and pushed it out, but at this moment, I saw that the talisman seemed to be floating in the air, flying around the ward rapidly. Where it was connected to the charm, there was the same granular gray smoke that I had seen at first, and I realized that the master's palm had hit the ghost with this charm.
The gray smoke was accompanied by screams, and gradually, a faint glow began to appear in the smoke. It's like burned incense, with a layer of ash on the outside, but it's still burning violently on the inside. At this time, the master immediately took out the bell and incense and summoned his own soldiers and horses. Master quickly shook the bell and chanted a mantra aloud to command the soldiers and horses to arrest them, and now the seven-star lights in the room began to flicker and flicker, and then I heard a sound similar to the explosion of a balloon again, this time much louder than the previous one, and as the huge echo faded into the room, everything was calm again.
The master let out a breath and crouched down. He took out his little wooden figure from his bag and put it in front of the seven-star lamp. As the movement in the room disappeared, the flames of the seven-star lamp lit up again, and at this time, the flames suddenly gathered in the direction of the little wooden man, and I knew that it meant that the master's talisman and the soldiers and horses he summoned had already subdued the ghost, and it had succumbed to the intention of settling on the little wooden man.
Master turned his head to look at me and said triumphantly, stinky boy, do you see it, this is called ability!