Chapter 24: Down the Mountain Together

As soon as he closed the door, the master said solemnly:

"I will give you two magic weapons today, which can only be used to punish evil and defend yourself, and you must not provoke the creatures of the underworld at will. If there is disobedience, the Dharma weapon will be withdrawn and expelled from the school. ”

As he spoke, he walked behind the tribute platform.

When I heard that the master said that he wanted to give the Dharma weapon, I immediately came to the spirit, this kind of thing that I had only heard of, I can finally see it today, and it is still for me.

But when I saw what Master had brought out, I was a little disappointed.

The two things in Master's hand, one was an ordinary wooden stick, a small section of yellow at both ends, and a red date in the middle, and some places had faded color, which looked like it was some years old.

The stick is only about a foot long, about an inch in diameter, and the same thickness from top to bottom.

The stick is carved with some black relief patterns, and it seems that two lines of words are written.

The other one is more ordinary, just a rope, looking at the material should be just an ordinary palm hemp rope, the difference is that one end of the rope has a black wooden handle, the wooden handle is a dragon's head shape, and the rope is connected from the dragon's mouth.

If it weren't for the fact that the rope and the wooden rake looked a little old, I would have suspected that this was just a very ordinary craft.

When Master saw me looking at the two Dharma weapons in a daze, he asked suspiciously:

"What? Don't want it? ”

"Thank you for the Dharma utensils, and the disciples will follow the master's teachings."

I quickly knelt down and bowed my head, and withdrew my hand in the form of a catch.

Instead of putting the Dharma weapon in my hand, Master said:

"These two magic weapons, one is a torture rod and the other is a magic rope, both of which are left over from the masters, you should cherish them. No matter what kind of magic weapon, if it's not yours, you won't be able to play a great role in holding it. Just because I've given you the artifacts doesn't mean they can protect you. Dharma weapons are spiritual, and it is only through your own continuous blessings that it can slowly recognize you. ”

"Master, how can you bless it?"

Hearing Master's words, my heart suddenly felt cold, this magic weapon is not a finished product.

The Master did not speak, but took a book from the altar and brought it to me and said:

"You need to memorize the mantras in this book, and when you memorize them, you need to recite them silently, and don't read them out loud. There are methods and mantras for the blessing of the magic weapon inside. ”

I took the book, and it was actually a handwritten book, written word by word with a fine brush, and the paper inside was all yellow.

I don't know if it's because it turned yellow after a long time, or if the paper was originally yellow.

The cover is dark yellow brown paper, and there is not even a title on it, and the first page you open is the end.

I opened the last page again, and it turned out that this book was to be read backwards, and on the last page there was only a big brush word: Mantra.

This book, called "Spells", has a spell on every page, ranging in length from three or four sentences to almost an entire page.

Before I could take a closer look at the contents, Master handed over another book, the size of the book called the mantra, and it looked a bit like the upper and lower volumes.

I also opened the last page, which was also a big calligraphy: Fu.

A cursory flip through the book called "Fu", again, each page number is drawn with a character, and there is no other explanation other than the name of the character given below.

Master saw that I was flipping through the book, and neither spoke nor told me to get up.

I found that the two books are connected.

The first page of the "Fu" is a simple-looking sigil with the words "Suppressing Evil Spirits" written underneath.

Open the "spell" again.

There are three annotations written on it: Function, Mantra, and Stroke Order.

Looking back, there are still some blank page numbers.

The book has no table of contents, not even page numbers.

If you want to read it, you need to read two books together, and I really can't understand why the person who wrote this book didn't integrate the content of the two books together.

That way, it doesn't look like it's going to be that strenuous.

Master said,

"Do you wonder why talismans and spells should be written separately?"

I nodded and looked up at Master.

Master smiled and said proudly:

"Because many of these two books are exclusive to us, they are not suitable for external transmission, so it is safer to do so. You must remember that these two books cannot be taken out of this ancestral hall, and they cannot be copied or copied by hand. This is also the content of your morning class in the future, you must practice the talisman and memorize the mantra well. The combination of the two is not until it works. ”

"Okay."

I continued to look down at the book.

The Master said, "You get up first, your morning content is to find a way to bless the Dharma Weapon, and then start to bless the Dharma Weapon, and the blessing time of each Dharma Instrument is a quarter of an hour, which is also a compulsory course in the morning class in the future, and it cannot be delayed." ”

"Understood."

I stood up, walked over to a set of chairs next to me, sat down, and began to look for the method of blessing the ritual with my heart.

"There is pen and ink in the drawer behind the tribute, if you don't understand anything, ask Wen Jing first, if she can't answer, you can ask me again, and in the next three days, you can learn it yourself. How much you can learn depends on your own efforts. After three days, you must go down the mountain to solve your problems. ”

As he spoke, Master walked out of the gate.

In the next three days, I began to study as if I was preparing for the college entrance examination.

Except for eating and washing dishes, the rest of the time I locked myself in the ancestral hall to recite mantras, draw talismans and bless those two ritual vessels.

For two nights in a row, I went to bed after 12 o'clock and woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning.

During this period, I also asked my senior sister some questions, and she answered them all for me.

Many sentences that seemed difficult to understand to me were unraveled by her in a few words, and the explanations were easy to understand.

Gradually, I communicated more and more with this senior sister, and she seemed to enjoy the process of asking her for advice.

Sometimes, I even took the initiative to come to the ancestral hall and ask me if there was anything I didn't understand.

But she only has time in the afternoon, goes out after dinner in the evening, rushes back for breakfast in the morning, and sleeps in the morning.

I also asked her what she was doing at night.

She just mysteriously said two words to me: "Work." ”

When I asked her what she did, she was silent.

After dinner on the third day, Master called me to his room.

He handed me a thicker notebook, which was densely packed with many words.

He said that the second half of this book is a record of the steps he has taken every time he has dealt with things over the years.

The first half is a variety of trick characteristics and treatments.

There are also some basic methods and lessons learned.

Methods include how to see tricks, how to calm the soul, how to quickly exceed, how to quickly drive away monsters, how to summon spirits, how to judge whether they are tricky, and so on.

In comparison, this book is much more interesting than the two books of "Fu" and "Mantra".

So on the last night, I read the book and saw that it was only finished at three o'clock in the morning, and it was only a rough glance.

However, after reading this book, I began to have a basic concept of grasping tricks, collecting tricks, and even breaking up tricks.

It also gave me a little more confidence in going down the mountain to solve the evil trick on Yu Man.

The next morning, after only two hours of sleep, I woke up early, thinking about blessing the Dharma weapon before going down the mountain.

Senior sister didn't go out last night, and everyone still didn't speak when they had breakfast.

After eating, I should go down the mountain to solve the problem, but in the eyes of Master and Master, this is a very young thing, and they don't even say a word.

But to my surprise, my sister also had to go down the mountain.

She said to run errands, so the two of us went down together.

One of us walked down the road with a light backpack on our backs, like two ordinary mountain climbers.

I secretly asked my sister:

"Why don't Master and Master live together, aren't they husband and wife?"

Senior Sister shook her head and said:

"I don't know, they lived separately when I came, and they usually communicate very little, but I can see that they have a deep relationship, and a lot of things have happened in the past two years, but Master Guang has always been loyal to Master, why do you ask this?"

"No, it's nothing, I'm just curious, senior sister, what are you doing out there? Do you want me to help? I said.

To be honest, I was a little uncomfortable to call someone who was only shoulder-high and looked very young.