Chapter 122: Talismans

"It's a wall piercing. Feng Xue identified the structure of the rune, and finally said, this wall-piercing talisman is usually a talisman used by a rookie monk with the "Divine Talisman", because the reaction speed of a rookie monk cannot keep up with the speed of the Divine Talisman, and if you don't open the piercing talisman, it is easy to die. However, it is not an uncommon use to be used as a thief.

"Piercing the wall talisman?" Xu Qin was stunned when he heard this, looking at the talisman paper that had been burned to ashes, how could this little uncle recognize it?

"Well, it should be a wall piercing talisman, and the road is still relatively wild, there is no urn, and it is made with the spiritual blood of demon beasts instead of spirit seals. Feng Xue didn't mean to explain to Xu Qin, but made a further judgment.

The so-called talisman is a spell-casting prop that obtains the corresponding spell-casting effect by writing specific sentences, because whether it is made or used, it does not require the participation of mana at all, and it can be said that it is the most common way for spirit-seeking monks to cast spells.

Although this talisman is used very much like a grenade or a magic scroll, it is completely different in principle.

Magic scrolls and grenades are essentially similar in principle, filling the interior with raw materials with specific effects according to certain rules, and exerting their effects through a specific activation program. The only difference is that grenades are filled with gunpowder, while magic scrolls are filled with mana, crystals, or other materials.

But the talisman is different, it doesn't require too many strange spiritual materials to draw, and it doesn't require much mana injected by the writer, just a pen, a piece of paper, and some cinnabar or black ink.

However, how can such a simple material draw all kinds of magical effects of talismans?

This starts with how the talisman works.

It's too cumbersome to talk about the principle, in short, the power of the talisman doesn't come from itself, to put it bluntly, it's actually just an IOU-

An IOU used to borrow power from heaven and earth, or from ghosts and gods.

Of course, considering the problem of borrowing or not repaying, you can use it as a check.

So the content of the spell itself doesn't actually have a fixed format, and there is actually no difference between writing "Demons and monsters are leaving" and "All evils are scattered" (except that the content is not, and the whole is formatted).

The embodiment of the power of the talisman only exists in two aspects, one is what purpose the talisman you draw is intended to achieve, and the other is which big guy is written on the head of the talisman.

If the talisman is an IOU, the statement written in your talisman represents how much money you want to borrow, and the name of the big guy is the guarantor.

It's just that it's not like you can write it randomly, for example, if you are a bald donkey of the Western religion, it's okay to write the edict of Taishang, and the saint will ignore you with a wide heart, that is, the Fu is invalid, but if you dare to write the edict of the Qing Dynasty, then you will be served by Qingping Sword.

Therefore, in the serious sect of talisman inheritance, there will be a link of conferring the urn, and the process has its own rituals, but the core is to give a seal.

This seal represents a kind of inheritance of the door, when you draw the talisman to print it, it means that the sect gives you a guarantee of the talisman paper, when writing the talisman directly write the "edict" on the head, although it is not as strong as the saint's edict, but at least the success rate is guaranteed, and it will not be because the saint is dozing off and you wake people up and do not give you a guarantee (funny).

However, not everyone has a sect that can give you a spiritual seal, such as those who are loose cultivators, or small sects that are not hard in the background, are not qualified to do this kind of spiritual seal, but they will not give up the talisman This method of casting spells that can be used even without mana.

If it was in the era when the Heavenly Court was built in the later generations, it might be possible to find a guarantor by making a good relationship with a certain god of the Heavenly Court by worshipping day and night, but in this era, the choice made by the small sect was to add collateral.

To put it simply, it is the feeling that no one gives you a guarantee when you borrow money, so you use something valuable as a mortgage, of course, this kind of spiritual blood talisman is definitely not as good as the effect of a serious talisman.

But no matter how bad the effect is, for casual cultivation, it is still a matter of small pay and high return, but for a resident monk like Feng Xue, it is not so friendly.

If it is a famous talisman, it can be traced back to the holder of the spirit seal according to the spirit seal, even if the other party is not a criminal suspect, you can also use this to narrow the target range.

But if it is a spiritual blood talisman, it is basically equivalent to breaking the clue, after all, the spiritual blood thing, there is really no shortage of spiritual blood on the desolate continent, you go to the forest to find a smarter animal to beat, eighty percent of its blood can be used as spiritual blood (of course, the power is not guaranteed), and even some famous and decent monks, when they are short of money to sell talismans, in order not to expose their own teacher, they will also deliberately use spiritual blood to make talismans.

Coupled with the previous speculation that "the suspect may be a monster", it is not certain whether this spiritual blood is someone else's own.

"But that's not right!" Xu Qin thought for a while, but still didn't ask Uncle Xiao why he could determine the true face of this paper ash, but found Huadian from another aspect:

"The price of a wall piercing talisman on the market is 1,000 taels of silver, and this thief used 1,000 taels of talisman paper to steal 300 taels of silver and a box of jewelry that is no more than 200 taels at most, plus pork that is less than 1 tael of silver, is he stupid?

"But the cost of painting the talisman is very low, if you can't find a way to make a move, it's normal to use theft to cash out, besides, he doesn't necessarily know how much money the other party's family can steal. Feng Xue pursed her lips, and then said to Fang Ling:

"Locally, I mean, including Huainan City and several surrounding counties, is there a black market or pawnshop where you can sell talismans?"

"This ......" Fang Ling's words were a little vague, it seemed that they were related to interests, and it was difficult to speak, but Xu Qin said calmly:

"There must be, in a big city like Huainan, it's not strange to have three or five places. ”

"So it's very likely that there are foreign monks or monsters, so can the suspicions of locally registered monsters and monks be cleared?" Fang Ling awkwardly skipped the topic, trying to steer the case back to the original topic.

"Probably so. Xu Qin frowned, as if he was a little distressed, "This rune paper is most likely not made by a local monk, otherwise, whether it is given away or sold, there is no reason for the person who gets the rune paper not to know the price of the rune, in this case...... Let's check the floating population in the city in recent days, especially those who are big-spending. ”

"This ......" Fang Ling is obviously a bit difficult to do, after all, Huainan has a population of one million, and if you screen it once, the manpower and material resources consumed are really a bit exaggerated.

However, a monk who can use a talisman to steal for a few hundred taels of silver belongs to the type that has to be guarded against.

With this kind of reckless character, you can't be sure if he will put a big fireball on you because of a quarrel......