Chapter 7: The Chronicle of Demon Suppression
Looking at the name, it seems to be a travelogue that records the experience of this Zhang Tianshi subduing demons, and it should be not much different from some of the novels he saw before, most of them are stories of Zhiwei made up by some descendants.
Shen Luo didn't pay much attention to it, and smashed the dust on it and put it in his sleeve pocket.
Then, after looking at the remaining tables and chairs, he didn't find anything else, so he had to give up, leave the utility room, and return to Qingshiping.
The ashram in Qingshiping is a two-story townhouse, with about 20 small houses on the top and bottom, and some of the disciples in the temple live here.
The quiet room is on the far right of the first floor, next to the cliff.
The quiet rooms of all the disciples were not large, except for a bed and a pair of tables and chairs, there were no external objects, and Shen Luo was no exception.
As soon as he pushed the door open, a strong pine fragrance came to his face, causing Shen Luo to wrinkle his nose.
There are a lot of incense sticks such as sandalwood and rosin in the temple, and they are never taboo for disciples to use, because usually meditation and cultivation, with these things of concentration and calming as an aid, can make it easier for people to settle down.
It's just that everyone else just orders one, and it's good to have a slight fragrance, how can it be so strong like him, it's a little choking.
However, there is no way around it.
Shen Luo's room was blocked by a crooked neck of the welcome pine on the cliffside, which was already a little cool and damp, and on the table in the room, there were dozens of ancient books that he had bought from all over the temple, most of which were moldy, and the smell could be imagined.
If it weren't pressed with rosin, there would be no way to treat people in this room.
Shen Luo was accustomed to this, came to the table against the wall and sat down, took out the newly brought back "Chronicle of Zhang Tianshi's Demon Suppression" from his sleeve pocket, and put it on the table.
The appearance of this book looks okay, except for the mold spots on the cover that look a little disgusting, the rest is quite complete, much better than most of the books in Shen Luo's collection here.
He first picked up the kettle on the table and poured a small half pot of water, and after resting for half a pillar of incense, he eased up some of his strength.
He opened the cover of the ancient book, revealing the yellowed paper on the title page, on which was a short and fat Taoist priest wearing a lotus crown and a seven-star robe, pinching the trick with one hand and holding a sword in the other, making an angry vajra shape.
It seems that it should be a portrait of that Zhang Tianshi, but the lines are rough, and it looks mostly freehand, after all, if a real person looks like this, it is really more vicious and terrifying than a ghost or something.
Shen Luo smiled, turned the title page, and began to look at the content behind.
At this glance, Shen Luo's mind was immediately attracted, and the content recorded in the book is really a strange novel, telling many anecdotes about this Zhang Tianshi subduing demons and ghosts in the Lingnan area.
There is no chronological record in the book, so there is no way to verify the time, but the names of places are clearly written, and they are all place names that can be searched at the moment, and it is not too long ago.
This Zhang Tianshi is a real Taoist, who has mastered the secret art of Dan Dao and the true transmission of talismans, can make gold pills, make talismans, and subdued more than a dozen ghosts and many monsters such as rat spirits and foxes in the book.
Originally, Shen Luo has read a lot of such a strange novel, and there is not much new in the content, and even the ghosts and demons written in it are not as diverse and exciting as other novels, it is nothing more than a cliché plot haunted by evil ghosts and charming.
But what makes Shen Luo can't let go is that in this book about all kinds of spells fighting with evil ghosts, the process of casting them is all clearly written, including a story mentioned in a story that a rich family member was disturbed by the fox charm, and he was annoyed, so Zhang Tianshi gave him a whisk and made it hang on the lintel, and since then the fox has been in trouble.
In addition, the book also mentions strange methods such as writing talismans in the blood of black dogs, using butcher knives to suppress ghosts, and using ancient coins to defeat them.
Even at the end of several stories, there are also pictures of the talismans used in the story, which looks like a dragon and snake, as if it was done in one go, but it is really a bit unique.
However, after a closer look, Shen Luo found that something was wrong.
Some of the talismans he had seen posted on some lintels in the temple, and had also seen them in some other books, and although they were the same as the names drawn here, and the style was very similar, there were obvious differences in the subtleties of the brushwork.
After Shen Luo took a few looks, he immediately rummaged through the old books piled up on the table, and quickly pulled out an even more broken old book from it, and even the cover was gone.
Only a dozen thin pages in the front of this old book can be read, and most of the pages in the back have rotted and adhered together, and if you tear it hard, it will break into slag.
The title of this book is "The Secret Talisman Zhenjian", which is an ancient book dedicated to recording talismans that have been handed down since ancient times, and it mentions many rules and taboos for making and using talismans.
In this book, according to the function of the talisman, it is roughly divided into three categories: "transformation, town, and attack".
For example, what is the villain charm, the hundred solution and disaster elimination charm all belong to the category of chemical charms, and the peace charm, the town house charm, etc. all belong to the category of town charms, as for the attack charm, it is vague, and it is very rarely written, but the names such as gas charms and small thunder charms are still mentioned.
Among all the types of talismans, Shen Luo cared most about the attacking talismans, and the scene when Luo Shi urged a yellow talisman to control the yin qi left a deep impression on him, and he still remembers it vividly.
It's just that in the relevant books he can come into contact with, there are very few expressions of this kind of talisman, which invisibly casts a veil of mystery on this kind of talisman.
If you encounter a yin and bad luck in the future, you may be able to keep safe with a suppression charm such as a peace talisman, but if you encounter a real ghost, of course, it is safer to attack the talisman by your side.
It's a pity that the parts of the book that can be flipped through are all similar to the general outline, and the content that really describes the function of the talisman and the drawing method is in the second half, and almost all of it cannot be viewed.
Shen Luo looked through some of the previous contents, and found that the peace charm was still preserved, and it happened that there was also this charm in "Zhang Tianshi's Demon Chronicle", so he immediately took it over and compared it.
"Hey, it's the same. He took a light breath and said to himself.
"Knock ......"
At this time, a twilight drum sounded, and Shen Luo woke up from his thoughts.
He raised his head and glanced at the sky outside the window, only to realize that before he knew it, it was already evening.
Since he hit the mountain, he has been quite interested in these strange things of yin ghosts, and in addition to practicing Xiaohua Yang Gong in his daily life, he can't practice horizontal kung fu such as "Qingyang Hand" for the time being, so most of his time is spent looking through these books.
I didn't expect to see it today, it was most of the day.
He shook his head and smiled to himself, straightened the books on the table, stood up and walked out the door.
After the Sanqing Palace, go to the right for nearly a hundred zhang, there is a flat mountain cliff, and several independent small courtyards are built on it, and the inner disciples in the view live here, each of them has a small single courtyard, and does not live with the rest of the disciples.
At this time, the sky was already quite dark, and outside the door of one of the courtyards, there were three figures.