Chapter 15: Soul Chasing
Sketching a charm is like carving a work of art, with undivided attention and technique.
The quality of the artwork depends on the state of mind of the maker, and even if the hand shakes a little, the work will be damaged.
The result of Gu Changqing's shaking hands was naturally the loss of his previous efforts, but the additional punishment was a waste of mana.
He didn't have much mana balance, and he didn't know the spell technique of the Heavenly Dao Blue Talisman, he was just copying, so he couldn't make a mistake even with one stroke.
Like picking sesame seeds in soybeans, it took Gu Changqing nearly three hours to sketch the Heavenly Dao Blue Talisman.
He sat on his knees, with only a slight movement of his hands, and the rest of his body did not move.
After he was done, he couldn't even stand up, not to mention that his legs were numb and unconscious, and even his spirit was sluggish.
The consumption of physical strength and mana is actually secondary, and the focus is on the consumption of spirit.
It's so sad to draw this thing.
However, fortunately, Gu Changqing finally completed the copying of the Heavenly Dao Qing Talisman without a trace of mistakes.
The balance of mana in the mall in his mind became ninety-two points, and although the consumption of one hundred and fifty points of mana was painful, a Heavenly Dao Blue Talisman could allow him to get at least five hundred points of mana, which could be regarded as earning.
He looked at the Heavenly Dao Qing Shen Talisman in his hand like a picture scroll, and his heart was extremely proud.
Who would have thought that just copying a talisman in the mall in their mind would have such great value?
But it's a pity that his current mana and lack of mana are going to make another one.
He got up and stretched, put the Heavenly Dao Qing Shen Talisman into his close-fitting satchel, and then opened the Shangqing Dao Sutra.
There are one hundred and seventy-eight kinds of spells recorded in the Shangqing Taoist Sutra, of which seventy-nine are basic spells that are not in the ranks, and the remaining ninety-nine are nine-rank spells.
He soon found the nine-rank spell "Soul Chaser".
He didn't receive the spell before, even if there was an increase in the Mind Mall, he was not limited by the spell level, but this spell had a hard and fast rule, and he couldn't use this spell without the curse.
Now that he has the pretence in his hand, there is no barrier.
He was going to use soul chasing for the water ghosts himself.
There are two procedures for the use of spells, one is the Dao Recipe and the other is the Dao Seal.
The Tao is recited by the practitioner, and of course it can be recited silently in the heart, but it must be recited in its entirety.
Some spell recipes are short, maybe just one word, and some spell recipes are long, maybe dozens of words, depending on the spell.
As for the Dao seal, it is a mark that the caster makes with his hands.
The Dao seal is composed of 22 handicraft seals of the heavenly and earthly branches.
The ten heavenly stems are: A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, and DEC.
The twelve earthly branches are: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.
Each spell's Dao Seal is composed of its own unique Technique Mark, but if one of the wrong Spell Marks is made, the spell will not be formed.
Soul chasing is a nine-grade spell, and the Tao is nine words: the deceased has a soul, and Suo Ling chases the shadow, and rises.
The Dao seal is Chou, Wu, Shen, Ji, and Jia.
Gu Changqing read it a few times and remembered it in his heart.
He took out the yellow five-pointed star from his bag, put it on the bed, and poured a little mana into it, and the five-pointed star immediately spread out, and the spirit of the water ghost was revealed.
"Help me!"
Gu Changqing said: "Don't scream, I'm now using the soul chasing technique to find out what happened before you died, don't resist." ”
The water ghost was delirious, just shouting "real people save me" over and over again, Gu Changqing was impatient to hear it, so he ignored it.
He was engrossed in it, and began to form the Dao seal in his hand, reciting the Dao recipe silently in his heart.
"The deceased has a soul, Suo Ling chases the shadow, rise!"
The five imprints of Chou, Wu, Shen, Ji, and Jia were quickly punched out, and a thin black thread passed through the center of the water ghost's eyebrows at his fingertips, and then a picture appeared behind the water ghost.
This situation is a bit like Gu Changqing's holographic projection on the earth, the picture is very clear, and it is a water ghost as the first perspective.
The picture begins in the middle of the night, with the moonlight reflecting down and the sparkling water ripples on the right.
Gu Changqing took a cursory look around and found that this was by the Xiaohu River in Hujiagou.
Immediately after that, a man appeared in the picture, tall, carrying a giant sword behind him, but his face was shrouded in a layer of fog, making it difficult to see his appearance.
Gu Changqing looked at it for a long time and felt that this man seemed to be Hu Shuntang.
I saw the man pointing at the water ghost and saying something, judging from his body language, he seemed to be very angry.
When Gu Changqing saw this, he was very depressed, since it was a holographic projection, why was there no sound?
After the man said something, the picture began to shake, as if the water ghost was trembling.
Then, a white shadow sprang out of nowhere and landed beside the man.
Gu Changqing looked at it, but it was a fox.
The fox looked at the water ghost with a fierce look, and suddenly jumped up.
The final scene of the picture is the fox's fangs.
When Gu Changqing saw this, he had a faint bad feeling in his heart.
It can be inferred from the picture that the water ghost was killed by the fox in the end, but before he died, the water ghost was talking to this man who was suspected of Hu Shuntang, and it seemed that they knew each other.
Moreover, Hu Shuntang also allowed the fox to kill the water ghost in the end, does this mean that Hu Shuntang is with the fox?
However, last night, Hu Shuntang followed his senior sister to subdue five foxes in one go in the Xiaohu River.
What's going on here?
Gu Changqing was a little puzzled.
He put the water ghost into the five-pointed star again and opened the "Shangqing Taoist Sutra" again.
He wanted to find out if there was a spell in the Taoist scriptures that could restore the resentful spirits to their senses.
It's a pity that he didn't find this kind of spell when he searched through the Shangqing Dao Sutra.
After death, people will become souls, generally speaking, after seven days, the soul will enter reincarnation, only those who died before death are unknown, or have great grievances, the soul will linger in the yang world.
Such a soul is called a lonely soul.
The lonely soul is a yin thing, and it can't last long in the yang world, and after seven days, the three souls and seven spirits will completely dissipate, and the soul will be scattered from then on.
But some lonely souls, because they were too resentful and obsessed with too much in life, the three souls and seven spirits are still remnants of the yang world, and such souls are called resentful spirits.
Obviously, water spirits fall into the category of resentful spirits.
However, there are generally only two ways to deal with resentful spirits, one is to complete the obsession before death, and the other is to exceed the Taoist priest above the eighth grade.
Gu Changqing is not even a nine-rank Taoist, so if he wants to help the water ghost, the only way to complete his obsession before his death is to complete it.
As for what the water ghost was obsessed with during his lifetime, there is no doubt that it must be revenge.
But what is revenge?
Will she kill the fox who killed her, or will she kill it together with the man who is suspected of being Hu Shuntang?
Gu Changqing felt that this was undoubtedly another difficult thing.
However, since I have been exposed to this matter, I must not leave it alone.
Moreover, the inexplicable real person also made it clear that since this water ghost was collected by Gu Changqing, this has cause and effect with her, and the grievances of the water ghost must be reported by Gu Changqing.
The most important thing for a monk is cause and effect.