Chapter 471: Witchcraft (1) Thank you for the reward from the book friend "harry3m890"!
After some hard work, Jiang Yuan finally got the slip from Lin Muqing, and with this slip opened by Lin Muqing, he could go to his store to withdraw silver taels.
After achieving his goal, Jiang Yuan didn't have time to continue to linger, so he hurriedly left Xu's Mansion and walked towards the store.
The Xu family's shop is not difficult to find, but business is sluggish.
As the saying goes, "antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times", in today's era of internal and external troubles in this country, the antique business is undoubtedly becoming more and more difficult.
This is also an important reason why the Xu family began to decline.
When the shopkeeper saw the owner coming to the store, he hurriedly got up to entertain him.
Jiang Yuan handed over the strip to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper became more and more strange, he, the owner, would not come to the store at all on weekdays, let alone bring the young grandmother's note.
However, the shopkeeper didn't ask too much, and hurriedly went to prepare the silver taels.
Taking advantage of this, Jiang Yuan also began to wander around the store.
Originally, Jiang Yuan was just looking at antiques at random, but under this visit, he found some interesting things.
In an inconspicuous corner of the shelf, Jiang Yuan found a turtle shell.
This tortoise shell is very old and has some strange words engraved on it.
Jiang Yuan only glanced at it, and was stunned for a moment.
Isn't this kind of ancient script the script used by witches? I didn't expect this kind of script to appear in this place.
Jiang Yuan grabbed the turtle shell and looked at it cursoryly for a while, what was recorded on it seemed to be a kind of witchcraft.
However, it appears to be very broken and incomplete, and it should be recorded on other carriers.
Jiang Yuan couldn't help but be stunned this time, this place was a projection of a real existence and an exotic land, and the details here could be said to be no different from that real exotic.
If you can find the writing used by witches here, does it mean that witches have been to this foreign land?
Jiang Yuan couldn't help but think of the Eternal Tribulation Clan, whose ancestors were a group of shamans who roamed space.
It seems that in ancient times, the planet where Jiang Yuan was located was not blocked, or that the strong people had a way to break through that blockade, so that the strong people of that ancient era could enter the universe.
It's like a demon god, and it's like a witch. There may even be others.
Jiang Yuan was thinking about it, and the shopkeeper had already come with a heavy bag of silver.
After taking the silver tael, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but point to this turtle shell and ask:
"Shopkeeper, what is this?"
The shopkeeper took one look at it and replied:
"Owner, this is a kind of 'dragon bone', which is mostly used to record oracle bone inscriptions. A few years ago, there was a lot of practice in studying oracles, so I sent some of them to collect. Later, however, I invited many gentlemen to come and see it, and they all said that the writing on the keel I received was not oracle bone inscription, but another unknown ancient script. Later, I thought that strange goods were good to live in, so I kept stockpiling them, but now, everyone is talking about the Latinization of Chinese characters, but no one pays attention to these ancient texts. These current scholars are really, how can the things left by the ancestors be changed?!"
Jiang Yuan listened quietly, it seemed that although this foreign land was different from the earth, the history was also different.
The discovery of the oracle bone inscription on Earth was in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and large-scale research was a matter of later.
And the discussion of the pinyin of Chinese characters is also later than this era.
Regarding the pinyinization of Chinese characters, Jiang Yuan remembered a famous article "Shi's Lion Eating History", the full text of which is as follows:
"The stone chamber poet Shi Shi, lover lions, swears to eat ten lions. Shi's always looks at the lion in the market. Ten o'clock, suitable for ten lion city. It's the right time, the right city. Shi Shi regarded the ten lions and made the ten lions pass away. The clan is the corpse of ten lions, suitable for the stone room. The stone room is wet, and Shi Shi makes the servant wipe the stone room. The stone chamber swabbed, and Shi Shi began to try to eat the corpses of ten lions. When eating, I first knew ten lions and ten stone lion corpses. Trial release is a thing. ”
The most unique thing about this article is that it is easy to understand, but when you read it to others, it sounds like "shi, shi, shi, shi, shi......" and you can't understand what you're saying.
This is an article written by Mr. Zhao Yuanren, a famous linguist during the Republic of China, and the creation of this article is to use an extreme method to expose the defects of Chinese characters and support the reform of Chinese character pinyin.
The promotion of Chinese character pinyin has experienced two peaks.
The first peak was during the Republic of China, when the country was humiliated by foreign powers due to its backwardness, so people of insight at that time advocated learning from the West.
The second peak is after the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially after the widespread use of computers, Chinese characters have encountered the most serious challenges in history, and it can be said that they have reached a critical point of life and death.
Jiang Yuan is not a scholar and does not know the pros and cons of pinyinization of Chinese characters. However, the use of Chinese characters has benefited him a lot, for example, when he learned this ancient Chinese script, if he did not have a foundation in Chinese characters, it would be very difficult for Jiang Yuan to learn it.
Now in this foreign land, both the study of oracle bone inscriptions and the discussion of the pinyin of Chinese characters seem to be greatly advanced.
So Jiang Yuan asked the shopkeeper again:
"Is there anything like this?"
Shopkeeper says:
"There are quite a few, in the warehouse in the back room. ”
Jiang Yuan nodded:
"You help me find them all, and send someone to buy more keels with this kind of writing, I'll be useful. ”
The shopkeeper hurriedly agreed, this kind of broken shell and bones didn't cost much, but it didn't need to be approved by the young grandmother.
Then Jiang Yuan walked out with Yinliang, intending to go towards the yamen.
The matter of forming a militia can firstly establish a good relationship with the government, second, it can also borrow the strength of the militia group, and third, Yan Zhennan does not need to come out on his own.
This kind of thing that kills multiple birds with one stone, Jiang Yuan is very happy.
Just after leaving the store, Jiang Yuan met an acquaintance, his junior brother Wu Ping.
Jiang Yuan then beckoned Wu Ping and walked towards the yamen together.
But not long after leaving, Jiang Yuan's heart moved.
He suddenly remembered that there was something interesting written on the turtle shell he had just seen.
At that time, Jiang Yuan just browsed it in a hurry, and after seeing that this witchcraft was broken, he didn't look at it much, and just wanted to wait until he had completed this witchcraft before studying it.
However, at this time, Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered that the witchcraft seemed to mention something about the soul of people.
Immediately, Jiang Yuan did not hesitate and stuffed the bag containing the silver taels into Wu Ping's arms:
"Wu Ping, you help me bring these silver taels to the yamen and hand them over to the magistrate. I just forgot that there's something going on in the store, and I have to go back and deal with it. ”
Wu Ping couldn't help but glance around in fear as a result of the heavy bag, and then lowered his voice and asked nervously:
"Senior brother, so much silver, you will let me bring it alone?"
"Senior brother believes in you!" Jiang Yuan didn't have time to pay attention to whether the silver was safe, and now he had to pay attention to more important issues, "Go ahead, go ahead!"
After driving Wu Ping away, Jiang Yuan returned to the shop again, grabbed the turtle shell and looked at it carefully for a while.
Then he called the shopkeeper to go to the warehouse with him, and then found all the keels that recorded this ancient script.
There are a lot of such keels in the warehouse, at least hundreds of them.
Jiang Yuan picked out the bones with ancient witch scripts from them, and then spread them neatly on the ground, sitting among them and staring at them.
The information contained in these texts is mixed and scattered.
There are records of important events, there are records of magic experience, there are records of history, and there are records of scenery and humanities......
Jiang Yuan was like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle, concentrating the useful bones, identifying them, and then piecing them together.
What he needed most was additional information about the mutilation on the tortoise shell.
After continuous screening and patchwork, Jiang Yuan really found a few bones that were coherent with the witchcraft content on the turtle shell.
He hurriedly connected the information together and looked at it, and this part of the witchcraft was really put together.
Jiang Yuan hurriedly browsed through the information above, and finally figured out this witchcraft called "Soul Ascension".
The soul is a very mysterious thing, it is not inherently existent, but born from heaven and earth.
According to this description of witchcraft, the union of heaven and earth gives birth to all living beings, and the union of yin and yang gives birth to all living things.
The intersection of heaven and earth gave birth to the Protoss and all kinds of powerful beings, and their souls were also born in this process.
And the human race is a special race, not born, but later created by the god race.
At first, Nuwa created a human being, first imitating the appearance of the gods and the body of a spirit beast to create a exorcist shell, and such a exorcism shell was like a puppet, without spiritual intelligence.
Then Nuwa took the souls of various spirit beasts in heaven and earth, cut them together, created a new kind of soul, and injected it into the shell of people, and people began to have spiritual wisdom.
But at this time, people do not have a true soul.
Whether it is the Protoss, the ancient powerful beings, or the Human Race, only through the combination of yin and yang will new souls be born.
Over the years, people multiplied, and those pieces of soul that were put together gradually merged steadily, and finally became a unique soul.
The soul can be regarded as the best tonic in this world, and the human soul is undoubtedly an excellent tonic because it combines the characteristics of various creatures in ancient times.
Gods and demons are able to plunder and nourish through special methods, such as relying on sacrificial grounds to harvest living souls.
And the witch who created "Soul Ascension" in the first place also tried to make people have the means to plunder others and nourish themselves in this way.
According to the theory of "Soul Ascension", the intersection of yin and yang can give birth to a soul, and in the same process, you can strengthen your soul by replenishing the other party.
For people, in this process of the intersection of yin and yang, it is the time when the door of the soul is opened, and this process only needs to be used according to special means to plunder the soul of the other party to nourish themselves.
Relying on this method, the Terrans were able to continuously grow their souls, and even theoretically speaking, they could eventually be compared to the Protoss.
Jiang Yuan looked at this witchcraft that shook the past and the present, and couldn't help but find something interesting in it.
When he was in Pengcheng, Lu Junsheng had told himself that the soul of the human race was made up of fragments of the souls of the ancient races, and although it had been completely fused, there were still unique marks of each race that would not dissolve. By activating these sigils, one can gradually gain the power of the ancient beings.
And then Lu Junsheng also set out to find such a method, and I don't know if he found it.
And at this time, in this "Soul Ascension Technique", there is also a trick that is similar to Lu Junsheng's method.
Through replenishment, after the human soul grows, the imprints of some ancient creatures will also be stimulated.
These imprints are called "aggregates" in the Soul Ascension Technique, and the strongest imprints left in a person's soul can be called the person's main aggregates.
The ability to explore aggregates will be correspondingly enhanced.
"Is this a disguised way to force me to go to bed with a girl?"
Jiang Yuansen smiled:
"After the replenishment, the subject of the replenishment will lose his sanity at least and die at the worst, which is really an extremely evil witchcraft!"