Chapter 33: The Secret of the Strange Gate
In addition to eating, sleeping, practicing boxing and practicing martial arts these days, Xie Jun is basically reading books and reading the secret books of his own door, and his current state is that he ignores what is going on outside the window, and only reads the books of sages. Xie Jun seemed to have fallen into the ocean of knowledge, with his extraordinary memory and logical ability, coupled with the careful teaching of his master, in just a few days, Xie Jun had a relatively comprehensive understanding of the secret art of Qimen.
Qimen contains almost everything from the universe to mustard seeds, but according to their effects and purposes, they can be roughly divided into four categories.
One is the exercises, the exercises are used to cultivate themselves, including the cultivation of physical and mental power, and their inheritance is basically from the Taoist art of qi conduction and exhalation, and then the health qigong and exercise exercises of the doctors are also included in it, and later by the Taoist elite continue to innovate, it is more lush and varied, but its essence is still the same, that is, the practice of the body and the refining of the gods, the so-called surname and life double cultivation.
Theoretically, the qigong of practicing the body can really form the legendary internal qi, and it is difficult to say whether it can fly to the sky and escape as described in martial arts novels, but it is certain that the body can be strengthened and prolonged life, and the exercises of refining the gods are said to be able to form the original god, and the ability of the original god belongs to the supernatural level, and it is really hard to say whether it is true or not. However, listening to the master, these are all legendary things, and if you want to reach this level, you may not only need chance but also time, but people's life span is too short to practice that step.
As for the technical attack martial arts, they are just small skills at the end, which belong to the trail, and there are so many types that I won't count them one by one.
The second category is charms, which are mainly inherited from the Shangqing secret urns in the Three Qing Dynasty, and the charm is the study of practical spiritual power application methods, which is a major part of Qimen's manifestation in the world.
The rune is composed of three parts: runes, runes, and spells, the runes are the basis of the runes, it is a kind of magical graphics that can produce a spiritual force field, and the role of the runes is like the role of Chinese characters in Chinese, and the runes are commonly used in the system and the making of talismans.
The so-called magic weapon is actually the use of some special substrate and runes to form a spiritual power resonance cavity, and then the user launches the spiritual force to start the resonance to form a spiritual force field, and uses the effect of the spiritual force field to achieve practical purposes, and its strength depends on the quality of the substrate and the level of the spiritual power of the initiator.
The rune etching forms the prototype of the ritual on the substrate, which is actually a resonance cavity formed by the texture and the substrate, and the size of its form is strictly regulated, and a little mistake will cause the ritual to fail or fail. Therefore, the success rate of the instrument is very low, and the matrix of the failure of the tool has no longer met the requirements due to the size, and at the same time lost its value, in the late Tang Dynasty, due to the combination of Qimen Dunjia research and runes, the concept of 'array' appeared, and a new method of making the instrument was formed, and the success rate of the instrument was slightly improved.
The talisman is to make the talisman, and the talisman is made on a special paper substrate on the rune, the paper talisman can only be used once due to the substrate, after the resonance cavity on the paper talisman is stimulated, the powerful spiritual force field will burn the paper talisman, not to ignite the paper talisman to play the role of the paper talisman.
The reason why the runes are listed separately from the maker is entirely because the runes are actually some special runes, which are themselves resonant cavities and do not need to cooperate with the substrate, and these kinds of runes are closed shapes formed by some extremely complex patterns or strange fonts. Using animal blood and cinnabar and other living materials with a high degree of compatibility with spiritual power as a medium, painted on special paper to form a talisman, different animal blood and minerals will have an impact on the effect of the talisman, in fact, using the user's own blood to make talisman is the best, better than the legendary black dog blood. The production of the talisman is much simpler than that of the magic weapon, mainly because the fault tolerance of the talisman is much greater, and a few errors will reduce the effect of the talisman at most, but it will not make the talisman invalid, so the talisman has become the mainstream prop of Qimen Shushu.
The curse is a switch that activates the resonance of spiritual power and runes, and the form of the curse can be a spell, or it can be any form of spell defined by itself, and its essence is to form an inherent pattern in the mind, like a label, when it is necessary to activate a certain spiritual power resonance, it can immediately outline the corresponding mental power texture in the mind, which requires a developed brain as the foundation. In order to distinguish different forms of spiritual power resonance, as well as to speed up the outline of the texture of spiritual power, you can fix a concrete image in your mind, this concrete image can be an object, or a figure or an image, corresponding to the function of the rune rune, this image is implicitly called 'god', so in the "Shangqing Zheng" each rune corresponds to a main god, and each main god has a functional surname, which is actually the application form of metaphorical spelling.
There are many forms of spells, and spells are even more varied, theoretically, spells can be completely individualized, that is to say, everyone's spells can be different, provided that you have a standard spell that can be used, and then you try to activate it, and when you find the most suitable spell for you to activate it, then this spell can be used as your exclusive spell. Of course, our ancestors also gave some of the most suitable spells for each type of talisman, and due to regional and dialect issues, this general spell was written in a special arcane script, which was a number of literal letters, only the pronunciation did not make sense.
The number of spells is launched in the order of spell forbidden, concrete, mental power fluctuations, and runes, in fact, all the spiritual skills that can have practical significance, almost all of them are launched in this form, which is actually the same thing as the magic spell and magic array in Western legends, but the way of expression is different, and the use of such a term as 'main god' in Qimen is actually to increase the sense of mystery, of course, there is also the meaning of intellectual property confidentiality.
The third category is Qimen Dunjia, countless classics in this category are from "Qimen Dunjia", mainly including three styles (Taiyi, Liuren, Qimen), and later integrated "Yili", "Dunjia Shenshu" and so on, forming a calculation-based, including Feng Shui, Kanyu, numerology, physiognomy and other branches, in which the Qimen pattern is combined with runes, forming ' Array', the eighteen main patterns of Qimen Dunjia are matched with various runes, plus changes and evolution, forming a vast system of magic circles, in fact, throughout the ages, no one dares to say that they have completely mastered the magic circle. And the magic circle system has also become the essence of Qimen's secret arts, the real tools are actually completed using the magic circle and the matrix, the simple use of runes and substrates belongs to the most basic magic weapons, only the most basic functions, and belongs to the entry-level magic weapons.
Another application of the magic circle is the Feng Shui Bureau, the use of magic weapons and pattern combination, the formation of a large magic circle, the power of this magic circle is said to be very amazing, but because the magic weapon is difficult to make, plus the pattern is changing, the two are very difficult things together, except for a very few geniuses, basically can not find many people who can set up the array, so in the world, large feng shui pattern is extremely rare, but it is not unseen, according to the master, in some famous places and key points in China, you can still see the magic of the large magic circle。
There is another important difference between the magic circle and the rune and the rune, the rune and the rune are the application of the pure spiritual force field, basically can not directly change the environmental field, while the magic circle can directly effect on both the spiritual force field and the environmental field, and can even form a mixed magic circle where the two fields are cause and effect of each other.
There are the most people in Qimen who learn Qimen Dunjia, because this is a very practical business, and if you learn well, you can soar with this, and if you don't learn well, you can also rely on these bastards to eat, and even the guys in the next three doors will also learn some of the fur of Qimen Dunjia. How rich and joyful the world is, Qimen Dunjia is good at seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune, and it is naturally easy for the people to accept, in the eyes of the common people, Taoism seems to be Qimen Dunjia, ghost hunting, fortune telling, blessing and wealth are not all done by Taoist priests?
Xie Jun's master Gu Yuanzhi is also a supporter of Qimen Dunjia, and he specializes in measurement and physiognomy, with Xie Jun's understanding of these words, the master's calculation ability is very strong, and the deduction pattern is even more of a master, but it is a little strange that the master is so embarrassed, every time Xie Jun knocks on the side Gu Yuanzhi laughs and is silent, there must be some story in this.
Thinking about the history of those who measured celebrities, it seems that they have all been poor all their lives, and there may be some inevitable cause and effect relationship in this, but Xie Jun did not plan to delve into the knowledge of this aspect, so he did not continue to pay attention to this mysterious cause and effect relationship, of course, he still maintained a certain curiosity about the secret of the master.
The fourth category of Qimen, and the last category is miscellaneous, in fact, the things that fall into this category are really miscellaneous, such as "The Secret Art of Mind Reading" is actually psychology and behavioral psychology, and it has changed to a more mysterious name, similar to "Danshu" is actually chemistry and metallurgy, "Beast Control" is actually breeding and veterinary medicine, "Surgery in the Room", which needless to say everyone understands, as well as blindfolding, alchemy, architecture, Mechanism techniques and so on, but this kind of classic master didn't have much collection there, just gave a catalog, and asked Xie Jun to find it on the Internet by himself, and this kind of thing is generally not kept secret.
Every time Xie Jun admires and sighs, he will have a high mountain admiration for the predecessors who discovered and created these secret techniques, what kind of genius can create such a magical knowledge system!
Whenever I talk about this, the master sighs, Qimen secret art is thousands of years of Qimen countless elites, generation after generation accumulated and inherited treasures, but unfortunately, to this day, Qimen people have degenerated, unwilling to study the secret art well, but eager for success and impetuousness, so that there are more liars in Qimen than the next three doors, I am afraid that I will lose a treasure in China again.