Most Qimen practitioners are accustomed to bartering, so the value of these finished talismans is not easy to estimate.
Of course, the so-called worthless is only from the perspective of Qimen practitioners, but in the secular world, as long as you find some wealthy people with specific needs, commonly used low-level talismans like exorcism talismans can be sold for tens of thousands each.
Hundreds of thousands is still no problem.
Li Mengnan put the dozen or so talismans close to his body - such a priceless thing, he decided to keep it for his own use. Anyway, he was not short of money for the time being.
Compared with those winding ghost symbols, the other brands made of different materials are much easier to recognize.
This thing is called the Spirit Sealing Tablet, which is specially used by the Yuling lineage to seal the incorporeal demonic spirits they have conquered.
According to the different levels of the internal sealed demon spirits, the sealing tablets are also made of many different materials. Generally, bamboo is the lowest level, followed by gold and stone, and jade is the highest.
Li Mengnan picked up the two bamboo sealing tablets one by one, with "Red Ghost" and "Hei Sha" written on them with flying phoenixes in writing between them.
These are not the names or code names of the two Japanese imperial spirit envoys, but the types of demon spirits sealed in the spirit-sealing tablets.
Except for those unique demon spirits, ordinary demon spirits are generally not given individual names, and are basically referred to by the name of the group.
"Red Ghost" and "Heisha" are relatively common low-level monsters in Japan. According to folklore, there are two types of monsters that often appear in the mountains and forests. One has red skin and is extremely powerful, while the other is pitch black and has sharp claws.
According to the current unified ranking method in the world, the initial strength of these two demon spirits is probably in the lower E-level, and they can easily defeat five or six strong human beings holding cold weapons.
If Li Mengnan hadn't used a trick to kill the two Japanese guardian spirits instantly, if they had found an opportunity to release the two guardian spirits, he would probably have to go through a lot of trouble even if he could kill them.
This kind of bamboo sealing tablet is not valuable. After all, it is essentially an ordinary piece of bamboo. At most, it is of slightly better quality.
But the sealed demon spirits are good things. Not only can they be sold to the Qimen practitioners of the Yuling lineage to be re-tamed into guardian spirits, they can also be sold to sects that are good at making such as talismans, alchemy cauldrons, and weapon refining, and can be refined into
Various equipment specially designed for Qimen practitioners.
Although the last jade sealing tablet has no words engraved on it, even if you think about it with your toes, you can imagine that what is sealed inside must be the target this time - the white-clothed Suzuyan Ji.
The Yuling lineage is good at domesticating and nurturing demon spirits, but the sealing and unsealing of demon spirits is not an undisclosed secret. It is like equestrian sports. If you don't know how to raise a horse, it doesn't mean you don't know how to ride a horse.
The trading of demon spirits is very common among Qimen. Many female Qimen practitioners like to buy a cultivated demon spirit as their own guardian spirit.
Although it takes a certain amount of mental energy to feed these guardian spirits every day, their existence can well make up for the lack of close combat capabilities of female Qimen practitioners.
Of course, except for some female men.
And there is an unconfirmed theory that the method of using the Spirit-Sealing Card was actually spread intentionally by the ancestors of the Yuling lineage, in order to let Qimen practitioners from other sects contribute their efforts to help them in the Yuling lineage.
To hunt more and more powerful demon spirits.
No matter whether the authenticity of this rumor has been confirmed or not, it at least shows that the Spirit-Sealing Tablet has never been a high-tech rarity among Qimen practitioners.
Li Mengnan held up the jade tablet with three fingers and placed it directly between his eyebrows - Generally speaking, using the sealing tablet to release the demon spirits inside requires chanting a spell, but the chanting itself actually only uses specific syllables to assist in adjusting oneself.
The frequency of brain waves, as the illusionist who is best at micro-manipulation of brain waves, Li Mengnan can completely ignore the step of chanting incantations, which seems to be a high level to the layman, but is completely a rookie behavior to the insiders.
Of course, just because you don't need to recite a spell doesn't mean you can cast it instantly. Adjusting the brain wave frequency is a delicate job and it takes some time anyway.
"untie!"
About a few breaths later, as Li Mengnan groaned, the scenery in the room suddenly appeared slightly distorted. The lamp on the desk also flickered on and off, and a faint white light that was not very obvious flew from the jade plaque.
It came out and fell to the ground, gradually revealing a rough human shape.
As soon as this humanoid got free, he subconsciously jumped out of the window and fled. Li Mengnan had long been prepared for the demon spirit to escape. With a thought, the sealing formation engraved in the spirit sealing card instantly locked the demon spirit and stayed in the card.
A ray of remnant soul, the human figure seemed to have encountered some kind of invisible barrier, and was firmly trapped within a one-meter square area.
From the perspective of life, demon spirits can be regarded as a kind of creature. Even the lowest level demon spirits have their own wisdom, although sometimes this wisdom is more like instinct.
Realizing that he had been trapped by the formation of the Spirit Seal Tablet, the demon spirit gradually calmed down. At this moment, its body had completely appeared. Li Mengnan was finally lucky enough to see the legendary Suzuyan Ji in white.
"Isn't it? It turns out that this is how a demon spirit like Suzuhiko-hime looks like..."
At first sight, Li Mengnan was greatly disappointed.
He had only seen a description of a demon spirit native to the Japanese country, "Suzhiko-hime", in an ancient manuscript that was handed down from an unknown age. In his imagination, this was a very famous bewitching demon in Japanese mythology.
, it should be similar to the wandering girl in Ukiyo-e, wearing clogs, wearing a brightly patterned kimono, with bare shoulders, blurred eyes, reclining under a flower umbrella, smoking a pipe, and there should be a cigarette in the corner of the mouth.
The iconic beauty mark.
But in fact, what he saw in front of him at this moment was just a ten-year-old child with a height similar to that of a human being, wearing a simple and elegant white kimono with a cherry blossom pattern, long black hair with bangs, two golden bells tied at the end of his hair, and a white geisha mask.
weird little girl.
Damn it! Where is the lady with the snake face that we promised? This is the perfect rhythm for making a ghost movie! With such a flat figure, she can also dance without clothes? That great god Amaterasu from the Japanese country
The aesthetics are too weird, right?
Well, think about the traditional geisha dance of the Japanese country. It seems that it is not surprising that the legendary Suzuhiko-ji looks like this. Xue Baochai in "A Dream of Red Mansions" still has a "face like a silver basin". It can only be said that people and people, countries and countries.
The aesthetic gap between them is really too big...
The wisdom of a demon spirit often increases with the level, and has nothing to do with appearance. Even if it has the same appearance as a human being, a demon spirit like Suzuhiko-hime is actually a low-level demon spirit that relies on instinct to move.
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Feeling that the core of her soul was trapped in the spirit-sealing tablet, the white-clothed Suzuyanji immediately gave up her resistance and knelt down like a gentle Japanese girl to express her surrender to Li Mengnan.
Li Mengnan bit his fingertips and smeared a bloodstain on the forehead of Lin Yanji in white.
This is the last step in taming the guardian spirit. Through this drop of blood, the demon spirit's original mental fluctuations will change and become the same as the mental fluctuations of the messenger. In this way, the messenger can communicate with the demon spirit that becomes the guardian spirit through thinking.
Communicate barrier-free and purely consciously.
If it were an ordinary spirit master, after completing this step, it would be considered complete. From now on, he can use the spirit sealing card to travel around the world with the guardian spirit and slay demons and demons with the equipment B.
But for Li Mengnan, this is not the end yet, he can still go further.
Illusion Prison - Using the illusionist's naturally powerful mental power and the subtle control of his own mental power, he opens up a spiritual space in his mind similar to the inside of the spirit sealing tablet, to support those pure spirits that have been subdued as guardian spirits.
The demon spirit in physical condition.
In fact, the skill "Illusion Prison" is not a skill that every illusionist has mastered. It was actually created by Mr. Li, who raised Li Mengnan back then, after studying and summarizing the magic and spirit control skills, and practiced in Qimen.
Among them, Scorpion Baba is definitely the only one.
Of course, self-created skills sound very bluffing. In fact, since the skill "Phantom Prison" was created, it has always remained on paper and no one has ever used it.
If you think about it, you can understand that this skill is actually just transferring the demon spirit originally sealed in the Soul Sealing Card to the virtual mental space of your own brain, eliminating the trouble of carrying the Soul Sealing Card. Other than that, there is nothing more useful.
The additional effects are not much better than the tasteless ones.
However, in view of the special nature of Suzuyan Ji in White Clothes who cannot see light, Li Mengnan decided to use this skill that currently only exists in theory to seal Suzuyan Ji in White Clothes in his mind to prevent the Spirit Sealing Tablet from being accidentally lost and tracked by the enemy.
Follow the clues to find them, threatening the safety of your family.
Li Mengnan temporarily took back the white-clothed Suzuyan Ji's jade token, closed his eyes, and gradually let his thoughts sink into his subconscious.
The skill "Illusion Prison" is actually modified based on the "Dream Entering Technique". Except for the virtual soul locking array used to store the remnant souls of the guardian spirits, the rest is basically a reduced version of the dream space.
Therefore, for other Qimen professions, "Illusion Prison" is a skill that they cannot learn in their lifetime, but for illusionists, the difficulty is not much higher than using the Spirit Sealing Card directly.
Of course, there are certain differences between "phantom prison" and "dream entry".
The dreamland in the dreaming technique is an open space. The illusionist only needs to pay attention to the dream structure around the enemy's position at all times. Moreover, the memory of the enemy itself can also help the illusionist complete the dream structure in disguise.
The phantom prison requires the construction of a consciousness space that is completely closed and independent of one's own subconscious. This space does not need to be large, but it must be complete.
To put it simply, dreaming is like building a temporary set in a city. It looks grand, but in fact all you can really look at is the small area in front of you; while the phantom prison is like building a house, no matter how small it is.
Every detail must be taken care of.
Without a scene to construct, the deep subconscious was filled with chaotic darkness. After Li Mengnan stabilized his consciousness, he gave instructions to his subconscious to construct an independent and closed dream.
Unexpectedly, his own subconscious refused to execute the instruction that should have been without any difficulty.
How is this going?
Li Mengnan was a little confused. Suddenly he seemed to realize something and quickly issued another instruction to his subconscious. This time, in an instant, his consciousness actually appeared inside a huge, empty cube.
"As expected..."
Li Mengnan's guess was correct. Unlike open dreams, which are similar to closed dreams in a small world, only one can be generated in the same brain.
His creative instructions were rejected by his subconscious before because there was already such a closed dream space in his brain.
But at the same time, there is another question that puzzles Li Mengnan - the theory of closing the dream space is derived from the "Illusion Prison" skill, but he has clearly never used the "Illusion Prison" before
This skill does not even have the slightest impression of the existence of this closed dream space. So where did this closed dream space come from?
"What a ghost..."
Li Mengnan cursed as he quickly shuttled back and forth in this huge seemingly endless cube space - in the dream space he created, it is not difficult to achieve such super high speed.
Suddenly, roughly at the center of the bottom of the huge cube space, Li Mengnan unexpectedly discovered an inconspicuous little black spot.
With a thought in his mind, he moved over instantly.
When I walked in, I realized that it was not a small black dot, but a large iron cage about ten meters square. Through the two-finger-thick railing, I could vaguely see a long-haired girl sitting on the ground in the middle.
figure.
Li Mengnan was startled, then walked slowly to the iron cage, and after a moment of silence, he asked the long-haired girl in the cage: "Who are you? Why are you here?"
The long-haired girl slowly turned her head, and Li Mengnan couldn't help but be surprised by her almost perfect charming face.
"Xue Yue Ling Xin?!"
The appearance of this long-haired girl was exactly what he had seen in the depths of his subconscious before. It was said that he was the virtual consciousness created by himself - Xue Yue Lingxin!
"No...no! You can't be Xue Yue Lingxin! Who are you?"
As soon as Li Mengnan said the words, he immediately realized that Xue Yue Lingxin's virtual consciousness was guarding something for him in the depths of his subconscious mind, and this was just an independent closed consciousness space in the upper level of his subconscious mind. Xue Yue Lingxin should never appear here.
The virtual consciousness is like a robot that strictly follows the program. Without its own real emotions, it is impossible to take a long vacation just because it feels boring.
"Xue Yue Lingxin?" The long-haired girl slowly stood up and walked to the edge of the iron cage. With a mysterious smile, she looked at Li Mengnan through the railing, "Oh, I remembered, the one you created based on my appearance
Virtual consciousness, right? So you gave her a name, Xue Yue Lingxin, and it seems to feel pretty good..."
"What? I created Xue Yue Lingxin based on your appearance? No, how is this possible? She should be created based on the appearance of a real girl in reality. That girl also has a twin sister named Xue Yue Lingsha...
"
Li Mengnan felt more and more confused that his mind was a little confused. Judging from the tone of this long-haired girl, she obviously knew him, but every word that came out of this girl's mouth made him feel unbelievable.
"Wait, you haven't answered me yet - who are you? Why are you locked in my consciousness?"
The long-haired girl seemed a little surprised. She opened her beautiful eyes that were almost alluring, looked at Li Mengnan meaningfully, and said with a sad smile: "You are really heartless. In order to completely forget me, you actually put
My memory has been completely deleted...why are you afraid that one day you won’t be able to help but release me?”
Li Mengnan clearly heard something from the long-haired girl's words, and said unexpectedly: "You mean, you were imprisoned here by me?"
"To be precise, it's the past you... Without the memory of the past, you are no longer you to me." The long-haired girl smiled, with a hint of ridicule in her smile.
"Wait...what are you...?"
Li Mengnan suddenly realized that he had overlooked something very important.
Probably because she was so similar to Xue Yue Lingxin in his memory, he subconsciously regarded this long-haired girl as a person's consciousness, but he almost forgot that human consciousness cannot exist independently of the body for a long time.
And the consciousness of this long-haired girl has obviously been locked up here for a long time.
The only explanation is that this long-haired girl is not a human originally, but a spiritual demon spirit like the white-clothed Suzuhiko-hime!
"Oh? Have you finally noticed? By the way, this is the second time I've seen you show such a surprised expression, but at that time, there was no such a cold iron cage between you and me..."
The long-haired girl seemed to want to reach out and touch Li Mengnan's face, but Li Mengnan quickly stepped back a few steps reflexively. The long-haired girl smiled self-deprecatingly and slowly withdrew her hand.
"You can have the same intelligence as humans, so you are definitely not a low-level demon spirit... What is your true identity?"
Although the long-haired girl's reaction seemed to show her true feelings, Li Mengnan couldn't believe her. High-level demon spirits are just as cunning as humans, and they can also lie and deceive others.
"If you want to know what my real body is, won't you know it if you let me out?" The long-haired girl smiled, walked back to the center of the iron cage, sat on the ground holding her knees, only revealing a pair of big eyes through her forehead.
He looked at Li Mengnan with his hair and murmured: "I still like the you before. At that time, your eyes were as pure as two crystals. I could see your heart through them, but now I can only see
I feel deeply suspicious and wary, just like those people who once shouted at me and killed me without asking why..."
Li Mengnan calmly felt it. He could not receive the consciousness from the long-haired girl in the iron cage at all, and he could not transmit his own consciousness to it. This meant that the long-haired girl was simply sealed here.
, and was not subdued as a guardian spirit by his former self.