Volume 1: The Empire in the Morning Chapter 171: Using the Tao of Talisman
The black carriage driving on the official road was going very fast, and the spring trees and green fields outside the window were about to be pulled into pure green blocks. Ning Que looked at the scenery outside the window, and his mood was a little complicated. He had just seen the proud geese on the mountain behind the academy, and was surprised.
As a person, in the blink of an eye, a new and mysterious world is about to open for me, and it feels really dizzying.
Regarding the most mysterious talisman in the legend, Ning Que didn't know much about it other than watching an old Taoist perform a magic trick and burn a talisman outside a Taoist temple in Chang'an City. But sitting in this car made of fine steel, it should have been...
In the extremely heavy carriage, he vaguely felt that he was already in the world of Fu Dao - no matter how fast the carriage traveled, the people in the carriage could not feel the slightest bump, and the lone horse in front of the soft rope could not feel the slightest bump.
The lonely horse doesn't know how it can carry so much weight.
Yan Se looked at the expression on his face and said, "You seem to be thinking about something."
Ning Que turned his head and looked at the dirty old Taoist priest. After hesitating for a moment, he asked: "I'm wondering what kind of talisman is engraved on this carriage. It can actually reduce the weight. It's like magic.
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He did not ask if there were talismans engraved on the carriage, but directly asked what talisman was engraved on it. This answer satisfied Master Yanse, but the last word made him extremely unhappy. He frowned and said: "The Tao of Talisman is
What does Fu Dao have to do with the Demon Sect?"
Ning Que just subconsciously classified this miraculous method that was beyond daily experience as magic, and had no idea how harsh this magic word would be for those enshrined at the south gate of Haotian Dao.
The soft and joyful sound of hooves gradually slowed down, and the black carriage made of fine steel stopped on the official road in the southern suburbs of Chang'an City. Master Yan Se took Ning Que out of the carriage. He glanced at the people beside the official road not far away.
Leaving the pavilion and the few thin poplar trees outside the pavilion, he turned around and said to Ning Que: "Since you know that the talisman is engraved on the car, try to feel it."
Ning Que was slightly startled. He followed the instructions and walked to the carriage and looked at the black carriage board seriously. He looked very carefully and confirmed that the carriage board was indeed made of fine steel, and the complicated patterns were deeply carved by some kind of sharp blade.
It is inserted into the steel and then coated with a light-glossy exterior paint, making it look extraordinarily beautiful, beautiful yet a bit mysterious.
Those patterns were too complicated, so complicated that they even violated the principles of aesthetics. He looked at them for a long time without seeing anything strange, and gradually came to a judgment in his heart: the talisman patterns that really work should not be so complicated.
The complicated lines that look like branches and vines may be used to cover up the real runes.
He had read several books on talismans in his hometown, but those books were only introductions and did not have any objective understanding of the talisman patterns themselves. To find the truly effective talisman patterns from such complicated patterns, it was basically
It's an impossible task.
But since Master Yan Se wants him to experience it, it must be a kind of assessment.
After pondering for a moment, he slowly closed his eyes, raised his arm and gently brushed the talismans that were deeply embedded in the steel with his fingertips.
Suddenly his brows wrinkled.
When he opened his eyes to look at it before, there was nothing strange about the complicated patterns on the carriage board. Now when he closed his eyes and used his mind to control the energy of heaven and earth to perceive, he found that there was a vague extra layer on his fingertips -
-The layer is very thin, like an invisible film between the finger and the car board.
After thinking about it for a moment, the thin film I felt disappeared instantly.
Ning Que was silent for a moment, entered the state of meditation he was best at, and began to use his mind power to sense the subtlest changes in the vitality of the world. Sure enough, the invisible film appeared again between his fingers and the carriage board. This time he was more prepared.
, the perception is more delicate, and I can clearly feel that the film is flowing slowly.
Master Yan Se's voice rang in his ears: "What do you feel?"
Ning Que felt it seriously, and after a long silence, he answered seriously: "The very light flow of heaven and earth energy."
Master Yanse continued to ask: "What kind of flow is it? What does it look like?"
Ning Que calmly replied: "It's like water, but lighter than water... it's more empty, more like wind, but it can't be wind."
Master Yan Se looked at Ning Que beside the carriage, frowned slowly, and asked, "Why can't it be the wind?"
Ning Que was silent for a moment and then replied: "Because... the vitality flowing on the runes is too regular, as if it is following a certain established route, as if it is within a complete system, and the wind is the flow of air
, it shouldn’t be so regular.”
Master Yan Se's frowning eyebrows gradually relaxed, and he looked at Ning Que's back, his eyes filled with bright luster, seeming to praise and marvel at the same time, because Ning Que's performance at this moment was far beyond the mark.
beyond his best imagination.
Ning Que left the carriage with his fingers. He looked back at Yan Se and said unconfidently: "Master, I'm just talking nonsense based on my feelings."
"Feeling is the most important qualification for practicing Talisman Dao."
Master Yan Se gently stroked the thin beard on his chin, looked at him lovingly, and laughed hoarsely and weirdly, like an old farmer digging a cellar in his backyard and digging out antiques: "You are very sensitive, more so than me."
To be more sensitive, I love that.”
Ning Que didn't know how to answer.
"The flow of the vitality of heaven and earth you feel is the smell of wind, because what I painted on the carriage is a wind talisman."
Master Yan Se looked at him and said: "As for why the wind follows the established route and why it is so regular, in your words... within a complete system. The reason is very simple, because the talisman determines the direction for it."
"follow me."
Master Yan Se flicked his Taoist sleeves, put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards the poplar tree of Li Pavilion beside the road.
Ning Que walked to the horse in front of the carriage, looked at its big black eyes and said with a smile: "You must be the most comfortable horse in the world."
The horse snorted gently, lowered its head and chewed the hay in the bag, expressing its silent approval of this statement.
Ning Que looked at Master Yan Se's back, quickened his pace and followed him.
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Master Yan Se was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the pavilion. A small charcoal stove and a tea set appeared beside him. Ning Que walked into the pavilion and saw the master preparing to cook tea with his own hands. He quickly stepped forward and grabbed the job. Although that day
It was this Talisman Master who was crying and shouting that he wanted to accept him as his disciple, but he would never be so arrogant that he would miss this opportunity to serve his teacher and please him.
As the water boiled and the aroma of the tea began to rise, Master Yan Se looked at Ning Que who was quietly serving the tea, nodded appreciatively, tapped his index finger on the tea tray, motioning for him to sit down, and said: "There are many ways to practice, there are so-called swordsmanship, physical skills, formations, like
Our ability to draw talismans is generally called talisman skills, but we don’t call it that ourselves, we call it talismans."
Ning Que respectfully placed the tea cup in front of the master, sat upright and listened carefully.
Master Yan Se picked up the teacup, took a sip, and asked, "Do you know what Fu Dao means?"
Ning Que pondered for a moment and then asked tentatively: "Use a talisman to enter the Tao?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Master Yan Se laughed out loud, looked at him and shook his head again and again, and said: "Everyone wants to seek the Tao and enter the Tao, enter the Tao with the sword, kill with the Tao, and enter the Tao with the love. Even the Xiling Temple cannot escape from this kind of thinking mode, let alone
Is it you? What about the great road of the earthly ant kingdom? The supreme road is illusory, how can you find it? The meaning of the word "Fu Dao" is actually very simple, that is, it is the Tao of Fu."
By means of Fu Dao? Ning Que wondered what this meant, but couldn't figure it out.
"What is a talisman? A talisman is a pattern, a line, or a trace."
Master Yan Se gradually lost his smile, looked at him seriously and said: "The tracks of snakes crawling across the sand are talismans, the veins among the dead leaves are talismans, the ruts left on the muddy road are talismans, and the blood vessels in the beast's body are talismans.
, the trajectory of the water flowing is a talisman, the flow marks blown by the wind are talismans, the cracks in the earth are talismans, and the clouds in the blue sky are also talismans."
Extremely simple words and extremely clear explanation. Ning Que was shocked and speechless after hearing this. He was speechless for a long time. According to Master Yan Se, all traces in the world are talismans. This concept has completely exceeded his realm of thinking!
After being silent for a long time, he asked in confusion: "Master, is it possible to simulate all traces in nature by painting symbols?"
Master Yan Se was stunned for a moment, looked at him funny and said, "That's a painter, not a talisman master."
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A few green leaves were blown off the branches by the wind beside the official road. Before they could fall into the slightly humid fields, they were picked up by a gust of wind and floated gently to the top of the pavilion, falling on those dimmed by the rain.
There were several soft snapping sounds on the tiles.
"The blood vessels in the beasts' bodies are talismans, and this talisman can only maintain their survival; the traces of water flow are talismans, and this talisman can only allow them to move from high to low according to Haotian's will; the veins among the dead leaves are talismans
, this talisman can only allow them to pour the nutrients and water absorbed by the roots into the leaves as they have done for hundreds of millions of years."
Master Yan Se said calmly: "These talismans are all natural talismans. They are born in nature, wither in nature, and coexist with the vitality of heaven and earth, just like the reason why each of us lives in this world."
"However, whether human beings practice or study the Tao of Talisman, they have gone beyond the original mission of humans in the world, that is to say, beyond the needs of survival. Therefore, the Tao of Talisman in the true sense must originate from nature, but must be higher than nature."
Ning Que listened silently, vaguely feeling that although the master's words were about Fu Tao, it contained many great truths.
Master Yan Se drank the remaining tea in the cup, looked at him and continued: "The talisman that comes from nature but is higher than nature must go through several processes: copying, understanding, induction, simplification, purification, and giving it meaning. The so-called talisman,
These are the traces of lines that humans have learned from the talismans of nature and extracted their essence for countless years.”
Ning Que filled the tea cup for the master, sat back and asked, "Then what is Tao?"
"The Tao is knowing."
"Let who knows?"
"Let the vitality of heaven and earth know."
Ning Que was stunned and asked in confusion: "What does the vitality of heaven and earth know?"
Master Yan Se looked at him with a smile and said, "Let the vitality of heaven and earth know what we want to do?"
"All methods of human cultivation are inseparable from controlling the vitality of heaven and earth. Swordsmanship uses telepathy to control the vitality of heaven and earth and remotely control flying swords. After all, it is too indirect. Although telepathy masters directly control the vitality of heaven and earth to attack the enemy, it is too simple after all and can only attack the opponent's sea of consciousness.
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"Only Fu Dao is between the two, but its realm is higher than the two, because the ultimate goal pursued by Fu Dao is to tell the vitality of heaven and earth what you want to do, and then the vitality of heaven and earth will help you do it."
"The vitality of heaven and earth has no eyes or ears. It will never know what weird thoughts you have in the sea of consciousness. It is even less likely to know that you want to condense rainwater into thousands of sharp invisible knives. So how can you make it
Do you know what you mean?"
"The talisman is the bridge between human thoughts and the vitality of heaven and earth. The talisman uses the power of mind to condense the vitality of heaven and earth into these line traces. Once activated, it reacts with the vitality of the surrounding heaven and earth, and can cause the wind to rise, the water to move, the clouds to rise and disappear.
The sky is dry and everything is dry.”
Ning Que vaguely grasped the key to the problem.
Master Yan Se looked at the expression on his face and asked, "You seem to understand something."
"I once heard a friend say that the air and sea of snow-capped mountains in the human body is like a musical instrument, and the power of thought is the air. Only by blowing into the instrument can it become beautiful music, and only then can the vitality of heaven and earth be heard and resonate with it."
Ning Que looked at Master Yan Se and said: "Listening to Master's previous explanation, I feel that since Fu Dao uses runes to tell the vitality of the world what it wants to do, can it be said that the runes are equivalent to the sea of Qi and snowy mountains in our bodies?"
"That friend of yours has a very high level and his words are very wonderful."
Master Yan Se looked at him with a smile and said: "Of course you are teachable. There are too few apertures in your body to connect the snow mountain energy to the sea. It is very troublesome to practice swordsmanship or anything else. But Talisman Dao is different. As long as you can sense the vitality of heaven and earth, you can
If you notice the subtle differences between them, describe them in runes and then resonate with them, you will be successful."
Ning Que was puzzled and asked: "Since Talisman Masters have been learning to record the natural Talisman for thousands of years, aren't there any ready-made runes? If there are current runes, wouldn't it be possible to cultivate the Talisman without sensing the fluctuations of the heaven and earth's vitality?
road?"
Master Yan Se laughed, stroked his beard and asked, "Are there two identical leaves in the world?"
Ning Que thought to himself that if you were asking about eggs, I would really doubt whether he was Da Vinci, so he replied: "No."
"Is it possible that there are two identical people in the world?"
"Of course it's impossible."
"In this case, you can't be me, and your telepathy can't be the same as mine, so why write the exact same talisman so that the energy of heaven and earth can know that it means the same thing?"
Ning Que didn't understand at all.
Master Yan Se looked at him and said calmly: "For Talisman Masters, our mental power is like countless different words, and the so-called Talisman is the combination of these words. The problem is that I am from Chang'an who speaks Mandarin, and you are
For the Nanhai people who speak Horus, we put our respective words into the same combination, so it is absolutely impossible for it to be the same article."
"There may be only dozens of languages in the world, but the thought power of each Talisman Master is a completely different language. I made a poem of four or six great poems, and the energy of heaven and earth can hear the impassioned words in it. You can also make one
Forty-six great poems, but I feel at a loss when reading the scroll of the vitality of heaven and earth, wondering why this guy doesn’t have a preface and a follow-up, what on earth do he want to say?"
Ning Que understood and bowed deeply to Master Yan Se, expressing his gratitude.
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(My previous novels have settings, but the world view is very rough. I can hide if I can. I haven't avoided this book from the beginning. I think this approach is really courageous and fierce.
, and I firmly believe that this false world can justify itself.
Just like today's chapter, it may seem to you that it is only 4,000 words, but these 4,000 words are much more difficult to write than the 10,000 words when mountain climbing. I am proud of myself after I wrote it.
I know many people don’t like to see me being narcissistic and wordy, but don’t look at it because I can’t suppress my pride. Except for a few days of self-doubt every month, most of the time in my life, I
I have always felt that I am very good at writing novels and stories, but I don’t like being a pearl in the dark. Since I am such a bright, big white pig, I’m afraid that you won’t be able to see my whiteness and my fatness, and I’m afraid that you won’t be able to see me.
So good, that’s why I can’t help but pop up from time to time to remind you of my greatness.
Finally, I want to flatter you. You like to read the novels and stories I wrote, which shows that your appreciation ability is also amazing. Good night.)