Kunlun one millet

Chapter 39

When Zhao Mi was chatting and laughing with a group of soldiers, the sky was getting dark, and the patrolling guards in the distance shouted. Zhao Mi hurried to check, and saw brilliance flying and flickering over the northern mountain forest.

"What's going on?" A soldier asked nervously.

Zhao Mi used the Yingxuan lighting technique, but the distance was too far, so he couldn't see the specific situation clearly, so he had to explain according to the book: "The light at night may be the ghosts in the mountains swallowing the sun's essence and the moon, or it may be the A sign of the rare treasures of the cave."

The soldier picked up his weapon: "Shall we go over there?"

"No." Zhao Mi stopped and said, "It's getting late, and it's too dangerous to enter the mountain at this time. It may be that the evil spirits are showing their lights and shadows to lure us. Don't worry about it, everyone, keep the camp tonight and wait for tomorrow's sunrise."

In the past, Zhao Mi might have really thought that the fairy family's cave was alive, and he had already picked up the bamboo bag to join in the fun.But now that the evil spirits in Xingluo County are mobilizing, and Zhao Mi is still leading hundreds of soldiers, it is impossible to take risks indiscriminately.

Taking advantage of the afterglow of the sunset, Zhao Mi planted spells and set up restrictions all over the camp to prevent evil spirits from attacking the camp at night.In addition, each soldier must drink a bowl of cursed water enlightened by the Great Zhu of Conquering Evil, so as to prevent the ghost from instigating the nightmare.

After arranging these things, Zhao Mi came to the fire, and as usual for the past few days, borrowed a ring-headed straight knife from a soldier, and began to sacrifice the weapon.

A few days ago, Zhao Mi and the soldiers encountered a group of earth ghosts hiding in the thick fog in the ruins of the countryside. This kind of ghosts, born from the corpse's old aura and the earth evil, did not have much high-level mana. Flying bricks and tiles.

However, the shapes of these earth ghosts can be fictitious or real, and the swords, guns and arrows in the hands of soldiers are difficult to cause effective damage, so it is still necessary to rely on Zhao Mi's spells to disperse the ghosts.

From this, Zhao Mi discovered that even some ordinary spirits and ghosts, if there is no corresponding means, it is often difficult for ordinary people to deal with them.And ordinary soldiers, even if they have a bit of bravery and martial arts, know little about goblins and ghosts, and they will inevitably shrink back if they don't see blood or injuries when they cut with swords and swords.

After all, not everyone can be like Luo Xixian, who can pass through ghosts and gods with sword energy.And no matter how many spells Zhao Mi forges, they are at most for self-defense of ordinary soldiers, and it is impossible for them to fight with goblins and ghosts.

But since talismans can be used to bless armor, why can't they be used to bless weapons and blades?

In fact, Xiongguo has mastered similar techniques, but it is usually for the monks to spread their energy before the battle, so that the weapons in the hands of many soldiers are sharper, and the arrows fly farther and more accurately.But this kind of technique relies on advanced cultivation, and today's Zhao Mi can't learn it at all.

Moreover, this method of distributing qi on ordinary armor cannot be maintained for a long time, just like the golden armor talisman refined by Zhao Mi, it would be good if it can last half a day.

As for the magic weapon with complete spirit, it takes time to refine it.Ordinary soldiers don't have mana and true energy to stimulate, and they can't use the magical effects of magic, so naturally they are not within the scope of consideration.

After several trials these days, Zhao Mi finally chose to engrave talisman seals on the weapon and fill it with cinnabar.The cinnabar was also refined by igniting in a pill furnace, and mixed with other materials to make a paste.

After finishing the processing, Zhao Shu handed the blade to the fire and lightly lit it. At the same time, he chanted a mantra to draw a ray of fire into the blade. The red light of the cinnabar talisman could be seen with the naked eye, overflowing the entire handle of the straight knife. , You can still feel a little warmth when you hold it.

"It's been refined again."

Zhao Mi stood up and looked at the straight knife around the head, and waved it casually a few times with great interest, but unfortunately he didn't know martial arts and almost scratched himself.

"Carving the talisman seal on the sword, did you come up with this yourself?" Lingxiao asked.

"That's right." Zhao Shu changed his mind: "Not all of them, like my family's ceremonial sacrifice, which also includes throwing bamboo slips into rivers and mountains. Not all bamboo slips are made of wood and bamboo, but gold, silver, copper, iron, etc. can also be used. For beautiful stones and precious jade, the emperors of the Tianxia Dynasty especially liked to throw gold slips and jade chapters, so as to secure the mountains and rivers.

I am also imitating my predecessors, but what I inscribed on the knife is either a powerful talisman or a fire talisman.Now this knife is used against ordinary people, in fact, there is not much change, how to cut or how to cut.But in the face of goblins and ghosts with uncertain shapes, swords blessed by spells can directly hurt them. "

Lingxiao said: "The saber still has a hint of evil-controlling effect."

"Oh, the well flower water I prepared with cinnabar is also enlightened by the great wish of restraining evil spirits." Zhao Shu caressed the blade and said, "The "Shenhu Yinwen" you taught is a good thing. It is designed to restrain evil spirits and save me Find another way."

Lingxiao sighed a bit: "I haven't taught you the sword-making method of carving seals and engraving characters, but you have figured it out by yourself."

"Ah? Will you do it too?" Zhao Mi looked at the ring knife in his hand a little discouraged: "I thought I was the first to invent this method."

Lingxiao laughed and said: "My sword-making method is not only to engrave talismans and seals, but also to match the skill of opening up caves and heavens, combining Yin and Yang, law of heaven and earth, movement of heaven and earth, thunder, and sacrifice of true essence and jade palace. These swords are no longer ordinary weapons, but the magic weapon of the immortal family in Anzhen Dongtian. Therefore, even if my true form and body are cut off, and the Zhenyuanyu Mansion is empty, outsiders cannot steal Dongtian, otherwise they will face Against the might of the Excalibur."

"Excalibur?" Zhao Mi had a flash of inspiration and asked, "I've heard the theory of the Excalibur, but most of the previous explanations in the books were vague. At first I thought it was a flying sword refined by the sword fairy. Later, I learned about the birth of the Chiyundu Divine Sword from Senior Sister Xin, and it didn’t feel quite like it.”

"The god of the sword does not lie in the sharpness of the sword, but in conformity with the aura of heaven and earth." Lingxiao said: "The Jingzhen sword I have refined is not a skill of forging and forging, but a comprehension in the realm of an immortal. The metaphysics of heaven and earth, refining the essence of yin and yang and five qi. This seems unattainable, but ordinary people can gain something by sincerely studying things and looking up at everything, let alone monks in the world? Try altars, perform scientific rituals, and pretend to capture the qi of heaven and earth. You can do a little bit."

Zhao Mi scratched his head and said, "I also have this kind of sacrificial magic sword, but it can't be called soaring sword spirit at all. I usually use it to pick evil sacrifice talismans, and I don't need it in fighting skills, because the magic sword The sword didn't strike at all."

"The divine sword in the world, either picks the essence of metal and eight stones to make sword blanks, or simply refines Qi to make swords." Ling Xiao said: "Chi Yundu casts divine swords, I guess it should be the former."

Zhao Mi asked: "Could it be that they found some natural treasures? That's right, this is Xingluo County, which is rich in mineral deposits, including Yinghuoshi. It is not unusual to find blanks suitable for casting swords."

"So, one's own cultivation is the root. If you can refine qi successfully, you can refine qi into a sword, and you can also draw qi to write talismans, but heaven, material and earth treasures are not easy to get." Lingxiao reminded: "Your talisman sacrifice The sword is not the way of longevity after all.”

Holding the ring-shouldered straight knife in his hand, Zhao Mi shook his head and said, "I didn't do this for the Dao of Longevity. I just think it's a waste of energy and a waste of life for ordinary soldiers to fight monsters with ordinary irons. ...And I also moved some careful thoughts."

"Oh?"

Zhao Mi was embarrassed: "Actually, it's nothing, I just want to earn more money from this. The effectiveness of this kind of talisman weapon is also limited, just like ordinary weapons that need to be re-polished after being bumped too much. Sacrifice, this is an opportunity to make money. There is also the previous golden armor talisman. In fact, I am also wondering if there is a better substitute, so I don’t have to rely on those discarded armor pieces. Of course, what I want to earn is not Just one or two soldiers’ money, but directly earning the court’s money.”

Lingxiao said helplessly: "You are really vulgar."

……

Nothing happened overnight, and there was no movement of evil spirits and walking corpses raiding the camp.

Zhao Mi and the soldiers packed up the camp, and since they saw Guanghua flying in the northern mountains yesterday evening, they went to check it out during the day.

After everyone arrived, they discovered that this was an abandoned mine, with overgrown weeds and dead branches among the gravel, and several rows of buildings and smelting furnaces in the distance, most of which had collapsed.

Zhao Mi has seen a lot of mines like this in Xingluo County recently.After a little weighing, I found that the scale of this place is not small, but judging from the growth of vegetation, the mine has been abandoned for a long time, at least no one has mined and smelted it in recent years.

Generally speaking, this kind of place that was once densely populated and then abandoned is really easy to attract spirits and monsters.However, Zhao Mi used the Yingxuan lighting technique to look back and forth, but did not find anything unusual.

"Zhao Fuli, there is a shrine here!" The scattered patrolling soldiers shouted from a height.

Hearing this, Zhao Mi hurriedly ran, and found a small shrine on the mountainside, without even a courtyard wall, but dug a cave into the mountain wall, and placed god tablets and stone statues in it for the dishes on the table. The inside was empty, and the surroundings were covered with dust.

"Guardian Tiegong, who protects the mountain and protects the cave..." Zhao Mi read out the words on the tablet, and anyone could see that it was entrusted with the wish of countless miners to pray for safety in the cave at the bottom of the mountain.

Zhao Mi thought of the Tiegong Temple in Yanze City. Although he didn’t know the original architectural style of the temple, considering that it occupied a large area, the foundations and walls had been used for hundreds of years, and there were even remnants of the enchantment, it should be Emperor Tianxia’s imperial seal of iron. The seat of the public god.

Shrines and sacrificial places are different from ordinary houses. In addition to paying attention to various orientations, the most important thing is how to separate the spirits of the corresponding gods. There are many requirements just from the carving of the statues.

After the statue is placed on the throne, there will be a series of sacrificial rituals, reading the emperor's imperial decree, and perhaps even praising the officials, reciting mantras and chanting scriptures, in order to welcome the gods and send a little spirit to descend on the throne.

If there were no such steps, the ones attached to the throne of the statue would most likely not be the righteous gods, but some ghosts and monsters who are greedy for blood and food.

Since the gods enshrined by the imperial court enjoy the nourishment and worship of the trustworthy power of incense, they themselves also have the responsibility to protect one side, and together with the temple guards and sacrifices, they will expel, subdue and even eliminate all kinds of evil spirits in the local area.

Conferring gods is like a feudal lord or a feudal official. The Tianxia Dynasty also had a set of rules and regulations dedicated to ghosts and gods. There were even detailed instructions on what kind of ceremonial guards such gods like Tie Gong should enjoy.

However, the cave in front of Zhao Shu and the others is obviously not a formal shrine registered in the register. Even the honorary title on the god card has a vulgar atmosphere, and it must have been excavated and built by the miners themselves.

Looking up at the statue of Tie Gong in front of him, what surprised Zhao Mi was that this statue was quite similar to the real shape he had presented in the first hook move. The ritual god who is worshiped and enshrined by people.

Zhao Mi used the Yingxuan lighting technique, and vaguely glimpsed a thin trace of aura remaining on the statue, and it seemed to be connected to the mountain behind.He reached out and knocked on the mountain wall behind him, but he didn't find any secret rooms.

Zhao Mi couldn't understand this situation. He found out the wooden sign that he had recorded Tie Gong's real shape before, and said to the soldiers behind him, "I want to use spells to investigate. You guard outside, don't go inside." Spy... Take this brass bell, if there are thieves or evil spirits coming, ring it."

After the arrangements were made, Zhao Mi took out the censer, burned a piece of Jiangzhen incense, touched the ring of deed, and confirmed that the golden armor was correct, then sat cross-legged on the floor, held the Tiegong Zhenxing talisman in his hand, and said to Lingxiao:
"I'm going to keep thinking about Tie Gong's true form, and see if I can sense its existence. Please protect my brain for me, so as not to be shocked."

"Just focus on what you're doing." Lingxiao said.

Zhao Mi breathed out slowly, and began to think about Tie Gong's true form, the vigor and aura shaped like the trend of a mountain range, thick and heavy.On the other hand, Zhao Shu felt that his figure was becoming lighter and lighter, as if rising with the fragrance, he passed out of the mountain and went straight up into the air, riding on the clouds and galloping towards the mountain.

Instinctively lowering his head to look down, Zhao Mi saw a rolling mountain range on the ground, with clouds floating and swirling, which were very similar to the real shape Tulu.

The clouds of fragrance piled up to form a bridge, stretching towards the mountains below, Zhao Mi drifted down slowly, he couldn't tell whether it was real or illusory in front of him.I saw a huge figure slowly approaching in the quiet and deep valley.

The person who came was more than three feet tall, his torso was a whole huge rock, his limbs were stubby and strong, the exposed red ocher iron ore twisted like a seal, and a cloud-patterned iron ball suspended in front of him slid around, which could barely be used as a head. Still no facial features.

Such a giant of iron and stone came in front of Zhao Mi, shaking the ground with his steps, but it didn't make people feel frightened.

"Xiaozhao in the world, the talisman official of Huaxu Guohuaiying Hall, his surname is Zhao and his name is Mi." Zhao Mi cupped his hands and bowed: "Your Majesty, is Panlong Mountain God Tiegong?"

"Everyone in the world calls me Tie Gong, and I dare not take the title of God of Mount Panlong." Tie Gong's voice sounded like echoing from an iron box, with almost no ups and downs: "Tian Xia has lost his virtue, and I have lost my incense and worship in the world. "

Zhao Mi said: "Tie Gong has guarded Panlong Mountain for hundreds of years, and he has done great merit in protecting the people's prosperity. Now that Xingluo County is in ruins, if Tie Gong is willing to go to the altar again, Xiao Zhao will do his best to make it happen. .”

Tie Gong’s appearance showed no joy, anger, sorrow or joy. He just calmly narrated: "I have repaid the grace of incense and trust in the past. The people here mine hardware and smelt all kinds of utensils, so they can get food and clothing. It is not my credit that everyone has gained something through their hard work. Xingluo County is waiting to be rejuvenated, and it is not something I can do."

(End of this chapter)