Palm fairy garden

Chapter 8 Paper Puppetry

"buy what?"

The old man who looked like a skeleton glanced at Su Ming, flicked his fingers, a ball of sparks burst out, and ignited the oil lamp hanging on the wall, instantly brightening up the dark shop.

"Are there any repellent and earth-type spells?"

Su Ming bowed his hand towards this mysterious old man.

"Wait."

After the old man finished speaking, he casually found a Taishi chair and lay down.

Waited for a while.

Just when Su Ming frowned in doubt, a white shadow carrying a wooden tray walked towards Su Ming from the second floor.

Bai Ying walked lightly, making no sound at all.

Su Ming didn't take it seriously at first, but when the white shadow approached him, Su Ming's pupils suddenly shrank, and a chill ran down his spine and rushed to his brain.

The white shadow in front of him is not a living person, but a paper man with an exaggerated face.

Paper puppets!
Su Ming immediately recognized the thing in front of him.

Suppressing his violent heartbeat, Su Ming stretched out his hand, picked up the jade slips on the wooden tray and looked at them.

Even though Su Ming knew that this was Qingshuifang City, the mysterious old man in front of him didn't dare to mess around here no matter how clever he was.

But he still unconsciously tightened his body, looking a little vigilant.

Seeing Su Ming's appearance, the old man didn't take it seriously.

Su Ming kept selecting the jade slips.

But after checking for a long time, I found that there is not a single spell that suits my heart.

The spells that the old man showed were either too weak, or the training time was too long. Apart from repelling objects, Su Ming didn't like any of them.

"Shopkeeper, do you have any powerful spells with short training time?"

The old man lay on the grand teacher's chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind. When he heard Su Ming's words, he immediately sneered, "Does it have to be powerful and have a short training time?"

He shook his head, "I don't have this kind of technique in my shop, maybe you can go to the Blood Demon Sect and ask."

Hearing this, Su Ming's face was a little embarrassed.

"Then is this technique for sale?"

Su Ming asked, pointing to the paper figurine holding the wooden tray.

Unexpectedly, when the old man heard Su Ming's words, he was taken aback for a moment, and then a strange smile appeared on his face. This smile, in the dimly lit room with oil lamps, looked extraordinarily cold and permeating.

"Are you sure you want this technique?"

Seeing this with the old man's gloomy eyes, Su Ming instinctively retreated, but when he thought of his golden finger for strengthening the magic weapon, he couldn't bear the idea of ​​trying it out.

"I'm sure, you can make an offer."

"Send it to you."

As soon as Su Ming finished speaking, a yellowed ancient book was thrown over by the old man.

Su Ming took this yellowed ancient book, cupped his hands, frowned and said: "The junior and the senior have never met each other, and there is no favor or reward."

The old man lying on the grand teacher's chair let out a strange smile when he heard this: "Do you think the old man is doing you a favor?"

Su Ming didn't know how to strike up a conversation, so he didn't speak at all.

The old man said to himself: "Cultivating this kind of heresy seems to be extremely powerful, but you won't find out what you have lost until you recover."

Speaking of this, the old man lost interest, waved his hands impatiently, and said, "Okay, you can just buy a repelling technique, right, a spirit stone."

Su Ming took out ten spirit stones from the storage bag and handed them over.

"I said, this technique of mine was given away."

The old man's face was displeased, and his eyes seemed to be beating like will-o'-the-wisps on his skeleton-like face.

Only now did Su Ming take back the 9 spirit stones. He bowed to the old man and said, "Thank you senior for bestowing the Dharma, junior Su Ming, dare to ask senior's name?"

Hearing this, the old man lying on the teacher's chair waved his hands casually: "It's not worth mentioning heresy."

Su Ming was silent, then bowed to the old man again, and then slowly exited the shop.

Walking out of the shop, Su Ming firmly remembered the shop without a name, and then left the East Square District and walked towards the West Square District.

Less than half a stick of incense.

Su Ming returned to the No. 19 shop in Xifang District.

He glanced at Yang Laoliu's house across the door. His wife and children were still kneeling on the street, guarding the spirit of Yang Laoliu.

Su Ming didn't look much, went back to the room and closed the door, then went straight to the second floor.

Compared with Dongfang District, Xifang District is already quiet at this time. In the entire T-shaped street, only the six houses of Mr. Yang are still lit.

Go back to the second floor.

Su Ming first took stock of today's harvest.

The first is the spirit stone. It took another spirit stone to buy the repelling spell, and now he has a total of 1 spirit stones in his storage bag.

In addition, it is the biggest harvest today, a yellowed ancient book from the mysterious old man, and a repellent technique that almost everyone knows.

Su Ming first took out the yellowed ancient book, and studied it carefully by the light of the room.

An hour later.

Su Ming finally had a general understanding of the content recorded in this ancient book.

What is recorded and described in this ancient book is an extremely powerful technique—the paper puppet technique.

The paper puppet of the mysterious old man today is a branch of the paper puppet art - the paper piercing art.

As he flipped through the ancient books, Su Ming frowned: "No wonder this old man is willing to give it to me for free. This technique of making paper into a human being is really evil."

The reason why it is said to be evil is because this technique requires monks to use their own blood to refine it.

Moreover, the longer the cultivator sacrifices, the stronger the power of the paper figurine will be.

But Su Ming, as an orthodox monk, is very aware of the interconnection between the human body's energy, energy and spirit.

For any monk, once the essence and blood are exhausted, it will inevitably lead to a regression in cultivation, which is a major event that affects the path.

No wonder the old man didn't care about this technique.

Thinking about it, when the other party was young, he must have been greedy for the power of this technique, which resulted in an irreparable bitter fruit - excessive consumption of essence and blood, so that he could not build a foundation.

Compared with building a foundation, what is a technique?
What's more, judging from the old man's appearance, the side effects of this technique are very serious!
"But what if I use strengthening points to strengthen the paper puppet?"

Su Ming's heart was pounding, "Is it possible to bypass the side effects of this technique?"

Once this thought arises, it can no longer be calmed down.

Try it, must try it.

According to the records in this ancient book, once the paper puppet is sacrificed by monks for a certain period of time, its power can surpass all monks in the Qi training period, and it can be called invincible in the Qi training period.

Su Ming carefully read the various requirements recorded in the Art of Paper Twisting to Become an Adult, and felt more and more that this art has many similarities with weapon refining in many aspects, which made Su Ming fascinated by it.

I do not know how long it has been.

Su Ming finally turned to the last page of the ancient book.

"Why is it gone?"

Su Ming suddenly woke up from the state of ecstasy. He had just seen the core part of the paper puppet art - the paper puppet house, but the content behind it was suddenly interrupted.

It was as if it had been intercepted on purpose.

Is it the old man today?
Su Ming thought secretly in his heart.

However, even if the old man did it, Su Ming can't criticize others, because the old man gave him this technique in the first place.

(End of this chapter)