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Chapter 465 Witchcraft (3) Thanks to the book friend "harry890m[-]" for the reward!

After a lot of hard work, Jiang Yuan finally got a note from Lin Muqing. With this note from Lin Muqing, he can go to his store to withdraw the silver taels.

After achieving his goal, Jiang Yuan had no time to continue being tender and lingering, so he left Xu's mansion in a hurry and walked towards the shop.

The Xu family's shop is not difficult to find, but the business is sluggish.

As the saying goes, "Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times", in today's era of internal and external troubles in this country, the antique business is undoubtedly becoming more and more difficult.

This is also an important reason why the Xu family began to decline.

The shopkeeper in the store saw the owner coming to the store, and hurriedly got up to entertain him.

Jiang Yuan handed the note to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper became more and more strange. His boss would never come to the store on weekdays, let alone bring a note from the young lady.

But the shopkeeper didn't ask too many questions, and hurriedly prepared silver taels.

Taking advantage of this time, Jiang Yuan also started to wander around the store.

Originally, Jiang Yuan was looking at antiques casually, but after this stroll, he discovered some interesting things.

In an inconspicuous corner on the shelf, Jiang Yuan found a turtle shell.

This tortoise shell is very old and has some strange characters engraved on it.

Jiang Yuan just glanced at it, and then he was stunned.

Isn't this kind of ancient script exactly the script used by witches?I didn't expect this kind of writing to appear in this place.

Jiang Yuan grabbed the tortoise shell and glanced at it for a while. It seemed that what was recorded on it was a kind of witchcraft.

But it seems very dilapidated and incomplete, presumably there should be records on other carriers.

This time Jiang Yuan couldn't help being stunned, this place is a projection of a real foreign land, the details here can be said to be the same as that real foreign land.

If it is said that the characters used by the witches can be found here, does it mean that the witches have been to this foreign land?

Jiang Yuan couldn't help thinking of the Yongjie tribe, whose ancestors were a group of witches roaming space.

It seems that in ancient times, the planet Jiang Yuan was on was not blocked, or that the strong had a way to break through that blockade, so that the strong in that ancient era could enter the cosmic space.

Just like demon gods, or witches.There might even be others.

Just as Jiang Yuan was thinking, the shopkeeper had already arrived with a heavy bag of silver.

After receiving the silver tael, Jiang Yuan couldn't help pointing at the turtle shell and asked:

"Boss, what is this?"

The shopkeeper took a look and replied:
"Boss, this is a kind of 'dragon bone', which is mostly used to record oracle bone inscriptions. A few years ago, the study of oracle bone inscriptions was popular, so I sent my staff to collect some. But later, I invited many gentlemen to see it, and they all said that I collected it. The inscriptions on the keel are not oracle bone inscriptions, but another unknown ancient script. Later, I thought it was a rare commodity and kept hoarding it. But now, everyone is discussing the Latinization of Chinese characters, but no one pays attention to these ancient scripts. The current scholars are really serious, how can the things left by the ancestors be changed at will?!"

After Jiang Yuan listened quietly, it seems that although this foreign land is different from the earth, the history is also different.

The oracle bone inscriptions were discovered on earth at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and large-scale research will come later.

The discussion of the phoneticization of Chinese characters is also later than this era.

Regarding the phoneticization of Chinese characters, Jiang Yuan memorized a famous article "Shi's History of Eating Lions", the full text of which is as follows:

"Shishi, a poet in the Shishi family, is addicted to lions and swears to eat ten lions. Shishi always looks at lions when the market is right. At ten o'clock, it's time for ten lions. When it's time, Shishi is right for market. Shishi looks at ten lions, relying on the momentum, The ten lions passed away. Shi picked up the corpses of the ten lions, suitable for the stone chamber. The stone chamber was wet, and Shi Shi sent an envoy to wipe the stone chamber. The stone chamber was wiped, and Shi Shi began to try to eat the ten lion corpses. While eating, he realized that the ten lions were actually ten stone lion corpses. Interpretation is a matter."

The most unique thing about this article is that it is easy for people to understand, but when read to people, it sounds like "shi, shi, shi, shi, shi..." I can't understand what they are saying .

This is an article written by Mr. Zhao Yuanren, a famous linguist during the Republic of China. The creation of this article is to use an extreme method to expose the defects of Chinese characters, and to support the reform of the phoneticization of Chinese characters.

The promotion of pinyin of Chinese characters has experienced two peaks.

The first peak was during the period of the Republic of China. Due to the country's backwardness and being bullied by the great powers, people of insight at that time advocated learning from the West.

The second peak is after the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially after the widespread use of computers, Chinese characters have encountered the most severe challenge in history, and it can be said that it has reached a critical moment of life and death.

Jiang Yuan is not a scholar, so he doesn't know the pros and cons of pinyinizing Chinese characters.But the use of Chinese characters has benefited him a lot. For example, if he did not have the foundation of Chinese characters, it would be very difficult for Jiang Yuan to learn the ancient characters used by witches.

Now in this foreign land, whether it is the study of oracle bone inscriptions or the discussion of the phoneticization of Chinese characters, it seems that they are much ahead of schedule.

So Jiang Yuan asked the shopkeeper again:

"Is there such a thing?"

The shopkeeper said:

"There are quite a few more, just in the warehouse in the back room."

Jiang Yuan nodded:
"You help me find them all, and send people to buy more keels with this kind of writing. I'm useful."

The shopkeeper hastily agreed repeatedly that this kind of broken shell and bone would not cost much, and there was no need for the young lady's consent.

Then Jiang Yuan walked out with Yin Liang, intending to head towards the Yamen.

For the formation of the militia, firstly, it can establish a good relationship with the government, secondly, it can also borrow the power of the militia, and thirdly, there is no need to take the lead with Yan Zhennan.

Jiang Yuan is very happy with this kind of thing that kills multiple birds with one stone.

Just after leaving the shop, Jiang Yuan ran into an acquaintance, his junior brother Wu Ping.

Jiang Yuan greeted Wu Ping and walked towards the Yamen together.

But not long after he left, Jiang Yuan's heart moved.

He suddenly remembered that there were some interesting things recorded on the turtle shell he had seen just now.

At that time, Jiang Yuan just browsed through it in a hurry. After seeing that this kind of witchcraft was incomplete, he didn't read more. He just wanted to wait until the witchcraft was complete before studying it.

However, at this time Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered that the witchcraft seemed to mention the matter of human souls.

Immediately, Jiang Yuan stuffed the bag containing the silver taels into Wu Ping's arms without hesitation:
"Wu Ping, help me bring these silver taels to the yamen and hand them over to the county magistrate. I just forgot that there is still something to do in the store, and I have to go back to deal with it."

Wu Ping found the heavy bag, and couldn't help but look around in panic, then lowered his voice and asked nervously:
"Eldest brother, so much silver, you let me take it alone?"

"Eldest brother believes in you!" Jiang Yuan has no time to pay attention to whether the silver is safe, and now he has to pay attention to more important issues, "Go, go!"

After driving Wu Ping away, Jiang Yuan went back to the shop again, grabbed the turtle shell and looked at it carefully for a while.

Then he called the shopkeeper to go to the warehouse together, and then found all the keels that recorded this ancient text there.

There is a lot of this kind of keel in the warehouse, at least hundreds of pieces.

Jiang Yuan picked out the bones with ancient witchcraft inscriptions from them, spread them neatly on the ground, sat among them and stared at them carefully.

In these texts, the information recorded is mixed and scattered.

Some recorded important events, some recorded magic skills, some recorded history, and some recorded scenery and humanities...

Jiang Yuan gathered the useful bones together, identified them and put them together, as if he was putting together a jigsaw puzzle.

What he needs most is other information about the incomplete part of the turtle shell.

After continuous screening and piecing together, Jiang Yuan did find a few bones that were consistent with the witchcraft content on the turtle shell.

He hastily connected all these pieces of information together to see that a part of this witchcraft was actually roughly completed.

Jiang Yuan hurriedly browsed through the above information, and finally figured out the witchcraft called "Ascension of the Soul".

The soul is a very mysterious thing, it does not exist in the first place, but is conceived and born by the heaven and the earth.

According to the description of this witchcraft, the union of heaven and earth is the birth of all living things; the union of yin and yang is the reproduction.

The merging of heaven and earth gave birth to the gods and various powerful creatures, and their souls were also conceived in this process.

The human race is a special race, not born, but created by the gods later.

In the beginning, when Nuwa created humans, she first created a shell that imitated the appearance of the gods and the body of a spirit beast, but such a shell was like a puppet without intelligence.

Then Nuwa took the souls of various spirit beasts from the world and cut them together to create a new kind of soul, which was injected into the human shell, and people began to have wisdom.

But at this time, people can't be regarded as possessing a real soul.

Whether it is the gods, the ancient powerful creatures, or the human race, only through the intercourse of yin and yang can a new soul be born.

Over the long years, people multiplied, and those pieced together soul fragments gradually merged steadily, and finally became a unique soul.

The soul can be regarded as the best tonic in this world. The human soul is undoubtedly an excellent tonic that combines the characteristics of various creatures in ancient times.

Gods and demons can plunder nourishment through special methods, such as relying on the sacrificial field to harvest living souls.

And the shaman who created the "Ascension of the Soul" at the beginning also tried to make people have the means to plunder others to nourish themselves.

According to the theory of "Ascension of the Soul", the intersection of yin and yang can give birth to a soul, and the same process can strengthen one's own soul by nourishing each other.

For human beings, in this process of yin and yang intersecting, it is the opportunity to open the door of the mysterious female soul. In this process, only by following special methods, one can plunder the other party's soul to nourish oneself.

By relying on this method, the human race can continuously strengthen its own soul, and even in theory, it can eventually be compared with the god race.

Jiang Yuan looked at this ancient and modern witchcraft, and couldn't help but find something interesting in it.

When he was in Pengcheng, Lu Junsheng once told himself that the soul of the human race is made up of fragments of the souls of thousands of races in ancient times. Although it has been completely fused, it still has the unique imprints of each race that will not melt away.Only by activating these imprints, people can gradually gain the power from the ancient creatures.

And then Lu Junsheng also set out to find such a method, and I don't know if he found it.

But at this time, in this "Ascending Soul Art", there is also a trick that is similar to Lu Junsheng's method.

Through supplementation, after a person's soul grows stronger, the imprints of some ancient creatures will also be stimulated.

These imprints are called "aggregates" in "Ascension of the Soul", and the strongest imprint left in a person's soul can be called the main aggregation of this person.

The ability to dig out the aggregates will enhance one's own abilities accordingly.

"Is this a disguised form of forcing me to pick up girls for sex?"

Jiang Yuan grinned:
"After harvesting, the target's sanity will fade away, or even die. It's really an extremely evil witchcraft!"

(End of this chapter)