The world of Taoism

Chapter 3 The Secret Method of Repelling Rats (Please recommend for collection)

The weather is fine, and the sun shines into the house through the doors and windows, dispelling the damp air in the room.

Zhou Xuan carefully searched the room.

The decoration of the room is very simple, except for the bed, tables and chairs, there is a cabinet for clothes.

The wooden cabinets are old and most of the red paint has peeled off.

A big lock locks it, it seems that Zhou Dazhi attaches great importance to the things inside.

"It should be here..."

Zhou Xuan walked to the cabinet, but the big lock couldn't be opened, so he simply pried out the nail and directly removed the cabinet door completely.

The cabinet door opened, and inside was a pile of sundries and a pile of yellow and red stones.

It seems to be cinnabar, realgar and so on.

Zhou Xuan searched the entire cabinet, but couldn't find Zhou Dazhi's spells, only this pile of debris.

Among these sundries, Zhou Xuan found a few pieces of dark yellow letter paper, which seemed to be some cultivation records.

It is described in the records that Zhou Dazhi practiced a spell called 'The Secret Method of Repelling Rats'.

It took him seven or eight years to practice the secret method of repelling rats to such an extent.

"There are magic spells!" Zhou Xuan's eyes lit up, and he put down the letter immediately.

The whole house was searched inside and out, and the so-called 'secret method of repelling rats' was still missing.

Just as Zhou Xuan lost his way out of the room, the sound of a stone brick under his feet was muffled, as if it was hollow underneath.

"Could it be underground?" Zhou Xuan's eyes lit up, and he pried open the stone slab, and sure enough, he found a wooden box underneath.

Open the wooden box, and there is a thin booklet inside the box.

The pages are yellowed and the threads are badly frayed.

It seems that the owner of the booklet reads it frequently.

Zhou Xuan suppressed the excitement in his heart, opened the booklet, and wrote four large characters.

Rat repellent secret!

"Sure enough, it's a spell!"

Zhou Xuan looked around, and simply moved all these related things to the study.

The predecessor Zhou Xuan liked to study, but Uncle Liu would not disturb him.

Even when it's time to eat, I put the food outside, knock on the door a few times and leave.

Red candles flickered, and the light in the room flickered.

After closing the door, Zhou Xuan carefully studied the spells on it.

"The secret method of repelling rats: take a newborn male rat, soak glutinous rice and human blood with realgar for a penny and raise it until the day of Jiazi. At this time, the mouse's hair will turn from black to white, and feed realgar and musk for two minutes to seven or seven days..."

After flipping through, Zhou Xuan discovered that the so-called spells were not as simple as a few incantations and a few gestures.

The secret method of repelling rats seems simple, but it is actually complicated.

The whole spell contains several incantations and several prescriptions.

There are strict regulations on the timing of releasing spells and chanting mantras.

According to Zhou Dazhi's letter, it took him a year and countless failures before he felt the 'spirituality'.

It took another seven years to raise the rats to the size of a calf.

"Spirituality..." Zhou Xuan muttered to himself, and the notebook was filled with Zhou Dazhi's notes.

Zhou Dazhi mentioned this word countless times.Casting spells is not as simple as chanting a few incantations.

Spells are the product of communication between heaven and earth through mediums such as spells and medicines.

The premise of releasing the spell requires the interpreter to build a bridge between the world and the spell, that is, the human spirit.

"Isn't the information panel also spiritual?"

Suddenly, Zhou Xuan's heart moved, and he recited silently in his mind.

Name: Zhou Xuan

Spells: none
Spirituality: [-]

【Demonstration】

"Spell detected, is it recorded in the deduction?"

Zhou Xuan suddenly noticed that the deduction button in the information panel seemed to light up.

"Deduction!" Zhou Xuan murmured silently in his heart, although he didn't know what it was, it was always right to try it.

After meditating, the deduction button turns gray, and the spirituality changes from two to one.

In the column of spells, "rat repelling secret method" appears

"Recording..."

"Deducting...removing clutter...simplifying..."

It appears that the deduction will take a while to complete.

dong dong!

There was a knock on the door, and Uncle Liu's voice came.

"Young Master? Young Master?" Uncle Liu said anxiously, as if something had happened.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Xuan opened the door.

Uncle Liu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Zhou Xuan.

"It's good that the young master is fine. I just saw the door of Zhou Dazhi's room was wide open and the room was messy. I thought it was a thief."

"Uncle Zhou took the package and ran away in a hurry." Zhou Xuan thought for a while and said.

"This killer must have provoked his enemies and went out to avoid disaster." Uncle Liu cursed, "It's best not to come back."

Zhou Xuan smiled slightly, but did not answer.

Zhou Xuan thought for a while, and said, "Uncle Liu, do you have realgar, musk, and ageratum at home?"

The secret method of repelling mice requires several kinds of medicinal materials. If Zhou Xuan wants to practice the spell, he must prepare it in advance.

Zhou Xuan decided to practice this spell. It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can help him defend himself.

Zhou Xuan originally wanted to leave, after all, he was not the original Zhou Xuan.

But think about it or forget it, it costs so much to practice spells, and I don't know where to go when I leave.

Zhou Dazhi died. This person never recorded information about his family in his diary, so he must have been alone.

"Medical materials? There seems to be some left in these warehouses at home. Do you want them, Master? I'll go get them right away," Uncle Liu said.

"There are warehouses?"

"That's right, those two shops in our city are medicine shops. The precious ingredients of ginseng are gone, but there are plenty of these things." Uncle Liu couldn't help but laugh.

The young master is still the same young master, and he doesn't even know what kind of shop the family runs.

"Oh, I remembered." Zhou Xuan pretended to suddenly realize, "Forget it, I'll get it myself later."

Zhou Xuan and Uncle Liu exchanged a few words, and after lunch, they entered the study again.

Two hours had passed, and Zhou Xuan had already heard the reminder that the deduction had been completed.

Name: Zhou Xuan

Spell: Rat Repelling Secret*[-]
Spirituality: [-]
【Demonstration】

The deduction button turned gray again, and when Zhou Xuan concentrated his thoughts on it, he was told that there were two points before he could deduce it again.

It turns out that as long as the spirituality is sufficient, it can be deduced again.

Zhou Xuan focused his thoughts on the secret method of repelling rats, and did not release any kind of spell, but a piece of information appeared

"The secret method of repelling rats * [-]: Deduce once, simplify the steps six."

"The secret method of repelling rats: Take an adult male mouse, use realgar for one cent, and nuxy seeds for one cent and two cents, mix with one tael of glutinous rice, divide it into seven cents, and wrap it in yellow paper. Take it once every hour."

"The next day, the whole body of the rat turned white; two parts of realgar, musk... and half a tael of glutinous rice were kneaded into balls and fed to the rats three times."

"After taking it three times, the mouse will travel to the fairyland and the body will shrink; add a magic talisman and seal it in an egg shell, recite the mantra in the morning and evening, drip three drops of blood, and the mouse will be revived at the end of the day, making it like an arm."

"It seems that the function of this information panel is to modify spells. As long as there is spirituality, spells can be deduced." Zhou Xuan thought to himself.

The original rat repelling secret was a bit evil.

Every step uses human blood, and human flesh and blood.

The last step is to seal the human corpse, and it will be completed on the night of the full moon.

Now that it has been deduced once, not only the time required is shortened, but it also has the meaning of fairy magic.

Zhou Xuan has always felt insecure about this world, so he must practice spells to have more power to protect himself.

According to the spell description, it takes at least two days to complete the steps.

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　(Most of these are taken from dozens of folk law spells, with some adaptations.)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)