Chapter 53: Daoist Magic

  "Ghost soldier? Ghost king?" Chen Yunfeng sheathed his heavy sword and looked at the round, transparent thing that resembled a glass bead, asking.

  The wine way person walked back to the fire heap side, took out the wine gourd and drank two mouthfuls, saw Chen Yunfeng embracing the two girls back to the horse carriage and settling them in, only then did he look up at the sky and say:

  "You may have heard of legendary myths, but have you also heard of the great gods like Pangu and Nüwa, as well as the six reincarnations of demons, ghosts, and monsters?"

  Chen Yunfeng had read countless online novels, and this sort of thing was all too familiar to him. He nodded his head, but he didn't know what the wine expert wanted to say.

  The wine shop owner smiled wryly and said:

  "Pangu and Nüwa I don't know if they are real or not, the six paths of reincarnation I also don't know if they exist or not, but in the mortal world there are indeed demons and monsters that are real."

  The Nanyang Zhuque Temple where I am located was built a hundred years ago. My master went to Mangshan to catch ghosts and never came back. We didn't learn the skills well and were fond of drinking, so we practiced in a way that was neither here nor there. Even a small evil spirit couldn't be easily taken down."

  Chen Yunfeng looked up at the sky after the fog had dispersed. It was still very early before dawn, and he asked in a low voice:

  "Does this world really have such things? But why can't ordinary people see or know about them?"

  A drunkard drank all the inferior wine in his gourd with one gulp, and suddenly looked up at the night sky with a serious expression.

  "There are demons and monsters, but they are not many. They generally live in places where people rarely go, except for these evil spirits that will seek out populated areas."

  There is still a point, that is, there are still Taoist sects in the world, such as Maoshan, Longhushan, Qingcheng and Kunlun. These places all have Taoist sects that drive out demons and evil spirits. The Zhuque Temple was originally just a small branch of Maoshan, but unfortunately it declined when it came into my hands.

  It's all because there are too few ghosts in the world, and it's quite helpless to say that we Taoist priests who specialize in catching ghosts have become idle due to the lack of lonely souls and wild ghosts.

  Fortunately, our Taoist school still has martial arts, otherwise the method of eliminating demons and monsters would have been buried in history. Shaoxia was able to use true energy to extinguish ghosts earlier, which should also be the use of Taoist true energy. Moreover, it must be extremely pure Taoist true energy to achieve this point."

  Chen Yunfeng cultivated the six true Qi of Taoism. Logically, at the beginning, all Qi practitioners were considered to be from the Taoist school, and later they gradually spread throughout Jianghu, gradually forming various schools and factions in Jianghu. Therefore, all those who cultivate internal true Qi are considered to be from the Taoist school, with the only difference being those that are closest to Taoism.

  The Xianyao Sect was passed down to where Jin Dada did not explain, but according to the position of Tianshan, it should also be connected with some Taoist inheritances. As for the Jiuyin True Qi, it is a martial art created by Huang Zongxiang's collection of Taoist classics, and it must be related to Taoism.

  Jiuyang Zhenqi originated from Shaolin Temple, but the training methods inside are all Taoist methods. It's unclear what kind of Taoism it is. The final Hunyuan Xiantian Gong is Wang Chongyang's collection of Lü Chunyang's gongfa combined with Jiuyin Zhenjing, which can also be considered a orthodox Taoist kung fu. Therefore, Chen Yunfeng is theoretically just an unordained Taoist priest.

  Chen Yunfeng did not expect to be reborn in the world of Shen Diao, where there were small steamed buns. What's more, he didn't expect that one day he would join forces with a Taoist priest to exterminate ghosts. He examined the ghost bead in his hand and suddenly remembered that he had a token called the Demon-Subduing Order in his bosom. He hastily took it out and handed it over to Jiu Dao Ren, asking:

  "This thing I snatched from the hands of a high-ranking Mongolian official, take a look and see if it's useful. I tried before, even with a sword, couldn't hurt him in the slightest."

  The Wine Daoist took over the Demon-Suppressing Edict and after a glance at it, his complexion changed greatly as he stammered:

  "This is the treasure of Zhēn Guān, a sect that has long been extinct. It's said to have enormous destructive power against evil spirits and demons. If you had activated this token earlier, that ghost would have dissipated into nothingness."

  "Is it really a treasure? But what do you mean by 'dedication'? Is it like the gestures you made with your hands just now?" Chen Yunfeng asked curiously.

  The wine way person seems to be thinking about something, after a while, he muttered to himself, and when he finished, he stared at Chen Yunfeng. Chen Yunfeng was shocked and didn't know what the wine way person wanted to do, so he smiled calmly and let the wine way person size him up.

  Jiudao Ren looked at Chen Yunfeng and nodded, saying:

  "A heroic and handsome young man with a hint of murderous intent in his eyebrows, the tip of his nose slightly red as if he's having good luck, his lips curled up in an unconventional manner, his cheekbones sharp like a knife, always striving to win. However, his forehead is smooth and full like jade, indicating that although he acts impulsively, he has a kind heart. His eyes are bright and clear like water, making him a true dragon among men."

  Lao Dao believed that Shao Xia wasn't a bad person. Tonight, our cooperation in eliminating the ghost can be considered a good opportunity. This book contains various skills learned by our ancestors from Mao Shan. If you want to know how to eliminate ghosts and use the magic tools, it's all written here. I've studied it for a while now, so I'll let you two study it for two hours. At dawn, I'll take it back and leave.

  A man from the wine path pulled out a book as thick as his fingers from his bosom and handed it to Chen Yunfeng, who lowered his head and seemed to be thinking about something. Chen Yunfeng curiously looked at the cover, but couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:

  "Uh..."

  The name of this book is "Mao Shan Ding Gui Lu". As soon as you open the first page, it explains how to make talismans. The talisman requires yellow paper or jade material, and even many special materials can be used, such as cinnabar, wolf hair brush, etc., all of which are clearly marked. These things are easy to handle, but there is only one requirement that ordinary people cannot meet.

  "The true energy is transported to the tip of the pen, and the strokes of the talisman are continuous without any pause. The true energy combines with the cinnabar and is poured into a specific talisman script, only then can it produce an effect. No wonder those ghostly symbols of later generations were useless, a talisman without true energy is equivalent to a waste paper." Chen Yunfeng thought to himself as soon as he saw this.

  No master who has cultivated true energy would draw talismans to catch ghosts, so even if the talismans are drawn beautifully, they are still useless. Therefore, there were no effective talismans in later generations.

  Chen Yunfeng flipped through the pages one by one in the firelight, and almost half of the front was all kinds of talismans, which were also completely related to ghosts. It is estimated that it is because Mao Shan Yi Xi mainly cultivates talismanic exorcisms.

  When Su Zhou finished reading, it was the method of making and using the law instrument. On it, he saw legendary treasures such as black dog blood, peach heart wood, ancient willow branches, mulberry tree sticks, etc., which were too numerous to mention. What's more, there were names that Chen Yunfeng had never heard of, such as earth fire stone, refined gold, and copper marrow.

  Fortunately, there were annotations above, and he only discovered that the earth fire stone was actually sulfur, the refined gold was highly purified gold, but the copper marrow looked strange. That thing grew in the copper mine, like a golden gel-like substance. After being refined into a ritual vessel, it was absolutely deadly to ghosts.

  The effects of using these things are also noted one by one, and there are even various classifications of ghosts and monsters. Chen Yunfeng couldn't help but wonder how they had encountered so many kinds of ghostly objects and managed to research ways to eliminate them.