At the end of November, with the howling north wind and heavy snow falling all over the sky, the coldest season arrives in the Manglong Mountains.
Among the three most dangerous places in the Jianzong Mountain Gate, Hanming Cave, where the cold wave hit early, has been completely closed. It is said that many disciples who entered the cave have not been able to return in time, and there is basically no hope of survival.
Yinfeng Gorge has become a forbidden area for ordinary disciples, and the remaining Fire Dragon Cave has naturally become the last choice for most disciples. Countless people go into the cave every day to dig for jade and hunt monsters.
Qin Yun did not catch up with this wave of excitement. Apart from going to the regular morning classes at Tianji Palace, he spent most of his time practicing Nine Yang Xuan Gong and Ben Lei Xing Yun Sword.
According to the swordsman surnamed Liao from the Tianji Palace Swordsmanship Hall, Qin Yun's swordsmanship is already close to the perfection of sword energy. The only difference is that his strength is slightly lower. As long as the latter can reach the next level, the perfection of sword energy will be a matter of course!
Swordsmanship can be divided into six realms: sword style, sword energy, sword form, sword intention, and sword domain. Qin Yun has been able to reach the realm of sword energy in less than two years of practicing swordsmanship. He is definitely making rapid progress. Even within the Sword Sect, he is only one
Only a few geniuses can compare.
However, very few people understand Qin Yun's strength and talent. He is still an unknown new disciple in the Tiancheng Sword Sect.
At this time, Shui Wanning came back.
She came back nearly ten days later than she expected. She didn't know what happened to her. She looked very haggard. After she came back, she rested in her residence.
Shui Wanning didn't say anything herself, so Qin Yun certainly didn't dare to ask, but he stayed at Yunshui Xiaozhu for the past two days to fulfill his duties as a disciple.
On the morning of the third day, Shui Wanning finally came out of the room.
She seemed to have recovered a lot, and her pretty face had regained its vitality, but the slight sadness between her brows still lingered. Her plain clothes and white skirt made people feel pity for her.
The first thing she said: "Qin Yun, I want to teach you the art of talismans from today on!"
"Master, do you want to rest for a few more days?" Qin Yun asked carefully.
"I'm fine," Shui Wan Ning sighed softly, "I encountered a strong enemy outside this time. Fortunately, there was no danger. I may need to stay in seclusion for half a year."
"Before I go again, I want to spend a month teaching you all the talisman techniques I have learned. I hope you can succeed in your studies. After I retreat, the Alchemy and Talisman Workshop in the city will be completely dependent on you!
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Her voice was still soft and gentle, but her tone contained unshakable determination.
It is extremely difficult to learn all of Shui Wanning's skills on talismans in one month. Even the most talented people would not dare to pat their chests and guarantee that they can understand Shui Wanning's more than ten years of experience and practice.
Make a mid- to high-grade talisman.
But Qin Yun could tell from Shui Wanning's words that she must have a reason for doing this.
Especially when it comes to encountering an enemy outside, Shui Wan Ning spoke lightly, but just looking at her appearance when she first came back, the situation must have been extremely critical. Even if she successfully escaped and came back, it would take a long time for her to fully recover.
After thinking about this, Qin Yun replied without hesitation: "Disciple must work hard and never let down the master's expectations!"
Shui Wanning smiled slightly: "I have had five apprentices in total. Not counting Luliu, you are the most talented and the hardest working one. I also believe you can do it!"
On that day, Shui Wanning began to teach Qin Yun the art of talismans.
Qin Yun had already read and memorized the three books she originally gave to Qin Yun: "The Way of Talisman", "True Interpretation of Runes" and "True Techniques for Refinement of Talisman", so he had a considerable understanding of the basics of talismans.
Talisman is a technique inherited by Taoism. It can be traced back to ancient times. There were Qi practitioners in the ancient times who drew paper as talismans to suppress evil and drive away evil, cure diseases and eliminate disasters, and develop thousands of magical powers.
The legend has long been difficult to examine in detail, but the art of talisman has been passed down for thousands of years and has many schools and types.
The talisman is the combined name of the talisman and the urn. The talisman refers to the curved strokes written on paper, wood and jade, which are symbols and graphics that look like words but not words, and look like pictures but not pictures. The urn refers to the secret texts of the names and taboos of gods recorded among the talismans, also known as ancient
Divine text.
If you want to refine a talisman, you need to understand and be familiar with the talisman characters, and be able to describe it accurately and accurately with a beast-hair ink pen, without making the slightest mistake.
A little mistake can cause irreparable losses.
The art of talismans can be said to be infinitely mysterious. A person may not be able to understand the true meaning and refine treasure talismans or even divine talismans in his lifetime.
Shui Wanning has been studying talismans for more than ten years, and her most outstanding achievement in talismans is just a high-grade talisman, and most of it is due to luck.
Even if it is the lowest level yellow talisman, it is necessary to pour real power into the tip of the pen when painting or calligraphy, otherwise the final talisman will be just a waste product and cannot activate the power of heaven and earth.
This requires the use of talisman refining techniques!
It was this Qi refining method that Shui Wanning first taught Qin Yun.
The Talisman Refining Zhenji Jue is an orthodox Taoist method. Although it is not a secret Heaven and Earth Xuan Gong, it is no less extensive and profound than the Nine Yang Xuan Gong practiced by Qin Yun.
The Talisman Refining Zhenji Jue is divided into five levels, and each level corresponds to a kind of talisman. That is to say, the first level can be used to refine the yellow talisman, the second level can be used to refine the cloud talisman, and so on. There is no trickery at all.
room.
The biggest feature of this technique is that it can condense the true energy of the Dantian of a warrior or Qi practitioner into the so-called Yuanli, and then use Yuanli to control the pen and make talismans.
No matter which type of Qi of the Five Elements the warrior Qi Refiner practices, there is no difference in the Yuan Power that he condenses. This means that although Qin Yun practices the Qi of the Fire attribute, he can refine any type of talisman.
There are obstacles.
Moreover, there is another way to refine the true talisman. You can use your own real power to mix with your elemental power to refine special talismans. For example, Qin Yun is a fire-attributed talisman, so the fire-attributed talismans refined with this method will have increased power.
become.
In just five days, Qin Yun practiced the Talisman Refining True Machine Technique to the first level.
The first level of skills is the simplest, and he has Shui Wan Ning, a master talisman master, at his side to give pointers at any time, so it was a success without any difficulties.
But it was not that simple to break through to the second level. Shui Wanning did not ask him to practice anymore. Instead, he took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone that he had prepared and asked him to start copying and writing the rune characters.
This most basic training does not require any opportunism. Qin Yun had to copy the 125 characters used in the thick "Illustrated Talisman" hundreds of thousands of times until he was able to write with inspiration.
There is no wrong position in one go.
And these one hundred and twenty-five rune characters only account for less than one-tenth of the total learned!
For every character in the talisman, Shui Wan Ning would explain to Qin Yun the secret of writing, the importance of starting and ending the pen, and the taboos of turning.
She sat next to Qin Yun, impatiently correcting his mistakes in writing, and was completely tireless from day to night.
With such painstaking efforts in teaching, how could Qin Yun live up to her ardent expectations? He also worked extra hard to study. If a rune didn't work ten times, he would write it a hundred times. If it didn't work a hundred times, he would draw it a thousand times!
To this end, he also used the small magical power of Wisdom and Clear Mind, and the effect was immediate.
Ten days later, Qin Yun was able to accurately copy all the 125 characters on the talisman. He could write freely on the paper without looking at the "Illustration of the Talisman". Even Shui Wanning could not find any faults.
Shui Wanning was very satisfied: "You are indeed talented, and there is nothing wrong with teaching you the art of talismans!"
In fact, Qin Yun's current mentality is different from when he first heard that Shui Wanning was going to teach him how to refine talismans. At that time, he was somewhat disapproving and did not want to spend too much time on this aspect.
But after the battle with the black water python and the five disciples in Hanming Cave, Qin Yun truly realized the role that the talisman could play, and it would also be of great help to what he wanted to do in the future.
As a result, his interest in talismans has greatly increased, and his character is perseverant. Once he decides to do something, he will definitely try his best to do it.
After completing the imitation of one hundred and twenty-five talisman characters, Qin Yun entered the final stage of learning the basics of talismans - refining a truly usable talisman.
All the pens, inks, paper and inkstones used for practice were replaced with special ones, including yellow talisman paper, monster tail pen and beast blood cinnabar ink, each of which was valuable.
Shui Wanning took out another book, "Seventy-two Basic Talismans". This book records the patterns of seventy-two basic talismans in detail, which can be copied and copied.
It covers all types of talismans such as attack, defense, treatment, exorcism, fire avoidance, etc. It is an indispensable basic code for beginners.
Although there is "Seventy-two Basic Talismans" that can be compared and copied, for Qin Yun, this last step is also the most difficult!
He wants to use the condensed Yuan Power to infuse the pen tip on the real rune paper, and outline a pattern composed of several or a dozen runes and characters. Any mistake in the strokes or the mistake in controlling the infusion of Yuan Power will have a great impact.
to the final finished product.
At the beginning, Qin Yun was not used to the texture of pen, ink and paper, let alone the method of controlling Yuan Power. He made frequent mistakes and wasted more than a dozen stacks of talisman paper, and none of them was perfect.
The successive misses made Qin Yun a little upset and angry. You must know that the things he wasted were worth at least a few pieces of spiritual jade. Shui Wanning didn't care, but he still felt distressed!
Qin Yun often goes to the Danfu Workshop managed by Luliu in Xuanwu City, so he has some idea of the prices of these items.
But the more he cared about the mistakes, the more mistakes he made. When he was copying a fire-gathering talisman, when he reached the last few strokes, he suddenly lost control of his pen and had a breakpoint, resulting in all his efforts being wasted!
Snap!
Qin Yun couldn't help but slap the talisman pen in his hand on the table, and resisted the urge to tear the talisman paper in front of him into pieces.
The small breakpoints at the connection of the runes seemed like a big open mouth, silently mocking him!
