1090, the breeze and the bright moon come to accompany you
It was night, the moon was bright, the stars were sparse, and the trees were dense.
After Su Yi saw Su Sanqi, he clicked on the sleeping points of the two rescued middle-aged men to ensure that they slept until dawn. Then he placed incense eucalyptus in the courtyard and drew a magic circle.
He doesn't want to save the evil spirits here, because there are too many of them, and it's impossible for him to save them.
Moreover, setting up an altar for salvation in a place where there are ghosts of wronged souls everywhere will make all the ghosts hostile, and they will be besieged if they do anything wrong. With Su Yi's current level of inexperience, once he encounters such a scene, he will definitely die.
Not to mention that he doesn't know what the hell is going on in this world right now. He would be foolish to rush into action without knowing anything. He would not be so unwise as to seek death.
What Su Yi wants to do is not to transcend, but to seduce the soul.
When he opened his eyes to look at the mulberry forest before, he discovered two special beings among the ghostly shadows - a pair of boys and girls.
This pair of boys and girls looked to be only seven or eight years old. Although they were ghostly, their faces and bodies were almost the same as before in life, and their cute appearance in life was still clearly visible.
They were floating among a bunch of horrible-looking ghosts, standing out from the crowd and particularly eye-catching.
On the other hand, other ghosts and lakes of flesh and blood look very scary.
There are three reasons why this pair of boys and girls are so special -
First, they have not passed their first seven days of death, which means they have been dead for less than seven days. They are still in the bardo stage and are ignorant, so they have no experience of being a ghost. When Su Yi looked over there before, other people
The ghosts all showed expressions of greed, hatred, fear, etc., but the boy and girl had only curiosity on their faces.
Secondly, they have no resentment. Not all ghosts who are killed are resentful. There are very few ghosts who are killed by others and have no resentment. For example, some mothers are harmed by their sons but do not blame them.
Without resentment, one cannot turn into a ghost. The reason why this pair of boys and girls had no resentment was because they died in ignorance. They probably knew nothing about the ogres who waited for them to eat their corpses after death.
Third, this pair of boys and girls have not yet passed the first seven days, and their soul bodies have not yet completely solidified. Once the first seven days have passed and experienced a seven-day cycle of death, their soul bodies will take shape, and then they will be in the same place.
Among the piles of wronged souls and evil ghosts, there is only one fate waiting for them, and that is to become food in the mouths of other evil ghosts!
In other words, if Su Yi arrived a few days late, he would definitely not be able to see the boy and girl.
Think about it, they are pitiful. They were born as humans, but they were killed at an ignorant young age. Their bodies were eaten, and their ghosts were reduced to food for other evil spirits. From then on, they disappeared completely from this world.
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How can it be such a bad word?
The first time Su Yi saw the pair of little ghosts, he had an idea and decided to adopt them.
Firstly, it can save the pair of little ghosts from the miserable end of losing their souls; secondly, having two little ghosts by his side for him to drive will also be of great benefit to him in the future.
When it comes to raising little ghosts, it is not necessarily an evil thing, but if you use it righteously, you will be righteous, and if you use it evilly, you will be evil.
Children who die young will inevitably become lonely ghosts wandering in the world of the sun. They are very pitiful. If someone saves them, it will naturally be their blessing. However, if no one saves them, they will have to endure the pain of seven days of reincarnation in the world of the sun while waiting for their original life span.
Only when it is exhausted can you enter the underworld and be reincarnated.
Many little ghosts do not survive the time to go to the underworld, and most of the time they are devoured by evil ghosts.
Therefore, when Su Yi adopts the little ghosts, he only drives them to do things, but it also gives them a little more safety and security, and allows them to be fed and strengthened by Su Yi. Before Su Yi leaves this world, he will also save them and let them go to the underworld to be reincarnated.
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The most important thing is that if Su Yi doesn't adopt them, they will be gone. Therefore, Su Yi's move is not only not to enslave them, but to save them and help them, and to accumulate evil virtue.
But Ah Jiu in the previous world was different. Almost all the little ghosts he raised were killed by him. His purpose of raising little ghosts was to save food for himself. He was very vicious and cruel.
When it comes to raising little ghosts, both Buddhism and Taoism have similar techniques, especially those of demons and heretics. Such techniques are even more varied and have different uses.
Orthodox Taoist practitioners generally raise little ghosts to drive them to serve and do things for themselves, and there is no evil or cruel purpose.
In the Maoshan technique Su Yi learned, a total of four ways to raise little ghosts were recorded.
The first method is called the method of seducing the soul. To raise a little ghost in this way, you need to burn incense in front of the grave of a boy or girl who unfortunately died young, draw a charm to attract the soul, and then plant a prepared plant on the grave to let it grow naturally.
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When the plant grows luxuriantly, he chants the incantation and burns the talisman, carves the plant roots into a three-inch three-inch puppet, then outlines the facial features of the puppet with cinnabar and the blood of practitioners, and finally casts a spell to seal the child's soul inside the puppet.
Just hit it.
In this way, the little ghosts will establish a master-servant relationship with the caster. The master will feed him with his own blood, and they will also admire and rely on the master more.
During the day, they will hide in the puppets to sleep, but at night, the owner can let them out, and they can protect the owner or do things for the owner. Most of the little ghosts are simple-minded, and as long as the owner tells them, they will do as they are told.
Yes, never bargain.
If they can complete the task and receive rewards from their master, they will be happy; if they cannot complete the task, they will be depressed and sad.
The second method is called the head-lowering technique. As you can tell from the name, it is an imported technique that was absorbed from outside by the seniors of Maoshan.
To use the head-lowering technique to raise an imp, you need to carve a small coffin the size of a palm first, then find the corpse of a newly deceased boy or girl, make it sit up, and then use a candle made of corpse oil to roast the chin of the corpse.
Until the corpse's chin is burned to pieces by the fire, exposing the fat layer, and then when the fat layer is heated and dissolved into corpse oil and drips, it is placed in a small coffin prepared in advance.
After that, he immediately added a seal and recited the mantra, chanting it back and forth for forty-nine days, and the little devil could obey orders and do what he was asked to do.
The third method is similar to the head-lowering technique and is called soul-chasing bone.
This technique is to pry out the coffin of a dead child, then disembowel it and take out the ribs.
If it is a girl, take the fourth rib from the right; if it is a boy, take the third rib from the left.
After obtaining the bones, the mage can recite incantations and perform rituals to collect the ghost's soul for his own use.
Generally speaking, the first three methods of raising imps are the gentlest, while the latter two require destroying the corpse of the deceased, which are more cruel.
But compared to the fourth method, the first three methods can all be called "kind".
When Su Yi first saw the fourth method of raising a kid, he frowned and thought to himself, isn't this an evil method?
How could the Maoshan Taoist orthodoxy record such evil and sinister techniques?
This fourth method is called stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix. It is done when the pregnant woman is three months pregnant, taking a breath of the baby in her belly, merging her own blood with a vegetable seed, and then planting the vegetable seed on the pole.
In a yin place, water it with talisman water to make it take root, sprout and grow. This vegetable is called Yuancai.
When the pregnant woman gives birth in ten months, the Yuancai will give birth to abnormal shapes. At this time, the caster will burn a talisman and cut off the Yuancai with a knife, and the soul of the born baby will be transferred to the seed of the Yuancai.
From then on, this Yuancai flowerpot became its habitat.
And the pregnant woman over there will give birth to a dead baby because his soul has been harvested.
This method of stealing a dragon and turning it into a phoenix can be said to be very dehumanizing. Su Yi later asked Chen You and learned that there is a reason why this method has been passed down from ancient times to this day.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Contraception was not popular in ancient times, so the number of people in the family increased year by year, and the living burden of poor families was extremely heavy. In view of this, people who are proficient in this technique will target their own children, which can reduce the burden and enable them to do more work.
The little ghost is a helper, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Although this is still very cruel, there is still a certain market among poor people.
Of course, this fourth method is definitely considered a sin, and the caster will definitely be burdened with karma and retribution after death.
It's just a world of misery. Most people in the world only care about the road ahead of them, and who care about what's behind them?
Of the four methods, the last three are not suitable for Su Yi to use because there are no conditions at all.
The corpses of the boy and girl had long been eaten by the ogre, and the bones were thrown away.
On the contrary, the first method is simply tailor-made for Su Yi.
The reason why the mulberry forest in front of him is lush is because it is watered with the blood and internal organs of the victim. This directly saves the most time-consuming step of the first method. Su Yi only needs to take the trees where the two imps live.
Use a branch on each branch, turn it into a puppet, highlight the facial features, and you can proceed directly to the final step of seducing the soul and conquering the ghost.
Although it was the first time for Su Yi to use this method of seducing souls and summoning ghosts, this technique was not difficult, so there was no possibility of failure for him.
But when I went to cut down the mulberry trees and recruit the little ghost bodies, I still encountered setbacks.
For the fierce ghosts in the forest, they had long regarded the boy and girl as their treasures. How could they be willing to take advantage of Su Yi's tiger's mouth now?
But firstly, most of them are restricted in their movements in the forest and cannot get out at all; secondly, Su Yi has already set up the magic circle, and there are not many powerful characters who can come out. Not only can they not hurt Su Yi, but they are also killed by Su Yi.
B's magic circle hurt him and he fled back in a hurry.
If they kept going back and forth, they no longer dared to provoke Su Yi. They could only watch as Su Yi cast a spell and put the two little ghosts into the carved puppets.
The moment the technique was successful, Su Yi clearly felt that he had established a very mysterious connection with the two puppets on the eucalyptus in front of him.
It's not as magical as being able to make them understand the meaning with just a thought. This connection is more like a contract, allowing Su Yi to understand that he is the master of these two little ghosts. Su Yi can see them at any time without using any magic.
to them.
The two little ghosts also understand that they have a master. As long as they obey the master's words, they will be rewarded; if they disobey the master's wishes, they will be punished.
Looking at the two puppets in front of him, Su Yi clearly felt the two consciousnesses hidden inside, and the emotions they conveyed could also be clearly captured by Su Yi.
Fear, curiosity, anticipation, apprehension...
Very complex.
Su Yi smiled slightly, pricked his finger with a silver needle, and dropped a drop of blood on each of the two puppets.
As soon as the blood fell on the puppet, the two little ghosts inside immediately emitted strong emotional fluctuations of joy and joy. The blood quickly dissolved into the puppet and disappeared, as if nothing had happened.
This is not about "recognizing the master with a drop of blood", but feeding.
Ghosts actually hate the blood of strangers, especially the blood of practitioners, which is definitely the nemesis of ghosts.
But as the master, Su Yi's blood is a great benefit to these two little devils.
Because they have established a blood connection, the little ghost will be close to and admire his master.
However, although little ghosts are loyal to their masters, don't think that they are harmless.
The establishment of the master-servant relationship is not absolute. If you just force them to do things without giving them rewards, they will also become emotional, passive and go on strike. In severe cases, they may even backfire on their masters, causing misfortune to their masters, or even causing their masters to die tragically.
The rewards for them are quite simple. Give them some candies and toys, and they will be very happy. Give them a drop of blood every now and then, and it will satisfy them even more.
But you must not give too much blood, because humans are greedy, let alone ghosts. They must know how precious and hard-won blood is.
Furthermore, little ghosts are jealous and childlike, and most of them are naughty and playful. When getting along with little ghosts, you must take care of their emotions and pay attention to the way you get along with them.
For example, some little ghosts pay special attention to whether their master values them, so when the master is eating, they must not forget to put more bowls on the table so that they can sit and eat together. When drinking tea and water, they must not forget about them. They must first
Pour the tea into the cup and pour it on the ground next to you.
Although the little ghosts cannot speak human language, they can understand what their masters say. Some little ghosts especially like to hear their masters talking to them, and will pester you to talk to them from time to time, no matter what you say.
Some little ghosts like candies and toys, so they should put the candies and toys in dark corners of the home so that they can eat and play with them at any time.
In short, raising imps is just like getting along with people. You must pay attention to propriety and degree. Don't be too spoiled, but don't be too harsh either.
Through the habits of these little ghosts, you can sometimes tell whether someone has a little ghost.
If someone puts out empty bowls when eating, has no children at home, buys toys and puts them in the corner, and sometimes talks to himself, he must have raised a kid.
Raising little ghosts is not necessarily the exclusive domain of cultivators. Some ordinary people also raise little ghosts to achieve certain purposes.
For example, gamblers or celebrities need imps to help them make fortunes; people who fish for side jobs need imps to warn them or harm others; some old and lustful concubines will ask imps to perform the trick of covering their eyes with ghosts to fascinate drifters.
Make the other party willing to empty their pockets.
After Su Yi was fed with blood, the two little ghosts finally stopped recognizing life and boldly floated out of the puppets, wandering around Su Yi and looking at their new master curiously.
Su Yi looked at them and smiled slightly, and said: "From now on, let's call them Qingfeng and Mingyue."