Xu Dao instantly felt that his eyesight went dark, and his body felt weightless. In the thick darkness, he couldn't see his fingers, he didn't know where he was, and he fell into a sense of death from the inside out.
But at the same time, he felt that there was an unusual noise in his ears. The clattering sound of wooden signs kept ringing, there were also fairy sounds and demonic roars, and cries and howls, all mixed together, making people's minds restless.
Xu Dao's mind was spinning, and he couldn't help but recall his experiences from childhood to adulthood. It became clearer and clearer, and everything was detailed, as if someone was helping him review his memories.
But at this moment, the dozens of Qingxin Talisman seeds planted in his head vibrated gently, causing his mind to fall into an abnormal state.
Buzz!
Xu Dao's eyes froze, and he immediately came back from his dazed state with a solemn mood.
If it were other Taoist priests, they might not know exactly what happened just now, but Xu Tao's spiritual roots are ghost veins and he has the talent of eating ghosts and searching for souls. He immediately realized that his previous state was different from the person whose soul was being searched.
The situation is very similar.
It's just that the situation just now was not as overbearing and dangerous as searching for souls. Instead, it induced the affected people to actively review their lives and expose their spiritual thoughts, without using forced methods to torture their souls.
After coming back to his senses, Xu Dao looked around vigilantly and found that there were a few lights in the darkness. These lights gathered together and slowly formed a text pattern. The two most prominent words on it were his name: "
Xu Dao".
And Xu Dao suddenly discovered that these bright lights were the thoughts he had involuntarily emitted just now. They were woven together like silk threads and gathered into a Bagua shape, which was similar to the wooden sign he saw outside the dark room before.
Seeing this scene, he instantly understood: "It turns out that these wooden plaques hanging in the dark room not only represent the identities of each Taoist priests, but their essence is formed by ingesting the thoughts of Taoist priests and mixing their memories."
If he hadn't woken up in time just now, his memories from his birth to the present, including his previous life, would have been faithfully recorded in this square wooden tablet.
At that time, if someone gets this wooden tablet, he can deduce his temperament based on the various memories in the wooden tablet and deal with him.
This was just Xu Dao's conjecture about the wooden sign. He expected that this sign should have other functions, such as being like a soul lamp, it should also be able to show the Taoist's life and death, remind the Taoist of his general direction, etc.
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As a result, Xu Dao, who was about to destroy the wooden sign, hesitated for a moment. He secretly evaluated whether destroying the wooden sign would mean that he refused to join the Taoist Palace and would annihilate himself from the Erhai Taoist Palace.
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But he is not willing to truthfully pour his memories into it so that the Taoist palace can visit it casually in the future. Such a price is much more severe than being interrogated about eighteen generations of ancestors.
After thinking about it, Xu Dao reached out and grabbed the "wooden sign" in front of him. He planned to tamper with the memory in it and only put in some irrelevant things.
Xu Dao first used his spiritual consciousness to check whether there was any ulterior content in the thoughts that had been ingested. Then he cleared his mind and actively reviewed his past experiences in his mind, preparing to input them.
At this moment, Xu Dao's heart moved and he suddenly thought of another method.
It is said that not all the memories in his mind belong to him, some of them belong to the master of the Yaksha Sect. This is because Xu Daoyin Shen accidentally swallowed part of the other party's memory after he established the foundation.
In the past, he suppressed these memories to prevent them from affecting his temperament.
And now since someone wants to see the memories in his mind, why not release these things? There are also some contents that Soul Searcher has seen.
These things are all true, reliable and meticulous. Xu Dao can cut and combine them to randomly make up a new set of life experiences.
As soon as he thought of it, Xu Dao immediately used the memory of the Yaksha Sect Master in his mind as the main one, supplemented by his own experiences, and added some experiences of other people to create a fictitious life of more than ten years.
Although his career of more than ten years is relatively short, no matter how long it is, it will be difficult for him to do it for a while. Moreover, he has been practicing Taoism so far, and he is only about 20 years old. At this age, his life experience does not need to be too heavy.
After making up this set of life experiences, Xu Dao immediately stuffed them all into the wooden sign with his name on it, and checked it several times to remove some loopholes.
After handling these things, he let go, but there was still a wooden sign floating in front of him, floating up and down.
After Xu Dao finished inputting his "memory", the wooden sign was very solid and looked no different from other signs in the darkroom to the naked eye. At least Xu Dao himself couldn't tell the difference.
He waited nervously. Although no one from the palace came to stop him during the process, it is possible that no one discovered that he was cheating.
But everything still depends on whether he can truly pass this stage.
Soon, something happened that made Xu Dao's heart pick up in his throat. A red rope slowly descended from the darkness. It twisted and squirmed, like a snake or a fishing line, floating and suspended above him.
On top of his head, it swayed back and forth, slowly hooking up with the wooden sign engraved with his name.
Then immediately, Xu Dao felt a pulling force coming from the wooden sign hanging by the red rope, which made him want to jump out of his soul and plunge into it.
At first, Xu Dao thought it was an illusion and suppressed it and ignored it. However, as he suppressed it, the impulse became stronger and stronger, making him want to split his body in two and throw half into the wooden sign.
Keep half for your own use.
He realized clearly: "It is really similar to a 'soul lamp'."
This should be to induce the new Taoist priest to split a bit of soul power and throw it into the wooden tablet to form a connection. From then on, the life of the Taoist priest can be linked to this wooden tablet. When people are alive, the card will be there, and when people are dead, the card will be dead.
It is even possible that the Taoist palace can use this wooden sign to cast spells and curses on Taoist priests from the air, controlling life and death.
Of course, the latter is not so easy to do, and there are many restrictions. Xu Dao only occasionally heard rumors of such curses from Taoist books.
Buzz!
The wooden plaque engraved with Xu Dao's name shook more and more intensely, as if he would collapse the next moment if he didn't take the initiative to leave a mark of his soul on it.
Xu Dao pondered, he did not succumb to this point carelessly, but after thinking about it, he suddenly grabbed a ghost object from the inner heaven and earth altar and threw it towards the wooden sign, hoping that the other party would imprint the traces of his soul on his behalf.
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But it is a pity that the ghost floated up and was immediately rejected by the wooden sign, and cracks appeared in the body of the sign.
This made Xu Dao panic, but he gritted his teeth and still did not really imprint his soul on it. Instead, he boldly grabbed the soul of a tooth general in the inner world and divided it into three and five.
Cleaning out the teeth changed the memories after birth into the things I had just made up.
Then he held up the soul of the tooth general and carefully moved it towards the wooden sign.
Ding! The two collided, and what surprised him was that the wooden sign no longer rejected it, but instead sent out an absorbing force in an attempt to absorb it. Although the force was not strong, it was far from being as strong as towards him.
But it’s okay anyway.
Xu Dao was afraid that the other party would regret it, so he directly stuffed his teeth into the whole soul and let it be imprinted. Anyway, the soul was not his own, so it didn't matter if he stuffed more into it.
It seems that Ya Jiang's soul has an inseparable relationship with Xu Dao, and Mupai really accepted it.
A flash of spiritual light flashed across the card, and it completely changed from virtual reality to a real object. Xu Dao couldn't help but stretched out his hand to touch it, and warmed it, which actually gave him a feeling of spiritual connection and blood connection.
It's just that in addition to his name, this wooden sign also depicts the face of General Ya, inserted between the two characters "Xudao", like a decorative pattern.
Fortunately, it was not conspicuous and should not be a serious problem. Xu Dao glanced at it for a few times and let go of the wooden sign with a guilty conscience.
The next moment, he suddenly felt the wooden sign in front of him shaking. In the darkness in his eyes, densely packed wooden signs with red ropes suddenly appeared in countless numbers. They were high or low, swinging randomly like leaves.
The wooden sign with the word "Xudao" written on it was also mixed in and started to sway.
He turned around and found seven Taoists with dazed expressions appearing next to him.
These people were the newly promoted Taoist priests who were about to join the Taoist Palace. Several of them had just taken away the wooden plaques in front of them and were looked at by Xu Dao. No need to think too much, the other party must have experienced something similar to him.
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It's just that these seven people didn't have any means. They either came to their senses now, or they succumbed to the urging and imprinted the power of their souls in the dark room.
Although Xu Dao watched with cold eyes, the expression on his face did not forget to do it. He also followed the trend and showed a dazed and confused expression.
Just when he was thinking about what would happen next, a bright light suddenly jumped out in front of everyone, and it was so blinding that they couldn't help but squint their eyes.
A voice came: "Congratulations to all of you who have passed the Silkworm Room to ask questions and are listed in the Dharma Rui. From now on, you will be members of our Taoist Palace!"
It turned out that the bright light was the light coming from outside the dark room, and the speaker was the Taoist priest Zhuang Bufan. The other person looked at Xu Dao and others with a smile on his face. Even when facing the new Taoist priests from the Wuzhao side, the other person's attitude was gentle.
The newly promoted Taoist priests had different reactions after hearing this. Most were at a loss, and some were surprised after hearing the words clearly. Among them, only Xu Dao chewed on what Zhuang Bufan said and said secretly in his heart:
"It turns out that this room is called the 'Silkworm Room'."
But he didn't quite understand the meaning of this title, so he thought about it for a moment and then gave it up.
Immediately, another scolding sounded:
"What are you doing standing there in a daze? Come out quickly." It was the Taoist priest who was in the realm of refining Gang and saw everyone looking stupid and couldn't help but urge them.
"Ah!", "Yes.", "This is..."
The new Taoist priests had different expressions, but they all obeyed and stepped out of the darkroom.
Xu Dao mingled among them and walked out of the dark room of the silkworm room inconspicuously. After arriving outside the door, he turned around and looked inside the door, and saw at a glance the wooden sign he had just hung up. The wooden sign
Just like him, there is no difference among other wooden signs.
Xu Dao breathed a sigh of relief at this situation:
"It seems that this silkworm room is mysterious. It has its own set of processes and there is no interference from other Taoists. It seems that no one saw my little moves."
On the other side, the other new Taoist priests couldn't help but chat. From time to time, words such as "asking the heart", "showing loyalty", and "checking the roots" popped up in their words. Afterwards, they realized what they had just done in the darkroom of the silkworm room.
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At this moment, Zhuang Bufan suddenly looked at Xu Dao with a smile and asked, "I wonder what kind of gifts Xu Daoyou got from the seniors in the silkworm house?"
"Huh?" Xu Dao was slightly startled when he heard that. He immediately pricked up his ears and suddenly heard someone next to him saying excitedly:
"At that time, I felt a warm current flowing into my body, and suddenly there were more exercises in my head, and I also had a lot of insights!"
"It's so, so, so awesome! It's really amazing! This poor Taoist seems to have learned this method without practicing it... Fellow Taoist, what kind of skill do you have?"
After Xu Dao heard these words clearly, his heart skipped a beat and he secretly exclaimed that it was terrible.
It turned out that among the eight new Taoist priests present, except for him, the other seven had all received great benefits from the silkworm room, and they were related to benefits in terms of martial arts. Zhuang Bufan was asking him what kind of benefits he had received.
exercises.
After hearing this clearly, Xu Dao didn't know whether he should regret his "opportunistic" behavior just now. Otherwise, as Zhuang Bufan said, "sincerity leads to spirituality", and he would also be able to obtain a skill!
Bite the bullet, when Xu Dao was about to say that he was unlucky and didn't get it, Zhuang Bufan explained first:
"Fellow Taoist Xu, there is no need to worry. No one can take away the benefits gained in the silkworm room. This is true for all Taoist priests in the palace. No matter how good the skills you obtain, others can only envy you."
"Of course, if there are exercises that have not been included in the palace, fellow Taoists will have to record them in the classics of the Dharma Palace, but they will also receive another reward for this."
Hearing these words, Xu Dao realized that most of the strange people like him had never appeared in the Taoist Palace, and he quickly choked back the words that came to his lips.
In desperation, he thought that he only had two skills related to the Dao Palace, one was the Jingjing Pian, and the other was the Yin Lei method.
The former is not trivial and should not be discussed unless it is absolutely necessary; the latter can be said, but when he listened to the people around him talking about the techniques, he found that the techniques passed down in the silkworm house must be at the foundation building level.
Thinking out of desperation, Xu Dao remembered that there was another chapter in "The Yin Thunder Method of Tanzhong Palm", which was a Yang Lei method that could only be practiced by those in the inner sect of the Tao Palace.
Although he didn't know his full name, he could still hold his breath and clasped his hands and said: "It's just the Yang Lei method."
Zhuang Bufan did not doubt him after hearing this. Instead, he raised his eyebrows slightly and said with a smile:
"Fellow Daoist Xu has a predestined relationship with Lei Zhao. This method is what the people in Lei Zhao want to get most. It can save so much effort out of thin air. When they hear it, they will probably die of envy."
""Hahaha, congratulations fellow Taoist!"
Xu Dao agreed angrily and calmly fumbled a few words, somehow trying to get over it.
But what the other person said next made him a little dumbfounded.
I only heard Zhuang Bufan say: "You all just find a quiet room in this palace, strike while the iron is hot, and digest the gains as soon as possible. You will have to check them in nine hours at most."