In Wen Shi's childhood memories, Chen Buu's teachings were rarely taught, either by hand to practice or in a cage.
He always said that the more you see it, the more you will know.
But at that time, what I heard and saw was a little too much, far more than a child should have. So he once asked Chen Dao, if he always encountered a cage, a talisman or a formation he had never seen before, what would he do
Chen Buoyue joked at the time: As long as you are good, don't always think about doing something sneaky about Master and disobeying Master, don't betray Master, don't be big or small, and when it's time to call Master, be honest. Then no matter what you encounter, you can push the door and ask me.
But then he still answered seriously: Even if it is something that has never been seen before, or something created by others, there are traces to follow, you can try to push it with what you understand.
Later, when I heard it when I traveled around alone, I found that this sentence is really useful—
There are always strange people in the world, but geniuses are limited. Most of the things that seem to have no clue at first glance, just make sense. Most of the things that have never been seen before are often changed.
It's normal to hear it outside the range of cognition, causing him a headache, and his relatives and masters can't even reach him.
There are too many things that can’t be met without dust, and it is new to form a group casually.
Just like the red thread, string of beads and kingfisher feathers entwined around his psychic wrist...
Tried to push while smelling-
There are too many functions of the red thread, some are very good and some are very bad. It can be used for marriage, life-changing, and evildoing. Hard to push.
But the meaning of the line is very simple, and it is always used for "pulling" and "connecting", creating a connection between two unrelated things, or deepening an existing connection.
The string of beads wrapped around the hand has both the meaning of counting and the meaning of digestion and karma.
Only the kingfisher feather, I can't think of any common intentions when I smell it.
If he knew the origin of Toba, then he would probably be able to figure out what Xie Wen's wrist was used for...
When I smelled these thoughts, my eyes unconsciously fell on Xie Wen's hands. The dark eyes did not turn for a while, looking deep and focused.
After an unknown period of time, Xie Wen slightly tilted his head towards him, and said in a voice only he could hear, "I'm back, I can't help staring at you like that."
"If you stare at it again, it will become red." Xie Wen added.
"Just your blood, red or something." Wen Shi subconsciously replied, and then withdrew his too direct gaze.
As a person who can control 12 top puppets at the same time at his peak, it is not a problem for him to simply use one heart and two or three. So when he was thinking about the things in Xie Wen's hands, Bu Ning listened to what he said without saying a word, and it didn't have much impact.
He raised his eyelids and looked at Zhou Xu again with a faint expression.
Xie Wen gave a vague "um" and said, "I remember teaching you before, don't compare your own more with others' less."
When I smelled it, there was a sound in my nose, which was an answer.
After answering it, he felt that the more he listened to it, the more inappropriate it became, especially when he listened to it together with the sentence he pushed back.
Saying that he has a lot of blood... Doesn't that mean that he is prone to redness
He pursed his lips and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Bu Ning just finished talking all the content at this moment, turned his head and said to them: "So the one Zhou Xu saw back then should be someone in the Zhang family practicing sorcery."
"Someone?" Zhou Xu stepped out and added, "That room is the grandfather's room, and the gown I saw... If I am not mistaken, it should also be the grandfather's gown, so it's obvious that he is messing with you. Those things? How do you call someone."
It took time for the two of them to switch. Before Bu Ning came out to explain, Wen Shi had already said, "His 'someone' should be listened to."
Just as Bu Ning was about to change over, before he opened his mouth, Zhou Xu, a big idiot, pressed him down and said, "Oh-then I understand, it's just a tactful euphemism."
Bu Ning: "..."
Some people have been like this since they were young, and they came to sit on the entire Songyun Mountain when they were inferior to Master. It's just that Zhong Sizui used to owe him to bring it to the door, and that's right.
Now that Zhong Si is gone, he is the one who suffers.
Bu Ning sighed inwardly and forcibly outlined: "All in all, the general situation is like this. I don't know Master—"
He jammed a bit.
In the past, he would only have to ask "What is Master going to do?" After all, with Master in front of him, their apprentices naturally became a group. After asking the master's thoughts, they can discuss the meaning of the brothers behind closed doors.
but now…
Even if the younger brother wants to discuss it behind closed doors, it is not with him.
Bu Ning paused, and silently added the second half of the sentence: "And junior brother, what are your thoughts?"
Wen Shi said: "You know more about sorcery than I do."
After all, what can be called sorcery will have some unacceptable costs for ordinary people. This cost is often dangerous and painful. People who are willing to go their own way, knowing the cost, often have very different goals, and most of them stem from those few most genuine desires—
Survival, love, fame and fortune.
Or to break free from greater and deeper pain.
And the ones most closely related to these are always hexagrams and formations, sometimes mixed with some spells, and puppets are the least used.
Among the several brothers in Song Yunshan, Bu Ning was the one who dealt the most with sorcery. At most, others have encountered it and solved it in the way they are good at. But Bu Ning is different. He not only knows how to solve it, but also knows how to arrange it.
Next to Bu Ning is Zhuang Ye.
In fact, according to common sense, Zhuang Yecai should be the one who understands the most. After all, he is a miscellaneous practitioner.
But Zhuang Ye's nature is too much, even a little idealized and simple. This senior brother's attitude towards sorcery is that he can not mention it without mentioning it, so he is particularly good at understanding it, but he is not willing to understand more about the principle.
As for what he knows better than Bu Ning, there is only dust on Songyun Mountain.
Because he lived longer than anyone else and saw more than anyone else. To a certain extent, almost everything is included, and the tolerance is much higher than ordinary people.
Just like those black mists that everyone thinks are filthy, in his mouth, they are dust without praise or criticism. In some ordinary people's eyes, sorcery is only used for people, and it's aimed at the wrong thing.
Everyone has their own likes and dislikes. As long as the general direction is not wrong, Chen Dao will rarely intervene, let alone ask his apprentice to follow the same path and have the same idea.
So Bu Ning directly called "witchcraft", and he listened to it the same way. After all, this description is more convenient, and everyone understands.
"What I know is still limited, and I've been thinking about some battles related to life extension, so I don't dare to make assertions." Bu Ning cupped Xie Wen's hand and said, "I wonder if Master has seen others? "
"I've seen a lot." Xie asked, "But the Zhang family is not too different from what you think."
He has never been surprised, and it seems that he is not so surprised when he mentions anything. Several of the apprentices were already used to his temper and tone, so Bu Ning just gave a soft "oh" and nodded, as if the matter was almost settled with just those words.
But it smells different.
He has been with Chennao for the longest and longest time, and he has quietly watched each other in countless unbroken moments, so he can naturally distinguish many subtle and small differences.
He stared at Xie Wen for a few seconds and said, "You knew it before?"
Zhou Xu and Xia Qiao looked at them suddenly, but Lao Mao was lying on the sofa, and he didn't say much without looking, as if he knew something.
"Why do you always demolish my stage?" Xie Wen glanced angrily at some people who turned their faces when they went out.
When hearing it, it was changed to a statement: "So you do know."
"That's it."
"What is considered?"
Wen Shi remembered that he was connected to Xie Wen through the puppet line in the Songyun Mountain formation, had seen the world in his eyes, felt his perception, and heard him mention the reason for returning to the world. But at the time of the chaos, he was full of only Xie Wen's "going" sentence, and the others had long been unclear, and it was only then that he remembered something.
"You said that you kept this body because something happened after a thousand years." Wen Shi frowned, "Just this?"
Xie Wen shook his head and said, "How can the foreseen things be so specific, I just know that it will be a little troublesome."
If it was in the past, if he answered like this, it would be over.
But Wen Shi frowned and stared at him, stubbornly waiting for the next sentence. So he thought about it for a moment, and simply said a little more: "I was already in this body when I had a clear consciousness, probably two years ago."
He rarely counted the time, so he said an imaginary number.
"I can't see what's going on in the Sealing Array now, but because of the spirit, I can perceive it." Xie Wen did not shy away from the seal, as if he was talking about ordinary past events, "That Array should still be sealed tightly, but Around there, someone moved a bit."
"At first I thought it was some ignorant descendant children who were a little interested in the seal, and wanted to explore something rashly, and even wanted to break the seal. Later I found out that it wasn't."
"Not long after I woke up with this body, I encountered a cage in the Tianjin area." Xie Wen said after a moment of silence, then turned to look at Wen Shi: "You may have forgotten it before, but now you don't know. Do you remember? I told you about cage vortex a long time ago."
"When?" Wen Shi didn't respond for a while.
Xie Wen thought for a while, and flattened his palm and gestured at a place no higher than the table leg: "It's so big, when you can't shed a cat's tears."
When smelling: "… "
"Lying on the grass?" Xia Qiao and Zhou Xu called out softly and looked over in shock.
Sleep with your grandma.
When smelled, his face was cold, and the two hundred and five were frozen and turned back.
"I don't remember, I forgot all about it." He didn't move his lips much, and said six words.
Xie asked: "Don't remember at all?"
It seems that his brain is not good, and he let out a cold air when he smelled it, but he still picked up the sentence from his gradually recovering memory: "You said that the cage vortex is not very common, and it is also in the mass graves, famine fields, and epidemic dens. Or where there is constant war."
Because there are too many dead people, and the dust is too heavy, the place will not be clean for a while, and it will become a natural vortex.
For example, the city where Wen Shi was picked up was slaughtered because of the war.
"But now there are a lot of cage vortices." Zhou Xu suddenly said.
Xie asked: "Not only many, but any kind of place may appear."
"Yes, that's it." Zhou Xu nodded vigorously.
"That's what I saw in Tianjin." Xie Wen raised his head and glanced at the roof, and said, "A house that is not as big as this one. Cage vortex. Before I got close, a few people quietly put a talisman behind me, trying to lead me to a different path."
"This operation sounds familiar..." Zhou Xu said with a "lost" expression, and said with disgust: "Congwu is usually handled by the head of the family, a few elders, and my aunt and uncle. It is estimated that you have encountered The Zhang family’s daily rotation in that area is for the younger generation, afraid that someone will enter by mistake, and afraid that the explanation will not be clear, so they usually use some unknowing methods.”
But hearing it now...
God fucking unconscious.
I don't know how those people would react if they found out that the one who put the talisman was the ancestor.
Anyway, if it was Zhou Xu himself... he might have died socially.
"Those people shouldn't have been around the cage for a long time, so they smelled a bit." Xie Wen realized it as soon as he smelled it, "It's almost the same as in the Sealing Array."
"Damn it!" Zhou Xu said, "That's not..."
"If there are only one or two, of course it cannot be ruled out as a coincidence." Xie asked, "I followed the whereabouts of those people into Ningzhou, and found a lot along the way. There are nine in Guangningzhou. Where else?"
"So you said that someone drew something from you, and it flowed around and became a vortex." Wen Shi's face was already ugly.
They are all places that should not have formed a vortex, and they all have the smell of the seal array.
Combined with the passive hands and feet around the formation, and the Zhang family's supervision of the cage...
Everything goes without saying.
"That's why—" Zhou Xu opened his mouth and said, "I don't know if the monster I saw when I was a child was a great master, and sorcery, is it also related to these vortexes?"
Since he was a child, he followed Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin to hear rumors and gossip. He had a lot of stock in his mind, and he immediately thought of various implicated relationships.
Sure enough, Bu Ning gave him the answer: "If it is combined with the cage vortex, then I know what kind of sorcery it is."
Although Wen Shi's knowledge of sorcery is not as good as that of Bu Ning, he had seen Zhang Wan and heard Zhang Wan's words when he left the cage of Baijia Tomb.
She said that the child named Zhang at the foot of Songyun Mountain transferred the disaster that originally belonged to the foot of Songyun Mountain to Liuzhuang, and also involved her, so they entered the cycle of reincarnation with the curse of God, paying debts every life, and every life will end up with a terrible Good death.
She was reborn as Zhang Wan in this life.
That Zhang surnamed child reincarnated into this generation's family, called Zhengchu.
So it all makes sense-
Zhang Zhengchu knew that he had the imprint of divine condemnation on his body, and it would take him an unknown number of lifetimes to wash away, and this life was doomed to not end well.
He may feel that it is unfair to have sinful karma at birth, or he may be unwilling, so he wants to prepare early and use sorcery to change his life.
"I still don't understand, what is he doing with so many caged vortexes, don't tell me that caged vortexes can nourish and maintain health!" Zhou Xu exclaimed in surprise.
"Don't say it, it's really possible." Xie asked.
"How is that possible?! What can be supplemented by cage vortex?"
Xie asked, "Isn't that true of Aunt Hui?"
Zhou Xu was at a loss for a moment, and suddenly he took a breath.
Hui Gu…
The things that grow in the grudge-filled fields grow one after another, kill them, and they can't get rid of them. They are there as long as the "filth" place is there.
They are extremely sensitive to the smell of the spirit of life and happiness, and they feed on them. Some families that are not very lawful will keep some quietly, so that they can find spiritual things sometimes.
The way to raise them is to use the black fog of resentment to store a small pool, limit it to a controllable scale, and keep them alive. But there are still risks.
Compared with the small pool hidden at home, the cage vortex placed in various places is much safer.
No wonder the cage vortex is in charge of a few people in the family, and the other rotating juniors only have the share of reporting, but not the share of participation.
No wonder those caged vortexes will not send someone to solve them unless they have to. They say they are troublesome, but who can tell the actual reason
Zhou Xu couldn't help but think of the scene he saw in Zhang Zhengchu's bedroom when he was a child—
There are countless incense burners on the ground, each with three sticks of incense sticks, and the incense sticks are strung with yellow paper talismans. That "weird person" was crawling on the ground like Hui Gu, and from time to time he would lean in front of the incense burner and take a deep breath of smoke.
It's like... breathing something else through the smoke and getting a life out of it.
The more he thought about it, the more horrified he felt—that Ben's family had lived in his family for an unknown number of years, and each of the judges' families had to let one of the other's family advocate Zhengchu, but he was such a monster.
He rubbed his face, looked up in panic, and saw Wen Shi's face as cold as a glacier, and the storm was about to come.
"What, what's wrong with you?" Zhou Xu asked.
Bu Ning replied kindly: "Those cages are swirling around, protected by the Zhang family, and they are still puzzled. Every day every year, they lead innocent people into cages, or erode nearby people, and those people's resentment is evil. After a certain period of accumulation, it is easy to form a cage and become a part of the cage vortex. This vicious cycle, the cage vortex will grow bigger and bigger, and expand a little bit..."
That's bad.
Zhou Xu thought.
Then he heard Bu Ning say: "And those, the essence is still drawn from the master, so he has to bear the burden."
"Fuck me."
Zhou Xu was really scared now.
He finally understood why Wen Shi looked like the mountains were about to come...
He can understand anything.
Just then, his phone suddenly vibrated.
Zhou Xu took it out and saw that the familiar and unfamiliar number jumped on the screen. Although he hadn't had time to save it, he had already memorized the number.
It is Zhang Zhengchu.
"Yes." Someone said.
Zhou Xu shook his hand and silently clicked to connect.
Under the silent stare of the ancestors in a house, he said "hello", and then heard Zhang Zhengchu say on the other end of the phone: "Xiao Xu, the grandfather is here."
Zhou Xu's heart skipped a beat: "Where are you?"
Zhang Zhengchu said, "The entrance to the village."
Zhou Xuxin said that you didn't ask us which village, how do you know the location? After thinking about it, Hao Lai still has something similar to a tracer, so why should he say it himself
"Or." Zhou Xu thought about it and said, "Or you guys come up—"
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted when he heard it.
At some point in time, his hand was wrapped in a puppet thread, long and short hanging from his fingertips.
He said, "No, let's go down."
When he hung up the phone, Zhou Xu thought of four words inexplicably.
Death is coming.