Wet viviparity

Chapter 110: Miraculous Effects, Secret Talismans
The content of the second test was actually secretly instructed by Monk Fawen. The questions were indeed beyond the syllabus for an ordinary person, but for Heguan Zhenchuan, the difficulty was only medium to high.

He did this on a spur of the moment idea. It was just yesterday, after he practiced dual cultivation with the blue-eyed female Taoist priest, that a flash of inspiration came to him. Even Taoist Xuan Jing from Heguan did not expect this.

He flipped through the answer sheets in his hand and found his answers were completely nonsense.

Looking through the answers given by some of the monks from small families in our sect, they are considered to be quite standard, but their answers to those questions that were beyond the syllabus were ambiguous.

I flipped through several of them, eliminating some that were unqualified, and finally saw the answer sheet of Instructor Shilong.

"Jiaoshi" was his private respectful title, referring specifically to those people who had a special skill and had accepted his advice.

He treated his teachers as his own family, hence the name.

Fa Wen knew a little about the quality of the teachers. He was not deaf, and even if he was, there would be people to remind him.

However, "Once you realize the truth and see your true self, why should you fear the old shackles of the past?" He really loves his present life and feels that his present life is his true self, and the rules and regulations of the past are just shackles and troubles.

With this kind of realization, one will naturally turn a blind eye to certain things.

Honestly speaking, Shilong's answer was somewhere between nonsense and just OK.

It can be seen that Shilong has some experience as a teacher, but there is no master to guide him in these areas, so most of his comments on questions beyond the syllabus are speculation.

After giving Instructor Shilong a reassuring smile, he gently placed this answer sheet in the pile of qualified ones.

Ji Ming didn't understand why Fa Wen picked up the answer sheet, but then put it down again, and put it in the pile of qualified answers. Was that smile meant to help him cheat? !

He is the disciple of Fei Huzi, the golden boy chosen by the local master, and the reincarnated celestial being. Even if he has no one to guide him and studies the Taoist scriptures on his own, he should be able to do well, right?
Honestly speaking, compared to the confidence he had right after the exam, he now feels uncertain, but this seems to have indirectly saved him from a minor disaster.

Yes, it was a minor disaster. In Ji Ming’s mind, Fawen was not a big threat.

"strangeness."

Fa Wen flipped through all the answer sheets but didn't find the one he wanted.

When Fa Wen was about to look through it again, the old Taoist flicked his dust tail and a rope of air came out of thin air, sweeping away the stack of qualified answer sheets.

"Now that you have finished your review, let's prepare for the third test, 'Deciphering the Talisman Diagram'."

"and many more!"

At this time, a person who had failed the previous assessment spoke up and said, "Since Taiping Mountain revived the Taoist tradition, we have been reviving the Taoist learning here and striving to inspire our fellow practitioners to pursue the Tao.

Therefore, the difficulty of the Taoist citizen examinations over the past decade has been reduced, and there have never been any questions beyond the scope of this examination. You must be cheating for personal gain."

"Yes."

A senior candidate who had taken the exam three times in a row came out to support him, saying, "Fahwen Monk, we have heard of your reputation. You have formed a clique in the other courtyard and suppressed dissidents. You are not righteous."

As more and more people jumped out, Monk Fawen's face looked unhappy and he had already started to prepare a fist stance.

"Enough!" The monk Fawen shouted and punched out. The fist made a loud bang that killed the evil spirit and echoed in the woods for a long time.

In an instant, the light on many of the wanderers' bodies was broken, and the demonic forms that had been deliberately concealed were all revealed. They all shrank back in fear.

"How can we allow you, the demons, to comment on our sect's policies?"

Monk Fawen gathered his strength and punched continuously, causing loud noises in the forest and stirring up waves of pine trees in the forest.

With the sound of the Gansui Fist and the evil-killing fists ringing out, more and more independent people are no longer able to conceal their own demonic features with magic.

In the forest, they covered their faces with their sleeves, pulled their robes over their bodies, and hid their heads and buttocks. How could they dare to cause trouble again?

It is said that the more people lack something, the more they value it. Among the group of independent people, face is sometimes more important than that of the righteous monks.

Fa Wen's punches revealed their true colors. What surprised Ji Ming was that many of the cultivators from his own clan also showed their demonic forms, and they all wanted to burrow into the ground.

The old Taoist priest came out to help out at the right time and said, "According to the usual practice, the Taoist scriptures usually have three or four tests, but this time there are only two tests, which is already a privilege."

The old Taoist felt very annoyed when he said this. This practice he was referring to was for other branch temples, and the five or six examinations held by Fayan Branch Temple over the past ten years were all second examinations.

Soon, more than half of the examinees in the forest were cleared out, leaving only a few scattered ones. Ji Ming noticed that the old man was among them.

The talisman prints were distributed to the remaining examinees one by one. Ji Ming unfolded them and saw that there was indeed a new talisman inside.

Others were not surprised. In the past two years, there were always new talismans appearing in the test of deciphering talismans. Fortunately, the difficulty was similar to that of the small Zhoutian talismans.

Ji Ming looked at the talisman thoughtfully. It was not difficult for him to see that the method used by the Four Sad Cloud Temple to search for the celestial being was mainly focused on the fact that the celestial being had its own efficaciousness.

This is true for confessions and talismans.

Ji Ming had never seen this new talisman in any Taoist book. Perhaps the Sibeiyun Temple was afraid that he had prepared a book on talisman explanations in advance, so they deliberately took out an unpopular talisman.

As long as he encountered the Yin Demon's questioning of his heart during the process of deciphering the talisman, he would be taken down immediately.

"interesting!"

Judging from the style of this symbol, it resembles dragon and phoenix seal characters, and should have come from the era before the Tian Zhou Dynasty when people did not keep track of years or write history.

After a closer look, I found something new, but this discovery could not be revealed in public.

Many earthen tombs have been built around, some in the shape of steamed buns, some in the shape of spires, and some in the shape of square earthen coffins, with various shapes, all used for burying the earth and performing rituals.

One by one, they had already mixed the wet mud and started walking in steps.

If conditions permit, they will also summon three to five little ghosts, pray for mercy and offer food, and ask them to raise prayer flags.

Ji Ming pushed out his Qi, and the earth in front of him sank, separated, and then built up again. A mound of earth soon appeared. This miraculous secret skill attracted many eyes.

"What merit is this?"

The old Taoist holding the dust tail asked in surprise.

"Postnatal Gangqi."

The old Taoist looked at the monk Fawen who answered him, with an expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated, and finally just shook his head.

Ji Ming held a porcelain bowl in his paws. The water and soil in the bowl were gradually mixed together under the push of the Qi force, but they were clearly separated upon closer inspection.

When he stepped down from the earth mound with the Gangbu step, the Qi in the bowl brought out a stream of clear water, which sprinkled on the talisman rubbing scroll, and a line of small words emerged.

"There is a earth-moving escape talisman inside. Come to the west of the pine forest as soon as possible. There is a book explaining the talisman diagram. - Letter from Xuan Jing"

Ji Ming took out a small yellowish talisman paper from the scroll and thought to himself, "My senior brother seems to be able to foresee things."

After sealing the bag of earth, Ji Ming released a bit of his energy onto the talisman paper. The small talisman immediately ignited, the flames disappeared in an instant, and a beam of earth light sank into Ji Ming's body.

Not far away, in a square "tomb" built of stone slabs, an old man was sitting in it, smoking a pipe.

In this enclosed space, there was only a candlelight, a scroll of talisman rubbings hung in front, and a bowl of wet mud was placed at the feet.

The old man was not in a hurry to decipher the talisman. Instead, he scratched his itchy face. Later, he simply took it off completely, revealing an even older face.

In his mouth full of rotten teeth, he said: "Shilong, I, an old man, have been thinking about you all the time!"

(End of this chapter)