Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 11 A little light is a talisman
The next morning, I returned to reality.

Ren Yuan told Hua Limao exactly what happened in his dream.

The civet cat was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes. It was not easy. After so many years, he finally saw hope. So he patted his chest and promised to get him a thunderbolt sword tomorrow!

After saying that, he turned around and left. When he reached the window, he slapped his head again, turned back and said to him: "There is something important that I forgot to tell you. They decided to perform the shape-changing parasitism on the ninth day of the first lunar month."

Ren Yuan hurriedly asked, "What day is today?"

"I showed it to you before I came here, on the seventh day of the lunar new year." The civet cat replied, "So if you still can't learn how to make a soul talisman by tomorrow, you'll be in trouble."

"Isn't that all thanks to you?" Ren Yuan gave Hua Limao a blank look, but then he said without any context, "The ninth day of the first lunar month is also the death date for those children."

"Ah?" The civet cat was stunned, unable to follow his jumping thoughts.

"In short, don't worry, I will definitely master it on time!" Ren Yuan said firmly.

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For the rest of the day, Ren Yuan practiced hard.

The mountain goddess said that if the talisman you draw wants to be effective, it all depends on that little bit of spiritual light. So before drawing the talisman, you must first try to gather the spiritual light.

So he followed the method taught by the mountain goddess, facing due east, meditating, adjusting his body, mind and breathing to achieve a state of clarity of body, mind and breath.

After regulating his breathing, he put his fingertips together, arched them to the center of his brows, and silently chanted the Golden Light Mantra. He took a deep breath and stored the breath in his lower dantian, which the mountain god sister called the "creation furnace."

Then hold your breath and naturally infuse it into your body. Use your mind to imagine yourself ascending into the Palace of the Sun. This step is the key to drawing the golden light into your body. You need to imagine it over and over again for a long time until you suddenly see the red sun hanging high in the sky and the golden light covering your body.

Once the connection with the sun is established, the rest becomes easy. Just slowly guide the golden light into the upper dantian, which is called the 'house of life and death' by the mountain goddess sister, pass it through the 'Red Emperor Palace' in the middle dantian, and send it into the 'furnace of creation' in the lower dantian for storage. Once you guide the golden light into the body, you're done.

The mountain goddess told him that the furnace of creation would operate on its own, and as long as he practiced diligently every day, when he had mastered the skill, he would be able to produce that precious bit of spiritual light.

It doesn't sound too complicated, but it's really not easy to practice, especially with the guards outside who would come in and harass him from time to time, making it impossible for him to concentrate. Even when the sun went down, he still couldn't establish any contact.

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Fortunately, the finger gestures of the Golden Light Technique are simple, requiring only the fingertips of both hands to face each other, so even after turning into a sheep in the dream, I can still practice it.

Moreover, the dream lasts a total of five days and nights, so he still has five days to practice the Golden Light Technique.

Even if you succeed in your practice in a dream, you probably won't be able to bring the results to reality. But as the saying goes, "It's not difficult for those who know how to do it, but it's difficult for those who don't know how to do it." As long as you can master the tricks in your dream, you will naturally be able to do it easily and succeed when you return to reality to practice.

Then a terrifying scene appeared in the cattle pen of Xiejiazhuang - a big black sheep raised its hooves high, sat cross-legged facing the sun in meditation, and muttered something, which scared the farmhands who came to feed the sheep to death.

Now no one dared to approach the sheepfold. Ren Yuan finally got a quiet environment and soon entered the three quiet states, repeatedly trying to establish contact with the sun.

The next morning in his dream, when he was imagining it for the hundredth time, a towering tree suddenly appeared in his mind... the kind that literally reached the ground below and the sky above.

There are nine red suns hanging on the tree, and the whole tree is shrouded in golden light.

This scene looked very familiar. Even though Ren Yuan had little experience, he could still guess that this was the legendary giant Fusang tree.
Looking more closely, I saw that there was indeed a black three-legged crow in each of the nine red suns. If not the legendary Golden Crow, what else could it be?
Ren Yuan thought to himself, I'm actually in a mythical world. I couldn't help but worry that I would disturb these legendary bad-tempered birds and they would eat me like a bug.

But the nine golden crows seemed to be sleeping, and none of them even glanced at him.

Ren Yuanzheng was eager to do so, so he quickly calmed his mind and guided the golden light into his body.

Perhaps the light of the nine suns was too blazing, so he didn't need to deliberately guide it. The golden light continued to flow into his body from the top of his head. It soon filled his whole body and was continuously absorbed into the vicinity of his belly button. I guess that was the so-called furnace of creation.

Ren Yuan stopped meditating until the Creation Furnace could no longer receive the golden light. ~~
On the second day alone, he succeeded in drawing the golden light into his body. This greatly boosted Ren Yuan's morale, and in the next few days, he kept repeating this process, becoming more and more proficient in the exercise.

He tried to look inside using the method taught by the Mountain Goddess Sister, and saw that the golden light in the furnace of creation had turned into a white light that was too bright to look directly at.

But it can still be seen that the white light is slowly rotating like a nebula, and in the center of the vortex, there is a point of nearly transparent light condensing.

On the last night of the dream, Ren Yuan reported his progress to the bird.

"Yes, that's the inspiration we need!" The beautiful bird flapped its wings excitedly and praised: "Great, your talent is almost catching up with ours!"

The tabby cat's mouth twitched when he heard this, as if he wanted to complain about something, but he held it back.

Tonight was the last teaching session, and Niaoer hurriedly taught Ren Yuan how to use spiritual light to draw soul talismans.

"Talismans have many carriers, such as paper talismans, jade talismans, and peach wood talismans, each with its own effects. However, due to limited conditions, I will teach you the palm talisman. The effect is not as good as the various talismans drawn with cinnabar, but it is enough for self-hypnosis."

"The time is too short to teach you in detail. You can only memorize this talisman. Fortunately, 'talismans have no fixed shape, but rely on qi for spirit'. There is a little spiritual light guiding you, so it is difficult for you to make a mistake." Finally, she said solemnly, "Everything will go well tomorrow night. You must survive."

"Don't worry, sister. We will definitely succeed!" Ren Yuan nodded heavily.

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When Ren Yuan returned to reality, it was already the early morning of the eighth day.

As soon as he woke up, he looked inside and found that the furnace of creation was indeed empty, without the fiery scene in his dream.

Ren Yuan didn't have time to feel regretful, he quickly sat in meditation, held his breath, formed seals, and inhaled to concentrate his thoughts.

With the successful experience in the dream, this time his spiritual consciousness quickly established a connection with the sun.

However, this time he only saw a bright sun rising slowly from the East China Sea, and did not see the towering Jianmu and the nine golden crows in his dream. It was like returning from a mythical world to reality...

Time was running out, so Ren Yuan had no time to think about the difference between the two, and hurriedly tried to lead the golden light into his body. He was already familiar with this step, and successfully led the sunlight into his own life and death chamber, and sent it from the Red Emperor Palace into the Creation Furnace.

As the golden light continued to merge, the furnace of creation finally began to operate. However, compared to the dense incandescent nebula in the dream, the golden light vortex in reality was too thin, and it was much more difficult to condense that little bit of light.

Ren Yuan could only practice the magic formula without stopping, hoping that time would pass more slowly.

But the sun in the sky still moves according to its own rhythm and will not change for anyone.

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On this seemingly ordinary day, the atmosphere in Xiejiazhuang was unusually tense, and everyone from top to bottom could hardly hide their uneasiness.

The nightmare from two years ago is still vivid in my mind. Today is the day for the young master to change his form and parasitize me. Who knows what terrible things will happen in the middle of the night?

Ren Yuan didn't care about those trivial things. His entire attention was on his own furnace of creation.

Finally, at noon, a tiny light appeared in the center of the vortex. Without waiting for it to grow stronger, Ren Yuan immediately followed the instructions of the mountain goddess and took the next step -

'The secret is: first be clear and calm, stop thinking and concentrate, make your mind clear and focus your attention on your fingertips. Just wait for the eight wastelands to enter my door and the four seas to be within my walls. A little spiritual light will rise from the furnace of creation, come out from the door of life and death, meet at the center of the eyebrows, and become a grain of millet in front of you! '

Ren Yuan was in excellent condition today, as if with divine help. After a few tries, he successfully brought that bit of spiritual light out of his body!

Seeing a faint spot of light appear on his fingertips, Ren Yuan did not dare to delay. He immediately recited the soul-controlling spell silently, using his finger as a pen to write according to the rules!
The light spot immediately became a golden line, following Ren Yuan's fingertips, flying away like a golden snake, drawing a set of complex and mysterious runes!

After the evil spirit was formed, a soul-controlling talisman appeared in Ren Yuan’s left palm!
(End of this chapter)