246, Humanity and Cunning Ways (1/2)
Su Wu took the bowl of soul-collecting rice.
Weigh it a few times in your hands.
He hesitated and said: "It feels a little lighter than the bowl in the morning."
"Is it light?"
Li Yueshan nodded,
Some rice grains leaked out from between the fingers into the bowl.
Let Su Wu think again.
Repeat this several times,
After increasing and decreasing, Su Wu finally felt that the bowl of rice in his hand should be about the same weight as the bowl of rice he had served in the morning.
"Okay. Master." He nodded to Li Yueshan.
Stuffing the remaining rice into the python skin pocket, Li Yueshan took the bowl of rice from Su Wu's hand, sealed it carefully, and put it into the food basket.
Watching his movements, Su Wu asked from the side: "Master, what do you mean when you say that it's too light, it's too heavy?
Soul harvesting rice,
Is it rice used to collect ghosts? "
"If it's light, it's heavy." Li Yueshan smacked his lips and motioned Su Wu to sit on the bench next to him.
He himself pulled a Mazar over and sat down.
He slowly said: "Actually, you are right. This 'soul harvesting rice' is a kind of rice used to lure Li Gui into it and temporarily imprison him."
Su Wu's eyes lit up when he heard this!
Offerings in the secret realm can only lure tricksters to wander around the offerings and eat them.
There has never been any kind of offering like 'soul harvesting rice',
Can lure the weird ones over,
Throw it into rice and imprison it!
‘Soul-collecting Rice’ seems to be quite similar to the offerings from the Secret Realm.
In fact, the effects of eating the two are completely different!
The ultimate goal of the former is to imprison and hide the conspirators,
The latter is just to contain Gui and create opportunities for himself to escape!
“Since the sowing of this ‘soul-harvesting rice’, we have to choose some unusual areas. The rain, dew, fertilizer, etc. required during the growth period are also quite different from ordinary rice grains.
so that once it grows,
The seeds are plump and have nine holes inside.
Just like the nine orifices of life.
This kind of rice grains are processed so that a human-like aura of ghosts circulates inside them, thus attracting ghosts to cling to them.
Once Li Gui is attached to the grain of rice,
It will be difficult to escape from the rice for the time being.
Imprisoned by a bowl of soul-collecting rice. "Li Yueshan saw that Su Wu was very interested in what he said, so the conversation became more sexual, "As for what the old man said before, 'If it's light, it's too heavy.'
You can understand it this way - the soul harvesting rice can accommodate the weird creatures, and it needs to fit the fate of those weird creatures in every possible way.
We, the people in charge of the ‘Yinxi’ lineage,
I still have very little experience accumulated.
Fortune-telling charts also often have deviations.
If there is a deviation in the destiny, weighing the destiny requires a corresponding amount of soul-collecting rice, and there will also be deviations.
If the soul-collecting rice's weight corresponds to the destiny of the trickster,
The monster will be imprisoned directly in a bowl of uncooked rice and will not be able to escape for a month or two!
But if the weight of the soul-collecting rice is less than the destiny of the trickster,
It will directly escape the blockade of rice grains,
The next day, when you carry the bowl of rice, you will find that the bowl of rice is heavier than yesterday.
——That is its charm remaining in the grains of rice,
This causes the weight of a bowl of rice to increase.
on the contrary,
If you pick up the bowl of rice the next day and find that it is lighter than yesterday,
It means that the bowl of rice is too heavy. Although it can be fully accommodated, it still has room to move around, so it 'sneakly eats' a lot of soul-collecting rice during the move, and uses this to find a gap and escape. go.
On the second day,
That bowl of rice will naturally be lighter than yesterday! "
"That's it!" Su Wu's eyes brightened,
A bowl of soul-collecting rice,
You can imprison a spook for a month or two.
The Kitchen God Sect really has two brushes!
but,
According to what Master said, the current person in charge of the ‘Yinxi’ pulse has not accumulated much experience in calculating the fortunes of strange creatures.
So often the rice sender needs to send the rice back and forth several times.
Only then can the trickster be imprisoned.
——Every time I go to deliver rice,
For those who send rice, their lives are bound to be in danger.
If you master the 'Yinxi' pulse and have a complete fortune-telling method, you can reduce many unnecessary sacrifices!
As it happens,
Su Wu is in the hidden area,
Then he has mastered the whole set of instructions.
and,
The offering system of the Secret Realm still has great potential here!
Combining the two in this way,
A set of full-process weird countermeasures to avoid, contain, and imprison monsters.
Will be able to emerge!
I don’t know if there is a big difference between the fortune-telling method of the Kitchen God Sect and the fortune-telling method of the secret realm?
If the discrepancy is too large,
It is necessary to integrate the secret fortune-telling method into the Stove King’s fortune-telling method.
But it takes a lot of effort.
With thoughts swirling in his mind, Su Wu asked the fat old man: "Master, what is this method of calculating fortunes based on? Can you tell me something?"
Li Yueshan saw that he was very interested in this,
It's completely different from the way ordinary people avoid everything related to monsters like snakes and scorpions.
I feel even more satisfied,
He smiled and said: "The method of calculating fate, each channel has its own experience, these are all part of the secret -
However, most of them cannot be separated from the environmental changes in the area where the monsters exist.
The palmistry of the last living person in the area where the trickster is,
As well as the time when it often appears, etc.,
Combine all of these,
Calculate how many lines and crosses there are in this weirdo's life,
The so-called Tao is the main channel.
The fork is a branch.
One fork weighs one penny, one line weighs one or two cents.
Add and subtract like this,
That’s how we know the approximate destiny of this weird one. "
On the contrary, it has something in common with the Secret Realm's instructions for the secrets.
The secret realm will leave Jui’s life mark on the leather,
The fate pattern is a series of crosses.
If you use the secret realm's destiny-approving method to create a strange destiny mark,
Using fate lines to determine the price of soul harvesting rice, the final result is not sure whether it is accurate or not?
Su Wu was thinking,
Suddenly Li Yueshan patted him on the shoulder.
To wake him from his reverie,
The fat old man smiled and said, "What are you thinking about?
You bastard, your master and I are pretty accurate about the destiny of the charlatans.
It was only the first night, and the fate of that strange creature was determined.
As long as there are three more nights at most,
Just put it in the bowl!
Don't worry about this anymore. Now go and have a rest with your two younger brothers and sisters.
Tonight...there's still things to do! "
"There's more, there's more!" Su Wu hurriedly spoke out and said to Li Yueshan, "Young man, I have one more question!"
"Ask!" Li Yueshan glared at him.
The corners of his mouth were full of smiles.
"I want to ask Master - when I came back from Tanjia Village during the day, there was clearly a wide and straight road leading all the way to our side.
Why do we go to Tanjiacun from our side at night?
But will they pass through strange places such as Mantou Mountain and Stage Ping that cannot be seen during the day? "
"During the day,
The sun shines on the sky and the earth, covering most of the areas where weird creatures gather.
At night,
Because the sun's rays are gone,
Those places where weird people gather will naturally manifest themselves.
and,
At night I will light the stove to lure people,
These three firewood stoves stand here. When the fire is turned on at night, wandering little ghosts will continue to gather here.
It will also make the strange atmosphere intensify in the surrounding area of dozens of miles.
Those gathering areas of strange creatures that are already hidden in the surroundings can naturally be easily seen by others.
When you were leaving last night,
I gave you a lantern,
The light emitted by the lantern will make you look weird.
You have become deceitful,
Went down a deceitful path,
The sleuths wandering around will not pay attention to you.
——I guess you also saw the weird one that the old man wanted to catch in Tanjiacun, right?
Did it scare you only twice and then leave? "Li Yueshan asked Su Wu with a smile.
"Yes." Su Wu nodded.
He also found this matter quite strange.
I thought it was because I didn't trigger the old woman's strange killing pattern.
But think about it carefully,
Something felt wrong again.
The ghosts all stood in front of him,
I saw myself,
How could it be possible that I hadn't triggered its murderous pattern yet?
Now look at the fat old man’s expression,
There must be something fishy in this.
Li Yueshan smiled and said: "This is naturally because it regards you as a trap, and its actions are only to drive you away from the place where it is entrenched - but if you really don't leave, this trap is not ferocious enough.
But there is nothing I can do against you,
If you respond to it,
It will soon discover that you are a living person,
Then there is no telling what you will face next. "
"That's it, that's it!" Su Wu suddenly realized.
He still had many questions hidden in his heart and wanted to ask Li Yueshan to answer them for him.
But the time is not right now,
The fat old man was even more worried about his age.
Being scared outside all night,
Come back to your home, what will happen if you don't rest?
Therefore, he no longer gave Su Wu a chance to ask questions, and waved his hand and said: "Go to the temple and rest. As a disciple of the old man, it is inevitable that you stay up day and night.
But I’ll always give you a good night’s sleep during the day,
Go, go! "
in this way,
Su Wu didn't say much anymore.
The answer was yes,
So I went to rest in the big temple in the bamboo forest.
There was only one mattress infested with fleas in the temple, and Su Wu had to squeeze in with two little boys before he could sleep on it.
The little boy saw him walking in,
He quickly pushed the mute girl,
The two little people moved to the side, clearing most of the area for Su Wu.
"Brother, you can sleep here." The boy pointed to the area next to him and looked at Su Wu eagerly.
Su Wu saw that both of them were squeezed out of the mattress.
The girl even had half of her body uncovered by the quilt.
He shook his head,
Said: "You two sleep on the bed.
I'm not sleepy yet,
Just sit in the corner and rest for a while. "
"elder brother,
You ran outside all night,
He must be extremely sleepy, how could he not be?
Come and sleep quickly. If you don't come, Grandpa Zhangzao will think that we are occupying your place and making it difficult for you to sleep. "The little boy blinked his eyes and said. He knew that Su Wu's status in Grandpa Zhangzao's heart was much higher than that of boys like them who came here to beg for food.
I didn’t dare to touch Su Wu’s bad luck at all.
The girl curled up silently and blinked at Su Wu.
"Will not."
Su Wu turned around and sat in the corner of the temple.
He finally saw it,
This master of my own probably also established his own business not long ago.
Although the local villagers provided food and drink, so he didn't have to worry about it for the time being, but in other aspects, he was also destitute - this pair of shabby mattresses was the master's only bedding!
He could have clearly asked the villagers for food,
but he never did.
The rice grains piled around the three wood stoves,
most of them were for Gui to eat,
and the rest was for the master and himself.
Maybe the master brought these little rations himself!