Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 4 The knight's rule is a horse, and the fairy paper is a soldier

After recovering from the memory, Xie Zihao didn't feel sleepy at all because of the excitement of today's action, and the benefits he gained through the feedback of the first paper puppet Uchiha Itachi made his spirit much stronger than others, so he simply Take your second paper puppet out of the box and do the final coloring work.

This busy work lasted for an hour, and the doll, which was close to completion, finally became a finished product.

The Xie family has been doing funeral business more than 100 years ago. They bring their own incense, candles, ingots, shrouds and coffins, not to mention paper figurines, chariots and horses. Although Feng Shui can make a lot of money, it is considered a sideline job.

Although Xie Zihao's skills are a little rusty, he didn't lose what he learned when he was a child. This thing is different from mathematics. You can pick up the skills again after practicing. With the experience of the first paper figurine, the second paper figurine It will be easier to make.

After coloring, the paper dolls are very realistic and bright, and at first glance, it looks like Superman from the movie.

This superman Xie Zihao is an image of an adult superman based on the handsome actors of Man of Steel and Young Superman in his previous life. In addition, he asked the opinions of some people around him to make his image more in line with people's fantasy and recognition of superman in this world. Know.

Speaking of which, his paper man looks more handsome and charming than the actors who play Superman in this world.After all, the world is still at the end of the 90s, and the ghost and animal painting style of the federal comics will not be mentioned. In some superman movie works released earlier, to be honest, those actors seem a bit old to Xie Zihao. After all, the shelf life of white people is common. It's not long, and the selected actors are at least close to thirty or even above thirty, and they can't show the strength and vitality of Superman as the nemesis.

Satisfied, Xie Zihao placed the new work in the portable shrine that he had already prepared. He bought these black walnut boards and made them himself. In his previous life, he followed his grandfather to learn not only the craft of paper making, but also carpentry.

In addition to paper figurines, chariots, incense candles and ingots, his family also took care of the business of longevity materials. It can be said that they provide one-stop service for daily affairs. In the era when machines were not popular, it was all chiseled out by grandfather himself with a little bit of an axe.

It may be difficult for him to make complex crafts such as treasure cabinets and step-by-step beds, but it is still very easy for him to build a few simple shrines to enshrine these paper figurines and make them easy to carry. After all, it's just a simple wooden box with an extra flip and handle design.

This box is one foot long, using dowel technology, the corners are polished smooth and round, and there are no fancy carving patterns on the outside. It is simple but not simple. Open the lid and turn it over and it can be used as a base. It is a small shrine, and when the lid is closed and the handle is lifted, it becomes a portable storage container like a suitcase. The inspiration comes from the out-of-the-box boxes for those who like to raise imitation dolls.

In essence, his paper doll stand-in is not much different from the dolls played by those people. They are all like his own children, and as a psychic paper puppet created by him, he has different emotions.

After placing the Superman paper puppet in the new walnut wood box, Xie Zihao took out a small celadon incense burner, filled it with crystal sand half of the furnace, lit a homemade incense pill, and placed it on the In the center of the censer filled with crystal sand, it is enshrined in front of the Superman doll.

It’s not impossible to use the previous smoker for the incense burner, but considering that perhaps the two paper figurines don’t mind mixing food in the same ladle, but in the future they will always compete for incense, and conflicts will inevitably arise. Basically, keeping pets requires Prepare a food bowl separately, let alone a psychic paper puppet that is worshiped as a god?

So Xie Zihao had to go outside to find a similar small celadon incense burner.Although the price of this one is much cheaper, the paper puppet should not be visible, right?

After closing the lid, dense light blue smoke soon rises from the upper hole, which looks very artistic.

But at this time, Xie Zihao had already gone to the bathroom to wash his hands under the faucet. After drying them with paper towels, he came to the workbench where the shrine was placed or the simple altar. Altar practices commonly used mantras.

Then he chanted a mantra to the new paper doll:
"Emperor Taiwei, Danfang guards the spirit, builds armor, exorcises evil spirits, assists righteousness, yang and cloth body, restores Huangting, heavenly talisman emperor power, shocks swordsmen..."

This is the mantra of paper-cutting into warfare. In ancient times, knights used paper as a horse, and immortals made paper into soldiers.

Warlocks and mages cut paper to form soldiers. This soldier will not drink or eat, and will not be hurt by swords or guns.

What Xie Zihao is currently performing is the "Paper Cutting into Soldiers, Psychic Substitutes and Gods Transformation Method" passed down by the Xie family, in order to sacrifice psychic paper puppet substitutes, also known as paper man magic soldiers.

It belongs to the category of Taoist Xuanmen Dharma protectors.

The material is made of pure handmade bamboo paper and natural old bamboo strips, and is colored with natural and expensive dyes such as cinnabar, gold powder, ultramarine blue, mica powder, etc., which can maximize the spirituality of the paper figurine.

This kind of paper puppet substitute method handed down by his family is slightly different from the ordinary folk paper-cutting into soldiers. Bailian, Tianlijiao and Plum Blossom Boxing are related.

This plum blossom boxing is not the kind of boxing that later became a martial arts school, but the plum blossom boxing in the famous Yihe boxing in history.

In short, they are all sects related to the cause of rebellion.

Originally in another world, these are the dregs that have been swept into the garbage dump of history, and you can't even practice hair, but Xie Zihao has traveled through time, and even bumped into a puppet, so naturally you have to try the spells passed down by your family in your previous life. Effective!
The result was better than he expected.

Since ancient times, there has been a method of using puppets, clay sculptures and straw figures to cast curses and form replacements, but why did paper-cutting into warfare stand out after the birth of papermaking?

It is because although the material of the paper dolls is more fragile than those idols above, it is easier to obtain and sacrifice, and it is more convenient to use.

Puppets, clay sculptures, and even stone idols are indeed stronger and stronger than paper dolls, but the stronger the puppet body, the higher the spiritual requirements for cultivating psychics, and the more mana is required to activate it. Those who are immortals who can turn stones into gold are naturally easy to do, but it is difficult for folk magicians and other mortal practitioners to do so.

However, since ancient times, there are more puppet stone carvings such as the life-saving substitute method in the legend, because the stronger the material, the more damage transfer it can withstand, and it does not require the substitute to move.

As the mantra was recited, Xie Zihao felt that the superman doll on the opposite side seemed to have a mysterious connection with himself. Xie Zihao, who had practiced this ritual once before, knew that the mantra had already worked.

He was slightly happy in his heart, and then he came to his senses again, pinched his sword fingers and said:

"Half a ray of true fragrance gathers people's hearts, incense burns from thousands of families build a golden body, the patriarch of Qingyang descends the light, a little Dharma light transforms the spirit, and the real man is in a hurry like a law! Clark Kent, hurry up and manifest!"

Although the actions and words are slightly secondary, when Xie Zihao pointed the sword between the eyebrows of the paper puppet, he felt that his spirituality overflowed. It seemed that there was a slight breeze blowing in the secret room, and some kind of invisibility appeared. Variety.

Looking at the altar altar table again, at this time, an inexplicable aura suddenly rose from the originally delicate but dull Superman paper puppet. It seemed that the paper puppet, which was originally a dead thing, suddenly became alive and became much more vivid. The blue eyes drawn by the ultramarine blue dye extracted from gemstone lapis seem to be able to move, but when you look closely, they are no different from before, as if it was just an illusion before.

However, Xie Zihao understood that this was not an illusion. At the same time as the Superman paper puppet changed, the other puppet's face and the two pairs of bloody eyes with hooks on the crow's shoulders seemed to move, as if it was watching the newborn companion.

　Still looking for further reading and recommendation!
　　


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