Shenyin Shanhaijing

Chapter 34
"Excuse me, ancestor Wu, how to draw powerful runes?"

"Don't even think about it! I told you that it's okay to be a witch appraiser, don't try to be a real witch! Because your body is too weak, even if your spirit is a little stronger, when you draw a talisman, it will be backlashed by heaven and it will be easily destroyed. Flesh body. If you really want to learn witchcraft, you can wait for advanced innate talent to talk about it! If you don’t have innate talent, you won’t be a witch!”

Hearing what he said so decisively, Lu Cheng could only give up temporarily, and asked instead: "Wu Zu, I saw Wu Fan smashing jade, and he said that all the beautiful jade he got was given to the Jiu clan. Do you know how to make a ring, bracelet?"

The shaman sighed softly: "Ordinary jade rings and jade bracelets are easy to make, but the difficulty lies in carving runes. Those rings and bracelets with miracles are all engraved with spells. Some have one character, some have two characters, the more characters , the higher the level of the ring. With my strength, I can barely engrave a character, and the failure rate is very high, so it is better to exchange it with the Jiu clan."

"Please Wuzu tell me, one character, two characters, what is the most commonly used rune?"

"The first word is often 'empty', the second word is 'empty', the third word is 'liu', and the fourth word is 'kuo'... I don't know about it later..."

Lu Cheng thought about his own jade ring. The four characters on the outer wall were clearly "empty, liao, time, and passing", and there were ten characters inside, two of which were "broken" and "hidden".

"May I ask the Wu clan, what kind of jade is considered beautiful jade?"

"Beautiful jade not only depends on the color, but also the beauty of the heaven and the earth. The natural spiritual roots gather together, attracting spiritual energy from all directions."

"How to identify beautiful jade?"

"Didn't you learn runes? After learning "A Thousand Words of the First Witch", there is nothing magical about it; but after you learned "Little Witch Wen", you started to learn "Great Witch Chanting". Before you knew it, a sea of ​​marrow opened up. Through the gap, you can feel the subtle changes in the aura of heaven and earth."

"Really? But I don't feel anything."

The witch official took a deep breath, stretched out his right hand, and slapped him on the forehead with a "slap" sound!
Lu Cheng didn't feel pain, but felt a sudden shock in the depths of the sea of ​​marrow, as if the invisible shackles had been opened, and in an instant, the world became colorful.

The shaman said slowly: "I opened the orifice for you, but your skill is too weak, you can only enhance your perception, it's okay to be a 'witch appraiser', but you can't use it to activate runes. Unless you step into the innate world in the future ...Come on, come with me. In the alcove here, there are beautiful jades that I have collected for many years. I am not willing to give them to the Jiu clan. Every piece is a fine product. Come and touch it, do you feel your heart beating ?”

The light in the alcove was relatively dim, so Lu Cheng couldn't see the color of the beautiful jade clearly, so he could only reach out to touch it according to the guidance of the shaman. Sure enough, his hands were warm and smooth, and there was a faint spiritual energy, which seemed to be able to communicate with the soul and make the mind feel happy. trembling.

He exhaled and exclaimed, "So this is beautiful jade!"

Because he has opened his spiritual aperture, he has a keen sense of spiritual energy, and he can tell by touching it that Zhong Tiandi's spiritual beauty is born with spiritual roots and spiritual energy from all directions to water it!
The shaman took out a piece and handed it to him: "I'll give you a piece, always keep it with you, it will help speed up your practice."

Lu Cheng thanked repeatedly, very happy, and said, "Thank you, Wu Zu."

This piece of jade is red in color, like a ruby, and it is bigger than a pigeon's egg.It's a pity that there is not even a small hole.

Afterwards, he asked a few questions about the "Great Witch Chanting", and then left the Witch Temple.

In the evening, a group of people set up a huge bronze statue in the square, throwing pieces of meat into it to cook.There is a large copper 鬲 for cooking sorghum porridge; there is also a bronze retort with a perforated grate at the bottom to facilitate the passage of steam, which is used to steam sorghum rice;

The bronze statues and geese mentioned here are all bronze wares. Bronze is an alloy with a reddish-yellow color and a clean and smooth surface, not the blue-gray unearthed later generations.

As the patriarch of the clan, Yau Kuang's father, Yau Chi, did not show up, and he may be taking his beloved concubine Ji to start a small business elsewhere.

The grown-up elder brothers of Yakuang were not there either, and they probably each had their own small homes where they could eat Lingmi and Lingmai.

The people who come to the square to eat are mainly women, children and the elderly.

The food is quite sufficient, but it is a pity that the meat lacks seasoning, and it has a strong fishy smell; the sorghum rice is dry and hard to eat. It's strange to eat.

Lu Cheng tried his best to eat a few pieces of meat and drank sorghum porridge.

"Well, sorghum porridge is not bad. At least it's easy to swallow."

He ate meat and drank porridge while listening to his tribe.

"The autumn hunting will start tomorrow. Hunting for half a month will require a lot of manpower. Anyone who can move must go to bring back the prey. This is related to whether we can survive the winter safely..."

"First go to the Yarrow Valley in the south, where there are many antelopes and elk, but few fierce beasts... Then go to the Wusang Forest in the east, where there are herds of bison, but there are tigers... If the prey is still Not enough, I can only go to the Lifeng Valley in the west, there is a terrible thing in the valley, with a human face and a beast body, and it likes to drink the blood of the living... The most terrifying thing is the Gaiyu Wasteland in the north, where there are a group of monsters, eight-headed people In front of you, the body of a tiger with ten tails..."

Lu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself: "What the hell is this? Is the Yi tribe on earth? How can there be such a strange thing? Wait, where are the monsters mentioned by these people? I've seen similar descriptions..."

For a while, he couldn't remember where he saw it, so he could only continue to squat there and listen quietly.

"God bless, hope to kill enough elk in Yarrow Valley..."

"You must not go to the Gaiyu Wasteland! In previous years, only one or two out of ten people who went there would come back... Liying Valley is also slightly better, half of the people who went can come back..."

"People from the Jiu Clan, when will you come? My family's Fu Mao is dying! It's very difficult to kill wild animals. I'm worried that my father won't come back..."

"We will have to wait until next summer for people from the Jiu clan to come."

"I got a rare rhinoceros horn, the color is blue with red, I hope I can exchange it for a knife..."

"When the Jiu Clan comes, I hope my son will come back with him. I don't know what will happen to him after he has been away for ten years."

"Hey, the place where we live is too far away from the territory of the Jiu clan! Our young man follows the Jiu clan on the road, going to ten people at a time, and returning two or three at most..."

"It's good if one can come back. The Jiu tribe is ten times, a hundred times stronger than us. There are many treasures there. It will be of great benefit to our Yi tribe..."

Lu Cheng was very interested when he heard this, and secretly said: "There are "foreigners studying abroad" in this year? If there is a chance, I would also like to see it."

It's a pity that everyone didn't say much about how to go to the Jiu clan, and people's thoughts were all focused on the autumn hunting that started the next day.

(End of this chapter)