My daily mountain driving, I met a fox at the beginning and got married

Wang Ye beside him couldn't help but nodded, "That's true."

"Those paper figures yesterday were like they were made of stone. My hands went numb after I punched them!"

"But your paper figurine is fine."

"Yeah." Zhang Hao responded and continued, "On the other hand, it depends on the strength of the ghost when you possess it."

"If the ghost is strong, your paper figurine will be strong; if the ghost is weak, your paper figurine will only improve slightly."

"And burning incense for your paper figure is to pray to the gods for your paper figure."

As soon as Zhang Hao finished speaking, Hao Xie widened his eyes in shock, looked at Zhang Hao in disbelief and asked.

"Please God?"

"Can a paper figure possessed by a spirit also possess a god?"

At this time, Zhang Hao nodded and said.

"Thousands of years ago, the original creator of paper-folding intended to use paper figures to pray to the gods. At that time, paper-folding craftsmen were known as the number one profession among ancient trades! Of course, it must have its own unique features!"

"It's just that the art of summoning spirits is too difficult to learn. Later people who learned it were dull and the craft gradually disappeared. It was not until more than a thousand years ago that the successors began to attach spirits to imitate their ancestors. This made the art easier, but the paper figures they made were no longer fish-and-water."

"But even so, corpse-carrying craftsmen are still considered one of the ancient professions, which shows how important they are."

"Let me put it this way: burning incense and praying to the gods with paper figures is the inheritance of the best paper-making craftsmen!"

"so……"

"What I'm going to teach you today is burning incense with paper figures!"

Looking at the incense in Zhang Hao's hand, Hao Xie nodded impatiently, then took out the materials for making paper figures and made a paper figure in front of Huo Xiu'er and Wang Ye.

He was not worried that the two of them would steal his knowledge. With his current level of understanding of paper figures, he believed that it would be impossible for others to make paper figures to his level.

Moreover, before making paper figures, the most critical step is to attach spirits to them.

Just this point alone, without anyone's guidance, it would be impossible to learn it even if you saw it with your own eyes.

Soon, Hao Xie finished making a paper man. When he was about to give the man a spirit, he suddenly stopped.

Looking at the paper figure, he turned to Zhang Hao and asked.

"Brother Zhang Hao, when you say summon the gods, do you mean before or after the spirit is possessed?"

Zhang Hao glanced at the paper figure made by Hao Xie and saw that except for the eyes, everything else was already done.

So he took three incense sticks, lit them and walked over.

Those paper figures that Wang Ye originally thought were extremely hard were now easily inserted into the hands of the paper figures by Zhang Hao using three incense sticks.

It was like a sharp sword, piercing through the paper man.

After inserting the incense, Zhang Hao bit his finger and smeared two spots of blood on the paper man's eyes.

It is precisely these two spots of blood that make the paper man look even more weird.

Afterwards, Zhang Hao closed his eyes, flicked three incense sticks with his fingers, and murmured:

"The way of heaven is clear, and the way of earth is bright!"

"A warrior in heaven, a hero on earth."

"A warrior in heaven, a hero on earth."

"The divine soldiers descended from the sky, and the officers and generals were majestic."

"Five Thunder Messenger, obey my command!"

"Please pray to the gods!"

After saying this, Zhang Hao moved his wrist slightly, put two fingers together and shook them lightly. Wang Ye, Huo Xiu'er and Hao Xie were surprised to find that wherever his fingers pointed, the cigarette smoke would float away.

In an instant, the incense in the paper man's hand began to tremble slightly. The three people looked at the paper man in astonishment, thinking to themselves, could it be that the gods have really been invited?

The paper man shook suddenly, and the ground trembled violently. Hao Xie, Wang Ye and Huo Xiu'er stared at the rolling stones with wide eyes, and then focused their attention on the paper man.

At this moment, a fluorescent light appeared on the paper man. Although it was not dazzling, it made it difficult to see its true appearance.

After a few seconds, the fluorescence gradually dissipated.

What everyone saw was not a paper figure at all, but a living old man with a white beard.

When the old man saw Zhang Hao, he immediately saluted with his fists clasped, his eyes full of awe.

"The land pays homage to His Excellency!"

"What are your orders, sir?"

Zhang Hao nodded slightly and waved to the paper man.

"nothing."

After saying this, he tapped the paper figure's brow lightly, and the figure immediately stopped moving.

Hao Xie, Wang Ye and Huo Xiu'er were stunned and could not believe that Zhang Hao could attach the spiritual power of the land god to the paper figure.

Although the land god is not a prominent god, he is well-known to everyone.

Even an eight-year-old child knows its name.

Therefore, when the white-bearded old man introduced himself, the three of them were stunned.

"Brother Zhang Hao! What is this?" Hao Xie couldn't help but point at the paper figure and asked, "Isn't this the land god?"

Zhang Hao shook his head and explained:

"Inviting a spirit to possess you is not the same as summoning a real god. That requires the ability to reach heaven and earth. This land is just the spiritual power scattered here."

"I did this just to give you a demonstration."

“As for you, it is unknown which god’s spiritual power you can ask for.”

“However, once you are familiar with this technique, it will be much easier to summon gods, and you can choose the gods you want to summon according to your own strength.”

"Another point is that which god you invite is also related to the place where you cast the spell. For example, if you cast a spell in the mountains, it would be easier to invite the mountain god, but it would be much more difficult to invite the river god, because there are few river gods passing through the mountains, and naturally there is no spiritual power left."

After he finished speaking, Zhang Hao stretched out his hand and wiped the paper man's eyes. The figure of the white-bearded old man suddenly became blurred. Until finally, the paper man appeared again in everyone's eyes.

But there was an extra smear mark on the paper man's eye.

"I've said before that I won't help you with this mission, but you can ask me if you have any questions."

"So, you can't use that paper man."

Hao Xie nodded, his eyes still full of shock. Thinking back to the white-bearded old man just now, he was secretly amazed in his heart.

He had heard of paper figures transforming into humans, but this was the first time he had heard of paper figures transforming into spirits.

Theoretically speaking, possessing a spirit to invite gods is similar to possessing a ghost, but the former is more difficult.

However, it is really unbelievable that Zhang Hao could invite the land god!
Hao Xie said with emotion: "No wonder paper-making craftsmen were once praised as the top ancient professions, their reputation is well-deserved!"

Zhang Hao smiled and said, "Not necessarily. The first place is self-proclaimed. At a certain stage, paper-folding craftsmen may be in the lead, but at other stages or levels, other ancient trades may come to the fore. Therefore, there is no first place based on profession. The key still depends on the strength of the practitioner!"

Hao Xie nodded thoughtfully. He had known for a long time that Zhang Hao was very powerful, but he didn't expect that he was so strong!
Little did he know that if Hao Xie followed Fatty Wang to Sanjia Mountain, he would see with his own eyes that Zhang Hao could even summon the Black and White Impermanence, which would shock him even more.

However, Hao Xie was still okay, after all, he followed Zhang Hao and knew a little bit about it. But Wang Ye and Huo Xiuer were different, they had just arrived at the Yin Yang Inn and knew nothing about it.

If they had not seen Zhang Hao instructing Zhang Qilin and Wang Pangzi with their own eyes, they would never have believed that there was such a magical person in the world.

The two looked at each other, saw shock in each other's eyes, and then started talking in a low voice.

"Is the innkeeper a human being? He can even invite the God of Land!"

Huo Xiuer shook her head. "I thought I was dazzled just now. Now I know that what Hao Xie told me before was true!"

"What did your brother Haoxie tell you?" Wang Ye asked curiously.

Huo Xiuer glanced at Wang Ye, shook her head and did not answer.

At this time, Hao Xie saw that the paper figure had been destroyed by Zhang Hao, so he took out the materials and made a new one.

With Hao Xie's current level of proficiency, it wouldn't take him long to make a few paper figures.

But during the paper-tying process, Hao Xie still had some doubts, so he asked:

"Brother Zhang Hao, there is a question I don't quite understand."

"What on earth is this spiritual power you mentioned?"

"I remember you mentioned this problem when you were teaching Qilin how to draw talismans."

Zhang Hao nodded and explained:

"Drawing talismans is to enter the Tao with spiritual power. In fact, there is a lot of spiritual power scattered around us and between heaven and earth."

"If you can capture a trace of spiritual power on the talisman paper when drawing the talisman, the talisman will have a qualitative leap. For example, the official position of Zhengqin that you are all familiar with."

"The Zhengqin officials who can capture spiritual energy and use it to draw talismans are at least fifth rank or above, otherwise they are below fifth rank."

"Although paper-tying is different from drawing talismans, they are similar in this respect. If you want to develop paper-tying to perfection, you must eventually master spiritual power."

"But you don't have to worry. This kind of thing can't be rushed."

Hao Xie nodded, silently thinking about Zhang Hao's words.

Although we have not yet fully understood the art of paper-making to invite gods, we can see from the process of Qilin drawing talismans that capturing spiritual power is not an easy task.

After all, Qilin has been practicing for so long, but he has not yet drawn an official seal of the fifth rank or above.

This is enough to illustrate its difficulty.

Shaking his head, Hao Xie continued his movements. In less than twenty minutes, a new paper figure appeared before his eyes.

When it came to the spirit possession stage, Hao Xie took out three incense sticks and then bit his finger.

Looking at the blood beads on his fingers, Hao Xie couldn't help but recall every word of Zhang Hao in his mind.

Paper figurines to pray to gods?

Can he succeed?
Hao Xie shook his head. The requirements for the spirit summoning technique were extremely high. Although his research on the spirit summoning technique was not as thorough as Zhang Qilin's, he also had a good understanding of it.

So, he looked at the paper man in front of him with full concentration, smeared two streaks of blood on each of the paper man's eyes, and then began to possess the paper man with a spirit like Zhang Hao did.

After Hao Xie inserted three incense sticks into the paper figurine's hands, he imitated Zhang Hao and chanted:

"The way of heaven is clear, and the way of earth is bright!"

"A warrior in heaven, a hero on earth."

"A warrior in heaven, a hero on earth."

"The divine soldiers descended from the sky, and the officers and generals were majestic."

"Five Thunder Messenger, obey my command!"

"Please pray to the gods!"

Afterwards, Hao Xie carefully felt the fluctuations of spiritual energy around him.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that by burning incense and chanting spells with the paper man, he could actually feel some fluctuations of spiritual power.

However, these spiritual powers were not generated naturally by the heaven and earth, but were left behind by certain beings. But it was unknown who they belonged to.

Then, Hao Xie used necromancy to release his soul outside his body, to feel the scarce spiritual power and try to communicate with them.

This communication was not important, he immediately understood what Zhang Hao had said before.

Why should he call upon gods according to his own ability? Because he found that some spiritual powers were so strong that his soul would be bounced away as soon as he tried to get close to communicate, and his soul would also feel a dull pain.

Although he doesn't know how many levels the strength of these spiritual powers are divided into, he can already imagine how difficult it was for Zhang Hao to summon the gods before.

After nodding slightly, Hao Xie began to try to establish a connection with these spiritual powers.

At first, Hao Xie tried to communicate with spiritual power that was only the size of a thumb, but failed, so he turned his target to more subtle spiritual power.

After some effort, he found that he had to try his best to barely establish a connection with spiritual power the size of a grain of millet, and he couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.

Even if such a tiny spiritual power can be attached to a paper figure, how much effect can it have?
Hao Xie smiled bitterly helplessly and shook his head.

Despite his dissatisfaction, he began to establish a connection with this millet-sized spiritual power.

In the process of summoning the gods, Hao Xie discovered that both establishing a connection with the spiritual power and directing it to the paper figures consumed a great deal of his energy.

In just a few breaths, his face turned pale and he was obviously exhausted.

When that bit of spiritual power was finally placed on the paper man, Hao Xie suddenly opened his eyes and gasped.

Seeing this, Huo Xiuer hurried forward to support him and asked with concern: "Brother Haoxie, are you okay?"

Hao Xie shook his head, stood firm and replied: "I'm fine."

"I didn't expect it to be so difficult to invite a god!" he sighed, "Although I don't know who the god is, I think..."

Having said that, Hao Xie couldn't help but sigh.

Then they noticed that the smoke from the burning incense began to become chaotic.

However, unlike Zhang Hao, there was no fluorescence on the paper man.

The paper man itself did not change, but a faint shadow appeared behind it.

This shadow may not be very obvious during the day, but now everyone can clearly see that there is a yellow creature half a person's height standing behind the paper man.

The yellow-skinned man turned his head flexibly and looked at Hao Xie, with the corners of his mouth raised in a weird smile.

"Young man, do you think I look like a human or a god?" it asked.

Hao Xie blinked, looked at the phantom in front of him, and several question marks appeared above his head.

"What the hell is this?" he thought to himself, "Aren't we calling on gods? Why did we call on a yellow-skinned person?"

Zhang Hao came over and saw the phantom. He smiled and explained, "It's OK. The phantom you see in front of you is a yellow-skinned man who has cultivated to the Tao for three hundred years. Although there is still some gap compared to a true god, it can be considered a demigod. You can achieve this step on your first try, which is already very good. Hao Xie, you are very talented in this area."

Hao Xie curled his lips and muttered softly, "If I hadn't seen you invite the God of Land out just now, I might have believed it. Now... there is really no harm without comparison."

He realized that Zhang Hao's previous demonstration was just a trivial one, and the demigod Huangpizi he had invited had already exhausted him.

Zhang Hao summoned a real god but remained unharmed, which means that if he wanted to summon a god, he could definitely summon a more powerful one.

Hao Xie shook his head and continued: "Although I am a demigod, I feel that this is my limit. It seems impossible to become another one." (End of this chapter)