Tongtian Bamboo Repair

Chapter 51 Preparation for learning talismans
The way of runes is broad and profound.Everything you can think of, others have thought of for you.

If you want to copy someone else's talisman and write it, that's okay, as long as the other person teaches you how to write it.If others don't teach you, then you can only be blind unless you can really decipher other people's writing.But if you have this ability, why would you copy others?
There are two paths before Zhang Miao now.First, he directly learned Yan Yu's way of drawing talismans and asked Yan Yu to teach him several ways of writing talismans. This was to obtain someone else's copyright.

Another way is to learn the underlying logic of the talisman, integrate it yourself, and learn how to draw the talisman truly.

The former can be done quickly. With Zhang Miao's attainments in runes, it is estimated that he can learn how to draw a rune in three to five days.The latter requires a certain amount of talent and understanding, and a fool may not be able to do it.

It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish.Zhang Miao immediately said: "Please ask Master Yan to teach me the true meaning of talisman. It's a quick way to learn it."

Yan Yu sneered in her heart, almost all beginners will choose how to draw real symbols, but after they study for a period of time, they will find that it is the easiest and most trouble-free to directly learn the ready-made symbols.

No one can escape the law of 'true fragrance'.What's more, in Yan Yu's view, Zhang Miao is just a person with average talent and maybe a little dull.

It doesn't matter if his spiritual roots are good, it's just his physical quality.But a dull person may also have excellent spiritual talent.This does not allow stupid people to truly touch the door of the Tao of Talismans.

'God is fair. If he has given him excellent spiritual roots, he will not be given excellent talisman talents.Just like me, God gave me excellent talisman talents, but only gave me a medium spiritual root. '

He sighed in his heart. Although he was a little envious of Zhang Miao's spiritual talent, thinking about his stupid performance, he felt a little more balanced.

'Okay, if that's the case, then I'll let him know the difficulty of the Talisman Way. When he backs off, Cun Ling can't blame me. '

Having made up her mind, Yan Yu's complexion became better again.He nodded gently and said, "Since you have such a wish, I will also try my best to teach you for Cun Ling's sake. However, how much you can learn depends on your own destiny."

After he finished speaking, regardless of Zhang Miao's reaction, he said directly: "A talisman, the most important thing is the runes, the second is expression, and the third is writing. If you don't understand the runes, it's equivalent to you not knowing how to write, and the rest of the writing and expression are like castles in the air. How are your rune attainments?"

Zhang Miao thought for a moment and said modestly: "It's not bad. I can understand scriptures and spells."

His humble appearance was regarded by Yan Yu as a guilty conscience.He sneered in his heart, who can't understand scriptures and spells? You can just memorize them by rote.

Although he thought so in his heart, he did not expose Zhang Miao.Instead, he nodded lightly and said: "In this case, it means you still have some foundation. The next step is to express, this thing..."

He pondered for a moment, and then said: "I can't teach you this thing. You can find a private teacher in the town and ask him for advice. Although the expression of this rune is different from the expression of ordinary words, it is ever-changing. Without departing from its origin, in the final analysis, runes are still a kind of language."

Zhang Miao nodded understandingly, and he suddenly had a feeling that this method of learning talismans might be somewhat similar to the English he had learned for several years.In this daze, he remembered the time when he took the college entrance examination for five years and took the simulation for three years. Miss Zhou had a gloomy face every morning, hiding behind the door to supervise their morning reading, and the days when she waved her pointer, pointed at the blackboard and yelled: "Present continuous tense! This is the present continuous tense. Pay attention to the changes in subject, predicate and object. , add ing!"

It's a pity that those green years can't be returned, and I don't know if my dear Miss Zhou Xian has found the one she likes.After recalling the past, Zhang Miao came back to his senses and continued to listen to Yan Yu's explanation of the talisman.

"If you can pass the first two, then it's time for practice, that is, drawing talismans. To draw talisman, you don't just write the runes on the talisman paper. Sometimes this may work, but most of the time it is useless. Think about it. To use runes to mobilize the power of heaven and earth and achieve your goals, you need a certain writing format. And the writing format of the talismans is particularly important, and you can't be sloppy."

Having said this, he continued to point to the leaf blade talisman and said: "This leaf blade talisman is the simplest talisman. The simplest does not mean that it is easy to write, but that its structure is simple. It only requires three The most basic structure consists of the head, body and foot of the talisman.”

"The talisman head, talisman body, and talisman foot are the most basic structure of a talisman. It cannot be simpler. But it can be more complex, such as adding talisman galls, talisman wings, etc."

"There are various types of talisman heads, which are the beginning of the talisman, the body of the talisman is the description of the specific effect of the talisman, and the foot of the talisman is the ending, indicating the end."

"From now on, I will teach you the writing of eighteen common talisman heads and the ending of eighteen common talisman feet. As for the writing of the talisman body, I will also teach you, but there is no fixed formula for this. It depends more on individual performance. "

Yan Yu babbled a lot, not caring whether Zhang Miao listened or not.Then he stopped and thought for a while.

Then, he asked the most important soul question of the day: "Zhang Miao, let me ask you, do you have the money to practice the way of talismans?"

Hearing this, Zhang Miao was obviously taken aback.

Then Yan Yu said: "The way of drawing talismans is not a way to save money. The pen to draw the talisman requires spiritual stones to be purchased, the spiritual ink to draw the talisman requires spiritual stones to purchase, and the talisman paper to draw the talisman also needs to be purchased with spiritual stones."

"An ordinary elementary white talisman paper requires one spiritual stone, and if you want to learn it well, you will consume at least ten talisman papers a day. This does not include the consumption of the spiritual pen and the spiritual ink. If you can cultivate it better, Some, if you use yellow talisman paper, the consumption will increase tenfold. Do you have the money to persist?"

This is a heart-breaking question, and it is also an objective question.It’s easy to talk about talent, hard work and perseverance. After all, these are all soft conditions.The talisman paper, spiritual ink and spiritual pen are real consumables and indispensable hard conditions.If you can't afford consumables such as talisman paper, then it's really a joke.

Hearing this, Zhang Miao quickly calculated his assets.

He has 430 acres of spiritual land, and on average each mu of spiritual land can bring him an income of ten spiritual stones every year (Golden Green Bamboo is harvested every three years).On average, he earns [-] spirit stones in a year.According to Yan Yu, the minimum daily consumption is ten spirit stones.His income level barely covers his expenses.

But in fact, the account cannot be calculated this way.He also had to eat, drink, have sex, deal with favors, pay the farm laborers, and buy other things. All in all, he just couldn't make ends meet!

After a simple calculation, Zhang Miao felt a chill in his heart.Sure enough, if you have money, it’s called cultivation, if you don’t have money, it’s called suffering!

(End of this chapter)