I was a little surprised that this girl actually had a change of heart. Indeed, if she hadn't insisted on competing with Yunwen, so many misunderstandings wouldn't have happened. She was not only fulfilling her original promise, but also expressing sympathy and gratitude for my situation.
"It's rare that you wouldn't play tricks on me and would take the initiative to mention the old promise," I said.
"You look so pitiful, like a pug, so I'll find you something to chew on, do you understand?" Song Yingchun said with a smile.
"Can you chat? Why does your words sound so harsh?" I said.
Yingchun laughed so hard that she covered her mouth.
Then, she stood up, took my hand, and asked me to pick up the Jinque Sword on the ground beside her. She lit a torch and took me to the stove. When she pulled me, I noticed for the first time that her fingers were particularly tender and her skin was as smooth as a baby's. Although not as slender as Yunwen's, there was another kind of comfort when holding them.
She always has the tender fragrance of a young girl about her. Now that she is not so noisy, her pure and lovely side is revealed. With long hair draped over her shoulders and a bouncing gait, she looks just like the Barbie doll that my farm cousin played with when she was a child.
Then she lit a fire in the pit of the earthen stove, and there was also firelight around. She turned her head and said to me: "Brother Zhou Bo, if you abandon me today, or if you just treat my poison wound perfunctorily, I don't want to tell you all this. Even though I promised you before that I would teach you the Taoist way to use the Golden Palace Sword, you also know that this is my temper. I do whatever I want. If I don't want to teach, I won't teach. As long as I don't want to, I think you can't do anything to me, right?"
I thought about it and realized that it was true. Even if I had used all kinds of soft and hard tactics on her before, she would still want to persist. Isn't that the case with Yunwen? So I answered, "That's right."
"Or I can just tell you a wrong method, and then find an excuse to say it's useless, and you can't do anything about it. The initiative of this matter is always in my hands, and you can't force it. And there is another important thing. I promised the Taoist master that I would not tell this method to others easily. Taoism talks about good and bad luck. If I tell you, it actually breaks the rules, and there may be disasters, or at least blame." Yingchun said.
"What about good and bad luck? It sounds a bit superstitious to me. What method is it? Does it really work? Or have you been deceived by some quack Taoist? He just said this to be mysterious on purpose." I asked.
"I have seen the master's magical powers. As for more, I will not say more. Those who are good at magic are also craftsmen, and the principles are the same. The only difference is that the tools we use are hammers or awls, but the master uses talismans. I was young at that time, and the master did not teach me much. He just taught me some words like "borrowing" in the "Nine Senses of Taoist Talismans" and let me learn it for fun. After that, he traveled around the world and did not even come back for my eighteenth birthday." Yingchun said.
"Borrowing a word?" I asked puzzledly.
"Well, I won't say too much. The so-called 'Observe the Way of Heaven, and follow the ways of Heaven, that's all. Therefore, there are five thieves in Heaven, and those who see them prosper. The five thieves are in the heart, and the actual practice is in line with Heaven..." Yingchun was just about to recite an ancient poem when I interrupted her.
"Don't bully me because I'm not well-educated. I have read the Yin Fu Jing, but it's not the book you mentioned," I said.
"Yes, don't be anxious. My master asked me to memorize the Yin Fu Jing first, saying that it is the basics of Taoist application. I'm just talking about the principle first. Never mind, I'll demonstrate it to you first and you'll understand." Song Yingchun said.
I lost most of my confidence. It seemed that this girl was just ignorant when she was young and was deceived by some swindlers. When she was young, she couldn't distinguish the truth from the false and believed it as true. In fact, it was just a scam to get free food and drink. These superstitious things can only deceive children.
However, at this time, Yingchun first looked at her palm, then looked at the sky, and then picked up a piece of wood from the stove. The top of the wood was charcoal. She took me to the table and drew a circle of strange patterns on the table. It looked like a few words spliced together, but I couldn't tell which words they were. It looked really like the yellow paper talismans I saw when I was a child.
After she finished the painting, she recited a few words, then crossed the last four fingers of her hands, leaving the remaining index finger and thumb connected, like an ox-horn cup. I immediately recognized that the Taoist priests in my hometown also made similar movements before performing rituals. This is "Lin". Then she made the subsequent gestures again, one for eight, which means "Lin Bing Dou Zhe Jie Zhen Lin Zai Qian."
She pinched the top of her index finger with her right hand, closed her eyes and muttered something, then asked, "What's the wind speed now? What direction?"
I stretched out my hand to measure it and said, "Northwest wind, wind speed is about 2~3m/s, light breeze level."
"Look, I'll learn from Zhuge Liang to borrow the east wind and show you." Yingchun said.
Are you bragging? Later generations have solved it. It is because Zhuge Liang calculated that there was southeast wind in November, but on the Jiazi day, it was just a mystery. It was not borrowed. Since Zhuge Liang couldn't borrow it, could it be a meeting with Song Yingchun?
Then she was seen taking strange steps, pinching her sword fingers, and chanting: "Move the stars and change the constellations, borrow the southeast, come."
I reached out my hand to feel it again, and saw that it was still the northwest wind, and if I didn't feel it, it would basically feel like there was no wind. Just as I was about to put my hand down, I suddenly felt a gust of wind on the back of my hand, and then I listened behind me. I heard that a breeze had started near the hillside, and the trees and grass were swaying, and there was a faint sound of wind!
It can't be such a coincidence, right? This is the southeast wind, and the wind force is at least 4~5m/s, which is considered a breeze or even a breeze. The wind blowing from the northwest direction, I know it is the sea breeze blowing from the coast, but this southeast wind is blowing from the island, which is a bit unreasonable.
Could it be possible? Did he really borrow it?
"Did you really borrow it?" I asked.
"Of course, why would I lie to you? Xun belongs to wood, as I said just now, and the Yin Fu Jing is the foundation. The book explains that the human body is a small universe, and is also full of the five elements: spleen gold, heart fire, liver wood, kidney water, and spleen earth. If you don't use the borrowing spell, then what you borrow is the Qi in your own body, which will hurt your body. The borrowed five elements will definitely hurt the organs in your body. If you borrow the five elements of all things in the world, it can be avoided. Come and look at this table." Yingchun said.
I leaned in to take a closer look, and was immediately shocked! I saw that the wooden table was rapidly decaying and becoming more wrinkled than before. It really had its energy borrowed away.
"There really is such a thing." I said in disbelief.
"What do you think? Don't make it seem like I'm deceiving you. However, you can't use this to borrow living things. It's a taboo and will shorten your lifespan. It's also rather... immoral. It's best to borrow inanimate objects, such as soil, rocks, mountains, and rivers. Borrowing water is the best. Water is rich in spiritual energy and is the source of pregnancy. It doesn't matter how much you borrow. It can replenish itself. Or you can borrow sunlight, yang energy, or moonlight. All of these are fine." Song Yingchun said.
"I understand, but it's not convenient to have you go through so much trouble to borrow it every time," I said.
"Since we have to borrow, we must have something to store Qi. We can draw it in advance to accumulate the Qi of the Five Elements. My master taught me to use yellow paper. Yellow belongs to earth, and Kun carries all things. But if we don't have yellow paper, we can use something else instead, but the effect will be a little worse. You don't have to be as troublesome as I do every time. If you know some hand gestures and use that ancient treasure, you can directly control it to fight the enemy." Yingchun said.
I seem to understand, based on my way of understanding things, the method of use that Yingchun said is like this. This Jinque Sword is equivalent to a gun, and the bullet of this gun is the so-called Qi storing object. The bullet trajectory is not to directly penetrate the enemy, but if there is no bullet (the Qi storing object), the five elements in my own body will be used as bullets, hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting myself by eight hundred, which is extremely harmful to the body.
"Oh my god, no wonder the fox fairy beauty said that only with this can they have a foothold on the island. No wonder Senior Li Mufeng said that those who wish to live must obtain the supreme treasure, so that they can survive. If they do not die, they can be sent back to their hometown in glory." I muttered, looking at the scrap iron in my hand, the Golden Que Sword.