Chapter 37: How to open the altar and the tongue hanging fire room
Yu Que was in a fiery mood, and instead of going to Heping Lane as usual, he returned home.
Since he wanted to perform rituals and condense the Yin this time, he couldn't be as casual as before.
Although the housing prices in Heping Alley are cheap, the environment is indeed too mixed. If he doesn't want to be opened by a shopkeeper and barged in to ask for rent at the very critical moment of his cultivation, it would be better to find another place.
As for his uncle's house, it was also inconvenient. He just took a rest and told his family to call.
After all, the rituals he wants to carry out cannot be completed in one day and one night. Even if his uncle and aunt are willing to cooperate and move out temporarily, there are many people in the Tongzi Building, and it is easy to disturb Yu Que.
So he returned home, rested for a while, heard his family getting up, and said that he had been busy with things in the past few days and had to go out. Then he rushed there again, carrying large and small bags in a ghost carriage. At the gate of the county school.
This place is the retreat place that Yu Que planned for himself.
Last time he successfully restrained the cat-faced family god in the fire room of the county school. This time to condense the Yin god, his first choice was naturally here.
The county school fire room is considered a blessed place for him, and he may be able to get good luck.
However, the last time Yu Que borrowed the fire room, it was in the name of Mr. Zhu, who taught him, and the other party only promised that when Yu Que and others restrained the first household god, they could keep his account.
If Yu Que wants to condense Yin Shen like this, it is not within the scope of the other party's promise.
"But it doesn't matter. I am now a member of the Alchemist Guild. According to Qian Huazhen and the others, the Alchemist Guild has a very good relationship with the county school... In other words, the major guilds in the city, They all have a good relationship with the county school. If there are many people in the guild, they can borrow the fire room and pay the bills first. ”
Yu Que thought to himself: "If I can't borrow the fire chamber just because I'm wearing an alchemist's robe. I can also wear this robe and go to see Zhu Jiaoyu, and I'm sure the other party won't refuse too much."
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Zhu Jiaoyu was a very kind person and was willing to promote poor children. It is very likely that for a motivated yet poor child like Yu Que, the other party would be willing to promote him twice.
In addition, Yu Que can also go to Huang Guishan for help.
However, the other party had already taken him to a ghost market last night, so Yu Que thought that it would be better for him not to disturb the other party first.
Moreover, he had just bought groceries on the front foot, and then prepared the ingredients for ghosts and gods on the back. It was really not suitable for his status as a poor boy. It would be better not to let more people know that he was going to condense the Yinshen today.
With various thoughts in mind, Yu Que walked in the county school, looking enviously at the passing county students from time to time.
Not long after, he stood in front of the county fire room for the second time.
The rich burning smell in the air seemed to be stronger than the last time he came.
In the sky above the fire room, ghosts filled the sky like snowflakes, floating around the smoke column of the fire room, making it unclear whether they were soul ashes or corpse ashes.
When Yu Que walked to the door, his eyes suddenly lit up and he saw the concierge Qing who he had met last time.
He quickly stepped forward to greet him: "I have met Uncle Qing!"
The concierge, Uncle Qing, was still swinging the cattail leaf fan, lying on the rattan lounge chair with his chest exposed and his flesh exposed. The bones on his body were as lean as pork ribs.
When the other party heard this, his eyelids drooped, as if he was wondering who the person coming was.
After thinking for a while, Uncle Qing opened his eyelids halfway and looked at Yu Que in surprise:
"What are you doing here? Could it be that you have been poached, the family god has been abducted, and you want to tie one end again? Or maybe you are a naive person and feel that the last one is not working and want to change to another one?"
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Yu Que was surprised to see this man just joking in a nonchalant manner. He was used to it.
He straightened his body, stood calmly in front of the other party, shook the robe made of his own fire yarn, and said with a toothy smile:
"Look, uncle! Is this dress pretty?"
At this time, the concierge, Uncle Qing, noticed the alchemy robe on his body.
This person's eyelids were fully opened, and he rarely got up from the recliner, hunched over, and looked around Yu Que.
Uncle Qing clicked his tongue and said: "I didn't expect that you, a junior, was just a junior brother a month or two ago, but now you have become a veteran of playing tricks, and you even got involved with the alchemist. So why don't you come today? , do you want to refine ghosts? ”
Yu Que put away his voice and replied respectfully: "The uncle still has a sharp eye and can see through it at a glance."
"I've just put on this robe not long ago. I wanted to borrow the fire chamber's protection and long skills so that I can get along better in the guild." He stepped forward, touched his fingers in the sleeves of the robe, and took out A red envelope was thrust into the hand of the concierge, Uncle Qing.
Yu Que whispered: "Uncle, you have watched me join the Taoism. This time, I have to arrange a good room for the junior. As for the account, it will be put in the junior's name first. When the junior is familiar with the skills, then the money will be paid back?" br>
In order to gather the materials needed for the ritual, his hands were all gone, and he only had a thousand or eight hundred left, which he could barely use to bribe the concierge.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Qing listened to his kind words, pinched the red envelope he handed over, and smiled with his old eyes.
The man lay down on the recliner, closed his eyes, and waved his cattail leaf fan:
"What's the deal! In Room B, if you see whichever room is vacant, just go in. But it won't happen next time. Today is my congratulations. Congratulations on joining the Master Refiner's Guild."
Yu Que was pleasantly surprised, he didn't expect his red envelope to be so useful!
He immediately raised his hand towards the other party: "Okay! Thank you very much, Mr. Qing, for your appreciation. If you have a junior who needs to train ghosts and gods in the future, I will definitely help you."
"Haha! I am a single man, what do you want me to do with you?" The concierge, Uncle Qing, pointed at the entrance of the fire room, laughed and urged:
"Pull out your buttocks."
Yu Que extended his hand again, then stopped lingering and walked towards the fire room with excited steps.
Not long after, he walked through the cave-like corridor and came to the location of the No. B fire room.
Yu Que discovered that compared with the last fire room, size B was not only much larger in space, but also had a much larger fire pit. There were also objects in the room such as a copper stove, a copper tripod, a water tank, a stone mill, and even Zhang Shi. Beds allow people to rest.
He skillfully fetched water to seal the door, and swept and sprinkled the entire fire room.
When he smelled the salty smell brought by the evaporation of the remaining water, he became more and more expectant.
But now that he was in the fire room, he was not as impatient as before.
After Yu Que finished cleaning the fire room, he started bathing and changing clothes again. He threw the Huo Huan robe into the fire pond and burned it several times.
Only when there was no other odor all over his body, except the smell of burning in the fire room, did he sit down cross-legged. Sitting like this, he sat cross-legged for nearly two hours, until his stomach was empty and he felt hungry and thirsty. He then opened his eyes, took a few grains of dry food, and drank some water.
At this time, Yu Que's eyes revealed a look of regret:
"It still won't work after all. It seems that if I want to become a Yin Shen in a short time, I have to use external forces."
He was just trying to visualize on his own, to see if he could visualize the Yin Shen on his own without the help of external forces.
But unfortunately, he still failed.
Let alone success just now, compared with the first day when he obtained the contemplation method, his soul had not made any progress at all and was in chaos.
And when he was visualizing, except for the first quarter of an hour when he gained something, he was in a state of confusion after that, and the visualization was ineffective.
However, Yu Que only sighed for a while, then he put away the discouragement in his eyes, jumped up from the ground, and took out the large and small objects he had brought with him.
He first placed the tributes such as pine, cypress, vanilla, antlers, and feathers in a formation with the fire pit as the center. Then he took a pile of green bricks from the corner of the fire room and piled them on the fire pit, forming a square of three. A square stone platform.
As the saying goes, "the method of opening an altar", if the immortal family wants to set up rituals, in addition to having a book of rituals so that they can follow the script, they also need an altar!
The importance of the altar to scientific rituals is like the importance of the alchemy furnace to the alchemist, the talisman pen to the talisman painter, and the array disk to the array master.
Yu Que didn't have the conditions before, and he couldn't pay attention to so much detail. Now that he has mastered the craftsmanship, and he wants to perform the ritual on his own body, he naturally has to pay extra attention.
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Although this time he only used bricks and stones to build a stone platform like a stove, which was not exquisite, but it was better than nothing.
After the stone platform was built, Yu Que carefully took out a roll of black and yellow leather from his luggage and spread it on the three-foot stone platform.
The skin didn't look good, but it felt smooth, like a virgin's skin. It was Huang Guishan who helped him find it on the black market in the Ghost Market.
However, this skin is not human skin, but the scalp of a three-month-old monkey, woven into a doll, and given to three-year-old children to play with.
After absorbing the popularity for three years, hundreds of scalps were sewn together and provided for people to wear, which is called "Hundred-Necked Monkey Skin Clothes".
It is said that this piece of clothing can hide ghosts and deceive evil spirits. If a child wears this piece of clothing, the gods of plague and diseases will not be able to find him. Unless the clothes are broken, there will be no worries about serious disasters or illnesses.
The leather in Yu Que's hand was not in good condition and was completely shiny. It was obviously an old item. At the same time, it was also damaged and was not a intact leather jacket.
If not, Yu Que wouldn't be able to afford such a "shabby coat".
At the same time, he thought to himself: "According to Master Huang, although this leather is not enough to be used as a robe to ward off evil spirits, it is stained with blood and contains resentment, but it is a good practice for our alchemists." The material has excellent effect in attracting ghosts and evil spirits.”
While thinking about it, he carefully covered the monkey's scalp on the stone altar, and finally stretched it with nails, and then barely covered the entire stone altar.
Sure enough, after the scalp altar was properly arranged, he tried to sit cross-legged on it, and he felt that it was cool and cold underneath him. Even if there was a fire pit below, it would not help.
The domestic god in his body was still slightly excited because of this, as if he was about to go into heat.
This invigorated Yu Que, and he immediately jumped down from the scalp altar, took out a square of corpse pieces from his bag, passed them through with wires, and hung them on the top of the fire room.
Soon, in the fire room that was originally open, there were wires hanging down like long snakes, and at the end was a pile of rotten flesh and viscera, which was extremely penetrating.
If anyone were present, they would definitely think that Yu Que was possessed by evil spirits, killing people and removing their internal organs, and practicing evil methods.
But these rotten meat and rotten organs were not taken from human bodies, but cat lungs, dog hearts, wolf tongues, cow intestines, pig brains and other items that Huang Guishan led Yu Que to find in the ghost market.
When Yu Que got these things in his hands, he was very surprised.
The ghost concentration really has everything. They can actually buy the organs of all kinds of animals in one day and piece together a map of the human body's five internal organs and brains!
After hanging the organs, he held a clay pot and a brush, brushed the mouse corpse oil on the wire and rotten meat bit by bit, and inserted the brushes in between.
After doing this, he lit the brush one by one, and little green lights emerged, as if mice opened their eyes and stared at him.
An even stronger burning smell also appeared in the fire room.
These green flames, using brushes as wicks and rat corpse oil as lamp oil, are exactly the rat lanterns in the "Seven Corpses Returning Light Lamp" arranged by Yu Que.
The rationale for the rituals he arranged today was to bring his body to the verge of suspended animation so that he could return to the light and escape after death. In this way, after the soul is forced out, it can be easily condensed into a Yin God.
The reason why rat oil is used is to take the meaning of sneaking and playing tricks, hoping that when casting the spell, the practitioner can hide it from God, quietly lose the soul and leave the body, and then quietly return to the body and live again in the past.
Therefore, the "Seven Corpses Returning Light Lamp" must be performed in a dark room, where the sky, sun, moon, stars, wind, and people cannot be seen.
Otherwise, when people come, the practitioner will be startled, and the three souls and seven souls will run around on the spot if the practitioner is disturbed. By then, let alone being resurrected, it will be considered a good thing if he can end up as a living dead.
All the rituals are ready.
Yu Que sat cross-legged on the stone altar. Even though he had already done a lot of construction in his heart, he couldn't help but breathe quickly at this moment. His eyes showed a bit of rattling, and he seemed a little timid.
"Although this "Seven Corpses Retrospective Lamp" is the most suitable ritual that I have chosen in the guild's ritual booklet, and the risk is not serious, it still has risks."< br>
At the end of the day, he muttered in his heart, very hesitant: "Otherwise, I'd better meditate on that idea on my own, and work harder for a while, so there's no need to be so anxious..."
But after hesitating for a while, Yu Que held his breath and concentrated, gritted his teeth, and suppressed all these distracting thoughts.
He was heartbroken: "No matter how good the scientific instrument is, it cannot guarantee that it can help me to concentrate successfully in one time. It often takes many times. How can I be timid and continue to waste time and hinder big things!"
The next moment.
He raised his head suddenly, stretched out his tongue as much as possible, and quickly took the wire above his head. With strong fingers, he suddenly passed the wire through his tongue, and hung himself on the wire with his head raised.
It was a bit painful when he started, and he didn't feel much, but then there was a sharp sting, which made Yu Que couldn't help but whine, just like a mouse hanging.
This is the first step in the "Seven Corpses Returning Light and Retrospective Lamp", hanging by the tongue from the beam, pretending to be a hanged ghost.
(End of chapter)