Wang Ye next to him couldn't help but nodded, "That's true."
"Yesterday, those paper figures looked like they were made of stone. My hands were numb even after I punched them!"
"But nothing happened to your paper man."
"Yeah." Zhang Hao responded and continued, "On the other hand, it depends on the strength of your ghost when you possess it."
"If the ghost is strong, your paper man will be strong; if the ghost is weak, the improvement of your paper man will be very small."
"And burning incense with paper figures is to invite gods to your paper figures."
As soon as Zhang Hao finished speaking, Hao Xie's eyes widened in shock and he looked at Zhang Hao in disbelief and asked.
"Please God?"
"Could it be that if a paper man possesses a spirit, he can also possess a god?"
At this time, Zhang Hao nodded and said.
"Thousands of years ago, the person who first created the art of paper-making originally intended to use paper figures to invite the gods. At that time, paper-making was known as the first profession in ancient times! Naturally, it has its own uniqueness!"
"It's just that the papermaker's art of inviting gods was too difficult to learn. The people who learned it later were dull, and the craft slowly disappeared. It wasn't until more than a thousand years ago that successors imitated the methods of their ancestors. Ling Yinhun. In this way, the difficulty is reduced, but the paper figures are different. ”
"But even so, corpse exorcism is still enough to be one of the ancient trades, which shows its level of interest."
"Let's put it this way, burning incense and inviting gods with paper figures is the inheritance of a top papermaker!"
"So..."
“What I’m going to teach you today is to burn 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 with his own hands in front of Huo Xiuer and Wang Ye.
He is not worried about the two stealing their lessons. With his current understanding of the paper man, he believes that it is impossible for others to make the paper man as good as he is.
And before the paper man is made, the most critical step is to attach the spirit.
Just this point, without someone's guidance, it is impossible to learn it even if you see it with your own eyes.
Soon, Hao Xie made a paper man. When he was finally ready to enchant the paper man, he suddenly stopped.
Looking at the paper man, he turned to Zhang Hao and asked.
"Brother Zhang Hao, when you talk about inviting the gods, do you mean before the spirit is possessed or after the spirit is possessed?"
Zhang Hao glanced at the paper man made by Hao Xie and saw that except for the eyes, which had not yet been painted, everything else was already done.
So he took three incense sticks and lit them and came over.
Those paper figures that Wang Ye thought were extremely hard were now easily inserted into the paper figures' hands by Zhang Hao with three sticks of incense.
Like a sharp sword, it penetrated directly through the paper man.
After inserting the incense, Zhang Hao bit his finger and applied two dots of red on the paper man's eyes.
It is precisely these two blood stains that make the paper man look even weirder.
Afterwards, Zhang Hao closed his eyes tightly, flicked three sticks of incense with his fingers, and whispered:
"The way of heaven is clear and the way of earth is bright!"
"A warrior in heaven, a hero in earth."
"A warrior in heaven, a hero in earth."
"The divine soldiers descend from heaven, and the officers and generals are majestic."
"Messenger of Five Thunders, listen to my orders!"
"Invite the gods!"
After saying this, Zhang Hao moved his wrist slightly and shook his two fingers together. Wang Ye, Huo Xiuer and Hao Xie were surprised to find that wherever the finger pointed, cigarettes drifted away.
In an instant, the incense in the paper man's hand began to tremble slightly, and the three of them looked at the paper man in shock. They thought to themselves, could they really have invited gods?
The paper man shook suddenly, and the ground shook violently. Hao Xie, Wang Ye and Huo Xiuer stared at the rolling stones with wide eyes, and then focused on the paper man.
At this moment, a flash of fluorescence appeared on the paper man's body. Although it was not dazzling, it made it difficult to see its true appearance.
After a few seconds, the fluorescence gradually dissipates.
In front of everyone, it was still a paper man, but it was clearly a living old man with white beard.
When the old man saw Zhang Hao, he quickly clasped his fists and saluted, his eyes full of awe.
"The land meets your lord!"
"What are your orders, sir?"
Zhang Hao nodded slightly and waved his hand to the paper man.
"Nothing."
After that, he tapped the paper man between his eyebrows, and the paper man stopped immediately.
Hao Xie, Wang Ye and Huo Xiuer were stunned. They couldn't believe that Zhang Hao could possess the spiritual power of the earth god on the paper man.
Although the earth god is not a prominent god, he is still well-known to every household.
Even an eight-year-old knows its name.
Therefore, when the white-bearded old man announced his home, the three of them were stunned.
"Brother Zhang Hao! What is this?" Hao Xie couldn't help but pointed at the paper man and asked, "Isn't this the land god?"
Zhang Hao shook his head and explained:
"Asking the gods does not mean summoning the true god. It requires the power to penetrate the heavens and the earth. This land is just its spiritual power scattered here."
"The reason why I did this is just to set an example for you."
"As for you, I don't know which god's spiritual power you can invite."
"However, once you become familiar with this technique, it will be much easier to invite gods, and you can choose the gods you want to invite according to your own strength."
"Another point, which god to invite is also related to the place where you cast the spell. For example, if you cast a spell in the mountains, it will be easier to ask the mountain god, but it is even more difficult to ask the river god, because there are few river gods passing through the mountains, so naturally No spiritual power remains.”
After finishing speaking, Zhang Hao stretched out his hand and touched the eyes of the paper man. The figure of the old man with white beard suddenly became blurry, until finally, the paper man returned to everyone's eyes.
It's just that the paper man's eyes have a scratch mark.
"I have said before that I will not 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, recalling the white-bearded old man just now, and secretly marveled in his heart.
He had heard of paper people transforming into humans, but this was the first time he heard about transforming into gods.
Theoretically speaking, possessing a spirit to invite gods is similar in nature to possessing a ghost, but the former is more difficult.
However, it is incredible that Zhang Hao could invite the God of Land!
Hao Xie said with emotion: "No wonder the papermaker was once known as the leader of the ancient profession, and he truly deserves his reputation!"
Zhang Hao smiled and said: "That's not necessarily the case. Number one is self-proclaimed. Papermakers may be ahead at a certain stage, but at other stages or levels, other ancient trades may emerge. Therefore, there is no number one based on occupation. The key is It still depends on the strength of the practitioner!”
Hao Xie nodded thoughtfully. He had long known that Zhang Hao was very powerful, but he didn't expect that he was so powerful!
As everyone knows, if Hao Xie follows Fatty Wang to Sanjia Mountain, he will see with his own eyes that Zhang Hao can summon black and white, which will shock him even more.
But Hao Xie is doing well. After all, he is with Zhang Hao and understands him somewhat. But Wang Ye and Huo Xiuer were different. They had just arrived at Yin Yang Inn and knew nothing about it.
If they hadn't seen Zhang Hao pointing out Zhang Qilin and Fatty Wang 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, seeing shock in each other's eyes, and then started talking quietly.
"Is the manager of this inn a human? Even the landowner can be invited!"
Huo Xiuer shook her head, "I thought I was dazzled just now, but now I know that what Hao Xie told me before is 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 man had been destroyed by Zhang Hao, so he took out the materials and made a new one.
With Hao Xie's current proficiency, it wouldn't take long to pierce a few paper figurines.
But during the process of tying the paper, Hao Xie was still a little confused, so he asked:
"Brother Zhang Hao, I have a question that I don't quite understand."
"What is the spiritual power you are talking about?"
"I remember you mentioned this issue before when you taught Qilin how to draw talismans."
Zhang Hao nodded and explained:
"Drawing talismans uses spirit to enter the Tao. In fact, there are many spiritual powers 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, you are all familiar with the Zhengqin official position."
"Zhengqin officials who can capture spiritual power and use spiritual power to draw talismans are at least fifth grade or above, and vice versa are below fifth grade."
"Although paper-making is different from drawing symbols, they are similar in this regard. If you want to develop paper-making to great success, you must ultimately master spiritual power."
"But you don't have to worry, you can't rush this kind of thing."
Hao Xie nodded, silently thinking about Zhang Hao's words.
Although I still don’t fully understand the idea of tying paper to pray to gods, it can be seen 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 and has yet to draw a Zhengqin official seal above the fifth grade.
This speaks volumes about its difficulty.
Shaking his head, Hao Xie continued his movements. In less than twenty minutes, a new paper man appeared in front of him.
When it came time to possess the spirit, Hao Xie took out three sticks of incense and bit his own finger.
Looking at the blood beads on his fingers, Hao Xie couldn't help but recall Zhang Hao's every word in his mind.
The paper man invites God?
Can he succeed?
Hao Xie shook his head. The requirements for spiritualism were extremely high. Although his research on spiritualism is not as thorough as Zhang Qilin's, he still understands it quite well.
So, he looked at the paper man in front of him with all his concentration, smeared two blood stains on the two eyes of the paper man, and then began to enchant the paper man like Zhang Hao.
After Hao Xie put three sticks of incense in the hand of the paper man, he imitated Zhang Hao and whispered:
"The way of heaven is clear and the way of earth is bright!"
"A warrior in heaven, a hero in earth."
"A warrior in heaven, a hero in earth."
"The divine soldiers descend from heaven, and the officers and generals are majestic."
"Messenger of Five Thunders, listen to my orders!"
"Invite the gods!"
Afterwards, Hao Xie carefully felt the fluctuations of spiritual energy around him.
At this moment, he suddenly discovered that when the paper man burned incense and combined with the spell, he could actually feel some spiritual power fluctuations.
It's just that these spiritual powers are not naturally generated by heaven and earth, but are left behind by certain existences. But who it belongs to is unknown.
Immediately afterwards, Hao Xie used spiritualism to release his soul outside the body to feel the scarce spiritual power and try to communicate with them.
This communication didn't matter, he immediately understood what Zhang Hao said before.
Why should he ask God based on his own ability? Because he found some very powerful spiritual power. As soon as his soul tried to get close to communicate, it was directly bounced away, and there was still a dull pain in his soul.
Although he still doesn't know how strong these spiritual powers are divided into several levels, he can already imagine how difficult it was for Zhang Hao to ask gods before.
After nodding slightly, Hao Xie began to continuously try to establish contact with these spiritual powers.
At first, Hao Xie tried to communicate with spiritual powers that were only the size of his thumb, but failed, so he turned his target to more subtle spiritual powers.
After some hard work, he found that he had to do his best to barely establish contact with the spiritual energy as big as a grain of millet, and he couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.
Even if such a tiny amount of spiritual power can be attached to a paper figurine, how effective can it be?
Hao Xie smiled helplessly and shook his head.
Despite his dissatisfaction, he began to establish a connection with this spiritual force the size of a small grain of rice.
In the process of asking the gods, Hao Xie discovered that both establishing contact with the spiritual power and guiding it to the paper man took a huge toll on him.
In just a few breaths, his face turned pale and his physical strength 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 quickly stepped 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 that it would be so difficult to invite gods!" He sighed, "Although I don't know who the gods are, but I think..."
Having said this, Hao Xie couldn't help but sigh.
Then, they noticed that the smoke from the paper man burning incense began to become disordered.
However, unlike Zhang Hao, there is no fluorescence on the paper man.
The paper man himself did not change, but behind him, a faint shadow appeared.
This shadow may not be obvious during the day, but now everyone can clearly see that behind the paper man stands a yellow-skinned man half as tall as a man.
Huang Pizi 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 am a human being or a god?" it asked.
Hao Xie blinked and looked at the shadow in front of him, with several question marks popping up on his head.
"What the hell is this?" He thought to himself, "Aren't you inviting God? How can you invite a yellow man?"
Zhang Hao came over, saw the phantom, and explained with a smile: "Okay, the phantom you see in front of you is Huang Pizi who has practiced Taoism and has three hundred years of cultivation. Although he is not the same as the true god There is still a gap, but you can still be considered a demigod. It’s already very good that you can do this on your first try. Hao Xie, you are very talented in this area.”
Hao Xie curled his lips and murmured in a low voice: "If I hadn't seen that you just invited the land masters out, I might have believed it. Now... there is really no harm without comparison."
He realized that Zhang Hao's previous demonstration was just an understatement, and the demigod Huang Pizi he invited had already exhausted him.
Zhang Hao summoned the true god but escaped unscathed, which shows that if he wanted to summon a god, he would definitely be able to 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 that it is impossible to be another one." (End of Chapter)