Chapter 33: Wandering Magic
Chapter 33: Wandering Magic
There was much water in the State of Chu, and the clouds and rain were often strange. The sky was often clear in the morning, but mist would rise in the noon, and a layer of smoke-like clouds would rise between the mountains and forests. There would be a light rain at noon, and the sky would clear up again in the evening.
There was a thin layer of water in many mud pits inside and outside the village. Children in groups of three or four were running back and forth. Suddenly they stepped in the puddle, and the water splashed and fell on their companions next to them.
The child who was splashed was not angry, but just ran to the other side with a laugh and stomped hard on the kid as well.
Amidst the laughter and joy, they were still chanting a spell.
"The sky protects me, the earth protects me, the spirit official protects me..."
"No, no, it's the sky that protects me, the earth that protects me, the twelve zodiac signs that protect me, and the spiritual official, Master, it's the latter part."
Chu Tai, who was staying in Banqiu's house to mix the well water and sort out the destiny of the earth and water veins, listened to the sounds of children playing and fighting in the village. Suddenly, he felt a slight fluctuation in the earth and water veins and couldn't help but stretch out a hand.
He felt a faint but certain connection to himself in the children's play.
Just as he was about to comprehend it carefully, Banqiu, who had arrived nearby, interrupted the fusion of Chu Tai's spiritual perception and the earth's veins.
As per the practice of the previous few days, Banqiu brought food, lights and fire, and was more respectful to Chutai.
But Chu Tai, who had a keen sense of perception, had already sensed the difference from the changes in the lights and stove fires in the other party's hands.
At the beginning, Chu Tai asked Ban Qiu to go to other families to ask for lamps and stove fires. On the one hand, he wanted to borrow the power of all living beings to refine the lamp in the Taiyi Changming Lamp. On the other hand, he wanted to borrow a little bit of human luck here to provide a little shelter for the boy of the Ban family.
However, apart from the pure blessings and warmth in the people’s homes brought in the beginning by the lights and stove fires, the lights now carry obvious prayers and distracting thoughts, and the stove fires also carry a hint of copper coins.
Combined with the spell coming from outside, Chu Tai vaguely guessed the cause and effect.
It was obvious that during the six days that Chutai had been here, Banqiu's understanding of himself had become somewhat unbalanced due to the influence of outsiders.
Chu Tai, who understood this, asked him to bring the child back, and after giving him a final treatment, he got up and left.
Banqiu was a little surprised and hurriedly asked what he had done wrong.
"I stayed here for two reasons: one was to repair the underground water system, and the other was to help your child repair his acquired yin and yang and make up for his innate deficiencies. Now that both tasks have been completed, I will naturally leave."
After saying this, without giving Banqiu any chance to speak, he took a step forward, left Ban's house, and went to a small hill not far from the village.
Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, Chu Tai once again carefully sensed the changes here, and this time he clearly realized the problem.
'It is the last power of the Wanderer.'
Chu Tai narrowed his eyes slightly. He did not expect that the changes in himself actually came from the [Wandering Man] in his body.
With his five fingers slightly spread out, Chu Tai could feel a very weak power of will above the village, which was gathering together to form a weak force as the spell spread.
'Sensing rumors about oneself in a certain area, using the spread of human words to fix them in the earth veins, forming corresponding spells, and turning them into spells belonging to this area...'
Chu Tai clenched his five fingers, and the willpower gathered inward, transforming into a spell that ordinary people could not hear, but echoed in the earth veins. "The sky protects me, the earth protects me, the twelve zodiac signs protect me..."
Chu Tai also followed the chant, and faint red and golden lights emerged, covering his body.
"This protective spell feels different from the one I normally cast. It is more in line with the form of the copper coin exorcism spell and the red thread body protection spell that day. Or what the people in this village think it should be like..."
Thinking of this, Chu Tai opened his arms and looked up and down at the magic power flowing through his body, and sighed: "Is this the true meaning of wandering? Integrate your own experience into the region and become a very small part of some regional culture."
"But in this case, simply giving back a protective spell seems to be insufficient to repay the help this land has given me."
While thinking, Chu Tai glanced at his Taiyi Changming Lamp. The light with flying sparks made his eyes light up.
'It just so happens that during the six days I stayed here, I got a lot of lights and fires. Although the fire in the last three days was a little mixed, I also formed a fate with this place.'
'Now the blessings, light, and peace in the fire have been purified and integrated into the ever-burning lamp, which has purified the fragments of the fruit. The lamps of the people and the stove fire themselves should be returned.'
"By the way, if I had known that I could give back to this place with lights, I shouldn't have ended with "I obey the orders of the Lord of the Guardian of the Way" instead of "I obey the orders of the Great Immortal of the Golden Arm and Round Light and Fire Rhinoceros". "
Chu Tai picked up the Taiyi Changming Lamp with a chuckle, blew on it, and flames rose. His thoughts fell into it, and he transformed into the God King Lingguan. He stepped on the flames, pinched his fingers and held the whip. Amid the sound of protective spells, he threw out the golden whip, integrated it into his wish power, and added it to the spell.
He recited the protective spell again, and this time, behind the golden and red light all around his body, the faint shadow of a golden whip emerged.
The power of Wang Lingguan not only makes the protective spell stronger, but also can strike back at foreign enemies when facing a catastrophic disaster, so as not to leave this land defenseless.
After doing all this, Chu Tai set off again and headed towards the next town.
Compared to the original plan, Chu Tai, who had figured out the last ability of the [Wandering Man], in addition to daily practice and refining of magic weapons, also added the work of researching the limits of related abilities during his subsequent journey.
Because of this research, rumors about Chu Tai spread in many villages and towns in the southern part of the Chu State.
An immortal holding a bright lamp or a long banner wanders around the world, collecting lights from thousands of homes and stoves while also teaching people some protective spells, evil-repelling spells, and secret techniques of blessing.
Most of these spells are very simple and can be used just by chanting the incantation.
The few times when someone needs help, it's just something simple like a bowl of water or a date.
The most troublesome thing is to perform a small sacrifice according to a certain order.
In the eyes of the Chu people, who worshipped ghosts and gods and had a strong custom of sacrificial offerings, this was the arrival of gods and immortals to save the world and teach people the ability to deal with ghosts and monsters in the mountains and forests.
People in many places directly worship Chu Tai as a deity. According to the different spells left by Chu Tai, they call him the Lamp-holding Water Master, the Stove Lamp Fairy, the Midu Fire God, etc.
Interestingly, such sacrifices also accelerated Chu Tai's control over the power of the "Wandering Man", and his cultivation level also improved to a certain extent.
(End of this chapter)