Chapter 126 Grandpa's Book Collection

Chapter 126 Grandpa's Book Collection

Chapter 126 Grandpa's Book Collection
"Shiji Niangniang, a piece of stone from between the Shang and Zhou dynasties, has been worshipped for countless years. Why did the Ming soldiers transport this stone from their ancestral land, Shenzhou?"

Chen Shi looked at the dark clouds in the distance, with lightning flashing in the clouds.

"Ji means a stone standing by the water. Shiji Niangniang should be a stone statue of a woman standing by the water. What is her origin? Why is only her head left? Why did the True King put her head on the treasure ship?

"Is this stone related to returning to the ancestral land of Shenzhou? Why did grandpa set up a talisman formation around the stone? Why didn't he take the stone away?"

The wooden cart was a little bumpy, and his body was swaying from side to side. The girl holding a pipa beside him dozed off in the swaying, and leaned her head on his shoulder unconsciously.

Chen Shi smelled a faint fragrance coming from the girl, not sure if it was body odor or the scent of rouge and powder.

——In the morning, he saw the girl applying some rouge and powder on her face. After applying it, her face looked white and rosy, although she was beautiful before.

"Ah!"

The girl's hair at the temples tickled his nostrils and he sneezed. The girl on his shoulder hadn't woken up yet, but she quietly opened one eye, glanced at him furtively, and continued to sleep.

Of course it was also fake sleep.

But as she swayed, she slowly fell asleep. She woke up halfway and complained of neck pain. She tilted her head for a long time before she recovered.

After returning to Huangpo Village, Chen Shi never traveled far again.

He returned to his old life, practicing every day, worshipping his godmother, and listening to lectures. However, this time he had one more thing to do, which was to go to the east wing to read books.

The east wing of the Chen family was where sundries were stored. No one went there all year round. It was dark and cold. Before and after the Spring Festival, my grandfather would put up a few talismans to drive away rats and insects, and then he would not care about these three rooms.

Chen Shi had been into this house before, looking for the "treasures" he had collected as a child.

He found that he had very few toys when he was a child. Most of them were counting sticks, inkstones, worn-out pen tips, and notes.

There are also some old clothes that I wore when I was a child.

"I must have been a boring kid when I was little." Chen Shi thought to himself.

There were also a lot of other miscellaneous items, some of which were old things of my father Chen Tang, and some of which were things that my grandfather had thrown into the east wing.

Chen Shi went into the east wing and searched for a while before finding an old painting. Unfolding the scroll, he saw a family of four, with the grandfather sitting on a chair, a little boy sitting on his knees, and a man and a woman standing behind them.

The men are very handsome and the women are very beautiful.

"Is it Chen Tang and my mother? Chen Tang is not worthy."

Chen Shi looked at it for a long time, then carefully rolled up the scroll and put it away.

The sound of a pipa came from outside the window. Chen Shi raised his head and looked out through the window lattice. He saw Ding Ding sitting under the eaves of the main room, holding a pipa, probably practicing fingering.

The sound of the pipa is slow, like the reverie of a girl in summer, carrying the beauty of secret love, uneasiness and expectation.

Chen Shi didn't understand and continued searching.

"But there's emotion in her playing. It's much better than before. She has her own style," he thought to himself.

But is this good or bad for the girl?

Chen Shi dragged out a box from the pile of old things. The box looked like an ordinary wooden box, but it was tightly closed on all sides. There was no way to open it, and no lock could be found.

The box is a bit old, and is probably made of jujube wood. It is not painted, but has been polished to a patina that makes it shiny and glossy, with the texture of ruby.

The six sides of the box were all painted with different talismans. The talismans were complex in structure and different in structure from the talismans Chen Shi had seen before.

However, despite the complex structure, it has no function.

They look like decorative patterns, not talismans.

"The talisman on this box seems to be a fabricated talisman. It has no power at all."

Chen Shi observed for a moment and gradually saw a clue, so he moved the box to the yard, took out paper and pen, and copied the talismans on the six sides of the box.

Ding Ding put down the pipa and came over to check. The girl's hair flowed down Chen Shi's neck, feeling cool.

However, she didn't know much about talismans and was completely in the dark.

Chen Shi finally saw the clue and said thoughtfully: "According to the structure of the talisman, it should be the projection method..."

He stood up one corner of the box and placed the six pieces of paper in order of their six sides, treating the six pieces of paper as a whole.

"No, not this corner."

He changed the corner of the box again and rearranged the six pieces of paper. A smile gradually appeared on his face. "It's right this time."

Ding Ding was still completely in the dark and felt that she should go to the door and sit with the dog.

Chen Shi observed the talisman patterns on the six pieces of paper. When the six talisman patterns were connected together, the seemingly fabricated patterns began to have meaning.

He quickly studied this extremely complicated talisman thoroughly and explained to the girl: "This talisman actually contains the pattern of the twelve zodiac signs. In other words, if you want to open the box, you need to correspond to the corresponding time... Black pot, tell the time!"

There were a few sounds of dogs barking at the door.

"Three quarters past the si hour." Chen Shi understood and said.

Ding Ding's eyes widened, wondering how he understood.

Chen Shi looked for the talisman pattern corresponding to the Si hour, found the node at three quarters, and immediately stimulated his qi and blood, with his fingertips quickly tapping the node at three quarters.

The node of three quarters lit up, and his fingertip landed on the node of four quarters!
His hands moved quickly, and his fingertips touched the nodes of the Si hour one by one in order. The talismans on the surface of the wooden box gradually lit up, and suddenly there was a click, and the box opened, revealing a thick stack of books.

Chen Shi was surprised and delighted. He took out the books and checked them one by one.

The reason why Li Xiaozheng asked him for help was because his grandfather left a large array of talismans on the stone boat.

If he cannot break the formation, he might even die on the stone boat.

These books often contain some insights about the Divine Fetus. Chen Shi examined them for a long time and found that they should be the notes left by his grandfather when he was in the Divine Fetus realm.

"Xiao Wangsun said that because grandpa got the phantom fetus, the weakest divine fetus, he stayed in the divine fetus realm for many years without breaking through. These notes should be the methods that grandpa studied back then."

He flipped through the pages hurriedly, and the box closed automatically with a click, returning to its original state.

Ding Ding observed the box and asked in confusion, "Sir, I saw you unpacking the box just now and it seemed to be very troublesome. What if you unpack the box in the wrong order? What will happen?"

Chen Shi shook his head while reading a book and said, "I don't know either." "Let me try!" Ding Ding said excitedly.

She stretched out her finger, activated her true energy, and randomly tapped the box. Suddenly, the box became extremely large. The lid opened, like a grim mouth full of sharp teeth. A long flesh-red tongue flew out from the darkness inside the box and wrapped around her waist.

"Crack!"

The box bit down and swallowed the girl, leaving only a pair of women's shoes on the ground.

Hei Guo noticed the movement, poked his head into the yard and looked a little confused.

Chen Shi hurriedly said: "Black pot, tell the time!"

Hei Guo quickly told the time, and Chen Shi quickly unlocked the box. With a click, the box opened again, and Ding Ding was vomited out of the box, her whole body wet and sticky, as if she had been soaked in the stomach of some evil spirit.

"This box may be a ghost."

Chen Shi thought for a moment and said to the unlucky girl, "When I drew that talisman just now, I felt that its structure was special. Now that I think about it, it is somewhat similar to the Southern School talismans."

Ding Ding went to take a bath dejectedly. Hei Guo walked into the yard, took an axe to chop wood and help her boil water.

Chen Shi continued to flip through the books, and after roughly reading a few, he suddenly saw a line of text on the last page of a book: "Xiao Shi is resurrected, and there is no more divine fetus. The difficulty of cultivation is a hundred times greater than mine. He cannot follow my path, so how should he practice?"

When Chen Shi read this, he was deeply moved.

The handwriting of this line of words is relatively new, and it should have been added by grandfather when Chen Shi came back to life and looked for a way to allow Chen Shi to practice.

He once complained to his grandfather in his heart, asking why he didn't teach him how to practice. But when he saw this line of words, he realized how distressed his grandfather was at that time.

He picked up another volume.

There were some strange patterns drawn on this book. Chen Shi looked through it carefully and found that they were patterns of water and fire, as well as human anatomy diagrams!

The following records various inhuman experiments, including how to apply water and fire to corpses to keep them alive.

This book is like a crime note, recording Chen Yindu's digging graves and stealing corpses for experiments.

Chen Shi continued to flip through the pages, and saw failure after failure, as well as various summaries.

He turned to the last page and saw an anxious old man writing at the back: "Failed for the 112th time! Failed, failed, and failed again! Is it true that the dead cannot be resurrected?"

Chen Shi could see how anxious and desperate his grandfather was at the time.

He picked up another book, which was a notebook of experiments on water and fire refining.

He glanced through it briefly and found that the book also recorded more than a hundred failures.

He picked up another one, and the experiment recorded in it also failed.

Chen Shi turned to the seventh book and finally saw two flying words at the end of the book.

"success!"

He looked at the seven books with red eyes. Grandpa never told him how much effort he had made to save him.

He didn't realize how hard it was until today.

Chen Shi calmed himself down, picked up another book, and became more spirited. This book was the one that recorded the talismans!
He flipped through the book in a hurry. The handwriting on the book was exactly that of his grandfather. The content of the book was that he felt that the "Compilation of Talismans" was often about worshipping gods and borrowing the power of gods. If he could get rid of this, he could create things, create wonderful life, and even gods!

"It's this book! This book is the 'Treasure Book of Talisman Creation'! I have it at home too!"

Chen Shi was quite delighted, and flipped through the book quickly. He saw that most of the records in the book were the internal structure diagrams and floor plans of various fantastic creatures drawn by his grandfather, with annotations on talismans attached next to them.

He flipped the page again and found that the book recorded various creation talismans from the ninth grade to the first grade, as well as the materials needed!
Chen Shi calmed himself down, put the book in his arms, and prepared to study it carefully. He glanced at other books and picked up another one.

He opened the book, and what was written in it was not about cultivation or talismans, but rather a recipe.

Chen Shi looked at it for a moment before confirming that it was a recipe!
Just as he was about to close it, he suddenly saw a line of text: "...Xiao Shi likes it. Maybe I put too much salt in it, be careful next time."

Chen Shi was stunned, and continued to flip through the pages, and saw the familiar words again: "...I still can't taste it, Xiao Shi doesn't like it. Maybe it's too greasy. Use less oil next time."

Chen Shi's vision was a little blurry, but he continued to flip through the pages. The book contained a recipe written by his grandfather. At that time, he was no longer a human being. He had become a living corpse. He could not taste the food and could only guess whether the food he cooked was delicious based on Chen Shi's expression.

Ding Ding finished her bath and came out wearing Chen Shi’s clothes.

Chen Shi was still growing and was about the same height as her, so she looked heroic in her outfit.

She walked over here while wiping her wet hair. Seeing Chen Shi's tears falling, she quickly asked, "Sir, why are you crying?"

Chen Shi wiped away his tears, lost in thought, and said, "Grandpa never told me how much he loved me. I even suspected that he wanted to eat me, and I was scared for a long time. Sister Ding Ding, I miss my grandpa."

Ding Ding didn't know how to comfort the boy, so she quickly smiled and said, "Don't be sad, can I kiss you on the cheek? Or... a kiss on the lips is also fine."

Chen Shi did not kiss her, but put the book away, thinking it was more precious than any other treasure book or secret manual.

"Grandpa, are you doing well in the underworld?"

He silently said in his heart, "Are there any evil ghosts bullying you? Why don't you send me a dream? If you are bullied, I will burn a few masters from the mortal world for you. If you don't like Old Lady Wuzhu, I can burn other old ladies."

"Crack!"

In the underworld, Chen Yindu had a gloomy face. He twisted the neck of a Yama demon, threw the corpse away, and stared fiercely at the other extremely ferocious ghosts and gods.

That Yama was a ghost from the underworld, and he killed him alive. It took a long time for the corpse to fall to the ground before the sound was heard.

He has been blocking the entrance to the passage connecting to the world of the living for several months.

During these few months, not a single ghost or god has entered Chen Shi's body in the mortal world!

Therefore, Chen Shi did not fall ill once during this period!

"It seems like some ghosts in the underworld have noticed this place!"

He was covered in wounds, but he was getting stronger. He took a rare breath and thought, "I wonder if Granny Sha and the others have solved the evil spirit in Xiao Shi's body?"

——Thanks to the leader of the House Immortal Qitian for the reward, the boss is generous!

(End of this chapter)