Chapter 176: The Secret of the Thousand-Character Map (1)
Elder Feng took out a scroll from his sleeve and handed it to Li Muran, saying, "This "Thousand Talisman Picture" is a treasure obtained by chance when he was a teacher and Taoist Zixu traveled to the great world of the Middle Earth country to cultivate the immortals. It is said that there are several pictures in total, but they are all exactly the same. I got two pictures back then, so I got one each.
"After I got the Thousand Talismans, I studied it for a long time, but I only recognized hundreds of runes, and there were a large number of runes that could not be recognized. It is probably all ancient runes that have been lost long ago."
"At the time, we were still very interested in this Thousand Talisman diagram and kept studying it day and night. However, I have not studied this diagram for a long time now, so why not give it to you."
"Although this Thousand Talisman diagram claims to have a thousand runes, no one knows how many of them are. If you can't find more runes, don't waste too much time on it, so as not to delay your practice." Elder Feng handed the scroll to Li Mu and then gave it another piece of advice.
"Thank you, Master" Li Muran happily took over the scroll.
According to the rules of the sect, after Li Muran and others completed this master task, they will generally not be arranged to perform other tasks in a short period of time, but will try to arrange the tasks to other monks. In this way, each monk needs to perform tasks, but at the same time there is also a certain amount of rest time.
So Li Muran returned to the cave and began to arrange the next practice.
He summoned Xiaobai and took out the small tripod magic weapon left to him by Fairy Qianhuan.
Li Muran raised his fingers and nipped a little on the small tripod. The latter immediately floated into the air and spun it dripped. At the same time, his body also rose rapidly and turned to about a meter in size.
"Open" Li Muran entered another magic trick, and the cover of the small tripod rose up in response to the sound. Then, a yellow flame flew out of the small tripod, turning into a size of a ruler, floating in the air.
After the yellow fire ball flew out of the small cauldron, it immediately floated around and wanted to find the exit and fly away, but this quiet room had already been set up by Li Muran, and the yellow fire ball had no way to escape.
"It is worthy of being a treasure of heaven and earth. Just a trace of essence fire has a little spirituality." Li Muran praised secretly. This yellow fire ball has a great origin. It is the trace of essence fire drawn out from the mysterious yellow fire that the fairy Qianhuan got from the treasure of the forbidden land of the sand clan. Although it is only a trace, the power it contains is also unimaginable to Li Muran.
"The fourth elder of the Sand Clan plans to use this fire to cultivate holy insects; Fairy Qianhuan also said that this fire magic power is extremely powerful, one of the functions is that it can mutate and advance the spirit beast and insects; Xiaobai is already a rare innate rage light. If he can absorb this fire again, he might be able to go further."
"However, this fire is very rare. If I leave it to Xiaobai for refining, I will lose a way to break through the bottleneck in the future."
Li Muran considered it repeatedly and finally decided to hand over this mysterious trace of essence to Xiaobai.
Because he has not yet faced the pressure of the bottleneck of martial arts, Xiaobai is trapped at the second level peak for a while and has been cultivating for a while. With Xiaobai's potential, if his cultivation level can greatly increase, it will be a great help to him.
He and Xiaobai have experienced several times of sharing life and death in recent years. This experience has made Xiaobai look not only a spirit beast, but also a companion on the long road to immortal cultivation.
"Xiaobai, are you afraid of this flame?" Li Muran smiled slightly and said to Xiaobai.
Xiaobai seemed to understand what Li Muran meant. It stared at the yellow fire ball without blinking, constantly circled around, and seemed to want to rush forward, but he was afraid to get close.
However, it finally roared, jumped into the air and sucked it, swallowing the fire ball into its belly
Then, Xiaobai's hair stood upside down, his eyes were red like blood, and he kept jumping back and forth in the quiet room, as if he had entered a state of madness and rage.
Li Muran didn't care. He knew very well that Xiaobai was the light of innate anger. At various critical moments of cultivation, he would often fall into a state of rage. In this state, Xiaobai's magical potential will greatly improve, so he was not worried.
"Although Xiaobai has extraordinary potential, he is a low-level spirit beast after all. This pure fire may take a while to absorb and calm down." Li Muran said in his heart. After he led Xiaobai into the wider beast-raising room, he observed it for a few more hours, and after confirming that Xiaobai was not seriously injured, he felt relieved.
"I hope this fire is as magical as rumored"
Li Muran said in his heart, and then returned to the quiet room where he meditated and practiced.
After a short rest, Li Muran took out the "Thousand Talismans Picture".
"What are so many of a thousand runes?" Li Muran opened the scroll and pasted it on a wall in the quiet room.
"Master is right. This Thousand Talisman Picture is exactly the same as the one by Zixu Taoist. No matter what, look for it first, just pretend to be familiar with various runes." Li Muran thought curiously.
Then, he took out a glass jade pen, and every time he recognized a rune, he gently tapped the rune with the jade pen, leaving a faint light of inspiration.
After all, I have seen this picture and have also found the runes in it with monks such as the Taoist Fu Sect. So Li Muran held the pen and clicked them one by one without thinking. In a moment, the scroll was covered with various faint lights of inspiration. Looking around, it looked like the stars in the sky in the night sky.
After finding out more than 300 runes that had been recognized last time, Li Muran recognized the runes a little slower, but he still recognized one runes after another and lit up the inspiration.
After recognizing dozens of runes in this way, Li Muran's process of identifying the talismans also began to become very difficult. Almost every time he found a plausible rune, he would close his eyes and meditate for a moment, and search for runes of similar shapes from the complex rune information left by Fairy Qianhuan.
Relying on the amazing memory that immortals who had never forgotten at all after their eyes at the Divine Travel Period, Li Muran compared the runes in the Thousand Talismans with the runes information in the divine thoughts one by one, and finally found more than a hundred runes, and they were almost all remote ancient runes.
However, Li Muran also studied the Thousand Talismans Diagram for a full day and night.
This kung fu is not a waste of time. At least, he took this opportunity to get familiar with a lot of rune information left by Fairy Qianhuan, but he still had no time to study it carefully one by one.
"The six hundredth one is an unheard of ghost fighting text. If it weren't for the information left by Fairy Qianhuan, I would definitely not recognize it." On the second day, Li Muran gently tapped a light of inspiration on a tree somewhere, and then forcibly moved his eyes away from the Qianfu diagram and rested for a while.
Not long after, when he turned his gaze to the Thousand Talismans diagram, he found that almost all the places on the diagram were lit with inspiration.
"Only six hundred" Li Muran frowned, "This is still far from a thousand runes. I have searched very carefully. And with the help of ancient runes information left by the Qianhuan Fairy, I have found so many. I am afraid that this thousand talisman map is just an argument, not as exaggerated as a thousand runes."
"Or, the one who made the Qianfu Diagram was an incredible master. He knew more runes than the information left by Fairy Qianhuan, so I couldn't find them at all." Li Muran murmured.
However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that the second type might not be too big. After all, Fairy Qianhuan's cultivation is unfathomable, and the rune information she left behind was recorded in thousands of runes, and most of them have been lost. Most of the masters who made the Thousand Talisman Diagrams are far from as good as those.
"If it weren't for the incomplete rune information I had, then I hadn't found the method of the master hiding the remaining four hundred runes in the scroll."
"But, I have read almost all the lines in this painting carefully. I have found basically all the runes I can find. Even if there are any omissions, I will just miss a few. How could I miss so many four hundred runes?
Li Muran looked at the Qianfu Picture again, suddenly felt aroused in his heart and murmured: "Hey, by the way, in addition to outlining the various lines of the scenery, there are also large areas of white space on this scroll. It seems that there is no painting here, but it may not be a mystery."
Because there is a method of making runes called hidden patterns. Hidden patterns are hidden in the talisman, but they do not appear. Just like the blank area in this scroll, it seems that there is no painting, but it is very likely that there is a hidden mystery.
If it were the old Taoist Zixu and Elder Feng and other monks, they might not have been able to delve so deeply, because they had limited knowledge of ancient runes and thought they could not see more runes. However, Li Muran was very confident in the thousands of runes information left by Fairy Qianhuan. He believed that it was not that he could not see it, but that the remaining runes were hidden in the scroll in other ways.
"If the runes are drawn with hidden sand, then the runes will not be presented. If the master uses hidden sand to paint, the drawing will be blank. However, as long as the master can find out what kind of hidden sand the master uses to leave the runes in the dark, he can find a targeted method to make the hidden sand appear."
Li Muran approached the scroll, touched the blank spaces gently, and sniffed them carefully, and occasionally even stuck some water droplets and smeared them on the blank spaces.
After such a seemingly strange behavior, Li Muran became more confident in his guess.
Then, he tried one by one, wet a small piece of blank space with spiritual spring water, and then took out some powder and applied it to the blank space of the scroll. After trying this for a while, finally, when he applied a light blue spiritual liquid full of fragrant smell of plants and trees in the blank space of the scroll, some shallow stripes indeed appeared.
Chapter completed!