Chapter 142 - 134: Unknown Land

Chapter 142: Chapter 134: Unknown Land"How is the talisman broken? Child’s urine or Black Dog Blood?" Zhou Xuan had a fixed stereotype about breaking talismans, as that’s always how it was portrayed on TV and in folk plays—just splash a basin of Black Dog Blood on it, and it’ll be done. If it still couldn’t be broken, then it must be because there wasn’t enough Black Dog Blood, or the dog wasn’t old enough! "That is using filthy substances to attack the talisman! If the talisman power is weak, naturally that method would work. But this Yellow Talisman can subdue Evil Ghosts and suppress the Yin Sha Qi inside this house, even sealing this stone gate, so its power cannot be weak. Forget about sprinkling some Child’s urine, even if you build a public toilet on top of the talisman and call everyone from East Market Street to urinate on it, it wouldn’t work!" Suddenly Zhou Xuan felt that Lao Yun was not only talkative but also a bit garrulous. "Then what do you suggest?" "This is where I come in." Yun Ziliang hopped down into the pit, stood to the side to avoid getting hurt by the Yellow Talisman, and said: "To break the talisman, you need to use your Perception! Blood Well Spirit Communicators are known for their strong Perception, and every Tangkou knows this. They believe that with strong Perception, one is extremely talented in the spiritual practices of communing with Gods, and understanding it this way isn’t wrong, but that’s too naive. The reason why Perception is so valuable isn’t just because it makes your practice more efficient, let me teach you how to use your Perception." Yun Ziliang rolled up his sleeves, and Zhou Xuan felt that given a storyteller’s cloak, he probably could perform storytelling. "To break a Taoist’s talisman, one needs to grasp its mystery. Linking with Gods mainly involves four methods: blood and flesh, spirit and Dao, Mysterious Sect naturally pertains to ’Dao.’ One practices daily, perceiving the Dao of heaven and earth, realizing the link with the Gods, and over time, Dao Marks form in the body. As these marks grow deeper and more condensed, the ties with Gods and the natural world grow stronger. With more time, one will learn to manipulate the essence of the Gods between heaven and earth; the profundity of Daoist magic depends on how skilled one is at this manipulation. "Drawing talismans, or more accurately, a talisman is not just a drawing, but a command, directing the essence of the Gods into the paper, and then letting it circulate according to this command, like this talisman on the stone gate. The person who drew it has created a prison out of the God’s essence with talisman paper right in this room!" "The prison, in its normal state, is indestructible, unless your level of Dao surpasses that of the Gods themselves, only then could you forcibly break it." "As you described, the talisman can’t be broken." Zhou Xuan said. "It can be broken. The God’s essence forms the prison according to the command, but the command isn’t complete, harmonious, and flawless. You need to find where the command is disharmonious, once found, even a little finger could poke through. To find the disharmonious part, you cannot rely on your eyes; you have to seek it with your Perception, the stronger the Perception, the easier it is to find." After Yun Ziliang finished speaking, he pointed to the Yellow Talisman on the stone gate and said, "Don’t start by focusing all your Perception on the Yellow Talisman, first gather your Perception on the ’Ordered’ character, and then slowly lead your Perception to extend to the rest of the talisman imprints." Following Lao Yun’s guidance, Zhou Xuan closed his eyes and released a tiny fraction of his Perception. Once the Perception entered the "Ordered" character, Zhou Xuan truly felt that there was a prison around him, The prison had two layers, one that enveloped the entire Old Painting Pavilion, while the other layer was right in front of him, squarely one meter on each side, quickly spinning. "What do you see?" Yun Ziliang asked Zhou Xuan on the side. Zhou Xuan reported truthfully. "That square inner layer of the prison in front of you is the heart of the talisman. Penetrate with your Perception to find its disharmony." Zhou Xuan did as told, first allowing a small part of his Perception to penetrate, and he immediately noticed that the rotation speed of the heart of the talisman slowed considerably, but it was still not clear. After sensing no danger from the entry of his Perception, Zhou Xuan guided all his Perception into it, and that core of the talisman was like it hit the brakes, first turning sluggishly a few times and then abruptly stopped. This time, Zhou Xuan could see clearly that all four sides of the heart of the talisman shone with a golden hue, its surface smooth, feeling like glass when touched. However, there was a hairline crack on the right golden face of the heart, finer than a strand of hair, barely noticeable if not looked at closely. "Is the heart still spinning?" "It has stopped!" "Stopped?" Yun Ziliang’s tone clearly paused, saying: "This talisman was not drawn well, actually being stopped! If it was drawn by me in my prime... You’d have a lot to suffer..." Old Hua could never admit defeat. "There’s a crack in the heart of the talisman," Zhou Xuan added. "The crack is the disharmony. Strike it, and it will shatter for sure." After Yun Ziliang spoke, Zhou Xuan moved. He went over to the side with the golden face, made his right hand into a sword-finger gesture, and gently poked the crack. "Dang!" A sound like thunder rang out, the heart of the talisman shattered, and the prison inside the Old Painting Pavilion disappeared without a trace. Lv Mingkun saw that when Zhou Xuan issued the sword-finger, the talisman attached to the stone gate automatically began to burn, turning to black ash in a few moments. "The talisman is broken." Zhou Xuan looked at the black ash, then crouched down and touched the stone gate engraved with Evil Ghost decorations. This time, he still just released a thread of Perception, penetrating into the stone gate. A sound of an infant’s cry echoed in Zhou Xuan’s ears. "Wah, wah, wah!" With the cries, Zhou Xuan saw another vision with a wall in it. On the wall, countless bloody umbilical cords stretched down, connecting one after another baby; they were on the ground—some crawling, some sitting, some lying, some standing. Every infant had an Evil Ghost tattoo on their body. The extremely bizarre image made Zhou Xuan’s mind a bit dazed, and he quickly withdrew his Perception. The stone slab was still a stone slab, and the bizarre images vanished like smoke and fog. "There should be something hidden in this stone slab that I’m looking for." "What exactly are you looking for?" Yun Ziliang was very curious now, mainly because his curiosity had also been piqued. "Lao Yun, are you saying that this stone slab is actually a door?" Yun Ziliang nodded and said, "I’ve told you, there are people known as Unknowns, they’re not rootless trees, they come from somewhere, and the place they come from is called the Unknown Land. The passage between the Unknown Land and the human world is this kind of door, where this door leads, I do not know, what dangers lie within, I also do not know, Think about it, it’s simple, if it were that clearly understood, it wouldn’t be called the Unknown Land." "How do you open this door?" Zhou Xuan asked again. "Did you see the Evil Ghost carving on the stone slab? Sprinkle blood, fill the carvings with blood, and you can open this door." Yun Ziliang repeated what he had said before: "This door, it’s easy to open, but whether you can come out after entering, I cannot guarantee." "Is there a foolproof method to enter the door?" Lv Mingkun asked Yun Ziliang, "For example, if I take a rope and tie it to my junior brother, if he encounters something wrong, pull the rope, and I will use force to pull him out." "Blood Well Fishing method?" Yun Ziliang said, "It can be said that in principle, it’s possible." "It may work, but we need to think it through first." Zhou Xuan wasn’t a reckless person, and since there was danger, who would test it? Especially when it comes to the unknown. The unknown can always bring the deepest fear, Zhou Xuan was no exception, he felt that this matter needed further consideration. "First, let’s covers the stone slab with soil, I’ll go back and ponder on it." Zhou Xuan was thinking of climbing out along the rope they had let down earlier when suddenly, the Wash Away Injustice Talisman pressed against his chest violently trembled, Then afterwards, Zhou Xuan lost consciousness, his body uncontrollably numbly walked to the top of the stone slab, picked up the scissors used just now for picking, and slashed across his palm. Blood quickly dripped, The Evil Ghost’s pattern was filled with fresh blood, the stone slab under Zhou Xuan’s feet emitted a howl like that of an Evil Ghost, and then his entire being began to sink into the stone slab, as though stepping into a blood-colored marsh. "Junior brother." Lv Mingkun realized something was amiss and stretched out his hand to grab Zhou Xuan, but caught nothing, Zhou Xuan, as if having lost his substance, Lv Mingkun stretched out his hand and grabbed only air, Yun Ziliang took one look and said, "It turns out that the method of Blood Well Fishing can’t be used in front of this stone gate." The moment the blood was sprinkled, the stone slab connected with the person who spilled the blood, turning him into a ghostly, intangible being. "Damn it, I don’t want to go to the Unknown Land!" When only Zhou Xuan’s head remained above the stone slab, his mind cleared up. Wash Away Injustice Talisman, damn you, I didn’t want to go inside, yet you’re forcing me in. Zhou Xuan reached out a hand, hoping Lv Mingkun would pull him, but the fifth senior brother tried and still grabbed nothing. "What do we do now? My junior brother is just going to go down like this!" Lv Mingkun was frustrated. Yun Ziliang spread his hands and said, "I’ve said it before, I have very little understanding of the Unknown Land, Moreover, you have to have faith in your junior brother, he went down the stone slab of his own will after spilling blood, he’s a real man, extremely brave!" ... When Zhou Xuan’s head completely sank into the stone slab, he experienced a very long period of darkness, Unable to see even a single beam of light, not even a point of light. Zhou Xuan even wondered if he was dead. But the continuous sinking sensation told him that he was still alive, although he was currently in a state of complete darkness. He didn’t know how long he had sunk, when suddenly, Zhou Xuan’s feet seemed to have landed on something solid. The sinking stopped. "Under the stone gate, is it this kind of lightless place? How can I learn to tattoo in such a place!" Zhou Xuan felt it was difficult here, not just for tattooing, but even for having eyes. He had read in a science magazine, in the very deep sea where there is no light, most deep-sea fish’s eyes degenerate, turning into a complete blind world. "Pop!" Just as Zhou Xuan was complaining, a crisp sound transmitted from beneath his feet again, the solid thing he had landed on broke, and this time, it was a rapid descent. But this time, there was light. Zhou Xuan descended all the way to the bottom, as if he had arrived in another world. He sat on a piece of grassland, the sky was purple, there were no clouds, only complex and intricate thread-like patterns. From Zhou Xuan’s perspective, the sky seemed to inflate and contract, when it inflated, the purple sky expanded, becoming semi-transparent light purple, When contracting, the sky turned blood red. "Where is this? How do I get out?" Zhou Xuan felt his chest’s Wash Away Injustice Talisman vibrate again, he took it out to look, and on the first page of the Wash Away Injustice Talisman, a passage appeared —— —— August 20th, 4:50 in the morning, Old Hua’s Pit...