On the Avenue

Chapter 126 Grandpa collects books

"Empress Shiji, a stone from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, has undergone sacrifices 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 thunder and lightning shaking in the clouds.

"The meaning of Ji is the stone standing by the water. Empress Shiji should be a stone statue of a woman standing by the water. What is her origin, and why is only her head left? Why did the true king put her head on the treasure ship? ?

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

The wooden cart was a little bumpy, and his body was swaying this way and that. The girl holding the pipa next to him was dozing off during the shaking, tilting her head and leaning on his shoulder unconsciously.

Chen Shi smelled the fragrance coming from the girl's body. He didn't know whether it was body fragrance or the fragrance of rouge and gouache.

——In the morning, he saw the girl applying some rouge and gouache on her face. After applying it, her face looked rosy, even though it looked good before.

"Ah sneeze!"

His nostrils were itchy due to the girl's hair on her temples, and he sneezed. The girl on his shoulder hadn't woken up yet, but she quietly opened one eye, glanced at him secretly, 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 that her neck hurt. She tilted her head for a long time before she regained her composure.

After returning to Huangpo Village, Chen Shi did not continue traveling.

He returned to his old days, practicing every day, worshiping his godmother, and listening to lectures. However, this time he came back and had one more thing to do, which was to go to the East Chamber to read books.

The east wing of the Chen family is a place where sundries are stored. No one goes there all year round, and it is dark and air-conditioned. Before and after the Spring Festival, my grandfather would put up a few frightening charms and insect-repelling charms here to drive away mice and insects, and he would not visit these three rooms after that.

Chen Shi had gone into this house before, looking for the "treasures" he had collected when he was a child.

He found that when he was a child, he rarely had any toys, but mostly counters, inkstones, bald writing pens, and notes.

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

"When I was a child, I must have been a boring child." Chen Shi said sincerely.

Other miscellaneous things, some are old things from my father Chen Tang, and some are things that my grandfather left in the east compartment. There are a lot of miscellaneous things.

Chen Shi went into the east chamber and searched for a long time before pulling out a scroll of old paintings. Unrolling the scroll, the painting shows a family of four. The grandfather is sitting on a chair, a little boy is sitting on his lap, and a man and a woman are standing behind him.

The man is handsome and the woman is 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 kept it away.

The sound of pipa was heard outside the window. Chen Shi raised his head and looked out from the window lattice, and saw Ding Ding sitting under the eaves of the hall, holding the pipa, probably practicing his fingering.

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

Chen Shi didn't understand and continued to search.

"But there is emotion in her playing, which is much better than before. She has her own thing." He thought to himself.

But, is this good or bad for girls?

Chen Shi pulled out a box from the pile of old things. The box looked like an ordinary wooden box, but it was tightly sealed and there was no place to open it or a lock.

The box is a few years old and should be made of jujube wood. It has not been painted, but the patina has been removed. It is shiny and has the texture of ruby.

The six sides of the box are all painted with different talismans. The talismans have a complex structure and are structurally different from the talismans that Chen Shi has seen before.

However, although the structure is complex, it has no effect.

They are like decorative patterns, not talismans.

"The talismans on this box look like made-up talismans and have no power."

Chen Shi observed for a while and gradually saw some clues, so he moved the box to the yard, took paper and pen, ground them, 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 was flowing down Chen Shi's neck, feeling cool.

However, she didn't know much about talismans, and her eyes darkened.

Chen Shi finally saw the clues and muttered: "According to the structure of the talisman, the projection method should be used..."

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

"No, it's not this corner."

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

Ding Ding's eyes were still dark, and he felt that he should go to the door and sit with Gouzi.

Chen Shi observed the talisman patterns on six pieces of paper. When the six talisman patterns were connected together, the originally seemingly made-up patterns became meaningful.

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

Several dogs barked at the door.

"It's three o'clock." Chen Shi understood and said.

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

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

The node at three quarters lit up, and his fingertips landed on the node at four quarters!

His hands were flying, and he clicked on the nodes one after another in order. However, he saw the talismans on the surface of the wooden box gradually light up. Suddenly, with a click, the box opened, revealing a thick stack of books.

Chen Shi was surprised and delighted. He took out these books and looked at 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 ship.

If the formation cannot be broken, I am afraid that even he will be buried in the stone boat.

These books often contained some insights about the divine fetus. Chen Shi checked 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 a 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 hurriedly flipped through it, and then the box closed automatically with a click and returned to its original state.

Ding Ding observed the box and said doubtfully: "Sir, I just saw that it was very troublesome for you to open the box. What if you open the box in the wrong order? What will happen?"

Chen Shi shook his head while reading, "I don't know either."

"I'll try it!" Ding Ding said excitedly.

She stretched out her finger, activated her Qi, and casually clicked on the box. Suddenly, the box became extremely huge. The lid of the box opened, like a huge mouth, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth. A long flesh-red tongue emerged from inside the box. It flew out of the darkness and wrapped around her waist.

"Crack!"

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

Heiguo noticed the movement and looked into the yard, feeling a little confused.

Chen Shi quickly said: "The scapegoat, tell the time!"

The black pot hurriedly called the time, and Chen Shi quickly unlocked the box. With a click, the box opened again. Ding Ding was spit out by the box, and his whole body was wet and sticky, as if he had been soaked in the stomach of some evil spirit.

"This box may be an evil spirit."

Chen Shi thought for a while and said to the unlucky girl, "When I drew that talisman just now, I thought the structure was special. Now that I think about it, it is somewhat similar to the southern talisman."

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

Chen Shi continued to flip through a few books, and suddenly saw a line of text on the last page of a book: "Xiao Shi is reborn, and there is no divine fetus anymore. Cultivation is a hundred times more difficult than mine. He cannot follow my path. How to practice?"

Chen Shi was very moved when he read this.

The writing and ink of this line is relatively new, and it should have been added later when Chen Shi's grandfather came to look for a way for Chen Shi to practice after he was resurrected.

He once complained about his grandfather in his heart, 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 painted on this volume. Chen Shi looked through it carefully and found patterns of water and fire, as well as anatomy diagrams of the human body!

The following records various inhuman experiments, how to apply water and fire to the corpse to keep the corpse still active.

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

Chen Shi kept flipping through and saw one failure after another, as well as various summaries.

He turned to the last page, and an anxious old man wrote at the back: "Failed for the 112th time! Failure, failure, failure! Is it true that there is no resurrection after death?"

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

He picked up another book, which was also the test notes of Water and Fire.

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

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

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

"success!"

He looked at these seven books with red eyes. Grandpa never said how much effort he put in to save him.

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

Chen Shi calmed down, picked up another book, and felt refreshed. This book was exactly the book that recorded the talismans!

He hurriedly flipped through the book, and found that the handwriting on the book was exactly what his grandfather had written, and what he wrote was that he realized that the "Compilation of Talisman" was often about respecting gods and borrowing the power of gods. If you can get rid of this, you can create things, create wonderful lives, and even gods!

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

Chen Shi was quite pleased and hurriedly flipped through the book, only to see that most of the internal structure diagrams and floor plans of various wonderful creatures drawn by his grandfather were recorded in the book, with annotations on the talismans attached next to them.

He turned back further, and the book recorded various creation talismans from ninth grade to first grade, as well as the required materials!

Chen Shi calmed down, stuffed the book into his arms, and prepared to study it carefully. He caught a glimpse of other books, so he picked up another one.

He opened the book. What was written in the book was not cultivation or talismans. Instead, it looked like a recipe.

Chen Shi looked at it for a moment before confirming that it was a recipe!

He was about to close it when he suddenly saw a line of text: "...Xiao Shi likes to eat. You may have added too much salt, so be careful next time."

Chen Shi was stunned, and continued to read, and saw familiar words: "...I still can't taste it. Xiao Shi doesn't like it. It may be too greasy. Use less oil next time."

Chen Shi's vision was a little blurry and he continued to read. The book was a recipe written by his grandfather. At that time, he was no longer a human being. He became a living corpse. He couldn't taste the taste and could only learn from Chen Shi's recipe. Use facial expressions to guess whether the food you cooked is delicious.

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

Chen Shi was still growing up and was about the same height as her. She looked heroic in her clothes.

She turned her head to wipe her wet hair while walking towards this side. Seeing Chen Shi's tears falling, she hurriedly said, "Young Master, why are you crying?"

Chen Shi wiped away his tears and was stunned. He said, "Grandpa never said how much he loved me. I once 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 smiled and said, "Don't be sad. Can I kiss you on the cheek? Or... kiss your lips is also fine."

Chen Shi didn't kiss her, but put the book away, thinking it was more precious than any treasure book.

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

He said silently 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 in the world of the living for you. If you don't like old lady Wuzhu, I can burn other old ladies."

"Crack!"

In the underworld, Chen Yindu's face was gloomy. He twisted the neck of a Yama, threw the body down, and stared at the other extremely vicious ghosts and gods fiercely.

That Yama was a ghost god in the underworld. He was killed alive by him. The body fell to the ground for a long time before the sound of falling was heard.

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

During these months, no ghost god has entered the body of Chen Shi in the world of the living!

So Chen Shi has not been sick once during this period!

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

He was covered in wounds, but he was getting stronger and 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 Zhaixian Qitian for the reward, the boss is generous!