Seeking immortality in a deceitful way starts by making oneself into a puppet

The night is already deep.

The sound of insects is like boiling, noisy in the grass. This is a kind of noise that is different from the noise in the daytime. Even so, most people in Sui'an City were asleep at this time.

He Ping didn't sleep, not because he had insomnia or couldn't sleep, but simply because he hardly needed sleep.

There is a Taoist article in "Invisible Secrets" about "Creating the Soul Palace", which is also called "Nine Palaces and Bright Moon Climbing the True Method". This Taoist belief is that all things have animism, and human beings are the most important. There are nine true rooms hidden in the upper Dantian mud pill, which are called nine palaces.

The nine palaces are Mingtang Palace, Bridal Palace, Niwan Palace, Liuzhu Palace, Tianting Palace, Jizhen Palace, Danxuan Palace, Taihuang Palace and Jade Emperor Palace.

This secret method is dedicated to concentrating the mind, using the true spiritual light in the soul to turn into a bright moon, illuminating the nine palaces in the upper Dantian, like adding oil to light a lamp, lighting up the nine palaces one after another, which is said to be the soul-building palace.

This Taoist technique is used to specifically train the acuity of the mind, strengthen the wisdom of thinking, and finally move the soul and understand the Tao. Once practiced, it will have the benefit of making rapid progress.

After so many years, He Ping's Nine Palaces and Moon Climbing True Method has become more and more complete. As early as a few years ago, it has successively illuminated "Niwan", "Mingtang", "bridal chamber", "Liuzhu", "Heavenly Court", " There are eight soul palaces including "Jizhen", "Danxuan" and "Jade Emperor's Palace", but for some unknown reason, there has been no progress in the last "Taihuang Palace"...

According to Wuyousheng, after the creation of the Nine Soul Palaces, you will have the opportunity to step into the Tao realm and reach the sky in one step. Your cultivation will become unfathomable and you will possess all kinds of incredible powers.

However, He Ping himself is still far away from that step. This may be because the "Invisible Secret" itself has shortcomings, or it may be that his own essence is too wasted and he is unable to light up the "Taihuang Palace" and break through the final level in one fell swoop. But because of his own physique, he also has a completely different ability, or a trait.

It is worth mentioning that the biggest difference between him and ordinary people actually comes from his status as a time traveler. He himself discovered this only after practicing the "Soul Building Palace", that is, he has two souls.

One of the souls is naturally the soul that he passed through, while the other soul is the soul of the original owner of this body, the real son of the He family, He Ping.

However, unlike his own soul, the soul of He Ping's original body exuded a sense of death, muddy and devoid of any vitality.

He Ping didn't know why this happened. Maybe the original He Ping was dead when his soul passed through, but the soul of the seven or eight-year-old child after his death was still preserved, but it became a kind of confusion and ignorance. The state of unconsciousness.

He Ping tried stimulating the original soul, but to no avail. The original soul was like an egg with an empty shell, empty inside and no intelligence preserved.

However, the strange thing is that after he practiced the soul-making palace technique, He Ping gradually discovered that he could control the original soul, or the original soul became his deputy soul.

This situation cannot be described in words, and He Ping himself cannot explain it. This deputy soul can handle various affairs under his intentional control... For example, he can use this empty-shell soul to practice the Tao of building the Soul Palace. Techniques, or give it some simple commands to let it control the body on its behalf.

This empty soul can be used to distract itself, such as controlling the left and right hands to do different things, or sleeping and running at the same time, reading two books at the same time, etc...

I am afraid that this empty soul lacks intelligence and can only do simple tasks, but it is also a huge help to He Ping.

Perhaps because he was born with two souls, and the secret method of building the soul palace is extremely powerful, He Ping almost does not need to sleep after practicing. When he is tired, he exchanges with the empty soul to take a short rest, otherwise he will let Kong The shell soul sleeps on its behalf and can maintain mental stability for a long time.

On the other hand, He Ping doubted that his cultivation speed was so fast and his energy and energy were consumed beyond the normal limit. This might be the reason why he had two souls.

At this time, nestled in his wing, he was holding a red pen in his hand and dotting the eyes.

Yes, he was adding the finishing touches to several paper puppets that he had made with bamboo slices pierced into the bones and paper made into skins. This kind of paper puppets made of special mulberry paper is usually used to pay homage to the deceased. The underworld vessels will be burned to the deceased during the first seven hours.

There is a long-standing folk rule in the paper puppet industry. It is a very strange and peculiar rule, that is, you cannot put the dots in the eyes of the paper puppets.

As the saying goes, "the finishing touch", many people believe that once the paper puppet's eyes are dotted, it will have aura, which can easily attract ghosts to attach to it and bring bad luck.

However, for a cultivator like He Ping, this kind of thing is naturally nothing to worry about. He used a blood inkstone to grind ink while swiping his pen to add eyes to the paper puppet.

With a little ink, he pinched the magic formula with his hand and muttered it. Following his spell, the originally expressionless paper puppets showed different expressions one after another.

Just like a group of living people, the dozen paper puppets in the wing were originally dead objects, but with the slightest click of the cinnabar pen, they all came to life at this moment.

Occasionally, some of the paper puppets showed weird smiles, some had angry faces, some had sad faces, some had sad expressions, and a few paper puppets had distorted faces, showing a look of extreme horror.

"People have five internal organs that transform into five qi, which produce joy, anger, sorrow, and fear. Therefore, joy and anger harm qi, and cold and heat harm the body. Anger harms yin, and violent joy harms yang. The qi rises upward, and the pulse is full and the body is removed. Uncontrolled joy and anger, cold and heat, harm the body. Excessive, life will not be solid..."

Under the candlelight, He Ping's weak and pale face suddenly showed a smile.

"After collecting so many materials and spending a lot of money, this paper puppet technique can finally be put to use."

These paper puppets are called Paper Puppet Spiritual Puppet Technique in the "Invisible Secrets" of the Immortal Puppet Sect. They originally belonged to the lineage of paper craftsmen in the side sect, but were later absorbed and improved by the Immortal Puppet Sect.

There are all kinds of puppets recorded in the volume of "Invisible Secrets", and there are many types, many of which are powerful, or weird and unpredictable.

The paper puppet technique is not a superior puppet technique. The "Three Corpse Mystic Demon Puppet", "Vajra Demon Figurine", "Emperor's Divine Weapon" and "Leading Mecha Beast" recorded in the Jufan Volume are far better than the paper puppet technique. The even spirit puppet technique is much stronger.

However, the paper puppet technique has an advantage, that is, it is easier to make and the production time is shorter.

Of course, all this is compared with the refining time of other puppets. For He Ping, the preparation of the paper puppet spirit requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

First of all, the material used to make paper puppets is a special kind of leather. Common Pupi paper is mostly made from mulberry bark, mountain bark, and Pubark bark.

The papermaking process is not only complex, but also expensive. During the papermaking process, it needs to be supplemented with the tree oil of iron core wood and precious medicinal wine before it can be used.

However, the advantage of this kind of paper is that it is not afraid of being cut by weapons, nor is it afraid of fire or rain. The paper is extremely tough, and after being refined with magic, it has the magical effect of attracting souls.

With this kind of puppets made of paper, the caster only needs to summon ghosts, attach them to these paper puppets, and then use magic to drive them. These paper puppets can come and go like the wind, and are invulnerable to all kinds of weapons. Great abilities that ordinary people cannot match.

"That alone is not enough. The most special thing about paper puppets is that they need to absorb five kinds of evil spirits, mix them with the five emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and fear, take their spiritual emotions and samadhi, and refine the Yin spirit into a curse spirit... At this point, the power of this kind of paper puppet will be greatly increased. When facing the enemy, it can also release cursed demonic flames to form a formation, which is specially designed to enchant the six desires, confuse the gods, and confuse the intelligence. It is also considered a powerful skill. Spell."