Chapter 45: The Fundamental Great Curse

The Fundamental Great Curse

Not to mention how Seeing Tianlu handled things, Ruan Ci spent the next ten days in leisure. After returning from the Grotto-Heaven of Purple Void, except for sending people to Junping Mansion to say hello, she spent her days cultivating. She practiced many spell methods, which were interesting to practice. She also broke open the Qiankun bags of the two assassins, picked out the things she recognized, and piled the things she didn't recognize in a room and locked them up, sticking many sealing talismans on them, which was considered practicing the spells Seeing Tianlu taught her, and also consumed some of the cinnabar talisman paper from the monthly allowance.

At Spirit Valley Peak, because Ruan Ci sent someone to ask when the talisman class would start, they sent some more cinnabar. Ruan Ci also wanted to ask Spirit Valley Peak for some talisman classics to read because the talisman class didn't start this year, but was stopped by He Tong, saying, "Miss, you don't know, the rules of the sect's classics and cultivation methods are that they cannot be passed on privately. If you want to learn, you can ask Steward Feng for advice, but the public classics cannot be given."

Li Ji also said, "Although talisman spells are just small things, the aftermath of the assassination hasn't dissipated yet, and I fear all parties are watching. Miss, it is better to have less trouble than more."

Ruan Ci could now use spiritual power to activate jade slip classics, and she was fresh and curious, wanting to find some jade slips to read. In Junping Mansion, the room was full of jade slips, but she couldn't read any of them and could only flip through books, which she had always regretted. She originally thought that cultivation methods couldn't be read, and daily talisman spells were just small ways, which could be learned and written to her heart's content. Unexpectedly, there was this concern, so she had to give up. Seeing Tianlu taught ten kinds of talisman spells, all of which were needed for daily use. She spent a lot of time giving them to the servants, and watched them use them. She also forced Li Tong to put on a Light Body Talisman, wanting him to jump high and low, which could only be tried outside the grotto-abode. Li Tong was timid by nature, and every time he approached the wild forest, his face was terrified. Ruan Ci couldn't help but laugh at his timidity, and they chatted and laughed with each other, and they became familiar with each other.

This was just a trivial matter, and a lot of time was still used for cultivation. She brought back a bag of spirit food from the Purple Void Heaven, which was spirit rice, and it could be eaten after adding spirit spring and boiling it. The rice was fragrant. Except for the single taste, it was the simplest spirit food to make. Now that someone was managing the food, Ruan Ci didn't restrain her appetite much, just pondering that the taste was a bit monotonous, still not as good as the spirit beast meat jerky that Lin Ji gave her.

She ate spirit rice and had more strength, and felt that she wouldn't be tired even if she used all twelve hours of the day to cultivate. The spiritual power transmitted by the Donghua Sword was pure and incomparable. Ruan Ci used eight hours a day to work, one hour to write talismans, three hours to contemplate the sword intent diagram and communicate with the Donghua Sword, and five hours to absorb spiritual energy to fill the Jade Pool, and she was still full of spirit. According to He Tong, there were elders in his family who passed on cultivation methods, but they used at most two hours a day, and their hearts were exhausted. Like Ruan Ci, using eight hours a day to work, she thought it was rare even in the Profound Heaven Sect.

Who doesn't like to be praised? Ruan Ci was not without pride in her heart, but she threw it away after being happy for a while. Her Jade Pool was so vast, even if she worked so hard, after half a month, the water only grew a trace that couldn't be seen by the naked eye. If there was no Intent Cultivation method, she could only be more diligent, otherwise, the big realm would be thrown away sooner or later. If the foundation was solid, but she was one step slow, then every step would be slow, and she couldn't rely on the Donghua Sword for everything. What's more, she had to guard against the Intent Cultivation method being unusable, and could only switch to Tool Cultivation, safely improving her work, so she didn't dare to waste time.

On this day, after finishing breakfast, just as she was about to enter the quiet room, she suddenly heard the sound of flying car wheels, Seeing Tianlu drove the car to the edge of the cliff, jumped down from the sky, held Ruan Ci's hand, and said with panic and tears, "Ci, what should I do? I didn't handle the errand well, and the True Person is going to be angry with me."

Ruan Ci was confused, hurriedly brought Seeing Tianlu into the house to ask in detail, and learned that it was Seeing Tianlu who failed to understand the master's intention and taught the wrong spell. She couldn't help but laugh and cry, hurriedly saying, "The True Person is the honor of the Grotto-Heaven, looking down on the dust, and must know better than you do about yourself, and should know how to order you to do things. It was he who didn't order well, how can he blame you?"

This crooked reason made Seeing Tianlu confused, and he sobbed for a long time before saying, "I don't think this is the reason..."

But no matter what, his mood was relieved a lot. After wiping away his tears, he hurriedly wanted to teach the Four Great Curses to Ruan Ci, and blamed himself, "I really failed the True Person's expectations. Every cultivator who opens their meridians must immediately cultivate the Four Fundamental Curses. How could I forget it?"

It turned out that these four curses were almost mandatory for all cultivators to learn, so they were also called the Four Fundamental Curses. Seeing Tianlu said, "These four curses are the Purifying Heart Divine Curse, Purifying Mouth Divine Curse, Purifying Body Divine Curse, and Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Curse. Each curse has wonderful uses. For example, the Purifying Heart Divine Curse can calm oneself, eliminate distracting thoughts, and avoid your thoughts from flowing out and being captured by the Heavenly Demon. This curse is still okay in the Langhuan Zhou Tian. If it is in the Great Heaven, if you can't hold the curse, it is equivalent to treating yourself as Heavenly Demon fodder, which is the most important curse. Some mortals, whose thoughts are captured by cultivators at will, are like being able to read minds, which is because they don't hold the curse."

Ruan Ci smiled casually, "Then I don't need to cultivate this curse. I have divine objects to suppress it, and others can't see my thoughts anyway."

Seeing Tianlu widened his eyes and said, "That's not the case. Although the Green Sword is a life-giving Dao spirit treasure, it is now broken and incomplete. If we talk about power, it is only at the Grotto-Heaven level. When it comes to calming the energy and making the sword user unable to calculate, this point is enough to cover the spiritual sense of the Grotto-Heaven True Person. But for the covering of the sword user's thoughts, it is not so perfect. If you don't reach the side of the Grotto-Heaven True Person in your life, it is okay to be far away. If you are not in front of you, plus the Green Sword covering, it is indeed not easy to check your thoughts. But like Miss Ci, who wants to enter and exit the Profound Heaven Sect and often accompany the True Person, if you don't hold the Purifying Heart Divine Curse, in front of the True Person who has cultivated the induction method, your thoughts will still occasionally leak out and be sensed and captured by the True Person."

Ruan Ci's smile froze, and she recalled the conversation from half a month ago carefully. Her scalp felt numb. She still held a trace of luck and asked, "Then True Person Wang..."

Seeing Tianlu blinked and smiled, "The True Person has cultivated a "Supreme Induction Chapter," which is a supreme cultivation method in the Dao sect that can be compared with the "Heavenly Demon Formless Induction Method." The induction is naturally extraordinary."

Ruan Ci screamed and fell onto the bed, kicking her hands and feet, shouting, "No wonder the True Person always drinks tea—Seeing Tianlu, is the True Person always drinking tea when he is angry? Woo woo woo... I was still saying in my heart what he was drinking... woo woo..."

She was talking nonsense, and Seeing Tianlu didn't hear clearly, just smiled, "What? Does the True Person drink tea when he is angry? Not necessarily, the True Person also often drinks tea when talking to me."

He thought for a while, and gradually panicked, "Doesn't this mean I often make the True Person angry?! Miss Ci, is what you just said true?"

Ruan Ci was speechless, looked at Seeing Tianlu for a while, shook her head and said, "I was talking nonsense, don't take it to heart."

Seeing Tianlu was relieved again, smiled, "That's good, then does Miss Ci want to learn the Purifying Heart Curse? Or is it clear and bright, and it doesn't matter if your thoughts leak?"

If she was sent by the Sect Master, True Person Wang had to teach her. This Seeing Tianlu's background, she really didn't know how hard it was, so she would be taken as a personal boy by True Person Wang. Ruan Ci glanced at Seeing Tianlu, he still didn't notice anything, and was still very enthusiastic about teaching Ruan Ci how to calm her heart and hold her thoughts.

This Purifying Heart Divine Curse, all cultivators of the Dao must cultivate, so it was naturally not difficult. Ruan Ci also had great talent in holding the curse, and learned it as soon as she learned it. This was probably because she had been pondering the Clear and Dust-Avoiding Sutra for more than ten years in her life. Now looking back, that sutra only taught a Clear and Dust-Avoiding Curse, which fell on the wooden talisman, and it was a Clear and Dust-Avoiding Talisman. As long as she opened her meridians and cultivated a little, any smelly fish and rotten shrimp cultivator could write it, which was not rare at all. And in the Song Kingdom, countless good materials were all competing to cultivate. Standing from the perspective of a cultivator, it was truly absurd and pitiful, and it was no wonder that Liu Ji said it was a pity.

After learning the Purifying Heart Curse, she learned the Purifying Mouth Curse. This Purifying Mouth Curse was to make the words spoken from the mouth avoid cause and effect as much as possible, and also to protect her own true name. Seeing Tianlu said, "Words have spirit, and the Dao Ancestor speaks the law. Even a Grotto-Heaven ancestor has such divine ability. The Purifying Mouth Curse is to add a layer of protection to the language spoken by the cultivator, so that these words will not easily touch the induction of others, or the cause and effect connection between heaven and earth. In addition, it can also protect your own true name and not let others pass it on. The simplest truth, I tell you now, my name is Wang Seeing Tianlu, you try to pass it on to the servants."

Ruan Ci really called Li Ji over, pointed at Seeing Tianlu and said, "This is, this is..."

She repeated it several times, only feeling that in the dark, there was always a force that made her unable to say it, and could only barely say, "This is Brother Seeing Tianlu, who will come to walk around often in the future, you guys also get to know each other."

After sending Li Ji away, Seeing Tianlu said, "This is the power of the Purifying Mouth Curse. After all, the true name is the most fundamental representation of a cultivator. From the moment you are born, your parents will give you a name. Only with a name can you communicate with the vitality of heaven and earth, which is considered that you have truly come to this world. If there is no name, it is like those wild demon cultivators in the countryside. Before there was a name, which one was not ignorant and the spirit was not opened?"

"Once a true name is known, for a cultivator with divine abilities, it is as if your life or even your soul has been grasped. Why is the Sect Jade Register a heavy treasure of the Daoist lineage? It is precisely because the true names of disciples are recorded upon it. With a single stroke from the Sect Master, one can defile a name. If one's divine abilities are sufficient, with that one stroke, you would no longer have a name in this world. Just like back then, Sister Xie..."

Although he was young and his temperament was very green, his knowledge was very extensive, and he seemed to know the sect's secrets like the back of his hand. Ruan Ci widened her eyes, listening intently, but Seeing Tianlu didn't continue. Ruan Ci grinded for a long time, and Seeing Tianlu said, "I can only say, if the name hadn't been defiled, with Sister Xie Nie's talent, she should have entered the Grotto-Heaven long ago, and would never have been trapped in Nascent Soul and unable to advance. She and the True Person entered the sect almost at the same time... Ouch!"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but scream in pain, complaining to himself, "Why did I leak the news again!"

Ruan Ci's eyes flowed, and in an instant, she thought of many things. Although this True Person Wang was of a high generation and was Sister Xie Sister Xie Yan Yan Huan's little uncle, the time he entered the sect didn't seem to be very long, and he wasn't the old monster who had lived for tens of thousands of years she imagined.

Seeing Seeing Tianlu's big eyes wet, she couldn't bear to bully him too much, so she didn't continue to set words—although she didn't set words originally, it was all he said himself. She changed the topic and asked, "So before at Spirit Valley Peak, Steward Feng thought of me not opening my meridians, and the elders in the family didn't specially set a curse for me, so they didn't communicate their names with me, was it because of this?"

"Exactly," Seeing Tianlu was relieved, and seeing that Ruan Ci didn't pursue it, he was also very grateful to her, and couldn't help but smile gratefully at her, then continued, "Because the true name is so important, most cultivators pass on Dao names, aliases, or nicknames, and some use surnames without names. Especially in our Central Continent, there is no Great Array of the Continent, and the demon sect comes and goes freely. Even if there is a curse to cover it, they don't want to pass the true name to the outside. It is only between brothers and sisters in the sect, or friends who are compatible, that they communicate their names."

He smiled shyly again, "After a while, when Miss Ci learns the Purifying Mouth Curse, tell me your name, and we will be friends."

Such a timid and pure little boy was really cute, but Ruan Ci had no intention of shouting cute. Thinking of a past event from the old year, her heart beat very fast, she pursed her lips and asked, "Under the cover of the curse, exchanging names is already good friends, then... then if you haven't held the curse, exchange names?"

Seeing Tianlu smiled, "That is naturally the closeness of parents and children, husband and wife, brothers and sisters. This kind of cause and effect is extremely far-reaching. Once established, there will be induction immediately. When cultivators in our Central Continent marry, the most important step is to exchange name cards. The treasure boxes containing the name cards are full of mechanisms, just to prevent them from being snatched by people with intentions, causing endless right and wrong cause and effect."

His temperament was slow. After a while, he looked at Ruan Ci's face carefully and asked carefully, "Miss Ci... shouldn't have exchanged names with anyone, right?"

Ruan Ci forced a smile, "No, I just—thought that when I was still a mortal, many people knew my name, and I felt uneasy for a while."

Seeing Tianlu was also relieved and smiled, "That doesn't matter. After you open your meridians and cultivate, you only need to hold the Purifying Mouth Curse from time to time. In the induction of cause and effect, you will naturally erase the mortal records. This is why in many fairy legends, there are such stories, saying that someone went into the mountain to cultivate immortality, and the name was empty in the register. Old friends in the countryside clearly remembered that there was such a person, but forgot the name, and the genealogy and official records also had no name, which is because of this."

He couldn't tell whether what Ruan Ci said was true or false, just thought that everything Ruan Ci said was true, and skipped it in one sentence. He taught Ruan Ci to recite this curse. Ruan Ci also learned it as soon as she learned it, and recited this sixteen-character mantra back and forth, gnashing her teeth, and recited it more than a hundred times on the spot. Seeing Tianlu called it enough, "One or two times a day is enough, and it won't be more effective if you do more."

He timidly communicated his name with Ruan Ci, recited "Ruan Ci" several times, and smiled, "Miss Ci's name is very pleasant."

Even though Ruan Ci's mind was full of Qu Tan Yue, and she was extremely irritable, she couldn't help but reach out and pinch the hair bun on Seeing Tianlu's head. Seeing Tianlu raised his hand to protect his head and taught her the remaining two curses. The Body Protection Curse protects the body and skin, making cultivators less likely to be injured than ordinary people. In addition, it can also cover the surrounding energy. For example, the virtual shadow of Ruan Ci's Jade Pool, anyone who opens their eye sense can see it clearly. After learning the Body Protection Curse, she can collect the energy, and when others open their eyes to observe the momentum, they can still see her, but they can't see the virtual shadow on her head.

Most cultivators also recite this curse from time to time. After all, if it weren't for this, what stage the cultivation has reached, and what the foundation is like, others can see at a glance. After covering, it is like Seeing Tianlu. Ruan Ci can only judge the cultivation based on experience and eyesight. Currently, she only knows that it is above Foundation Establishment, and the rest can't be said clearly.

"I heard that the Mao Sect sometimes holds some pill appraisal conferences, gathering cultivators to observe the pictures on their heads, appraising inner scenes, setting levels, and rewarding them. However, our prosperous sect rarely makes these idle games. Probably because the disciples don't like it very much. They are originally the pride of heaven, why do they need to force a temporary victory or defeat?" Seeing Tianlu smiled. He seemed to be indifferent to the small lake on Ruan Ci's head.

Ruan Ci's identity that needs to be concealed, all the limelight is naturally unrelated to her. Hearing this, she didn't care, and learned a Purifying Heaven and Earth Divine Curse. This curse is to soothe spiritual energy for the purpose of absorption. If you go to a place where spiritual energy is rolling, you also have to rely on this curse to protect yourself. Up to this point, the Four Fundamental Curses are all learned. She also taught Ruan Ci to write the mantra on talisman paper. This is the Four Fundamental Talismans. "Talisman spells are originally two sides of the same coin. Miss Ci can bestow these talismans to the servants for their own protection, especially this Purifying Mouth Talisman, which is best worn on the body. If it loses its effect, please ask for a new talisman, otherwise their names will lose protection, and perhaps it will also hinder you."

Ruan Ci only then knew that there were many things to do to be a good master of the household. It was no wonder that cultivators often passed on methods to their subordinates, otherwise these trivial matters would have to be arranged by her, which would also delay her own cultivation.

Influenced by her childhood experience, she was very interested in making talismans. She was adjusting cinnabar and chatting with Seeing Tianlu, and was about to drop her pen on the talisman paper, but her ears moved, and she heard a crisp sound outside the formation, as if something had been hit in the air. Next, there was a loud noise, as if countless fragments were falling from the sky. Ruan Ci and Seeing Tianlu looked at each other, both feeling confused. Ruan Ci was about to speak, but Seeing Tianlu suddenly jumped up and shouted, "Ah! My car!"

Saying that, he rushed out like a whirlwind. Ruan Ci couldn't catch up. She wanted to follow, but remembered something, turned around and scrambled to grab the jade wall from the Qiankun bag and wear it, and then followed Seeing Tianlu and rushed out.

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, everyone. I'll send the red envelope from the previous chapter in a while~

This chapter has a lot of words, and the True Person has a lot of scenes. It also explains the setting of Dao rhyme. If you don't understand, leave a message and ask~ I will explain it tomorrow~

Eating mushroom tofu soup, green pepper fried cuttlefish and fried winter melon for lunch today. I don't like eating winter melon, but my family likes it very much...

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Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 46 =====