Chapter 67: Long Hu Dao Talisman, Zhang Fan's Soul 40

Shen family, inside the Talisman Refining Temple.

The quiet talisman room was as big as three basketball courts, and transparent crystal glass isolated everyone outside...

Inside, a huge furnace was burning intensely; it was unknown what fuel was used, but the flames were bright red, without a single speck of impurity.

Sixty-four talisman masters, according to eight different directions, surrounded the furnace, drawing talismans while infusing true Yang, and immediately after, sacrificed the talismans and threw them into the furnace.

In the eyes of ordinary people, those talismans turned directly into ashes in the flames.

If observed with the soul, one could discover golden streams of light flying out from the burnt-out talismans, rising one after another, and merging into a piece of turtle shell at the very top of the furnace.

"Turtle shell..."

Zhang Fan looked at that irregularly shaped 【Turtle Shell】, with dense golden streams of light flying into it, leaving behind strange traces, as if drawing talismans.

"Is that the 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】?"

There are many materials for drawing talismans, such as paper, silk, jade pieces, peach wood, etc.

As for turtle shells, some people use them, but very few...

"The turtle hides the true spirit, not recording ordinary texts..."

The Dan books say that turtles are naturally spiritual and can communicate with heaven; ordinary text symbols are not qualified to be recorded on them.

In ancient myths, turtles have always played a very mysterious and important role.

It is rumored that when Nüwa patched the sky, the sky tilted to the northwest and the earth sank to the southeast, and Nüwa cut off the turtle's feet to stabilize the four poles.

That is to say, before Nüwa patched the sky, she first caught a giant turtle from the great flood and cut off its four feet to serve as pillars to support the sky.

Even the most important 【Luo Shu】 in Chinese civilization was carried out from the Luo River by a large turtle and presented to Great Yu.

"It is said that more than eighty years ago, the ancestors of the Shen family met a strange person who left a page of the Heavenly Book that Taishang Laojun had taught Zhang Daoling to the Shen family, along with this piece of turtle shell..."

Qiu Zhengdao stood beside Zhang Fan and Jiang Hu, looking at the turtle shell burning in mid-air, and told a past event.

"That strange person said that one year the Yellow River dried up, and an ancient Daoist temple was dug out from the dried-up mud, inside which this turtle shell was worshipped, and underneath it was that page of the Heavenly Book..."

Qiu Zhengdao's description cast a layer of mysterious color over the Shen family's 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】.

"What are they doing?" Zhang Fan couldn't help but ask.

"Refining talismans... no, feeding talismans..." Qiu Zhengdao said in a deep voice.

Sixty-four talisman masters, day and night without stopping, refining various talismans to feed the 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】, just like programmers, crazily writing code...

These data are summarized into the 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】 and through deconstruction and reorganization, there is hope to restore the most primitive code, which is...

"Soul password!"

Once successful, this 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】 will be the key to becoming an immortal.

"No wonder most of these people are bald..." Zhang Fan glanced.

Among the sixty-four talisman masters, more than half had sparse, withered, and split hair.

"Talismans can lead to immortality... can it succeed?" Jiang Hu murmured softly.

"As long as the database is large enough, as long as it is the perfect material..."

Qiu Zhengdao's faint gaze fell on that piece of turtle shell.

"The talisman path under heaven all returns to Long Hu... here, except for the lack of the talisman methods of the Long Hu Three Tian Shi path, it almost encompasses all the talismans under heaven..."

The hard work and hope of three generations of the Shen family have cost a large amount of money and resources over the years to refine the 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】.

Just this palace temple alone, what is burned every day is not talismans, but money.

"Why is there no Long Hu talisman method?" Zhang Fan couldn't help but ask.

"Eighty years ago, there was a great calamity in the Daoist sects, the gate of Mount Long Hu was closed tightly, and no incense has been rekindled... this lineage has no one left... moreover... Long Hu is different from other Daoist sects..."

"They are very mysterious and never enter the world..." Qiu Zhengdao said in a low voice.

"I heard that Long Hu disciples, the simple sketches they learn when they are three years old, are the 【Three Tian Shi Talisman】..."

"This..."

"They are few in number, but very powerful... powerful enough that their figures have connected through ancient and modern times..."

"However... not everyone can be called a Long Hu disciple... this lineage only has the people of the Zhang family..."

"Why are you here?"

Just then, a sharp and indifferent voice suddenly sounded, interrupting Qiu Zhengdao's words.

Zhang Fan turned to look and saw Xiao Qiji from Mount Mao walking over, accompanied by a man in a crisp suit, who looked to be in his thirties, with his eyes slightly narrowed, as if asleep, emitting an extremely gentle aura. "Expert!"

Zhang Fan felt something; he had seen in the 【Dao Secret Record】 that among the Daoist sects, some masters of health preservation can protect their essence, energy, and spirit very well, and will not waste them on useless things...

The so-called "walking like a sick tiger, standing like a sleeping eagle" is the reason; essence, energy, and spirit are restrained in an inch of space, quiet as if sleeping and never waking, moving like thunder.

"Xiao Qiji..." Jiang Hu's brows frowned slightly.

"Jiang Hu... after so many years, I thought you would be able to realize your sins... being an ordinary person is already the mercy and protection of the patriarch..."

"I didn't expect you to still want to peek at the 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】... You should know... this talisman method of yours should have been returned to Mount Mao."

Xiao Qiji's words were like a knife, stabbing directly into Jiang Hu's heart; his face was ugly, and he remained silent.

"He has his calamity, you have your affinity... how did his calamity become your shackles?"

Just then, Zhang Fan, without a word, said coldly.

Once these words were spoken, Xiao Qiji was stunned, then frowned, and for a moment didn't know how to refute.

Letting the heart wander and being attached to other things is also a kind of restless consciousness.

Zhang Fan's words were quite sharp.

"Jiang Hu, this is the restricted area of my Shen family; although you and Qingli are acquaintances, you shouldn't appear here."

"Take your friend and leave."

Suddenly, the man in the suit next to him spoke; his voice was slow but full of majesty, and his narrowed gaze paused slightly on Zhang Fan.

"Big brother, they are guests I invited."

Just then, Shen Qingli walked over, casting a dissatisfied gaze at the man in the suit, who was the eldest son of the Shen family, the current manager, Shen Xiangrong.

"Qingli, don't be willful... to be able to enter this place, who isn't a master of the talisman path, venerable and respected?"

Shen Xiangrong's voice was cold; obviously, he was unwilling to give his sister this face.

The implication of his words was also very clear: whether it was Jiang Hu or Zhang Fan, they neither had anything to do with being a master of the talisman path, nor were they venerable or respected.

They were not qualified to enter this restricted area of the Shen family, a restricted area concerning the rise and fall of the Shen family.

"Big brother..."

"Qingli, stop talking, let's go, we've seen it anyway," Jiang Hu raised his hand, squeezed out a smile, and gave Zhang Fan a wink.

Xiao Qiji watched coldly, without saying a word.

Qiu Zhengdao tactfully made way.

Boom—

Just then, a violent sound came from the huge furnace, deafening.

Zhang Fan turned to look and saw flames erupting from the furnace, as if out of control; the turtle shell floating in mid-air shook violently, golden streams of light swirling endlessly, falling into Zhang Fan's eyes, but it was so mysterious and extraordinary, making him intoxicated, as if lost in a dream.

Hum...

The next moment, clouds and cinnabar clouds were born in the sky, starlight like beads, and one after another, souls appeared in this strange scene; looking up, the huge turtle shell was like a sky curtain, covering the sky and the sun, with countless star-cloud talisman runes on it, as if performing the appearance of mountains and rivers.

"This is an external scene!?" Jiang Hu's expression changed slightly; he looked around and saw figures similar to him, but some were blurry.

He didn't know why the 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】 would have such a change, manifesting an external scene, actually pulling everyone's souls in.

Boom—

Just then, a loud noise fell faintly; under the vast clouds and sky, the great stars shone, and a figure walked out from the vastness, actually reaching out a big hand and grabbing toward the huge turtle shell in the sky.

"Bold, who is it? How dare you touch my Shen family's treasure?"

A roar resounded, coming from Shen Xiangrong, but his soul did not move.

The Shen family dared to recruit so many talisman masters, not afraid of them having different intentions, because the 【Mysterious Mirror Treasure Record】 had great power; daring to touch it with the soul would surely lead to the destruction of both form and spirit.

Boom—

In the vastness, that soul suddenly made a move; he pointed a finger, drawing strange streams of light in the air, moving like a fierce tiger, rising and falling like a startled dragon, brilliant and vivid, endless.

"This is..."

In the external scene of the clouds and sky, an unbelievable voice suddenly resounded, filled with deep, suffocating difficulty.

"Total Talisman of the Three Mountains, Long Hu Dao Talisman!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 68 =====