Chapter 930: Capturing Divine Qi Clay Figure Path, Tying Dolls in Tianhou Palace

The art of opera in Zhigu is extremely prosperous. Just the opera gardens and storytelling stalls have twelve in the Nanshi area, eight in the old city, and eight foreign gadgets in the wharf area.

But the place Clay Figure Zhang loves to go most is the Daguan Tower, an opera house on the second floor of the Zhigu Cinema in the northeast corner!

When Wu Ponu came to Daguan Tower, it was just when the famous southern actor Liang Sulan was touring Zhigu. Liang Sulan was one of the four famous Dan actors in the north and south. This time, he was also intending to enter the capital from Zhigu, where the art of opera is most prosperous, imitating the grand occasion of the Huiban entering the capital in the past, and making a name for himself.

Famous actor, famous actor, there are people to support, so he is a famous actor.

But to really become a role that leaves a name for eternity, one must make a name for oneself in the capital.

This tour was grand, and even the duel on the Drum Tower yesterday and the countless deaths of Yin soldiers passing the border last night could not cover up the grand occasion here. Wu Ponu came here, also because he expected that Clay Figure Zhang would never miss this excitement.

Wu Ponu didn't wait long before an old man turned over from the opera house, wearing coarse cloth clothes, ordinary dress.

The only thing special was that he always kept his two hands in his sleeves—it is rumored that Clay Figure Zhang is always kneading a ball of mud in his sleeves. Whatever passes by, in no more than a breath, the mud in his hands is kneaded out.

But he doesn't show it to others, fearing that the "divine qi" will leak out.

Clay Figure Zhang always says that the mud he kneads has people's divine qi, so it can be so lifelike. When his hands are kneading mud in his sleeves, his eyes can't see, he can only knead according to that "divine qi," and the form and spirit are complete. Once revealed, the divine qi of that person will leak out.

That person will have to be seriously ill after going home.

Clay Figure Zhang is a craftsman, not daring to harm people, so when kneading the god, he must keep it in his sleeves. He must extinguish the divine qi inside before he can leak it to others to see.

Wu Ponu and Clay Figure Zhang met, and felt that he was a bit shorter.

A burst of qi machine was inexplicably taken into his sleeves, especially the Tai Sui flesh and blood nurtured in his body, which actually had a feeling of life connection with the thing in Clay Figure Zhang's sleeves.

Inexplicably, Wu Ponu lowered his head and felt a walnut-sized himself in Clay Figure Zhang's sleeves.

Wu Ponu didn't dare to be careless. In the past, some kind of soul-capturing master from the West came, playing with a huge machine, and all the old Zhigu people called it "soul-capturing machine."

That foreigner photographed people all day long, and it was researched that it was to capture a wisp of soul and print it on foreign paintings, lifelike, but people's essence and qi were also captured!

The Westerner played with the machine all day, took thousands of "paintings," and finally one day was seen through by others. Immediately, Jianghu peers found the door, wanting him to burn those evil paintings. Unexpectedly, the foreigner talked nonsense, relying on Western warships and the emperor begging for their immortal medicine, and refused to hand them over.

In that photo studio, thousands of soul-capturing paintings had to steal a path of shadow puppetry, mixed with some Western spiritual cultivation method, and opened another "photography" path.

Even wanting to split into thousands, go into the paintings, and turn himself into a paper person to achieve longevity!

What a duel, the peers of Zhigu worked together, burned his photo studio, destroyed those thousands of soul-capturing paintings, and cut off that evil path.

Wu Ponu also contributed to it. At that time, the Holy Sect also didn't like foreigners, so he and the Martial Guild blocked the foreigner's reinforcements at the port and beat a group of "knights" severely.

And according to the well-informed Wu Ya, Clay Figure Zhang was a key figure in that duel.

The foreigner set up a soul-capturing array, trapping a wisp of soul of Daoists and Dharma masters, and he himself and the captured souls hid in the array, creating a small Dagukou. If you couldn't identify his soul and break the soul-capturing array, the trapped souls couldn't get out. But to break the soul-capturing array, you had to find where the foreigner's soul was hidden among the thousands of common people.

And those souls couldn't be moved lightly, otherwise the corresponding common people would be seriously ill at the very least.

At that time, Clay Figure Zhang kneaded the foreigner photographer's clay figure, called back his soul, and broke the soul-capturing array...

Wu Ponu admired Clay Figure Zhang's ability and also admired him for defeating the foreigner, so he bowed and said: "Junior, Profound Truth Sect Deacon Wu Ponu, meets Clay Figure Zhang!"

Clay Figure Zhang stared at him with his eyes.

His eyes looked very unusual when looked at closely. The light in his eyes shot out like nails from his pupils, wanting to nail your soul and shadow to the ground, nail them to your forehead.

Wu Ponu was unmoved. His Zombie White Bone Palm had already been cultivated into a strange art, not to mention a copper skin and iron bone, his double palms were called Black Evil Palms, practiced poison sand palm power, one palm down skin and flesh intact, internal rot, and there was poison sand poison hidden, those who are hit, if not helped by a high-level expert of the third realm of apricot forest, will surely die.

And the strange art was white bone evil qi, which was a kind of poison evil like phosphorus fire extracted from white bones, making people's skin and flesh rot when touched, which was burned by cold fire.

One palm down, the sky is full of green fire.

Wherever it passed, only a bare white bone frame remained, so it was called Zombie White Bone Palm!

"The Sect Master actually really stole the meat cinnamon branches and leaves on the moon, cut down the flesh and blood source fetus—and cultivated Black Tai Sui in the human world!"

Clay Figure Zhang was not looking at Wu Ponu, but at Qian Chen behind him. If it was said that Wu Ponu's White Bone Palm was in his eyes—just so-so.

That Qian Chen was unfathomably high!

Being able to talk to Wu Ponu like this was all because of the unfathomable Profound Truth Sect Master behind him.

"Black Tai Sui is extremely poisonous, it is the most poisonous thing in the world! It is a disaster to flow into the human world! It is only because flesh and blood can exclude toxins, but it is difficult to resist the power that makes it return to its origin. Therefore, Black Tai Sui can make all flesh and blood return to its body. The Sect Master can refine it into human body medicine—Meat Ganoderma, which indeed has surpassed me in the way of creating people."

Clay Figure Zhang said lightly: "Since this is the case, if you have a request, please ask that Sect Master Li to take action! Why come to me?"

Wu Ponu said in a deep voice: "The Sect Master only knows how to knead flesh and blood, doesn't know how to knead clay figures, and today he has other important things, so it's not easy to take action. So I want to ask the master to knead a clay figure for me to deal with the duel later tonight!"

"Kneading flesh and blood is kneading clay! There is no difference."

Clay Figure Zhang said decisively: "He can shape Black Tai Sui flesh and blood into a human fetus. In the way of clay figures, he has surpassed me a hundred times. And I, Clay Figure Zhang, have a rule, that is, I never knead clay figures with gods for people."

"Because clay is closest to flesh and blood. In the myth of the Three Sages creating people, the Tripod Mother created people by combining mud in a tripod. Because mud is the combination of earth and water, it is no different from flesh and blood in essence, and mud hides the origin of creation. If you knead a clay figure with a god according to your appearance, over time, the clay figure will capture your spirit and qi, the mud fetus inside will gradually turn into flesh and blood, and want to steal your 'life'!"

"Finally you become a clay figure, and the clay figure becomes you..."

"Do you still want such an evil thing?"

Wu Ponu stared and said: "Want! Why not want? Would the Sect Master harm me? If he says I need it, I should want it!"

"That's good, I'll knead one for you!" Clay Figure Zhang's mud ball in his sleeves began to be kneaded, rubbed, pinched, and pulled by him, but at this time Wu Ponu stopped him: "Wait! What I want is not the clay figure in your sleeves."

"You come to me, Clay Figure Zhang, if you don't want to knead a clay figure, what do you want?" Clay Figure Zhang was a little impatient: "I don't know how to do anything else!"

"What I want is the clay figure on the altar of the Tianhou Palace, kneaded by your own hands using the mud fetus of the Tianhou Palace, and offered to the altar!"

Wu Ponu just opened his mouth, and Clay Figure Zhang's expression changed drastically...

Clay Figure Zhang is a person who opens a clay figure shop!

Why is there no such clay figure shop elsewhere, only heard of in Zhigu? It is because Zhigu has the Tianhou Palace, and the Heavenly Empress Niangniang, besides suppressing the sea and saving the disaster, also has the divine power to seek children and protect children.

It is rumored that the Heavenly Empress is the incarnation of the Tripod Mother creating people. Because creating people lacked Yang essence, she incarnated as the Heavenly Empress to obtain Yang and harmony qi from heaven, and gave it to the human fetus, so human beings were born.

In order to reflect this myth, the Daoists of the Tianhou Palace prepared a large number of clay dolls, all molded by craftsmen, each lively and beautiful, with different expressions. Whenever a woman who seeks a child comes to make a wish and offer sacrifices, she comes to the "Doll Mountain" offered on the altar.

If she likes a small clay doll, she ties it around its neck with a red velvet rope and secretly takes it home. It is said that it can be reincarnated in the middle of the night, which is very effective.

If a son was really born later, this mud doll would be honored as the eldest brother, and the child born would be called the second, which is why there are so many people ranked second in Dagukou. As the years grew, the second grew up, and he still had to go to the mud doll shop to "wash the doll"; the so-called "washing" is for the craftsman to apply mud, changing it into a "doll eldest brother" or even "doll eldest grandfather," adding glasses, felt hats, beards, long robes, and mandarin jackets to it.

The clay figure shop is a craftsman who specializes in this business.

Clay Figure Zhang is a strange person among these craftsmen, and naturally he cannot be separated from the Tianhou Palace.

But after the duel with the foreigner, he had already walked out of the path of kneading clay dolls for Zhigu, understood the way of shaping, and turned to kneading illusory, real, and various characters!

No longer returning to the path of clay dolls in the Tianhou Palace!

Now Wu Ponu opened his mouth, asking him to return to the Tianhou Palace and knead that kind of clay doll again. Clay Figure Zhang simply wanted to slap the rotten mud in his sleeves on his face and let him roll.

But Clay Figure Zhang didn't open his mouth.

He was not looking at Wu Ponu, but at Qian Chen behind him!

No matter how far he walked on the clay figure path, what Qian Chen could take a fancy to was only those simple, clumsy, and roughly kneaded clay dolls in the Tianhou Palace, which symbolized birth and creation.

"Good! I'll help you knead..."

Clay Figure Zhang stood up and said to Wu Ponu: "But after the duel today, you have to come and see me. I want to see what the real skill of your Sect Master is! I am a craftsman, and craftsmen only admire craftsmanship!" ===== CHAPTER 931 =====