Chapter 0040 Tushan Notes
I didn't know how to answer for a moment. After I dealt with Master Cui and the other two, I turned around and saw Baoer taking something out from a corpse.
I thought to myself, this little girl is really not afraid!
When I looked over, I saw that what she had taken out was an old book with a yellow cover.
Baoer took a look at it and muttered, "I don't understand it." Then he threw the book aside.
I saw the words "Tushan Notes" written in big letters on the cover of the book, so I picked it up and flipped through it.
This flip made my heart beat wildly.
I originally thought it was just an ordinary text note, but I didn't expect that the first page was a diagram of a talisman. Below the talisman, there were annotations and experience in using the talisman written in tiny handwriting.
During the time I was in Ling County, in addition to studying the magic spells collected by my third grandfather, my favorite thing was to browse the used book stalls, hoping to get lucky and find some secret books of magic spells that had been missed.
But the harvest has not been great, and most of them are just fabricated and inferior goods.
However, after only a few glances at this talisman, I knew it must be real!
I quickly flipped through the pages and discovered that it was actually a notebook on magic. Every page contained either talismans and spells or magic tips, and there were also very detailed annotations and the owner's own insights.
I thought that since this booklet is called "Tushan Notes", the owner of this notebook must be a person named Tushan.
Judging from this annotation, this person had a deep understanding of various techniques and should have been a master of these techniques, but I have never heard of the name Tushan.
At this time, Baoer ran to search another person. The skin and flesh of these corpses were shriveled and their faces were really scary, but the little girl treated them like dolls and was not afraid at all.
I was secretly amazed at what I saw. These people must have been lying here longer than Master Ge and the others. Due to the influence of the yin energy here, their clothes were still well preserved.
Judging from the style, it should be at least from the Ming Dynasty or earlier.
According to this statement, doesn't that mean that the ghost woman lived hundreds of years ago?
I can't help but feel it's ridiculous, but from the perspective of Feng Shui theory, even if there really is a Feng Shui formation like the Changsheng Yinju that can change one's fortune against all odds, it would be impossible to revive a corpse without such a long period of nourishment.
Baoer took out some things bit by bit, and a bamboo plaque among them caught my attention. Judging from the style and the patterns engraved on it, this bamboo plaque was exactly the same as the dragon and tiger talisman in Luo Ziang's hand.
Are these people all from the Tianshi sect?
But I soon realized that something was wrong. Judging from some items found on other people, the identities were quite mixed. Two of them were wearing dragon and tiger talismans, and the others also wore talismans, but the styles were all different.
I guessed that these people should all be from Taoism, but I am not very familiar with Taoist talismans, and I couldn't recognize which sects they belonged to at the moment.
After dealing with all the bodies, I left the rest of the belongings where they were and only took out the "Tushan Notes".
To me, this book is more attractive than a great treasure, and it is something I could never have found even if I searched through used book stalls for ten years.
The way out was much more difficult than I had imagined. I don’t know how long I struggled before I finally crawled back to the ground.
By this time, Xie Cheng and his human pupa had long disappeared, but I still didn't dare to be careless. I took Baoer and hid in the fog for a long time. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, I breathed a sigh of relief.
The sky was bright and it looked like daybreak had already occurred, but due to the fog, everything was still hazy.
The dilapidated temple was still there, but most of it had collapsed. The headless Buddha enshrined inside had also shattered into countless pieces of mud and lay on the ground.
I found three bodies inside, two of which were those of Mr. He Jiu and his son-in-law Li Kun, and the other one was that bald boss Liao.
All three died in the same way, apparently because the corpse beetles drilled into their bodies and ate their brains.
But I didn’t see the fake Qin Ran and the fourth brother. I didn’t know whether they escaped or were taken away by that pervert Xie Cheng.
I was just thinking about how to deal with the bodies of He Jiuye and the others when suddenly the ground shook violently and the half-remaining temple collapsed. Fortunately we both escaped.
When we looked back, the whole place had changed beyond all recognition. Not only had the dilapidated temple been razed to the ground, but even the cracks in the ground had closed up again. There was no hope of going back down to look for the bodies of Master Cui and the others.
This should be the aftermath of the collapse of the Changsheng Bureau. I was afraid that something weird would happen later, so I quickly took Baoer and fled from this damn place.
I walked like this for an unknown amount of time before finally getting out of the peach-colored fog. I saw lush green trees all around me and a bright sunny sky. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
I just felt dizzy and sat down on the ground, not wanting to move a finger anymore.
The little girl Baoer jumped onto a stone, put her hands on the tree, and looked into the distance.
I saw that she was skinny and pale, but she was in much better spirits than me. Thinking of the chaos she had caused before, I couldn't help but tease her and said, "Little treasure, don't look at your short arms and legs. You can't even catch up with your brother when you run."
Baoer looked back at me, puffed up her cheeks and said aggrievedly: "Baoer doesn't want to embarrass her brother, but Baoer can't control it."
I was amused by her, and just when I was about to comfort her, I heard the little girl say, "Bao'er often does strange things. Will brother not like Bao'er anymore?"
I was slightly surprised, so I smiled and asked, "Like, something strange?"
She said: "For example, if my brother doesn't like running fast, Bao Er will run , but...but Bao Er sometimes can't control it."
I was surprised. I had always thought that some of Baoer's strange behaviors before, such as pointing northwest and running in the fog, were all affected by the Changsheng Bureau, but from what she said, it seemed that there was another hidden story.
I asked her again in detail, and Zhao Baoer said that this situation had happened to her many times before. Her body was out of her control and she would do some strange things.
Because of this, when she was abroad, there were not many children to play with her and she usually stayed at home alone.
As he was talking, Baoer pouted, "Brother, you won't ignore me from now on, right?"
Seeing that she was about to cry, I swore and said I would never do that.
After we made a pinky promise, the little girl finally felt relieved. She jumped onto the rock again, put her hands on the wall and looked around.
After I regained some strength, I took Baoer to the meeting place we had agreed upon with He Jintang.
Before I went, I was a little nervous. After all, the situation was so chaotic, and with the earth dragons turning over, mountains collapsing and the ground cracking, I didn't know if He Jintang could escape.
But when we got there, we were greeted with an unexpected surprise.
