Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 4: Knights are horses, immortals are soldiers

Recovering from the memories, Xie Zihao was not sleepy at all because of the excitement of today's action. In addition, the benefits he gained through the feedback training of the first paper puppet Uchiha Itachi made his spirit much stronger than others, so he simply went

Take your second paper doll out of the box and do the final coloring work.

This busy work lasted only an hour, and the doll that was almost completed finally became a finished product.

The Xie family has been doing business more than a hundred years ago. They prepare their own incense, candles, ingots, shrouds and coffins, not to mention paper figures, carriages and horses. After all, these are the crafts that our ancestors relied on to make a living. His grandfather

Although I can make a lot of money by showing people Feng Shui, it is considered a side job.

Although Xie Zihao's craftsmanship is a bit rusty, he has not lost what he learned when he was a child. This thing is different from mathematics and so on. You can pick up the skills again after practicing. With the experience of the first paper man, the second one is made of paper.

It will be easier to make.

After coloring, the paper doll is very lifelike and bright. At first glance, it looks like Superman stepping out of the movie.

This Superman, Xie Zihao, is an adult Superman image based on two handsome actors in the previous versions of Man of Steel and Young Superman. In addition, he asked some people around him for their opinions to make the image more in line with people's fantasies and perceptions of Superman in this world.

Know.

Speaking of which, his paper man looks more handsome and charming than the actors who play Superman in this world. After all, this world is still in the late 1990s, let alone the ghostly and animal style of federal comics.

In some of the previously released Superman movies, to be honest, in Xie Zihao's opinion, the actors looked a bit old. After all, white people generally have a short shelf life of youth. The actors selected were at least close to thirty or even above thirty, which was a bit

It doesn't show Superman's strength and vitality as his nemesis.

Xie Zihao was satisfied with placing his new work in the portable shrine that he had prepared. These were all made of black walnut boards that he bought himself. In his previous life, he learned papermaking skills from his grandfather and also learned some carpentry skills from a young age.

His family used to be involved in the business of longevity materials in addition to paper figurines, carriages, horses, incense and ingots. It can be said that they provided one-stop service for everything. In the era when machines were not common, it was all carved out by his grandfather himself.

Perhaps it is difficult for him to make complex crafts such as treasure cabinets and bed-buttons, but it is still very easy for him to build a few simple shrines to worship these paper figures and make them portable.

After all, it is just a simple wooden box with a flip cover and handle design.

This box is about a foot long. It uses the secret tenon process. The corners are polished smooth and rounded. There are no fancy carvings on the outside. It is simple but not simple. Open the lid and turn it over and it can be used as a base. When placed standing, it becomes a small box.

It is a small shrine, and when you close the lid and lift up the handle, it becomes a portable storage container like a suitcase. It is inspired by those out-and-out boxes that like to keep simulation dolls.

His paper puppet is actually not much different from the dolls that people play with. They are both like his own children. Moreover, as a psychic paper puppet created by him, his emotions are different.

After placing the Superman paper doll in the new walnut box, Xie Zihao took out a small celadon incense burner, filled it with less than half of the crystal sand, then lit a homemade incense pill and placed it on the

In the center of the incense burner filled with crystal sand is enshrined in front of the Superman doll.

It’s not that the previous incense burner cannot be used as the incense burner, but considering that maybe the two paper figures don’t mind stirring the rice in the same horse spoon, but if they continue to compete for incense in the future, conflicts will inevitably arise, and basically they will have to keep pets.

Prepare a separate food bowl for each person, let alone the psychic paper puppet stand-in that is used as a sacrifice to the gods?

So Xie Zihao had to go out and buy a similar small celadon incense burner. Although this one is much cheaper, the paper puppet shouldn't be able to tell, right?

After closing the lid, dense light cyan smoke quickly rises from the pores above, which looks very artistic.

At this time, Xie Zihao had already gone to the bathroom to clean his hands under the faucet. After wiping them dry with paper towels, he came to the workbench or the simple altar where the shrine was placed. He first recited the altar opening mantra, the incense blessing mantra and so on.

Mantras commonly used in altar practices.

Then he chanted a curse to the new paper doll:

"Emperor Taiwei, guards the elixir room, builds armor, exorcises evil spirits and assists the good, yanghe cloth body, comes to Huang Ting, uses the power of heavenly talismans, shocks weapons..."

This is a mantra for the art of war made by cutting paper. In ancient times, chivalrous people used paper to make horses, and immortals used paper to make soldiers.

The sorcerers and wizards cut paper into soldiers. The soldiers do not drink or eat, are invulnerable to swords and guns, and kill at every move and obey orders.

What Xie Zihao is currently using is the 'paper-cutting into a soldier, psychic avatar and spirit transformation method' passed down by the Xie family, in order to worship the psychic paper puppet avatar, also known as the paper man magic weapon.

Belongs to the category of Taoist Taoist Taoist soldiers.

The material is made of pure handmade bamboo paper with natural old bamboo strips as the flesh and bones, and is prepared and colored with natural and expensive dyes such as cinnabar, gold powder, ultramarine, and mica powder, which can maximize the spirituality of the paper figures.

This paper puppet substitution method passed down from his family is slightly different from the ordinary folk art of cutting paper into weapons. It is a method of refining magical weapons that uses the power of incense to evolve supernatural powers. The origin is said to be the same as that of the ancient times.

Bailian, Tianlijiao is related to Plum Blossom Quan.

This Plum Blossom Boxing is not the type of boxing that later became a martial arts school, but the Plum Blossom Boxing in the famous Boxing Boxer in history.

In short, they are all sects related to the rebellion.

Originally, in another world, these were the dregs that were swept into the garbage dump of history, and even Mao could not be cultivated at all. However, Xie Zihao has traveled through time and even bumped into puppets. Naturally, he wanted to try the magical powers inherited from his family in his previous life.

Effective!

The result was beyond his expectation.

Since ancient times, puppets and clay figures have been used to cast curses in the Middle East, but why did the art of war by cutting paper stand out after the birth of papermaking?

This is because although the material of the paper figurine is more fragile than the idols above, it is also easier to obtain and refine, and it is more convenient to use.

Puppet, clay and even stone idols are indeed sturdier than paper figures, but the stronger the body of the puppet, the higher the spiritual requirements required for spiritual training, and the more mana required to activate it. If you cast a spell,

If the person is an immortal who can turn stone into gold, then that is not a problem, but it is difficult for ordinary practitioners such as folk magicians to do so.

However, since ancient legends, puppets and stone carvings have been used more often for life-saving stand-ins. This is because the stronger the material, the more damage it can withstand, and it does not require the stand-in to move.

As he recited the spell, Xie Zihao felt that the Superman doll opposite him seemed to have a mysterious connection with himself. Xie Zihao, who had practiced this ritual once before, understood that this was the spell that had taken effect.

He was slightly happy in his heart, then he calmed down, pinched his sword in his hand and said:

"Half a wisp of true fragrance gathers people's hearts, the incense of thousands of families builds a golden body, Patriarch Qingyang sends light, a little Dharma light turns into spiritual truth, the great master is as anxious as a law! Clark Kent, please show your spirit soon!"

Although his movements and words were a bit average, when Xie Zihao pointed the sword in his hand at the paper puppet's eyebrows, he felt his own spirituality overflowing. There seemed to be wisps of breeze blowing in the secret room, and something invisible appeared.

Variety.

Then on the altar table, at this time, an inexplicable aura suddenly rose from the originally exquisite but dull Superman paper puppet. It seemed that the originally dead paper puppet suddenly became alive and became much more vivid.

The blue eyes depicted by the ultramarine dye extracted from the gemstone lapis lazuli seem to move, but if you look closely, they are no different from before, as if it was all an illusion before.

However, Xie Zihao understood that this was not an illusion. At the same time that the Superman paper doll changed, the other doll's face and the two pairs of blood-colored eyes with magatama on the shoulders and crows seemed to move, as if they were watching the newborn companion.

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