I rely on tricks to cultivate my longevity

Gu Yu led Lin Xixue into the main hall, took two pieces of copper skins from the altar and folded them into clam shells, and struck them with copper sticks, then slapped the statue three times, and lit the brazier in the hall.

Then he bit his fingertips, took the yellow paper from the table, and drew some crooked symbols jerky, looking unfamiliar.

After drawing the symbols, he put the yellow paper into the brazier, put his palms together, and recited a mantra that Lin Xixue could not understand.

However, although Lin Xixue couldn't understand what he was saying, she had indeed seen a scene similar to this scene before - when the former great witch Zhu invited the master, the process of the ceremony was almost the same as this ceremony.

Looking at this posture, could it be that the embroidered lady is going to talk to her personally?

Sure enough, after Gu Yu finished reading the mantra, his whole body twitched like an electric shock, only the whites of his eyes remained, but the next moment, the eyeballs returned to their places instantly.

Gu Yu stood up, his whole aura was different, his body and posture showed a sense of softness, it was obvious that the embroidered empress had already arrived.

He looked at Lin Xixue, with a complicated expression on his face, sighed faintly, and said, "Tell me, what do you want this soul-attracting technique for?"

Lin Xixue told the whole story of the incident without any concealment.

He frowned, and said, "I really don't know much about the soul-attracting technique you mentioned, but I do know another witchcraft."

"Witchcraft?" Hearing the name, Lin Xixue couldn't help thinking, "Could it be related to Wujiang?"

"That's right, that's not right. To be precise, only Wujiang left behind this witchcraft heritage, while the witchcraft heritage in the rest of the prefectures either evolved into other thaumaturgy, or were completely cut off." Embroidered Empress explained road.

"May I ask you to clarify?"

"The exact time is unknown, but it was indeed a long, long time ago when a group of people discovered that they could gain some incredible power by enshrining some special beings."

"This group of people summed up the method of offering sacrifices and enshrining in order to gain power, which formed the earliest witchcraft, and this group of people was also called 'witch' by the tribe, and the person with the strongest witch power , is the Great Witch."

"So, these incredible existences are monsters like Tianzun and Leizu?" Lin Xixue made such an inference.

"Wrong, at that time these existences hadn't noticed this world yet."

"It's so?" Lin Xixue was extremely surprised, and the answer from Empress Embroidery completely overturned her cognition.

This is how she understood the structure of this world before. The way of heaven in this world was originally the standard way of heaven in the fairy world.

Then Tiandao was eroded and corrupted by the strange existences of Tianzun and Leizu, forming another practice system based on incense.

That's why in this world there are sects of cultivating immortals like Lantau Mountain, and there are also various Taoist temples, and behind each temple there is a strange existence.

But now, listening to what the embroidered lady said, before this world was eroded by weirdness, there was already a form of gaining power through offerings?

She couldn't help thinking of the petrified civil servants and military generals she had seen in the cold river before;

"Could it be that before these weird invasions, this world could have gained power by worshiping ancestors?" Lin Xixue corrected her speculation.

"Not bad, it's not stupid." The embroidered lady taunted her angrily.

Lin Xixue fell into deep thought again, and Empress Embroidery's answer subverted her cognition once again.

In this way, this world is even more unpredictable. She asked: "Why did this world have two ways of cultivation before the strange invasion?"

"You ask me who I ask, I'm just a dead person who happened to absorb the power of incense and fire, you think I'm a real god, know everything?" Empress Embroidery seized the opportunity again, yin and yang said to her.

Lin Xixue fell silent again, not because of the yin and yang eccentricity of Empress Embroidery, but because the information she received today was so shocking that she couldn't find a reasonable explanation for a while.

Empress Dowager Embroidered ignored her confusion and continued to explain: "Speaking of the topic, this soul-attracting technique is essentially a variant of witchcraft."

"Although I don't know the art of attracting souls, I do know a thing or two about the witchcraft called 'Return of the Soul'."

Lin Xixue quickly came back to her senses, cupped her hands and said, "May I give you some pointers?"

"Tell me, why should I point you?" The embroidered lady leaned against Gu Yu's body, her starry eyebrows stood erect, and she sneered again and again.

"You first killed my husband, demolished my temple, and then destroyed the token I left you. Why should I point you?"

Lin Xixue is so smart, she naturally understands the implication of Empress Xiuhua's words.

Assuming that Empress Embroidery didn't intend to point out herself, then there was no need to let herself in from the very beginning, let alone borrow Gu Yu's body to talk to herself in person.

It is impossible for him to be free, and to blame himself for yin and yang whenever he sees himself.

Therefore, the implication of these words is obviously that it is possible to teach oneself the art of returning the soul, but it is definitely not without cost.

"I don't know what orders the empress has?"

"Without it, when you kill Tianzun in the future, you will share half of his incense power with me."

Lin Xixue's heart tightened when she heard the words, her complexion couldn't help but become stiff, she never told others that she was going to kill Tianzun, how did Empress Embroidery know?

Could it be that Empress Embroidery has some supernatural powers to spy on her inner thoughts?
Empress Embroidery saw that her complexion changed drastically, she couldn't guess what she was thinking, and added: "On the day my husband disappeared, you knelt in front of me and made great wishes, so I naturally know."

"Big ambition?"

Lin Xixue suddenly remembered that she was really sad that day, knelt in front of the statue of the embroidered empress, and vowed to kill Tianzun, did she accidentally make such a great wish?
"Hmph!" Empress Embroidery snorted coldly, "If you hadn't made such a great wish that day, making me think that you are not hopeless, do you think I would let you go?"

Lin Xixue nodded, knowing that she was able to leave safely that day because of this reason, but she changed the subject: "Your Majesty really believes that I can kill the monster Tianzun?"

"Heh, with your meager magic power, I naturally don't believe it." He sneered, "But since I just said that my husband said he would believe in you, then let him go."

"My lord is still alive?" Lin Xixue was overjoyed upon hearing the words, and immediately asked.

"Yo, thanks to 'Shangzhen', I'm not dead yet!" The embroidered lady bit the word 'Shangzhen' very hard, obviously yin and yang to her again.

Lin Xixue could only smile wryly, although the Empress Dowager Embroidered had never stopped yin and yang, but it was easy to understand the deep resentment in her heart, and she had to bear it silently.

"If I can really kill the monster Tianzun in the future, I will definitely give half of the incense absorbed by the monster to the empress!"

After hearing the words, Empress Embroidery threw her a scroll of animal skins and a yellowed ancient painting, and said: "What is recorded on the animal skins is the witchcraft of the return of the soul, you can learn it by yourself."

Lin Xixue held the animal skin, rubbed it in her hand, and frowned involuntarily.

Why is the feel of this animal skin so familiar?
Make up the second update of 3.19 (～￣▽￣)～