Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2132 (Two Thousand One Hundred and Thirty-Two) Appeasement

"I can answer it now." Li Pingrun said, "The function of the Soul-Consolidating Talisman is... other alchemists often say that it can soothe and control the soul. Let me put it this way. If someone tortures someone and causes the tortured person to commit suicide, that person is worried that this will be bad for him and the place where he is. In fact, he is afraid that something unlucky will happen, so he will ask the alchemist to set up the Soul-Consolidating Talisman in that area to soothe and control the soul of the person who committed suicide. Of course, this is what others say."

"Calm down and control the soul?" Tie Wandao asked, "How do I know if I can calm down and control it?"

Li Pingrun said: "In fact, I have been a Taoist priest for so many years, and I have never really seen a soul. As for whether other Taoist priests have seen one, I don't know. I can't believe that souls exist. Of course, I don't know if this has anything to do with the special magic I practice. As for whether it can soothe and control the soul... In fact, I have always felt that although the Soul-Consolidating Talisman is called this name, it may not really have anything to do with the soul. I think setting up the Soul-Consolidating Talisman is just a kind of magic. After the Taoist priest sets up the Soul-Consolidating Talisman in a place, some unusual phenomena may indeed appear there. I think those phenomena appear because of the spell, and have nothing to do with the soul of the deceased. But if the suicide commits suicide because of torture, and accumulates a lot of negative emotions before death, these negative emotions may really be transformed into negative energy at the moment of the suicide's death, which is not good for the person who tortured the suicide and the place where the person is. So in my personal opinion, the Soul-Consolidating Talisman is used to prevent that kind of negative energy from taking effect."

"Can the Soul-Consolidating Talisman definitely prevent that kind of negative energy from taking effect?" Tie Wandao asked.

"It can definitely be prevented. But in fact, some people who ask the alchemist to set up the Soul-Consolidating Talisman do not do so after they have learned from the alchemist that there is negative energy there. This is because the negative emotions of the suicide are transformed into negative energy at the moment of the suicide's death, which cannot be directly measured by the alchemist through rituals. The alchemist can use rituals to measure whether there are other types of negative energy in a place, but the negative energy transformed into negative energy by the negative emotions of the suicide at the moment of the suicide's death is extremely special." Li Pingrun said, "Although the alchemist cannot directly use rituals to measure whether a place has that kind of extremely special negative energy, after setting up the Soul-Consolidating Talisman, if that kind of extremely special negative energy really exists, then the Soul-Consolidating Talisman should prevent the negative energy from taking effect."

"That is to say, some people don't even know whether it exists or not, but they worry about bad luck, so they ask the alchemist to set up soul-solidifying talismans, right?" Tie Wandao said.

"That's true. I heard from my master before that only some of the negative emotions of suicide victims will be transformed into negative energy at the moment of their death, while some of the negative emotions of suicide victims will be transformed into other things at the moment of their death. The ones that are transformed into other things must have all their negative emotions completely transformed into other things, and they will not be transformed into negative energy." Li Pingrun said.

"Since the negative emotions of a suicide person are transformed into negative energy at the moment of his/her death, which cannot be directly measured by the alchemist through rituals, how do the alchemists know that the negative emotions will be completely transformed when they are transformed into other things and will not be transformed into negative energy?" Tie Wandao asked.

(End of this chapter)