If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 34 Enlightening the Fairy
After entering the house, Zhang Huasheng didn't waste any words and said directly: "To make a long story short, your father summoned me from the netherworld using the magic of summoning immortals to draw the Shadow God Map for you."

Xiao Yu asked in confusion: "What is the Shadow God Diagram? Can the old saint explain it to Xiao Yu in detail?"

Zhang Huasheng twirled his beard and said thoughtfully, "Once upon a time, 'Inviting the Immortal to Pass on the True Method' was called 'The Method of Guarding the Spirit and Calming the Soul', and it was the most orthodox Taoist method.

Now it has been modified and simplified, and has become an evil method that can be performed by ordinary people.

The spell to summon immortals is not for immortals, but for ghosts from the netherworld.

As you can see, I am a ghost!
The strangeness of the living and the dead, the mysteries of the world, are all very strange. If you encounter them, they are not good for you, and if you encounter them, they are harmful to things.

This is a great harm.

Another great danger is the Soul-Destroying Curse.

Taking the soul of the person being painted and placing it in a quiet room with ghosts will definitely cause great loss of vitality afterwards. "

Xiao Yu suddenly realized, "I met a ghost in my dream before. Was it the ghost summoning my soul to come here to draw the Shadow God Picture?"

Zhang Huasheng nodded gently and said with a smile: "You are a noble person, and noble people are blessed by heaven.

A mere ghost dares to approach a noble and attack a noble, and will be punished by heaven."

“Well, I dare not deceive Saint Zhang. Xiaoyu is not a noble person. I just happened to learn the secret of “Tiger Soul Seven Kills” from my adoptive father tonight.

The fierce tiger's divine power has made some progress.

Even when Xiaoyu fell asleep, he was still silently practicing the Heart Sutra in his heart.

Later, two ghost messengers broke into the dream, and Xiaoyu somehow used the "Tiger Soul Seven Killings".

I wonder what happened to those two ghost messengers.

As ghosts and gods, they shouldn't be so easily hurt, right?" Xiao Yu looked at Saint Zhang eagerly.

Saint Zhang laughed loudly and said, "More than just injuries, one of them was completely wiped out and died.

In fact, this is God’s blessing.

I am also a genius, a genius in painting.

I started learning painting at the age of five, but my master kicked me out after just three days.

Because I have learned all his skills and am even better than him.

So I can understand why you attained enlightenment overnight and comprehended the Tiger Soul Divine Art.

This is not a miracle, this is genius.

Ordinary people cannot understand, but we can understand each other’s realm of genius.

But genius insight is only the foundation, one of the qualities of a noble person.

If you want to kill the ghosts and gods in the underworld, you must have the blessing of God.

God will protect you, allowing you to turn adversity into blessing, break through yourself, and be warded off by gods and ghosts."

——It’s great that you think this way. I don’t need to waste my breath to explain why I can master “Tiger Soul Seven Kills” overnight. Well, I will relay this authoritative analysis of the “Chinese Genius Expert” to my adoptive father later.

Xiao Yu was hoping that the "Chinese expert" would go astray, so she naturally didn't want to persuade him back to the right path.

"Now that I'm here, there's no need to capture my soul, right?"

Saint Zhang shook his head and said, “The reason for capturing souls is not simply to draw outlines and shapes.

If you just want to draw the appearance of the person, there is no need to go through so much trouble, such as offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, chanting spells and writing talismans.

The 'Shadow God Pictures' that people often talk about are not real Shadow God Pictures, they are actually Shadow Shape Pictures.

One is form, the other is spirit, you should understand the difference between them, right?
A true shadow-god picture contains the spirit and spirituality of the person depicted.

Some beauties have perfect looks but are called wooden beauties because they lack spirituality and temperament.

The same is true of paintings of beauties.

If you want to attract a king with a painting, shadow and shape alone are far from enough.

After all, even a wooden beauty with flesh and blood, who can speak and have warmth, would not be able to catch the king's eye.

A lifeless and cold painting is far inferior to a wooden beauty.

But once the beauty in the painting has charm and aura, the effect is completely different.

If the real person can impress the king, then the Shadow God Picture can certainly do so as well.

On the other hand, if the Shadow God painting moved the king, the king would surely desire the person in the painting. "

Xiao Yu was shocked. "Xiao Yu, how did the Xisha barbarians get involved with the noble king? Which country is he from?"

If he were the king of a Western vassal state, this old Chinese ghost would definitely look down on him.

I won’t say “noble person” at all.

Well, now she finally understood the meaning of "noble person".

"Haha, I am an outsider after all. Matters of marriage concern Miss Yu's reputation, so I cannot say much. Miss, you should go back and ask your father." Saint Zhang chuckled.

How could he, a virtuous Chinese man, go against etiquette and morality and talk about the marriage of a little girl behind her father's back?
Xiaoyu is not a virtuous person, but she knows how to read people's expressions. Since he doesn't want to say it, there is no need for her to ask.

"Old Saint, you just said that asking immortals to pass on the true method was once a legitimate immortal method? Why would an immortal create an immortal method that depicts a woman's divine form to please the king?"

Saint Zhang shook his head and said, "The real method of summoning immortals to pass on the truth is not used to draw pictures of beauties. It is a method of guarding the spirit and calming the soul."

Xiao Yu was puzzled and asked, "The Shadow God Picture incorporates the spirit and spirituality of the woman. It will only hurt the mind and body. How can we protect the mind and calm the soul?"

Saint Zhang sighed, “The Shadow God Picture drawn using ancient immortal methods does contain the spirit and spirituality of the person depicted, but the drawing process is fundamentally different from the evil method of summoning immortals to transmit the truth.

Because, in ancient times, when people invited immortals to transmit the truth, they were inviting real immortals.”

He laughed at himself and said, "I am respected as the Immortal Painter by the world, but I don't have the bones and wisdom to become an immortal, so I can't become an immortal.

But there really are immortals in this world, and some immortals achieve enlightenment through painting.

They have the same painting level as me, and also have extremely high talent for cultivating immortals.

Such a painting fairy is the real fairy. When people get along with ghosts, they suffer; when people meet a real fairy, they enjoy the blessing.

In addition, when ghosts and gods draw shadow god pictures, they need to draw spiritual charm from the soul of the person they draw, while true immortals give souls to paper scrolls without spirituality.

This is the method of 'becoming immortal by turning things into gods'."

"It is worthy of being a Shadow God Map drawn by an immortal. How to protect the gods and calm the souls? There won't be many people who can invite true immortals to come, even if they are nobles in China, right?" Xiao Yu said.

No wonder the authenticity of the Immortal Summoning technique could not be popularized and was eventually replaced by a modified version of the evil technique, as the genuine version is too difficult to obtain.

Saint Zhang pondered and said, "Do you know about the Conferred God War in the Middle Ages?"

Xiaoyu was excited and wanted to shout: I've heard about it and I really want to know the details, please tell me quickly!
"Xiao Yulian only heard about the concept of 'Middle Ages' today." She smiled bitterly and shook her head.

She was really smiling bitterly.

If Saint Zhang hadn't said "Middle Ages", she could have also said: The Battle of the Gods? It seemed like she had heard the elders of the tribe mention it.

She was not sure how far back the Middle Ages were, but "the Middle Ages" at least represented a very long time ago.

So long ago that it has become the "last era".

"Well, the ancient times were before the Emperor of Heaven attained enlightenment, the ancient times were the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Middle Ages lasted until King Wu defeated King Zhou, and from the establishment of the Great Zhou to the present, it can all be called the 'recent ancient times'.

When you read the history books, you will understand the Great Zhou and King Wu. "

Saint Zhang was unwilling to waste time on such an insignificant matter, so he said directly: "The reason why the King of Shang degenerated into King Zhou and caused the disaster of King Wu's attack on King Zhou was because he favored the evil concubine Daji, and the spirit of the emperor was eroded by the evil spirit, and he became increasingly stupid and corrupt.

Daji was originally a noble lady from a marquisate, honest, pure, virtuous and kind.

Why did she suddenly become a demon who brought disaster to the country and the people? "

——Because the real Daji was replaced by a vixen.

Xiaoyu thought to herself.

"why?"

She vaguely understood the true purpose of the Shadow God Map.

"Because her god was replaced by a nine-tailed fox on the way to Chaoge! The Marquis of Jizhou raised many talented people, but no one noticed. The court of the Shang Dynasty was full of experts, but no one noticed anything unusual, including Master Wen, who is now the Supreme Master of Universal Transformation. (ps)"

Saint Zhang sighed and said, "A small demon fox caused the fall of a human emperor, destroyed a holy dynasty, and killed countless lives in the world.

After King Wu defeated King Zhou, all the virtuous people were thinking about one question: how to prevent such a thing from happening again.

——How can it be prevented? This is the arrangement of the Goddess Nuwa! Even if this loophole is blocked, the saint can easily find another loophole.

Xiaoyu felt emotional.

"The Shadow God Picture contains the charm and spirituality of the person being depicted. Seeing the Shadow God Picture is like seeing the real person. If the person is harmed by evil spirits, they only need to check the Shadow God Picture to immediately find any abnormality," she said.

Saint Zhang gave her an appreciative look and said, "The spirit of the woman's soul is left in the painting.

Without a part of the spirit, there will certainly be symptoms such as mental instability, physical weakness, and mental confusion.

It will take quite some time to recover.

Even so, there will always be a part of the soul missing.

The immortal will not extract spirit from the soul of a noble lady.

The immortal can enlighten the people in the painting and give them souls with his magic.

The elf in the painting that was enlightened has exactly the same spirit and aura as the original owner.

It is equivalent to having an extra part of spirit out of thin air.

Although there are still symptoms of mental instability and trance, the patient will not become weak.

It’s just that the original owner was influenced by the immortal soul in the painting.

Regardless of whether there is an extra part of spirit or a lack of spirit, as long as the spirit in the Shadow God Diagram does not return to the body, the soul will never be complete. "

Xiao Yu asked, "Can the spiritual charm that the immortals bring out of thin air also make the original soul incomplete?"

Zhang Huasheng said: "Don't underestimate the methods of the immortals. The spirit in the painting that was enlightened is not a replica of the original owner.

If it is a replica, the Shadow God Picture would be a fake picture, and the God would be different."

"In other words, a soul was added out of thin air, but it was separated from the main body?" Xiao Yu frowned slightly, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

Zhang Huasheng smiled and said, “Since it is to protect the mind and calm the soul, of course there are more benefits.

If you hang the Shadow God Picture in the boudoir and face the noble lady day and night, the noble lady's soul will gradually absorb the essence of the immortal soul, and the soul will become strong and stable.

Even if there are initial side effects of mental confusion and unstable soul, they will not last long.

If you take the Soul-Calming Soup and the Spirit-Nourishing Pills, the symptoms of an unstable soul will recover faster."

"That's right. When you draw the Shadow God Map, you don't have to give it away."

Xiaoyu looked at the old face of the Chinese old ghost opposite her and began to feel conflicted.

Do you want him to help you draw the Shadow God Picture?

If he is an immortal, unfortunately he is not, he is just a dead ghost.

"Haha, Miss Yu is hesitating?" Saint Zhang laughed and said proudly, "If Miss Yu had heard of my reputation, she would not have any hesitation or entanglement."

Xiao Yu's heart was moved. This old man just boasted that the only difference between him and the real painting fairy was his cultivation talent.
(ps: In the original novel of “Investiture of the Gods”, Wen Zhong did not notice anything abnormal about Daji.

When he returned from the North Sea, he called King Zhou to his front and scolded him harshly, and ordered King Zhou to execute Fei Zhong and You Hun, and to depose Daji, who was already the queen.

King Zhou was meek and did not dare to object, only using the tactic of procrastination to get by.

If Wen Zhong knew that Daji was a fox demon, he would have killed her with his iron mace directly instead of just letting King Zhou depose her.

In fact, when Jiang Ziya was a "lower doctor" under King Zhou, he met Daji and did not realize that she had been replaced by a fox spirit.

Later, Daji was exposed, it was purely because of her own profligacy.)
(End of this chapter)