I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 42: Don’t just slap your stamp on someone else’s painting!

After dinner, looking out the window at the rich night and the gradually setting moonlight, Liu Yunxi turned her head to glance at Feng Xue who had returned to the altar and was busy. Finally, she gritted her teeth and said,

"I'm going to collect moonlight. Let me know when you need to practice! Don't cover the house with it all at once!"

"I know, I know." Feng Xue, who was addicted to brushing the entries, looked at the entries above his head such as [Transform into Fire], [Transform into Thunder], [Transform into Gold], [Transform into Wind], [Connect], [Replace], [Distinguish Similarities], [Extract]... which were added one after another. He was in a state of extreme excitement.

At first, the property changes were based on the [Thunder Curse], and then became more and more complicated, until all modular magic operation processes were completed. Feng Xue found it difficult to resist this pleasure, which was like a collector watching the blanks in the atlas being filled up bit by bit.

As long as his golden finger succeeds once, even if it's just for a tiny moment, no matter how immature and crude, it can complete the fixation, allowing Feng Xue to achieve the maximum precision that his current soul can achieve while locking the entry.

Yes, it was his limit, not the limit of the spell. He realized this when he found that the time it took for him to possess a spirit had increased while he was making a magic weapon.

After Feng Xue completely gave up on "practicing slowly" and instead strived to "succeed once even if it's just a coincidence", in just six hours, he had acquired all the entries in the eighteen spells that did not require fine-tuning.

And Feng Xue finally came to his senses from the hectic state of filling out the atlas.

He yawned loudly, but did not start practicing or falling asleep as usual. Instead, he locked his life again, set up another altar, burned incense and lit candles, placed the jade material emitting different magical auras and the seal engraved with the ritual in front of the altar, and then took out the scroll with the ghost attached to it.

If the target was another being, Feng Xue would definitely ask Liu Yunxi to protect him, but spirit ghosts, or most ghosts, are different.

Because the ghosts under the red clothes mainly rely on illusions and ghost energy erosion, their physical interference ability is not as good as that of children. After Feng Xue locked the life span, this ability that would be ineffective if they could resist it, and would shorten their life span if they couldn't withstand it was like a gift. Let alone a spiritual ghost that had never seen blood, even if it was a red-eyed evil ghost, Feng Xue could let her experience the feeling of Yang Yuan taking a bath but not being able to take it.

"Don't think too much, don't think too much, calm down, calm down..."

Taking a deep breath, Feng Xue threw the image out of his mind and used the visualization method. As his soul, which had gradually begun to deviate from the perfect circle and emitted light like breathing, Feng Xue's mood gradually calmed down.

Then, he picked up the seal, but was stunned for a moment, put it down again, reached into his arms, and took out a... magnifying glass.

"As expected, if you are in this line of work, you must be well prepared."

Feng Xue clamped the high-power monocular magnifying glass given to him by the boss of Mo Yuxuan, which is commonly used in the identification of gems and cultural relics, on his left eye, and searched for the "fairy in the painting" in this not-so-big landscape painting.

Although Feng Xue has the ability to [Observe the Lifespan of Heaven], he can only see the lifespan of "living things". Dead people, stones, ghosts and the like cannot be anchored by this ability. Although the over-the-shoulder perspective can capture the traces of ghosts, it is still a bit difficult to find a different ink spot in a splash-ink landscape painting when it cannot be highlighted in red.

Fortunately, this ghost spirit seemed to be keen on role-playing in the painting, and would not move its position when being watched. After a thorough scan of the painting, Feng Xue finally found the figure standing on the top of the mountain, almost blending in with the splashed ink. But just like in the illusion, she was ultimately unable to merge into the painting.

"very good!"

Feng Xue locked onto the screen with his right eye, which was not wearing a magnifying glass, and then took off the magnifying glass. While staring at the ink spot, he spread his magic power towards the two candles.

The person was supposed to step into the Gangbu Step and pinch the spiritual seal with his hands to guide the magic power into the ritual. However, Feng Xue had already carved the talisman of the Ghost Control Curse into the jade seal. With the influx of magic power, an abstract snowflake-like pattern lit up on the seal. Feng Xue grasped the seal with one hand and began to chant the spell - "Spirit, spirit, I do not know your name, but I grant you a contract name. Come to my altar..."

As mentioned before, those who have entered the Dao of Xuan can use the altar to connect heaven and earth, and mobilize the great source of pure Qi and willpower. Every time this is mobilized, a "memory" will be left in the human spirit.

Monks who have not yet entered the Tao can imitate monks who have entered the Tao and replicate this process through human inspiration, thereby completing some spells that require the participation of willpower. It is a bit like a child using an adult's bank card and password to withdraw money.

Perhaps it was just a kind of "stealing" at first, but as people discovered the convenience of this technology, many successful predecessors would deliberately make each of their rituals formalized and set up a set of code systems so that later generations could imitate them more easily. This set of codes can be summarized as the so-called "fasting and offering rituals". However, because the more people use this thing called human inspiration, the deeper the memory, and the better the reproduction effect, some non-secret popular spells have spread everywhere, and the "Ghost Control Spell" that Feng Xue recited at this time is the most widely circulated one.

As Feng Xue chanted, he clearly felt that some kind of change was taking place in his magic power, but this change was too complicated, far from being as simple as [Transformation into Jade] or [Transformation into Thunder]. It was more emotional. If he had to describe it in words, it would be a "contract containing a huge amount of information."

Even though it was his first time using it, Feng Xue knew what to do at this moment!
"Those who follow me will be blessed, those who oppose me will be disastrous. Help me to understand the truth, and guide me to achieve the truth..."

Continuing to chant the spell, Feng Xue poured all the magic power that was integrated with the power of will into it. As the snowflake mark shone brightly, he covered the position in the scroll without saying a word!

"Buzz!"

A silent sense of vibration emanated from the scroll the moment Feng Xue made his move. Although there was no physical resistance, Feng Xue found that his magic mark could not be pressed on the scroll no matter what.

However, Feng Xue was not nervous at all, because this matter was also recorded in the Ghost Control Curse!
After all, weak ghosts can only use the power of illusion. Now the so-called inability to fall is just that the ghost used illusion to confuse Feng Xue, making him think that he encountered a barrier!

Before taking action, he deliberately read through the "Ghost Taming" secret book several times and chose a position close to the wall to perform the ritual. At this time, he just pushed his right leg backwards, and his heel immediately pressed against the wall behind him. The strength came from the root, and the strength of his whole body was also pressed forward.

The illusion can only affect Feng Xue after all, but if the force of the earth's gravity is added, even if Feng Xue feels that he cannot imprint it, gravity will help him imprint it!
The original illusion disappeared at this moment. Feng Xue's seal, which had been pressed against the scroll, was raised a few inches higher without him knowing when. However, his whole body was already pressed forward and he was destined not to stop. But at this moment, a ball of spiritual light flew out from the scroll.

At the same time, there was also an extremely angry rebuke—

"Don't waste your stamp on someone else's painting!" (Note ①)

　Note ①: Although I said I didn’t want to use dialect later, this sentence still has to be written in Wu dialect to have that flavor! By the way, the first character of the title is pronounced like “芙要” (not required) a little faster. I think the rest should be understandable without any explanation, right?

　　ps: Regarding self-developed changes...it is possible, but it is very troublesome.

　　The ritual has been explained. The ritual is an act that assists in burning the track.

　　But first you need to know how to carve the track. It's like a Lego puzzle of thousands or tens of thousands of pieces. The instruction manual is the track, and finding the numbered parts in order is the instrument. You must have the instruction manual before you can cut the parts, otherwise you can only try and error yourself.

　　It's not that it can't be pieced together, but it will take a lot of time and energy, and the protagonist is short of time, so he will be more inclined to use what others have already figured out.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)