Tomb Raider: The man is in the Nine Gates, but the system insists it's the Primordial Era.

"no……"

"How do I use the talisman...?"

"Hey you..."

Su Mu, who was holding the blue brick engraved with the mysterious talisman "Rain Master's Edict", came back to his senses, but the Taoist priest was no longer in sight.

[Rain Master's Edict]

After the system message appeared, Su Mu knew that the talisman on the blue brick was definitely no ordinary object.

He knew that the "Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill" could be used by swallowing it, but he had no idea how to use the talisman.

Burning?

Or can it be used immediately after copying?

Or perhaps it requires special steps, rituals, or incantations?

"Master Su, just throw it away. Aren't you tired of carrying such a big, useless brick?"

The bearded man smiled and shook his head.

Among the artifacts found in the tomb, the traps and bricks used to prevent tomb robbers are the least valuable.

Some vendors even consider it bad luck, and after seeing it, they will not buy any more items from the stall or shop.

To others, the blue brick the Taoist priest gave Su Mu was clearly a ploy to swindle money from the unsuspecting Su Mu.

Do you know how to use talismans?

Su Mu asked the people around him.

Everyone shook their heads, thinking that Su Mu was too naive and had never seen the world, and actually believed that there were real Taoist talismans and immortal techniques in the world.

Unable to get the answer he wanted, Su Mu reluctantly continued carrying the blue brick forward.

The team stopped to rest.

During his break, Su Mu asked everyone in the vanguard team before finally finding a pen and paper.

Ignoring the moss and filth on the blue bricks, he wiped them clean with his right sleeve and then carefully traced the runes engraved on them.

Su Mu had never studied Taoism, nor had he ever had any experience in drawing or recognizing talismans.

The talisman heads, bodies, and feet on the blue bricks are all engraved with a special and strange mark, which is very different from normal ancient and modern characters.

Therefore, Su Mu often draws the wrong symbols when copying.

"It's not a hook, there's a dot too?"

"What do these three horizontal lines mean?"

"This is way too difficult."

He sat cross-legged on the ground, studying how to copy the runes on the blue bricks onto paper. The others glanced at him and shook their heads with wry smiles.

"Master Su, do you know the effects of this talisman? Why don't you try to copy it?"

"Silly boy, talismans and incantations are all lies told by Taoist priests. You actually believed them, hahaha."

"You're so naive! I used to be like that too, believing everything."

"It's so nice to be young. But this trip has made it less boring and tedious, hahaha."

"You call him Master Su, but who is he? And why is he with you at our Xieling Changsheng Mountain?"

"Master Su, his father used to be a well-known chivalrous man in our area. He lost his life protecting a friend. This child has suffered a lot. He lost his father shortly after birth, then his mother, and then his grandparents. He also suffers from tuberculosis..."

"..."

Become!

Su Mu didn't listen to a word of the conversations around him. After carving for a long time, he finally managed to completely inscribe the talisman on the blue brick onto the paper in his hand for the first time.

He picked up the lifelike talisman paper, pinched the end of the paper, and slowly read aloud: "Rain Master's Decree."

Rumble!

High overhead, a silver snake darted about, and a muffled rumble of thunder suddenly sounded.

Is it going to rain?

"Wasn't it sunny just now?"

"No dark clouds?"

"Why is it thundering all of a sudden?"

"..."

"Rain Master's Decree!"

Rumble!

"Rain Master's Decree!"

Rumble!

"Rain Master's Decree!"

Rumble!

"Rain Master's Decree!"

Rumble!

Amidst the intermittent rumble of thunder in the sky, the vanguard team finally noticed the strange movements of the boy within their ranks after the silence had subsided.

They saw that whenever Su Mu held the strangely drawn talisman and recited the four words "Rain Master's Decree," a muffled rumble of thunder would appear high above their heads.

However, there was only thunder, but no sign of rain, and not a single dark cloud could be seen overhead.

"Hey buddy, try stopping for a second."

Someone spoke up to remind them.

Su Mu nodded and stopped reading the words recorded on the talisman.

Quiet.

Quiet.

silence.

A silence.

"Alright, you can read it now."

"Rain Master, a decree!"

Rumble!

Wow!

The vanguard team, who had stopped to rest at the edge of the dense forest, suddenly stood up and stared wide-eyed at the long-haired boy in blue robes who was sitting cross-legged on the ground.

You can't go wrong!

You absolutely can't go wrong!

The thunder in the sky sounded at the same time as the boy's soft chanting of incantations!

Could there really be extraordinary people in this world who can summon wind and rain?

Unheard of, unseen!

"Young Master Su, what exactly happened?"

Uncle Beard and a group of people who came from the Changsha refugee camp surrounded Su Mu.

Su Mu quickly came up with his explanation.

He scratched his head and said, "Uncle, you all know that I was seriously ill. After I recovered, I often saw strange things. Just now, I saw the meaning of the talismans carved on this blue brick, so I copied them and read them aloud."

"Amazing!" The bearded man's jaw nearly dropped to the ground in astonishment, and everyone else stared wide-eyed.

Su Mu looked at the talisman copied in black and white on the white paper: "It's all thunder and no rain, it doesn't seem to have much effect?"

At this moment, someone in the crowd stood up and said, "I've heard from the Taoist priests in my hometown that talismans aren't drawn like this. They don't draw talismans on white paper; they use yellow paper and wolf-hair brushes. The pigments they use are mostly cinnabar, and sometimes they mix in chicken blood, etc."

"I see." Su Mu was overjoyed and finally realized why the talisman with the strange message displayed by the system had not worked.

"Do you have wolf-hair brushes, yellow paper, and cinnabar?" Su Mu looked up at the crowd.

Everyone: "..."

Without thinking, the bearded man blurted out, "That Taoist priest, uh, yes..."

That Taoist priest...

Everyone rolled their eyes. Everyone knew that the Taoist priest definitely existed, but by now, they had traveled for another three hours since they met him, and he had long since returned to Changsheng Mountain to heal his injuries.

The middle of the procession of the Unloading Warriors heading towards Old Bear Ridge.

Luo Laowai, fanning himself with his military cap, looked curiously at the sky above: "Brother Chen, according to your Xieling sect's teachings, what does this celestial phenomenon signify?"

Hearing the muffled thunder overhead, which sounded almost like a folk song, Chen Yulou said with a sullen face, "I..."

An adjutant standing next to Luo Laowai suddenly interjected, "I know, it must be that God got an upset stomach and had diarrhea."

Chen Yulou and Luo Laowai turned their gazes away from the sky and onto the adjutant who was still grinning foolishly.

Luo Laowai waved his hand: "Take him out and shoot him. Let me see if it was you who pulled him out, or if it was God who pulled him out."

"No! Boss! No!"

"Back in Changsheng Mountain, I told you not to always interrupt, but you wouldn't listen. The boss and Chief Chen are friends, and it's fine for them to joke around, but you always make fun of the leader of the Unloading Ridge faction. If the boss doesn't kill you to save face for them, how can he save face..."