"Empress Shiji, a stone from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, has undergone sacrifices for countless years. Why did the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty transport this stone from their ancestral land, Shenzhou?"

Chen Shi looked at the dark clouds in the distance, with thunder and lightning shaking in the clouds.

"The meaning of Ji is a stone standing by the water. Empress Shiji should be a stone statue of a woman standing by the water. What is her origin and why is only her head left? Why did King Zhen put her head on the treasure ship?

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Is this stone related to the return to the ancestral land of Shenzhou? Why did I set up a talisman formation around the stone again? Why didn't he take this stone away?"

The wooden cart was bumpy, and his body was swaying this way and that. The girl holding the pipa next to him was dozing off during the shaking, tilting her head and leaning on his shoulder unconsciously.

Chen Shi smelled the fragrance coming from the girl's body. He didn't know whether it was body fragrance or the fragrance of rouge and gouache.

In the morning, he saw the girl applying some rouge and gouache on her face. After applying it, her face looked rosy, even though she looked very good before.

“A sneeze!:

His nostrils were itchy due to the girl's hair, and he sneezed. The girl on his shoulder hadn't woken up yet, but she quietly opened one eye, glanced at him secretly, and continued to sleep.

Of course it’s also fake sleep.

But as she swayed, she slowly fell asleep. She woke up halfway and complained that her neck hurt. She tilted her head for a long time before she regained her composure.

After returning to Huangpo Village, Chen Shi did not continue traveling.

He returned to his old days, practicing every day, worshiping his godmother, and listening to lectures. However, this time he came back and had one more thing to do, which was to go to the East Chamber to read books.

The east wing of the Chen family is a place where sundries are stored. No one goes there all year round, and it is dark and air-conditioned.

Before and after the Spring Festival, my grandfather would put up a few frightening charms and insect-repelling charms here to drive away rats and insects, and then he would not visit this room again.

Chen Shi had gone into this house before and looked for the "treasures" he had collected when he was a child.

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He found that when he was a child, he rarely had any toys, but mostly inkstones, bald writing pens, and notes.

There are also some old clothes that I wore when I was a child.

"When I was a child, I must have been a boring child."

Chen Shixin said

Other miscellaneous things, some are old things of my father Chen Tang, and some are things that my grandfather left in the east compartment. There are many miscellaneous things.

Chen Shi went into the east chamber and searched for a long time, then pulled out a scroll of old paintings.

Unrolling the scroll, the painting shows a family of four. The grandfather is sitting on a chair, a little boy is sitting on his lap, and a man and a woman are standing behind them.

The man is very handsome and the woman is also very beautiful.

"Is it Chen Tang and my mother? Chen Tang is not worthy.

Chen Shi looked at it for a long time, then carefully rolled up the scroll and kept it away.

The sound of pipa came from outside the window. Chen Shi raised his head and looked out from the window lattice. He saw Ding Ding sitting under the eaves of the main room, holding the pipa, probably practicing some fingering.

The sound of the pipa is slow, like the reverie of a girl in summer, with the beauty of secret love, anxiety and expectation.

Chen Shi didn't understand and continued to search.

"But there is emotion in her playing, which is much better than before. She has something of her own."

He thought to himself.

But, is this good or bad for girls?

Chen Shi pulled out a box from the pile of old things. The box looked like an ordinary wooden box, but it was tightly sealed around it and there was no place to open it or a lock.

The box is a few years old and should be made of jujube wood. It has not been painted but has been coated with patina. It is shiny and has the texture of ruby.

The six sides of the box are all painted with different talismans. The talismans have a complex structure and are structurally different from the talismans that Chen Shi has seen before.

However, although the structure is complex, it has no effect.

They are like decorative patterns, not talismans.

"The talismans on this box look like made-up talismans and have no power.

Chen Shi observed for a while and gradually saw some clues, so he moved the box to the yard, took a pen and paper, ground it, and copied the talismans on the six sides of the box.

Ding Ding put down his pipa and came over to check. The girl's hair was flowing down Chen Shi's neck, feeling cool.

However, she didn't know much about talismans, and her eyes were completely dark.

Chen Shi finally saw the clues and muttered: "According to the structure of the talisman, the projection method should be used.

He stood up one corner of the box, placed the six pieces of paper in the order of the six sides, and regarded the six pieces of paper as a whole.

"No, it's not this corner.

He changed another corner of the box and rearranged the six pieces of paper. A smile gradually appeared on his face, "It's right this time."

Ding Ding's eyes were still dark, and he felt that he should go to the door and sit with the dog.

Chen Shi observed the talisman patterns on six pieces of paper. The six talisman patterns were connected together, and the seemingly imaginary patterns had meaning.

He quickly studied this extremely complicated talisman thoroughly and explained to the girl: "This talisman actually contains the pattern of the twelve Yuan Chen, which means that if you want to open the box, you need to correspond to the corresponding time..."

Black pot, tell the time!

Several dogs barked at the door,

"It's three o'clock.

"Chen Shi understood, and said.

Ding Ding's eyes widened, wondering how he understood.

Chen Shi looked for the talisman pattern corresponding to Si Shi, found the node at three quarters, and immediately activated his energy and blood, quickly tapping on the node at three quarters with his fingertips.

The node at three quarters lit up, and his fingertips landed on the node at four quarters.

His hands were flying, and he clicked on the nodes one by one with his fingertips in order. However, he saw the talismans on the surface of the wooden box gradually light up, and suddenly with a click, the box opened, revealing a thick stack of books.

Chen Shi was surprised and delighted. He took out these books and looked at them one by one. The reason why Li Xiaozheng asked him for help was because his grandfather left a large array of talismans on the stone ship.

If the formation cannot be broken, I am afraid that even he will be buried on the stone boat.

These books are often some insights about the divine fetus. Chen Shi checked them for a long time and found that they should be the notes left by his grandfather when he was in the divine fetus realm.

Xiao Wangsun said that because his grandfather got a phantom fetus, the weakest divine fetus, he stayed in the divine fetus realm for many years without breaking through.

These notes should be the methods that my grandfather studied in those days.

He hurriedly flipped through it, and then the box closed automatically with a click and returned to its original state.

Ding Ding observed the box and said doubtfully: "Sir, I just saw that it was very troublesome for you to open the box. What if you open the box in the wrong order? What will happen?"

Chen Shi shook his head while reading, "I don't know either.

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Let me try!"

Ding Ding said excitedly.

She stretched out her finger, activated her Qi, and casually clicked on the box. Suddenly, the box became extremely huge. The lid of the box opened, like a huge mouth, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth. A long flesh-red tongue emerged from the box.

It flew out of the darkness and wrapped around her waist.

“Crack!

The box was bitten down and the girl was swallowed, leaving only a pair of women's shoes on the ground.

Heiguo noticed the movement and looked into the yard, feeling a little confused.

Chen Shi quickly said: "The scapegoat, tell the time!"

The black pot hurriedly called the time, and Chen Shi quickly unlocked the box. With a click, the box opened again. Ding Ding was spit out by the box, and his whole body was wet and sticky, as if he had been soaked in the stomach of some evil spirit.

"This box may be an evil spirit.

Chen Shi thought for a while and said to the poisoned girl, "When I drew that talisman just now,"

I think the structure is special, but now that I think about it, it is somewhat similar to the Southern Talisman."

Ding Ding was dejected and went to take a bath. Black Guo walked into the yard and took an ax to chop wood and help her boil water.

Chen Shi continued to flip through a few books, and suddenly saw a line of text on the last page of a book: "Xiao Shi is reborn, and there is no more divine fetus. Cultivation is a hundred times more difficult than mine.

If he can't follow my path, how should he practice?

When Chen Shi read this, his heart was filled with emotion.

The writing and ink of this line is relatively new. It should have been added later after Chen Shi was resurrected and his grandfather came to look for ways to help Chen Shi practice.

He once complained to his grandfather in his heart why he didn't teach him how to practice.

But when he saw this line of writing, he realized how distressed his grandfather was at that time.

He picked up another volume.

There were some strange patterns painted on this volume. Chen Shi looked through it carefully and found patterns of water and fire, as well as anatomical diagrams of the human body!
To be continued...