Chapter 30: The Fu Talisman System

  "Five thousand?"

  When the young stall owner started boasting about how much he valued this broken vase, his quote made Zhou Ming ecstatic, it was only 5,000 yuan. This guy was indeed a novice, and the price of 5,000 yuan for this Kangxi-era young glaze red peony patterned bell-shaped vase was really too low.

  However, Zhou Minglu furrowed his brow and said, "I'm telling you, brother, this vase is indeed well-preserved, but it's been broken after all. Your price of 5,000 yuan is a bit too high, don't you think? How about this: 2,000 yuan, if you agree, I'll take it away immediately."

  "2000?" Although the other party had cut the price drastically, the young stall owner was still overjoyed in his heart. After all, he had only spent 100 yuan to acquire this bottle, and now the lion's mouth was wide open, offering a profit of 20 times. How could he not be happy? However, like Zhou Ming, he suppressed his joy and frowned discontentedly, saying, "Brother, you're cutting the price too low. Considering we hit it off, I won't ask for more. 4500 yuan, don't try to bargain again, or I won't sell it to you."

  Zhou Ming naturally knew that he was being fooled, but still patiently started bargaining, adding a few hundred yuan at a time, until after several minutes, the Kangxi Yongqing glaze red peony patterned vase with a ring handle was finally settled on a price of 3000 yuan between the two.

  After they really settled on a price, Zhou Ming took out his wallet and counted out 30 red tickets, handing them over. He then carefully picked up the bell and exchanged a few pleasantries with the young vendor before walking away.

  It was worth it! It really was worth it, this time the gains from this Fuwen symbol are much more generous than last time. A single bell jar can not only provide new "Wenqi" for the Huangpi book, but even its modern value, selling it offhand can exceed the price of that Qinghua tile.

  Holding the bell-shaped vessel, Zhou Mingluo took a quick look at the remaining ninth goal and left the antique city after confirming that it was a fake from two or three hundred years ago.

  With something as valuable as this in his hands, he really needs to be careful and meticulous in handling it. After all, this bell is a fragile item, and the technology for repairing it is still very primitive. One careless move could cause it to shatter again.

  All the way he was extremely cautious, until half an hour later, he returned home with the bell jar in his arms and placed it on a square table in the living room, before letting out a long sigh of relief.

  That's enough, as long as you bring this thing back safely.

  Sitting on the sofa to rest for a moment, after calming down, Zhou Ming Luo took out the yellow skin book from his body again, and a thread of excitement flashed in his eyes.

  He couldn't help but get excited, last time it was just a blue and white porcelain tile that could make his yellow skin book derive a new talisman, now this bell should be able to do the same.

  Or, Yaoling Zun may also derive more than one talisman, because its artistic value should be much larger than that of Qinghua Dizhuan.

  Suppressing his excitement, Zhou Ming quickly attached the yellow skin book to the shaking bell and then quietly began to wait. After waiting for about twenty minutes, he reached out to touch the motionless yellow skin book in front of him.

  As he thought, when his fingers touched the yellow skin book, a new idea suddenly entered his mind.

  The meaning of the intention was very clear, and Zhou Ming Luo didn't hesitate at all to reinforce the Yellow Book. He directly issued a reinforcement order, and the originally calm Yellow Book suddenly burst into a dazzling yellow light. After just over a dozen breaths, when the glow dissipated, Zhou Ming Luo's eyes widened in shock as he stood up from his original position, staring fixedly at the Yellow Book with a stunned expression.

  Shocking, this time the strengthening of Huang Pishu has brought about too many changes.

  The biggest change is thickness.

  Before the strengthening, the yellow book was just two covers, with two pages inside that recorded the "Wenwen Fu" and "Jingang Fu", all together only four pages. But at this moment, the thickness of the yellow book suddenly increased several times.

  It was more than ten pages long at a glance.

  "Unbelievable! Could it be that a single Rattle Bell contains the power of literary aura, increasing its might by over tenfold?"

  It turned out to be more than a dozen pages, and Zhou Ming Luo, even if he had thought about it before, felt that the Huiling Bell might increase by no more than one talisman, but at this moment, he was still startled, and hurriedly picked up the yellow book to start flipping through.

  The cover didn't change, the first page was still the same, it was still that page with the record of "Wenwen Fu", but when he turned to the second page, he suddenly saw four rows of more than ten words.

  This page contains only text records, without any images.

  The top row of characters is the Taiji Pian, followed by the Yin Yang Pian, Si Xiang Pian and Ba Gua Pian.

  When Zhou Ming Luo carefully gazed at a line of words, new ideas came and he suddenly understood everything.

  This records the general outline of the talismans in the Yellow Leather Book, the division of the talisman system throughout the book. The talismans in the Yellow Leather Book are divided into four levels, with the highest level being the Taiji Chapter. The Taiji gives birth to yin and yang, yin and yang give birth to the Four Images, and the Four Images give birth to the Eight Trigrams.

  Taiji symbol is the highest-level talisman in the entire Huangpi Book, while yin-yang symbol is a secondary talisman, four-image symbol is a tertiary talisman, and Bagua symbol is the lowest fourth-level talisman.

  This concept is actually quite vague, and when it comes to Taiji symbols, Yin-Yang symbols, and Four Image symbols, they are almost just briefly mentioned. Only when mentioning the Bagua symbol are there a few more annotations.

  Bagua is divided into Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui. Among them, Qian represents heaven, Kun represents earth, Zhen represents thunder, Xun represents wind, Kan represents water, Li represents fire, Gen represents mountain and Dui represents swamp, symbolizing the eight phenomena of heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain and swamp respectively.

  Each of the eight trigrams has a symbol that is related to the phenomenon it represents and possesses its main characteristics.

  For example, the "Jīn Gāng Fú" is the Kūn hexagram symbol from the Eight Trigrams chapter, representing the earth element, giving birth to all things with virtue, carrying and loading all things, advancing endlessly without exhaustion, and can strengthen all things in the world.

  After flipping through the Fu Lu General Outline, Zhou Ming Luo opened to the third page and saw that only two characters "Qian Gua" were recorded on the page, while the rest was blank, without any actual Fu Lu evolution.

  Page 4, Kun Hexagram [Vajra Symbol], except for the extra two characters of Kun Hexagram, everything else in Vajra Symbol remains unchanged.

  Page 5, Shocking Hexagram is blank.

  Page 6, Xun Gua is blank.

  Keep flipping through, until Zhou Ming finally found himself stunned to discover that although the yellow leather book had more than a dozen pages of content added, all the pages were blank, which means that this time he absorbed the Wen Qi inside the bell, except for triggering the yellow leather book to derive a general outline of talismans, letting him understand the system of talismans in the yellow leather book, not a single talisman was added.

  He still only has two talismans in his hand: "Mò Wén Fú" and "Jīn Gāng Fú".

  "I'm dizzy." He was really dizzy, originally thought that the yellow skin book had increased by more than a dozen talismans, he was startled, but as a result, not a single talisman was added, this is too ridiculous.

  Even if he understood the Fu Lu system was good for him, the outcome still left a faint sense of disappointment.

  "It really just added a system framework, not even one more talisman was added." Zhou Ming Luo flipped through the yellow skin book again, still disbelieving. He closed the yellow skin book with a gloomy face, but at this moment, a new idea suddenly entered his mind.

  This idea is actually a hint as to whether or not to include existing Fu Talismans.

  "Huh? The collection already has Fu Lu? How did it get collected?"

  He couldn't help but ask a question, and Zhou Mingluo hesitantly chose to do so. Just then, three yellow glows suddenly appeared on his chest, and with a whooshing sound, they entered the Yellow Skin Book. It turned out that the one "Wenwen Symbol" and two "Jin Gang Symbols" he had previously stored in his shirt pocket were absorbed into the book's pages.

  Deng Zhouming flipped through the pages with a look of surprise, only to find that the 【Mò Wén Fú】 he had painted had merged into one with the page recording the 【Mò Wén Fú】.

  Moreover, a new idea reminded him that there was only one usable "Wenwen Symbol" in the Yellow Skin Book at this time.

  After flipping to the page with 【Vajra Talisman】, the pages still didn't change at all, but there was a mental reminder that two 【Vajra Talismans】 could be used.

  "Great! I didn't expect that after deriving the general outline of the talismans, there would be such a benefit. This is even better than having an extra new talisman!" Zhou Mingyu was overjoyed and couldn't help but feel happy. As time passed, he could accumulate more and more talismans, but carrying them wasn't very convenient. After all, the paper used to draw these talismans was just ordinary yellow rice paper. One or two sheets were fine, they could be folded up and put in his pocket, but if he accumulated tens of talismans in the future, it would be really inconvenient to carry them around.

  Because ordinary paper can have various dangers such as damage, moisture, etc., if that piece breaks or gets wet and the paper rots, it will destroy the perfect pattern of the talisman and cannot be used.

  This issue is absolutely huge and crucial.

  But if they are not carried on one's person, these talismans cannot be used.

  Although this problem is not obvious now, one day when Zhou Ming's symbols become more and more numerous, it will become a big problem. I didn't expect that it would be automatically solved by the Yellow Skin Book now.

  The significance of this matter is much more important than adding a new talisman.