Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 309: Chapter 309 Heavenly Master 16

Sure enough, when the female ghost heard Situ Shuangshuang say she wanted to send her to the Underworld to await reincarnation, she immediately panicked and said anxiously, ”Lord Heavenly Master, no, I don’t want to go to the Underworld, I don’t want to reincarnate, I still can’t reincarnate, I can’t reincarnate...”

The female ghost kept repeating that she didn’t want to reincarnate, yet couldn’t give a reason, her words lacked logic, only endlessly saying she didn’t want to reincarnate.

Situ Shuangshuang frowned a little, now beginning to suspect that the female ghost might have been wandering for too long, her mind somewhat muddled. Thinking this, Situ Shuangshuang raised her hand to tap her palm, intending to retrieve a talisman from the Qiankun Talisman! It turns out upon touching it that all the talismans on her hand were already used up!

She remembered that the talisman paper at home was already used up, and she hadn’t had the chance to make more talisman paper. Without talisman paper, she couldn’t draw a talisman, and without a talisman, she couldn’t help this female ghost regain clarity.

Situ Shuangshuang looked up at the sky, finally sighed, and decided to go out to buy some materials for making talisman paper. As for this female ghost, anyway, she had been wandering confused for long enough, and being muddled for two more days wouldn’t make much difference!

With a wave of her hand, she collected the female ghost with her long hair covering her face back into the small coffin on her bracelet. Then Situ Shuangshuang reflexively planned to use a Thousand Miles Talisman to go out, only to grab empty air and then remembered, oh, she didn’t have any talismans left! With no choice, she had to go out on foot.

Situ Shuangshuang went straight to buy branches from willow, mulberry, peach, locust, and elm trees from the orchard and the municipal garden bureau.

These two places did not lack pruned branches, and since Situ Shuangshuang was an old customer, the price given was very cheap. The five types of trees she bought were known as the Five Immortal Woods, each with its own effect, used to make different talisman papers.

Willow wood has the effect of suppressing ghosts, and there is a saying in folklore about using willow branches to strike ghosts until they become smaller. Willow’s greatest effect on ghosts is restraint, and talisman paper made from willow is suitable for drawing talismans that suppress ghosts, such as Sealing Talismans.

Mulberry wood is mainly for killing in exorcism. Artifacts made from mulberry wood have the strongest effect on killing ghosts. Even those in the Evil Path who harm people often use mulberry wood to make cursing artifacts because of its powerful killing force, making mulberry wood ideal for making Ghost Killing Talismans.

Although locust wood can also exorcise, it is yin attribute and its greatest effect is nurturing ghosts! That’s why Situ Shuangshuang previously sought Mr. Hua for his branches, as artifacts made from locust wood are most comfortable for ghosts to reside in.

Locust wood is suitable for making Yin Talismans, which mostly benefit ghosts, such as healing for ghosts or opening the mind for ghosts who have lost their Divine Acupoint. What Situ Shuangshuang intended to use on the female ghost was a Yin Talisman, the only talisman that ghosts can manipulate!

Peach wood is the most used for exorcism, with the primary function of dispelling evil and exorcising ghosts, harnessing them. In folklore, there are often stories of Taoists wielding a Peach Wood Sword to kill ghosts. In fact, the swords commonly used by Taoists are two: the Seven Stars Sword and the Peach Wood Sword.

A Seven Stars Sword can be made by stringing together seven copper coins with a red rope, or by special methods, by forging it with one’s own hands. When finished, the blade will have seven-star holes, providing the same effect as a Seven Stars Sword. The Seven Stars Sword is the true ghost-killing sword, surpassing even mulberry wood.

The Peach Wood Sword is more used for exorcising evil, with a peach wood sword at home, a hundred ghosts would not dare approach, exorcising ghosts, driving them away, and harnessing ghosts for one’s own use. Talisman paper made from peach wood has basically the same function as the Peach Wood Sword.

Elm wood doesn’t do much whether it comes to exorcising or killing or nurturing ghosts, but it is the mildest of trees. It is most suitable for making utility talismans, like the Thousand Miles Talisman which Situ Shuangshuang frequently uses.

Besides the Thousand Miles Talisman, the Qiankun Talisman used for storing things is what Situ Shuangshuang uses most often. This Qiankun Talisman is a new talisman she learned to make with great effort after her rebirth!

The Qiankun Talisman is extremely difficult to make, not only requiring the drawer to have superb mana but also demanding meticulously precise control over their mana. A single drawn talisman can leave you drenched in sweat, yet, ironically, the space within such a laboriously drawn Qiankun Talisman is very small, at most one square meter!

Honestly, with the effort spending on this, it’s simpler to just carry a backpack. Anyway, all cultivators are strong, carrying a hundred pounds feels like nothing, so those who have the skill to draw the Qiankun Talisman think it’s too much trouble and not very useful, and they’re too lazy to draw it.

But Situ Shuangshuang is different. In her past life, she died at the hands of the Ghost King, and her greatest regret was not having thoroughly researched the Qiankun Talisman. If she had known how to draw the Qiankun Talisman and filled it with talismans, even if she couldn’t save her own life, she could have sent her master away, sparing him from dying alongside her! So, after her rebirth, Situ Shuangshuang diligently practiced the Qiankun Talisman!

Her own Qiankun Talisman was filled with talisman paper mainly used for exorcising ghosts and dispelling evil spirits during regular times, while her master’s Qiankun Talisman was stuffed full by her. Moreover, Situ Shuangshuang obsessively insisted that her master not place anything other than talismans inside the Qiankun Talisman!

The process of making talisman paper is complicated and slightly different from ordinary papermaking methods. Fortunately, after employing Taoist Skills, the talisman paper quickly forms. As long as one moves swiftly, the required talisman paper can be made in no time.

Situ Shuangshuang was continuously busy for five days before finishing. The talisman paper produced occupied more than half a room. Seeing the neatly cut and arranged talisman paper, Situ Shuangshuang relaxed. This amounted to a year’s supply of talisman paper all made.

Following the completion of the talisman paper comes drawing the talisman, which takes even longer, so this time, after bathing and burning incense, Situ Shuangshuang directly secluded herself to focus on drawing talismans.

Situ Shuangshuang is somewhat obsessive, insisting on producing a year’s worth of talisman paper at once, meaning she must draw talismans on all the cut talisman paper! This quirk is just like her obsessively having her master’s Qiankun Talisman always crammed with high attack power talismans.

Since her rebirth, Situ Shuangshuang has been like she had an epiphany. Anything she did, whether it was cultivation or learning spells, she excelled at, and talisman drawing was no exception. Where others tread carefully and manage only a few drawings in a day, she moved with the fluidity of a dragon, drawing thousands of talismans in a day!

After being in seclusion drawing talismans for half a month, Situ Shuangshuang finally completed all the talismans she needed. The Qiankun Talisman is effective for a year, so Situ Shuangshuang replaced it with a new one, filling it to the brim while musing that she must not allow such an outage to happen again.

The reason why all her talismans were used up previously was because she had no money at the time, no money to buy the Five Woods needed for making talisman paper. Situ Shuangshuang was accustomed to crafting everything from talisman paper to drawing talismans herself, preferring to economize and not use talisman paper made by others.

With her house filled with stock and the Qiankun Talisman in her palm so full not another talisman could fit, Situ Shuangshuang finally felt at ease. That previous feeling of dwindling reserves over the past few months was truly uncomfortable.