Chapter 117 – Specialized Sprinting Talisman
Chapter 117 – Specialized Sprinting Talisman
“Brother Murong is a genius in the way of talismans, which one of those talismans he used is not a top-grade talisman? If I had the strength of Senior Brother Murong, I could easily break into the top ten of the Grand Competition in the future!”
“You’re just blowing it.”
One of the people beside him sniffed and laughed, “Do you think it’s really that easy to get into the top ten of the Grand Competition? It’s not true that Brother Murong’s talisman art is superb, but his half-step Foundation Establishment cultivation is real.”
Otherwise, even if he had a lot of talisman seals, he wouldn’t be able to make it this far.
The person who spoke earlier was a bit unwilling, “If you give me a large amount of extremely high quality talisman seals, I would be able to lie in the top ten even if my cultivation was only at the eighth level of Qi cultivation!”
“The problem is that if you only have a cultivation of the eighth level of Qi cultivation, how can you refine extreme talisman seals? Do you think that extreme grade talisman seals are talisman paper that can be obtained easily? You may not even possess the materials for refining extreme grade talisman seals alone.”
The man blushed at the comment, borrowing the power of the extreme-grade talisman seal to win the top ten of the Outer Sect Grand Competition was, in the end, nothing more than his fond wish.
Fortunately, at this moment, the Foundation Establishment Master Uncle came with his sword, and then entered the lecture room with a flourish.
The crowd didn’t dare to speak any more, each holding their breath and straightening their posture.
The Foundation Establishment Master swept a glance at the entire lecture room, ”My name is Zhao Hongguang, and I will begin my lecture next. What I specialize in is the Sprinting Talisman, and today I will focus on this Sprinting Talisman.”
Xu Chuniang came to be interested, this Dashing Talisman happened to be a talisman she knew, I wondered what this Uncle Zhao had to say about Dashing Talismans.
“The Splendid Walking Talisman is generally used to dodge attacks in battle, or to escape, so the focus is on the word Splendid.”
Zhao Hongguang spoke eloquently, “The art of the talisman is inherently three times less powerful than the usual arts. So what we need to do is to make this Blistering Talisman explode with extreme speed.”
It was the first time that the crowd heard such a statement, and they were all surprised, but the Seal Character Technique had long been fixed, so how could they make the Speed Walking Talisman’s speed increase?
Xu Chuniang’s eyes revealed a look of interest, this Master Zhao seemed to be no ordinary person.
Just by breaking the stereotypes of the traditional rune seal and having such an idea, it was already considered a breakthrough and innovation.
Seeing the puzzled look in the eyes of the disciples, Zhao Hongguang didn’t sell the idea.
“You can compress the spiritual energy as you feed it into the talisman, so that it can increase the speed of the speeding talisman. However, there are also flaws in doing so, not only is the success rate lower, but the range of the Sprinting Talisman will be greatly shortened.”
After saying that, Zhao Hongguang began to demonstrate on the spot.
He took out the talisman paper and ink, and after drawing a rune in a flowing manner, he performed a Sprinting Technique, compressing the spiritual energy while slowly sealing it into the rune.
After the spiritual energy was compressed, it was even more difficult to control, but Zhao Hongguang was already at the Foundation Establishment cultivation level, and for the purpose of this demonstration, he had only refined a Grade 1 lower grade Sprinting Talisman, so he succeeded in just one go.
Zhao Hongguang took out a piece of ore material that looked quite heavy, and then pasted the Darting Talisman onto it, and then activated the talisman.
He then activated the talisman, and saw that the talisman drove the ore easily, and the speed wasn’t slow at all, vaguely comparable to the speed of a mid-grade speeding talisman.
The disciples were shocked, but they had seen with their own eyes that the materials that Uncle Zhao had taken out were all materials for refining lower-grade talismans, and the ones that had been successfully refined were only lower-grade speeding talismans.
But looking at the effect in front of them, it was clearly not much worse than a mid-grade speeding talisman.
Right at this moment, the speeding talisman that led the heavy ore whistling forward suddenly ran out of spiritual energy and turned into ashes.
The ore also fell to the ground with it, making a dull thumping sound.
The disciples did some calculations and realized that the time between the activation of the talisman and its expiration was extremely short, only about one-third of the time of a normal speeding talisman.
Zhao Hongguang’s face was as normal, “Not bad, as you can see, although the speed of this lower-grade speeding talisman has doubled, its duration has been shortened by two-thirds. And don’t think that it’s easy for you guys to refine it because I managed to do it in one go, in fact if you guys were to do it differently, you might not be able to do it even once in twenty times.”
When the crowd of disciples heard this, some had complex faces, some were pondering, and others were disdainful in their hearts, thinking that after this Sprinting Talisman had been rectified by Uncle Zhao, although the speed had been significantly increased, the drawbacks were so severe that it wasn’t practical at all. With so much work to improve the speed of the lower-grade speeding talisman, it would be better to properly refine a middle-grade speeding talisman.
Zhao Hongguang took in the expressions of the disciples, but did not say anything.
He was only responsible for teaching, as to whether or not these disciples would apply what they had learned was not within his scope of concern.
He opened his mouth indifferently and spoke about the precautions to be taken in making this special Sprinting Talisman.
Xu Chuniang listened intently, refusing to miss a word.
Although the disadvantages of this special traveling charm were obvious, the advantages could not be ignored.
The middle-grade Speedwalking Talisman was easy to refine, and could easily replace the specially crafted lower-grade Speedwalking Talisman.
However, if the seal that was originally an extremely high-grade swiftness talisman was specially crafted, its power would be even higher, and would it be able to compete with a second-grade lower-grade swiftness talisman?
Xu Chuniang’s eyes flashed with a hint of brightness, being able to use the power of a lower-grade Speed Running Talisman to explode the power of a mid-grade Speed Running Talisman, this Uncle Zhao Hongguang, who had developed this method, was also a person of great talent.
As the lesson came to an end, Xu Chuniang felt that she had gained a great deal, opening up new ways of thinking about the path of talismanic seals.
The disciples in the teaching hall had all left, but she was still sitting in the same spot, summarizing her gains.
When she had the chance in the future, she could try out this special speeding talisman.
For the next few months, Xu Chuniang had been listening to the lectures in the Lecture Hall.
There were different Foundation Establishment masters who came to lecture every day in the Hall of Instruction. Apart from this master Zhao Hongguang, who had a marvelous idea in the way of talismanic seals, there was also master Zhu Jiancai, who was a master of talismanic seals, and master Tong Yongguang, who entered the Dao through talismanic seals, and so on.
These several Foundation Establishment senior uncles all had their own views on the understanding of rune seals, and their teaching methods were also unique.
Of course, not every Foundation Master who was good at talisman would spare no effort in teaching and explaining to his disciples.
More often than not, Foundation Establishment cultivators would come to the Lecture Hall to teach, but in order to fulfill the sect’s mission, they would just read from the book, and would not answer any questions for the disciples.
However, despite this, the disciples who come to the lecture hall to listen to the lessons every day are still in an endless stream.
Xu Chuniang had listened to the lessons for three whole months, and had finally made up for her weak knowledge of talismanic seals, corrected a few wrong ideas, and learned some new concepts of talismanic seals.
It wasn’t until she felt that listening any longer wouldn’t be any more helpful that she left the lecture room rather reluctantly.
Returning to her cave, Xu Chuniang couldn’t wait to start making talismans.
After a little thought, she decided to start with the Ice Burst Talisman, which had the lowest success rate.
The reason why the success rate of the Ice Explosion Talisman was only 20% was because Xu Chunniang didn’t have a foreign spirit root, plus she had practiced less.
However, Xu Chuniang had learned a method from Zhu Jiancai, the talismanic seal master.
Disciples who didn’t have a foreign spirit root could first polymerize the five elemental auras, and then transform the foreign auras of wind, thunder, and ice from them.
Not only was the foreign spirit qi obtained in this way faster than the ones directly converted, it was also much purer.
She wanted to try and see if this method was really effective.
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