Cultivation: Being Immortal

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Zhongzhou, Tianxian City

When facing everyone’s expectations, Yang Luo remained calm and began talking about her inspiration.

"I started learning talisman technique at the age of fifteen, just like all of you. I followed the steps and procedures. When I turned twenty, I went on a trip with my fellow apprentice brother. We encountered danger and the opponent had a higher cultivation level than us. In a critical moment, we used spiritual talismans as a defense.

However, our spiritual talismans couldn’t harm the opponent. Luckily, our Martial Uncle from the same sect came to our rescue, and we were saved from the danger. After escaping, my senior apprentice brother told me that if we were able to activate higher-level spiritual talismans at that time, we might have been able to defeat the opponent completely.

Yang Xi remembered this, and thirty years ago, my talisman technique had already reached its limits. One day, I recalled this incident and started researching it.

I have read countless books on symbol Dao, and I found that for millions of years, the path of symbol Dao has only changed the pattern on the original basis, even if there are new talisman patterns. The so-called new spiritual talisman only has the same attack power and form as the normal spiritual talisman, without any fundamental changes.

So I decided to try a new way to draw symbols, to solve the problem of low-level cultivators unable to quickly trigger high-level spiritual talisman. Many people have thought about this problem and even found a solution, which is the problem of the seal point on the spiritual talisman…

Yang Luo talked eloquently, and everyone listened intently. Yang Luo talked about the process of discovering the problem, the inspiration, and the solution. Lin Jiang secretly activated an Image Saving Talisman. This kind of knowledge wealth cannot be understood in just one listen. It needs to be heard hundreds of times.

"Yang Luotaoist friend, according to what you said, in order to make the seal of the talisman pattern more exquisite and easier to trigger, the requirements for the seal on the talisman pattern should be very high, right?"

As soon as Yang Luo finished speaking, someone immediately asked a question, and this question received everyone’s agreement. According to Yang Luo’s theory, the requirements for making this new spiritual talisman should be very high.

"This taoist friend is right. In order to activate the spiritual talisman with less and weaker soul, the seal must be modified, which requires extremely high requirements. It not only requires the strong spiritual consciousness of the Talisman Maker, but also a stable technique, and preferably a certain level of array formation."

"So, at Yang Luotaoist friend’s level, what is the success rate of making this kind of spiritual talisman?"

"Twenty percent."

"So low?"

"Is it this difficult?"

"I didn’t lie to you. It’s only twenty percent. This new spiritual talisman is much simpler for the user, but for the craftsman, the difficulty increases by more than ten times. If not careful, the seal will become too weak, leading to the failure of drawing the symbol. Even if successful, it needs to have stability. Otherwise, our scattered souls during daily life or the impact of souls in battles would be enough to trigger the spiritual talisman prematurely."

Yang Luo nodded. With her level of skill, her success rate in drawing this second-level spiritual talisman was only about twenty percent.

As soon as Lin Jiang heard this, he thought of the phrase "goes up in smoke." Lin Jiang understood the difficulty involved.

"So today, I am discussing this matter with all of you fellow taoist friends, hoping to take advantage of our collective wisdom and solve this difficult problem together. I will be staying in Tianxian City for about a year, and during this time, if any of you fellow taoist friends have any ideas, feel free to approach me."

Yang Luo spoke again. This is her main purpose for this journey. Despite her cleverness, she still lacks something. Her research has hit a dead end, so she hopes to gain inspiration from others. Those present are all masters in talisman technique and highly skilled. Perhaps they can give her some hope.

"Yang Luo, taoist friend, I have another question…"

"I also want to ask…"

"Yang Luo, taoist friend…"

Everyone at the scene became interested in learning. Many Talisman Makers eagerly asked questions that they had in mind, and Yang Luo answered all of them. The atmosphere of learning in the room was very strong.

It was more than a day later when Yang Luo finally left Li Cai’s house under the escort of her Protector. However, the crowd didn’t disperse. They continued discussing with each other.

Lin Jiang didn’t want to leave. He had already used more than ten Image Saving Talismans, even using multiple ones at the same time and placing them in different groups. It couldn’t be helped, as Lin Jiang’s talent was not comparable to others. He couldn’t answer many questions right away, so he had to go back and ponder over them slowly. Now Lin Jiang hoped to make up for his lack of skill through hard work.

Li Cai also enjoyed this atmosphere of learning. He wasn’t annoyed by these people staying here. On the contrary, there was an unlimited supply of drinks, tea, and snacks.

"Taoist Friend Li, remember to make a copy of the Image Saving Talisman for me."

Li Cai smiled at Lin Jiang and said. Actually, it’s not just Lin Jiang who placed the Image Saving Talisman. Many people did, but Lin Jiang was the first and has the most complete records.

Lin Jiang nodded. Naturally, there was no problem. He didn’t want to keep this knowledge to himself either.

Another day passed before everyone slowly dispersed. Lin Jiang returned to his own home and took out the Image Saving Talismans. He placed them again, carefully observing the emotions contained within them.

"Yang Luo, you are a gifted talent. The heavens have bestowed you with great abilities, ones I cannot match."

Lin Jiang read it again and again, and in the end, he sighed, completely conquered by Yang Luo’s intelligence. There was no doubt that she was a genius, a one-of-a-kind genius.

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Later, Lin Jiang thought of another problem. Yang Xi’s ideas were groundbreaking without a doubt. But if these ideas were put into practice and spiritual talismans like this could be mass-produced, it would create a new problem. It would allow lower-ranking cultivators to kill higher-ranking ones across borders.

This was a serious problem, just like the invention of spears in Blue Star’s history, which changed the course of all wars and made it easy for the weak to kill the strong. An accomplished warrior who had trained for decades could still be unable to withstand a bullet, even if that bullet was shot by a physically weak person.

The same problem applied here. A cultivator who had worked hard to reach the Building Foundation Period, which would enable them to dominate over all Qi Refining Period cultivators and even fight against ten of them, would easily be assassinated by a Qi Refining Period cultivator with this spiritual talisman. As someone in the Building Foundation Period, would you like to see this scenario happen?

Perhaps for the weak, this situation would be a good thing, but how much influence do the weak really have? They cannot control anything. It is the strong who are afraid, and it is the strong who have the power to change everything.

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"Dad, you haven’t left the house in half a month. What have you been doing?"

"Half a month already?"

"Well, it’s been half a month since you went to Li Cai’s house, and you’ve been daydreaming here ever since. Dad, you’re not smitten with that Yang Luo, are you?"

"Nonsense!"

"Did I say something nonsensical? Look on the table, you’ve written over a hundred names of Yang Luo. Speaking of which, Yang Luo is really pretty. It wouldn’t be so bad if she became my mother."

Small Shadiao pointed at the table in front of Lin Jiang and said, Lin Jiang glanced down and indeed saw it. He quickly burned all those papers.

"Did I hit the bullseye?"

"You’re thinking too much. This kind of person should be admired from afar but not meddled with. Besides, she will be the source of all kinds of trouble. Getting involved with her would make one lose their life without knowing how."

"Is this person so dangerous?"

"Small Shadiao, let me ask you, if Yang Luo were to invent something that could easily kill you during the Qi Refining Period, what would you do?"

"Of course not! We can’t allow that. We would have to kill Yang Luo, otherwise, what’s the point of all my hard cultivation?"

Little Shadiao spoke naturally, saying that besides cultivating for immortality, it was also for becoming outstanding and surpassing others. If one’s cultivation level is high but lacks advantages, then who would be willing to do it?

"That’s right, Yang Luo is very dangerous now. If you get involved with her, even if you don’t die, you’ll be in trouble. Do you think I dare provoke her?"

"I dare not. Knowing your personality, of course, you would stay away from her."

"Nonsense."

Lin Jiang said that he definitely avoided her. That day at Li Cai’s mansion, Lin Jiang even wanted to learn the talisman technique from Yang Luo. But now, he would stay away as far as possible.

"Dad, I have one more question."

"Go ahead."

"You see, Yang Luo is such a smart person, doesn’t she know that what she’s doing is dangerous? Why would she still do it?"

"Um…"

Lin Jiang couldn’t answer for a moment, yes, there’s no doubt about Yang Luo’s intelligence. Even if she didn’t know, wouldn’t the other members of Holy Heavenly Sect know? But they still did it, why did they do it after all?

"Hehe, Dad, maybe I know."

"Here, I’ll give you a pen, you come up with it."

"I’m not making it up, I’m serious."

"Alright, go ahead, why?"

"Haha, the answer is that Yang Luo is silly. She can’t handle it and wants to commit suicide, right?"

"·····"

Lin Jiang was completely speechless. He shouldn’t have thought that Small Shadiao could answer these questions. If he knew, he wouldn’t be called Shadiao, he would be Lin Jiang.

"Dad, I got it right, quickly reward me. Let’s go to Tianfang Pavilion to have fun."

"You big prankster, get lost!"

Lin Jiang was very angry. Every day he just thought about going to Tianfang Pavilion. He had no ambition. Couldn’t he do something meaningful?

The more he thought, the angrier he became. He directly started beating up Small Shadiao. Small Shadiao was left dumbfounded by the beating. Wow, cruel dad is so heartless. He could go to Tianfang Pavilion himself, but when he suggested it, it wasn’t allowed. It’s really double standards.