The Gate of the Genkai

: Talisman

Shi Mu sat cross-legged on the stone bed, a look of deep thought flashed across his face.

Fifty thousand taels of silver is just a drop in the bucket for the current consumption of cultivation, and with the improvement of skills, the consumption will only increase. It seems that it is time to study the talismans and formations brought back from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion classics.

Thinking of this, Shi Mu flipped his right hand, and took out the jade slip of the Spiritual Talisman Treasure Scripture that recorded the way of Talisman, and lightly pasted it on his forehead, a large number of words immediately appeared in his mind.

After a while, he let out a sigh of relief, put down the jade slip in his hand, rubbed his swollen head, and took out the silver jade slip that recorded “The Encyclopedia of Array Diagrams”, and continued to study.

After spending a lot of time, Shi Mu flipped through the two classics, and found that what Master Ju said that day was indeed correct. , and it can almost be said that the talisman is a mini partial realization of the formation.

Therefore, in terms of mystery and complexity, the technique of talismans should be much simpler than the way of formations, and the power of course cannot be compared with formal formations, but talismans are also convenient to carry, cast spells instantly, and consume very little mana. A range of advantages.

However, if you really want to draw a talisman, it is far from enough just to know the way of playing. You must go through hundreds of times of non-stop practice before you can get started with drawing a certain talisman.

In a word, character drawing itself is also a broad and profound way of warlock.

After Shi Mu figured out the relationship between the two, he rested his chin with one hand and meditated again.

Although many aspects of the way of formation and the way of talisman are interlinked and can be used for reference, the way of talisman is relatively simple. It is easy for yourself first and then difficult. Once you have a certain foundation, it will definitely be easier to learn the way of formation in the future a lot of.

Having made up his mind, Shi Mu put away the silver jade slip that recorded the “Introduction to Formation Diagram” without hesitation, and began to carefully study the introduction of the basic runes in the first half of the “Spiritual Talisman Scripture”.

According to the “Spiritual Talisman Scripture”, a rune is a kind of heaven-given text that contains the power of heaven and earth. Even if it is a single one, it also has the power of subtle laws in it, no matter a short piece of spiritual pattern or a very complicated method. Formation restrictions are all developed on the basis of runes.

Therefore, if you want to make runes, you must first comprehend and draw individual runes, and all runes are composed of the most basic five-element runes. As long as you can master the runes representing the basic five elements, you can use different Combined, more and more complex other runes are condensed.

But what makes Shi Mu uneasy is that according to the description in the classics, comprehension of runes is extremely difficult. I don’t know how many apprentices who want to be talisman masters. After years of hard work, they can’t even draw a five-element rune. In the end, I had no choice but to give up.

Seeing this, Shi Mu’s face was a bit ugly.

But since he has become a sorcerer apprentice and has spent such a high price to exchange for relevant classics, it is naturally impossible for him to retreat like this.

Thinking of this, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes, he crossed his legs, took a deep breath, and slowly adjusted his body.

It wasn’t until his breathing became slower and his mind felt a little bit cooler that he picked up the jade slip with a solemn expression, ready to comprehend the first five-element rune recorded in the classics.

There are hundreds of basic runes recorded in the Book of Spirit Talismans. For the first time, Shi Mu chose a fire-attribute rune that seemed to have the fewest strokes and was the simplest.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye.

Shi Mu sat cross-legged on the stone bed, his eyes closed, his body motionless.

In his mind, a somewhat fuzzy red light group appeared at this moment, stretching and deforming like a living thing, as if it wanted to turn into a certain word and come out.

Gradually, after a while of changes, the upper part of the red light group gradually turned into half a strange symbol, while the lower part continued toelongation changes.

At this moment, the red light ball suddenly trembled and burst with a “bang”.

Shi Mu snorted, opened his eyes, was sweating profusely, his chest heaved, and his face was indescribably pale.

Suddenly, he raised his hand to touch his nose, it was a little wet, and a deep red nosebleed suddenly flowed out.

Shi Mu was stunned, then sighed, wiped the nosebleed clean, stood up and walked to the window, looking at the darkened sky outside, dazed.

The comprehension of these runes was indeed as difficult as the classics said. He couldn’t comprehend the first seemingly simplest fire attribute rune for three consecutive days.

“Could it be that I really don’t have the talent to become a talisman master?” Shi Mu thought in his heart and couldn’t help but sigh.

Comprehending runes is only the first step, and there are two more steps to successfully make a rune.

After comprehending the rune, it must be carved on the rune paper and drawn into a rune array. This is the second step.

Every five-element spell, even the simplest fireball spell, has a corresponding rune array. A simple rune array can be composed of five or six runes, while a complex rune array can be composed of dozens or hundreds of runes.

And when drawing the rune array, no slight mistakes are allowed. Every rune must be extremely accurate, which requires years of practice.

After drawing the talisman array, there is a relatively simple third step, which is to imbue the spirit.

This step is to infuse the spiritual power into the drawn talisman array, which is equivalent to storing the mana needed to cast the spell on the talisman paper in advance, and only need a little guidance in the future to arouse the power of the talisman.

However, this step seems simple, but it also has many limitations.

Most of the talisman masters only have two or three kinds of element sensitivity, that is to say, when imbuing spirits, they can only mobilize these types of attribute spiritual power, and the rest can only be supplemented by corresponding spirit stones, but spirit stones The price itself is expensive.

Therefore, these three steps have stumped many people.

“I’ve just come into contact with the talisman now, and it’s still too early to say the next two steps.” Shi Mu was silent for a long time, shaking his head, dispelling some depressed thoughts in his heart.

He stared out of the window in a daze, and unconsciously stood there for half an hour.

Gradually, a crescent moon rose from the sky, casting a faint silver glow.

Shi Mu’s face brightened, the weather has been bad for the past few days, the moon rarely appears at night, and it has been a few days since he had dreamed of practicing.

He temporarily put aside the matter of Talisman, tidied up the things in the house, quietly opened the door and walked out. After a quarter of an hour, he came to the grass in the woods in the valley.

Shi Mu sat down cross-legged, his mind was clear, and he soon fell into a dream.

In the dream, under the bright moon, the white ape turned his hands to the sky, posing in the posture of swallowing the moon. Countless light spots appeared in the sky, and gathered towards the white ape as usual. Through his eyes, he merged into the into his mind.

Shi Mu felt a little happy in his heart, the speed at which the light spots gathered was faintly faster than before, it seems that with the improvement of his mana, the speed of absorbing the essence of moonlight in the moon swallowing style also gradually accelerated.

As more and more light spots flew into his mind, strands of coolness gathered, and the discomfort caused by the failure to comprehend the runes before quickly disappeared without a trace.

After these dense light spots turned into white mist in Shi Mu’s mind, they gradually gathered together and turned into milky white clouds as usual.

Shi Mu’s heart moved, and the milky white cloud was somewhat similar to the red light in his mind after comprehending the runes before: