Chapter 259: 259. Chapter 256: Ding Huan's Way of Talisman Crafting

259. Chapter 256: Ding Huan's Way of Talisman Crafting

One month later, a pile of fifth-tier talismans had already accumulated beside Ding Huan.

As his talisman crafting progressed, everything he refined came out as high-grade or even top-grade fifth-tier talismans.

Once top-grade fifth-tier talismans began appearing, Ding Huan started refining sixth-tier talismans.

These actions and choices were entirely carried out subconsciously; at this moment, Ding Huan could even be said to be utterly absorbed in talisman crafting.

The further he went in talisman crafting, the more Ding Huan felt that fusing his own starry-sky Dao rhyme with the talismans made it easier to refine higher-tier talismans.

Every time he refined a new talisman, Ding Huan unconsciously circulated the Grand Cosmos Art.

His Grand Cosmos Dao aura merged into the talismans; while raising the talismans' tier, Ding Huan was pleasantly surprised to discover that his own cultivation was also slowly improving.

This not only made his talisman crafting faster, but also caused the attack talismans he produced to carry a sliver of killing Dao rhyme unique to him.

Even so, sixth-tier talismans were not so easy to refine.

Fortunately, Ding Huan had plenty of materials; pile after pile of materials were wasted by him, and he did not feel the loss.

After all, these things had all come free, so he could refine as he pleased.

As long as he could find the reason every time he wasted a talisman, that was enough.

This way, even if his progress was slow, he was still constantly advancing.

Two months later, Ding Huan refined his first sixth-tier Killing Restraint Talisman, and he stopped crafting.

Looking at this sixth-tier Killing Restraint Talisman in his hand, brimming with starry-sky killing intent, Ding Huan's heart was filled with joy.

This was truly bringing his Grand Cosmos Art into talisman crafting; his path of talisman crafting had begun with the jade slip of the Dao Talisman.

But now, his talisman-crafting level had long since surpassed that Dao Talisman book.

Because of the Grand Cosmos Art he had created, he had walked out a path of the talisman Dao that belonged solely to him.

Ding Huan took a deep breath to calm the joy in his heart, and once again began his great undertaking of talisman crafting.

Sixth-tier Killing Restraint Talismans, Strangling Talismans, Sea of Fire Talismans, Mountain of Knives Talismans, Earth-Dodging Talismans, Random Arrow Talismans, Defense Talismans, Teleportation Talismans, Ghost Vine Talismans…

Whatever Ding Huan could think of, he refined it.

The materials beside him kept dwindling, until one day Ding Huan refined a pale cyan Hell Vine Talisman…

Was this a seventh-tier talisman?

Feeling the talisman in his hand, Ding Huan was filled with all manner of emotions.

Back then he had spent nearly a million high-grade spirit stones on a single Hell Vine seed, yet now he had refined a Hell Vine Talisman even more powerful than that seed.

This was absolutely a seventh-tier talisman.

Because he cultivated the Grand Cosmos Art, his Hell Vine Talisman was even more powerful than the Hell Vine seed itself.

After all, the Hell Vine seed still needed a host body.

His Hell Vine Talisman could be activated instantly in the void, summoning up thousands upon thousands of vines.

The more of this kind of talisman he had, the better; he absolutely had to refine a good number of them.

Ding Huan reached for materials again, only to find they were not right; he hurriedly switched materials.

Soon Ding Huan stopped switching materials; the materials he had for refining seventh-tier talismans had long since been used up, and the only one he had refined was this single seventh-tier Hell Vine Talisman in his hand.

This was also thanks to obtaining the rings of Lu Yuan, the president of that Dao cultivator trading guild, and the human-immortal Shi Jiantian; otherwise, he would not have had enough materials to refine even sixth-tier talismans, let alone seventh-tier ones.

Looking at the mountain of talismans piled beside him, Ding Huan was still quite satisfied.

In just over four months, he had refined a great pile of talismans.

Any one of these talismans, taken out at random, could fetch a good price.

For Ding Huan, the greatest gain was that he had refined a seventh-tier talisman.

Based on his understanding of crafting seventh-tier talismans, it showed that he had now stepped into the ranks of a seventh-tier array master.

No sooner thought than done—Ding Huan stood up, swept up a pile of materials with a wave of his hand, and in the span of a breath refined a set of array flags.

As his array flags kept falling, in a short time a seventh-tier Spirit-Gathering Array was set up by him.

Now he could finally study that Ascension Token and the bracelet, right?

That Ascension Token was merely a seventh-tier restriction, after all.

Picking up the Ascension Token, Ding Huan's divine sense seeped into it, and one by one the array patterns were captured by him.

Half a day later, Ding Huan put down the Ascension Token; there were several kinds of restrictions within this Ascension Token.

The most conspicuous was positioning, and then there was a small teleportation array pattern.

This was quite thought-provoking.

Putting a positioning restriction on the Ascension Token, he could still understand, although he did not like it either.

But putting a teleportation array pattern on the Ascension Token he could not understand—on one's own Ascension Token, what was the meaning of having a teleportation array pattern?

Picking up the bracelet again, Ding Huan's divine sense seeped into it, and the restrictions on this bracelet made him snort coldly even more.

The bracelet did indeed have a directional guidance array pattern, but the very central array pattern within was a surveillance restriction.

That would have been fine, but inside the bracelet there was actually also a binding restriction.

How utterly shameless—this bracelet could even instantly bind the person wearing it; to be this despicable, Ding Huan was truly impressed.

That Liu Yinyu really had eyes like a pearl, knowing that Shi Qiqiu was a shameless hypocrite.

Ding Huan set down both the bracelet and the Ascension Token; he knew that to go to the Ascension Realm and enter the Ancient Heaven-Opening Battlefield, he had to bring these two items with him.

The Ascension Token could simply be tossed aside at the time; but if he threw away the bracelet along with it, things would be hard to explain later.

The surveillance restriction and binding restriction on the bracelet, he could block them.

Whether to block them specifically, and how to block them, was not a matter for him alone—when he met Hu Wuxin and Mo Zheng, they would discuss it together.

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At the very least, he had to know whether the surveillance restriction and binding restriction on it were Shi Qiqiu the Wang Ba's idea alone, or a group's idea.

That old bastard Shi Qiqiu must know there are plenty of good things in the Opening Heaven Battlefield.

This guy wants cultivators from the Dao Cultivation World to explore the Opening Heaven Battlefield, yet worries that those cultivators will obtain good things while searching it.

Heh, how can there be such shameless trash?

Ding Huan calculated the time — there were still about twenty days left until the eleven-month mark.

The materials here hadn't all been refined yet. Since there were still over twenty days, he would refine them all into talismans.

When the time comes, a pile of sixth-tier talismans — against ordinary opponents, he'd kill them just by pelting them with talismans.

……

After refining most of the materials, Ding Huan teleported back to Blue Star Sect.

"Sect Master." Seeing Ding Huan return, Liu Yinzhu was overjoyed.

She had long since received news that Blue Star Sect disciples had obtained Ascension Tokens at the Ascension Platform and, with Ding Huan's permission, entered the Ascension Realm.

"I'm about to head to the Opening Heaven Battlefield in the Ascension Realm. When the time comes, I need to upgrade the sect's protective grand array.

Remember — unless absolutely necessary, never activate the final upgraded Killing-Confining Grand Array."

Ding Huan planned to upgrade the sect's Killing-Confining Grand Array to seventh tier. However, he wasn't simply upgrading it to seventh tier — inside the sixth-tier protective array, he would set up an additional seventh-tier protective array and killing-confining array.

Liu Yinzhu held Ding Huan in extremely high esteem, so naturally she wouldn't harbor the slightest doubt about his words.

Ding Huan suspected the matter of the Ascension Token and the wristband, so naturally he couldn't leak the secret that he was already a seventh-tier Array Master.

Once others learned he was a seventh-tier Array Master, they'd know he'd discovered the secret of the wristband.

Two days later, Ding Huan had fully upgraded Blue Star Sect's protective array and killing-confining array to seventh tier, and handed the array flags to Liu Yinzhu.

He too was preparing to head to the Ascension Realm.

"Where are Qin Qingshan, Guan Mian, and Yan Mei?" Not seeing those three come to see him off, Ding Huan asked casually.

Sang Yuhe, who had hurried over, quickly said:

"Elder Qingshan and Guan Mian are busy recruiting new disciples. Yan Mei took Lao Liu and Mo Huaping to the Ascension Realm. They heard the ancient Opening Heaven Battlefield in the Ascension Realm has opened, so they want to try their luck."

Ding Huan nodded — he had also run into Shen Jiankai and Zhu Feichong at the Ascension Platform.

If he were in their place, he might also go try his luck. When it comes to cultivation, sometimes you can't just stay home in closed-door training.

"Sect Master, both Yuhe and I are now at the peak of Star Gathering, and we simply cannot take that next step." Liu Yinzhu proactively raised the problem she'd encountered.

Ding Huan took out three more array flags:

"I prepared these long ago. Whether it's you or Elder Sang, or Elder Qin when he returns — as long as you've made sufficient contributions to the sect, you can go to this place to gain insight and cultivate."

"What kind of array flag is this?" Liu Yinzhu took it and asked in confusion.

"These are teleportation array flags leading to Hidden Jianshan. After you teleport to Hidden Jianshan, you can directly attempt to break through to the Star Realm at the entrance to the cosmic vortex there."

Ding Huan said.

"Isn't Hidden Jianshan covered in poisonous fog?" Sang Yuhe asked in surprise.

"Not anymore — I removed the poisonous fog. The sect's teleportation array to Hidden Jianshan is behind the sect's Mission Hall. I've protected it with an array; the array flag is red."

Ding Huan was confident that whether it was Sang Yuhe or Liu Yinzhu going to Hidden Jianshan, they could break through to the Star Realm with ease.

At the spot where he had cultivated on Hidden Jianshan, he had also implanted one mid-grade Starry Sky Spirit Vein and two top-grade spirit veins.

He himself hadn't broken through to a higher level, so that mid-grade Starry Sky Spirit Vein hadn't been consumed much.

With such resources, given the aptitudes of Liu Yinyu and Sang Yuhe, breaking through to the Star Realm was simply a matter of course.

……

Two Realms City, where the Ascension Platform was located.

Hu Wuxin was already getting anxious, let alone Mo Zheng.

Almost eleven and a half months had passed, and they still hadn't seen Ding Huan show up.

Although Hu Wuxin didn't quite believe Ding Huan would stand them up, even if Ding Huan did stand them up, they could only swallow it.

"Alliance Leader Hu, I'm worried that if we wait a few more days, we'll exceed the one-year limit." Mo Zheng said with some concern.

Hu Wuxin sighed, just as he was about to speak, he suddenly burst out laughing and stood up:

"Let's go — Sect Leader Ding has arrived."

The teleportation array at Two Realms City bore his divine sense imprint; the moment Ding Huan arrived, he sensed it immediately.

The moment Ding Huan stepped out of the teleportation array, he saw Hu Wuxin and Mo Zheng arriving together.

He cupped his fists and said:

"Apologies — I returned to the sect to handle some matters and made you two wait."

Hu Wuxin laughed heartily:

"We're not in any hurry here at all, no long wait at all. Sect Leader Ding just arrived at Two Realms City — would you like to rest a bit?"

Mo Zheng was speechless. Weren't you just sighing and lamenting a moment ago? Now you say you're not in any hurry at all, and even invite Ding Huan to rest — this…

Ding Huan waved his hand:

"No need. Let's head to the Ascension Realm now."

Hu Wuxin looked at the large backpack on Ding Huan's back, hesitated, then held back and said nothing.

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