Chapter 34

Before releasing it, Jie Ming was already prepared for failure, but what the hell is this situation now?!

From the feeling, the talisman should have been released successfully, but why did only such a small flame pop out?

Jie Ming was unwilling to give up and tried a few more times.

Soon he figured out the pattern: the size of the flame is positively correlated with the amount of True Essence he injects when casting the talisman; the more True Essence he injects, the larger the flame will be.

When he injected most of the True Essence of his third level of Qi Condensation into it, the released flame reached the power described in the classics.

This has completely become a chicken rib!

If the power of releasing a talisman depends on the amount of True Essence injected by oneself, it would be better to release the same spell bare-handed; at least it is more flexible and doesn't need to be made in advance!

Moreover, if releasing a spell bare-handed achieves the same power, it consumes less True Essence, whereas using a talisman consumes a large amount of extra power.

This is completely different from the so-called "only needing a trace of spiritual power to activate" described in the classics!

After continuing to try a few more times and summarizing his problems at the current stage, Jie Ming immediately began to access the Great Dao Book Pavilion.

After spending another half a month carefully studying the books provided by the Great Dao Book Pavilion and the advanced knowledge of alchemy, Jie Ming finally understood the fundamental difference between the talismans of the cultivation system and the supernatural artifacts of the Wizarding World.

"The essence of a talisman is not simple energy storage or excitation. It is more like a precise 'starter' or 'program'." Jie Ming took out a golden talisman and looked carefully at the patterns on it.

"The talisman seal on the talisman is an 'index' and 'call' instruction for the spiritual power of heaven and earth. During the activation process, the talisman will draw the activator's weak spiritual power as a 'key', and then use the talisman seal as a 'program' to re-call, aggregate, and excite a large amount of environmental spiritual power, thereby releasing a complete spell with powerful might."

"Of course, if conditions permit, one can even prepare certain powerful forces in advance and then use the talisman to call them directly."

"The cultivation world is full of spiritual energy, spread throughout heaven and earth. So, with just a trace of activation spiritual power, the talisman can automatically call upon the endless spiritual energy in the environment to release powerful spells."

"But the Wizarding World has no spiritual energy, so the talisman cannot call upon the spiritual energy in the environment, and its 'program' naturally cannot run completely. The size of the flame is merely the result of the True Essence he injected being temporarily gathered and excited in the talisman structure, not the power the talisman itself should have. It is even smaller than releasing a spell directly because it consumes extra power to mobilize other 'programs' that cannot function."

Jie Ming took out another scroll; this thing is made entirely of animal fur, and its effect is similar to a talisman; as long as a little spiritual power is input, a flame spell can be released.

Although this thing is very cheap and can be bought for only 10 points, not many people buy it.

Because wizarding tools with the same effect, although they cost at least 100 points, can be repeatedly recharged and used.

"And the mainstream supernatural artifacts of the Wizarding World, such as spell scrolls, magic wands, or disposable talisman cards, have principles completely different from talismans."

Jie Ming activated the scroll against a target in the training ground, watching the scroll instantly turn into a pile of ashes and become a fireball that roared out.

During this process, the elemental power around it did not change at all.

"They store a complete spell, along with all the energy required for its casting, inside the carrier in advance. The wizard only needs to inject a weak spiritual power as a 'switch' or 'password' to directly excite and release this stored spell with fixed power."

"The advantage of this method is that, unless under extreme rules or environments (such as man-made magic-forbidden areas), the wizarding tool can directly excite and release a complete spell anytime and anywhere, and it only needs to be recharged to be released again afterwards."

"The disadvantage is that its power has nothing to do with the user's own strength and only depends on the technique of the wizarding tool's creator. The flexibility is also very poor; if a fireball is stored inside, then only a fireball can be released, and it cannot be adjusted or controlled."

After summarizing the differences in technology between the two worlds, Jie Ming's eyes suddenly lit up!

He had an idea to combine the advantages of the technologies of the two worlds!

The advantage of cultivation talismans lies in their low activation cost and reliance on environmental energy, while the advantage of wizarding tools lies in their stability and ability to release spells of fixed power in any environment.

The environmental energy of the Wizarding World is not "spiritual energy," but ubiquitous elemental energy.

If... if he could learn the principles of cultivation talismans, not store the spell's energy in the carrier in advance, but instead carve the spell model and the instructions for calling the environmental elemental energy of the Wizarding World onto the wizarding tool?

In this way, as long as the wizarding tool is not damaged and the external elemental power has not dried up, he could use it like a talisman, using only a tiny amount of spiritual power as a "key" to continuously excite the wizarding tool, letting the wizarding tool automatically draw elemental energy from the environment and repeatedly release spells!

This kind of wizarding tool, as long as elemental energy exists in the environment, will have no limit on the number of uses and only needs weak spiritual power to be excited.

Of course, similar things actually exist in both the Wizarding World and the cultivation world, but the efficiency of wizards prying into external energy is certainly not as good as that of cultivators who advocate the unity of heaven and man.

In situations where energy is insufficient, wizards are also more inclined to directly build elemental pools to strengthen energy supply rather than mobilize more external power.

The cultivation world also has jade talismans similar to "storing one strike from a big shot" as a life-saving means, but those things are difficult to manufacture and the cost is too high.

What Jie Ming wants to do is to graft the advantages of cultivation talismans—"low activation cost + calling environmental energy"—onto the system of "environmental elemental energy + stable excitation" of the Wizarding World.

To combine the advantages of the two systems into one and develop his own power!

After the excitement, Jie Ming also realized the difficulty involved.

To realize this idea, he cannot just copy the talisman seals like carving talismans.

He must fully understand the underlying logic and function of every stroke of every talisman seal on the talisman—which part is the "starter", which part is "indexing environmental energy", which part is "constructing the spell model", which part is "exciting and releasing"...

Then, he needs to rely on his understanding of the runes, energy structures, and spell models of the Wizarding World to gradually replace these "functional modules" of the talisman with corresponding rune combinations, energy circuits, and even concept guidance in the Wizarding World that can interact with elemental energy and magic power and construct spell models!

This requires him not only to be proficient in the runes and spell theories of the Wizarding World but also to have a thorough understanding of the talisman principles in the Great Dao Book Pavilion.

"However... compared to the native wizards of this world, I already have a sufficiently large advantage."

At least there is already a clear direction, and there are many examples that can be "copied," so he won't be as clueless as the wizards of this world.

"Oh my, if I had known I would have this idea, I should have inscribed the core runes of runology for my fourth truth rune first..."

Jie Ming was a little annoyed: "Forget it, fortunately my current cultivation speed is not slow, let's take it slow..."