Chapter 46: Dragon Scale Sword

Forging a Foundation Establishment‑stage personal spirit tool posed no difficulty for Bai Yuan, who controls the Five Elements Array.

Under the fire path of the Five Elements Array, the two scales of the Silver Dragon King transformed into the purest killing qi and death qi.

Finally, through various forging methods, each merged with a longsword, becoming a murderous blade bearing peerless killing intent and a death blade filled with ominous aura.

The murderous blade is crimson as blood; merely seeing it drives killing intent into a common person's mind, causing death.

The death blade is jet‑black like ink, evoking a sense of dead silence; any being below god‑level that is wounded by it is gradually corroded by death qi, swiftly losing vitality.

The only similarity between the two longswords is that both bear dragon‑scale patterns, which look exceedingly beautiful.

Bai Yuan manipulates his internal spiritual energy, sprinkling a mouthful of fresh blood onto the two longswords.

The blood merges with the murderous and death blades, and Bai Yuan instantly feels the two swords as extensions of his own limbs.

A shift of thought makes the murderous and death blades vanish, entering Bai Yuan's body to be rinsed by his spiritual aura and divine consciousness.

"From now on, you are the Dragon Scale Sword."

Bai Yuan is pleased; with these two Dragon Scale Swords forged from god‑level material, even though he is only at the early Foundation Establishment stage, he can contend with opponents at mid or later Foundation stages.

Moreover, with Di Tian as his bodyguard, even though his injuries haven't fully healed, he can still beat the three peerless Douluo of this era.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, on successfully forging your personal spirit tool. Reward: Intermediate Smith, 1,000 cultivation merit points."

A flood of knowledge surges into Bai Yuan's mind.

In less than a moment, yet feeling as if ages had passed, he finds the knowledge extremely familiar, as if he had applied it thousands of times.

He slowly opens his eyes; from this moment, Bai Yuan is already an Intermediate Smith.

Without even checking the system panel, Bai Yuan already knows what his next task will be.

He takes out the various materials he had prepared earlier.

Bai Yuan begins drawing talismans again.

Drawing talismans is a skill that improves with practice.

As a junior talismanist, Bai Yuan is naturally proficient, but now he needs to draw a Foundation Establishment‑stage talisman paper.

Thus Bai Yuan fails repeatedly, wasting batch after batch of material, never managing to draw the Lightning‑Attracting Talisman.

Finally, after dozens of attempts, a flash of insight strikes Bai Yuan's mind; as if aided by a deity, he draws a complete Lightning‑Attracting Talisman.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, on successfully crafting a Foundation Establishment‑stage spirit talisman. Reward: Intermediate Talismanist, 1,000 cultivation merit points."

The earlier strange sensation resurfaces in his mind.

Di Tian watches from beside, feeling utterly shocked.

He knows the master's scales contain terrifying power, but Di Tian dares not invoke that power.

Because it could cause a thousand damage to the enemy and eight hundred self‑damage, yet Bai Yuan, through methods he cannot comprehend, harnesses those two forces within a few moves.

What amazes Di Tian even more is Bai Yuan's talisman paper; it was just an ordinary piece, yet after a casual drawing, it possessed a strange power.

It's downright absurd.

"Bai Yuan, what's this paper for?" Di Tian reveals himself, asking with slight curiosity.

Bai Yuan smiles without replying, walks to the window, opens it, pinches the Lightning‑Attracting Talisman between his fingers, and throws it outward.

The talisman paper shoots out at extreme speed; everything seems normal, just as Di Tian watches with inner doubt.

A flash of white light splits the heavens, followed by a "Boom—" roar; the talisman paper disintegrates in the thunder, leaving a small crater about ten meters across on the previously concave ground.

Bai Yuan explains: "This is a Lightning‑Attracting Talisman; it can draw natural thunder, working better on rainy days."

Di Tian watches, slightly dumbfounded.

A few ordinary items, after a single drawing, can unleash power enough to heavily damage a typical ten‑to‑twenty‑thousand‑year-old Soul Beast?

If one uses special items to draw, the result would be even greater.

After thinking, Di Tian tentatively asks: "Bai Yuan, is this thing only usable by you, or..."

Bai Yuan smiles faintly: "How could it be limited to me? This Level‑2 talisman paper can be used by anyone, even an untrained ordinary person, using their own vital blood as a conduit."

The talisman paper's power does not stem from the user; part comes from the materials used in drawing, but the vast majority derives from Heaven and Earth.

Essentially, the talisman paper leverages the sigil and the minute power it contains to pry Heaven and Earth's forces for my use.

Thus, using the talisman paper requires only a bit of spiritual energy; an ordinary person's vital blood, which contains a trace of innate qi, can substitute that spiritual energy.

Of course, if the talisman paper is of high quality, the trace power in an ordinary person's blood can no longer serve as a catalyst.

Di Tian opens his mouth wide: ordinary people can use it?

In other words, even an ordinary person, with that single paper, could kill a ten‑thousand‑year‑level Soul Beast?

He can only feel disbelief.

But after a few seconds, Di Tian's expression returns to calm.

After all, judging by Bai Yuan's recent output, he can draw at most a dozen or so per day, and even then his materials and stamina are abundant.

Thus Di Tian also regains composure.

Bai Yuan, completely unaware of Di Tian's inner thoughts, picks up the materials again and starts drawing somewhere.

This time, the talisman is clearly far more complex than the previous Lightning‑Attracting Talisman, yet Bai Yuan handles it with ease.

After becoming an Intermediate Talismanist, Bai Yuan can, on his own, draw any Level‑2 talisman paper.

In plain terms, Bai Yuan's current talisman-drawing skill is on a completely different level from his former self.

Di Tian asks: "What talisman is this time?"

"Heavenly Flame Starfall Talisman," Bai Yuan replies, the final stroke landing as he speaks.

Di Tian can clearly sense that this talisman paper is not a failed piece like before, but a successful one like the earlier one.

"Let me see," Di Tian says.

Bai Yuan hands it over casually.

Di Tian is about to toss it out immediately.

Bai Yuan stops and says: "It needs to be activated with spiritual energy; you don't have any spiritual energy now, so you can only use essence blood."

Di Tian is startled for a moment, then immediately forces a drop of essence blood from his fingertip, merging it with the Heavenly Flame Starfall Talisman.

Instantly, that talisman paper ignites immediately.

Di Tian tosses it casually.

The talisman paper turns to ash midair, and dozens to hundreds of fireballs, each one to two meters in size, materialize out of nowhere, like meteors dragging a tail as they crash toward the ground.

"Boom— Boom— Boom!"

After a round of intense bombardment, the ground within a one- to two‑hundred‑meter radius becomes pitted and uneven.

This strike can kill a Soul Beast with a cultivation level of seventy to eighty thousand years!

Di Tian watches in stunned amazement; the power of this Heavenly Flame Starfall Talisman is dozens of times stronger than that of the Thunder Summoning Talisman.

Just a moment ago, Bai Yuan would make dozens or hundreds of mistakes drawing the Thunder Summoning Talisman, and now he draws the Heavenly Flame Starfall Talisman perfectly in a single try?

Di Tian turns his head and sees that Bai Yuan has already laid out nine Heavenly Flame Starfall Talismans beside him, while he himself is drawing other types of talisman paper.

Di Tian:???

(End of Chapter)