[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pure-yang":3,"chapter-pure-yang-pure-yang-chapter-60":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Pure Yang!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2267160,4427,"Chapter 60: The Four Talisman Extremes, the Nine-Finger Talisman Demon","pure-yang-chapter-60",60,"\u003Cp>Yujing City, Zijin Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Five Spirit Rainbow sped along a long, endless mountain road, lush greenery flashing past the windows on either side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhang Fan… you’re not actually interested in Jiang Lai, are you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hu drove, not turning his head as he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t talk nonsense,” Zhang Fan glanced at him, naturally not revealing his past connection with Jiang Lai on Zhenwu Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I advise you not to… office romances are a bad idea,” Jiang Hu said solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you ever seen a movie?” Jiang Hu changed tack, asking instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What movie?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know… the one where the company boss threatens the employee’s wife!” Through the rearview mirror, Jiang Hu’s eyes gleamed with boundless imagination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fan paused, then asked with a strange expression: “Is the scene really simple—just two or three people acting it out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly! Exactly!” Jiang Hu’s tone immediately rose, as if he’d found a kindred spirit: “You’ve seen it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly; he formed a hand seal, curled four fingers inward, leaving only the middle finger upright, pointing directly at Jiang Hu, radiating energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist hand seal—international edition!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why do all these cultivation families insist on living on mountains?” Zhang Fan gazed out at the scenery and muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Living in a place like this isn’t just a matter of having money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mountains, rivers, seas—all have dragons. Riding the wind, crossing the moon, glimpsing the immortal traces… Most of the world’s mountains and rivers cling to dragon veins, let alone Zijin Mountain, a famed peak brimming with spiritual essence—naturally an ideal place for cultivation!” Jiang Hu said without turning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Legend says that when King Xiong Shang of Chu destroyed Yue, he buried golden bells on the high mountain outside Yujing City to suppress the royal aura, hence the mountain’s name: Zhongshan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, during the Jin Dynasty’s southern migration, Emperor Yuan of Jin noticed purple qi swirling around the mountain’s peak, and from then on it was called Zijin Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Shen family is a lineage of talisman makers; their chosen sacred ground must be different… Only the spiritual dragon-vein energy of Yujing can sustain such intense ancestral worship.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Talisman…” Zhang Fan mused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talismans are one of the Daoist priest’s primary tools, comparable to spellcraft, secret incantations, and the like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fan had only recently begun cultivation and hadn’t yet had time to study this field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hulu, you’re from the Talisman Sect, right?” Zhang Fan asked, watching Jiang Hu drive: “How powerful are they?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A talisman is a covenant with Heaven; the true spirits descend in response to its call!” Jiang Hu thought for a moment and replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talismans are covenants between Daoist priests and the spirits and deities of Heaven, capable of commanding the natural forces of ghosts and gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tai Shang Dong Xuan Scripture says talismans, bearing the names of spirits, aid the true teachings, summon spirits, control life and death, preserve cosmic cycles, and stabilize the five directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Powerful talismans aren’t weaker than the complete Bei Di Method—some are even stronger,” Jiang Hu said gravely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fan had only just mastered the Tian Peng Ya, a minor technique within the Bei Di Method; the full Bei Di Method is a supreme art comparable to the Five Thunder Orthodoxy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, a single powerful talisman can stand against it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So powerful? Then why not just use talismans all the time?” Zhang Fan’s eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you carried enough powerful talismans, you could just walk around like a king.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The stronger the talisman, the deeper the cultivation required…” Jiang Hu shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All talismans bear characters, but ordinary people cannot read or understand them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the main scripts used in drawing talismans include at least eight types: Cloud Script, Phoenix Script, Dragon Script, Bright Script, and others—some even involve star maps and divine images.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each script’s talisman may represent different spirits or ancestral masters, with different functions: guiding the dead, extending life, summoning thunder, and so on. Thus, activating a talisman requires not only knowing the meaning of every character but also memorizing the corresponding incantation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These talisman characters are like circuit diagrams—the practitioner must understand them thoroughly to channel their true yang along the correct path, forming a conduit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s why every talisman master is forged through countless trials and arduous cultivation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hu glanced sideways, smiling faintly: “Making talismans, drawing talismans, activating talismans—these are all mandatory skills. Mastering their secrets is harder than mastering a single spell.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dan Shu says: “If you draw a talisman without knowing its secret, you merely amuse the spirits. If you know its secret, you shock the spirits to screams.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even the ‘One-Character Yuan’ requires endless observation and practice.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “One-Character Yuan” is a talisman with only one character—simplest, yet foundational.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some powerful talisman masters can draw a “Hundred-Character Yuan” in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hundred-Character Yuan!? How can that fit on such a tiny piece of paper?” Zhang Fan looked astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can’t imagine the level of those talisman masters,” Jiang Hu said, his face filled with longing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he usually sneered at the talisman path, Zhang Fan now saw, through the rearview mirror, a glimmer in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hundred-Character Yuan masters… some people never meet one in their lifetime. Some among them have even created talismans unique to themselves,” Jiang Hu sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Unique talismans?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes—creating something from nothing, a talisman belonging solely to the master—that is every talisman master’s ultimate dream,” Jiang Hu said, his voice low yet trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you seen one?” Zhang Fan asked involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I haven’t seen one… but I’ve heard of them…” Jiang Hu drove, eyes fixed on the mountain road, a look of memory rising in them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Daoist world, there are countless talisman masters, each mountain and temple having its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when Jiang Hu was young, he heard that among them, four stood as absolute peaks—all having created their own unique talismans before age thirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These four were called the “Four Talisman Extremes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hu grew up on the mountain listening to legends of these four, yet among them, the one he most revered and aspired to be…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know what’s special about the ten fingers?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Jiang Hu raised both hands, his ten fingers moving nimbly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, drive properly and keep both hands on the wheel!” Zhang Fan panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The ten fingers connect to the heart; the heart reaches Heaven…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Talisman masters are beings who channel Heaven’s and spirits’ power through their own bodies—thus, fingers are our life,” Jiang Hu said gravely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether making, drawing, or activating talismans—all depend on these ten fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Among the Four Talisman Extremes, one had fingers that were incomplete…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, Jiang Hu’s eyes flashed with terrifying brilliance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ascended to the pinnacle with a broken body, wielding talisman arts to dominate the world—this man was an extreme oddity even among the Four Talisman Extremes; his methods, his fearsome reputation, shone like a beacon, illuminating countless talisman masters as they struggled forward…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including Jiang Hu himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“His title was…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Nine-Finger Talisman Demon!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1177,"2026-06-19T21:05:40.312Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9c1085b42cbf2c82dd0db432acb77bcc4b2632a088bc95db110b2e3868551a92","pure-yang-chapter-61","pure-yang-chapter-59",520,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpure-yang-cover.jpg"]