Chapter 959: You Have Already Learned Talismans

A crow's wings tore through the night sky, flying low over the surface of the canal.

It flew all the way past the Sancha River estuary, past the Tianhou Palace, and landed in a complex of buildings burned to ruins.

As the crow landed, the broken walls and ruined pillars suddenly returned to their original appearance. Vivid and lifelike, on the antique Wanghai Tower, curtains connected into tents.

Qian Chen was within these four-sided light gauze tents, lifting his brush and waving it on a desk!

The crow flapped its wings and landed beside him. The lamp light was flickering, reflecting in the nearby Hai River, which was a scene of burnt towers and broken buildings.

The river water reflected the ruined towers, the buildings outside the river were brightly lit, and the reflections in the river were broken walls and ruins. For a time, one couldn't tell which was real and which was shadow.

It was Qian Chen using his great divine power to mirror the two realms, preserving the shadow of Wanghai Tower in the river, reversing reality and shadow every day, making the tower brightly lit. Although it had only been three days, it was already the most bizarre wonder in Zhigu City!

People called it the Wanghai Ghost Tower!

The local gentry were already discussing rebuilding Wanghai Tower.

Qian Chen held his brush and licked the cinnabar inkstone to the side, then, with flowing grace, from top to bottom, a line of talismans was dashed off onto the narrow strip of yellow paper.

Qian Chen looked at the talisman, shook his head slightly, and casually put down the talisman brush.

Crow spoke: "Sect Master, among the selected Five-Sense Gods, three have already arrived at the Medicine King Temple. The 'True Eye of Breaking Illusions' has been refined, the 'Heavenly Sound Divine Ear' and 'Tasting Dao Divine Tongue' are also in the process of breaking through realms, and the 'Dragon-Piercing Jade Nose' and 'Mysterious Subtle Hair' have not yet entered the game..."

"No matter, just small matters!"

Qian Chen stood with his hands behind his back, calmly saying: "The six patriarchs of the Green Skin trade each left behind a set of remains, containing their Dao paths. It was a setup by someone hundreds of years ago, intending to refine a 'Dao Fruit'. Six figures in the Yu Yu Changsheng Saint Realm each nurtured a Dao path. Only when the work is completed will they be harvested by the person behind the scenes and refined into a Dao Fruit."

"According to the laws of this realm, under one Jiazi Pillar, there should be seven named figures."

"That is to say, the Dao paths of seven Yu Yu Changsheng Saint Realm figures can merge into one Ascension Dao path! To prevent the fish he raised from jumping out of his calculations, the person behind the scenes only selected six resources, avoiding them opening the path to ascension ahead of time."

"The River-Sinking Corpse, the Half-Body Man, the Oil-Fried Bone, the Open-Bellied Buddha, the Great Golden Man, and the Criminal Ghost—I swallowed two of the six resources, which has already made them anxious."

"Plus the crowd you collected, gathering a 'Five-Sense Head', the seven named figures are complete. The person behind the scenes knows that I can open the path to ascension even without them, so naturally, they will take action."

"As long as they move, it is destined that in this reincarnation, an Ascension Dao path will be born."

"All I want is for someone to ascend and raise a pillar. Who is the pillar, I don't care!"

Qian Chen said lightly.

Crow bowed slightly: "Everything is under the Sect Master's control!"

Qian Chen smiled: "The truly important thing is the talisman-drawing technique I recently learned. Crow, come and see how it is?"

Crow poked its head, looked at the talisman paper spread flat on the table, carefully watched Qian Chen's expression, and whispered: "With the Sect Master's great talent, how could a subordinate see it?"

Qian Chen used a sandalwood paperweight to press the talisman and sighed: "Pills, artifacts, talismans, and arrays—the four arts of cultivators. I am particularly good at alchemy, and I also have some insights into artifact refining. Although I haven't studied arrays, there is no lack of profound inheritance in the Daoist lineage..."

"Only in this talisman path, what I have learned is indeed a bit rough."

Being forced to do this was indeed not Qian Chen's wish.

Who let the calculations for the most important thing in this reincarnation go wrong again?

Qian Chen's layout to trap Little Murong Chui's 'Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo' title was already extremely careful.

Even to fathom the secrets of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title, he managed to have the traces of the title branded on the inside of a human skin, forming the "Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Scripture" that integrated all the secrets of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo.

Such demonic scriptures, Qian Chen naturally learned them as soon as he studied them.

However, he actually forced the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title into this world, and then carefully locked onto the traces left by the title in this world.

As expected, the most likely hiding place for the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title was the savior who intended to replace him.

But when Qian Chen compared the traces of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title he captured from the savior with the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Scripture in his hand, he discovered a fatal problem.

That is—what the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun sealed was very likely the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title of the Old Heaven's Dao laws. Qian Chen couldn't understand his methods at all.

The "Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Scripture" was just a shell used by the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun to encapsulate that Old Heaven Dao. The things inside very likely had nothing to do with the demonic path at all.

This made Qian Chen's original plans and schemes completely useless...

Qian Chen originally intended to refine the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title into an external pill.

Even the furnace, the fire, and the medicinal materials—he had already planned them all!

This universe was originally a pill furnace he built to refine the Dao Fruit, and the True Illusion Dao Fruit hanging at the two poles of the universe was the fire.

Then, in the pill furnace, he used the Dao and principles accumulated in this universe for tens of thousands of years to cultivate spiritual herbs.

To cooperate with the refining of that Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Pill.

Qian Chen even personally planned four evil god pillars representing the four ultimate principles of the demonic path, which were greatly different from the original demonic path in the universe.

From the four famous 'small vendors' in the 'Warhammer' universe from his past life—Khorne representing violence, Tzeentch representing change, Nurgle representing filth, and Slaanesh representing desire.

Using these four great demonic paths as medicine, supplemented by the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title, it should be possible to refine the Dao Fruit representing some ultimate of the demonic path—the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Pill.

But until he could truly begin to study the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title, Qian Chen discovered that the thing very likely really was the Old Heaven's lost Dao he was looking for.

Good news—the thing was found correctly!

What was hidden inside the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title was indeed the legacy of the Old Heaven Dao, and its status was quite high. To be able to trouble the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun to take action personally, its essence very likely came from that 'Heavenly Emperor' of the Old Heaven!

Bad news—Qian Chen couldn't understand the technology the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun used to encapsulate this Old Heaven Dao at all.

Very likely, all the principles and traces of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo were just a shell to encapsulate that thing.

From Qian Chen's later research, what Little Murong Chui and the successive Great Heavenly Demons realized, including the "Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Scripture", did not conflict with the New Heaven Dao at all.

This meant—the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun's technology was indeed awesome. After encapsulating the Old Heaven forbidden Dao, it had no conflict with the New Heaven Dao, perfectly preserving such forbidden things into the New Heaven.

Secondly, the things contained in the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title did not involve any essence of the Old Heaven forbidden things; they were just a 'shell' created by the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun.

And then Qian Chen was stumped!

If he continued to refine the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Pill according to his previous ideas.

Then this external pill, this external Dao Fruit, could indeed possess the power of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Dao Fruit.

But its essence was still creating another shell outside the shell sealed by the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun. Besides sealing that thing more tightly and preserving it more perfectly, it could not let Qian Chen get his hands on the Old Heaven forbidden things.

The source of its power was still the 'shell' created by the Primordial Dao Xie Xie Zushi!

But the reason Qian Chen plotted for the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title was not just for a mere demonic Dao Fruit.

His ultimate plan was actually—

If the final enemy is Taishang!

Then Qian Chen's only hope for a comeback is the Heavenly Emperor of the Old Heaven; he cannot break free from the predetermined fate set for him by Taishang in the New Heaven!

Therefore, Qian Chen must preserve the hope of colluding with the Old Heaven's Emperor, Taishang's greatest mortal enemy.

"But if the title of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Venerable, sealed by the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun, is destroyed, the things of the Old Heaven will not be tolerated by the New Heaven, let alone the Great Dao of the Old Heaven. Once that thing leaks even a trace of its aura, it will be worn away by the heavens and earth, provoking the crushing pressure of the Great Dao."

"But I have no confidence that I can perfectly seal this thing like the Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun."

"Moreover, Taishang opened the New Heaven, and his Great Dao has too deep an influence on the New Heaven."

"Just looking at the Dao Fruit realm above the Primordial Spirit, all Dao Fruits are as round as pills, which shows that the Jin Dan Great Dao is one of the fundamental Great Daos of the New Heaven, and what I am most proficient in is the Jin Dan Great Dao, the art of alchemy! Refining the Old Heaven's Great Dao into a pill? I fear even the Dao Venerable would find it difficult."

Qian Chen looked at the plan to use the universe as a furnace, Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh as auxiliary medicines, the title of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Venerable as the main medicine, and the True Illusion Dao Fruit as the fire to refine it into a pill, and had to sigh and give it up.

"The Primordial Great Lingbao Tianzun was proficient in the Dao of Talismans!"

"If I treat the title of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Venerable as a talisman, can I add a few more strokes to it and, through the interface reserved by the Primordial Dao Xie Xie Zushi, connect to the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Venerable's encapsulation of the Old Heaven's Great Dao within it?"

"The New Heaven and Old Heaven are like two systems that are mortal enemies and can never be connected."

"Since the Primordial Dao Xie Xie Zushi has already developed an encapsulation package, can I continue to develop a system on top of it to realize the translation between the two ecosystems?"

"The Primordial Dao Xie Xie Zushi is the founder of the Dao of Talismans; the programs he developed should have reserved corresponding interfaces! He couldn't have left no code comments; the Primordial Dao Xie Xie Zushi doesn't look like such an unprofessional programmer!"

Once the thought of casting a talisman arose, the world suddenly felt vast.

Thus, Qian Chen had this 2.0 plan to re-refine the title of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Venerable: write the entire title of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Venerable as a Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu of the Heavenly Mansion.

The only difficulty encountered at present is—Qian Chen has no research on the Dao of Talismans.

Qian Chen carefully recalled his life; he had extremely high attainments in the Dao of Alchemy, and even had some confidence in refining a Nine-Turn Jin Dan, but talismans?

He thought about it and found that the number of times he had seriously drawn a talisman did not exceed three.

And all of them relied on cheating with the divine authority of "As per Taishang's Edict."

All Qian Chen knew were talismans of the divine path; their principle was roughly to use his extremely high authority within the entire Great Dao system to write a line of commands to access corresponding levels and mobilize authority.

It could be said that he had mastered the format of official documents extremely well.

As long as the corresponding matters were written as the header of a red-headed document, filled in the corresponding format, and then stamped with that official seal of "As per Taishang's Edict."

It could be transferred to the Great Dao for collection and issued through the divine path system.

But at present, he holds a letter addressed to the Heavenly Emperor, the head of the previous government who was overthrown by Taishang's armed forces.

In the current government, with his backer Taishang's attitude toward him unclear, Qian Chen wants to preserve the possibility of being a double agent and desires to create a secret communication line with the previous government's head, the Heavenly Emperor.

Then his official document writing skills, the red-headed document header, and that bright red precious official seal would have no effect at all.

Qian Chen recalled what else he knew about the Dao of Talismans—

"Hmm! The Dao of Talismans is divided into 'Talismans' and 'Registers'!"

"Talismans are the spirit of heaven and earth, and registers are the name seals of ghosts and gods! The Old Heaven Great Dao, encapsulated and translated using the Primordial Dao Xie Xie Zushi's method, has its root in the underlying conflict between the two different Great Daos of the New and Old Heavens, so it should reach the most fundamental thing of the Dao of Talismans—the root of the Great Dao!"

"Then what do I know about the Dao of Talismans?"

"Talismans are divided into talisman heads and talisman feet, and there are secrets within! The talisman secret is the key to drawing talismans; there is a saying: If you draw a talisman without knowing the secret, you provoke the laughter of ghosts and gods. If you draw a talisman knowing the secret, you startle the ghosts and gods into screaming..."

"Hmm, you already have some understanding of the Dao of Talismans, so now go draw a Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu of the Heavenly Mansion that reaches the root of the Great Dao and represents the highest attainment of the Dao of Talismans!"

Qian Chen immediately threw the brush in his hand onto the ground: "You're screwing with me!"