Night had fallen by the time Ye Xuan was done with the food and drinks. Ye Xuan did not leave the inn. Instead, he booked a room and stayed there.
He was not a masochist. If there was a bed for him to sleep in, why would he run out and sleep in the wilderness?
After telling the waiter not to disturb him, Ye Xuan closed the door and sat down on the bed.
However, this time, he did not immediately start cultivating. Instead, he held his breath, stretched out his right index finger, and began to draw in the void.
When Ye Xuan was cultivating the talisman of the Maoshan Secret Skill, he had mentioned that in the Maoshan Secret Skill, in addition to paper talismans, there were also different types of talismans, such as jade talismans, blood talismans, and True Talismans. For example, paper talismans used paper as a medium, supplemented by spiritual energy, talisman markings, blood ink, and cinnabar. Jade talismans were created by finding a spiritual jade and carving the talisman markings into the spiritual jade. As for true talismans, it required the caster to not use any external objects, but to draw the talisman using the void as a basis.
Now, what Ye Xuan wanted to cultivate was True Talismans.
It was not easy to cultivate True Talismans. The cultivation requirement was at least the Void Return Realm. This was because when one reached the Void Return Realm, the Primordial Spirit had gradually integrated into the current void. One could more clearly feel the state and changes of the Spiritual Qi in the air, and it was easier to condense the Spiritual Qi in the void.
Therefore, only when one reached the Void Return Realm could he meet the requirements to cultivate True Talismans.
The reason why Ye Xuan wanted to cultivate True Talismans was actually related to the battle in the Myriad Flower Demonic Realm.
After this battle with Ning Hua Fairy, Ye Xuan realized that he had a fatal flaw in the cultivation of the Immortal Path.
That was, compared to other Immortal Path cultivators, his spells were too weak.
Last time, if he hadn't prepared some talismans, switched to the "Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art", and used his Transcendence Golden Body, he would have been defeated by Ning Hua Fairy. Moreover, if he hadn't used his Demon-revealing Mirror to stop Ning Hua Fairy, he might have been the one defeated.
However, he could not be blamed for this. Although his cultivation had reached the Late-stage of Void Return, he was still a half-baked cultivator on the path of cultivation. The cultivation method he possessed was merely the Taiqing Basic Cultivation Method, which was derived from the Maoshan Secret Skills. The real cultivation world he had entered was the world of Journey to the West to Subdue the Demons. Moreover, after entering it, he had no time to cultivate at all because he was fighting with the incarnation of Buddha Tathagata. After arranging for Chen Xuanzang, he left.
Aside from the system's undeniable contribution, the main reason why he was able to reach the Return to Void Stage was that Ye Xuan had never given up. He had persevered in his cultivation with great perseverance, and that was how he was able to reach his current cultivation base.
As for the spells, apart from the Palm Thunder and the Sword-commanding Technique that he had learned from Yan Chixia, there was only the "Maoshan Secret Skills" that Ninth Uncle had given him.
If the spells were divided into three grades, the Palm Thunder and the Sword-commanding Technique were about the worst of the middle-grade spells. As for the "Maoshan Secret Skills", which was an incomplete version of the "Shang Qing Secret Skills" and was a cultivation method that had been lost in the Dharma Ending Era, it was conceivable that there were no high-level spells in it. Apart from the Jingxiao Divine Thunder that Ye Xuan had used before and another high-level thunder technique, the Nine Nights Divine Thunder, there were only some talismans that had been lost.
According to the original plot, Ye Xuan felt that Purgatory Merciful Ship might not be as simple as it seemed. Not everyone could impersonate Buddha Tathagata. Moreover, if it hadn't happened to encounter the Heavenly Dog Eclipse of the Moon, which disrupted the vitality of the pill cauldron, perhaps even Yan Chixia and Zhiqiu Yiye would not be his match.
This was why Ye Xuan had made up his mind to practice True Talismans. After all, although True Talismans consumed a lot of magic power, they were more convenient than paper talismans. He didn't need to draw them in advance before he could use them.
Spiritual Qi condensed on his fingertips, and golden light flashed on Ye Xuan's fingertips. As his fingers moved, golden talisman patterns formed by Spiritual Qi were drawn in the void, as if there was a transparent canvas in the void.
As Ye Xuan's fingertips danced, more and more talisman patterns were drawn in the void. When the talisman was about to be completed halfway, the golden talisman pattern in the void suddenly flashed. Then, with a "bang", the talisman pattern collapsed directly, turning into golden light spots that dissipated in the air.
"Hmph!" When the talisman pattern collapsed, Ye Xuan suddenly let out a muffled groan. His entire body seemed to have been electrocuted, and a ghastly pale color flashed across his face.
"Phew!" After a while, when the backlash from the collapse of the True Talisman had subsided, Ye Xuan let out a long sigh. "I didn't expect True Talismans to be so difficult to cultivate. With my current cultivation, even if it's my first time cultivating, I can't even draw the lowest-level Spirit Calming Talisman.
"However, I don't believe that I can't cultivate True Talismans with my Late-stage Void Return cultivation." Ye Xuan gritted his teeth. After calming down the magic power in his body, he stretched out his fingers again, and golden light spots flowed on his fingertips. Then, he began to draw in the void again.
"Bang!" "Collapse!"
"Boom!" "Another collapse!"
"Another collapse!" "Another collapse!"
…
After failing over 10 times in a row, it consumed Ye Xuan's magic power bit by bit. However, during these 10 over failures, Ye Xuan had accumulated experience from them. At the beginning, he was only able to complete half of the talisman patterns, but after this final failure, he was already able to draw a large portion of the Spirit Calming Talisman's talisman patterns, and he only lacked 1% of completion before he could truly complete the drawing of this Spirit Calming Talisman.
Sensing that the thin True Essence in his body was roughly only enough to draw a single True Talisman, Ye Xuan gritted his teeth. "Again!"
He condensed the remaining True Essence in his body onto his fingertips, and a golden light lit up on his fingertips. His Divine Perception used a profound method to draw the spirit energy in the air to fuse into the golden light on his fingertips, and then his fingers started to dance.
His fingers seemed to be like a fluttering butterfly, and they streaked across the void in an elegant and profound manner. Every stroke and every stroke left behind a golden line in the void, forming numerous profound talisman patterns. These talisman patterns increased in number along with the movement of his fingers, and in the end, they formed a talisman that seemed to possess a mysterious, unfathomable, and difficult to predict.
Om!!! — —
When Ye Xuan's fingers made the final stroke, the True Talisman in the void suddenly emitted a light hum, and then the surrounding spirit energy was rapidly absorbed into the talisman patterns. With a flash of golden light, a golden talisman that emitted a golden radiance and completely relied on the void floated in the air.
Success!
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