Black Myth: Starting from the Destined One-Chapter 67 - 63 The Great Sages Protection Talisman

“I’ll settle the matters of confessing to Yuan Furong and class leader Li Tianyi removing my poverty subsidy some other time. For now, leave me alone!”

Jiang Liuer, Zhu Ganglie, and Sha Sheng, knowing they were at fault, felt deeply ashamed. They hadn’t expected the situation to blow up like this, and seeing that Li Ping’an was still angry, they clammed up and dared not approach him.

Once Li Ping’an sat back at his computer desk, he immersed himself in studying the pile of Taoist books he had brought back from Silver Dragon Tower.

He continued with “Zhang Sanfeng’s Blood Scripture” first, but after carefully studying it several times, he couldn’t find any more spells.

However, it occurred to him that acquiring spells wouldn’t be so easy, so he seized the moment to continue practicing forming seals. After forming seals thousands of times, his attribute template changed:

Cultivation: Clay Figure Realm 10%

Divine Skills: communicate with spirits, expel spirits, Soul Collecting, Dream Marriage

Remaining lifespan: Four hours (at least twelve hours needed to enhance cultivation)

Spells: Hundred Plays Stick Technique (1/500), Five Peaks Seal (moderately skilled 50%, consumes 10 Mana), Five-colored Lotus Seal (moderately skilled 50%, consumes 10 Mana)

Strength: 70, Mana: 4, Defense: 70, Charm: 25, Luck: 25

Critical hit rate: 5%, critical hit combo: 0%, damage bonus: 0%, damage reduction: 0%

Four disasters resistance:

Cold Immunity: 0%, Fire Immunity: 0%, Poison Immunity: 0%, Lightning Immunity: 0%

However, the two hand seals seemed to have hit a bottleneck, and no matter how much more Li Ping’an practiced, their proficiency ceased to increase, likely due to his inadequate cultivation level.

“I can return ‘Zhang Sanfeng’s Blood Scripture’.”

No longer able to unearth treasures from this book, Li Ping’an quickly opened another Taoist book, “Supreme Venerable Sovereign’s Mixed Yuan Three-Part Talisman”.

The reason he was in such a hurry to read this book about Taoist talismans was that last night, while ghost hunting at Silver Dragon Tower, someone had suggested that he draw talismans to kill ghosts.

He hadn’t taken the matter to heart initially, but thinking about the ferocity of the Six Demons of Five Finger Mountain made him worry about his and Zixia’s safety. Even now, with two additional Divine Skills and Spells, he still thought about having more life-saving techniques, and Body-Protection Talismans were one of them.

So, on his way back, he specifically had Wanyan Mengwen take him to the antique market to buy brushes, cinnabar, and a lot of yellow paper, all to prepare for his next entry into the world of “Black Myth: The Fated One”.

When Li Ping’an opened “Supreme Venerable Sovereign’s Mixed Yuan Three-Part Talisman,” he saw that there were at least a thousand types of talisman styles inside, a dazzling array. Though their functions were marked, each type required a different method to draw, and it was impossible to learn them all in a short time!

With little time and a heavy task ahead, Li Ping’an thought about his and Zixia’s recent encounters in the “Black Myth: The Fated One” world and thus chose the Great Sage’s Protection Gourd, which had a connection with him, and the Mountain God Life-Protecting Talisman, which had a connection with Zixia.

Once he had chosen the designs, the next step was to see how to draw the talismans and whether they would be effective.

Before putting brush to paper, Li Ping’an thought drawing the Body-Protection Talisman would be very easy, but once he began, he realized just how difficult it was to draw talismans!

The difficulty wasn’t in simply copying the designs; it was in drawing the talismans while concentrating Essence, Qi, and Spirit into each stroke, otherwise they would have no effect whatsoever!

For instance, the current Great Sage’s Life-Protecting Talisman he was drawing was meant to kill demons and exterminate devils. While drawing, Li Ping’an had to focus intensely on Sun Wukong’s mindset and determination in conquering demons and gods, letting no mistakes occur in his brushstrokes and not allowing himself to be distracted even slightly.

The crucial fact was that Li Ping’an had just stepped into the Clay Figure Realm—he had Essence and Qi, but not very strong Divine Sense. Almost as soon as he started writing, his so-called Divine Sense would dissipate.

After just two hours, the floor around Li Ping’an was littered with crumpled balls of paper like little mountains, but through extensive practice, he finally managed to maintain his Divine Sense until he was halfway through a talisman.

The half-drawn talisman, under the state of Divine Power: Insight into the Hidden, still revealed hidden elegance and Spiritual Power, but the continuity broke off towards the end.

If he couldn’t complete it in a single, fluid motion, filling the entire talisman with Essence, Qi, and Spirit, even a complete talisman would remain just a piece of useless paper with no effects!

“What exactly is the problem?”

Li Ping’an crumpled up a half-finished Great Sage’s Protection Talisman and tossed it on the floor, massaging his temples while he despondently calmed his mind to ponder the issue:

What is most essential in talisman art? Is it the identical style or the Essence, Qi, and Spirit attached to it?

This Great Sage’s Life-Protecting Talisman, the symbols on it, were actually the four characters denoting the Great Sage Equalling Heaven.

But why did it have to be these four words and not something else like Victorious Fighting Buddha or Traveller Wukong?

It was because when Sun Wukong declared himself the Great Sage Equalling Heaven, he was fearless, full of fighting spirit, embodying a rebellious spirit and indomitable will. He could slay men, exterminate ghosts, execute Immortals, and fight against gods, looking down on all, vowing to equal the heavens—not only was he full of murderous intent, but he was also domineering.

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And when writing these four characters on the Great Sage’s Life-Protecting Talisman, the purpose was to better condense a Divine Thought filled with murderous intent, fighting spirit, and dominance while drawing.

“What if I imagine myself as a fearless Sun Wukong with immense killing intent?”

Having memorized the style of the talisman, Li Ping’an suddenly had an epiphany. He spread out a new piece of yellow paper, picked up his brush, closed his eyes, and focused his mind.

In his mind, he envisioned himself as the boisterous Great Sage Equalling Heaven who fought the skies, the earth, humans, ghosts, gods, Immortals, and demons, endlessly engaged in battles, filled with infinite delight!

In the midst of his vision, he immediately began to write, his brush flowing smoothly in one continuous motion.

Under the state of Divine Power: Insight into the Hidden, he could clearly see the flickering Divine Thought and the ethereal and majestic flow of Essence, Qi, and Spirit on the Great Sage’s Life-Protecting Talisman.