Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 133: Talismans and Confucian Seals

"Greetings fellow daoist Di, I am Fu Xian. I’m sure you know about sister Huoling already." Fu Xian greeted the young man and introduced himself.

"Haha, indeed, I have heard a lot about fellow daoist Huoling!" he nodded, but his attention returned to Fu Xian as he asked, "I have a few questions about talismans. I wonder if I could ask you a bit?"

Fu Xian raised an eyebrow. Turning to Huoling, he saw her giving him a slight nod.

"Sure, I’m happy to answer any question." Fu Xian didn’t mind it but even more so, the moment he was close to the scholar, he had sensed that he had a special talent.

It’s just that the higher a cultivator’s stage, the more difficult it is to sense it for him. Even more, he had a feeling that with spiritual inspirations, origin lights and more, it would gradually become difficult to see whether a person has talent or whether it’s their talent.

Only those at the first and second stage, or in the higher world, those at the first stage, can be calculated and inspected easily. No matter how much ability a person of that stage has, they won’t be able to hide the aura of their talent except if they have higher items or specific strong concealment techniques.

Fu Xian happily walked to the side, already thinking of recruiting this talented fellow daoist.

"Fellow daoist, it’s like this. I am a scholar, which means I usually have no need for weapons. As they say, a martial artist has their sword, a scholar has their fan. But in fact, it’s better to say that we have our spells and talismans are a great addition to our fighting style, if we ever fight.

Besides talismans, we scholars have the art of Seals, which is the Human Dao’s derivation of talismans.

It’s like this. I have always wanted to create my own Seal, but as it’s a derivative art, forming Seals is very difficult and requires talent in talismans.

Naturally I have some and have drawn second-grade talismans, but I never managed to cross the hurdle to the third..."

Hearing it was a real technical question and not just an attempt to make a deal, Fu Xian was rather delighted. He didn’t have the materials right now to draw talismans.

The answer was simple to him, "Third-grade talismans require not only the foundation of a Spiritual Inspiration but also a Talisman Diagram.

Although to non-Talisman Masters it might seem like Talisman Drawers, the casual profession, is independent and doesn’t require talisman diagrams... but in fact, this is just a ruse by those people.

Third-grade talismans have a deep requirement on the Talisman Master’s skill. If you don’t want to waste three times the time to draw new talismans, then you will have to use them. In addition, it also ensures the quality and success-rate.

And even more than Talisman Masters, Talisman Drawers can’t draw talismans at the third stage without talisman diagrams at all.

Maybe when they reach the late stage they can draw early-stage talismans, but that’s it.

So for you to advance to the third stage, as a Talisman Drawer, you will definitely need a talisman diagram.

The art of talismans is easy to enter but difficult to master. With each higher stage, the difficulty becomes apparent.

Talisman Drawers will gradually be forced to become specialists in one or two talismans, barely keeping their profession alive.

That’s why there are so few talismans the higher the rank, while there are still countless fire alchemists, the lower version of true alchemists, which is water alchemists."

"Thank you for imparting your wisdom," the scholar cupped his hands at Fu Xian after the long explanation.

Then he looked wry, "In our Nanhu Kingdom, there isn’t a single talisman sect! Most sects here focus on Spiritual Planting or Spiritual Herding and sell their materials to the martial artists. Besides these, the most prominent are the alchemy sects, but they are dominated by one sect.

To get a Talisman Diagram..."

"Don’t bother looking for any sect." Fu Xian shook his head.

"The Inheritance of Talismans is extremely high. These ’Talisman Sects’ are merely Talisman Drawer Sects.

True Talisman Inheritance can only be found in extremely versatile Transcendent Forces or in the north-eastern Taoist Temples.

Maybe if you find a Transcendent Talisman Sect, they might have a real inheritance. But as far as I know, there is no such sect in our Central Region.

You might have to travel all the way to the Eastern Shores to find a Talisman Sect, as the Taoist Temples originally came from the east. Maybe a sect inherited their previous tradition after they left.

Besides them, the Beast Taming Sect in the north-west might have it, as well as the Ning Dynasty. Naturally there is also the High Heaven Peak... lastly, there is also us, the Azure Cloud Nine Islands Immortal City.

Anyways, without such a Talisman Inheritance, these sects treat Talisman Diagrams as sect treasures and won’t reveal them to the outside world no matter what you do."

The scholar smiled wryly when he heard this.

The only chances were so few –

Northeast was too far, the Beast Taming Sect was too high for him to contact, the Ning Dynasty was technically their competitor... as for the other two? Both High Heaven Peak and the Immortal City were extremely difficult to enter. The former was difficult because it was the core of the whole Central Region, the latter was difficult because the competition to enter was high.

Besides direct invitation, entering simply because you want to is basically impossible.

Seeing him disappointed, Fu Xian struck while the iron was hot, "Actually, as a Talisman Master, I naturally have a few Talisman Diagrams..."

Di Feihun looked up, right! This person in front of him looked down on Talisman Drawers in every word he said, and he was from the Immortal City! Didn’t this mean he had the exact item he hoped for?!

Fu Xian smiled then shook his head, "But there are restrictions on me. Selling Talisman Diagrams to those outside the Immortal City requires many steps...

I do have a way to still do it, but this matter can’t be discussed now."

Fu Xian didn’t lie – there was indeed such a rule when he got the third-grade inheritance.

As the core of the inheritance, Talisman Diagrams were extremely important. The Immortal City had barely gotten this inheritance after negotiating with the Taoist Temples for thousands of years!

Because of this, the sale of these items is extremely restricted. Selling talismans was fine, since there were few Talisman Masters outside the temples. The temples controlled 50% of the whole talisman market in the Central Region. More was impossible because even if they worked day and night, they couldn’t supply the whole world with talismans.