Shennong Dao Master

June 15th, 77th year of Yongzhi, You Xuanfeng from the Divine Talisman Daoist School arrived at Xuantian Academy.

"Zhao Xing."

"Dean You." Zhao Xing clasped his hands in salute.

He looked around the room, which was filled with various talisman papers.

At You Xuanfeng’s feet was a row of boxes, evidently filled with materials prepared for teaching.

"The Grand Minister of Agriculture says you need to learn the intermediate and advanced stages of talismanic magic; you already have a foundation for the beginner stage, so I’ll start teaching you from the intermediate phase." You Xuanfeng wasted no time, immediately beginning the instruction:

"The intermediate stage for a Talisman Master primarily involves understanding the "Small Five Elements Talisman" and Five Elements Wind and Thunder, which is the essence of Dao, the same for every profession, only we communicate with heaven and earth through strokes and drawings."

"The most classic talismanic magic comprises the "Wind, Fire, Mountain, Forest", "nine character charm", "Three-Six Primordial Talismans", and so on, known as the technique."

"The advanced stage involves the "Great Five Elements Talisman", similarly understanding the Five Elements Wind and Thunder Skill."

"At the higher stages, the most classic talismanic magic includes the "Ten Thousand Talisman Array Scripture", "Taiyin Sixty-Four Talismans", "Six Ding Divine Talisman", and others."

"Your Dao Realm is actually sufficient."

"The so-called ability to understand one thing through another, you simply aren’t used to how to express your Dao through talismans."

"This requires a lot of training to accumulate."

"The so-called technique to understand Dao, I will teach you in a way you’re more accustomed to, watch closely."

Suddenly, two talismans sprang out from You Xuanfeng’s sleeves, appearing in his palms.

On one talisman were cloud patterns, white background with yellow characters, while the other had a blue background with black characters.

"Go!"

You Xuanfeng waved his hands, and the blue talisman turned into a light rain, while the white talisman transformed into a cloud.

"One is the cloud character talisman, the other the rain character talisman."

"Moving clouds and bringing rain belong to the basics of the Minister of Agriculture, but in essence, both clouds and rain are part of the water element in the Five Elements."

Zhao Xing watched closely, and the spell fluctuations produced by the rain character talisman and the cloud character talisman were not high, probably equivalent to intermediate level nine.

For him, it’s at a level that he could learn at first sight.

Learning it wasn’t difficult at all.

However, Zhao Xing was very unaccustomed to this approach.

Because he originally could move clouds and bring rain, using talisman paper to release spells was fundamentally no different from him releasing them personally.

It felt like he could fly originally, but instead of flying himself, he had to write a talisman, stick it on himself, and then fly.

Very awkward.

"You’re not slow, it’s purely a matter of habit." You Xuanfeng commented sharply. "Since it’s a habit, it can be changed."

"Understood." Zhao Xing nodded and began forcing his brain to adapt to the spell-casting mode of ’talisman Dao’.

With You Xuanfeng’s strategic guidance and Zhao Xing’s deep understanding of Dao, once he got used to it, his learning speed increased.

In less than half a year, he had mastered the intermediate talisman Dao and talismanic techniques and integrated them seamlessly.

In another half year, he fully understood the advanced talisman Dao "Great Five Elements Talisman" and started researching various ’talisman techniques’.

This was a time-consuming process.

Mainly because there were too many talisman techniques!

"Just for a single talisman, there are divisions into the Five Elements, and for each element, there are classifications into large talismans, small talismans, Time Talismans, and Direction Talismans."

"Each category contains thousands of techniques."

"After mastering them, forming talisman arrays and combinations brings countless variations."

Zhao Xing found it very painful to learn, as asking someone with his level of talent to do such tedious, repetitive work was simply torture.

He could use his own spells to demolish top-level talismans, yet now he had to learn such minor arts.

"How was the talisman Dao born? It was for those with weak magical talent who couldn’t perform well on their own and thus used special materials to understand heaven and earth and cast spells."

"I can do it myself, yet I’m forced to learn this clumsy way, where can I find justice in that?"

Zhao Xing vented his frustration to King Shenluo.

Mechanism arrays’ basics were taught by King Shenluo.

Now Zhao Xing had sent another avatar to Shenluo Academy to learn mechanism arrays from King Shenluo.

"One can’t say that; some masters of talisman Dao are indeed skilled." King Shenluo replied with a smile. "Someone like You Xuanfeng, with great perseverance, could use the Divine Talisman Array quite well."

"Of course, the talisman Dao is far inferior to the Mechanism."

King Shenluo seemed to be offering a fair comment, but in reality, he was being sarcastic.

Great perseverance? Doesn’t that still mean lacking talent!

Still, there was no choice; Talisman Masters were typically at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Usually, only those with ordinary magical skills and martial talent who truly have no alternatives study the talisman Dao.

To Mr. Zhao, it was nothing more than a secondary profession.

However, there was no choice, Li Boqian insisted that he learn all the intermediate and advanced variations.

"Learning mechanism arrays isn’t easy either." Zhao Xing sighed. "So profound and extensive."

King Shenluo loved hearing this and grinned, saying: "No worries, you just need to learn up to the advanced level; as for top-level mechanism arrays, just knowing how to assemble and use them will do."

"Have you rested enough? If you’re rested enough, shall we continue learning the "Heavenly Gang Formation" and "Earth Evil Formation"?"

King Shenluo, looking amiable, might shock other Mechanical Masters if they saw this; you’re considered a grandmaster, how come you’re this solicitous?

It’s not teaching; you’re practically begging someone to learn!

"Let’s go." Zhao Xing touched his hair, feeling somewhat melancholic.

...

Talisman Dao and Array Formation Skill were giving Mr. Zhao a headache.

Fortunately, he could relax by studying the Minister of Agriculture’s methods.

"Xuantian Thunder Skill is the Ultimate Skill, at top-level divided into Yin Thunder Skill and Yang Thunder Skill."

"Yang Thunder Skill is the "Xuantian Prison Suppressing Chapter", comprising Heavenly Thunder Finger, Thunderbolt Mixed Element Lock, and Prison Suppressing Thunder Pool, corresponding to beginner, minor accomplishment, major accomplishment, respectively."

"Yin Thunder Skill is the "Xuantian Cold Evil Thunder"."

"It encompasses three secret techniques across one to nine transitions, ’Three Yin Thunder Seal’, ’Cold Evil Thunder Domain’, ’Five Elements Yin Thunder Realm’."

Dıscover more novels at novèlfire.net