"Senior, why do you feel that Xia Xiao is a little abnormal?"

"He's been into some things recently, and he might be anxious to improve his strength."

"There is no quick way to become a talisman master."

"I know, but it's easier for him as a talisman master to create miracles than as a warrior."

The test of a talisman master is the strength of mental power and the abundance of vitality. Coincidentally, Xia Xiao has both of these conditions. What makes a talisman master different from a warrior is that he can control multiple five elements. This is Xia Xiao's greatest advantage. Therefore, he can be a warrior and can easily become a talisman master. He doesn't even need to make much effort, just study the structure of the talisman array.

Ordinary people learn the talisman array through hand seals, while smart people always reverse the hand seals through the talisman array to achieve long-term memory. It is obviously not easy to achieve that level, but Xia Xiao does not seem strange in anything, because he has that ability. He has created enough miracles. He is an irrational existence, and doing irrational things seems normal.

At Dimuli's request, Chuan Lian began to prepare the talisman array, and Sun Zhonglei even joined in, incorporating the long-distance space talisman array into the scroll. Sun Zhonglei felt that Dimuli had gone too far, but the latter shook his head, his expression gradually becoming mysterious, as if he had unique insights, not as simple as he said.

"He is tortured every night. If he doesn't divert his attention during the day, he might collapse. It's better to do something. If he is more tired during the day, he will think less at night."

"Brother, the talisman formation requires a high degree of concentration. In his current state, I suggest that he give up the hard training, so as not to bring trouble upon himself and end up with mental damage. Besides, I have been with Xia Xiao before, and he shouldn't fall into such a situation because of something like that. Moreover, he hasn't seen the image yet, or has he seen it but hasn't said it?"

"I guess he hasn't seen it yet, but do you know why he is so extreme and even has nightmares?"

"What's the reason?"

"The eldest sister initially determined that the person who left the image on him was the woman in the darkness back then. She had trapped Xia Xiao on the barbarian grasslands, killed Mother Star Dragon, Jana'er, and Shu Shuang."

This extremely gentle three-star divine talisman master finally stopped worrying about why Xia Xiao was so abnormal, and instead felt sympathy for him. He knew about Shu Shuang's situation, and with the sacrifice of his two closest teachers, it was not strange for Xia Xiao to behave like this.

The stronger a person is, the more deadly the softness in their heart is. For Xia Xiao, that past experience could only be described as a nightmare, but he didn't know when this nightmare would end.

"What a poor child."

"I've spent much more time with him than you have, and I know how to divert that guy's attention. So, if you feel sorry for him, just give him more difficult problems."

"Okay, but please supervise him more, Senior Brother. He can't even use my talisman formation even if he uses up most of his energy."

Dimuli nodded and took the five scrolls from Sun Zhonglei. In the gap between the words just now, he had already arranged five talisman arrays. This was the three-star divine talisman master, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Tao.

Although there were only five volumes, Dimuli felt that it was enough. If Xia Xiao was really interested in studying the talisman array, these would be enough for him to study for half a year and still not understand. He turned and left, leaving Sun Zhonglei alone sighing. He moved his long sleeves, rolled up his long gown, sat on the Spring Corridor, and chanted a poem in a very sad tone:

“Therefore, when Heaven bestows a great responsibility upon a man, it must first make his mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, his body hungry and empty, and his actions frustrated, so as to stir his heart and harden his nature, and increase his ability to do what he could not do before.”

After a long sigh, he shook his head and said:

"Xia Xiao, the road is difficult!"

Xia Xiao's road is indeed difficult to walk, but what is revealed now is only the end of that difficult road. However, Xia Xiao will soon set foot on that dark and bumpy road. At this moment, he is wandering in front of the road, thinking that what he did is right, and in fact it is right, but the turn of things is always unpredictable.

For three consecutive days, he went to Chuanlian's place absent-mindedly, without urging him or asking questions. He just took a look, took the scroll prepared by Chuanlian, and went back to understand it, like a soldier checking the sharp arrows before a battle. This battle was a fight of life and death, and the arrows had to be sharp, able to bring two points of damage to the person pierced, and never reduced to one and a half.

Whenever he saw Xia Xiao like that, Chuan Lian, who was working day and night, would wipe the sweat from his forehead. The only thing he could do was to carve the talisman array into the scroll according to its function, so as to facilitate his identification and learning.

Chuan Lian had a vague feeling that Xia Xiao was not here to study, let alone to delve into the talisman formation, but to fight, but he did not say it clearly, because Di Muli could not have been unaware of it. If Chuan Lian's guess was correct, Di Muli was playing chess with Xia Xiao, and if he guessed wrong, he could not say anything, so he remained silent and concentrated on making his own talisman formation.

A few days passed, and Xia Xiao was indeed addicted to it during the day. But at night, that image began to repeat endlessly in Xia Xiao's mind.

It was pitch black, there was no light or speck of anything around.

Xia Xiao fell into it, as if lying in a black sea, sinking continuously, but he did not react at all, allowing the darkness around him to invade his body and begin to bite him. He was indifferent, because everything here could not cause any substantial harm, and he just had to endure it.

The word "endure" means that one must have a strong mental strength to resist the pain and fear, but Xia Xiao's face in the darkness was extremely deep, as if he had no feelings at all.

In the past, he always felt anxious because of the darkness, and the suffocation made him panic. But his resolute character made him remain calm, and he even woke up without panic or cold sweats, and he no longer tossed and turned when he slept. Everything was well disguised, as if the research on the talisman array during the day was really effective.

But every night, he still heard that extremely charming female voice, coming from every corner of the darkness, until it reached the depths of Xia Xiao's brain, leaving him with no way to not hear it. In the end, he had no choice but to endure it, but every time he heard and saw the images in it, his heart would be rippled. Even if he could endure it, the waves would still be there, but they would be much smaller.

An image gradually emerged in the darkness, a woman in red, wearing a simple and revealing bra and shorts, holding a string of crystal clear candied haws on the street in autumn. Her face was extremely beautiful, and she was not tarnished by the strange and playful eyes of the people around her. She just glared at them, and scared those people with bad intentions to death.

No one dared to approach her. The women picked up their children and covered their eyes with disgust. Such a woman was really shameless. With only a piece of cloth on her upper body, I don't know how many men she had hooked up with. I guess they must all be black.

There were the most such words, and the men kept their heads down because of their inferiority complex, so few of them didn't peek. But she disappeared in the blink of an eye, far away. Before leaving, she slapped everyone who said bad things about her, and the same was true for those who looked at her in a lewd way.

If a hundred people said it, a hundred people's faces would turn red. If a thousand people said it, a thousand people would do the same. If ten thousand people said it, it would be the same. She didn't kill him, but the palm prints and swelling on her face would not go away in ten days or half a month. This is the result of talking nonsense!

The woman in red always left when she wanted to, and stayed when she wanted to. Amidst the slaps, she also happily enjoyed the lanterns and listened to the singing and dancing. No matter how chaotic the crowd was, they could not do anything to her. She would never change herself because of other people's eyes and opinions. Whenever she heard others' earnest advice, she was extremely stubborn and always insisted on what she thought and what she wanted.

It is not difficult to see that the lady in red who looks like an elf in the clouds is Shangshan. Shangshan has the appearance of Shu Shuang, but her expression is not like that. She wears the same clothes all year round, and occasionally wears a piece of gauze, but it is the same as if she is not wearing anything. It seems that the heaven is very stingy with her and is unwilling to give her cloth to keep warm.

When the yellow leaves fell in autumn, she stood between heaven and earth and stared at them in a daze. In winter, she lay in the snow and watched the snowflakes drifting towards her eyes.

She touched all the beautiful scenery, and she experienced the beauty of the world as she wished. Occasionally, she was temporarily tired of the hustle and bustle of the world, so she went to seek the beautiful scenery of nature, appeared in villages and towns, became popular as a practitioner, and killed several small wild beasts in the mountains outside the village. She was hailed as a hero by everyone for waving her hand, and was treated to delicious food and drinks.

Shangshan never liked worldly food. He just picked up a glass of water and distributed the food on the table to the children who were watching eagerly outside the courtyard gate.

The adults scolded the rude children and even tried to hit them, but Shangshan stopped them. The children, who could only drool at the aroma, had a full meal. Some were very sensible and gave Shangshan a bowl with both hands, which was filled with the best meat. For the children, this was a good thing they could not eat all year round.

The one holding the bowl was a black boy, who looked like a potato egg and wore a ragged cotton jacket. He glanced at Shangshan secretly and then lowered his eyes. Shangshan was so pretty that she must be a fairy. That’s what the black boy thought. He was shy but polite.

Shangshan, who was sitting with his legs crossed and looking down on everything with arrogance, hesitated for a moment, realized that this was the so-called most sincere kindness, then put down his legs, reached out to take the bowl, and symbolically took a bite of the meat.

It was indeed not bad, but she still didn't like it. The children around the table laughed happily when they saw it, but they only looked at Shangshan secretly and didn't dare to look at her openly. Some children were very bold and said whatever they wanted, praising her for being super beautiful and calling her a fairy sister. Shangshan, who was as white as snow, smiled slightly, making the child so embarrassed that he ran out of the door, but he also told his family that the fairy sister smiled at him and was very, very beautiful, and his words were full of excitement.

The images so far are extremely peaceful and beautiful. At least Xia Xiao knows that this is the life Shangshan longs for. She once resented Qing Xunzi, thinking that he should not give up on her and let Shu Shuang transform into a human form. And she hated and envied Shu Shuang. Why can she experience everything in the world when she is born from the same body? Shangshan also wanted to see all the beautiful scenery in the world. She started from the peach forest and didn't know where to end, but everything was good, just as she wished.

But in Xia Xiao's eyes, all these were just a moment, and the dark and chaotic battle that followed was the main point.

The movement in the silent world was huge, tearing the space apart and destroying the universe. The children in the mountain village were crushed into dust by a wave of air in the arms of adults, and they had no way to escape. As for the black kid who looked like a potato egg, he had always believed that the fairy sister would come to save him, but she didn't. Because his fairy sister was also in trouble, and the wave of air that took his life also had a share of the power of the fairy sister...

From the perspective of the silent world, the semi-transparent village and mountain disappeared together. Shangshan frowned, although the resentment in his body had long been eliminated, his anger would never stop, and the power of destruction and annihilation gradually brewed, and the momentum of the explosion was like a calamity.