Chapter 64: The Senior Who Created a Virtual Talisman to Win Back His Wife
After circling around Xi'er a few times, the two iridescent butterflies landed on her small hands, one on each side, gently pricked out two beads of blood and licked them clean, before disappearing into the hollowed-out silver sphere.
The hollowed-out silver ball is made automatically into a silver bracelet, with silver beads the size of mung beans strung together and a hollowed-out silver ball the size of a longan seed attached.
The group of people with the feather fan tried to probe it with their divine sense, but found that the shrunken hollow silver ball looked like an ordinary silver toy. Inside, there were only two silver beads the size of mung beans, and nothing else.
When the baby shakes his wrist, the bracelet will also shake, and the two silver beads inside the hollow silver ball will make a crisp clinking sound.
To anyone else, it's just a small toy bracelet that makes a sound, perfect for babies to wear.
It seems this silver ball has a hidden skill; it hangs openly on the baby's wrist without arousing any suspicion.
As Yu Shan's only daughter, she shouldn't be wearing such an ordinary silver bracelet. In order to give a reasonable explanation, Yu Shan lied and said that it was a gift from Xi'er's older brother.
Achen, who was far away in the Ten Directions Academy in Five Elements City, suddenly sneezed loudly.
"Hey kid, who's been thinking about you all of a sudden?" Xiao Shi suddenly peeked out from behind him and asked.
He went to the ten-story tower and searched for a long time before finally finding a book about drawing runes in the void. Although it wasn't very detailed, it was still something he could refer to.
"How would I know? Anyway, there are so many people who care about me: my mom, my dad, my godmother, Aunt Lele, Uncle Matt, Aunt Mina..."
"Oh dear, there's a whole bunch, I can't even count them all. I'm so lovable, everyone loves me!" Ah Chen said proudly.
He usually presents himself as a steady, diligent, and obedient good student in front of outsiders, but only in front of Xiao Shi does he unleash his true nature of showing off without restraint.
Unfortunately, he was unaware that his original second-place position in the family had been lost, and he had been pushed down to third place.
As for first place? That's definitely his mom!
Because, out of the three in the family, she is the one he loves most, just like his father!
Hearing the brat's boasting, Xiao Shi became a little annoyed, because he was someone no one cared about.
Ever since Zhuang Xingfeng, the head of the Confucian Hall, brought him back to the Shifang Academy and the two signed a cooperation agreement, he has left him to his own devices.
As for the other students in the academy, they only pay attention to him, the tower spirit, when they enter the ten-story tower to borrow books.
However, their concern was only that he would lose his temper and throw them out of the ten-story tower.
Once they've borrowed the books they want, they'll forget all about him, the tower spirit.
Xiao Shi never wrongs herself; when she gets angry, she doesn't hesitate to raise her hand and slap the brat on the head.
Once he left the ten-story tower, he, as the spirit of the artifact, was just a powerless phantom, unable to touch the physical body at all.
But even if you can't hit them, you can still express your anger.
But unexpectedly, the blow landed squarely on the spot.
"Ouch! That hurts!" Ah Chen cried out, clutching his forehead.
Xiao Shi originally thought that hitting him was just her hallucination, but she didn't expect it to be real!
"Chen, be good! Tell me, are you really in pain?" Xiao Shi asked him nervously, her eyes sparkling.
Before Ah Chen could react, he said irritably, "Why don't you let me hit you and see if it hurts!"
"You can touch physical objects now?!"
"I can touch real objects now?!"
The man and the artifact spoke in unison, and Ah Chen finally realized what was happening.
"How about I try hitting it again?" Xiao Shi asked eagerly.
"What are you hitting? How can you be so stupid? Why don't you try slamming your hand on the table?" Ah Chen said irritably.
"Yes, yes, you're right! After hitting the living creatures, try hitting the inanimate ones too!" Xiao Shi nodded repeatedly.
Achen: ...
Xiao Shi slammed her hand on A Chen's table, and disaster struck!
The wooden table shattered with a crash, books fell to the floor, and the newly drawn talismans were scattered everywhere.
"Hehe! Haha! I've advanced again! That's great! If this continues, I'll be able to solidify into a physical form sooner or later, and then I can taste your delicious food!" Xiao Shi excitedly circled around him.
He spun faster and faster, becoming a blur, until Ah Chen couldn't take it anymore: "Stop! You're making me dizzy!"
It took Xiao Shi an hour to calm down and remember the important matter.
"Here! This is the book I painstakingly found for you, taken from the fifth floor of the ten-story pagoda."
"If you don't manage to create that void talisman, you'll be letting down all the effort I've put into it!" Xiao Shi exclaimed dramatically.
"Come on! You've only been away from my dorm for a day and a night. How can that be considered painstaking effort?" Achen said.
“Why doesn’t that count? When I help other students find books, the longest it takes is no more than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea. This time, it took me a full twelve hours!” Xiao Shi said confidently.
"Alright, I hope I can learn to draw talismans in the void in twelve hours," Achen said dismissively.
Xiao Shi:......
I've seen arrogant people before, but I've never seen such an arrogant brat. It makes this old man really want to punch him.
But looking at his thin arms and legs, he probably can't take a beating. Let's remember this beating for now and settle the old scores and new scores when he grows up strong and healthy!
The book that Xiao Shi gave to A Chen was a handwritten note left behind by a powerful being from another world.
The journal records his process of creating the void talisman.
This powerful figure was named Yan Kaige. Back then, he was in love with a female cultivator from another sect, Peng Zuiliu, whose sect was thousands of miles apart.
This distance isn't very far in the eyes of a cultivator, but it feels quite far to a man who is constantly thinking about his beloved.
Yan Kaige would occasionally want to send Peng Zuiliu small gifts, but as a disciple of another sect, he couldn't always go to Peng Zuiliu without a proper reason.
At first, he raised a spirit crane to deliver small gifts to his sweetheart. However, the ownerless spirit crane flying in mid-air was easily coveted by some rogue cultivators.
They wouldn't dare kill the spirit crane, but they would dare steal the little gift carried on its back.
Yan Kaige felt that the spirit crane was too eye-catching, so he wanted to set up a teleportation array to connect his cave with Peng Zuiliu's.
Unfortunately, the opposing sect had a protective array, and his teleportation array couldn't pass through it at all.
Later, he created the Flying Crane Talisman, folding the talisman paper into a paper crane, and then combining it with a Concealing Breath Talisman to evade the monitoring and defense of the mountain-protecting formation.
The paper crane, carrying his little gift, passed through the protective array again and again, finally arriving at Peng Zuiliu's cave. It would be a lie to say the female cultivator wasn't moved.
Unfortunately, one time when the paper crane flew to the entrance of Pengzui Liu Cave, it was seen by her master.
The master was furious and rebuked her for being so engrossed in love that she neglected her cultivation. He also threatened that if any more paper cranes came, he would personally go to find Yan Kaige's master and demand an explanation.
Helpless, Peng Zuiliu had no choice but to send him a message, telling him not to send him any more gifts.
On the one hand, Yan Kaige felt that he had implicated his beloved in being reprimanded by his master, but on the other hand, he did not want to stop the trick of sending small gifts.
He noticed that as the number of small gifts he received increased, Peng Zuiliu's attitude towards him became increasingly intimate.
If I stop giving gifts now, when will I ever win the heart of my beloved?
If her fellow disciples from her own sect take a liking to her, and they get the advantage of being close to her, then he will be completely eliminated.
Yan Kaige felt more and more heartbroken. He was the kind of person who would become more courageous after setbacks. Since the paper crane had failed, he wanted to create a phantom image so that Peng Zuiliu's master would not find out.
After racking his brains for several days, he finally came up with the idea of drawing talismans in the air.
Since the Flying Crane Talisman is made of talisman paper, if he could discard the talisman paper as a medium and use air as a medium to draw a Flying Crane Talisman, then no one would be able to discover it anymore.
Yan Kaige was already a cultivator at the Asking Heaven Realm at that time, so his understanding of talismans was naturally much better than that of Achen, a novice at the Fusion Spirit Realm.
In addition, he was extremely intelligent, and after spending a full half month, he finally managed to create a flying crane talisman that did not require talisman paper.
Yan Kaige's method is both difficult and simple.
He used his divine sense to construct a flat space as thin as a cicada's wing, compressed spiritual energy into a viscous state, and used his will to guide the spiritual energy to form runes within the flat space.
Once the runes are completed, the divine consciousness that constitutes the flat space dissipates. Because the runes are drawn with viscous spiritual energy, they will not dissipate in a short period of time.
Once activated, it will function just like a talisman drawn on talisman paper.
Furthermore, because the spiritual energy that constitutes this talisman is viscous, its function is much stronger than that of talismans drawn on ordinary talisman paper.
In short, Yan Kaige continued to send gifts to his beloved using the flying crane talisman he drew in the air, and was never discovered again.
Over time, both masters realized their disciples' feelings and allowed them to become Daoist partners.
Achen: ...
I was supposed to be learning how to draw talismans in the void, but somehow I ended up being forced to swallow a mouthful of dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).
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