Chapter 72: Double Vision

While Nanwang was packing his things, he was chatting about Fu Zong with his friends.

This time, he not only became a true disciple, but also went a step further. Like the fifth junior sister, he took on the position of the sect elder while being a true disciple.

God knows he was just a menial disciple not long ago!

Although Nanwang had heard the word Fu Zong in the original novel, he really didn't know what Fu Zong did.

It was indeed mentioned once or twice in the original book, but those times were just when someone or something was mentioned, and the word "Fu Zong" was just mentioned in passing.

Among the three, only Luo Xuyou had some understanding of Fu Zong:

"The Fu Sect disappeared when I joined Qingyun Sect. What I know is just hearsay. An elder said that when the Fu Sect was still there, there were only a few disciples. After the fourth true disciple died, no one was willing to take over the elder's position, so no new disciples were accepted. The original disciples were gradually assigned to other branches. After that, the Fu Sect simply disappeared..."

Nanwang asked, "Why is there no one willing to take over the elder's job?"

Luo Xuyou said: "I don't understand the twists and turns of this either. It may be because the head of the sect refused to accept disciples, which led to the lack of successors in the Fu Sect. Now that you have appeared, it has been connected..."

Nanwang immediately raised his hands in surrender.

Luo Xuyou was silent for a moment, then changed the subject: "Come to think of it, do you remember that we discussed the ranking of the true disciples before and found that the ranking order was messed up?"

Nanwang: “Yes.”

Luo Xuyou said: "I now suspect... the true disciple really waits for someone. First there is a position, then there is someone. No matter if you show up or not, the position of the fourth true disciple will always be there. When you show up, the position will be given to you."

Nan Wang nodded, he agreed with this statement.

However, there was one thing he could not understand no matter what:

"But why me? My cultivation is not good, and my ability is not good. Moreover, I have been in Qingyun Sect for more than ten years. How come no one has discovered that I am special in all these years? How come they only discovered now that I am the fourth true disciple?"

The other true disciples were all outstanding and gifted, and they were from completely different worlds from him.

There are so many inner disciples in the sect. Even if their talents and abilities are not as good as those of the true disciples, they are still better than him.

No matter how you look at it, the throne of the fourth true disciple should not fall on his head.

Luo Xuyou said: "Logically speaking, the decision of the headmaster will not be wrong. Maybe after you arrive at Fu Sect, you will find your own special place."

Nanwang: “…”

It would be fine if you don’t mention the Master Immortal Lord, but he gets angry as soon as you mention the Master Immortal Lord.

The Immortal Master is totally unreliable and he has even disappeared. How can he believe that "the Immortal Master's decision will not be wrong"?

If you think about it carefully, isn't it all the fault of the Immortal Master that things turned out this way?

Yuan He said: "The art of making talismans has been in decline for a long time in the world of immortal cultivation, and no one has come into contact with this thing. Maybe if you can learn 70% or 80% of it, you can be a decent master."

Nanwang: “…”

You have only learned about 70% of it, you are dreaming.

Considering his talent which has only been cultivated for more than ten years, it is a blessing from God that he has been able to learn something or two.

Making talismans sounds very difficult. It would take decades or even hundreds of years to fully learn it... Wait!

Nan Wang suddenly recalled part of the original work.

Nan Wang was not sure whether the art of talisman making had declined in the world of immortal cultivation, but in the original work, the art of talisman making appeared quite a few times.

Just today, just now, he received a talisman sword from Mu Yuanyao or Wu Ge that looked extremely awesome!

Nan Wang immediately asked, "Has the art of making talismans really declined? I heard that the Demon Cult has many sects that are good at making talismans..."

Yuan He nodded and said, "Yes, most of those who are good at making talismans are from the Demon Sect, and there are not many people who can do it in the Immortal World."

Nanwang: “???”

Luo Xuyou said, "Don't think too much. These tools, such as magic tools, spells, and formations, are not good or evil. It depends on whether the mind of the person using them is righteous or not. If only the people of the Demon Cult can use the talisman-making technique, could it be that everyone in the Fu Sect is an undercover agent of the Demon Cult?"

Nanwang: “…”

Others don’t know that he is indeed an undercover agent.

After hearing this, and considering Wu Ge who was obviously closely related to the former fourth true disciple, he now had some suspicion that the former fourth true disciple might also be an undercover agent.

If we analyze along this line of thought, he and the predecessor, the Fourth True Disciple, do have some similarities. So it does not seem unreasonable for the Immortal Master to choose him as the Fourth True Disciple!

Nanwang thought wildly for a while, and seemed to be almost convinced by himself.

But he knew very well in his heart that these messy explanations were obviously far from the truth.

…

Nanwang's moving date was set for three days later.

Annuo returned to Nanwang the day after the conference. He was in a very depressed mood and started to complain about how bad Panlong Palace was.

The place was run-down, dusty, no one talked, and it was a waste of time to stay there for half a day.

Nan Wang was so distressed that he took out the kitchen utensils that had been put away one by one, made a delicious hot pot, and fed the little rabbit until it was full.

I had just finished eating and the smell was still there when Lingzhi came up with the jade slip for making talismans as promised.

"Fourth Brother, I'm here."

Lingzhi brought a large pile of jade slips and spread them out on the table, which made Nanwang feel overwhelmed.

"I sorted these out from the Qi Sect. I studied them all night last night. Making talismans is not difficult, but..."

Nanwang asked, "Just what?"

“It’s just that the expenses are not enough.”

Lingzhi sighed, took out three talismans and handed them to Nanwang: "You can only use one talisman at a time, and the spiritual power consumed to activate the talisman is very large. I even think... it consumes more spiritual power than if I used magic directly."

Nanwang: "...Then what use do I have for this talisman?"

Lingzhi immediately realized that he had said something wrong, and quickly said, "It's mainly because I can't draw well! If I could draw better, I wouldn't need so much spiritual energy to drive it!"

"Fifth Junior Sister, you have such a high talent for cultivation, you won't be too bad at anything other than refining weapons. You can't even draw a talisman properly, if I were to draw one, it would really be..."

Nan Wang sighed, took the talisman from the spirit branch and glanced at it casually.

After just one glance, he could never look away.

He had no idea how to draw a talisman, what its structure was, or what distinguished a good talisman from a bad one.

However, even Nanwang, who knew nothing, found something that seemed to be wrong no matter how he looked at it.

Why do the characters on the talisman paper have double images?

Nan Wang first blinked, then closed his eyes, rubbed them with his hands for a long time, and then opened them again.

The picture in front of me did not change at all, it was still the bizarre double image.

On the snow-white talisman paper, there was a black talisman. The talisman was very distorted, like a combination of text and patterns, and closely attached to the talisman was a gray shadow.

A small part of the double image matches the symbol perfectly, but the other parts are very different from the symbol.

This is true not just for one talisman paper, but for every piece of drawing paper.

This situation looks like learning to write in elementary school, where the teacher leaves marks on the homework books that students hand in after finishing their homework.

And the gray part seems to be the "correct way to write" annotated by the teacher.

"Fifth Junior Sister, you..."

Nan Wang originally wanted to ask Lingzhi why the talisman was drawn so strangely, but the moment he asked, he suddenly had an idea and took out a mirror.

Under Lingzhi's puzzled gaze, Nanwang held the mirror to the talisman and took a look at the image in the mirror.

On the talisman in the mirror image, there is only the black talisman, without the gray part.

Nanwang: “…”

Lingzhi asked, "Fourth Senior Brother, what are you doing?"

Nanwang: "No, nothing. My eyesight hasn't been very good lately. I can't see things normally, so..."

"How could this happen? When did it start?" Upon hearing this, Lingzhi became anxious: "Fourth Brother, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong with your eyes? You..."

"No, no, no, I just said that. It's actually no problem, really."

Nanwang quickly stopped Lingzhi from thinking about it and changed the subject:

"By the way, Fifth Junior Sister, do you know Qinghe, the previous Fourth True Disciple? What kind of person is he?"

"When Senior Brother Qinghe was in the sect, I couldn't transform yet, and I only had a vague feeling about him. I felt... that he must be a very good person."

Recalling the past, a peaceful smile appeared on Lingzhi's face.

"He would often come to my place to hang out and share some anecdotes with me, but I couldn't understand them. Then one day, he suddenly disappeared."

Nanwang immediately asked, "What happened?"

Lingzhi shook his head: "I don't know what happened. I asked Senior Sister and the others, but Senior Sister didn't seem to know anything about Senior Brother Qinghe. She just said that he was missing."

Nan Wang was shocked. This was different from the rumor he had heard that "the fourth true disciple died in a secret realm."

"Missing? When did he go missing?"

Lingzhi still shook his head: "I don't know when it happened. If you have to trace it back, it happened hundreds of years ago. By the time I transformed, Senior Brother Qinghe had been missing for a long time, and the Fu Sect had completely fallen."

"so it is."

Nan Wang nodded in disappointment.

Lingzhi was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "But..."

Nanwang: “What?”

Lingzhi lowered his eyes, as if in deep thought.

Soon, she made up her mind:

"But Senior Brother Qinghe chose me at first sight among the countless yellow cicada flowers. He knew a hundred years ago that I was the next owner of the Seven Secrets Linglong Heart."

"Brother Qinghe may have a way... to know what will happen in the future."