"How could you possibly see through my Shape-Shifting Talisman? Sealed inside it is an Earth-rank elementary spell!"
"An Earth-rank elementary spell?"
Lin Xuan's brows could not help lifting. He remembered more than ten years ago, when he had still been nothing more than a minor disciple at the Spirit Movement Stage, how thrilled he had been after mastering the "Ice Needle Technique," because its power could compare with high-grade spells.
At that time, he had thought spells only came in three types—elementary, intermediate, and advanced—and that only cultivators of the Spirit Movement Stage and the Foundation Establishment Realm used them. Those Golden Core masters, possessing magic treasures, disdained spells entirely.
But later, after successfully reaching Foundation Establishment—more accurately, after obtaining the jade slip of the "Nine Heavens Profound Art"—he learned that this understanding was utterly wrong.
As the simplest and most practical divine ability for cultivators, spells were extremely convenient for both attack and defense, because they required no other medium; one only needed to mobilize one's own spiritual power to release them.
This path was broad and profound. How could it stop at the Foundation Establishment Realm? Forget Core Condensation cultivators—even those old monsters of the Nascent Soul Realm often used spells as well, treating them as an important supplement to their magic treasures.
Naturally, spells were not limited to only elementary, intermediate, and advanced either.
Strictly speaking, they should be divided into three ranks: Heaven, Earth, and Human. Each rank was further divided into elementary, intermediate, and advanced, making nine levels in total.
What Spirit Movement Stage and Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators used were Human-rank spells, while what Core Condensation and Nascent Soul Realm experts used were Earth-rank...
In fact, it was not only spell arts. Even talismans were the same. The talismans Lin Xuan had come into