After studying it for a long while, Zhao Sheng suddenly snapped the talisman scripture shut and let out a complicated sigh. "Sigh, why are second-tier talismans so difficult?"
Ever since leaving Heaven Pillar Mountain, Zhao Sheng had begun researching how to draw Phantom Escape Talismans. Three years had passed by now.
It could be said that he believed himself incomparably familiar with Phantom Escape Talismans. He had fully mastered everything, from connecting all eighty-one spiritual apertures to the opening strokes and finishing touches of the talisman shape.
Even his greatest shortcoming, Spiritual Power, had become sufficient—with the help of Spirit Burst Pills—to support him through the completion of a Phantom Escape Talisman.
Yet over the past three years, he had attempted to draw one at least a hundred times, without succeeding even once.
Previously, he had not known where the problem lay. It was not until he attended a talisman cultivator gathering recently that an offhand remark suddenly awakened him.
"When qi reaches true heaven, it possesses its own spirit; then it may become a talisman."
Holding the rolled-up talisman scripture in his hand, Zhao Sheng tapped it against his forehead as he muttered to himself with a deeply frustrated expression.
Over the past years, he had relied on his talent and found nothing could stand in his way when drawing talismans. As a result, he had gradually placed too much emphasis on "technique," nearly forgetting that the key to talisman drawing lay in "divine intent."
Though he had come to this realization, he still had no solution for the second-tier Phantom Escape Talisman.
His spiritual sense was simply insufficient to "construct" the divine intent of a second-tier talisman.
The reason second-tier true talismans were called second-tier was not merely because they were many times more powerful than first-tier talismans.