Seven days later, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged in a quiet room, his hands never stopping as his five fingers flicked, making a Light Sphere roll back and forth across his fingertips.
Several faint phantoms flickered within the Light Sphere.
This Light Sphere was none other than the first-rank spell, Phantom Light Art.
Zhao Sheng released his hand and let the Light Sphere float before his eyes, staring straight at it.
Yet as his thoughts turned, he sensed nine "Spiritual Vortices" distributed throughout the inside and outside of the Light Sphere. Fine, invisible veins linked the nine Spiritual Vortices together, and specks of light continually drifted from those veins.
At the same time, Old Man Xie's words from seven days ago kept echoing in his mind: "Every talisman has its apertures, and every aperture reaches the divine.
"If you open the apertures when drawing a talisman, divine intent enters them. If you draw a talisman without opening the apertures, divine intent is merely wasted."
Those tiny specks were the divine intent leaking away.
And this was precisely why Zhao Sheng kept observing and studying Phantom Light Art.
Because his control over divine intent was far too weak.
"Aperture linked to aperture, divine intent flowing without end..."
Those words were recorded on the second page of the Jade Void Talisman Scripture.
Zhao Sheng had always believed they meant that, when drawing talismans, divine intent and Spiritual Power had to flow without interruption, each stroke running across and joining with the next, every stroke connected.
That was not wrong in itself, but now it seemed his understanding had been somewhat shallow.
According to Old Man Xie, drawing talismans required one to understand the apertures and control divine intent.
The reason Qi Refinement cultivators found it so difficult to master second-rank talismans
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