The next day, morning.
As usual, Chen Mu went to tend the Yellow Sprout Rice Field.
Around ten, he returned to the wooden corridor, settled into his rocking chair, and drank tea.
He held a wooden teacup in his hand, but his gaze had drifted away as he pondered the Shattering-Illusion Technique.
"The body and the Jade Seed are in two different worlds."
"One is a tangible physical world, one that can be seen and touched."
"The other is an illusory world that can only be perceived and observed through consciousness."
"And the Black Orb Talisman's purpose is to connect those two worlds of reality and illusion!"
The insights brought by Proficiency gave him a deeper understanding of the Sensing and Seeing Through stage.
"So the Divine Intent Talismans of secret arts and incantations aren't in the mist. They're in the body on the other side of the mist."
His earlier observation of the Divine Intent Talismans had felt like looking through frosted glass. That feeling had not been wrong.
Chen Mu suddenly understood.
The magical power cultivated by the Spirit Armor Technique was in his glabella, within his body.
He could activate incantations such as Five Ghosts Possession because the Divine Intent Talismans had always been inside his body.
Now, the Divine Intent Talismans had been drawn into the Jade Seed...
"The incantations can't have stopped working, can they?!"
"Five Ghosts Possession Great Method!"
Chen Mu hurriedly activated his greatest trump-card secret art.
As his thoughts turned,
the Divine Intent Talisman belonging to the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Incantation within the Jade Seed was immediately pulled into the Black Orb Talisman.
The next instant,
his body swelled as though inflated, and in the blink of an eye, he became a two-and-a-half-meter-tall giant.
His skin turned indigo blue, his muscles