Five hundred li south of Shuanghua Valley, on a low hill, an exquisite thatched cottage stood beside a stream at the foot of the mountain.
Beneath the window to the left of the door, Chen Mu sat quietly in a broad bamboo chair, his eyes lowered.
Within his Jade Seed, the River Chariot Divine Aperture reversed. Strands of Jade-White Innate Qi flew out and burrowed into the Yellow Springs Gourd Primordial Talisman beside it.
The Yellow Springs Gourd Primordial Talisman was gold and black, its form extremely similar to a Divine Aperture Talisman. The nine-layered, hollow spherical Spiritual Treasure Primordial Talisman rotated irregularly, its layers nested together like an intricately carved puzzle ball.
The Innate Qi entered it and immediately dispersed into mist.
Chen Mu carefully controlled it, following the pattern of the Lingbao Primordial Talisman Chart as he gradually piled and wove it through the hollow spaces.
At a certain moment.
Swish!
Like the sound of a sand sculpture collapsing and fine grains falling to the ground, the Yellow Springs Gourd Primordial Talisman suddenly crumbled into specks of fluorescent light and vanished.
Chen Mu blanked for a moment, then opened his eyes.
The Grey Stone Gate appeared before him. As he stared intently at the Yellow Springs Gourd entry, insights trickled through his mind.
"Constructing primordial talismans in thirty-two hollow spaces at once really is difficult." Chen Mu's expression remained rather calm.
Over this period, he had already suffered similar failures tens of thousands of times.
After carefully noting the points of failure fed back by the Gray Wall, Chen Mu closed his eyes and continued trying.
A quarter of an hour later, the puzzle-ball-like Spiritual Treasure Primordial Talisman appeared once more.
Having absorbed the lesson from his last failure, Chen Mu's refinement went extremely smoothly this time. Even