Celestial Pivot Prefecture, Yellow Cloud Street.
The place was bustling beyond measure, with cultivators streaming back and forth without end.
A cultivator who looked like a refined young master ignored the calls from the cultivators behind him and headed deeper along the street. Before long, he arrived at a place called the Flowing Cloud Pill Shop.
Yet this pill shop differed from ordinary storefronts. Beside it stood a separate little shop, its sign bearing the three words: Ye Talisman Shop.
The talisman shop was not large, but it carried quite a few Spirit Talismans—seventy or eighty varieties in all—neatly arranged upon talisman racks.
It also sold Talisman Brushes, basic spells, Talisman Ink, and Talisman Paper.
The Ye Talisman Shop was not particularly conspicuous in Celestial Pivot Market, but among the Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment circles of Yellow Cloud Street, it had earned a modest reputation.
After all, its prices were low, while the quality of its Spirit Talismans was exceptionally good.
"Is Sect Leader Ye here?" the young-master-like cultivator asked the two female cultivators in the talisman shop, faint disappointment appearing on his face.
After all, neither of them was the person he had wished to see.
"Sect Leader Ye has left to travel," one of the female cultivators answered.
"Senior Xiao, if you wish to wait, you may have to wait a year or so," the leading woman added.
"I know. If Sect Leader Ye returns, inform me. I have recently gained some insights into talisman arts that I wish to share with Sect Leader Ye." After saying this, the cultivator turned around. Behind him, a slightly older Foundation Building Cultivator followed after him.
"Young Master, the method of talisman formations is a core secret art that the family only recently obtained."
"Of course I know that. Are