Talismans
Because Rogue Cultivators rarely used talismans, Mo Hua had not even seen one with his own eyes up to now, so he had thrown the question to the back of his mind.
Now that they were talking about artifact refining and had brought up talisman making, Mo Hua suddenly remembered it and asked.
Master Chen tugged at his beard and thought with a frown. "I'm neither an Array Master nor a Talisman Maker, so I definitely can't explain it well. But since you asked, I'll tell you what I know."
After Master Chen finished speaking, he added, "But this is all definitely an outsider's talk. Just listen to it and get a general impression. You don't necessarily have to take it as truth."
"Mm-hm." Mo Hua nodded again and again.
"As far as I know, talisman making is both a branch of arrays and, at the same time, a branch of artifact refining."
"A crossbreed between arrays and artifact refining?" Mo Hua was startled.
Master Chen glared at him, somewhere between laughing and crying. "Don't put it so unpleasantly. The various paths of cultivation were originally independent of one another, yet also connected to one another."
Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, "For example, an Alchemist's alchemy furnace has to be refined by an Artifact Refiner, the furnace an Artifact Refiner makes has to rely on an Array Master to draw arrays on it, and the Spirit Ink an Array Master uses to draw arrays occasionally needs spiritual liquid prepared by an Alchemist?"
"Well said." Master Chen nodded in approval, then went on to talk about talismans.
"The cultivation world has developed for so many years, and the categories of cultivation have also derived and changed along with it. Talismans are naturally the same..."
"The earliest talismans