Golden Light Incantation

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Golden Light Incantation (金光咒)
Type	Divine incantation and cultivation skill
Affiliation	Kraun; bearers of the Golden Light Dao Seed
Status	Reached the Extreme Realm
First Appearance	Chapter 5 5

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 0 (green-tier)	6	Kraun successfully cultivates the incantation as a green-tier skill.
Rank 1 / Tier 1	14	After eight days of focused cultivation, Kraun reaches Rank 1 and gains two Taoist talismans and two hand signs. Its sun-and-moon visualization method can calm the mind, cleanse the soul, expel evil spirits, and temper the body.
Tier 2	169	Kraun completes a modified visualization in which his body, soul, and heart are imagined as a blazing sun. His original derivative skills are strengthened, and he gains new physical special effects.
Tier 3	260	Cultivation in an Alienated Zone advances the skill to Tier 3. It unlocks Palm Thunder, Golden Light Projection, Golden Light Seal, and Golden Light Domain.
Tier 4	299	The incantation strengthens its existing effects and unlocks the Mind-Clearing Pendant and Golden Light Dao Seed.
Tier 5	362	Kraun gains immunity to low-level Laws of Pollution and the Golden Soul Moon Spirit, becoming immune to mental spells. Golden Light Domain expands to a 150-meter radius and lasts four hours.
Tier 7	478	The technique grants Wild, Holy Spirit Body, Seed of Life, Lightning Power, and a stronger Will of Light. Advancement requires 2,000,000 proficiency points.
Limit	561	Rather than advancing normally, the incantation reaches its Limit. Its effects consolidate into Sacred Body of Light, Seed of Life, Life-and-Death Talisman, and Immortality.
Extreme Realm	598	During the battle against Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath, Kraun breaks through to the Extreme Realm. Its sole stated effect is “Golden Light Illumination, cleansing the cosmos.”

Cultivation Method

Sun-and-Moon Visualization

At Rank 1, the incantation is cultivated through distinct lunar and solar visualizations. Lunar visualization cleanses the soul, while solar visualization tempers the body. At this stage, the practitioner can endure only two hours each of lunar essence and solar energy. 14

• Lunar visualization — At the Hour of the Rooster, form the Moonlight Sign, worship the bright moon, and visualize Bright Moon Silent Illumination to calm and cleanse the soul. 14
• Solar visualization — At the Hour of the Rabbit, form the Great Sun Sign beneath sunlight and visualize the sun’s brilliance to smelt the body. 14
• Material production — Daytime meditation produces Sunfire Liquid, while nighttime meditation produces Moon Dew; both serve as materials for talismans and secret arts. 90
• Tier 2 change — Visualization gradually ceases to drain Kraun’s energy and instead replenishes it, especially under direct sunlight or moonlight. 211
• Advanced materials — Later cultivation allows the refinement of Sun Essence and Moon Radiance. 170 180

Life-Source Reinforcement

The Golden Light Incantation strengthens life essence, body, and soul in a gentle, all-encompassing manner. Unlike Breathing Techniques that forcibly develop physical potential, it establishes and nourishes the user’s foundation. 112 180

Milestone	Documented passive effects
Tier 3	+50% base Strength and Physique; +50% physical defense; +25% elemental resistance; +45% base speed; +40% willpower resistance; Primary Regeneration restores severed limbs. 260
Tier 4	+100% base Strength and Constitution; +80% physical defense; +50% elemental resistance; +90% base speed; +80% willpower resistance; Intermediate Regeneration can restore severed arms or legs. 299
Tier 5	Will of Light reaches +120% resistance, grants immunity to low-level Laws of Pollution, and Golden Soul Moon Spirit grants complete immunity to mental spells. 362
Tier 7	Wild increases base Strength by 400% and triples physical damage; Holy Spirit Body raises Constitution and physical defense by 400%, elemental resistance by 300%, recovery by 200%, and will resistance by 100%. 478
Limit	Sacred Body of Light reduces received physical damage by 90%, grants 100% resistance to law-based powers, and prevents divine consciousness from being polluted or obscured. 561

Purification and Evil Suppression

Golden light is especially effective against Evil Spirits, spiritual pollution, and other Evil Entities.

• Visualization can eradicate an Evil Spirit’s lingering influence from Kraun’s body. 16
• Golden light burns away the materialized evil intent within Spirit Familiars, preventing the erosion that normally threatens Spirit Controllers. 161
• Golden Light Illumination can dissolve malice and purify spiritual pollution, though it does not deal major damage to ordinary creatures. 250 296
• The technique allows Kraun to advance as a Spirit Controller without being corrupted by the evil intent of consumed spirits. 66
• Its effectiveness against pollution makes Kraun conspicuous to dark and spiritual entities, which tend to flee from him. 299 439

Heart-Clearing Incantation

A self-targeted defensive incantation that settles the mind and resists mental interference. 89 90

• Provides a fifteen-minute increase of +20 willpower resistance. 89
• Defends against charm, mental confusion, hypnosis, fear, frenzy, insanity, agitation, and similar mental effects. 89
• Cannot be cast on others. 89
• Kraun continues using it in high-level battles because it also slightly improves his thinking speed. 505

Golden Light Body Protection

A protective incantation that coats the user in golden light. It has two release methods using the same chant but different hand seals. 90

• Golden light can be concentrated on a chosen body part to raise its defense, at the cost of weakening protection elsewhere. 170
• It is regularly layered with other defensive arts before combat. 478 505
• Its strength increases alongside the Golden Light Incantation’s tier. 561

Thunder and Projection Arts

Tier 3 grants direct offensive and defensive applications of golden light. 260

• Palm Thunder — Uses Sunfire Liquid and Moon Dew to release Yin or Yang thunder within a seven-meter radius. Its power is expected to exceed Solar Flame Art and Golden Light Illumination, but its range is limited. 260
• Lunar Thunder Seal — A talisman-based thunder method used to drive away a Starry Creature. 253
• Golden Light Projection — Shapes golden light into attacks, shields, or light gates. A tested light gate required four high-grade bullets striking the same point to pierce. 260
• Solar Flame Art — A spell that gains bonus damage against Evil Entities but consumes power to cast. 170
• Golden Light Illumination — A wide-area golden radiance that purifies pollution and damages dark spiritual targets. Its power increases within Golden Light Domain. 250 260

Talismans and Enchanting

The incantation produces talisman materials and enables several forms of purification, protection, and weapon enhancement.

• Heart-Clearing Talisman — Talisman water grants one hour of +10 willpower resistance, weaker but longer-lasting than the Heart-Clearing Incantation. 89
• Golden Light Talisman — Dispels pollution and grants objects temporary evil-warding power. 260
• Golden Light Bullets and arrows — Golden Light Talismans can be painted onto bullet heads and arrowheads. 97
• Evil Extermination — Runes can be fused into a weapon to grant persistent additional lethality against monsters and Evil Spirits. 170
• Golden Light Seal — Repeatedly applied to objects using Sunfire Liquid or Sun Essence, gradually granting long-lasting or permanent evil-warding properties. Metal retains this Demon-Breaking property most effectively. 260 379
• Mind-Clearing Pendant — A crafted Curio that merges with a wearer’s biological magnetic field to improve resistance to spiritual pollution. 299

Golden Light Domain

A Tier 3 status-type skill that establishes a pollution-suppressing area around the user. 260

• At Tier 3, it creates a 50-meter-radius area for two hours, suppresses and expels Laws of Pollution, and increases Golden Light Incantation spells by about 20%. 260
• At Tier 4, its radius expands to 100 meters. 299
• At Tier 5, its radius reaches 150 meters, duration reaches four hours, and its bonus to Golden Light Incantation spells rises to 50%. 362
• Its strong suppression of pollution can alert or provoke creatures whose territory is governed by corruptive laws. 260

Golden Light Dao Seed

A Tier 4 ability that condenses Life Qi into a seed which other creatures can ingest to cultivate a weakened form of the Golden Light Incantation. 299

• Recipients can perform visualization and produce Sunfire Liquid and Moon Dew, but do not automatically gain Kraun’s divine abilities. 299
• Their body-and-soul strengthening is substantially weaker: ordinary recipients reach roughly 10% of Kraun’s effect, while exceptional recipients can reach up to 30%. 299
• Kraun can transmit cultivation insights and selected secret arts through Dao Seeds, including Heart-Clearing Talisman, Golden Light Talisman, and Golden Light Seal. 303
• A portion of recipients’ produced materials and cultivation proficiency is transmitted back to Kraun. 303
• Kraun can use Dao Seeds to communicate with linked tamed beasts over a range of roughly ten kilometers. 303
• At the Limit, a Golden Light Dao Seed can serve as an alternate resurrection point, restoring Kraun to 20% of his condition. 561

Limit and Extreme Realm Abilities

At the Limit, the Golden Light Incantation grants survival and control abilities beyond ordinary cultivation. 561

• Seed of Life — Allows resurrection in peak condition after a fatal blow through a condensed Seed of Life. 478 561
• Life-and-Death Talisman — Consumes origin divine power and sun-and-moon power to condense a law talisman capable of controlling the life and death of living beings. 561
• Immortality — The passage of time no longer affects the user; the user endures unless the universe and Astral Realm are destroyed. 561
• Extreme Realm: Golden Light Illumination — Emits golden light capable of cleansing the Spirit Realm’s Gray Mist and annihilating Tier 9 Evil Gods. 598

Known Practitioners

• Kraun — Primary cultivator and the technique’s strongest known user; reaches the Extreme Realm and uses its power to defeat Tier 9 Evil Gods. 598
• Eliza — Ingests a Golden Light Dao Seed and reaches Tier 4 after practicing visualization with Kraun. 359
• Geralt — Receives a Dao Seed and advances his Golden Light Incantation visualization to Tier 3, gaining access to several related secret arts. 378 379
• Del, Melissa, Lia, and other loyal Transcendents — Practice alongside Kraun and receive enhanced visualization efficiency and insight. 340
• Nilie — Benefits from Kraun’s purification of an Evil Spirit before becoming a Spirit Controller. 253

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Kraun first cultivates the incantation while seeking supernatural skills and later relies on it to alleviate his mysterious illness and resist the Evil Spirit within his body. 6 14 15
• Rank 1 visualization ultimately removes the Evil Spirit’s lingering presence and leaves Kraun feeling refreshed, though intensely hungry. 16
• The technique becomes the safeguard that lets Kraun consume and control Evil Spirits without suffering their normal corruptive influence. 66 161
• Golden Light Illumination and purification within Alienated Zones become a major source of proficiency, leading to the Tier 3 breakthrough and Golden Light Domain. 253 259 260
• The Golden Light Dao Seed transforms the incantation from Kraun’s personal cultivation method into a network that strengthens allies and feeds materials and proficiency back to him. 299 303
• At the Extreme Realm, the incantation becomes the decisive force in Kraun’s victory over Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath and the cleansing of the Spirit Realm. 598

Trivia

• Kraun believes the Golden Light Incantation has a beauty-enhancing side effect after his appearance improves following visualization. 16
• Geralt is told that the Golden Light Incantation is the foundation of all associated secret arts; raising its level strengthens those arts as well. 378
• Sunfire Liquid and Moon Dew must be stored in separate containers. 379