The Five Elements Dharma Eye

Liang Zhaohuang held a wolf-hair brush and drew the final stroke on the talisman paper.

In his eyes, five-colored halos flickered. He saw the Five Elements spiritual power on the talisman paper flowing along the runes, smooth and unimpeded, without the slightest mishap, and a smile could not help surfacing on his face.

"It took more than a month, but I finally completed this talisman."

"Let me test its effect. I hope it's worthy of the month-plus I put into it."

Liang Zhaohuang activated the newly drawn talisman, and it turned into a light shield suffused with flowing five-colored halos. He could see the power of the Five Elements within the shield engendering and circulating, continuous and unending.

"I didn't see wrong. It really is a defensive talisman!"

The smile on Liang Zhaohuang's face grew even more obvious. In the market, generally speaking, defensive talismans or magic artifacts were worth more than offensive ones, and sold for higher prices.

"If its defensive effect is a bit better, then the shop will have another hot-selling item."

Liang Zhaohuang released the five-colored light shield and covered a stone stool with it.

Then he formed a hand seal, urging the spiritual power in the Five Lights Bracelet on his wrist. The bracelet glowed with golden light, and a spell, Golden Blade Technique, immediately slashed out, striking the Five-Colored Light Shield.

The Five-Colored Light Shield easily blocked the golden blade.

The five-colored halos in Liang Zhaohuang's eyes grew brighter. He continued urging the Five Lights Bracelet, and black light, green light, red light, and yellow light lit up on the bracelet in sequence.

Water Arrow Technique, Thorn Entanglement, Fireball Technique, Earth Spike Technique.

The Five Elements spells attacked one after another, testing the defensive power of the Five-Colored Light Shield from every direction—above, below, left, and right.

The effect was unexpectedly good.

"Against Five Elements spells, its defensive effect is almost five times that of a Vajra Talisman. Among Qi Refining cultivators, this is already top-tier defensive power!"

"I just don't know how its defense holds up against attacks of other attributes?"

Liang Zhaohuang took three talismans from his sleeve and launched them in succession.

A Wind Blade, a Lightning Strike, and a Poison Cloud Technique blasted the Five-Colored Light Shield respectively.

Ripples spread across the Five-Colored Light Shield, but under the circulation and mutual generation of the power of the Five Elements, they quickly disappeared and the shield stabilized again.

Seeing this, Liang Zhaohuang nodded slightly, increasingly satisfied.

"Though its effect doesn't compare to its defense against Five Elements spells, it's no worse than an ordinary high-grade defensive magic artifact."

The defensive effect of the newly repaired Five-Colored Light Shield Talisman was unexpectedly good. For a moment, Liang Zhaohuang was rather hesitant over whether to put it on the market, or keep it within the family as part of the family's foundation.

At that moment, Liang Zhaohuang suddenly felt somewhat dizzy, and his vision darkened.

He immediately dispersed the five-colored halos in his eyes and reached up to gently rub his temples.

"The Five-Colored Buddha Light is about to be exhausted again. I still haven't grasped the problem of using it in moderation."

Liang Zhaohuang walked to the side, sat cross-legged on a prayer mat, formed a mudra with his hands, half-closed his eyes, and began rapidly chanting the Peacock King Mantra in a low voice.

"Om moyu luo qilandi svaha."

As he continuously chanted the Peacock King Mantra, Liang Zhaohuang's consciousness gradually entered a space of darkness.

The space's size was unknown. Within it, a human figure could be faintly seen, likewise sitting cross-legged, its appearance unclear.

Liang Zhaohuang knew, however, that this was his sea of consciousness space, and that vague human figure was his soul.

And at this moment, behind his soul's head, there was a vague, extremely dim "round light."

As he kept chanting the Peacock King Mantra, the "round light" behind his soul's head gradually brightened, shining with Five-Colored Buddha Light.

After chanting the mantra three thousand times, the "round light" gradually stabilized, brimming with Five-Colored Buddha Light.

Liang Zhaohuang ended the chanting and opened his eyes. Five-Colored Buddha Light flashed through them and vanished.

"Peacock King Mantra! Five-Colored Buddha Light!"

At this moment, the expression on Liang Zhaohuang's face was somewhat hard to describe.

"What exactly does my reincarnation have to do with the Peacock King?"

He clearly remembered that in his previous life, he had only been an ordinary person from the Heavenly Dynasty on Blue Star. During a trip, he had entered a temple to worship the Buddha, and the statue he had bowed to was precisely the Peacock King statue.

In the end, an earthquake had suddenly struck. That Peacock King statue instantly toppled and smashed down onto him.

When he woke again, he had already been reincarnated into this world.

This was a world where one could cultivate.

Cultivators believed that all people possessed spirit; it was simply that after birth, it became covered in dust. As long as one swept away the dust and awakened the Spirit Light, one could sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and step onto the path of cultivation.

And the best way to sweep away the dust and awaken the Spirit Light was to study the classics.

However, the inheritance of the classics was mostly in the hands of cultivation families and sects, who controlled the majority of paths to cultivation.

The Liang Family, into which Liang Zhaohuang had been born in this life, was just such a small cultivation family.

Although it was only an unranked humble family, it still possessed an inherited classic, the Five Talismans Scripture, which allowed the family's children to study from a young age, thereby sweeping away the dust, awakening the Spirit Light, and stepping onto the path of cultivation.

Studying the Five Talismans Scripture could not only awaken the Five Elements attribute Spirit Light, allowing one to sense Five Elements spiritual energy and step onto the path of cultivation.

It could also slightly strengthen the Liang Family children's perception of runes—that is, their Talisman Sense.

Although it was only a slight enhancement, it still gave the Liang Family's cultivators some degree of talent in drawing talismans.

Talismans had also become an important pillar of the poor-born Liang Family. They had even opened a talisman shop in the county market, specializing in the sale of all kinds of talismans.

However, though the Liang Family had now been passed down for four generations and counted dozens of cultivators among its ranks, when it came to who drew talismans best, it was still Liang Zhaohuang.

The reason for this was precisely the "Peacock King Mantra."

In his previous life, he had been crushed to death by a "Peacock King Buddha statue." After waking in this life, the "Peacock King Mantra" had automatically surfaced in his mind.

Liang Zhaohuang had recited the "Peacock King Mantra" since childhood, even more often than he had studied the "Five Talismans Scripture." In the end, he had cultivated the Five-Colored Buddha Light, which transformed into a "round light" that hovered behind his soul's head.

This Five-Colored Buddha Light possessed many mysteries, but limited by his cultivation realm, Liang Zhaohuang could currently only circulate it into his own eyes, allowing him to see the flow of the power of the five elements.

Liang Zhaohuang called this the "Five Elements Dharma Eye."

It was precisely by relying on this pair of "Five Elements Dharma Eyes" that he could clearly see the circulation of Five Elements spiritual power within talismans, allowing him, when drawing Five Elements talismans, to control things with greater clarity and precision. Not only did this greatly increase his success rate, the Five Elements talismans he drew were often one or two tenths stronger than those drawn by others.

The Five Elements talismans Liang Zhaohuang drew were all sold as premium goods in the Liang Family's talisman shop.

Not only that, the "Five Elements Dharma Eye" could see clearly the circulation of the power of the five elements, and it often helped him pick up overlooked treasures.

The "Five-Colored Light Shield Talisman" he had just repaired, for instance, was a "damaged talisman" Liang Zhaohuang had found as an overlooked treasure in the county market over a month ago.

At the time, when he bought that "damaged talisman," a small half of the talisman had already been missing.

Through continuously infusing it with mana, Liang Zhaohuang observed again and again the paths along which the power of the five elements circulated within the "damaged talisman." Then he tried again and again to connect and repair it, and finally completed that "Five-Colored Light Shield Talisman."

He did not dare say he had completely repaired that "damaged talisman," but at the very least, he had gained something small from it.

It was not only talismans. The "Five Lights Bracelet" magical artifact on his wrist had also been something he obtained by picking up a missed treasure through the "Five Elements Dharma Eye."

When he first discovered this bracelet, it appeared on the surface to be nothing more than an ordinary black-stone bangle. But through what he saw with his "Five Elements Dharma Eye," he could see abundant power of the five elements circulating within it, even forming a "seal" that sealed the bracelet itself away.

Liang Zhaohuang bought it, studied the pattern of the power of the five elements flowing within it, undid the seal inside, and then obtained this "Five Lights Bracelet" magical artifact.

This was a top-grade magical artifact. Through the "Five Lights Bracelet," Liang Zhaohuang could very easily and swiftly cast all kinds of Five Elements spells, greatly increasing his combat strength.