Demon Refining Talisman

In the East Sea, within the waters of the Pearl Island Chain, on the island where the Liang Family held the entrance to the Myriad Demon Mystic Realm.

At the Liang Family's stronghold, talisman paper lay spread before Liang Zhaohuang. Holding a talisman brush, he poured spiritual power and Spiritual Sense into it, the Five Elements Dharma Eye operating in his gaze as he carefully inscribed a talisman upon the paper.

Before the stroke could reach its end, scarlet flames suddenly ignited within the talisman paper, directly burning the half-finished talisman to ash.

Still holding the talisman brush, Liang Zhaohuang looked at the ashes of the burned talisman, his brow faintly furrowed as Five-Colored Buddha Light flowed endlessly in his eyes.

"This stroke is wrong. I need to change the direction."

With that thought turning in his mind, he took out another sheet of talisman paper, spread it before himself, and began drawing the talisman anew.

The talisman Liang Zhaohuang was drawing was not some high-grade Treasure Talisman. It could only be considered a second-grade spirit talisman.

Given his current cultivation and skill in talisman-making, second-grade spirit talismans should ordinarily have come as easily as turning his hand over. There should have been no possibility of failure, much less the talisman burning up.

However, the second-grade spirit talisman Liang Zhaohuang was drawing this time was not one already available on the market. It was a talisman he had pondered out himself, one he intended to create on his own. He called it the Demon Refining Talisman.

More than half a year ago, a member of the Liao Family, a county-level clan that followed the Liang Family, had ignored all advice and directly refined and absorbed a Blood Crystal. In the end, blood light had tainted his body and spiritual power,