Live Extraction of the Talisman Seed

Half a month later.

On a lone island outside Jade Dragon City.

Layer upon layer of formations suddenly rose, shrouding the entire not-too-large area.

At this moment, the old woman sat cross-legged at the center of the innermost Soul-Settling Spirit-Calming Array, her eyes closed in concentration, her aura so still it was nearly deathly.

Bi Qiong sat three feet behind her, her face pale as paper. Her hands formed seals atop her knees, while a faint clear radiance circulated around her body.

Xu Yuan stood before the old woman. His green robes stirred though there was no wind. His right hand was held in a sword-finger seal, suspended three inches before Su Wan's brow, while his left hand hovered over Bi Qiong's head. Pure Yi Wood true essence flowed slowly through his body.

"Begin."

Xu Yuan's voice was calm. The strand of spiritual sense at his fingertips, condensed to the utmost limit, silently slipped into the old woman's brow.

"Bzz!"

The old woman's body shook violently! A hazy point of clear light seeped from her brow, its shape ever-changing—like a talisman yet not a talisman, like a sigil yet not a sigil. It carried the profound essence of void giving birth to existence and all laws returning to their source. It was precisely the Mysterious Female Talisman Seed.

At the instant the talisman seed manifested, Xu Yuan followed the records of the Spirit-Shift Guidance Art. His spiritual sense transformed into countless even finer tendrils and began probing along the innumerable invisible connections between the talisman seed, the old woman's soul, and her Dao foundation.

The process demanded utmost precision. Every connection here bore Su Wan's insights into the talisman Dao, her understanding of heaven and earth, and even fragments of her emotional memories from two hundred and seventy years of