The Heavenly Barrier Natal Golden Talisman was described as "complex" because, starting from the Reverted Pill realm, one had to pass through five gates before achieving great completion.
Establishing the Foundation was the first, and did not involve the Golden Talisman itself; the Nine Luminaries Six Talismans was the second, serving as its embryonic form; the Six Talismans of the Primordial Stars was the third, consolidating that form; the Twenty-Eight Mansions was the fourth, another step upward and a minor completion; the Circumheaven Star Numbers was the fifth, and only then was it considered complete.
In truth, this also corresponded to the three stages of ordinary pill arts: Establishing the Foundation, Jade Liquid Reverted Pill, and Golden Liquid Reverted Pill. Yet the latter two stages each had two extra gates added for reinforcement, with talisman arts—the greatest test of mental strength—as their foundation. Calling it complex was most fitting, but its Dao foundation was also built incomparably solid.
In theory, Yu Ci had now completed the first two gates and stepped over the threshold into the middle stage of Reverted Pill.
The only difference was that the Soul Recovery Star-Fixing Spell and the Life Extension and Calamity Averting Star Spell, two talismans concerning the great matter of life and death, had formed Seed True Talismans in one stroke and fused into one. Something was involved here.
On further thought, there was nothing else—only life and death.
When anchoring oneself to the stars, the most crucial point was to stir the Life and Death Profound Mechanism. Through his earlier "review," Yu Ci had seen through Jian Shao's limit of life and death, allowing him to "place the piece and answer the move." In one stroke, he shattered the fog that had bound him before. Borrowing the force of enlightenment, he triggered