With matters thought through clearly, Yu Ci's chest immediately felt broad. He awoke from his own contemplation and heard nearby cultivators talking loudly.
These past two days, the topics in the garden never failed to revolve around the talisman-dueling convention. Although Yu Ci already knew this was merely a gimmick put forward to cover Zhai Que'er's true purpose, word had spread very early on, and its influence among the Northern Wasteland talisman cultivators was quite substantial.
Since it was called talisman dueling, there were two kinds: layered aperture form integration and demand-responsive talisman crafting, which were originally on par. Yet legend had it that True Man Guangwei had been invited as the chief examiner for this convention and was going to present a problem. Just which area this problem would involve was very much worth discussing.
"His Reverence hails from Zhengyi Dao, and in talismans he emphasizes 'a thousand schools and ten thousand sects, broadly taking from them and refining them to essence', harboring little sectarian prejudice. Hence, he takes the greatest delight in testing a cultivator's spiritual nature, so demand-responsive talisman crafting must be the testing point."
"This view is utterly mistaken. The more one extracts from ten thousand houses, the more fundamental talisman crafting methods are key. Master Guangwei usually lectures on scriptural meanings and talismans primarily focusing on aperture eyes, connecting various houses. No matter ten million talismans, having me run through them with a single method is the true path."
"Not so, not so. The master usually teaches us to understand apertures and channel qi. If he were to produce a similar problem again, what of those fellow practitioners coming from afar? That could be called bullying strangers; his Reverence handles matters justly, so he will surely do the exact opposite."
"Hah! How can the Great