"It was merely a temporary adjustment based on Madam Hua's actual condition, borrowing the original intent of the Grand Profound Yin Birth Talisman and the Kaiming Spirit Talisman. It still treated the symptoms, not the root."
As he responded, Yu Ci observed the changes within and without Madam Hua's form and spirit.
As for Ao Xiu, still muddleheaded, he looked from Yu Ci to Madam Hua and finally realized sorrowfully that his way of thinking seemed to be on an entirely different level from everyone else in the waterside pavilion. Naturally, he had been "excluded" as an outsider.
Affected by the incident involving the "Water Lotus Flower," he instinctively looked at the one in Madam Hua's hand.
The red lotus, from its stalk to all twenty-four inner and outer petals, seemed to flash with a layer of glaze beneath the sunlight. It no longer possessed the texture of grass and wood, but was instead as delicate as porcelain; its edges had also become far harder, gleaming with cold light.
Sure enough, it looked just like his pitiful Water Lotus Flower!
Ao Xiu examined it more closely and saw that dense talismanic patterns had already emerged upon the twenty-four petals. Each petal formed a separate division; together with the stalk, there were twenty-five divisions in all.
At first glance, it was inferior to the Water Lotus Flower's thirty-three divisions. Yet the Water Lotus Flower had condensed water vapor and formed in one piece, suffering very little constraint from its structure. Even later adjustments had been of no consequence.
In contrast, for this lotus talisman, Yu Ci had needed to arrange everything in strict accordance with the lotus's structure, make adjustments for Madame Yellow Springs's specific condition, and consider the carrying limits of the lotus's material. So many restrictions were like demanding