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Eight-Nine Mystical Art—Nourishment Chapter.

The dismantled spell formulas needed to be assembled into new runes, but Yin Ming's knowledge of sorcery rune construction was limited to an introductory understanding.

It was not that he had no desire to study the subject in depth; he simply knew too few relevant spell formulas.

The Wizard Black Tower kept all construction knowledge beyond the very basics under strict lock and key.

And those basics were like a programmer having nothing but the most primitive machine language, without even an assembler.

If I want to truly unite wizardry and the Immortal Path, I can't just harvest the fruit without planting the trees. Sooner or later, I'll have to tackle this field.

But when it comes to primitive, inefficient rune construction, understanding the principles is enough. If the entire wizard system collapses one day, I can rebuild it using those principles. There's no way I can spend vast amounts of time learning obsolete knowledge, though.

If I have to conceive, research, construct, test, and perfect a Blank Ancestral Talisman capable of housing a dharma form all by myself, even two hundred years probably won't be enough.

I can't become a master in this field overnight. But with enough people to test every possible direction, even brute force and a little luck should eventually produce a first-ring-tier ancestral talisman.

I need a large number of zero-ring wizard apprentices proficient in rune construction, and I'll have to consume vast quantities of experimental materials.

Creating a cultivation art was difficult, requiring steady progress one step at a time. Finding even a direction that led to a higher tier was already an exceptionally rare stroke of fortune.

Creating an art several tiers above one's own while still at a low tier was almost impossible alone. And the further one