The pitch-black Talisman trembled. Darkness spread across Chen Cuo's arm, and countless negative thoughts surged from it, invading the Azure Lotus Incarnation!
In the blink of an eye, the blackness spread from his palm across his entire arm, then toward the rest of his body!
Chen Cuo did not panic. He steadied his mind and visualized the Temple Dragon King.
At once, a clay Divine Statue sat within his heart, giving off a soft glow that radiated throughout his body.
The spreading blackness stalled, then slowed considerably, but it still crept across the incarnation. Its negative, chaotic thoughts clung like maggots to bone, merging with the thoughts and Magic Power that formed the incarnation!
Chen Cuo's incarnation had been deduced by Book Mountain, projected through the Three Lives Transform into Sainthood Dao, and sustained by the pure-white thoughts within the Mysterious Pearl. Only then could it endure in the world. At its root, it was the power of Longevity bearing Chen Cuo's thoughts.
Now that this power of Longevity had been tainted by the Talisman's negative thoughts, it was like filthy water soaking into white paper. The two could not be separated or even told apart. With no defenses to speak of, the darkness drove straight in!
In the blink of an eye, nearly half the incarnation had turned black!
"Interesting..."
Chen Cuo sensed the upheaval inside his incarnation, as though rivers and seas were being overturned, and grew curious about the moods and emotions seeping from those pitch-black thoughts.
He traced them to their source, seeking the truth behind the black Talisman.
He had visualized the Temple Dragon King only briefly, but through the connection between them, he had still glimpsed a little of the truth.
*This black Talisman is incomplete too. Or rather, it was incomplete to begin