"Fellow Daoist Li, you must understand the current state of the Rune Script Dao better than any of us, as its original proponent. Let me get straight to the point."
"Grandmaster Dongfang's assessment was that it excels at small, clever applications but falls short when it comes to greater uses. For the moment, at least, he sees nothing particularly special about it. At most, it imitates the talismans of the Talisman Dao, rapidly generating incantations capable of unleashing divine abilities and spells... Is that fair?"
After taking his seat, Xu Long sipped the fragrant tea a maid had served him, then began speaking.
Li Chen said, "That is indeed the case."
He had to admit that Grandmaster Dongfang had a truly incisive eye. The man had immediately recognized its connection to the rune scripts of the Talisman Dao.
In fact, it was initially the way talismans used Dao-Pattern Restrictions that reminded him of interpreted instruction-code languages, inspiring him to make improvements.
In designing this system, Li Chen had borrowed extensively from the principles behind talismans and incantations. Otherwise, as a newcomer just beginning his studies, he could never have created such a system out of thin air.
Li Chen's real contribution to this field lay in providing a complete solution. He had even delved into the underlying structure of the Dao-Pattern Restrictions and recompiled them into new rune scripts.
Where talismans and incantations were mostly used for talisman treasures, either to unleash one-use divine abilities and spells or to create talisman treasures such as the "Supreme Primordial Unity Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman," his rune scripts focused on being inscribed onto crystal plates to create an environment in which magic power could circulate.
Both appeared to be encapsulations of some kind of Dao-Pattern Restrictions, but in reality, they had already