"Arcane Secrets": Composite Radiant Glory Art

Spell name: Radiant Glory Art

Spell alias: Great Light Shield

Basic attribute: composite

Spell category: support spell; defensive spell

Affiliation: Shangqing Palace, Mount Luofu

Brief description: a secret art of the Shangqing Palace, and the first of Highest Clarity's "one school, three arts." It allowed the caster's entire body to emit a bright yellow radiance. At higher levels of magical power, dazzling, bright yellow flames of light rose and shimmered around the caster's whole body, as though he were bathed in golden clouds.

This art could restore the caster's strength and withstand ordinary magical attacks, hence its other name, "Great Light Shield." What distinguished it was that the Shangqing Palace's other two renowned spells both required this art as their foundation.

Spell weakness: use with caution in dark places, lest the caster become a brightly lit target for enemy attacks.

Advanced spells: Moonlit Flowing-Light Slash; Heaven-Earth Rebirth Tribulation

Record of appearance: in the first half of Volume Five, Zhang Xingyan worried that his "Refining Spirit into Void" would be mistaken for the evil "Soul Devouring" art, which everyone denounced and sought to stamp out. He therefore made a special visit to the Shangqing Palace's Tianyi Scripture Repository, hoping to learn a spell that could dispel this association detrimental to him. With guidance from Qingyang, the Daoist guarding the repository, Xing Yan successfully learned this art from the Rosy Cloud Cabinet.

The Radiant Glory Art originated in the "Supreme Great Radiance Divine Incantation."