Windwalking Talisman

Biodata

Power Progression

The documented improvements concern the talisman’s design and material, rather than a stated increase in grade.

Appearance

• Ordinary form: Drawn on yellow hemp paper; Xu’s first successful talisman gives off a pale blue-green sheen 24.
• Inherited design: More intricate than Green Ink Peak’s version and contains substantially more spiritual energy. Ye Shanhua measures three times the energy of an ordinary talisman 22 31.
• Enhanced medium: Can be drawn on pieces of one-horned azure wolf hide instead of paper 38.

Abilities & Skills

Accelerated Ground Travel

The talisman supplies wind spiritual energy to propel its user. When Xu attaches one to his thigh, wind seems to spring beneath his feet and his body feels lighter as he runs 19 24.

• Ordinary version: Lets even a mortal travel 1,000 li in a day 24.
• Inherited version: Described as providing inexhaustible propulsion, with a travel rate of 3,000 li per day 19.
• Wolf-hide version: Reaches 5,000 li per day, exceeding the speed attributed to an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator 36.
• Accessibility: No cultivation is required to use the ordinary version 24.

Escape and Pursuit

Its speed makes the Windwalking Talisman useful both for fleeing danger and catching a moving target 29 45.

• Against Qi Refining cultivators: The 3,000-li version makes its user virtually impossible for anyone below Foundation Establishment to catch 31.
• Against stronger opponents: Xu regards the wolf-hide version as a possible means of escaping even a Foundation Establishment cultivator, not a guarantee of safety 36.
• Lower visibility: Xu prefers Windwalking Talismans for routine travel because flight attracts unwanted attention from Foundation Establishment cultivators 38.

Limits

• Consumable: Ordinary Windwalking Talismans are single-use travel aids 28.
• Inherited version’s duration: Each 3,000-li talisman lasts one day 31.
• Ground movement: Unlike a Flight Talisman, it accelerates running rather than granting flight. Xu reserves Flight Talismans for life-threatening situations 38.

Manufacture

Requirements

• Wind affinity: Green Ink Peak has few servants with wind-attributed spiritual roots, limiting the number who can draw Windwalking Talismans 22 26.
• Ordinary materials: Xu uses a Spirit Brush and yellow hemp paper 24.
• Drawing technique: Studying the Great Dao Talisman Scripture improves his spiritual-energy control; early attempts burst before completion 24.
• Stronger medium: One-horned azure wolf hide is especially suitable for wind-aspected talismans. Xu buys a hide for eight spirit stones and divides it into thirty-six usable pieces 36 38.

Xu Changshou’s Production Capacity

Trade and Value

Ordinary Talismans

• Price: One Fragmented Spirit Stone each, both through the sect and at Xu’s market stall 28.
• Demand: Affordable travel aids for Qi Refining cultivators who cannot afford Magic Artifacts or Flying Boat Puppets 28.
• Shortage: Green Ink Peak cannot meet the sect’s demand; most of the Green Immortal Sect’s supply comes from other sects. Stock at Cinnabar Glow Market often sells out quickly 28.
• Sect compensation: Xu initially receives one spirit stone monthly for submitting 140 talismans. Failure incurs a fine of twice his stipend 26.

Myriad Treasures Pavilion Agreement

Xu keeps the inherited design out of public sales until he secures a confidential trading arrangement with Ye Shanhua 27 31.

• Concealed maker: Xu attributes the talismans to an unnamed senior brother. Ye Shanhua later suspects he makes them himself but does not expose him 31 38.
• Controlled supply: He limits sales to preserve scarcity, avoid suspicion, and leave time for cultivation 33.
• Unique source: At the time of the agreement, Xu is identified as the only person in the Eastern Expanse Immortal Forest able to draw this version 33.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Market Sales and Cultivation Funding

• Xu sells 500 ordinary Windwalking Talismans in one day, earning five spirit stones—the equivalent of five months of his initial sect stipend 29.
• Stockpiling lets him fulfill assignments during seclusion: he later draws 5,000 talismans over more than nine months, then over 8,000 during a year after reaching the ninth Qi Refining level 34 39.
• His continuing pavilion sales provide ten spirit stones monthly while he cultivates toward the ninth level 38.

Fire Mulberry Country

• Thunder Ox hunt: Xu uses a Windwalking Talisman to catch the Black Antelope Thunder Ox as it flees the Thunder Pool, then kills it with a sword strike 45.
• Escape after battle: With talismans still attached to his legs, Xu swiftly takes Ye Shanhua away after killing the elderly attacking couple 46.
• Gift to Li Zheng: Xu gives the king three ordinary talismans, explaining that attaching one to the thigh permits travel of 1,000 li per day 48.