Inside the Snow Listening Tower.
Lu Changfeng banished all stray thoughts and immersed himself completely in the Essential Arts of Taiping in his hands, attempting to craft talismans.
This time, he focused on the [Mystic Ice Incantation] in the section "Talismanic Arts: Water Element Transformations."
This incantation belonged to the ice lineage. It called for divine intent to draw upon water essence, condense water into ice, and freeze all things. Its script was intricate, involving several Cloud-Script Ancient Characters and specific circulation paths for true qi. More crucial still was the mental formula used when tracing the runes: "Let intent follow the brush; pour spirit into the completed talisman." It could only be grasped intuitively, not conveyed in words.
Lu Changfeng closed his eyes and concentrated, silently circulating the Treatise on All Under Heaven to produce the "yin" qi among the six primal forces. The portion of his divine intent belonging to "frost" was quietly separated and purified into a strand of pure intent.
He opened his eyes and picked up the specially prepared talisman paper and a jade brush filled with mystic ice ink.
The brush tip lightly touched the talisman paper.
Divine intent flowed into it.
At first, the brush dragged, the rune lines came out crooked, and his divine intent struggled to harmonize with the brush tip and paper.
Across several attempts, either the ink failed to hold enough divine intent and lost its effect, or the divine intent surged too violently and shattered the ink's structure, leaving only a puddle of ink frozen into icy fragments.
Lu Changfeng remained calm and unhurried.
The Ghost Valley Mind Method placed the greatest emphasis on cultivating the mind and discerning the essence of things.
He kept adjusting the strength and rhythm of his divine intent, recreating the state demanded