Xiao Hua was still practicing the most basic fifty Green Seal Characters within Qi Heaven, still comprehending the realm of Dao Gives Birth to One. There was no hurry to practice this new Talisman curse technique. What he needed to do now was simply follow the gourd and paint the dipper—use the Soul Cultivation Technique within the bone joint Zi Ming had given him to record the Cloud-Gathering and Rain-Making Technique.
He had thought that he had already gained an initial grasp of the Green Seal Characters. He had thought that, since he understood the Dao Sect's method of recording with divine sense, recording something onto a talisman would not be too difficult. Yet when Xiao Hua began recording according to the soul technique within the bone joint, he discovered that the Soul Cultivators' method of recording Green Seal Characters was as different from the Dao Sect's method of recording jade slips as heaven was from earth! This recording method was entirely a soul technique! If the Dao Sect's method of recording jade slips was like an ordinary mortal writing, then there was no need to understand what one was writing; one only needed to copy the contents stroke by stroke, and the quality of the handwriting did not matter. But this Soul Cultivator method of recording Green Seal Characters required one to understand and thoroughly grasp the text being copied, while making every single stroke exactly identical. So long as there was the slightest difference, the Green Seal Characters could not be recorded!
This was all well and good. Recording the Cloud-Gathering and Rain-Making Technique was like having Xiao Hua carefully comprehend the entire technique once more, as though he were teaching it to someone else word by word and sentence by sentence.
Thinking of his rash behavior in