One had to give Zhang Xiaohua credit—using the shape of a gold ingot to make a jade talisman was probably unprecedented in the ten thousand years of the Immortal Dao.
With a gesture of his left hand, Zhang Xiaohua used the Control Artifact Art from the Artifact Refining Compendium. The jade talisman in the air shot down with a whoosh and landed in his hand.
Zhang Xiaohua first examined the emerald-green jade talisman, beautiful in an almost bewitching way. Then he sent his divine sense into it to inspect the formation's power. He could only feel the Primordial Qi within the talisman pulsing rhythmically, slowly circulating along the formation's pathways. Yet it remained condensed without erupting, not the slightest trace of Qi leaking out. It was indeed an excellent jade talisman.
Zhang Xiaohua was overjoyed. The jade talismans he had made before had all been created through crude methods, directly stamping formations into them. Though they were jade talismans, the formations had been forcibly embedded, lacking the harmony of the Dao. Now, however, he had used artifact-refining methods to purge the impurities from the jade, stamping in the formation while the jade was still liquid. The formation was practically born together with the jade itself. Not only was its power greater, but the formation's Qi was also more restrained.
Compared with his previous talisman-making methods, this was as different as clouds and mud.
More importantly, artifact-refining methods allowed jade talismans to be made into whatever shape he wished, did they not?
Zhang Xiaohua rubbed the little emerald-green gold-ingot jade talisman in his hand. That feeling was wonderful—far better than those stiff, square blocks.
Happily, Zhang Xiaohua strolled to the bed, tossed the straw cushion onto it, and held the jade talisman as he thought, *Since jade talismans can be refined