Secret Incantation Talisman Methods Forge Golden Talismans, Gongsun Shu, Patriarch of Miscellaneous Dao

The east was tinged with crimson clouds, and Heng Hua's mood brightened with a turn of events concerning his grandfather. He leisurely admired the water scenery.

A cool breeze swept across the Yanlong Waters in the morning, with the remains of aquatic creatures scattered on the water's surface.

At night, the Water Demons absorbed and exhaled moonlight, attacking each other fiercely, inevitably leading to casualties.

Heng Hua took a stroll outside. While Xiang Feng was practicing his breathing and absorbing qi, he slipped over to the adjacent boat to check on Fu Heyi.

Fu Heyi's condition was normal, his Internal Breath steady.

"It's about time. He should wake up in three to five days. I'll find an opportunity to talk to Third Brother. Anyway, he can't send me back now."

"Young Master, aren't you going to practice Qi Refining?" Howling Fish tiptoed over.

"I'll pass."

Heng Hua's cultivation had reached a critical point. He was afraid of triggering a Foundation Establishment tribulation before entering Buried Turtle Reef, so he dared not recklessly circulate his True Qi.

After some thought, he said to Howling Fish, "Have Eternal Longevity keep watch outside, and you come with me to smelt metal."

He pulled Howling Fish back to his room and took out the Golden Essence gifted by Mei Zhongtian.

"Does Young Master intend to craft Puppet Gold?"

"Indeed."

Examining the Profound Heart Gold and Spirit Silver, Heng Hua nodded. "I've dispersed my cultivation and am re-cultivating, so I can't operate the formation. You control it."

Puppet Gold, a specialized material for crafting Immortal Puppets, was a mid-grade Golden Essence.

This type of Golden Essence was lighter than ordinary Golden Essence but conducted Magical Power more effectively.

"But we don't have Seven Evil Grass—ah, Young Master plans to use that method?"

"Yes, I'll use Golden Talismans."

The most common method of metal smelting was the "Combined Smelting Method" used by Mei Zhongtian. It involved combining four types of basic materials with various heavenly treasures and refining them with fire to purify and sublimate.

In Heng Hua's eyes, this process was similar to alloy creation in his previous life.

However, this was a world of cultivation, and within the Immortal Dao, there was another metallurgical technique—the Golden Talisman Rune Method.

Howling Fish immediately took out the relevant items from their luggage.

First, a Tai Chi Bagua disc made of pear wood was placed on the table. Once the basin-sized formation disc was activated, golden light illuminated the entire room.

Next, Heng Hua spread a layer of water buffalo hide over the surface of the formation disk. This type of water buffalo was a low-level spirit beast raised on Panlong Island for a hundred years. Its hide was imbued with water spirit energy and could be inscribed with Spirit Seal Runes.

Rolling up his sleeves, Heng Hua picked up a carving knife and carefully etched white marks onto the buffalo hide.

"Howling Fish, bring me the Water Spirit Jade that Third Brother gave me."

"Yes."

Howling Fish was accustomed to Heng Hua's unique metallurgical techniques.

After the formation was inscribed on the water buffalo hide, a green ripple appeared on it. Howling Fish channeled his Magical Power, crushed the Water Jade obtained yesterday, and the water spirit energy surged instantly.

Ding—

The formation emitted a golden light, and a pleasant chime echoed from it, firmly trapping the water spirit energy.

Heng Hua threw the Spirit Silver into it and then took out twenty-four Bright Moon Pearls to surround the Spirit Silver.

"Howling Fish, you operate the formation, and I'll draw the Secret Spell Golden Talisman."

The Secret Spell Golden Talisman was an extremely niche technique even among metallurgical Daoists.

Orthodox metallurgical Daoists like Mei Zhongtian would extract essence from Profound Gold using precious flames and spiritual fire, then blend it with other materials, crafting high-grade Golden Essence through fire refining.

The Secret Spell Golden Talisman, however, bypassed all fire refining processes. It only required the corresponding basic materials, a formation filled with spiritual energy, and the Secret Spell Golden Talisman of the relevant higher-grade Golden Essence.

With the Golden Talisman as a catalyst, the Golden Essence would form on its own.

Centering himself, Heng Hua carefully wrote the Secret Spell Golden Talisman for "Water Moon Silver" on the talisman paper.

Howling Fish stood by the table, controlling the formation. He closed his eyes, not daring to look at the writing of the Golden Talisman.

The Secret Spell Golden Talisman was immensely valuable. Although Howling Fish was Heng Hua's confidant, she dared not steal this secret, unpassed knowledge.

"You can open your eyes now."

Heng Hua let out a sigh of relief, looking at the completed Golden Talisman in his hand.

Not bad, it succeeded on the first try.

He lightly brushed his hand over the Golden Talisman, and the runes vanished one by one, turning into black talisman paper.

Howling Fish opened her eyes and saw the pitch-black Golden Talisman. "So fast?"

"Water Moon Silver is a primary composite Golden Essence upgraded from Spirit Silver. The Golden Talisman isn't difficult to write."

But it was expensive!

Heng Hua would rather have Howling Fish learn the Secret Spell Golden Talisman for Puppet Gold than reveal the one for Water Moon Silver.

This was because Water Moon Silver, as a synthetic material for many high-grade Golden Essences, had extremely broad applications. This Golden Talisman was more valuable than the Golden Talismans for some high-grade Spirit Golds.

Of course, this high value was only applicable to cultivation sects and families.

To individual cultivators, Golden Talismans are merely a way to simplify the process of crafting Gold Essence. However, for cultivation families and sects, a Golden Talisman can bypass the relevant fire refining processes, simplifying the production of Gold Essence. Each secret-spell Golden Talisman is equivalent to a metallurgical production line.

Heng Hua held a Golden Talisman and pointed it at the formation controlled by Howling Fish.

"Go."

Creation True Qi activated "Water Moon · Golden Talisman."

A profound and mysterious white light enveloped the cowhide formation, and together with the Tai Chi Bagua formation, it raised twenty-four Bright Moon Pearls.

The spiritual energy within the Bright Moon Pearls flowed into the Gold Essence bit by bit. After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a silver-moon colored Gold Essence appeared.

Heng Hua swept away the surrounding broken pearl powder and picked up the Water Moon Silver to examine it.

"Not bad, not bad. The weight is appropriate, and the purity is also good. No further processing is needed."

He took out the Profound Heart Gold and continued to instruct Howling Fish.

"Come, let's continue making Puppet Gold."

Howling Fish put away the water buffalo hide, which had lost more than half of its spiritual energy, and took out a piece of fiery red beast hide from his luggage.

The moment the beast hide appeared, the temperature in the room rose, and Heng Hua's expression became solemn.

"Using this, I'm reluctant to part with it."

Flood Dragon Skin. No matter how poor Heng Hua was, he had never been willing to sell this piece of Flood Dragon Skin.

"How about using Third Brother? His Samadhi True Fire can replace the formation."

"Third Brother? That works too. Go find him."

As he spoke, Heng Hua picked up his brush and wrote the secret-spell Golden Talisman corresponding to Puppet Gold.

By the time he finished writing, Fu Xiangfeng had just entered.

Seeing the Golden Talisman emitting a yellow halo, Xiang Feng showed surprise. "Howling Fish came to find me, and I didn't believe it. You kid actually know this unorthodox stuff?"

"I've only mastered three of them."

The Golden Talismans for Water Moon Silver and Puppet Gold were hidden within an ancient book, forming a metallurgical set.

In addition, Heng Hua had also obtained the secret-spell Golden Talisman for Chiyuan Gold Essence from the cover of a commoner's novel.

Xiang Feng sat down casually. "Are there any that our family can use?"

"Yes, but given the current situation, I don't plan to reveal them."

"That's true. We can't just give them to Baiyu Hall for cheap. We'll figure it out ourselves later."

Heng Hua shook his head. "Don't get any wild ideas. Our family must hold the core technology, but we also need to involve the other two halls. It's just that Grandfather's matter is urgent right now, and I don't want to cause any unnecessary trouble. Come, Third Brother, stoke the fire."

After Xiang Feng circulated two balls of Samadhi True Fire, Howling Fish threw the Water Moon Silver and Profound Heart Gold into the flames.

The Bagua formation locked the two balls of Samadhi Fire, and the heat waves reverberated within the formation.

Heng Hua activated the Golden Talisman, and yellow mist enveloped the flames, gradually guiding the flames to fuse with each other. The two pieces of Gold Essence inside began to make contact...

Xiang Feng, while easily controlling the fire, asked, "Why are you making Puppet Gold? Are you going to play with puppets too?"

"Just for fun, I'm making a small thing. Probably... a puppet at the Foundation Establishment level?"

"You're truly multi-talented. Puppet techniques, metallurgy, things that are a million miles apart. You can learn them all."

Regarding Fu Henghua's studies, Fu Xiangfeng could only sigh in admiration.

He dabbled in all sorts of strange spells and secret spells. This kid really intended to achieve immortality by comprehending from books!

"Far apart? Not at all. Have you heard of Gongsun Shu, Third Brother?"

"The legendary immortal Gongsun wrote it, recording methods for creating immortal mansions, mechanisms and puppets, divination of fortune and misfortune, feng shui arrangements, warding off evil spirits, and various other miscellaneous arts and techniques?"

That book did not focus on cultivation for longevity. However, its various techniques were bizarre and could be considered the pinnacle of miscellaneous arts.

"Yes. Langhuan Pavilion secretly treasures a page of a fragmented Gongsun Shu."

"Impressive. You read books in Langhuan Pavilion every day and still get such rewards?"

"If you're interested, Third Brother, you can read with me. Our family's library has many things you don't know about."

"Forget it, I don't have the time. I'd rather focus on practicing and cultivating Magical Power, which is the foundation."

No matter how many techniques one had, a single sword strike was enough in a real fight.

"By the way, I heard someone say. The earliest records of Evil Soul Daoist's Black Artifacts are in Gongsun Shu?"

"I'm not sure. Gongsun Shu's origin is too ancient. It's said that this book has been circulating in the cultivation world for five thousand years. It's not impossible that the Evil Soul Daoist's Mother Child Yin Yang Divine Stele originated from Gongsun Shu. Third Brother, pay attention to the heat."

Xiang Feng adjusted the heat, and the yellow mist completely enveloped the two materials.

The Puppet Gold, which originally required three days and three nights of refining, was already showing signs of completion.

Xiang Feng put on his elder brother's demeanor and warned, "Black Artifacts are evil and unorthodox creations, not something our righteous sect practices. If you obtain related techniques from Gongsun Shu in the future, you must destroy them and not look at them further."

"..."

"But I suppose you won't have a chance to encounter forbidden techniques like Black Artifacts; they were all destroyed thousands of years ago."

Seeing him put on his elder brother's airs, Heng Hua looked at the ring on his hand and said in a deliberately casual tone, "Black Artifacts? Although the page I obtained doesn't have Black Artifacts. But this thing isn't difficult, I know how to make it."

With a light, airy sentence, Xiang Feng trembled, nearly losing control of the Samadhi True Fire.

"You know how? You can make Black Artifacts?"

"Yes, I learned it from an ancient book. Third Brother, be careful!"

Heng Hua helped stabilize the flames, and the Puppet Gold was mostly refined.

"I actually considered making a Black Artifact myself back then. And then..."

Recalling the frustrating experience, Heng Hua sighed softly.

Xiang Feng looked at Heng Hua, speechless.

What has this kid been messing with all these years buried in books?

Heng Hua held out his palm. "See this Qiankun Ring? This was the original embryo of the Black Artifact I made. I planned to use my own finger bone, mixed with blood and flesh, to refine it. Then, using this ring, I'd make a secondary ring, throw it into some predecessor's cave, and lure the Wei family there. Once their idiots got the ring and tried to refine it, they'd automatically become my slaves."

"The Wei family? That's right, their family loves exploring predecessor's caves."

Xiang Feng's heart stirred. He remembered the Wei family coming to Panlong Island to cause trouble, even using a Qi Refining genius to humiliate Little Sixth.

Could it be that incident from years ago made Little Sixth hold a grudge, and he's planning to use Black Artifacts to trap them?

"Then why didn't you continue?"

"Old Master found out. And then..." He had wanted to tease Third Brother, but thinking of that incident back then, Heng Hua felt his backside start to ache again.

"He beat you?"

Fu Xiangfeng knew Fu Danwei's personality well.

Fu Danwei wished the Wei family dead, but he absolutely wouldn't tolerate evil things like Black Artifacts. Even less would he allow his descendants to kill people and act in such a despicable manner.

A gentleman acts, and refrains from acting.

Heng Hua remained silent.

It hurt, a lot. He had always known how to act cute and win favor with his Grandfather since he was young. Although Grandfather would scold and curse him, he rarely laid a heavy hand on him.

That time, upon learning he planned to use Black Artifacts to control the Wei family.

Fu Danwei, enraged, beat Fu Heng Hua so badly he couldn't get out of bed for three days.

"How many whips? No, how many rulers?"

Fu Danwei usually used the Seven Star Whip made from Flood Dragon Skin to beat his grandsons. But in special circumstances, he would use the Jade Ruler in his hand.

That ruler was practically the treasure of Panlong Island, possessing immense power. Even without activating its Spirit Tool might, just the material itself was enough to beat a Foundation Establishment Cultivator until their skin was ripped and flesh was exposed.

Heng Hua rolled his eyes, too lazy to continue talking with Xiang Feng.

"Three times? Five times? Surely not ten times, and definitely not thirty times, right? If it were that many, you'd still be able to walk?"

"Third Brother, don't stop what you're doing with your hands, it'll be ready soon. It's done—put out the fire."

Once the Puppet Gold was made, Heng Hua immediately kicked Xiang Feng out.