The Lord of Void and Real - Chapter 78 - Chapter 78: Chapter 77: Testing the Spell

Chapter 78: Chapter 77: Testing the Spell

Shen Luo stood not too far away, watching this scene before him, and a relieved smile finally appeared on his pale face.

Through the practice of more than half an hour, he was finally able to barely control the flight of the Talisman Fork, however, his movements were still awkward and difficult. They couldn’t be compared with what Lu Huaming demonstrated. Even the power of the Talisman Fork attack he had just used was vastly different.

Shen Luo understood that this was largely due to the difference in the strength of Mana.

At present, with the Mana of the first level of his Nameless Cultivation Technique, he couldn’t make the Talisman Fork fly too high or too far. It could at most only move within a three-feet radius around him. Any further, and he would lose control.

Moreover, controlling Talismanic Instruments consumed too much Mana. He could at most only make the Talisman Fork fly for the duration of brewing a cup of tea. This was only just simple flight control. If it were to truly enter a battle, the consumption would only increase and speed up.

Shen Luo walked forward to retrieve the Talisman Fork lodged in the crack of a stone and then sat down leaning against a rock.

It was then that his gaze suddenly fell on the Talisman affixed to the Talisman Fork. His brows furrowed involuntarily.

He had drawn many Talismans daily, which made him sensitive to the changes of a Talisman Paper. He noticed the problem the moment he glanced at it. The color of the runes on the Talisman Paper had faded, and the patterns on it had become blurry.

Before he left the house today with the Talisman Fork, Shen Luo had carefully examined the Talisman on it. Although the color wasn’t as vivid as a newly drawn Talisman, the cinnabar color was rich enough and the charm patterns were clear. Upon comparison now, obvious changes had occurred.

Moreover, once a general Talisman is ignited and the Talisman core is used, it would burn into ashes. However, the Talisman affixed to this Talismanic Instrument didn’t directly burn into ash after the Mana was infused. There must be something extraordinary about it.

A hunch rose in Shen Luo’s mind, he guessed that the Talisman on this Talismanic Instrument could burn, but unlike a general Talisman, the burning process was slower. However, after repeated use, it would eventually be consumed completely.

Based on the number of times he tried to use it and the changes in the color of the Talisman Paper, this Talisman could probably only be activated three to four more times before it completely loses its effectiveness.

Thinking of this possibility, he felt a little regretful, he decided to wait until Bai Xiaotian returned and ask him about the Talismanic Instruments and see if there’s any way he could remediate this.

Having put away the Talisman Fork, Shen Luo rested for nearly half an hour more before he started to feel some recovery of his Mana in his Dantian.

Then he began to pull one Talisman after another from his sleeve. They were all drawn yesterday.

When he hadn’t understood the Dao, he could only experiment with Talismans with Yuan Stones. Every time he used up a Yuan Stone, it caused him distress. Now that he has his Mana, it’d save him this expense.

Hence, he planned to try out all the types of Talismans he could draw to see what they could do.

Before obtaining the Small Thunder Talisman and the exorcism charm, the Talisman that Shen Luo had repeatedly practiced drawing the most was named “Eliminate Evil Talisman”. As its name suggests, it’s a Talisman used to dissolve the Yin Sha Qi.

That year, when Luo Daoist tried to cure Shen Luo’s illness, he used this Talisman to neutralize the Yin Qi extracted from him. He frequently mentioned learning this Talisman afterwards. Although Luo Daoist didn’t directly teach him, he reluctantly gave him a sample diagram for him to practice with.

At this moment, Shen Luo was holding an “Eliminate Evil Talisman”, A bit of mana in his Dantian followed his will and flowed down his arm’s meridian channel and entered the Talisman.

A blue light flashed on the Talisman Paper, a soft “hiss” sound could be heard from where the charm was drawn, the area covered in cinnabar instantly blackened, a weak blue glow emerged like smoke and then disappeared.

Seeing this, Shen Luo shook his hand, threw the Talisman Paper clutched at its tip onto the ground.

He then picked up a House-Protection Talisman and infused a bit of Mana into it.

According to the records in the ancient books, mansions with a genuine House-Protection Talisman affixed would appear ordinary during the daylight, but at night, they’d be enveloped in a blurry Treasure Light, invisible to mortal eyes, effectively preventing evil spirits and any yin anomalies from invading.

Although Shen Luo had mana, he wasn’t an ordinary mortal, but he also didn’t know what the scene would look like once mana was infused into the House-Protection Talisman, so at this moment, his heart was filled with curiosity, mixed with a touch of anticipation.

However, the House-Protection Talisman, like the Eliminate Evil Talisman, shone with a blue light, then the talisman paper was torn by the mana, ending in the same failure.

Although Shen Luo had anticipated this, he couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

He sighed lightly, twisting another exorcism charm between two vertically raised fingers of his right hand.

He had used this exorcism charm successfully in Dreamland for the first time, but once back in reality, he hadn’t had a chance to verify its effectiveness.

As he moved his mind, a strand of mana bubbled up from his Dantian, flowing into the talisman.

This time, there was a change.

First, there was a flash of blue light on the talisman, the talisman paper did not rupture, the drawn runes lit up, and a gentle white light rose from it instantly.

As this white light came on, Shen Luo suddenly found that his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of cloudiness, causing the colors of the surrounding stones and the pool to become much lighter.

Confused, he hastily turned his gaze towards the distant, only to find that everything he saw was the same.

As Shen Luo’s eyes left an unremarkable corner of a mountain wall on the opposite bank of the stream, he suddenly felt an odd feeling in his heart and hurriedly turned his head to stare in that direction.

He saw that the corner of the mountain wall, which rarely saw sunlight and was damp from the adjacent water, had a foot-high dark green moss growing on it, and on the ground close to the moss, there was a cluster of faint black fog.

Upon seeing this, Shen Luo quickly picked up the other talisman papers on the ground, waded across the river, and ran over.

When he got close, yet before he had even reached out the exorcism talisman, the clustering black fog in the corner seemed to sense the talisman’s power, suddenly expanding and surging wildly.

“It really is Yin Sha Qi! It turns out that this exorcism talisman indeed has the ability to reveal the Yin Sha anomalies.” Shen Luo also simultaneously felt a sense of chill and unclean breath from the black fog.

As he spoke, he held the glowing exorcism talisman in his two fingers and moved it closer to the Yin Sha Qi.

The black fog seemed to be quite fearful of the talisman, frantically retreating, but with the mountain wall behind it and nowhere else to go, it desperately surged upwards along the wall.

But this Yin Sha Qi seemed to be very weak, only daring to climb up a foot before it stopped, fearful of continuing upwards because once it got out of the range where the moss grew, it would be exposed to the midday sun.

When the exorcism talisman got within three feet of the Yin Sha Qi, it suddenly ignited into a white flame, going up in smoke towards the Qi.

Shen Luo did not want to eliminate the Yin Sha Qi immediately, so he quickly pulled his arm back, moving the exorcism charm away.

Soon, the exorcism charm was burned out completely, and after twinkling with its last spark, it was completely extinguished.

Almost at the same time, the shadowy feeling that had been in front of Shen Luo’s eyes also disappeared. When he opened his eyes wide again to check the corner of the mountain wall, it was already empty. There was nothing left.