#2021 - Practice of Talisman
“What should we do next?”
Nalan Jingyi, Feng Ling, and Feng Wei all looked at Jun Wuxie.
“Next, you should all focus on cultivation. The Langya army will not attack the city again in a short time.
They suffered heavy losses this time, and the commander on the border will definitely report the news back to the Langya Imperial Capital to await the Langya Emperor's decree.
It will take a lot of time for the Langya Emperor to reinforce the border and prepare for war.”
Nalan Jingyi nodded, and after a moment of silence, said, “There is still one thing we must guard against.
If things develop according to our plan, and we gradually push the Lanling King to the limit, will the Xiao family of the Lanling King's Mansion send out a Heavenly God Realm expert to personally deal with you… … ”
“Logically speaking, the probability of this is very small. Mobilizing a Heavenly God means bringing a lot of trouble, and even risking being targeted by other top dynasties.
However, we should overestimate the enemy and prepare for the worst. We really have to be prepared.
After all, we can only speculate on what the Xiao family will do in the future based on their behavior, and we cannot be absolutely certain that they will not disregard everything.
Therefore, in the time ahead, not only you have to cultivate, but I also need to cultivate.”
“But time is limited. Currently, there are no special resources that Young Master needs. I'm afraid it won't be easy for Young Master to break through to the True God Realm.”
Feng Ling looked worried.
If the Xiao family really sends out a Heavenly God expert in secret to attack Young Master, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Although Young Master is unparalleled in his divine bearing, facing a Heavenly God Realm with a Half-Step True God cultivation is a sure loss.
The existence of that realm has absolute suppression over True Gods, let alone a Half-Step True God.
The suppression is too terrifying. Even someone like Young Master cannot break through the Heavenly God barrier.
“That's right, time is limited. If I cultivate with conventional resources, given my special cultivation method and the capacity of the Cave Heaven Star Sea, even with a tenfold time barrier, it would be difficult to break through.
Therefore, what I want to cultivate is not martial arts, but the Dao of Talismans.”
“Dao of Talismans?”
Nalan Jingyi, Feng Ling, and Feng Wei were all surprised, “Isn't Young Master's Dao of Talismans only at the Saint Realm Perfection stage?
The Dao of Talismans is far inferior to martial arts. If you cultivate the Dao of Talismans, wouldn't there be even less hope?”
“It's not like that.”
Jun Wuxie smiled faintly, “Your understanding of the Dao of Talismans is limited to the talisman masters of this world.
I am a Primordial Talisman Master, and the Dao of Talismans I cultivate is the ancestral method of the Dao of Talismans.
As long as my Dao of Talismans breaks through to a certain realm, and I have enough time to prepare, with the right timing, location, and people, it is not impossible to compete with a Heavenly God.
Besides, relatively speaking, the progress of the Dao of Talismans will be faster for me than martial arts.
Over the years, I have been busy with martial arts cultivation and various matters, and I have not had time to improve my Dao of Talismans realm.
Now that I am temporarily free, I can use this time to break through.”
“You should all go and cultivate, and carefully comprehend the cultivation methods.
Although you have been comprehending the perfected techniques for some time, it is far from enough.
Continue to comprehend, and your strength can continue to improve.
Feng Wei, your realms have been stuck at the True God Extreme Heavenly Position for a long time.
Next, you can try to break through to the Absolute Heavenly Position Realm, there shouldn't be any problems.
During my seclusion, I will have Yan Yu guard the place. If there are any changes, she will know how to handle them.
Therefore, you can all cultivate with peace of mind, and don't worry about other things.”
“Okay, we understand.”
Nalan Jingyi, Feng Ling, and Feng Wei all left the main hall and went to the secret chambers to cultivate.
Jun Wuxie then found Qi Zhenshan, instructed him on many matters, and then returned to his residence.
He lived in the main courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion.
This was also where Nalan Jingyi lived, and Jingya's secondary body also lived here.
Feng Ling and Feng Wei, as Nalan Jingyi's personal guards, naturally also lived in this courtyard.
“If you want to cultivate, take me with you, so that I can see you every day.”
Jingya's secondary body was sitting under the tree in the middle of the courtyard, where there was a jade stone table.
“Of course, but you have to leave a clone here to handle some matters for me.
At the same time, based on the connection between the clone and the main body, you can also know what is happening outside.
If needed, wake me up at any time.”
“Mm.”
Jingya's secondary body immediately left a clone.
Jun Wuxie then pulled her into the Eight Nine Profound Palace.
They arrived on an island in the middle of a beautiful lake.
He quickly set up a barrier with a tenfold time flow rate, sat down cross-legged, took out the Twelve Zodiacs, incorporated them into the Cave Heaven, and quickly entered a state of cultivation.
“So urgent… …”
Jingya's secondary body sat on the bluestone on the edge of the island, looking at him in the center of the barrier, and couldn't help but let out a helpless sigh.
The Twelve Zodiacs were given to him by a Quasi-Emperor Realm talisman master.
Although the talisman energy contained within is insignificant to a Quasi-Emperor, it is definitely considered incomparably vast for Jun Wuxie's current Dao of Talismans realm.
The key is that these talisman energies are of very high quality.
His understanding of the Dao of Talismans is naturally superb, and he doesn't need to comprehend it anymore. Everything is in his mind.
It is only because of his realm that he has endless talisman understandings in his mind, but he cannot use them.
Now, to improve the Dao of Talismans realm, he only needs the accumulation of talisman energy, and it will naturally be achieved without any constraints.
This makes the speed of cultivation in the Dao of Talismans inevitably very fast.
Of course, this fast is relative to other Dao of Talismans practitioners.
In reality, it still takes some time.
After all, the accumulation of talisman energy also requires a process. It is impossible to break through a realm in ten days or half a month like using special resources.
At the same time, in the border city of the Langya Dynasty, inside the City Lord's Mansion.
The commander of the Langya border army had a gloomy face and was raging, scolding two people in the main hall.
The muscles on the faces of the two people twitched. They wanted to speak several times, but they held back, looking like they were about to suffer internal injuries.
“This time, your Lanling King's Mansion must compensate for our losses! You better return to the Lanling King's Mansion now and tell the Lanling King what this commander has to say!”
“Commander Huyan, aren't you going a bit too far?
Our family head has already negotiated the conditions with your Emperor.
You also promised us to attack Yushan County and help us kill the Emperor.
Since it is an attack on the border of an imperial dynasty, there will inevitably be losses. How can this be blamed on us and demand compensation from us!”
An elder of the Lanling King's Mansion said with anger.
“Bullshit! You didn't even figure out the strength of that Yue fellow, and what's with that rune war weapon, you didn't know anything about it.
All the information you provided is vastly different from the actual information.
It was precisely because of this that our preparations were seriously insufficient and we suffered heavy losses!
That Yushan County has only 20 million defenders, and our Langya army has more than 40 million, but in just two days of fighting, our Langya army lost more than 30%!
That's more than 10 million people!
Dare you say you won't compensate?
Then don't even think about us helping you deal with the Lanling Emperor!”
“Commander Huyan, calm down. The incomplete information is indeed our problem.
That Yue fellow hid too deeply. Who would have thought that he would be so brave, single-handedly resisting 200,000 cavalry, which was indeed beyond our expectations.
As for the rune war weapon, we have never seen it before either.
It is estimated that Yue fellow got it from somewhere.
However, you saw that there were only dozens of rune war weapons in total.
We assume that they won't have any more, otherwise they would have taken them out long ago.
Although Yue is brave, he can't fight four enemies with his bare hands. As long as we prepare well next time, it won't be difficult to kill him.
As for the matter of compensating for losses, since this agreement was made by our Xiao family head and your Emperor, whether to compensate or not depends on your Emperor's intentions. I'm afraid Commander Huyan's words don't count.”
“Hmph, do you think the Emperor won't let you compensate? Do you think our Langya Dynasty is doing charity?
Wait and see, the news of the border war was sent to the Imperial Capital yesterday.
In a while, the Emperor's decree will arrive at the border.
We'll see! However, I still advise you to contact the Lanling King as soon as possible and let him prepare the silver and resources for compensation as soon as possible!”
Listening to Commander Huyan's tough words, the faces of the two elders of the Lanling Dynasty were very ugly.
Wasn't their loss this time great?
Three Quasi-Heavenly God Realm elders died on the battlefield!
Thinking about it now, their hearts are still bleeding, and the Langya commander still wants them to compensate, which is outrageous!
They could only hold these words in their stomachs and dare not say them.
Now, the Lanling King's Mansion needs the help of the Langya army. Without their help, they will not be able to kill the Emperor, then the Xiao family will not be able to completely control the imperial power of the entire dynasty, and their hegemony will not be achieved.
Although their hearts were about to suffer internal injuries, they could only forcibly endure it.
… …
Time passed day by day.
Jun Wuxie cultivated the Dao of Talismans in the Eight Nine Profound Palace, and his progress was very fast.
With the Twelve Zodiacs replenishing talisman energy, he could maintain a continuous improvement in his cultivation.
In just half a month, one hundred and fifty days inside the time barrier, his Dao of Talismans not only broke through to the God-One Realm, but also reached the mid-stage of the First Realm.
If corresponding to the martial arts realm, that would be the Mid-Heavenly Position of the Half-God.
However, as the realm of the Dao of Talismans improved, the speed of cultivation gradually slowed down.
After all, the talisman energy that needs to be accumulated for each realm breakthrough increases exponentially.
Although the higher the realm, the faster the speed of absorbing and refining energy, this speed cannot completely keep up with the increase in energy demand, and there will be some gaps.
Jingya's secondary body had been sitting on the bluestone on the edge of the island watching him.
As the Heavenly Dao, she had never been able to perceive the concept of time before, inherently ignoring its passage.
She also never knew what loneliness and boredom were.
But now, she had these emotions.
Being able to only watch him every day, unable to talk or interact with him, made her feel extremely bored and dull.
"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come in with you. Not watching you might have been better."
She murmured to herself, but in fact, she was free to come and go.
Because Jun Wuxie had given her a restriction rune that allowed her to freely enter and exit, granting her permission.
However, she was unwilling to leave.
She also felt that her state of mind was very contradictory.
During these days following him, she experienced the meaning of the mortal world every day, and her perception of emotions became more and more sensitive.
"I don't know if this will ultimately be good or bad for me. When he wakes up, I must tell him about it."
As the Heavenly Dao in the Great Emperor Realm, she was also confused, unable to resolve the doubts in her heart, and felt troubled.
It wasn't that she was unwilling to have emotional entanglements because of her feelings for him, but she was worried that it would affect her Dao heart and her cultivation.
Just as he said, he hoped that even if she couldn't walk side by side with him in the future, she should at least be able to follow behind him.
The future is difficult, and they will face many terrifying enemies.
Only by strengthening herself, at least having a certain degree of self-protection, could she help him and not be a burden to him.
She must not be a burden to him.
Because his future path was already difficult enough.
As his woman, truly loving him, she must work hard to become stronger, so as to help him, and not just be a pretty vase.
These days, watching him busy dealing with the Lanling Dynasty, conquering the major forces of this world, so that he could better resist the dark invasion in the future.
The idea in her heart became even stronger.
…
Another month or so passed.
The Lanling Emperor's decree had already been issued to the border.
The Langya border was very calm, seemingly without any movement.
In fact, they were waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
The Langya Emperor learned about the situation of the border war, and after being furious, he dispatched tens of millions of troops to the border, preparing to break through Jade Mountain City in one fell swoop.
Among these tens of millions of troops, there were ten million elites from the Langya Dynasty, including two million heavy cavalry and eight million heavy infantry, all equipped with sophisticated equipment.
The total number of elite troops in the entire Langya Dynasty was only about 60 million.
This time, the Langya Emperor directly dispatched ten million elites to the border, in addition to fifty million ordinary troops.
This was a very terrifying number.
The military strength of each dynasty was roughly the same, with more than 200 million troops, but they were distributed in different prefectures, counties, and borderlands in different directions.
Excluding the border defenses in other directions and the troops guarding the imperial capital, these 60 million people, plus the original troops on the border, were basically sixty to seventy percent of the troops that the Langya Dynasty could mobilize.
After all, other prefectures and counties had to leave some troops to guard against unrest, and it was impossible to mobilize them all to the border.
This time, the Wang family of the Langya aristocratic family of the Langya Dynasty sent a full six half-step Heavenly Position Realm experts to assist the army, mainly to deal with Jun Wuxie.
On the Lanling Royal Mansion side, an agreement was reached with the Lanling Emperor some time ago, and they had been preparing a huge amount of materials these days.
The Langya Emperor was certain that the Lanling King had no choice, so he demanded that all war materials consumed by the army be converted into silver and money, and the Lanling Royal Mansion would fund 70% of it.
At that time, the Lanling King was almost vomited blood in the imperial palace hall of the Langya Dynasty.
Such a war consumed a lot of resources. Letting him pay 70% was not enough to hurt his foundations, but it was still a painful loss for him.
Although the Lanling Royal Mansion's treasury was full, those were resources prepared for controlling the imperial power and fighting against the Langya Dynasty.
However, he had no choice. If he didn't agree, he could only watch the emperor grow stronger in Jade Mountain City on the border.
Especially with someone named Yue by the emperor's side, if he allowed the emperor to stay in Jade Mountain City for a long time, he didn't know what kind of variables would occur.
And as long as the emperor was alive for one day, he would not be able to become the supreme existence of the Lanling Dynasty for one day!
Since the two dynasties used different currencies, although they could circulate each other, the liquidity was limited.
The Lanling King had to send a huge amount of resources and treasures to the Langya Dynasty, and then convert them into the Langya Dynasty's silver and money through the chamber of commerce before giving them to the Langya Emperor.
Only a few of the strongest chambers of commerce in the Langya Dynasty could swallow these massive resources, and they were all backed by the Langya aristocratic family and the royal family, so they deliberately lowered the price.
This caused the Lanling Royal Mansion to pay a lot more for nothing.
Saying that they funded 70%, in the end, almost 100% of the military expenses were paid by the Lanling Royal Mansion.
