Chapter 602 - The Secret Of The White Shadow Man (1/2)
Chu Yunsheng was very surprised. Skeptical, he took over the ancient books that the white shadow man pa.s.sed to him. On the cover of the first book that was called, “The Stars And The Future Of Ming Dynasty”, it indeed mentioned Chu Yan’s name, but it was difficult to understand the traditional Chinese characters and the way the language was organized, so he looked up and said, “it seemed logical, and from your sword Qi, I can sense pure Heaven and Earth energy, however, if I am not wrong, your fighting style is very different from the style that is mentioned in the book, at least, it is very different from the style I understand, so if you really understood the symbols and characters, it should not be like that. Then I can’t help but question if what you have said is true or not.”
Without sword forms, without talismans, and with just pure Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, it would not prove anything. Chu Yunsheng speculated that the reason why the white shadow man wanted to say this was that he wanted to convince him to study the ancient book with him.
Although Chu Yunsheng no longer cared if the ancient book was known by other people, nor did he care if other people were practicing the cultivation method that was mention in the book, he would not be so stupid as to ask a person, who had unknown intentions and was most likely an enemy, to study the content of the ancient book with him. Doing that would potentially raise an enemy for himself, Even if this was not the world inside the Pseudo-Monolith, who could study the content of the ancient book would still depend on the specific situations.
The white shadow man was dazed for a second and then shook his head, “indeed, although I understand some characters, it did not have much use. I know there is great knowledge in this book, but it is too difficult for me to grasp.
At that time, I didn’t quite understand it. The author of that book was a very knowledgeable person, but there were still many flaws in this book. Moreover, his writing arrangements had quite a lot of loopholes. It is impossible to achieve the methods that the book described. Now that I have seen you, all the questions I had in the past are solved. All the flaws in the book are just used to adapt to the present situation and your conditions. Everything that seems illogical and unreasonable became perfect in the blink of an eye. The author of the book was truly an amazing person.”
What he said made Chu Yunsheng confused, “but you can also use sword Qi? This is something that I am sure of.”
In any case, he had never seen anyone else, who could use the pure Heaven and Earth Yuan QI to attack before.
The white shadow man nodded and said, “yes, I can use that, but I can’t make any talismans.”
“What you are saying still does not make any sense, you said that you understand those characters, and you also know how to use Yuan Qi, how is it possible that you can’t make any talisman?” slowly Chu Yunsheng began to lose interest. It seemed like the man was not honest about the things he told him.
If the white shadow man could really read character, he might have believed him if he had said that he did not know how to make a storage talisman. With his understanding of the ancient book and the new knowledge system, and as his understanding of s.p.a.ce physics was getting deeper and deeper, the storage talisman, which seemed to be the simplest talisman amongst other types of talismans in the ancient book, was far more complicated than it appeared to be. Its technical content was more profound than the most powerful talisman he knew, and the only explanation he had at the moment was related to the ancient book.
And the reason why he thought that way was that storage talismans have never been separated from the ancient book. He was able to cast energy s.h.i.+eld talismans to other peoples and let them use energy s.h.i.+eld talismans, however, other people were never able to use his storage talismans. He could still cast storage talismans to other people, but they would not be able to get anything inside. Just like the time he left his “will” inside a storage talisman and cast it to Yuan Yiyang.
Therefore, storage talismans could only be made when there was the ancient book. At least, this was what he thought.
But in terms of other talismans, especially energy s.h.i.+eld talismans, it was not possible that he, who could understand the character and the symbols in the book, couldn’t make them. This kind of talisman, he had made so many that he could not even remember how many he had made. He was positive that it was completely independent of the ancient book.
The white shadow man sighed and explained, “there was one thing your ancestor said was right, it was that this book is your family heirloom, characters, and symbols in the book are not important. What is important is the book itself. It deliberately missed the first step in the cultivation practice, a step from nothing to something, which is the most important step! Without this step, even if the so-called barrier was broken, and the heaven and earth Yuan Qi was absorbed into the body, it would never be converted into Ben Ti Yuan Qi. Only after having Ben Ti Yuan Qi, can someone make those talismans; and only after having Ben Ti Yuan Qi, can someone practice the cultivation method that is related to it.
So it completely eliminated all possibilities for other people to steal it from the very beginning. Even if the entire book was opened in front of you, and even if you understood the entire book, you still would not be able to learn it. This is the power of the author who wrote this book!”
This was the first time Chu Yunsheng heard something like this. At first, he did not really care about it, but the more he heard it, the more shocked he was. Thinking about all kinds of questions he had in the past when practicing the cultivation method, he fell silent.
He initially thought that this was incorrect because he had taught Yu Hanwu how to make Monster Seal Talismans before, and when he was still in the mushroom forest, he had sealed quite a lot of monsters for him.
However, on second thought, if the disappeared first step really existed, it was very possible that the reason why Yu Hanwu completed the first step might be related to the ancient book and the seventh divine nail, since he had both things at that time. Not only that, but it may also be related to the fact that he had used his own Ben Ti Yuan Qi and Channel Creation talisman. In other words, like he himself, he made Yu Hanwu practice Yuan Qi cultivation method from top-down, which was a method that was similar to the paradox of breaking through Yuan Tian stage three.(1)
The seventh divine nail needed life force, and the basis of life force cultivation was Ben Ti Yuan Qi, and Ben Ti Yuan Qi was also the essential energy for Channel Creation talisman, so unless there was some sort of help, like the help he had gotten from the ancient book outside the pseudo-monolith, otherwise, without Ben Ti Yuan Qi, completing the first essential cultivation step was impossible, and without the first step, there would be no Ben Ti Yuan Qi that was needed for the entire cultivation system. In this way, it was like the bottleneck of Yuan Tian stage three, there was no solution for it.
What was different was that, one was only the cultivation system set by the senior pract.i.tioner, and the other one was a realm restriction in a broad sense. Perhaps, the senior pract.i.tioner borrowed the idea from this realm restriction.