Chapter 92: Spirituality (1/2)

The disciple first took out a detailed talisman diagram and explained it to Jiang Li while comparing it to a finished wooden board.

The things to take note of, how to use the rune carving knife, how to send spiritual qi when drawing the corners of the runes, and many other points for basic weapon refinement.

This was only drawing the most basic rune. If it was expanded to a complete array formation, this would also involve the problem of linking the runes together.

The steps were complicated and the changes were unpredictable. The difficulty could only be described as terrifying.

Jiang Li took the small carving knife and learned from the others. He wrapped the carving knife and his palm together with a cloth.

That way, he could avoid touching the shavings that fell from the carving material.

In short, the details determined success or failure.

Jiang Li took a deep breath before spiritual qi spread out from his hand.

Yin-attribute spiritual qi filled the carving knife, making it sharper and more stable.

Wood-attribute spiritual qi seeped into the wooden board, allowing him to completely master the wooden patterns on this spiritual wood.

After roughly holding the talisman paper and gesturing it on the wooden board, Jiang Li's hand did not hesitate at all to start carving.

Stab~

An awkward scene appeared. Jiang Li did not consider his increased strength and directly used the carving knife to pierce the wooden board.

As long as he acted normally, only others would feel awkward.

Jiang Li immediately pretended to be nonchalant. He tried a few more times on the ruined piece of wood. After finding a suitable amount of strength, he threw away the piece of wood and took out a new wooden board.

Standing beside him, that outer sect disciple had a pained expression as he nervously watched Jiang Li's next actions.

He wanted to remind Jiang Li to pay attention to his strength, but he was afraid that Jiang Li would feel annoyed, so he could only put on a bitter expression and stand at the side while feeling anxious.

Jiang Li calmed his mind and carved again. Although the wooden board was quite hard, it was incomparable to his great strength.

As his carving knife continuously slid smoothly on the wooden board, large amounts of wood shavings flew about, and pure spiritual qi was steadily filled in.

This was the difficulty of drawing runes.

The smoothness of the rune path was the most important criterion to determine whether a rune was good or bad.

The best runes were those that could be completed with one move!

As long as there was a slight pause or even a break, there would be a relatively obvious flaw in the fluidity of the pattern after the formation.

Generally speaking, one would be considered to have passed if they stopped for less than ten times. Three times was considered excellent.

In this aspect, talent, focus, and technique could not be lacking at all. Most importantly, it was the mysterious point of 'spirituality'.

To put it in simpler terms, it was the talent for rune arrays.

15 minutes… 30 minutes… 45 minutes passed…

The blade in Jiang Li's hand moved fluidly, dancing more and more smoothly.

In front of his eyes, it was as if he saw a dot of spiritual light on the wooden board of runes. He did not think anything and only held the carving knife in his hand as he chased after that dot of spiritual light.

In this wonderful state, a spirit carving that looked like a work of art was born.

An inner sect senior brother actually ran to the area where the registered disciples were working. This abnormality quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding disciples.

The few registered disciples beside him were attracted over.

In the beginning, they might have come with the intention of admiring and sucking up to him.

However, as they watched, they realized that something was amiss.

The scene before their eyes caused the jaws of these outer sect disciples to drop.

”So fast. Is it really that smooth?”

”Senior Brother doesn't seem to have paused at all!”