Any treasure that reached the third rank or higher would birth their own spirituality.
Most of the time, treasures at that level would be contained with a type of sealing talisman to prevent their spirituality from leaking.
“This is definitely something good. It’ll be a waste to give this to Duan Hong…” Shang Ke shook his head and suggested, “You should keep this for now. Once Duan Hong manages to craft his first low-grade weapon, you can use this to upgrade it to a mid-grade one.”
After speaking, he decided to take his leave.
Since the Four Spiritual Peak was destroyed, the Tongyou Peak wasn’t just busy trying to expand their territory. They had to digest all their gains and send resources back to the institution.
The four great clans of the Tongyou City were swamped with post-battle work. Since the Shang Clan’s contributions to the recovery of the Coral Forest and the destruction of the Four Spiritual Peak was the largest, they obviously got the largest share. However, the long standing patriarch of the Shang Clan, Shang Bo, chose to renounce his position as the patriarch of the clan, leaving all the work to the newly ascended Shang Ke. For the past few days, Shang Ke had been so busy he hadn’t taken a single break!
Shang Xia stood at the top of the Shang Pavilion as he looked all around. He didn’t know if he was mistaken, but there seemed to be a fundamental change in the six surrounding peaks.
Staring intently to look for the reason behind his feeling, he couldn’t notice anything different. As the skies were filled with a soft mist originating from the battlefield between the two worlds, he couldn’t see too far past the surrounding peaks either.
Taking in the illusory view, Shang Xia sighed before returning to his chamber.
This time, he didn’t train in the Dual Interference Sword Manual any longer. Instead, he turned his attention to a piece of half-finished talisman jade.
Ever since returning from the Coral Forest, Shang Xia only had three things on his mind. The first was to train in his Yin Yang Mysterious Art, the second was to deepen his understanding of the Dual Interference Sword Manual. The last was to research the Zhu Family Talisman Scripture.
Ever since entering the grand completion stage of the Martial Extremity Realm, Shang Xia’s mastery of the Yin Yang Mysterious Art seemed to have reached the peak of what it could have been. However, he strengthened his foundations even further after using so many portions of Expanding Meridian Powder and Tempering Meridian Powder. He had some room for improvement and he decided to continue circulating his Yin Yang Mysterious Art to increase his strength even further.
As for the Dual Interference Sword Manual, Shang Xia wanted to delve a little deeper into it even though he had already comprehended the martial intent behind it. He was close to forming his sixth sword intent, but he noticed that there was still room for improvement! He hadn’t reached his limits yet!
At that moment, his Yin Yang Sword Formation contained five different types of martial intent. His strength had far surpassed anything a Martial Extremity Realm cultivator could reach, but that wasn’t enough. He wanted to see how far he could push it!
Next came the Zhu Family Talisman Scripture. Even before obtaining it, Shang Xia had become a second rank talisman master.
Even though the number of talismans contained in the scripture was barely a drop in the ocean compared to those out there, they contained extremely detailed descriptions and creation methods.
During his seclusion, Shang Xia placed most of his attention on his Yin Yang Mysterious Art and the Dual Interference Sword Manual. His research on the Zhu Family Talisman Scripture had always been secondary. Even so, he managed to create 13 of the 23 rank one talismans recorded within. Of the 14 rank two talismans recorded, he also managed to create 5 of them.
He discovered that creating the rank two talismans recorded in the scripture was countless times easier than when he created the Golden Sword Talisman.
Previously, he had no guide at all. However, the talismans recorded in the Zhu Family Talisman Scripture were basically a step-by-step guide for dummies. As long as he grasped the key to several rank one talismans, he could easily extend the knowledge to craft the rank two ones!
Throughout the process, Shang Xia discovered something interesting. Out of all the talismans he made, most of them were sword talismans! He had no idea why, but he seemed to be drawn to sword talismans over the others. In fact, that was also the reason he chose to craft a rank two Golden Sword Talisman previously!
Of the 13 rank one talismans he made, six of them were sword talismans. 2 of the 5 rank two talismans also contained principles similar to those behind sword talismans.
Because of his discovery, a bold idea was born in his mind. He wanted to try creating a sword talisman containing sword intent!
One had to admit that Shang Xia was slightly overestimating himself. There were countless rank two talismans in existence, and he hadn’t been a rank two talisman master for long. Hell, he hadn’t even made a substantial number of rank two sword talismans! Now, he wanted to create a new type of talisman containing sword intent…
According to his plan, he could split off a little bit of his sword intent from one of the five tiny swords surrounding his Yin Yang Diagram and seal them into the talisman. However, things were easier said than done. Every time he tried it, he failed miserably.
Even so, Shang Xia didn’t plan to give up. After repeated tries and wasting 20 pieces of rank two talisman paper, Shang Xia finally managed to create two half-talismans containing sword intent.
Each half contained his ice and fire sword intent respectively, but whenever he tried to fuse them together, the resulting power would create a mini explosion.
After wasting so many pieces of rank two talisman paper, Shang Xia finally realized that the reason behind his failure might be because of the quality of talisman paper. Ordinary talisman paper might not be able to contain his sword intent and he decided to test it out using talisman jade.
During his first try, the clash of the opposing qi caused a massive explosion that wiped out the rest of the rank two talisman paper he had on his table. The frosty qi that emerged also froze the ink he was using.
Reflecting on what he could have done better, Shang Xia realized that he didn’t need to fuse both fire and ice qi! Like the situation in his dantian, fire and ice qi could remain separate until the time came to fuse them together!
Putting the theory to the test, Shang Xia decided to seal his fire sword intent into one side of the talisman and his ice sword intent into the other. The talisman jade would still remain one solid piece but it would contain an invisible barrier between the opposing types of sword intent! Only when it was activated would the power on both sides fuse together!
As Shang Xia’s Yin Yang Essence Qi started to transform, his Thorny Brush danced on the surface of the jade. As runes were slowly carved out on its surface, he finally completed half his talisman!
Even though only half of it was completed, the runes on the talisman jade didn’t dissipate immediately. Instead, it seemed extremely stable as one type of sword intent had already been sealed within. Shang Xia felt a burst of joy after seeing the product. Even though it was only half complete, he knew that his idea was feasible! A type of rank two talisman that he came up with was starting to take shape!