The Lord of Void and Real

Chapter 79: Chapter 78: Startling Soul

Shen Luo pulled out two more talismans from his arms that both started with the word “Imperial Edict.” They were exorcism charms.

He pinched one of the talismans and infused mana into it.

As a flash of white light shot up from the talisman, his eyes heated up a little and that sensation happened again, however, his sight was somewhat blurry compared to before.

Shen Luo quickly looked towards the corner of the mountain wall, only to see a blurry black shadow, extremely unclear.

Before he could figure out what was happening, the glow on the talisman paper in his hand had already extinguished, and his vision returned to normal.

Clearly, the exorcism charm he thought he had successfully drawn, was of poor quality and thus had limited effect. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

“Practice makes perfect, it seems drawing talismans is not something that can be mastered overnight,” Shen Luo sighed, grabbing the last exorcism charm.

As his words dropped, a streak of mana flowed into the talisman paper, the light on the talisman momentarily brightened, finally emitting the same white light as the first talisman, the feeling of shadows blocking also returned to his vision.

The black fog at the corner of the mountain wall also reappeared.

This time, he didn’t get the exorcism charm closer to the Yin Sha Qi, instead, he took out an Eliminate Evil Talisman from his arms, planning to test whether it could neutralize this Yin Sha Qi.

However, after using three talismans consecutively, not a single one could be successfully activated, all of them were duds.

Shen Luo, somewhat unwilling to accept it, used every other talisman he had on him, including the Wishful Talisman, House-Protection Talisman, Hundred Solutions Disaster Relief Talisman, in an attempt to see if they could have any reaction to this Yin Sha Qi. However, without exception, every attempt ended in failure.

This ball of Yin Sha Qi had essentially become the litmus test for the success or failure of his talismans.

Ultimately, it was only with a Small Thunder Talisman that Shen Luo managed to eradicate that ball of Yinsha Black Qi.

“In the end, only the Small Thunder Talisman and the Exorcism Charm can be used!” Shen Luo sat back down at the shore, muttering to himself.

What he couldn’t understand was why the current situation arose?

Presumably, his cultivation level was now at the early stage of Qi refining, so his control over the essence and spirit when drawing talismans was obviously much different than when he was at the beginning of the Small Transformation Yang Technique. With the successful experience of the Small Thunder Talisman, he should have known what to pay attention to when drawing talismans by now.

In terms of proficiency, he got the method of producing the Small Thunder Talisman the latest and didn’t practice the most times. Rather, it was the Wishful Talisman and the Eliminate Evil Talisman that he practiced the most, yet except for the Exorcism charm, all these talismans turned out to be useless.

Although there were doubts about the genuineness of these talismans, the Eliminate Evil Talisman should at least have been fine.

Both the Small Thunder Talisman and the Exorcism Charm were ones he had drawn successfully in the Dreamland, the former even receiving guidance from Yu Yan, while other talismans had no such experience.

“Could it be… Only the talismans that have been drawn successfully in the dream can also be used in reality?” Shen Luo mused.

At this moment, he glanced upward, and found that unnoticeably, noon had already passed, so he immediately stood up and returned to the front of the mountain.

After having lunch in the dining hall, Shen Luo took care of himself and went back to his residence at Qingchipo.

When he returned to the room, he closed the door, sat quietly for a moment, lifted his hand to rub his right shoulder, pulled down the clothes on his shoulder, and revealed the black skull.

This thing had been on his shoulder for several days and seemed like it wouldn’t disappear on its own.

He glanced casually and saw the remaining yellow talisman paper from yesterday next to the pile of ancient books. He suddenly had an idea.

He immediately took out his brush, dipped it in the cinnabar, and started drawing on the talisman paper.

Half an hour later, after using up all the remaining talisman paper, he had just managed to draw two exorcism charms.

After resting for a moment, seeing that the cinnabar marks on the talisman paper had dried out, he picked up a talisman and stuck it on the skull pattern on his shoulder. A stream of mana was immediately infused into the talisman.

A flash of light on the talisman paper was seen and a burst of white light lit up. A shadowy veil was cast over Shen Luo’s vision again.

He cast his gaze to the pattern on his right shoulder, fixedly staring at the skull for a while, wanting to see if there was any dark evil existence inside. However, there was no change there at all.

Shen Luo furrowed his brows and shifted his gaze to the jade pillow at the head of the bed, but nothing else out of the ordinary happened.

He could only shake his head, slowly sat back down at the desk, and took out the Nameless Heavenly Book from the stone box.

He didn’t know if it was because he had experimented with so many talismanic instruments and talismans today leading to excessive mana consumption, but he had only used his hand to read a line of words and already felt dizzy. So, he immediately closed the heavenly book and put it back into the stone box.

Shen Luo, rubbing his somewhat swollen brow, fell asleep heavily on his bed.

…

The night was profound, and the moonlight was cold.

Outside the cliff of Qingchipo, the mountain wind passed through the gap in the valley, causing bursts of “mournful” sounds, like a woman crying softly on and off, echoing around the cliff courtyard.

On the window of a room closest to the cliff, dark shadows flitted back and forth, cast by the pine and cypress branches, looking like the claws of death as if seeking life, giving a sinister feeling.

On the wooden bed in the room, Shen Luo slept heavily, dressed. He was sleeping profoundly, not noticing at all that the rattan pillow under his head had been pushed aside unknowingly and replaced by the yellow jade pillow.

He muttered something in his dreams, turned his body to face the direction of the door, subconsciously grabbing the jade pillow under his neck with his right hand.

Just then, a gust of chill wind suddenly blew in from outside the house, rustling, it blew open the window and swept in a rolling black fog, heading straight for the bed.

Shen Luo was immediately shocked awake from his dreams. His eyes opened wide suddenly, and he instinctively tried to sit up.

But at this time, he felt a huge tearing force coming from below him. He quickly looked down, only to see a scene that made his scalp numb!

Many little hands, resembling that of a child, were “growing” out from the bed frame, firmly grabbing various parts of his body!