"It's great to be home once more!" Fu Xian said once he returned to his own yard.
It wasn't large, only the size of an average house with a large garden. Built in the style of a temple, it seemed open and airy, fitting his temper and free-minded style.
There were only three rooms in the temple and a pavilion outside, perfect to drink tea and calm the mind between the time it took to draw talisman.
"With my breakthrough, I can rent a higher spiritual vein and even expand the space of his yard. How should I proceed with this?
Hmm… I could expand the temple a bit, but the rest should remain the same. Maybe I should just open a field in my backyard and grow talisman grass myself!"
Although he said so, his steps were in fact hurried, wishing to enter his room as fast as possible.
His previous nonchalant attitude was gone, like a fallen façade. He just wanted to try his hands with the talisman as fast as possible!
There were three rooms in the temple: Talisman room, Bedroom and Meditation Room.
He entered his Meditation Room at this moment, sitting on his futon as he communicated with his Innate Aspect (the talisman) in his middle dantian.
Although it was called an Aspect and didn't have a mind of its own, it was a projection of Fu Xian's own mind, so it had some intelligence and could explain its own purpose and ability better.
Soon, he understood how it worked.
To create a Reincarnation Talisman, he would have to expend his origin.
His soul was the main point in his origin, the "Split-Soul", while his essence and spiritual power were required to form the talisman body and send it towards reincarnation.
He could decide how much origin he wanted to use. The talisman told him that he needed at least 50% origin in his own body to make sure he wouldn't be affected.
As an Innate Aspect, it wouldn't harm him. The expended origin was like casting spells: it would expend his current power but not his total pool. Although it took longer to recover, essentially it was just a different form of energy.
He instantly wanted to test his ability and got the message that at his current stage, he had to use at least 10% of his origin to create a clone. He could expend more origin on a clone, but considering the high start of 10%, he chose against it.
To make sure it wouldn't affect him too much and to test it, he decided to only create three talisman, expending 30% of his origin.
As he willed the talisman, he felt a weird sensation. His vision deteriorated in real time, losing the clear vision he had just acquired.
Although his body didn't age, he felt a bit weaker, his newfound strength vanishing in an instant.
Even when he thought of things, he seemed to be slower, and the circulation of spiritual power was even more affected, not only was it slow, he couldn't even fill the whole space he could fill before.
If before he could fill 1% of the dantian, now it was only 0.7%.
The change was drastic, but just as the talisman said, his body wasn't severely affected.
His thinking was slightly slower, but in normal circumstances, it wouldn't bother him. His spiritual power recovery and storage was lower, but it was fine, after all, he could just recover. As for his body… he didn't care much about it in the first place, so there was really no harm done.
While testing his situation, he also waited for the talisman to complete.
This process took a few minutes until finally, three talismans appeared in front of him.
But, before he could even observe them, they fell to the ground.
Right there, a light seemed to shine, and the talisman, sucked into the light, disappeared in an instant.
He was confused, that was it? Nothing more?
Looking at the situation, it really seemed like this was it.
He thought things through and considered expending origin once more to see whether there was a mistake, but then he realized "Actually, it would no sense for me to feel anything.
After all, this Innate Aspect of mine has been formed because of my experience…
As they say: cultivation is against the heavenly dao, because it attempts to escape the fate and order established by heaven.
On the path to escape the control of heaven, there are two aiding forces: the Earth Dao that controls reincarnation and is the mother nature, nurturing various resources in the world. These resources are one of the key paths to escape the control of heaven.
The second aid is the Human Dao, also called People Dao or Sentient Being dao. It has extreme changes and is chaotic, representing the will of all sentient beings in the world. Every sentient being has an innate tendency to become an anomaly in the plans of heaven, escaping the control and establishing their own rule.
Now it seems my Reincarnation Talisman has a bit of the flavour of the Earth Dao and my experience as a reincarnator has the potential to become an anomaly, which means I have a higher affinity for the Human Dao…
In the end, if there was only the Heavenly Dao, how could I, a transmigrator and reincarnator who has skipped the soul-reset, survive in this world?
Hehe, two Dao's, if there is a chance in the future, I will make sure to repay you!"
At this moment, he didn't know how much impact these words would have later on…
Time passed, minutes and hours, before he finally received a message.
By then, it was nearly a day that had passed.
He suddenly saw his Innate Aspect Talisman appearing in his vision, even though it was still in his dantian.
Then, he watched as the talisman enlarged and slowly blurred, before finally, it transformed into a near transparent white film in front of him.
He was able to move around the film, sizing it differently.
Just as he waited, the film flickered, and suddenly, colours came in.
Finally, a minute later, Fu Xian saw something that shocked him!
It was like a TV! Only, this was a first-person show!
And the instant he saw the picture, a stream of information fell into his brain, as if a connection was established!
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