The Power Of Talismans - 192

The process of making a talisman was extremely easy. Zhou Fan simply created a rectangle piece of thin, yellow paper on his palm. That piece of paper contained Qi throughout it.

The next, and also last step, was to add a formation onto the piece of paper. He did this with some ink and a brush, both with his Qi within them. There was really no point in starting from the lower levels and going higher, but he did it anyway.

Since there was nothing to really comprehend, it only took a month for Zhou Fan to master god realm talismans. As for creation speed, it did take a while.

Zhou Fan took almost ten years to create talismans in half a second, similar to his formation creation speed.

In order to test the talismans out, Zhou Fan flew around the world until he found a large mountain. There, he took out one of the talismans he had created and threw it out into the air in front of him. Once the talisman reached ten feet away from him, it suddenly dissolved into thin air, leaving only a floating formation behind.

That floating formation didn't stay in the air for long. In less than a second, a dragon made of fire shot out from the formation. It headed straight forward, in the direction of the mountain. Once the full body of the dragon had left the formation, the formation dissolved like the talisman had.

The dragon of fires' body was a hundred feet long and 8 feet wide. At a fairly fast speed, it charged towards the far away mountain. Despite it being hundreds of miles away, the fire dragon reached the mountain in only three seconds. 

As soon as it made contact with the mountain, the fire dragon exploded, leaving behind an extremely large amount of flames that covered the entire mountain even when the mountain was thousands of times bigger than the fire dragon.

In about twenty seconds, the mountain had been reduced to a pit of lava and the flames finally ceased. 

Zhou Fan looked at the pool of lava with satisfaction. Despite the fact that his mortal dao made the mountain extremely strong, the space shattering level talisman was able to easily burn it into lava. 

The only reason the flames didn't spread any further was that the talisman slightly reduced the strength of the formation. The slight amount was around 50%, but it was still a fair amount considering that the talisman could be carried around easily and deployed instantly.

Deciding to test one more talisman, Zhou Fan flew around the world once again until he found another mountain. This mountain was twice as big as the first!

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Fan decided to once again use a space shattering level talisman to level this mountain. While the formation on the last talisman was average among the space shattering level formations, the one he planned on using now was one of the strongest.

Zhou Fan rummaged through his spatial pocket and found the one he planned on using. Without hesitation, he threw the talisman out towards the big mountain.

Like last time, the paper part of the talisman dissolved as soon as it reached ten feet from him, but the attack didn't come out instantly.

Instead, another formation written on the talisman took effect. That formation shot the main formation to the sky above the mountain before it collapsed. Once the main formation reached the sky above the mountain, its effect started to show. 

Clouds seemingly gathered from nowhere in an instant, and the formation ominously dissolved into the air.

The instant it did, a giant lightning bolt shot down from the clouds and collided with the peak of the mountain. It completely disintegrated the peak without even stopping and continued down to the base of the mountain. 

As the lightning went through every bit of the mountain, a shockwave shot out. That shock wave destroyed much of the mountain, leaving behind only a slanted crater where the mountain once was. 

The crater wasn't at ground level, and was instead made up of what was once the outer layer of the mountain. Zhou Fan flew into the air and looked down upon the crater.

The entire center part of the mountain had been destroyed. The only thing left was the walls of the crater created by the shockwave. Its performance that seemed lesser than the fire dragons was expected because it was a single, focused attack, while the fire dragon was a wide ranged attack. Perhaps if it was a normal formation and not a talisman, the mountain would have been completely destroyed without even an inch of it left. Still, the talisman was undoubtedly a powerful tool for any cultivator and it had clearly proved that with those two testings.

Now that he was done with talismans, Zhou Fan went to a non-destroyed mountain peak and prepared to study the next art on his list. 

Pills. His next art to practice was the art of pill making. Back on the Zhou World, pill concocters were somewhat rare and treated with respect. That was because pill creators were both the holders of great wealth and the holders of great power. They were second only to talisman creators in terms of status.

Most of that power had come from the alchemy union, but that was irrelevant to his current situation. Another reason for the power was the abilities that the pills had.

One was to speed up the process of cultivation or rather the speed at which one attracted Qi, and the other main one was the ability to heal.

While there were healing formations, arrays, and talismans, none were as easy to use and create as pills. 

The hardest requirement that pill creation required was herbs. Powerful herbs with Qi were needed to make pills, and certain types and amounts needed to be merged perfectly in order to create a pill.

Overall, the difficulty was fairly high and use was fairly great. Sadly, like many good things, they were mostly useless to Zhou Fan.

The first use of pills, drawing in Qi faster, was impossible for him to have due to the fact that no pill could draw in chaos Qi. Pills could not even be created with Chaos Qi.