Chapter 156 - Talisman

Leyvi inspected the space ring. It seemed like it contained quite a lot of stuff.

"What's in there? Any rare seed?" Lilian asked. She also heard the crashing sound, so she knew Leyvi had disabled the restriction.

Leyvi rolled his eyes. Do you think everyone is carrying a bunch of seeds wherever they go like you?

Huh? What the heck? There really is a seed inside! Additionally, he had never seen this seed before. It was black and had dark purple lines.

Leyvi wasn't sure if he should give this seed to Lilian. After all, it came from the space ring of that villain's underling.

He ignored it for now and continued inspecting. He noticed a large amount of spirit stones inside, including some high-grade ones. Even though he had never seen a high-grade spirit stone before this, it wasn't difficult to figure it out once he saw it.

All the alchemy products he found in the space ring were nothing special. He had seen all of them previously. He hoped to see some precious alchemy formulas to give Anda, but there was nothing of that sort. What a letdown.

Among the many jade slips he brought out, a few of them were the cultivation methods related with dead bodies and harvesting the death Qi. Leyvi felt disgusted with this kind of method and thought nobody should be learning this no matter the reason, so he destroyed them.

"If you created a cultivation method involving dead people, of course they are going to start massacring innocent people. Who could have guessed?" Leyvi shook his head.

He found it funny because the creator of these cultivation methods was a grave keeper. He specifically reminded the inheritors to respect the dead and don't kill the innocents but look at what happened, they don't give a shit.

Sigh, it looks like he has to save them all by perfecting the Yin Yang Heavenly Bliss dual cultivation method! Since it involves cultivating the Yin Yang Qi by achieving harmony with your partner, it will surely promote good relationships between couples!

Domestic abuse among Dao Companions reduced by 90%! Birth rate increased by 20%! He could already picture the headlines of when he released the perfected dual cultivation method in the future.

"Hahaha! This is how you should save the world!" Leyvi laughed out loud after fantasizing about the world full of loving couples.

Due to the nature of his dual cultivation method, it might even affect how big families marry off their daughters to a certain extent. If it could let them marry someone they liked, that was already a huge win. Well, he couldn't really criticize these families. After all, his panda wife had just tricked one innocent lady into marrying him. In any case, he didn't plan to treat Ava badly. If she really couldn't get to like him, he wouldn't mind separating. He was not that small-minded.

Leyvi continued looking into the rest of the jade slips. He noticed that most of them were about Array and Formation. These were pretty useful since they included all the basics. If any of the ladies wanted to get into this field, he could give them.

As for spirit weapons and spirit artifacts in the space ring, they all seemed very suspicious. He didn't want to bring them out. He even saw a smaller model of that creepy birdcage formation in here. Nope! Nope! He should destroy these cursed things.

Huh? That seems normal. Leyvi saw a metal bat in there that didn't feel ominous. After he brought it out, he immediately noticed that it was a Tier-5 Spirit Weapon.

"Holy! This is a wonderful stuff! Finally, something I can use! Hahaha! Since it is a Tier-5 Spirit Weapon, it should have an amazing effect, right? I wonder what it could do? I'll test it later. Maybe I can hit a hill and send it flying. That would be cool." Leyvi excitedly scrutinizes the metal bat.

Lilian, who was already trying to sleep, opened her eyes to see what was Leyvi excited about. She immediately closed her eyes after finding out it was not a plant. What is there to be excited about? It's just a metal bat. A wooden bat would be more exciting.

Lilian's reaction didn't escape Leyvi's perceptions, so he smiled.

"Oh? There's a weird seed in here. I've never seen one like this before." Leyvi pretended he had just discovered the seed. He wanted to see Lilian's reaction, although he already knew how she would react.

As he expected, Lilian's eyes opened wide. She then immediately turned her body and sat on him, her favorite intimate position, offering her melons to him.

"Husband, can I have that seed please?" Lilian requested with a very innocent face.

"My seed?" Leyvi asked mischievously.

Lilian nodded without thinking.

"Alright! Let's go for another round then!"

"Eh?" Lilian became aware that she had been tricked. Fine, she'll take care of her husband's seed first!

After an additional round, Leyvi gave the strange seed to Lilian. She received it excitedly.

"Go find out what kind of seed this is first. Don't try to grow it right away," Leyvi instructed. He knew that her garden had an identifying function.

Lilian nodded. She closed her eyes and entered the Goddess of Fertility Garden with the strange black and purple seed.

A few minutes later, Lilian exited the garden.

"Leyvi, this is the seed for a plant known as the Talisman Tree. It's used to make talisman paper." She explained.

Leyvi was relieved and intrigued. Thankfully, it was not some kind of evil plant. At the same time, the Talisman Tree attracted his curiosity. Wasn't this an extinct tree?

Long ago, before the advancement of arrays and formations, the talisman was the primary way for cultivators to do many things, especially in battle. Talismans allowed cultivators to perform various tasks, such as attacking, defending, buffing, and debuffing.

Talismans were a onetime-use consumable that was inscribed with inscriptions, allowing them to produce many kinds of effects depending on the inscriptions used.

It was the predecessor of the current arrays and formations fields. Talismans, arrays, and formations were all based on inscriptions symbols.

In the past, cultivators discovered that certain symbols would produce certain effects when subjected to Qi. Since then, they began to explore and discover more and more symbols by trial and errors.

After that, they discovered a tree that was exceptionally good at conducting Qi, leading to the Golden Age of Talisman. Every single cultivators in the continent carries multiple talismans on them, especially those who were bad at fighting. However, the golden age only lasted for a few thousand years because the Talisman Tree went extinct because of overuse and untimely plant epidemic.

Since then, talisman experts moved on and developed array and formation. Instead of using talisman papers, they learned how to engrave the inscription symbols on hard materials so they didn't have to worry about running out of medium like the talisman papers anymore.

Leyvi didn't know why an extinct seed was in the space ring, but that was none of his concern. If Lilian could grow a bunch of this Talisman Tree, maybe they could make all sorts of talismans and he could give them to his family. After all, most of them couldn't fight.

If they were in danger, all they had to do was activate the talisman and aim it at the enemy. Even if they had zero battle sense, they might kill the enemy.

Now, the problem was, where could he get all the past talisman knowledge? They were not from the ancient civilization, so it should be easier to get right?

"Lilian, if possible, try to grow a lot of this Talisman Tree. Can you do that?" Leyvi asked.

"Hehe. No problem! I'll do it right away!" Lilian closed her eyes and quickly entered the garden.

"Uhh....I didn't say right away. Oh, well."

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Five days later, the news about the Alchemy Competition and the incident of the Holy Cat City had completely spread to the entire South Region.

The whole Mountain Dew Sect was in high spirits. The peaceful inhabitants of the Mountain Dew Sect, who typically kept to themselves, were now coming together to discuss Alchemist Panda, Elder Vivian's disciple, who emerged as the champion of the most prestigious Alchemy Competition in the South Region.

Vivian remained frozen in her seat after she heard the news from the messenger an hour ago.

"Anda is the champion? How? This is not fake news right? Am I being pranked?" Vivian finally recovered. She looked around to see if there was an image recorder.

It was no surprise that Vivian found it hard to believe. After all, Anda had never shown her true alchemy ability while she was in the Mountain Dew Sect, even to Vivian. Furthermore, they didn't know what happened in Bara City.

How could she not know how difficult the Alchemy Competition was? She was the representative of the Mountain Dew Sect 60 years ago. Thinking about the alchemy geniuses she encountered at that time still gave her nightmares. She was far too average compared to them. But Anda swept through all of those geniuses? Unfathomable!

Now she couldn't wait for them to come back. She missed her sister. Vivian wondered if Lilian was still an introvert.