The Mohist talisman used by Mo Shuangshan should be scientifically called the Five Elements Talisman.
It is derived from the true meaning of the five elements' rotation, mutual generation and mutual restraint, and the evolution of all things.
In the entire Ku Mu Realm cultivation world, there are many cultivators who use the Five Elements spells, and many famous skills can be seen to be based on Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.
For example, the Liangyi Weichen Mountain, which monopolizes the talisman paper in the Ku Mu Realm, besides the most famous Nine Heavens Positive Thunder Method and Dragon-Tiger Body Refining Technique, its sect's skills are based on the Five Elements Yin and Yang.
Most of the second- and third-rate skills that the independent cultivators of all sizes in Ku Mu Realm can find are also based on the principle of the rotation of the Five Elements.
This is a highly inclusive system.
The Mohist Five Elements Talisman is also a manifestation of the basic level of this system.
A long time has passed since Jiang Xia got the Tianji Ink Book, but his progress in learning the Five Elements Talismans is very slow.
This is not because Jiang is not working hard.
In fact, Lao Jiang has worked very hard, and he does have some talent, which can be seen from his progress in learning the art of spirit possession.
Jiang Xia has now begun to try to make the Sun Emblem, the ultimate product of the spirit-possession technique.
He is not stupid.
The reason why learning the Five Elements Talisman is so slow is mainly because this knowledge is too complicated.
Well, that's not quite accurate.
There are thirty-seven basic seals for spirit possession techniques, but there are only five basic seals for the Five Elements Talisman.
Logically speaking, the Five Elements Talisman should be simpler.
But many truths tell us that the simpler something seems, the more deeply we study it, we will find that the saying "the great way is simple" is not just a random saying.
Under the night sky, in the silence, Lao Jiang picked up a specially made brush and skillfully drew a pattern like a twisted flame on the wooden board in front of him .
Like an S-shaped letter, crooked.
This is the most basic “fire” symbol of the Five Elements Talisman. It is so simple that even a child can draw it.
Then, Lao Jiang drew another one.
This time, two S-shaped symbols are connected together and need to be drawn in one stroke.
This is the second stage of the Fire Talisman.
Then comes the third one.
The three S-shaped symbols extend to three directions respectively, with the starting points connected. They need to be drawn in one stroke. The path can be repeated but cannot be interrupted.
This is the third stage of the Fire Talisman.
And so on, they continued to stack up until the last few. Even with the help of the chip to draw the trajectory, Lao Jiang still found it quite difficult to draw, especially the last ninth-order fire spell.
Nine S-shaped symbols are connected at the starting point and point to nine directions, just like a sun radiating light and heat.
It is also required to be completed in one stroke without interruption.
Having said that, you should know where the real difficulty lies in this seemingly simple Five Elements Talisman.
There are only five basic symbols, but through continuous superposition and change, forty-five advanced symbols can be extended, and this is just a single series among the five elements.
Any high-level magical weapon produced by Mo Shuang Mountain must be a fusion of at least two systems.
It is also necessary to use different grades of talismans in combination. In this way, all possible combinations of the Five Elements Talismans are almost endless.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is vast.
"Fire, flame, blaze, blaze... ugh, I can't make it up any further."
Lao Jiang looked at the nine fire symbols he had drawn in front of him. He numbered them using his own method, and then began to draw the other four rows of thirty-six symbol changes.
While drawing, he said:
"Water, ice, Miao, (four waters)..."
"Tu, Gui, Yao, (four earths)..."
"Jin, jin, xin, bao..." (The four "jin" cannot be typed, but this word does exist.)
"木、林、森、鹏..." (reasons as above)
Due to the limitations of Lao Jiang's knowledge, he could only recite each of the Five Elements Talismans up to the fourth level, and could not name them afterwards, but that didn't matter.
Now he is writing with a brush, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't have spiritual power. But once he really uses spiritual power to write, with Lao Jiang's current practice, he can't even draw a third-level talisman.
When drawing these symbols with spiritual power, the difficulty of drawing them accurately doubles with each level increase.
The spiritual energy consumed will not even double.
For this purpose, Lao Jiang also specifically asked Wang Liufu. According to Elder Wang, only cultivators who have reached the spiritual realm can draw and apply the sixth-order talisman.
So far, the only person in the entire Ku Mu Realm who has mastered the use of the eighth-level talisman combination is the leader Mo Jun, as Mo Jun has also revealed.
Five hundred years ago, the great Kuhai of the Mohist sect, the leader of the sect, had dabbled in the application of the ninth-level five-element talisman.
According to Mo Jun, the ninth-level talisman is no longer a pure talisman.
Rather, it is the manifestation of the true meaning of the Five Elements.
This is also the reason why the spiritual wood puppets of Mo Shuang Mountain can only make mid- and low-level magic tools. High-level magic tools and magic treasures have to be made by the Mo family monks themselves.
Take the production of magic weapons as an example.
Even the lowest-grade magic weapon needed to be based on a third-order talisman to carve out an array formation, and after completing each small array formation, a cultivator in the True Cun realm had to rest for several days before he could continue.
This is not a question of whether you have enough spiritual power.
But the energy of the cultivators in the realm of truth cannot sustain such consumption.
The reason why Chu Qiao was called the genius of Mo Shuang Mountain was because Chu Qiao ignored this rule and forcibly completed the production of the magic weapon with his own secret method in the Qi training realm.
But even with the help of the unknown secret method, after making the magic weapon Sixteen Leaves of Green Hair, Chu Qiao still had to rest for more than half a year before she recovered her strength.
In other words, using Mohist spells to make tools is a process that is simply impossible to cheat in any step.
If you don’t have enough strength, you just can’t do it.
There's no point trying to be clever.
"Then use the first-order symbols as a foundation and mix them with the second-order symbols. "
Jiang Xia moved his ten fingers, looked at the symbols drawn in front of him, called up the ink array knowledge from the Tianji Ink Book, and issued instructions in the chip.
"Begin to build a data model, calculate all the combinations of first- and second-order symbols, and then calculate a pattern that can maximize the efficiency of using the symbols."
The chip receives the command and immediately begins to mobilize computing power to perform calculations.
At this moment, Lao Jiang felt his brain was burning , and he even felt like steam was coming out of his head.
This chip...
The computing power is still too small.
He sighed with some regret and focused his attention on the ink array knowledge scrolling in his left eye's vision.
Although the ink weapon making method inherited from Mo Shuang Mountain also frequently uses the Five Elements Mantra when making the weapon, the ink weapon and the ink array, as the name suggests, are not the same thing.
The focus of the former is on "instruments", and the focus of the latter is on "formations".
The former is achieved by arranging and combining the five elements of talismans and engraving them on objects to produce different magical effects. The final product is a magic tool or magic weapon.
It requires people to operate and use it.
The essence of the latter lies in the arrangement of the five elements talisman itself.
According to the Tianji Ink Book.
A skilled ink array master can easily form an array in mid-air without the need for any aids. He can rely solely on his own spiritual power to condense talismans and can also produce various effects.
This is also the "new way" that Lao Jiang is going to try today.
"Try it first."
Lao Jiang read the Introduction to the Ink Array, took a deep breath, raised his right hand, condensed the spiritual power on his fingertips, and according to the description of the Ink Array method, began to draw talismans in the air in front of him.
The first-level fire talisman was easily used with a flick of Lao Jiang's finger.
The milky white spiritual energy of the Su Yi Sutra condensed in the air under Lao Jiang's precise control, and remained raised without dispersing. The moment his fingers were withdrawn, the attributeless spiritual energy was transformed into fire.
"Shua"
A thin fire snake smashed into the lawn in front of Jiang Xia, making a small hole.
If the flame is weak, it is better to use a lighter to burn it.
"Come again."
Lao Jiang adjusted his heartbeat and used the second-level talisman this time.
With a light stroke of his fingers, the speed at which the spiritual power flowed was at least three times faster than before. After drawing a symbol, about one thirtieth of the spiritual power in Lao Jiang's body was consumed.
"boom"
As the fingers were pulled away, the double S-shaped entangled second-level fire symbol turned into the fire element. A fireball as big as a bowl hit the ground in front of Lao Jiang. This time it was much more powerful.
A hole was dug in the lawn in front of him, and there was high-temperature heat emanating from all around.
He was not worried that using the ink array technique here would attract attention. The ink martial arts inherited from Mo Shuang Mountain were completely lost, but some of the ink weapon techniques still remained.
It just doesn't form a chapter.
Most of the disciples of Mo Shuang Mountain know how to form a formation in mid-air using the five elements talismans, but without a complete set of skills to support it, it can only be used as an emergency measure.
As for Lao Jiang's Su Yi Sutra, he cultivated spiritual power without attributes, which was warm and neutral, and easy to control. It was most suitable for regulating the Mo Zhenshu. The best thing was that this technique could be cultivated all the way to the spiritual realm without having to be changed.
It was born to serve the three techniques of Mohism.
"Let's try something high-end this time."
Jiang Xia was eager to try.
He looked at the ink formation knowledge in front of his left eye, condensed spiritual power in his fingers, and danced wildly in front of his eyes like a convulsing chicken claw. After a few breaths, a strange formation appeared in front of Lao Jiang.
It is in the shape of a ring.
The five elements symbols of gold, wood, water, fire and earth are connected end to end, and they are all first-level symbols. With the help of chip planning, it is not difficult to draw this formation.
"Five Elements Spiritual Formation, Level 1."
Lao Jiang said its name, and his fingers moved a little, placing the last bit of spiritual energy on the fire talisman. The next moment, he withdrew his fingers and the five elements began to operate.
Fire produces earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water, water produces wood, and finally, wood produces fire.
The same section of spiritual energy, after five mutual generation changes, has its power at least doubled, making the final derived fire snake a whole circle larger than an ordinary first-level fire talisman.
It flew forward with a whistling sound and hit the ground.
A ball of sparks exploded, with a mediocre power, comparable to the "stun grenades" used by the new recruits of Fengming Country.
“Oh, this is good.”
Lao Jiang completed the most basic Mozhen sofa technique for the first time. He was very proud and drew the Five Elements Spirit Array again like a naughty child getting a new toy.
The final destination this time is the water symbol.
After the same process of the five elements generating each other, it finally exploded with an icy breath, freezing all the grass within one meter around Lao Jiang.
"Ice rings, I like them, they're great for making shaved ice in the summer."
Old Jiang himself was also covered with a layer of frost.
But he didn't care.
The third time he drew the Five Elements Spiritual Array, he chose the wood element to explode. This ball of spiritual energy did not cause any destruction, but it sent a healing spiritual energy into Lao Jiang's body.
It was like being in warm water, sweeping away all his fatigue and making him moan in comfort.
"Rejuvenation, amazing."
Jiang Xia once again named his style.
He drew the spiritual array for the fourth time and chose the golden talisman. This time it was more powerful. The spiritual energy generated by it became extremely sharp, like an invisible sword sweeping across his body.
The lawn was plowed into a mess with three furrows.
Finally, there is the Earth Element.
The spiritual energy was generated five times and condensed into a layer of khaki spiritual shield, covering Lao Jiang's body on all sides.
"The ink book also records the use of reversing the five elements, reversing the killing, changing attack into defense, and turning defense into attack."
Lao Jiang stood up and said:
"That is to say, a first-level five-element spirit formation can create ten different effects. This is the simplest five-element spirit formation, and it is already so amazing.
If the Yin and Yang Lingshu Talismans secretly passed down by Master Mo Zhen were introduced in combination with the Five Elements Talisman, there would be more variations and greater power. If a second-level talisman was used, its power would be able to catch up with magic weapons.
It’s just that the spiritual energy consumption is a bit high.
It seems that the power of this ink formation is even greater than that of ink martial arts, but it is too brain-intensive and not suitable for fools and idiots to learn. The official advice is to stop learning it.
But this is not a good comparison.
After all, one is a mage template, one is a summoner template, and the last one is a prop master template. Looking at it this way, how come Mo Shuangshan inherited the most useless of the three arts of the Mohist school?
No matter how well you make a tool, you are just a craftsman in the eyes of others.
Monks will ask craftsmen to make things, but if they want to be convinced, they have to have a strong fist, that’s the right way.”
"bite"
Just as Jiang Xia was complaining, the chip stopped calculating, and a complex data model was displayed in his left eye's field of vision.
Jiang Xia felt dizzy looking at all that data and the complicated conversions .
“This won’t work!”
Lao Jiang frowned and said:
“The efficiency has been improved, but the operation mode is too complicated. If I run the talisman according to this mode, I will be shot through the heart by an arrow before I can even cast a spell.
It should be more simplified.
It must be able to be combined at will according to my purpose, and it must be ever-changing, and it must also have sufficient scalability. After all, it is only a first or second level ink talisman now.
I will need more advanced ones in the future...
etc.
I suddenly had a good idea!"
Jiang Xia blinked.
He suddenly thought of a thing that could perfectly meet all of his above requirements. More importantly, he had been in Ku Mu Realm for so long and had never seen anything like it.
“We have to make it quickly!”
Lao Jiang turned around and went to his room. As he walked, he thought:
"If it's feasible, I'll get a patent to prevent it from being plagiarized by some shameless person. This is the first magic weapon I made myself, so its power doesn't matter.
It's mainly for commemorative purposes, and well, we have to come up with a cool name for it.
Ah, I, Old Jiang, am indeed a genius at making tools!
Mo Shuang Mountain, ah, Mo Shuang Mountain.
You guys really found a treasure.”