Chapter 93: Is She That Awesome?
Qin Feilong thought this way and couldn’t help but ask, “Junior Sister Zhaoshuang, is this defense talisman you drew according to the Fu Sheng rune?”
Ming Zhaoshuang did not look up. “Yes, but I haven’t tested its effects yet.”
However, she surmised that the runes drawn by Wei Shuo wouldn’t be too bad in effect.
Qin Feilong looked at Ming Zhaoshuang, wanting to speak but hesitating. Shen Liqian, however, gently lowered her eyelashes and pondered for a moment.
For a time, everyone had different expressions.
As is widely known, the strength of talismans and formations primarily comprises two aspects: one is the cultivation of the drawer, and the other is the complexity of the runes drawn.
For ordinary talisman masters, their cultivation is closely related to the complexity they can master, so ordinary talisman masters would generally directly infer the strength of their drawn talismans from their cultivation.
Except for Innate Spiritual Attunement, almost no one can draw more complex runes without regard to their cultivation.
While the few people were still contemplating the difficulty of Fu Sheng runes, the system had already exploded in Ming Zhaoshuang’s mind:
“Didn’t you, host, say you could only draw ordinary runes?! How dare you draw that old dog Wei Shuo’s runes behind my back! Do you call this an ordinary rune?!”
“Do you know that even in the Upper Cultivation World, apart from Rim of Dusk and a small number of Heavenly Rank Talisman Masters, no one can draw the runes of the Talisman Saint!”
“If you’re so amazing, why didn’t you say so earlier! Oh my goodness!”
Heavenly Rank Talisman Masters must at least be at the Body Integration Stage in cultivation, but those who can draw Fu Sheng runes are even fewer.
As is widely known, the cultivation of talisman cultivators is far more difficult to advance than that of sword cultivators. From this, it can be seen that Ming Zhaoshuang’s attainment in the Talisman Arts Path is not just profound, it is practically comparable to that of an Innate Spiritual Sacred Body!
Ming Zhaoshuang rubbed her forehead and said, “I didn’t know I was so amazing before.”
After all, although she had hastily studied knowledge of the Talisman Arts Path, it was all taught by Xiao Bai, and Xiao Bai didn’t think her drawing was that extraordinary.
Furthermore, the effects of the talismans she drew were vastly different from those drawn by Wei Shuo, so she simply hadn’t considered this possibility.
The system suddenly remembered Ming Zhaoshuang’s previous ability in painting and couldn’t help but speculate, “Could it be that, host, you are also a Spiritually Connected Sacred Body?”
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “Impossible. There can only be one Innate Spiritual Sacred Body for one path in the world. The Spiritually Connected Sacred Body for both the Talisman Arts Path and Artifact Refining belongs to Qin Feilong. What does that have to do with me?”
Could it be that her transmigration into this book somehow changed the original owner’s body?
The system said, “You also said that only one Innate Spiritual Sacred Body can exist, but there is more than one Spiritually Connected Sacred Body. Host, you might be an Acquired Spirit Body.”
Ming Zhaoshuang frowned, “Acquired?”
Can such things even have distinctions between innate and acquired?
The system said, “I don’t know how you lived in the 21st century, but your painting skills are surely of master level, right?”
Ming Zhaoshuang was well aware of her own skill, and she said:
“Indeed, that is the case.”
Hearing her say this, the system understood. “Spiritually Connected Sacred Bodies are divided into innate and acquired types. Innate is purely a gift from heaven, there’s nothing to say about that. Acquired ones are formed through one’s own comprehension and by drawing parallels. Their effects are similar to innate spiritual connection, but their rarity is even greater than innate spiritual connection.”
“You may not know this, but in the past hundred thousand years, there have only been two Acquired Spiritually Connected Sacred Bodies. One is the universally admired Feng He Du Xian, who is an Acquired Spirit Beast Spiritually Connected Sacred Body. The other is her disciple, the current ruler of the Devil Realm, Feng Budu. I suspect you might be the third Acquired Spiritually Connected Sacred Body in the past hundred thousand years.”
No, is she really that awesome?
Upon hearing this, Ming Zhaoshuang couldn’t help but be startled.
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “So, I’m the third one?”
The system seemed to give her a look and said speechlessly, “Do you think Acquired Spiritually Connected Sacred Bodies are that common? Rim of Dusk has been cultivating acquired talisman masters with spiritual connection for nearly ten thousand years, and not a single one has emerged. The chance of you, who hasn’t even undergone system training, being the third Acquired Spiritually Connected Sacred Body is very small, okay?”
Ming Zhaoshuang was not worried but delighted, saying, “Then there’s still a chance. Moreover, with my level, it’s almost the same as a Spiritually Connected Sacred Body, isn’t it?”
After all, Qin Feilong, as an Innate Spiritual Attunement, doesn’t draw talismans as quickly or as well as she does.
The system said, “Let me ask you, when you draw talismans, do you feel the mountains and rivers tremble and the heavens and earth resonate in unison? The reason Spiritually Connected Sacred Bodies are called Spiritually Connected Sacred Bodies is because they can connect with and resonate with the mountains, rivers, heaven, and earth, using their power to achieve their ideas.”
This is also what differentiates Spiritually Connected Sacred Bodies from other cultivators.
Other cultivators borrow the power of mountains, rivers, heaven, and earth, while Spiritually Connected Sacred Bodies transform the power of mountains, rivers, heaven, and earth into their own. Within their own domain, they can even be equivalent to the Heavenly Dao.
Ming Zhaoshuang was puzzled, “I draw so quickly, how could I have time to feel the mountains, rivers, heaven, and earth?”
Don’t such talismans require you to calm your heart and feel them carefully? Can’t they all be drawn with your eyes closed?”
The system was speechless, “Then you are not one.”
Ming Zhaoshuang pouted, “Oh.”
If she wasn’t, then she wasn’t. Anyway, as long as she could draw it, she didn’t care at all whether she was one or not.
The system comforted her, “It’s okay, you’re not far from being an Acquired Spiritually Connected Sacred Body anyway. If you draw talismans and formations more often, you might be able to feel the aura of Acquired Spiritual Connection.”
The reason Acquired Spiritual Connection is acquired is that it can be cultivated.
Like Feng Budu, the ruler of the Devil Realm, he is an Acquired Spirit Beast Spiritually Connected Sacred Body. At this point, Ming Zhaoshuang might be just one step away from resonating with heaven and earth.
Just as Ming Zhaoshuang was thinking of refuting the system, she suddenly heard Shen Liqian’s voice by her ear.
He Qingqing looked at Ming Zhaoshuang and asked, “Junior Sister Ming, what are you thinking about? Let’s go quickly, otherwise, we probably can’t stay in this room.”
Ming Zhaoshuang only then realized that while she was talking to the system, the others had already walked quite a few steps ahead, and they were looking back at her, as if waiting for her.
He Qingqing always stood at the back, so she pulled on her sleeve at this moment, signaling her to move forward.
Ming Zhaoshuang lifted her foot and said, “It’s nothing. I just feel like this ninth blueprint looks a bit familiar, and I feel like its principles are very familiar to me.”
Before her foot had completely landed, she suddenly heard Fei Changxiu exclaim, “Be careful, Junior Sister!”
In the light so intense that nothing could be seen, countless arrow feathers shot out from behind Ming Zhaoshuang, mixed with the aura of golden spiritual power.
Ming Zhaoshuang turned her head and instinctively raised her sword to dodge, but in the next instant, she heard faint cracking sounds beneath her feet. Two chains, like a giant’s arms, firmly grasped her legs, hindering her movement.
At the same time, on both sides of Ming Zhaoshuang, a sharp iron drill suddenly appeared, and golden energy rushed towards her!
Ming Zhaoshuang struggled but couldn’t exert force, and Fushuang thus lost its grip, about to fall to the ground!
Those countless arrow feathers, already unavoidable, were rushing directly towards her!
