Vol 2 Chapter 93 – The Foundation of Talismans
"Heaven above?"
Zheng Fa instinctively looked up.
The golden sun was sinking toward the west, casting long shadows over the mountains. The sky was vast, stretching endlessly over them, appearing no different from usual.
But now—
This once-familiar sky seed to be shrouded in mystery, as if veiling secrets beyond mortal reach.
"Senior Sister Zhang…"
After a brief pause, he asked, "Are there any records in Xuanyi Realm about what lies beyond the heavens?"
"No."
Senior Sister Zhang shook her head.
"At least, not that I've read.
"No one knows how many layers the heavens have—nor what exists beyond them."
"Wait…"
Zheng Fa suddenly recalled sothing.
"There is one person who might have known."
"Tianhe Venerable once attempted to break through the shackles of heaven."
A distant mory surfaced—
When he first discovered the Yin-Yang Jade Pendant within his sea of consciousness, he had seen a figure ascending toward the skies…
Never to return.
Only the jade pendant had fallen back down.
He had always suspected—
That figure was Tianhe Venerable.
Senior Sister Zhang nodded slightly, seeming to agree with his reasoning.
"That ans…"
Zheng Fa frowned.
"The sky itself may conceal a secret—
"A secret so profound that even Tianhe Venerable perished in pursuit of it."
A heavy silence settled over them.
Even Senior Sister Zhang’s expression darkened.
The shackles of heaven…
Just what had Tianhe Venerable realized?
Had he been truly desperate—so much so that he had attempted to shatter the very fabric of reality?
"You are only at the Qi Refining stage."
Senior Sister Zhang finally broke the silence.
"And I have only just stepped into Nascent Soul."
"If Tianhe Venerable himself couldn't resolve this mystery, then neither of us will find the answer by re speculation."
Zheng Fa exhaled, nodding slowly.
She was right.
He set aside those deeper questions—for now.
Instead, he turned his attention back to sothing tangible.
"Senior Sister, you said the Five-Elent Sub-Talismans were resonating with the heavens.
"What do you an?"
Senior Sister Zhang furrowed her brows, as if searching for the right words.
"The feeling is difficult to describe…
"But when I was forming my Nascent Soul, did you all see that Heavenly Tribulation Eye?"
"Yes."
"At that mont, I had the distinct impression…
"That it looked at the Five-Elent Sub-Talismans within my Nascent Soul."
Her voice grew softer.
"For a brief mont—
"They even seed to detach from my Nascent Soul…
"But then they stabilized again."
Zheng Fa absorbed her words, deep in thought.
But no imdiate answer ca to mind.
Senior Sister Zhang seed to sense his confusion and offered a slight reassurance.
"At the very least," she added,
"My breakthrough proved that the Talisman Dao Foundation Establishnt thod is viable for advancing to Nascent Soul."
"That's true…"
As they spoke, Senior Sister Yuan had already finished her wild fruits.
Now, she was absentmindedly plucking blades of grass, a deep expression of thought on her face.
This was…
Not a common sight.
Even Zheng Fa couldn't help but feel curious.
"Senior Sister Yuan, do you have so thoughts?"
"Thoughts?"
She blinked, as if just realizing they were talking to her.
Then, she innocently replied,
"I don't have any thoughts."
"I don’t even understand what you two are talking about."
Zheng Fa: "…"
"Then what were you thinking about just now?"
Senior Sister Yuan’s eyes suddenly lit up.
"Oh! I was thinking about the Heavenly Monunt!"
Zheng Fa's brows twitched.
"The Heavenly Monunt?"
"Yeah! It's super fun!"
She clapped her hands excitedly.
Zheng Fa glanced at Senior Sister Zhang, both exchanging puzzled looks.
Previously, he had been too focused on helping Senior Sister Zhang escape to concern himself much with the Heavenly Monunt.
But in truth—
For most people, the Heavenly Monunt was the most significant event happening in the Thunder Pool.
"What do you an, fun?"
Senior Sister Yuan bead.
"The Heavenly Monunt is now called the Sealing God Monunt!"
Sealing God…?
Zheng Fa froze.
The term "God" had never been used in Xuanyi Realm.
It was a term he had only ever encountered in the modern world.
"That's right! Everyone is calling it that now!"
Senior Sister Yuan continued excitedly,
"Apparently, there's a small world inside the monunt.
"And within it, powerful beings are called Gods.
"Everyone who enters the Heavenly Monunt…
Gets appointed as a God!"
"...Appointed?"
Senior Sister Zhang frowned.
"You an like how a mortal emperor grants noble titles?"
"Exactly! That’s what people say."
Senior Sister Yuan nodded.
"And these Gods—they even have rankings!"
"The rank of a God can change, and different people start at different levels."
"But the most fun part?"
She grinned mischievously.
"The rankings are public!
"Everyone can see who’s at the top!"
"…"
Zheng Fa imdiately understood why she found this amusing.
A leaderboard.
In the modern world, even just a billionaire rankings list could make headlines daily.
Now, this Sealing God Monunt had a publicly visible hierarchy of divine power?
"I go there every day just to watch!"
Senior Sister Yuan declared proudly.
"So people even started gambling on the rankings!"
"Right now, Yan Wushuang is temporarily in first place—
"But his position isn’t stable!"
The banquet was still in full swing.
The grand hall roared with noise.
But Zheng Fa didn’t join the festivities.
Instead, he sat alone in his chamber.
Eyes closed.
His spiritual awareness sank into his sea of consciousness.
There—
The Yin-Yang Jade Pendant still floated in the depths of his mind.
His earlier conversation with Senior Sister Zhang and Senior Sister Yuan had stirred many thoughts.
Senior Sister Zhang didn’t know what lay beyond the heavens.
But Zheng Fa…
He did.
He had seen Tianhe Venerable ascend—only to leave this pendant behind.
And this pendant…
Allowed him to travel between two worlds.
That ant—
Whatever exists beyond Xuanyi Realm’s skies…
Had a direct connection to the modern world.
Especially—
The concept of "Gods".
In modern tis, the terms "Immortal" and "God" had always been used together.
But in Xuanyi Realm—
There were Immortal Sects.
There were Immortal Cultivators.
But there had never been Gods.
Here, the word God had no history—
Yet it was suddenly appearing inside the Sealing God Monunt.
Zheng Fa couldn’t ignore the implications.
He pondered for a long while.
Then—
He sighed lightly, releasing his thoughts.
Senior Sister Zhang was right.
If even Tianhe Venerable couldn’t solve this mystery, then re speculation was useless.
For now—
He would focus on what was in front of him.
Turning his focus inward, he gazed at the floating Talisman Dao Foundation inside his dantian.
"Heaven above…?"
Zheng Fa looked up at the night sky.
The golden sun had long since set, and the mountains were shrouded in deepening twilight. The heavens appeared as vast and ordinary as ever.
But now—
Sothing about this vast, unfathomable sky felt different.
It was as if a veil of mystery had been drawn over the familiar expanse, concealing sothing just out of reach.
"Senior Sister Zhang…"
After a mont of thought, he asked, "In all the records of Xuanyi Realm, is there any description of what lies beyond the heavens?"
"No."
Senior Sister Zhang shook her head.
"At least, I have never read of such a thing.
"No one knows how many layers the heavens have… nor what exists beyond them."
"Wait—"
Zheng Fa's eyes flickered as a thought surfaced.
"There is soone who might have known."
"Tianhe Venerable once attempted to break through the shackles of heaven."
He vividly recalled the vision from within his sea of consciousness—
A figure soaring toward the heavens, ascending higher and higher…
Until they vanished, leaving behind only a single jade pendant.
He had long suspected—
That figure was Tianhe Venerable.
Senior Sister Zhang nodded slightly, acknowledging the plausibility of his reasoning.
"So…"
Zheng Fa frowned.
"The heavens conceal a secret—one so profound that even Tianhe Venerable perished in pursuit of it."
A heavy silence settled over them.
Even Senior Sister Zhang's expression darkened.
The shackles of heaven…
What had Tianhe Venerable discovered?
Had he been truly desperate—so much so that he had attempted to shatter the very fabric of reality?
"You are only at Qi Refining."
Senior Sister Zhang finally broke the silence.
"And I have only just stepped into Nascent Soul."
"If Tianhe Venerable himself couldn't resolve this mystery, then neither of us will find the answer through re speculation."
Zheng Fa exhaled, nodding slowly.
She was right.
For now, he set aside those deeper questions and focused on sothing tangible.
"Senior Sister, you said the Five-Elent Sub-Talismans were resonating with the heavens.
"What do you an?"
Senior Sister Zhang furrowed her brows, searching for the right words.
"The feeling is difficult to describe…
"But when I was forming my Nascent Soul, did you all see that Heavenly Tribulation Eye?"
"Yes."
"At that mont, I had the distinct impression…
"That it looked at the Five-Elent Sub-Talismans within my Nascent Soul."
Her voice grew softer.
"For a brief mont—
"They even seed to detach from my Nascent Soul…
"But then they stabilized again."
Zheng Fa absorbed her words, deep in thought.
But no imdiate answer ca to mind.
Senior Sister Zhang seed to sense his confusion and offered a slight reassurance.
"At the very least," she added,
"My breakthrough proved that the Talisman Dao Foundation Establishnt thod is viable for advancing to Nascent Soul."
"That's true…"
Yet, in his heart, he still had questions.
Zheng Fa's thoughts lingered on one particular concept.
In three-dinsional space, chiral objects cannot be flipped.
But in higher dinsions, the rules change.
Each additional dinsion adds degrees of freedom—
Which ans that a three-dinsional chiral structure could be reversed in a higher-dinsional space.
If the mystery of the sky was connected to higher dinsions…
Zheng Fa's mind whirred.
At that mont—
His talisman foundation began to shift.
The Five-Elent Sub-Talismans, which were originally forming a closed loop on his Lotus Platform, suddenly detached—
And fell to the center of the lotus.
"…What is the mirror?"
He frowned, recalling Old Man Bai’s question.
He began to experint with the ring of sub-talismans.
A mirror…
A reflection…
Wasn't it rely a shadow cast upon a surface?
A shadow… a projection?
Could the chiral nature of talisman diagrams be explained by different projections of a higher-dinsional object?
If so—
Was his talisman foundation itself a mirror?
His eyes widened.
As the thought took shape—
The Five-Elent Sub-Talismans started to undergo a remarkable transformation.
The surrounding spiritual energy condensed, forming a viscous, gelatinous substance—
It looked almost like translucent jelly, shifting and reshaping itself.
Then—
It hardened.
Turning into a mirrored surface.
A circular, double-sided mirror.
Zheng Fa stared at his talisman foundation—
It now resembled a bracelet made of reflective glass, with the Five-Elent Sub-Talismans floating within the mirrors, appearing phantom-like.
A double-sided mirror—one side Yin, one side Yang?
A possibility struck him.
Could it be that Yin and Yang were rely two different projections of the sa higher-dinsional object?
But if that was the case…
Why was this phenonon occurring within his dantian?
Even more bizarrely—
The two mirrored surfaces never intersected.
They should intersect…
Wait.
His mind flashed with realization.
With a single thought, he twisted the mirrored ring.
It split—
And reconnected.
Forming a…
Möbius Strip.
The inner and outer mirrors had now rged seamlessly—
No longer separate, but a continuous, unified loop.
Zheng Fa’s eyes narrowed.
If the chiral nature of talisman diagrams ca from different projections of a higher-dinsional structure,
Then this double-mirrored Möbius configuration truly created an inseparable unity of Yin and Yang.
But…
Was this actually correct?
A sudden wave of doubt gripped him.
He felt as though he had triggered a program, but had no idea why it was running.
Then—
The Möbius Double-Mirror trembled.
The surrounding spiritual energy exploded into motion, surging wildly toward his dantian.
"…Did I just… Foundation Establish?"
Zheng Fa barely had ti to process the thought before—
His divine soul was suddenly yanked from his body.
It soared upward, breaking through the ceiling of Five Dragons Palace—
And flew into the heavens.
At that mont, the banquet in Five Dragons Palace was still ongoing.
"Zhenren Pang, how did you realize Xuangui Shangren was a spy for the Great Freedom Demonic Sect?"
One cultivator asked.
"I recall you treated him quite warmly before."
"Hah! You underestimate Zhenren Pang."
Another guest laughed.
"Surely, he saw through him from the beginning and rely played along!"
"Indeed! Otherwise, how could he have executed him so decisively?"
"Zhenren Pang is truly a master strategist—ever composed, ever sharp!"
Pang Qian simply smiled, raising his wine cup without saying a word.
The flattering cultivators exchanged glances—
And silently cursed him.
What a cunning bastard!
Yet, the more he hid his thoughts,
The more they respected him.
Then—
A great disturbance appeared in the sky.
"Three thousand li of violet qi… What kind of phenonon is this?!"
The Nascent Soul cultivators all rushed to the hall’s entrance.
In the distance—
A golden sun rose in the east.
A silver crescent moon shone in the west.
"Sun and moon appearing together…?!"
Even these Nascent Soul powerhouses were utterly stunned.
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"Could this be… soone breaking into Soul Formation?"
"Impossible! Even Soul Formation Tribulations don’t create this kind of celestial disturbance!"
Pang Qian, still holding his wine cup—
Simply smiled wider.
What the hell is that brat Zheng Fa doing now?!
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