Fire Monster

Chapter 27: Fire Talisman
In this picture, there are his parents in this world, or more precisely, his father. He is studying the imperial oil lamp, and has been studying it year after year, from his youth to adulthood.

"It seems that I can't visualize successfully."

Finally, he shook his head and sighed. His eyes passed through the phantom and seemed to meet Zhao Guanshan's eyes. He smiled, and the phantom dissipated, but a new phantom appeared. It was also a man who looked very similar to Zhao Guanshan's father. He also spent more than 20 years studying the imperial seal oil lamp, and in the end he just left a long sigh.

Then the phantom kept disappearing and appearing like a revolving lantern.

Without exception, these are all ancestors of the Zhao family.

No one has succeeded in more than a dozen generations.

However, when the phantom was projected for the fourteenth time, an ancestor of the Zhao family succeeded. He visualized a flame, just like Zhao Guanshan today. He was even selected into the Taoist Academy and became a distinguished Qi-refining practitioner.

But before he could continue to develop, he died on the Imperial Seal Wall at the hands of a more powerful evil demon.

Although Taoist Qigong practitioners are high and mighty, the evil demons they have to face are even more terrifying.

After this round of illusion, every one of the ancestors of the Zhao family became outstanding.

Without exception, they were able to visualize the flame in the imperial seal oil lamp with ease, but they were unable to develop it very far.

All of them died prematurely on the Imperial Wall.

Until an old man appeared in the illusion. He sat there cross-legged, his eyes penetrating the illusion, as if he could see Zhao Guanshan.

Then he spoke, and his voice came out clearly.

"Has the world of immortal cultivation sunk to this point?"

"Has my Zhao family fallen to this point?"

Zhao Guanshan didn't know how to answer, nor did he know if he was asking himself.

"Forget it. This is the last time that my remaining soul can be awakened. As my direct descendant, no matter what your future fate holds, you must give it a try."

"Listen carefully."

"The flame you visualized is the Fire Talisman given to me by an immortal three thousand years ago. I hid it in a magical instrument to support future generations. By visualizing this talisman, you can not only comprehend various immortal magics, but also further communicate with the God of Heaven sent down by the immortal, and gain powerful strength comparable to that of the immortal."

"But remember, the talismans bestowed by the immortals are different, and you cannot practice them all at the same time. There are also talismans bestowed by other immortals in the world, so don't be greedy for too many. Otherwise, you will surely attract the immortals' thunderous wrath."

"Also, two thousand years ago, I joined hands with my fellow Taoists to build the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace. I don't know if you descendants still remember it, but if there is a disaster, you can go find my close friend Mei Xun. Of course, she may have already passed away, that's all..."

Having said this, the ancestor of the Zhao family stopped talking and just sat down with his head down in the phantom. The phantom also became unstable. Before Zhao Guanshan could ask anything, the phantom suddenly seemed to be blown away by the wind, creating ripples all over the ground, and it swirled around before disappearing completely.

The small flame disappeared as well.

Soon after, Zhao Guanshan also woke up from this mysterious state.

Looking around, he was still in the Imperial Seal Cottage. His body was intact, but he was in great pain. He lifted up his trouser legs and saw two dark blue handprints on his ankles.

The same is probably true for the neck.

However, his spirit was incredibly abundant. He was in a state where he could get hold of the secret college entrance examination papers and make seven or eight hundred different ones in one go without feeling tired.

"I see!"

Zhao Guanshan probably understood something.

First of all, their Zhao family’s ancestors were indeed wealthy, and they were even one of the founders of the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace. But two thousand years have passed, and they have long since declined.

Secondly, his imperially sealed oil lamp was not special. What was really special was the small flame inside it, because it was actually the Fire Talisman passed down by an immortal!
Thirdly, the reason why his visualization succeeded by accident this time was all because his mental power had become strong. First, his two souls merged into one, and then he was enlightened by the evil demon just now.

Thinking of this, Zhao Guanshan quickly took out the imperial oil lamp, shone it on himself, and instantly his consciousness was reflected in the oil lamp.

With this operation, he can reflect the divine fire on his body.

First of all, the life fire on the top of the head is already the size of a fingernail.

The fire on his left shoulder shrank by half, probably as a result of being madly ravaged by the evil demon just now.

But the soul fire on the right shoulder was exceptionally strong and had grown to the size of a soybean.

From rice grains to soybeans.

This is more than doubled. "The Lihuo Dao Talisman? I wonder how it is related to the Lihuo Seal that martial arts students need to engrave?"

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan's mind moved, and his consciousness returned from the imperial seal oil lamp.

One of the graduation criteria for martial arts students is to have a natal seal engraved on their body, and there are five types of such seals.

They are the Lihuo Seal representing the fire element, the Xuanwu Seal representing the water element, the Qianjin Seal representing the gold element, the Qingmu Seal representing the wood element, and the Genshan Seal representing the earth element.

This is also one of the great reforms of the Taoist Palace.

Measures to popularize supernatural powers.

"If the natal Lihuo Seal is the castrated civilian version of the Lihuo Dao Talisman."

"Well, now that I have successfully visualized the Lihuo Dao Talisman, theoretically I should be better than the martial arts students who have engraved their natal Lihuo Seal."

"I am even qualified to skip the martial arts and enter the Taoist discipline directly, becoming a Qi Refiner, like a certain ancestor of the Zhao family."

But as soon as this thought came up, it was immediately extinguished by Zhao Guanshan.

Of course, he knew that death was a common occurrence in the entire Linjiang Prefecture, and even martial artists could not live past the age of forty. However, dozens of generations of his Zhao family's ancestors, especially the first dozen or so, clearly had bright futures and had all visualized the Fire Talisman, but most of them rarely lived past the age of forty and died on the Imperial Seal Great Wall.

Then the Zhao family declined to the point where they are now, and can only survive in the slums.

Zhao Guanshan didn't want to engage in conspiracy theories, but he just wanted to live a few more years.

"So, I can't go to the Tao Department. I need to accumulate strength. Let's go to the Wu Department as planned."

"The most urgent task right now is to figure out what this strand of Lihuo Dao Talisman that I visualized can do."

At this moment, a thought flashed through his mind, and a tiny flame really appeared in the palm of his hand.

Very quickly.

Perhaps it was because of his greatly increased mental strength, but he found visualization particularly easy.

Then he took out the imperial oil lamp and found that the small flame inside the lamp was still there.

In other words, the flame in the oil lamp was the real flame, and the flame in the palm of his hand was still something he visualized.

There was some mysterious connection between the two that he had not yet been able to understand.

Only if he finds this mysterious connection can he master the various magical powers mentioned by the ancestor of the Zhao family.

At that moment, Zhao Guanshan put aside all distracting thoughts and put all his consciousness into the small flame he visualized. At this moment, the small flame was actually magnified. It originally looked like a swaying flame, but after magnification, he discovered that it was actually a rune curtain composed of countless ever-changing mysterious runes.

It's like an endless stream of information.

And as long as he could find even a set of runes from it, it would probably benefit him endlessly.

Zhao Guanshan watched and searched very carefully. Although he had no experience, it did not prevent him from knowing the dangers here.

Because these countless runes are like an ocean, if he falls into it, he will surely die.

But just as he hesitated, the ever-changing sea of ​​runes slowly stabilized, and then flew all over the sky. Each rune turned into a tiny flame, flew high into the sky, and turned into rune stars.

Eventually it transformed into a huge, majestic, and impossible-to-look-up-at immortal statue.

It is the one standing in the Taoist temple, and it is also the one that Zhao Guanshan worships devoutly every day.

He stared blankly, and suddenly, the immortal statue seemed to open its eyes, but also seemed not to.

Because at this moment, the immortal's divine image once again turned into stars in the sky, almost making Zhao Guanshan think that he had seen it wrong and was having an illusion.

However, none of this matters. At this moment, among the starry sky, two rune stars suddenly floated down. One was as bright as a flame, but unexpectedly gave people an extremely clear and pure feeling, as if it could purify and dispel all darkness and filth.

The other one was equally bright, but extremely violent, as if it wanted to burn everything to ashes.

The moment his consciousness tried to approach a star, the other one instantly dimmed, and vice versa.

(End of this chapter)