Chapter 22: Ninefold True Fire
Dream Dao Attainment: Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
“Year after year, the flowers are much the same.”
“Year after year, the people are different.”
Having left Shengjing City, the fervor stirred up by the once-a-decade Ascension Assembly had yet to fade.
Along the way, Lin Qi could hear discussions about the Ascension Assembly everywhere.
Naturally, they were mixed with talk of whether the Immortal Masters could catch Chu Liuxiang, and why the Immortal Masters wanted to summon the Grandmaster Lin Qi.
But Lin Qi merely passed by quietly.
On the road back to Yunmeng Marsh from Shengjing City, the only thing worth mentioning was that he actually ran into Qingfeng and the Bright Moon, whom he had not seen in five years.
Five years apart, the boy and girl of back then had now become geniuses of considerable fame in the martial world.
They seemed to have also gone to participate in this Ascension Assembly, but “regrettably” failed to be selected.
Lin Qi had not noticed whether the two had actually participated in this Ascension Assembly, but he had no intention of asking.
He did not even have the slightest thought of meeting Qingfeng and the Bright Moon.
To Qingfeng and the Bright Moon, they had only left Taihu City for five years, roaming the martial world, the years like a song.
But to Lin Qi.
His last meeting with Qingfeng and the Bright Moon, counting the time in dreams and reality, had been nearly five hundred years ago.
Five hundred years of time was enough to wipe away all the emotional stirrings of the mortal world.
In the end, they were just two passersby.
He thought, and in the inn he raised a cup of wine toward Qingfeng and the Bright Moon from afar, then once again set off alone, returning to Yunmeng Marsh.
This time, he did not notify Yun Fuyu.
Alone, he slipped into his former residence, closed the quiet chamber, and silently cultivated.
Over the past five years, his cultivation realm had not advanced by leaps and bounds. He still remained at the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining.
Because he had poured all his time and energy into researching Talisman combinations.
Five years in reality, nearly five hundred years in dreams.
With great perseverance and great wisdom, Lin Qi had finally, just barely, mastered a Talisman Formation he wished to condense.
“This is the Fire Control Art I originally possessed.”
Lin Qi pointed a finger, and a True Fire Talisman that could allow a person to master ordinary fire control techniques appeared in the air. It ignited without fire, floating in the quiet chamber, transforming into a ball of flame that lit up the gloom of the entire room.
“This is the Three Fire Talismans.”
Lin Qi pointed again. The fireball was extinguished, the burning True Fire Talisman vanished, and in its place was a three-body structure condensed from three fire-like Talismans.
Built into a single whole through a wondrous, unsolvable three-body pattern of operation, like three stars revolving in alternation.
“Heavenly Fire Talisman, Earth Fire Talisman, True Fire Talisman.”
“When the three Talismans are linked, they can form the Samadhi Fire Talisman.”