Chapter 261

Chapter 261: Three Transformation Talisman

After fierce bidding, Li Hui paid a tremendous price and finally acquired the Qian Yuan Black Gold.

Unfortunately, the funds he originally intended to use for securing the Innate Five Elements Divine Stone were mostly depleted, leaving the Warm Breeze Pavilion as the biggest winner of the auction.

With no choice left, Li Hui had to go into debt, using the next twenty days’ earnings as collateral. He also borrowed a significant amount of spirit shells and several rare poisons from Su Qing’er to finally secure a large loan from Longde Bank, just in time before the auction of the Innate Five Elements Divine Stone!

By late night, as the attendants from Longde Bank delivered the Qian Yuan Black Gold and the Innate Five Elements Divine Stone to the ship, Long Yun felt weak in the knees, and Huo Qiniang clenched her silver teeth, her heart aching terribly!

All their efforts seemed wasted, and they were burdened with enormous debts. This situation weighed heavily on anyone’s heart. However, since the young master needed to make a fresh start, there was no choice but to quickly repay the debts.

Li Hui tried his best to comfort them and returned to the cabin, laughing bitterly alone. The quest for the Qian Yuan Black Gold and the Innate Five Elements Divine Stone had truly drained his energy.

He had no option but to remain on the ship for the next twenty days until the disciples from all sects gathered; there would be no traveling or exploring for him. He needed to sit down and produce talismans!

Even sustaining an eighteen-fold time speed would not give him a chance to recover enough money relying solely on lower-tier spirit talismans. Thus, he would need to begin crafting seven- or eight-pattern spirit talismans and even produce some nine-pattern ones, including a few unusual ones with nine-patterns and two or three variations, to be viable!

This way, the consumption of magical artifacts and fragments of treasures would increase, helping to raise the success rate for creating talismans. However, he feared he wouldn’t have enough for the twenty days of use.

As Li Hui anxiously worried about his debts, a resounding boom shook the seas near Wan Nest Island, and suddenly, a golden shuttle appeared out of nowhere.

“Lock on!” With two simple words, dozens of practitioners sprang into action, releasing hundreds of compasses, which landed on the enormous treasure map. The mist formed into dragon and elephant shapes, listening attentively while various mystical beasts like Ying Zhao and mystical cranes appeared, accompanied by several drops of brilliant spiritual blood, causing a thunderous noise and scattering countless spiritual lights across the map.

“We found it; it actually fled to the Grand Xuan Dynasty! We need to rush to the border for further investigation,” the reporting practitioner hurriedly stated.

“Humph! This little ghost is pretty quick! How long will it take us to follow its path?”

“About a month and a half. There are many treacherous areas in the sea.”

“Fear not! I will fully activate the source magnetic stable light shuttle; we must reach there within a month. I don’t have the time to babysit the sect.”

“Yes, understood!” The practitioners immediately packed up the map and prepared to set off.

Li Hui overlooked one crucial detail; the sea differs from land. As long as they pinpoint the direction and are not concerned about dangers, they can easily traverse between two points in a straight line.

A massive crisis was approaching, and it all depended on whether he could utilize the Grand Xuan Dynasty’s long-distance teleportation array effectively. Meanwhile, the Grand Xuan Dynasty was managing things tightly, sending people to monitor the Wave Breaking Cone day and night. Noble Concubine Wan was pleased that this young man kept to himself, spending the entire time refining talismans and repaying debts without any unusual movements on board.

Inside the cabin, a series of popping sounds echoed as a large number of fragments of treasures were transformed into scraps by the Mysterious Pearl. The silver glow spread, and Li Hui stood before the Five Ghosts Transportation Talisman, swiftly performing hand seals to channel the silver light, striking powerfully against it.

Suddenly, a silver halo emerged from the Five Ghosts Transportation Talisman, stretching about a zhang wide. Li Hui quickly took out a piece of five-colored crystal, shaking it vigorously before smashing it. With a loud “bang,” clouds and mist enveloped the area, and the silver halo turned into five colors, wildly expanding outward to reach three zhang.

“Again!”

In no time, a second silver halo appeared around the Five Ghosts Transportation Talisman, with a vibrant hue as if it could transform into liquid mercury at any moment. Li Hui lifted the five-colored crystal again and struck hard.

“Crack…” The sound reverberated against the walls; fortunately, they had taped soundproof talismans to muffle the loud noise, or it would have drawn considerable attention.

Following the same method, a third halo appeared, and the dazzling colors spun around, making the Five Ghosts Transportation Talisman look like a small sun.

“Excellent! It has become a top-grade treasure talisman. Now, I must break through the bottleneck and transform you into a formless treasure talisman, intangible and invisible!” Li Hui hurriedly made the necessary gestures, striking the silver light against the talisman before delivering a heavy punch to the Innate Five Elements Divine Stone, shattering it and tossing it into the dense silver light.

“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!” Five consecutive blasts rang out, with five colors, five elements, five forms, five spirits, and five ghosts all shimmering quickly, fading into nothingness as if vanishing into the void, undetectable from the outside world.

Above top-grade treasure talismans, there are four upgrade paths: enhancement, demonic transformation, formless transformation, and primal transformation. Once a choice is made, it’s hard to change. Li Hui chose formless transformation instead of demonic transformation.

Formless transformation is much more challenging than demonic and enhancement transformations, primarily due to the phrase “divine objects conceal themselves.” The Five Ghosts Transportation Talisman was collapsing all anomalies towards its surface, rendering it utterly plain.

Li Hui had expended so much to secure the Innate Five Elements Divine Stone to attain the Innate Five Qi.

What is the Innate Five Qi? It is the ancestor of the five elements’ spiritual energy, infinitely close to the mysterious yellow energy of heaven and earth, the most wondrous, most adept at concealment, and the most capable of countering the acquired Yin-Yang Five Elements, flexible and ingenious.

The Treasure Cabinet Array was also absorbing the Innate Five Qi, sensing a significant potential rise.

Li Hui collected his focus, moving his fingers rapidly to drive the silver light to impact the talisman. Once is not enough for formless transformation; he must take advantage of the potent Innate Five Qi to reach its peak state.

The talisman surface crackled and deteriorated, undergoing a second formless transformation known as “years of drifting.” It appeared not like a new talisman but like something that had been passed down through time, seemingly erasing all origin; even using innate techniques would be unable to trace its source.

“Three transformations return to the void, Jade Symbol foundation!”

With a light shout from Li Hui, the silver light spun like a large spoon mixing all the Innate Five Qi together, madly compressing towards the center, rendering the talisman formless and dark, as if it no longer existed.

After a while, all the phenomena vanished, leaving only a strand of five-colored thread in his hand, interweaving into a mysterious symbol. When he looked again, even the five-colored thread was nowhere to be seen, yet Li Hui distinctly felt the talisman trembling in his palm.

“Great! This Three Transformation Talisman is finally completed; it’s worth the huge investment! However, the key is still to come. When I use this talisman at the end of the Xuantian Road, it may be too late and easily discovered. What’s extraordinary is that the silver snake bracelet opened a small gap, allowing this talisman to stealthily set itself up in advance. Although there’s no guarantee of success, having a plan is better than none. I must give it a try; perhaps I could benefit during a critical moment.”

With that thought, Li Hui cautiously sent the Three Transformation Talisman into the back of the silver snake bracelet through an opening. What he never expected was that the silver snake bracelet seemed to know his intention, suddenly ejecting a fist-sized silver beam into the black line behind it, then falling limply as if it were on the brink of death.

“This snake surely has its motives; after this provocation, I wonder what the Three Transformation Talisman will evolve into…”