Food System in Cultivation World-Chapter 456 - 422: Nothing but Skill Through Practice
Outside the forging room.
Old Dong’s expression was full of rich changes.
Meanwhile, inside the forging room, after experiencing three failures, Chen Xu finally managed to complete the replication of the runes on the first puppet.
Even though it was merely following the existing lines to replicate and draw, Chen Xu was still in a state of knowing how it worked without knowing why it worked regarding these runes.
However, just being able to replicate them successfully was already enough to consider him a prodigious talent, truly astounding.
All of this, in fact, mainly stemmed from Chen Xu’s past studies of various runes through the book "Talisman."
For instance, the Universal Transmutation Talisman he used most frequently.
In the Fire and Smoke Kitchen, how many times had Chen Xu drawn it, if not thousands upon thousands?
When he first learned to draw talismans, Chen Xu also frequently experienced failures.
Even now, the true mysteries within the lines of the rune remained elusive to him.
But as the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
No matter how obscure something is, after drawing it countless times, you should at least understand something.
Even if you don’t understand, there’s a natural instinct that arises from deep familiarity.
This is Chen Xu’s current state.
The runes on the puppet’s body were three-dimensional and twisted, with each turn being intriguingly subtle, presenting an unforeseen thrill.
If Chen Xu were to delve into the meanings, he might even find himself dizzy at times.
But when he stopped thinking and simply drew naturally, he suddenly seemed to find the most crucial point.
Thus, he continued with fluid ease.
When the runes on the first puppet were fully drawn, Chen Xu felt as if he had just gone through a long marathon.
During this run, he seemed to behold a chaotic world spinning rapidly.
The sun and moon alternated in cycles of reincarnation.
Clear Qi rising, turbid Qi sinking, Yin and Yang alternating, resulting in the creation of the four corners of the world, time and space.
The world was vast and boundless.
Chen Xu could not see it all, only feeling as if he were a mere mayfly rushing through this infinite world.
Space and time, the universe, everywhere were Dust Net Silks.
As a tiny mayfly, he seemed merely a small insect struggling amid countless incomprehensible Dust Net Silks.
Yet, perhaps his running was not entirely in vain.
At least he saw more scenery and broke through more silk threads as he ran.
Some threads wrapped him, making his running increasingly burdensome.
He lifted some of the threads entangled around him, using the threads to pull and control parts of the scenery behind them.
Thus, he seemed to see one thread stirring the wind, another stirring the water, another stirring the fire...
There were endless threads, weaving into layers of silk nets.
In the end, he was submerged within these silk nets, seemingly about to sink uncontrollably.
But suddenly, at one moment, the silk threads in front of him tightened suddenly.
Snap!
The thread broke.
Chen Xu snapped back to reality, re-assessing the scene before him.
Where was there any silk thread amid this heaven and earth?
All he saw was the Array Talisman Platform, the forging room, and himself inside it, Master Mao... and three Hundred Battle Puppets!
When Chen Xu had fallen into the vision earlier, he was actually restoring the runes on one of the puppets.
The thread breaking coincided with his completion of the rune drawing.
The origin of this vision was clearly related to the drawing of the puppet runes.
Did Chen Xu touch part of the puppet’s memory during the rune restoration?
Or because he had completely drawn the runes, did he once again glimpse a certain truth about the world through the miraculous "talisman"?
Chen Xu had a sharp instinct inside, thinking perhaps both were true.
The puppet being controlled is like being attached to countless threads, and once the threads move, the puppet dances.
Yet, aren’t humans also invisibly controlled in this world?
Controlled by identity, by desire, by "destiny"...
Who knows which of these manipulations truly align with one’s own desires?
Behind those countless threads in the world, might there be more mysterious manipulators?
If the Great Li Kingdom is a realm within a mural, how do we know if the Xuantian Star Realm is the true world?
Some questions shouldn’t be overthought, as excessive pondering inevitably leads to confusion.
Unknowingly, a fine cold sweat broke out on Chen Xu’s back.
Watching Chen Xu in a daze, holding onto the formation flag, Master Mao perceived it as the exhausted look of one whose True Yuan was depleted.
Master Mao immediately raised a hand and tapped, causing the cork of the jade bottle to pop off.
A Replenishing Yuan Pill swiftly flew from the bottle, accurately shooting toward Chen Xu.
Master Mao yelled, "Disciple, catch the elixir!"
Chen Xu snapped back to his senses and instinctively opened his mouth.
The milky-white pill appeared like a small meteor, quickly crashing into his mouth.
Once in his mouth, the pill instantly turned into a stream of Jade Liquid Nectar.
Immediately following was a massive explosion of Primordial Qi, surging into Chen Xu’s slightly dried meridians—
He had largely retracted his True Yuan into the Golden Core, which was why there were signs of depletion in his meridians.
The profound potency of the Replenishing Yuan Pill was something even regular Golden Core cultivators would use to replenish their True Yuan, let alone in the Foundation Establishment stage?
Under the pill’s onslaught and flushing, most of Chen Xu’s previous perplexities naturally dispersed.
He began to gradually regulate his breath and gently exhaled a mouthful of turbid Qi.
The wonders of runes were truly extraordinary.
If ordinary people practice incorrectly, they might not grasp the profound essence, but the most terrifying thing is losing oneself in the mysteries of runes.
After considering, Chen Xu decided he had to ask.
He wanted to see what kind of answer Master Nascent Soul would give him about the world.
Thus, he picked certain aspects of his experience during the rune drawing and questioned Master Mao:
"Master, the threads I saw earlier, are they actually the channels through which we manipulate the puppets, or is it something else?"
Hearing Chen Xu describe his earlier experiences, Master Mao was momentarily stunned.
He retorted, "Disciple, are you saying that you actually felt as if there were countless threads existing in the world while drawing the runes?"
Indeed, while comprehending the Netherworld’s Unbreakable Divine Power in the Great Li Kingdom, Chen Xu had once felt something similar!
But back then, Chen Xu wasn’t perplexed. He even felt like he was unveiling the truth.
It was by understanding the patterns of some of those worldly threads that Chen Xu could traverse the Netherworld and Mortal World with ease.
At that time, he had thus penetrated part of the space’s mystique.
But in the Xuantian Star Realm, everything was different again.
Chen Xu was suddenly filled with curiosity, eagerly awaiting Master Mao’s explanation.
After questioning Chen Xu once more, Master Mao’s expression suddenly changed.
He was surprised, excited, and almost disbelieving as he said:
"The mystery of the Array Talisman—disciple, you’ve just begun with the thirteen puppet symbols, and you’ve already begun to experience the symbols’ mysteries, how, how is this possible?
Disciple, do you truly not have a Dao Body? Not some Innate Yuanfu Dao Body of sorts?"
