Chapter 604 - 5: The Transformation of the Talisman Dao

Chapter 604: Chapter 5: The Transformation of the Talisman Dao

On the south shore of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, at Putuo Mountain where land meets sea.

"Are you really sure this anomaly is coming from the South Sea?"

Lying on Li Boyang’s head, Xiluo licked her paws while suspiciously staring at the patch of Purple Bamboo Forest on the distant mountaintop.

The two of them were now at the foot of Putuo Mountain; if they went further up, they would reach Miaoshan’s dojo.

"If I remember correctly, that calamity dragon seemed to have come from the east, didn’t it?"

Hearing Xiluo ask this, Li Boyang only lifted his brows slightly and smiled.

"That dragon did indeed come from the east, and I also know he came from the East Sea."

"But the fundamental reason he turned into a calamity dragon lies here in the South Sea."

Xiluo had no doubts about Li Boyang’s judgment; she just didn’t quite believe Li Boyang as a person.

Every past experience kept telling Xiluo: the more nonchalant Li Boyang acted, the bigger the commotion he usually ended up causing.

"What exactly have you calculated?"

Trying hard to make her gaze jump out of the River of Time, Xiluo narrowed her eyes and asked.

Because in Xiluo’s field of vision, the River of Time was, as always, surging forward, seemingly without any great waves being stirred up.

Yet the more it looked like this, the stronger the unease in Xiluo’s heart grew.

She had already proven the Path of Divine Spirit, and counted as one of the strongest beings in the manifest world.

Even she couldn’t see any trick being played.

That could only mean the thing hiding behind that calamity dragon must also be a Pathfinder.

More importantly, for someone to make the current Li Boyang personally step out of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, that Pathfinder’s ability was by no means ordinary.

"So is someone about to prove their Path again?"

Over these three years, many Pathfinders had tried to prove their Path one after another.

Through the Queen Mother of the West’s incarnation in the Six Desire Heavens, Xiluo had witnessed those Pathfinders’ repeated attempts and was long used to it.

Anyway, those guys were just tossing things around inside the Six Desire Heavens.

Whether they failed or succeeded, in the end it wouldn’t affect the present world or the Yin Department.

"Even on that point, I’m not entirely sure."

Lightly pinching his fingers to calculate, Li Boyang did not give a definite answer.

The Six Desire Heavens he created were originally a test field specially reserved for those Pathfinders to prove their Path.

Theoretically, whether those Pathfinders came from the past or the future, proving their Path in the Six Desire Heavens was the best choice.

However, every rule has its exceptions.

The Six Desire Heavens are a shortcut to proving the Path, but not the only option.

Especially for those Pathfinders who have overwhelming confidence in themselves: they simply don’t need the Six Desire Heavens’ help and can re-enact their path of the Dao on their own.

A typical case among these is Zhen Wu, who coordinated most of the future timelines.

His understanding of the Path of Killing had already reached a realm unfathomable even to Ghost Gods.

Even if his self in another spacetime was just a humble ant, he could still use killing to prove his Path and ultimately attain the Realm of Refining Spirit and Returning to Void.

"So what Path is that fellow planning to prove, exactly?"

"Could it be that the Path he’s proving can only be realized in the present world?"

What Xiluo described was rare, but not impossible.

Or to put it more precisely: precisely because such situations are rare, once they do occur, they are destined to have a profound impact on this world.

"Whatever the case, let’s go up the mountain and take a look first."

After a brief moment of thought, Li Boyang was the first to head toward Putuo Mountain.

Seeing this, Xiluo, who was never much good at thinking to begin with, decisively gave up on thinking, and started shaking her head as she once again sized up the surroundings.

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Under Miaoshan’s leadership, the Alien Race of Putuo Mountain took less than three short years to make the Purple Bamboo here into an indispensable raw material for producing talisman paper.

On the one hand, this was certainly thanks to the rapid development of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, with demand for talisman bamboo increasing day by day.

The planting industry inside the Hundred Lands Mountain Range alone simply could not satisfy the Mountain People’s ever-growing daily needs.

On the other hand, it was also thanks to Miaoshan’s constant improvement, optimization, and cultivation of Purple Bamboo.

After all, from the very beginning Miaoshan had never thought of letting Purple Bamboo replace talisman bamboo; instead, she wanted Putuo Mountain to merge into the Hundred Lands Group’s industrial chain.

Given Putuo Mountain’s Alien Race scale, just a bit of resources leaking from under the Mountain People’s fingernails would be enough for their development.

So after several years of iteration, the new version of Purple Bamboo successfully achieved this.

The new Purple Bamboo wasn’t a raw material for making talisman paper, but an auxiliary material similar to an additive.

As long as the Mountain People add a bit of Purple Bamboo paste when making talisman paper, they can greatly enhance the Spell effects once the talisman paper takes shape.

Not only that, Purple Bamboo can also improve the stability of talisman paper and lower its usage threshold.

For example, in today’s Hundred Lands School there are many students making extra money by drawing talisman paper.

You have to know, this was originally something only graduates proficient in the Way of Talisman could do.

Yet with Purple Bamboo’s help, even those students whose talismans are drawn sloppily have already been able to successfully manufacture Talisman.

Although the effects of those Talismans aren’t very strong, the Mountain People don’t plan on using them themselves anyway.

Most of the time, those low-effect Talismans are shipped out to the outside world for people of other Fang Kingdoms to use.

Perhaps it’s a historical inevitability...

Or perhaps it’s the Spirit Mountain Ten Witches secretly fanning the flames...

The current Great Xia is also purchasing those Talismans in large quantities, preparing for the future popularization of the Talisman Launcher.

Most insightful Warriors already realize that a transformation is quietly brewing inside Great Xia.

The role the Hundred Lands Mountain Range plays in this is actually not very glorious.

The only thing to be thankful for is that most of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range’s current production capacity is used internally, with very little being exported.

But everyone also knows clearly that once the Hundred Lands Mountain Range completes high-level integration of its industrial chain, exporting all kinds of products will only be a matter of time.

Whether agricultural products or industrial products, the output of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range is astonishing.

This is the productivity boost brought by a technological revolution, the first domino piece that is about to be toppled.

If the Fang Kingdoms outside the Hundred Lands Mountain Range fail to keep up with this rise in productivity, then in the future they will face only one possibility: being flooded with dumped goods.

From basic agricultural products, to industrial products with extremely high technical content, and even to mythic creations involving Gods...

Whether actively or passively, at the very least some people have already become aware of the changing times.

The Putuo Mountain Alien Race led by Miaoshan has chosen to actively join in this change.

The All Xia system built by Great Xia is the challenger attempting to replicate the Hundred Lands Mountain Range internally.

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