Chapter 3178 - 3153: Rune Path! Calamity Path!

Chapter 3178: Chapter 3153: Rune Path! Calamity Path!

The Talisman Path is a cultivation method upon the Barbarian Ancient Continent, using special spiritual ink to inscribe a miniature Magic Circle onto spirit paper, capable of unleashing unimaginable power.

Yet Warriors who cultivate the Talisman Path are not many upon the Barbarian Ancient Continent.

And among the Talisman Path, the most awe?inspiring talismans are the Escape Talismans.

Once, countless Warriors relied on Escape Talismans to escape from the jaws of death.

Even in the hands of Tianjiao such as Su Cang and Yejian Jun, who once crossed blows with Lin Bai, there were talismans.

But now, the Escape Talismans upon the Barbarian Ancient Continent are mostly Thousands of Mile Escape Talismans and Escape Talismans of 100,000 Miles.

And even if there are Million Miles Escape Talismans, they are all held in the hands of many great Families; even a place like Tianbao Tower, which encompasses Rare Treasures Under Heaven, doesn’t have much stock left.

Only the North State Tianbao Tower branch has one, and the Central Holy Nation Tianbao Tower headquarters has a dozen or so, but whether it is the North State or the Central Holy Nation, to send these Million Miles Escape Talismans to the Territory of all nations on the East Continent would require more than three months’ time, and Lin Bai cannot afford to wait that long.

Lin Bai has already had Bai Xiaoxiao search the Shenwu Kingdom’s national treasury as well; there are the most Thousands of Mile Escape Talismans, quite a few Escape Talismans of 100,000 Miles, but simply no Million Miles Escape Talismans.

Lin Bai stood at Tianbao Tower’s window, frowning deeply, unable to relax.

The Maid saw Lin Bai’s current appearance and softly said, "Does Sword Prince truly have great use for this Escape Talisman?" ℴ𝒗ⅇ𝑙.

Lin Bai nodded slightly. "Yes."

The Maid said, "Although Million Miles Escape Talismans are extremely rare, and are basically all purchased by some Families and Sects to protect important Disciples, within Tianbao Tower, besides the Million Miles Escape Talismans, there are other Escape Talismans that can also forcibly shift a distance of a million miles!"

Lin Bai was stunned, looked toward the Maid, and asked, "What Escape Talismans?"

The Maid said, "Blood Escape Talismans!"

Lin Bai had originally thought this Maid would recommend to him some relatively good Escape Talismans; to find out it was Blood Escape Talismans, he said, "Don’t tease me here. I am in no mood to joke with you."

"Blood Escape Talismans aren’t even as good as Thousands of Mile Escape Talismans."

"How could they possibly forcibly cover several hundred thousand miles?"

The Maid said, "In this regard Sword Prince is somewhat unaware. Blood Escape Talismans also come in the forms of Thousands of Mile Blood Escape Talismans, Hundred Thousand Mile Blood Escape Talismans, and Million Miles Blood Escape Talismans!"

"And as is known to all, every time a Blood Escape Talisman is activated, it must absorb the Warrior’s essence blood, so within the Martial World there are not many Warriors willing to purchase them!"

"Generally speaking, an ordinary Warrior, after consecutively activating a Blood Escape Talisman three times, will have his blood completely drained; thus, these Blood Escape Talismans gradually fell out of use as well!"

"Yet within Tianbao Tower, there are many Blood Escape Talismans kept in reserve!"

"Among them are Million Miles Blood Escape Talismans!"

"Of course, to activate a Million Miles Blood Escape Talisman, the Warrior must possess abundant vital blood!"

"Otherwise, before the Blood Escape Talisman can be fully activated, the Warrior is very likely to die from blood loss!"

"Once, a Strong One at Death Reversal Realm Great Perfection activated a Blood Escape Talisman and died of blood loss before he could even shift away!"

The Maid said calmly, "Sword Prince, would you like to consider it?"

Lin Bai’s Eyes flashed; he looked toward the Maid and asked, "How many Million Miles Blood Escape Talismans does Tianbao Tower in the Territory of all nations have?"

The Maid said, "Eleven!"

Lin Bai said, "I want them all!"

The Maid laughed. "Please wait a moment, Sword Prince, I will fetch them for you at once!"

Half an hour later, Lin Bai left Tianbao Tower and returned to the Miracle Ridge.

...

On the Miracle Ridge.

Yin Jiuling sat in a courtyard, while Hu Qi and Ning both crowded around Yin Jiuling, their Eyes wide as they stared at him.

They saw that between Yin Jiuling’s fingers, a ring of powder was coiling.

This was He Ran the powder of Giant God bone that Lin Bai had had Nie Xiong go to Lingdong to retrieve.

"What is he doing? Do you understand it, Hu Qi?" Ning asked curiously and Strange?voiced.

Hu Qi slightly shook his head and said, "I don’t understand, I don’t understand!"

The two of them saw Yin Jiuling guiding that powder to flow between his fingers, his mouth muttering incantations.

After a while, Yin Jiuling stopped, clenched the powder in his hand, and said lightly, "I am casting a spell!"

Ning exclaimed, "Casting a spell? Have you also cultivated as a Witch Doctor?"

Yin Jiuling said calmly, "In the ancient Martial Art, there was actually no such term as Witch Doctor; there was only... the Calamity Path."

Hu Qi said, "I seem to have heard my Master speak of it... the Calamity Path!"

"It seems to be a means of controlling great tribulations of Heaven and Earth?"

"Once there was a Strong One of the Calamity Path who took a single stone or flower as a medium and in an instant shattered a world!"

"Is that right?"

Yin Jiuling said coolly, "If one cultivates the Calamity Path to the extreme, indeed one can shatter a world in a single thought, but I am not yet capable of that."

"However, using these fragments as a guide to deal with some Blood Fiends is still possible."

Ning frowned and said, "What are you two talking about? I don’t understand a word."

Hu Qi explained calmly, "The Calamity Path, its Origin of Martial Arts lies before Martial Arts themselves!"

"In the Primordial Era, Warriors had not yet risen, the Human Clan had not yet obtained Spiritual Power; in those times, every tribe would have a Witch Doctor who would deduce destiny and often use a single flower or blade of grass from an enemy tribe to launch an assault!"

"In Ancient Books it is recorded that ancient Witch Doctors could control the changes of Heaven and Earth’s wind and clouds, control the flow of mountains and rivers, control Heavenly Thunder, control Earth Fire, commune with Divine Spirits, summon Ghosts and Gods, and control all things under Heaven and Earth!"

"Every flower and blade of grass, every mountain and river, every wisp of wind, every spark of fire between Heaven and Earth could become a lethal weapon of attack in the hands of a Witch Doctor!"

"Yet to cultivate into a Witch Doctor was extremely difficult; in the Primordial Era, any tribe that possessed a Witch Doctor was a supreme power Under Heaven and Earth!"

"But later, as Warriors rose, cultivating Spiritual Power, and because becoming a Witch Doctor was so difficult, Witch Doctors gradually faded from Under Heaven and Earth."

"In later generations, many people came to call Witch Doctors ’curse practitioners’."

"Yet few know that what they cultivated was actually not curses, but calamities."

"This is the Calamity Path!"

Hu Qi said evenly, "My Master said that Warriors who cultivate the Calamity Path generally divide their Technique into three steps."

"First, take spirit—meaning to take something belonging to a certain Heaven?and?Earth domain, or to a certain Warrior. It can be a single flower, a piece of stone, or it can be a single hair, a drop of blood, a fragment of bone."

"Second, fix calamity—using the obtained object to set the calamity: be it Heavenly Thunder, Earth Fire, Water Flooding, or Earth Burying."

"Third, meet calamity—the Warrior who cultivates the Calamity Path will activate his Calamity Technique from afar, causing all those upon whom calamity was fixed to suffer punishment!"

"What Yin Jiuling did just now should have been fixing the calamity, right?"

Hu Qi asked.

Yin Jiuling silently nodded. "Venerable Lord of Thousands Treasures truly knows much."

Hu Qi laughed. "My Master has refined artifacts for many years, and many Warriors have come to present Rare Treasures and Strange, Ancient Books as gifts, hoping to win my Master’s favor and have him refine artifacts for them."

"And my Master greatly likes these things, so he has accepted many."

"When I was young, my Master would treat them as stories and tell them to me!"

When Hu Qi mentioned Venerable Lord of Thousands Treasures, his eyes were filled with deep longing.

Yin Jiuling said, "The Martial World of Once was a world where All Flowers Bloomed, but later, as more and more Warriors revered only Martial Art, many Daos gradually declined. Whether the Talisman Path, Calamity Path, Array Dao, or Saber Dao, all slowly faded from people’s sight."