Longevity: From Being Pushed By The Witch

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

With the end of the second round of assessments, three more talisman masters left the stage.

In the entire hall, including Ji Boying, there were only seven talisman masters left.

This result...

Although it was expected, it was also unexpected.

It was expected that there would only be seven talisman masters left.

It was unexpected that Ji Boying was among the seven talisman masters.

After all, in their eyes, no matter how high Ji Boying's proficiency in talisman Dao was, due to his insufficient cultivation, his spiritual power could never compare to that of a Gold Core cultivator of the same talisman Dao realm.

This difference was particularly evident when it came to talisman making!

However...

In their view, Ji Boying was just like this.

In the future, when it came to four-star talismans, even if Ji Boying had no problem with the talisman theory, he would fail the assessment due to insufficient spiritual power.

After a day of adjustment...

The assessment began again.

However, it was different from the previous two rounds of assessments.

The content of the third round of assessment mainly focused on the combination of spiritual patterns.

As for the assessment requirements...

It was to master any kind of spiritual pattern combination from the scriptures within seven days.

Those who studied talisman Dao knew that whether it was talismans or talisman scripts, they were all composed of complex characters, cloud seals, spiritual patterns, and spiritual diagrams either individually or in combination.

Compared to characters, cloud seals were just patterns, nothing more.

As for spiritual patterns and spiritual diagrams, they were more complicated.

Not only were there no fixed rules, but the ways of combination were also varied. Different combinations could activate talismans, but... the effects were vastly different.

The predecessors, through countless years of summarization, had provided the optimal solutions, but they were only the current optimal solutions. It didn't mean that these combinations were the best or the limits of these talismans.

Even if a talisman master knew the optimal solution due to some special reasons, they might not be able to complete the combination.

In such cases, talisman masters had to use alternative combinations.

If one wanted to activate talismans with other combinations, they needed to understand what these spiritual patterns and spiritual diagrams represented and what roles they played.

And this was what was called talisman theory.

By following diagrams and imitating, one could draw talismans, but it was limited to simple talismans of low quality.

For more difficult ones, even if the steps of drawing were written out, without understanding the talismans, one would still be unable to complete them.

It was similar to solving physics problems. If you were told to use certain theorems and laws, but you didn't understand their meanings and functions and just copied them, you would only get some partial credit.

If you copied them incorrectly, you wouldn't even get partial credit.

To answer correctly and get full credit, one must understand the principles behind them.

As his thoughts flowed, Ji Boying had already started reading the scriptures.

Compared to the second round of assessment, the difficulty of the third round could be said to have increased exponentially.

Because in the scriptures, any combination, even the simplest one, was composed of more than ten spiritual patterns interacting with each other.

The complexity of drawing alone was already not inferior to drawing an ordinary four-star low-quality talisman.

If it also involved talisman theory, the difficulty would be even higher.

Fortunately, these combination spiritual patterns were all attributeless spiritual patterns, so there was no need to worry about the interaction of attributes.

Time passed bit by bit.

Half of the seven-day assessment period had already passed in the blink of an eye.

Although he had never studied this kind of knowledge before.

After this period of research, Ji Boying had completely mastered the theoretical content. What remained was to put it into practice.

He slightly adjusted his state.

Ji Boying picked up his brush and began drawing spiritual patterns.

He did not choose the combination with the fewest spiritual patterns.

Because...

After studying, he realized that the simpler the combination, the more complex it was.

On the contrary, combinations with a sufficient number of spiritual patterns were relatively simpler.

Hmm...

In other words, solving a math problem, sometimes the simpler the steps, the deeper the knowledge and understanding of the problem.

On the other hand, blindly following a set of steps and solving the problem through a bunch of steps actually made it easier!

Like this...

After about two hours, Ji Boying finally outlined fifty percent of the combination from the scripture.

Although he was still halfway from completing it, the complex and ever-changing patterns were already starting to shine.

The next few spiritual patterns only needed to be drawn step by step to be completely finished!

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At the same time, on a mountain peak in the headquarters of the Wan Dao Trading Company...

Under the guidance of Su Xiao, Su Ling arrived at the main hall of the Heavenly Thunder Palace.

In the hall, besides the Lord of the Heavenly Thunder Palace, there were also several elders at the Soul Formation stage.

After entering the hall, Su Ling bowed to the Lord of the Heavenly Thunder Palace on the main seat and then stood aside.

Not long after...

A cold voice slowly echoed in the hall.

"The three major rankings set by the headquarters are about to be announced. The original Talent Ranking was canceled for some reason and replaced with the current Potential Ranking."

"Even so, the results of our palace are as expected, still not optimistic."

"Among the three rankings, only the Star Ranking representing contributions can barely occupy thirty percent."

"As for the remaining Moon Ranking representing potential and Sun Ranking representing strength, they are both less than ten percent."

"Especially the Moon Ranking, in our grand Heavenly Thunder Palace, there are only two people, Lin Xiu and Ning Miao, on the list, and their rankings are all beyond eighty!"

"If a few more geniuses emerge from the Wan Dao Pavilion this time, these two will be kicked out at any time!"

Speaking up to this point, the atmosphere in the hall also turned cold.

Especially the several elders at the Soul Formation stage, they all lowered their heads and remained silent.

This scene was like a leadership criticism meeting.

In fact...

The meeting organized by the Lord of the Heavenly Thunder Palace today did have some elements of a criticism meeting.

After all, what difference does it make even if there are more people on the Contribution Ranking?

The foundation of the palace still ultimately relies on the strength of the current generation and the future geniuses.

After a moment of silence, the Lord of the Palace, Luo Qinghan, looked at Su Ling beside him and asked softly,

"How is that Ji Fu Shi's recent cultivation? What level is his symbol mastery at the headquarters? Is it possible for him to make it onto the Moon Ranking?"

As soon as he finished speaking, all the elders in the hall, including Su Xiao, turned their gaze to Su Ling.

However...

These elders did not have much expectation in their eyes.

They heard that Ji Fu Shi was only at the Foundation Building stage and had only been practicing symbol mastery for a few short years.

Even if he had talent, how strong could he be in such a short time?

It would already be good enough if he could pass the assessment of this Wan Dao Pavilion.

If he had another ten years to accumulate and be taught by Su Ling, a symbol mastery genius like him...

He would definitely surpass Lin Xiu and Ning Miao!

However...

Just when they didn't have much hope, Su Ling's next words almost made them exclaim on the spot.