Zheng Fa took a look and indeed, it was well drawn.
Zheng Fa accepted the Spirit Talisman and asked Zheng Shan, "Would you like to follow Fairy Xiao for cultivation practices?"
"Fairy Xiao?" Zheng Shan was startled, seemingly having never considered this option, and asked in confusion, "Does that mean I would take Fairy Xiao as my master?"
"Not necessarily, it’s just about having her take you out of the Jiushan Realm."
This was the best solution Zheng Fa could think of—Fairy Xiao Yuying’s Master must be very strong, otherwise Sunset Sword Immortal would not have suffered a major loss back then.
Perhaps there might be a way to stop the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor.
On the other hand, Fairy Xiao Yuying’s Master is still independent from the Xuanwei Five Sects, which comparatively seems safer.
Moreover, he believed he had a pretty good relationship with Fairy Xiao Yuying, so entrusting his little sister to her felt reassuring.
"Leave the Jiushan Realm?" Zheng Shan was even more puzzled, "Why should we leave the Jiushan Realm?"
Zheng Fa looked at her, knowing well in his heart—although at this age she would still be considered a child in modern times.
But in the Xuanwei Realm, she had already matured, and there was no need to hide certain things from her.
"If we stay in the Jiushan Realm, I fear great troubles will come." Zheng Fa said softly, a statement that his little sister could hear, but not their mother... After all, she hasn’t cultivated and would only worry upon hearing this.
"Great troubles?" Indeed, Zheng Shan’s eyes widened, but she also spoke softly.
"Will I die if I stay?"
Zheng Shan asked directly.
Indeed, his little sister had seen many life and death situations...
"Then are you leaving, brother?"
"No, they are coming specifically for me."
Zheng Fa shook his head.
Having said that, he didn’t want to hide many things.
After all, if his little sister had to live on her own in the future, she shouldn’t be kept in the dark.
"Then I don’t want to take Fairy Xiao as my master!"
Zheng Shan declined outright.
Zheng Fa wasn’t surprised; he simply rubbed her head gently and said, "Accepting a master doesn’t necessarily mean you have to leave, maybe everything will be fine?"
He was just making a final preparation.
"Mom said that when father passed away, you almost died too," Zheng Shan suddenly brought up another matter.
"Mom also said if you died, then she would have died too."
"And I would die as well."
Then he heard Zheng Shan mutter, "If I were to acknowledge a master, I’d acknowledge Sir Han!"
He didn’t know why she would think such a thing.
"Sir Han told me that the Tianhe Sect is very powerful! If I acknowledge Sir Han as my master... wouldn’t the Tianhe Sect be able to help you?"
The meaning of Zheng Shan’s words seemed to be contemplating how to ’sell herself at a good price’ to help her brother.
Hearing his little sister’s words, Zheng Fa couldn’t help but inwardly chuckle, thinking she was still quite naive—did she really think that with Sunset Sword Immortal as her master, the Tianhe Sect would truly treat the Jiushan Sect as one of their own?
Hmm, considering the things that Sunset Sword Immortal did, it is very likely that the Tianhe Sect would disassociate with him entirely.
Since his little sister was unwilling, Zheng Fa would not force her, at least it was still too early to talk about these things... After all, the Demon Ancestor had some time before his descent, at least according to the communication from Master Cheng Kong, since he destroyed two Blood Slaughter Flags, it would take some time for the enemy to repair and refine them again.
Zheng Fa was about to ask Xiao Yuying for a Magical Treasure to scan with when he was stopped by Elder Yuan along the way.
"Come, I have something for you."
Elder Yuan pulled Zheng Fa to his courtyard, where Master Pang was already waiting.
These two... their relationship didn’t seem so close before, did it?
"Master Pang, you are here too?"
Zheng Fa looked at Master Pang and then at Elder Yuan, wondering what these two were up to.
Master Pang gave a light cough and glanced at Elder Yuan, saying, "Your master and I have had some new realizations recently, which should be helpful to you."
Zheng Fa was even more puzzled and looked at Elder Yuan for explanation.
"I have a set of talisman formation skills, don’t I?"
"And your Master Pang, has a Linked Talisman Technique."
Zheng Fa nodded lightly, waiting for his master to continue explaining.
Naturally, he knew about both of these skills and had even learned them, just not in-depth—certainly not as deeply as these two founders.
"I had your Master Pang and I teach classes to the disciples, and we listened to each other’s Secret Techniques," Elder Yuan said, "As we were listening, we felt that our secret techniques could be combined."
"We thought, since both are derived from the Mountain and River True Form Talisman, they are intrinsically connected."
Master Pang added from the side.
"Your Master Pang and I together, have come up with a... Immortal Formation Skill."
"Immortal Formation?"
Zheng Fa didn’t understand and saw Elder Yuan pass him a Jade tube.
Inside the Jade tube was their research on the Immortal Formation Skill.
The theory was quite simple: Elder Yuan’s talisman formation relied on Spirit Talismans, whereas this Immortal Formation relied on the casting by cultivators.
The talisman formation skills had a limitation that all Spirit Talismans were activated simultaneously, mainly because cultivators’ Divine Souls cannot control them so finely, especially for something like the Circulation Divine Thunder Formation that goes beyond the cultivator’s own cultivation level, making it too difficult to control.
However, if it were switched to cultivators, there would naturally be flexibility in timing the spell casting.
At this point, Master Pang’s Linked Talisman Technique becomes useful.
If we were to compare it to a computer, it would be like adding a scheduling program on top of the talisman formation skills, making them more flexible, able to handle more tasks, thereby producing richer functions and exerting more powerful force.
Master Pang smiled and said, "With the Immortal Formation Skill, a group of Foundation Establishment disciples could gather together and potentially possess the strength of a Golden Core disciple. If Golden Core disciples are arranged properly in the formation, they could even try to withstand a Nascent Soul. "
"Nascent Soul... Well, we don’t have that many Nascent Souls, but if we had enough, we would be confident in facing Divinity Transformation!"
Seeing Zheng Fa still in a daze, Elder Yuan laughed and patted his shoulder, saying, "Us old fellows may not be a match for you, but this Great Freedom Demon Ancestor... it doesn’t have to be you facing him alone!"
His face was full of pride—with one sentence:
Your Master is still your Master!