A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

Chapter 824: Side Story - Nation Founding (2)The core of the Naming Family Method is to distinguish emptiness and substance through names.

Through names, it draws what belongs to emptiness into reality, and steals the name that is in reality and sends it back to emptiness.

Doing so, distorting law and unleashing authority is precisely the Naming Family Method.

”Talisman War. Open!”

When Makli Hyun-ah spits out the ’name’ of the culture called ’Talisman War,’ at the same time a barrier with a diameter of five li spreads around them.

By calling the name, he brings down into reality what is called Talisman War that exists only as a ’concept’ belonging to emptiness.

It is a Naming Dao Conferring Gods domain that is best for bringing out the power of Naming Family talismans.

Seo Hae-ryeong, the Elder of the Sea Dragon Race, sees that sight and lets out an exclamation.

[A Talisman War domain? To be able to spread a barrier said to be seen only at the Human Race’s Grand Talisman War Competition with a single word of command...indeed, you are the founder of Talisman War.]

Showing an excited look, he takes out the talismans he has gathered from Talisman War and begins to unfold the Talisman War.

[Activating the Trap Talisman Coral Zone. With the effect of Coral Zone, this sea area is set as a place that maximizes the power of sea demon beasts. With the special effect of Coral Zone, I activate spell talisman of the sea demon beast lineage. Spell Talisman Vortex is activated. With the effect of Vortex, one more talisman is taken out from the Talisman War deck and activated. If that talisman is a spell talisman of the water, wind, sea, or demon beast type, then through the connection with Coral Zone and Vortex, it becomes possible to summon one demon beast talisman.]

Chwaaaaaah!

The spell talisman Seo Hae-ryeong takes out is a talisman named ’Storm Talisman.’

[Spell Talisman Storm Talisman! With Storm Talisman’s effect, I call a storm over this entire sea area.]

By Seo Hae-ryeong’s baptism of talismans, countless phantoms of coral appear in the arena, and water rises nearby.

Immediately after, a huge vortex forms between the two, and around that vortex waterspouts rise as waves crash violently, and dark clouds begin to pour lightning and rain.

The optimal environment for a sea dragon to rampage forms.

However, what comes out of the demon beast talisman Seo Hae-ryeong summons is not that of the Sea Dragon Race.

[Summon, demon beast talisman! With the effect of the demon beast talisman, I summon Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect disciple, Jin Je-ja!]

[TL/N: Je-ja means disciple.]

Kwarururung!

Lightning rumbles, and from inside the storm a figure of a man at the Core Formation level wearing a golden robe appears.

Makli Hyun-ah clicks his tongue at the sight.

”I see...the Human Race extracts the aura of demon beasts to make demon beast talismans, but demon races like the Sea Dragon Race instead exploit the aura of the Human Race to make human talismans...”

[Hm? No, it is not necessarily like that. I extract and keep the energy of the Human Race who loses to me in a Talisman War duel. It is the spoils I have obtained up to now. And if you also lose in the Talisman War duel, you must be prepared...!]

When Makli Hyun-ah thinks about being targeted by that old sea dragon, he feels cold sweat form on its own.

’How horrific. Even if I too entered a realm that corresponds to Core Formation, if I get drained by that Core Formation old man, I, whose vitality is weaker than users of Immortal Family Methods, will become a skeleton!’

—Makli Hyun-hok, I keep telling you, please use the word ’absorb’...

Makli Hyun-ah lets Jegal Mikhail’s plea that he hears in his mind go in one ear and out the other, and carefully chooses talismans.

If there is a difference between the games on Earth that is Makli Hyun-ah’s homeland, and the Talisman War of this Penglai Star, it is that he cannot possibly know what talisman the opponent is making.

’Among the talismans I distributed, that leaked from the Makli Clan and spread throughout Penglai City, very many are of the ‘Sealing-Name talisman’ type...’

The talismans of the Naming Dao Conferring Gods Canon are largely divided into two branches.

A Name-Sealing talisman that first finds out the opponent’s name in advance and writes that name in advance, then sticks it to the opponent and seals their power.