After soaking and tossing about for nearly an hour, he fished out the talisman papers, packed them all back into the Qiankun Bag, and then stood up to leave the pool, casting a spell to dry himself off and put his clothes back on.

When he reached the hall, he bowed to his father again before he opened the stone door to leave.

Just as the stone door closed, Bian Jixiong called out, "Elder Yi, Elder Feng."

The two elders quickly appeared with their people. Bian Jixiong handed over the Qiankun Bag to them, and then they checked the talisman papers inside the bag on the spot.

After confirming the grade and quantity of the talisman papers and mutually signing off on the exchange, everyone swiftly left with the talisman papers that had completed the fifth step of "Sinking Immortal" in order to carry on to the next step of refining.

Having observed all this, Shi Chun closed his eyes to ponder. He was just getting his bearings back. Although his physical body's blood energy was strong, having his right eye's superpower activated for over an hour had still left him feeling a significant drain on his blood energy, especially since he had already activated it several times before.

Bian Weiyin stood by silently, at least understanding a bit that Shi Chun was not joking and that his investigation into the secret refining method for the immobilization charm was serious.

When Shi Chun opened his eyes again, he murmured softly, "Can you get me a talisman paper that was just soaked?"

Bian Weiyin thought for a while, "Each one costs money. To keep the accounts clear, every single paper is strictly controlled, so I can't get my hands on a complete one. However, I could get you one that was discarded during the Hexuan test, would a discarded one work?"

Shi Chun replied, "I don't know, just get me one to look at first."

Bian Weiyin said, "Come on, let's go back."

The two quickly returned to her residence. Bian Weiyin didn't stay long; after leaving Shi Chun behind, she left on her own.

About half an hour later, she returned, and upon meeting Shi Chun again, she pulled out two damp talisman papers from her sleeve. Both had perforations from being pierced through, "These are the best I can get my hands on, and it cost me quite a bit of charm. How about it, are they of any use?"

Her words carried a hint of flirtation.

Uncomprehending of the flirtation, Shi Chun took one in his hand and examined it. He then activated his right eye's superpower to carefully observe it. Indeed, he found the red mist substance that Bian Jixiong had emitted during the spell still present within the inner layers of the talisman paper, while the surface of the almost dry paper had hardly anything on it.

He realized that the red mist could persist for a longer time in a damp environment.

After that, he walked outside beneath the eaves and glanced around. With two fingers, he pointed to the ground from a distance, attracting a small cluster of faint-blue substance. This insubstantial thing could easily be drawn forth by pointing at it from a distance.

He proceeded to guide the faint-blue substance into the damaged inner layer of the talisman paper.

He wasn't concerned if it would leak out through the holes in the paper; he could seal it with a spell. He only wanted to observe whether there would be any reaction between the faint-blue substance and the red mist within.

The reaction was significant. As soon as the tiny blue substance touched the red mist particles, it immediately appeared as if it was scorched, like a surface membrane rapidly deteriorating and expanding, or as if it was being incinerated.

If one didn't have a close look, and without the aid of the Dharma Eye for static observation, it would be hard to see clearly, as the substances were too fine.

However, from Shi Chun's increasingly radiant observing eyes, Bian Weiyin was certain that he had discovered something significant, and she became extremely curious.

Indeed, Shi Chun had seen some answers he was looking for. Those tiny damaged blue substances quickly infected their kind, and in a short time, they transformed the entire cluster of blue material that had been inserted. The luster of the blue material had morphed into the kind he had seen inside the immobilization charm, becoming translucent.

Would the effect be the same? He needed to test it.

He immediately released the sealing mana from the hole in the talisman paper, pressed out the transformed blue material, which wafted out like a mist. It struck his body, and immediately as if finding a host, it aligned and arranged itself in a flash, quickly forming a network across his entire body like ivy tendrils, firmly binding him as they branched out at the junctures.

Soon, his body was covered with glowing tendrils.

Although it wasn't the first time he was immobilized by an immobilization charm, it was the first time he saw with his open eyes the full process of the charm's power unfolding. Before, he could only passively activate his right eye's superpower after being affected, and by the time he saw it, the initial state of transformation was already over.

Following this, was the constraining force produced by the attracted misty bluish-green substance, a tremendous force of fixation that completely immobilized him.

He exerted all his effort in casting spells to break free but couldn't budge at all, which left him in shock. He was now at the level of cultivation of the High Martial Realm; how could such a tiny cluster of blue substance immobilize him?

At that moment, he got a sense of the potential level of power of the immobilization charm. He wondered what level of suppressive force would be exerted on a person by those blue substances falling from the sky.

"What's wrong with you?" Bian Weiyin noticed his anomaly.

Shi Chun remained silent for a moment, then suddenly moved his figure. He had his own method to break the immobilization charm, and no great restraining force could hold him.

After regaining his freedom, he said nothing else, tossed away the talisman paper he was holding, grabbed the one in Bian Weiying's hand and once again tried to capture the blue substance from the ground with a spell for another attempt.

An occurrence could be an accident, but twice could yield a relatively stable conclusion.

As expected, the result was the same as before; he successfully immobilized himself again.

Through the entire process of change within the talisman paper, he didn't see any other substances affecting the blue material, only the impact and changes caused by the red mist released by Bian Jixiong.

He vaguely realized that much of the complexity might be a deception to mislead people, an eye-blocking skill to guard the so-called core secret. The real key might lie in some sort of cultivation technique practiced by Bian Jixiong.

But he couldn't say this directly to Bian Weiyin. He had to protect his own secrets to some extent, so he tentatively asked, "In the refining secret method, the so-called secret formula for soaking the talisman papers, hasn't anyone cracked it over these many years?"

Bian Weiyin shook her head, "So many people want to uncover its mystery, not to mention outsiders, I'm afraid even within Wukang Mountain there are many, but no one has ever been able to comprehend its secrets; my father and their defenses are very strict."

Shi Chun guided the topic, "With so many people inside and outside trying to pry into it, a formula for a secret concoction that has remained secret for so many years is indeed quite extraordinary…"

At that moment, he suddenly looked around, then whispered to her in a low voice, "Could it be that the so-called secret of the concoction doesn't exist at all, and that it's just a ruse to deceive everyone? I observe that there seems to be traces of a cultivation technique infused on this talisman paper. Could your grandfather and your father be practicing some special cultivation technique?"

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