57 Approaching The Center (1/2)
After Jam kicked the Saint Lords out of his cave, he returned to talk to Cynthia. He had spent several hours studying the Saint Lords' Dao Domains, so after he returned to find Cynthia focused on recovering from the recent battle, he left her alone and focused on finishing the inscribing process of Dao Runes into his body.
After ten more hours of inscribing, Jam finally finished inscribing his body with all the Dao insights he had comprehended. From this point forward, all the insights Jam understood would be automatically inscribed onto his body, at the same time as his Dao Palace.
Cynthia had already finished recovering, as the first thing Jam saw when he opened his eyes, was Cynthia starting at him from her corner of the cave.
Jam was thrilled to know what they would do now, he said ”Well, where do we go from here?”
”First off, I'd like to say thanks, for helping me out of that jam.” Oh god… she had jokes….
Jam didn't seem to understand the humor, so he just ignored the figurative speech and continued on like normal. He said ”No problem. I wouldn't be a good friend if I ignored your signal.” Jam then gave Cynthia another signalling talisman.
Cynthia accepted the talisman with a nod and said ”Honestly, I'll just follow you around. We only have another month in this place, and with your strength, I'll probably have the best opportunities by travelling with you.”
”Alright then, do you want to go back to some of the previous special domains we've crossed during the month we've spent here, or do you want to keep heading further into the Mountain Range to see if we can find the center?”
”I'm fine with either option, but if you want to head back for me, don't. I'm already a False Saint, almost a Saint Master after the time I spent converting my spirit energy into Saint energy, so heading to the center would be the best course of action I can take.”
Jam nodded and though for a while before he said ”While I was at the Celestial Lake and the Wind Plains, I stuck around for a while to pick up some natural treasures. Do you by chance have any natural treasures you are in dire need of? We can trade...”
”Mhmm...” Cynthia thought about it for a second and could only think of one thing she needed. She took out three spiritual fruits: A Moonscent Chordate, a Galegust Berry, and a Crystal Space Jewel. With these three fruits appeared before her and Jam, she said ”If you could make me Tier 4 Pills or Talismans to convert my energies into Saint energy, that would be all that I need.” She might have a ridiculous quantity of Tier 7 Interference and Defence type Talismans, but those were to ensure her safety by the Clan. Cultivation and Healing type talismans would be up to her to procure, with her money; it was kind of like a test by the Clan as they wanted her to face some challenges as a cultivator, but not die.
”No problem~” Jam didn't beat around the bush and directly offered to help her out. He chose to create Conversion Talismans Type Space, Stellar, and Wind as these would be the easiest to create. He tried to convince her to just take some of the talismans he had stockpiled, but Cynthia remained adamant on not taking Jam's treasures; not after he basically rescued her.
Jam eventually had to shrug his shoulders and accept Cynthia's refusal to take his talismans, and started the creation process for what Cynthia required. He took out three pieces of Tier 4 talisman paper, his Inscriptionist pen, and had the three fruits hover before him. Eyes drawn towards the Space fruit, Jam chose to start off with that type of Conversion Talisman.
He activated his Targeted Gravitation technique and pulverized all the pieces of the space fruit into a silky smooth liquid. With this liquid hovering before him, Jam used his inscriptionist techniques to drawn dozens of precise runes on the talisman paper. His hands and fingers moved about erratically, sometimes moving extremely fast, other times they were depressingly slow.
Lines of all thicknesses were expertly printed down on the paper and the entire process to complete one talisman took Jam less than three minutes to complete. With the first Space Conversion Talisman finished, Jam started on the second and then eventually the third.