The Talisman Ancestor's Journey

Outline of "The Talisman Ancestor's Journey" Lin Jiuyuan, a youth with severed meridians and an apprentice in a blacksmith shop, has a sister whose spiritual roots were damaged and who lies ill, with no money for medicine. An old ancestral seal unexpectedly awakens, allowing him to "see" the bone structure of talismans, at the cost of shortening his lifespan each time he uses it. Relying on the feel he has developed over seven years of forging, he integrates the patterns of iron blanks with the flow of talismans, starting from repairing ruined talismans and struggling to survive in the back alleys and abandoned kilns of Huashi Town. Uncle Zhao's shop, visitors from the Qingyang Sect, a three-petaled scorched talisman—the finishing arc left by his missing grandfather seventeen years ago—all lead to the ancient hidden truth of the severed talisman path. From talisman craftsman to talisman master, from rogue cultivator to talisman sect, Lin Jiuyuan trades his life for every step; the wall is covered with accounts of his lifespan, and the seal's surface bears new lines one after another. More than once he faces a choice: accept his fate, forge iron, marry, and raise a family, or continue drawing. Each time, he chooses the latter. Because the talisman seal recognizes him, because "severed meridians are the true orthodoxy of the talisman path"—that spiritual roots determine life and death is a rule later generations walled up; what the Talisman Ancestor chose back then was precisely someone like him, without spiritual roots. From Huashi Town to the Qingyang Sect, from the Tiannan Talisman Pavilion to the Wufu Cliff, from the title of Talisman King to the realm of the Talisman Ancestor. In the end, he dismantles the talisman seal and scatters it among the mortal world, so that every child with severed meridians can draw a glowing crooked line on the ground. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Talisman Ancestor's Journey — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠