Finding Elder Phoenix 2

Wang Li Tian entered the dormitory, took the manual from his backpack and left straight after. Elder Phoenix's voice appeared in his head again, "Hold onto this feather."

A red feather that came from Elder Phoenix floated down towards Li Tian. The boy held onto it gently. Instantly, a sense of lightness enveloped the boy's body. The heaviness and fatigue from the overdraw went away as he held onto the feather. Wang Li Tian knew it was Elder Phoenix's doing. With the newly available rigour, Wang Li Tian ran down the mountain swiftly.

This time, he did not get lost. This would not be the case if Elder Phoenix did not remind him which was the correct way numerous times. Eventually, the boy made it to the treasure mountain once again. The Elder in white welcomed him with a warm smile. No one except for Wang Li Tian had ever seen Elder Phoenix with a smile. After all, the human race did not hold high regards of demonic beasts, so neither would the origin beast treat them kindly.

"Thank you letting me use this feather, Elder Phoenix." Wang Li Tian attempted to pass back the feather to the Elder in white. However, the phoenix merely waved his hand.

"There is no need to return this feather, Little One. I specifically inscribed it for you as you are unwell." Elder Phoenix explained to the boy. He continued, gesturing towards the feather. "Take a closer look at the feather. Tell me what you see."

Wang Li Tian winced, focusing his sights on the small red feather. Unlike Mortal humans, martial cultivators were able to see things that are smaller than the naked eye. Since Li Tian's cultivation was still quite low, he was barely able to perceive what was on the feather. He muttered, "Demonic Beast Symbols?"

"Correct." Elder Phoenix followed up with another question, "Could you read what it says?"

"May the heavens answer my calling, 'something' of the Wind. Begone 'something', Clarity of sight. Clarity of mind." Wang Li Tian tried his best to translate it into his human language. The word before 'wind' and after 'begone' was something he had not picked up yet.

"Well done. The word you do not know is 'Blessing' and 'Infirmity'. You should memorise those two words. Take a brush and paper to practice now." Li Tian nodded as he listened to what the Elder said. Learning the language of the Demonic Beast was tough, but he knew that if he wanted to learn the Brave Heart Manual, he needs to be able to read the complicated language.

"Today, I am going to explain to you the power of Truth Words." When Wang Li Tian wrote the words several times over, Elder Phoenix coughed before starting his explanation to the young boy. "You have already discovered the mystical powers of the 100 Truth Words from your Prime Elder, correct?"

Wang Li Tian nodded again. He replied, "The Truth Words is able to appear in real life."

"Well you are technically correct. That is basically the crude way of explaining Truth Words." Elder Phoenix carried on to explain the meaning of Truth Words properly. "The proper way of defining Truth Words is that the symbols are able to interact and convert the world's spiritual energy into a specific effect. These effects vary with the different symbols. The human race made use of it by making Spell Scrolls, Arrays and Enchanted weapons."

"Nonetheless, their understanding is flawed, maybe even crude. You realised before that their definition of the Truth Words wasn't accurate, correct?"

Li Tian bobbed his head up and down. Even after millions of years of research, the Switch Rune was not discovered by the Human Race.

"This is not the only reason why I say that their understanding is lacking. The most crucial thing that they were missing when it comes to the Runic Symbols was understanding the true function of the Truth Words." Elder Phoenix stood up and headed to the stone wall in his cavern. Following which, he wrote out the runic symbols for Wind and Clarity. Gäl. Clê.

"When human artificer make anything, what is the thing that they use to create those effects?"

"Runic symbols." Li Tian followed along.

"Correct. They use runic symbols. If they wanted to, for example…" Elder Phoenix thought back to the times that he looked into a spell scroll, "They want to create a Quickness scroll. The artificers would have to make use of the Wind Truth Word primarily. This is what they would inscribe on the scroll."

Elder Phoenix drew symbols along the shape of a circle. Occasionally, the phoenix would put in the Combine truth word and several other Inspection runes so as to reinforce the stability of Quickness Scroll. It took him the time it takes to brew a cup of tea to finish inscribing the entire structure of the spell.

"This Quickness scroll would count as a level 3 inscription in human race terms." The Elder Phoenix gestured to the boy to take out the feather he had passed to him. ���Just now, I had asked you to read out the lines that were written on the feather. The first sentence was ''May the heavens answer my calling, Blessing of the Wind'.

Elder Phoenix writes out in Demonic Beast language for that sentence. He wrote it side by side with the Quickness Scroll, before turning around to look at Wang Li Tian with a calm expression. "What if I was to tell you that this sentence over here gives off the exact same effect as the Quickness Scroll?"