The third memory crystal was the one containing the inheritance of the teleportation talisman. It is the one that he has been looking forward to going through the most.
As he read through it, his face fell because of the difficulty of the teleportation talisman. The difficulty even made him scowl.
Eventually, he gave his observation about the so-called teleportation talisman: "This is unnatural."
It is widely known that talismans are easier to make than formations. This is even though formations and talismans are essentially the same thing.
Formations and talismans use the same language in different ways. Formations are more detailed and elaborate, while talismans are short and succinct.
If a rune is a word. Formations use many words so they can be likened to a story containing many sentences, paragraphs, and even chapters.
Talismans, on the other hand, are at best a sentence. They are a string of words or runes that make up a single line of instruction.
Sometimes talismans are just a single word. That word is oftentimes very complicated and packed with a lot of meaning, but it is still just a single word.
This is why talismans are believed to be easier to make than formations. But to be fair, whatever is difficult about making formations can also be very difficult for talismans. After all, they both have sentences in common.
Sentences are very difficult for both talismans and formations. The teleportation talisman is an example of such a sentence that both formation masters and talisman masters will scratch their heads about.
What makes the teleportation talisman so difficult is that it appears to be another language entirely. The words or runes are made of the same alphabets or lines that he recognizes, but they are layered and arranged in such a way that he can't recognize the word and sentence.
The keyword here is "layered." The sentence of instructions that makes up the teleportation talisman appears to be a three-dimensional structure with word interaction and connection that isn't only left to right like he used to but is also connected from top to bottom too.
He can see the entire sentence in his mind. It looks like a three-dimensional spiderweb layered in the shape of a star. It is just a single sentence, but the entire sect ID is not so complicated.
The sect ID is complicated because it is a large book. It has a title page, a table of contents, a foreword, the main body with many chapters, and an index.
But the sentence structure of the book can be understood at a glance. The whole plot of the book can also be learned and appreciated.
In fact, the whole book can be memorized word for word. This is something that he has done.
But despite this achievement, whenever he gazed at the structure of the teleportation talisman, he couldn't help but believe that it is something that shouldn't exist. It is far from ordinary to him. It is unnatural.
He shook his head and said, "I am sure that this isn't something I can draw by hand."
He is sure without even attempting it that he can't make something like this with his hand. It is because a hand is not equipped to draw something like this in one stroke.
He is also not sure that a hand can draw it at all. But even if a hand can draw it, he is willing to bet that the hand will have to take a break.
The more he looked at the teleportation talisman, the more certain he was that he would require a divine sense to make it. The divine sense will also need to be powerful.
As he thought of this, he nodded and said, "Only something like that can output and control the level of energy required to draw a rune capable of breaking through space, creating a portal, and transporting someone through it."
He hadn't been looking at the teleportation talisman for long, but he had been able to learn many things about it. After all, he is something of a formation master himself.
He can tell that the sentence structure of the formation talisman is packed with meaning and function. From what he can see, the talisman has at least five functions.
These five functions are to break space, create a link to random spatial coordinates, create a portal that leads from the old spatial coordinates to the new ones, drag the user through the portal, and protect the user through the portal until they arrive at the destination.
And these are just the ones that he can tell for now. He also noticed that some of those functions have to occur simultaneously, while some of them have to occur one after the other.
For example, the breaking of space must occur before the others and must occur throughout the entire sequence of operation, so other subsequent steps need to occur both simultaneously and after space has been broken.
During the entire operation, space must remain broken. Then at the end of the sequence, steps of dragging the user through the portal and protecting the user through the portal must occur at the same time.
These arrangements of timing must be made through the layering and arrangement of words in the structure of the sentence. If he gets the whole sentence but misses their arrangement and timing, the consequences could be dire.
The need to arrange the sentence perfectly in its three-dimensional layered structure is an important source of difficulty in making the talisman. Every word must be impeccable and their position perfect, or what he will end up drawing will be something else.
There is just no room for error. He believed that this is probably why no one in this part of the world has been able to manage to make a teleportation formation apart from Patriarch Sword Flash.
If the teleportation talisman is already so difficult, he can't imagine just how difficult something reusable that can transport many people across vast distances to a fixed location every time would be.