Late at night, the candlelight is bright in the hut.
Lu Zhongzheng was leaning over the square table, holding a cracked rat-hair talisman pen, and was concentrating on making talismans.
Stimulated by the scene during the day, his desire to increase his strength reached an unprecedented height.
But the improvement of strength cannot be separated from the supply of various resources.
And if you want to obtain cultivation resources, you need spiritual stones.
Therefore, he would stay up late to practice making talismans.
According to the demonstration memory of the cleaning talisman in his mind, after such a long period of practice, Lu Zhong's mastery of the cleaning talisman has improved a lot, and he is almost the same as the old man selling books.
He estimated that his success rate in drawing the cleaning talisman should be 50%.
This was also the level demonstrated by the old book seller, which meant that the cleaning talisman in Lu Zhong's mind to guide memory was now of no reference value.
"It seems that if you want to improve the success rate in the future, you can only rely on your own research and study." Lu Zhong thought in his mind, took out a blank talisman paper and continued to make talismans.
His hand holding the talisman pen was extremely steady, and every stroke was well understood. During this period, the transmission of spiritual power was very smooth, without any accidents, and the entire talisman was completed in one go.
Looking at the aura gradually fading on the surface of the cleaning talisman, Lu Zhong knew that he had successfully drawn another cleaning talisman.
He was already used to this and brought out a blank talisman paper again.
Talisman making is a craft that consumes a lot of time and energy. During the process, spiritual energy from the body is continuously injected into the talisman paper, so the output of each talisman maker is limited.
Lu Zhong was naturally no exception. After two successes and two failures, his Dantian became empty.
At this time, he ate the spiritual rice cooked in the pot, and then used the Water and Wood Sword Technique to refine it.
The kong body circulated for a small week, and the spiritual energy contained in the Qinghe Ling rice was refined and became the pure spiritual power in his body.
Due to financial constraints, Lu Zhong could only eat two taels of spiritual rice per meal, so the spiritual energy he ate was quickly refined, and he had to choose to absorb the spiritual energy of the surrounding world.
For more than a dozen small weeks in a row, until he felt a faint tingling sensation in his meridians, he stopped practicing the exercises.
Feeling the changes in his body carefully, Lu Zhong was surprised to find that the total amount of spiritual power in his Dantian had increased a little, and the mottled degree of the spiritual power had also been reduced, becoming obviously more pure.
"It seems that every time I exhaust my spiritual power and use my kung fu to restore it, I can get some benefits from it."
Although the increase in spiritual power each time is very small, it is not a small amount when added up.
When conditions are not as good as those of the family sect disciples, if casual cultivators want to get ahead, they probably can only have a slight hope of catching up through unremitting efforts.
Pulling himself together, Lu Zhong looked at the white fish belly outside the window and picked up the talisman pen again.
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The streets in the afternoon were sparsely populated. Because of yesterday's incident, the atmosphere in Qingliuxu was a bit tense at the moment.
Lu Zhong put away the sheets used to set up the stall, but his face was full of joy.
I thought it would be very difficult to sell the cleaning charms before the market opened today.
He even made plans to lower the price of the acquired store severely in order to sell the talisman.
But I never thought that I would be lucky enough to meet a group of casual cultivators who came out to purchase.
Those five people were indeed making a living in the wilderness. Without blinking an eye, they bought the twenty-eight finished cleaning charms.
In this way, eighty-four talisman money was received.
Subtracting the cost of the talisman paper, which is 62 talisman coins, the profit he gets is 22 talisman coins.
After Lu Zhong calculated it, he felt happy.
In this way, after a whole month, the income is nearly seven spirit stones.
According to what he learned, this kind of income is considered to be below the middle level in Qingliu Ruins.
"The future is promising, the future is promising!"
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Time passed day by day, and Lu Zhong's life was dull and fulfilling.
He relied on making unremitting talismans every day, and then took advantage of the market opening to sell all the talismans.
Selling talismans can earn considerable income. While meeting his daily spiritual rice needs, he has also gradually saved a lot of savings.
One day half a year later, the night was as dark as water.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Lu Zhong closed his eyes tightly and his forehead was covered with sweat.
At this moment, the surrounding spiritual energy suddenly became restless, and then poured into the body crazily.
He only felt that the true energy in his body was boiling like boiling water at first, and then the total amount of spiritual power began to increase rapidly, and did not stop until it reached a new upper limit.
Lu Zhong opened his eyes in surprise, thinking that after practicing for so long, he finally broke through to the second level of Qi refining.
Compared to the first level of Qi Refining, the spiritual power in his body has doubled.
"The greater the total amount of spiritual power, the higher the daily output of talismans, which also means an increase in spiritual stone income."
Thinking of this, he almost started dancing with excitement.
Forcibly suppressing his excitement, Lu Zhong walked to the square table that was temporarily used as a talisman-making workbench.
He picked up the bald talisman pen, dipped some talisman ink in the talisman ink pot, and began to draw the cleaning talisman like a dragon.
After improving his cultivation, he found that it was much easier for him to draw the cleaning charm.
Converted into a success rate of making a cleaning talisman, it should be an increase of nearly half.
Don't underestimate this improvement, it can be a considerable profit when it is reflected in making and selling talismans.
"Now that you have been promoted to the second level of Qi Refining, it's time to learn to draw new talismans."
In recent days, Lu Zhong has found a talisman maker who is willing to teach him how to avoid arrow talismans.
It was none other than the old man who sold him the talisman-making book before.
This old book seller's surname is Li Mingdong. Although he is only at the third level of Qi Refining now, he was once a well-known Talisman Maker in Yanlingshanfang City. At his peak, his monthly income in spiritual stones was double digits.
However, due to some reasons unknown to outsiders, Li Dong's hands that he relied on to make talismans were disabled.
Judging from the current condition of his hands, he must have been treated by someone later, but unfortunately he did not return to normal. He was only able to draw one or two talismans.
But even if he found such a disabled talisman maker to teach him his skills, the price Lu Zhong had to pay for this was still astonishing.
According to the terms the two of them had negotiated before, he needed to pay twenty-five spirit stones at once, which was his income from drawing talismans for the past four months, in exchange for Li Dong's guidance on how to draw the arrow-avoiding talisman.
In fact, for such extremely expensive guidance, most talisman makers practice in advance, and only after they have a certain understanding of the arrow-avoiding talisman will they reluctantly spend a large sum of spiritual stones to hire someone to guide them.
Only in this way can the effect of guidance be maximized.
And Lu Zhong relied on the Gray Fog Space. To him, one instruction was equivalent to countless times.
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The next morning, Lu Zhong went out early.
Crossing Qingliuxu Street, he arrived at the street level.
At a corner of the alley near the street, there is a brick house made of blue bricks. This is the home of the talisman maker Li Dong, and the talisman making instructions will be conducted inside.
Lu Zhong knocked on the door gently, and someone answered immediately inside.
"Squeak..." The door of the solid wood house was opened.
The person who opened the door was an old lady. She had no cultivation at all and was obviously a mortal.
Seeing Lu Zhong knocking on the door, the woman showed a smile and said, "It turns out to be Master Lu Xian. Please sit inside. I have something to go out just now, so you may need to wait for a while."
Then, Lu Zhong was invited to the living room.
A cup of hot tea was quickly handed to him, and he began to wait patiently while sipping the tea.
Two hours later, Li Dong came back in a hurry with a boy.