Forced to Zhongnan Chapter 82 Talisman Making Test
Lianyun Village is probably the most prosperous sect within a radius of a hundred miles. It has many disciples and its influence is radiating to farther areas.
Otherwise, the rare materials from the far north would not be able to reach this place.
Once the business is established and popular, even the caves built in the spiritual land can bring in huge income.
Now that renting a cave has become a business, we can’t be as careless as other caves in the mountains. We have to give guests a home away from home experience.
The road leading to the caves is paved with white stones, flowers and plants are built by special personnel, and the ground is cleaned every day. Each cave is isolated with a simple formation to form an independent space with excellent privacy.
Yan Yun rented the cave for three days with six spiritual stones. Although Ji Zhao and Yuantai thought it was expensive, they could still accept it. Qing Chan felt that her body ached to death. She only said that junior brother should not spend such unjust money, and it was the same for meditating outside.
, no matter how urgent it is to practice, there is no need to miss these three days.
When Yan Yun used the token to open the cave called "Ting Tao", Qing Chan stopped complaining about his lavish spending of spiritual stones.
She was shocked by the cave after the formation!
To be precise, this is not a cave in the literal sense, but a large and carefully crafted courtyard, located under a waterfall like a waterfall.
There is a two-story viewing pavilion built in the courtyard, surrounded by bead curtains and green bamboos. Wind chimes are hung on the corners of the eaves. When the wind blows, they will make a ringing sound.
The pavilion is equipped with a table, a Yaoqin, the Four Treasures of the Study, and two gums. Even the futon used for meditation is made of vanilla.
The supporting facilities in the attic opened the eyes of Qingchan, a "countryman", and the babble in her mouth changed from complaining to admiration, saying that it was true that the Dongfu was so expensive.
Yan Yun became interested in several books placed on the desk.
This book introduces the layout of Lianyun Village, including the weapon refinery, garment workshop, plantation, Yuzhu Pavilion auction house, medicinal materials, ore, groceries and other shops, all listed.
The other two books are "Baicao Jing" and "Collection of Different Materials". The former is a book that introduces the medicinal materials and plant materials commonly used by monks. It lists more than 300 kinds, draws pictures, and indicates the functions and effects. The more you turn to the back of the page,
See, the things involved are rarer and rarer.
Until the last page, a woody plant called "Nine Death Wood" caught Yan Yun's attention. He seemed to have a small piece of this plant in his storage bag.
Looking at the annotation of this item again, this tree grows in a very yin place. It dies once every fifty years and is reborn. It cannot be used until it dies nine times.
The value of the Nine Death Wood is bought and sold in units of money. Each dollar is worth one hundred spiritual stones, and it is usually priceless in the market.
Yan Yun estimated that the Nine Death Wood contained in a jade box in his storage bag was only about half a catty, and based on the value of one hundred dollars each, it amounted to a terrifying five thousand spirit stones!
So, there are so many unknown materials in Li Ao's storage bag, how much is the total price?
Yan Yun, who had always been calm, could not help but feel his heart beating wildly at this moment.
Moreover, the many materials for refining the Netherworld Soul Flag contained in "The Guide to the Dead" include the Nine Death Wood. Other materials are also extremely expensive. How much does it cost to refining a soul flag?
When Yan Yun thought about it, he felt that five thousand spiritual stones were not worth mentioning anymore.
The journey of cultivating immortality is actually a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor!
Yan Yun looked through the "Collection of Strange Materials" again, which mainly contained gold and stone. At the end of the book, he found two items with similar materials to those in the storage bag, which were also listed as sky-high prices.
From this point of view, it is really not an easy task for Yan Yun to refine a brand new Nether Soul Flag.
The primary goal is to earn spiritual stones so that you can achieve your goal.
The talisman is powerful and in high demand. If you can become a talisman maker, you can speed up this process.
Yan Yun asked: "Brother Ji Zhao, what is the Talisman Maker test about?"
Ji Zhao, Yuantai and Qingchan asked almost in unison: "Junior brother wants to test himself before Master?"
Yan Yun smiled and said: "What's the harm in giving it a try?"
"Here!" Ji Zhao took out four things from the storage bag, a pen, a jar of cinnabar, an inkstone, and a thick stack of yellow straw paper.
The pen and the inkstone are actually innate magic weapons, and they are all crystal white and gleaming with fluorescence.
Yuantai said: "Senior brother also uses Qinghao pen and Chensha inkstone?"
Ji Zhao asked in surprise: "Is it possible that junior brother is also secretly practicing making talismans?"
Qingchan smiled bitterly and said, "Master is a talisman maker. As a disciple, who wouldn't want to inherit Master's legacy?"
Qinghao pens and dust inkstones are not cheap, and are the best talisman-making tools that Qi Ningqi level disciples can buy and use. The large stack of straw paper is made of Babel grass that grows in the spiritual land.
The supporting auxiliary materials are relatively expensive. Such a stack of finished papyrus, which is about one hundred sheets, is worth five spiritual stones. It is still the lowest level carrier of drawing symbols.
There are a lot of Babel grass planted in Xiao Zhongnan's spiritual land, and cicadas usually take care of them and fertilize them.
The fact that Ji Zhao and others are so poor probably has a lot to do with the fact that they used the spiritual stones they obtained to practice making talismans in private.
Ji Zhao poured some cinnabar into the sand inkstone and drew four patterns on the paper with a green pen, representing wind, fire, thunder and lightning.
Qingchan looked at the four patterns and sighed: "It would be nice if the making of the talisman could be as simple as tracing the patterns."
"Master has said that to make a talisman, you need to have a mind as calm as a pool, connect the sky and the earth, draw the air into the pen, focus on the sand, the pen rises and the mind goes away, and it is completed in one breath..." Ji Zhao taught Yan Yun the essence of making talismans in just a moment.
The time has been said, but it is not an easy thing to put it into practice and successfully draw a successful talisman.
Yan Yun asked: "How to judge whether you have successfully drawn a talisman?"
Ji Zhao said: "Once successful, the pattern on the talisman will fluoresce."
"What counts as a successful test?"
"Within half an hour, draw ten talismans. If you succeed in two, you will pass the test."
"Only two?"
"Do you think it's easy to succeed in two?" Ji Zhao said with a look of annoyance on his face, "I've been practicing for two years, and no matter how I do it, I can only succeed in one in half an hour."
"Senior brother, have you ever successfully drawn a talisman?" Qingchan and Yuantai asked in surprise at the same time.
"Yes, but what's the use? It's still unqualified..." Ji Zhao was dejected.
Qingchan and Yuantai looked at each other without saying a word, obviously they had never successfully drawn the talisman.
Is it so difficult to successfully draw a talisman?
Yan Yun lost all his contempt, moved his gums to the edge of the waterfall, jumped on it, and sat cross-legged.
He then placed the cinnabar, green hair pen, and dust inkstone on his right hand, placed the yellow talisman paper in front of him, and placed the four patterns on top of the talisman paper. Everything was in a position where he could use it naturally.
Then, he performed the exercises according to the twenty-four diagrams he created, putting his mind in a certain state of emptiness.
Ji Zhao, Qingchan, and Yuantai meditated and waited at a place about ten feet away from Yan Yun, so as not to disturb Yan Yun.
The auspicious omen also lit a pillar of sandalwood incense and stuck it on the ground. This was used to measure time. When the incense burned out, half an hour had passed.
At first, Yan Yun just sat quietly and thought over and over in his mind the essentials of drawing the talisman mentioned by the auspicious omen.
When one-third of the sandalwood was burned, he finally picked up the pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and dropped the pen tip to the talisman paper.
This seemingly ordinary painting with a pen seems to be of great weight. Although the pen is written quickly, the dragging of the strokes is very difficult, and the sparse golden light in the spiritual ground is like bees picking flowers, gathering towards the tip of the pen.
When this stroke was finished, a glowing fluorescence appeared on the talisman paper, and Yan Yun's heart moved. At this moment, the talisman paper suddenly spontaneously ignited and turned into fly ash.
Yan Yun realized something in his heart. It seemed that there was no room for distraction when drawing the talisman, and even the slightest fluctuation of mind would lead to failure.
So, he took out another piece of talisman paper and placed it in front of him.
He closed his eyes and thought for a while, pushed the shadow of previous failure out of his mind, and started writing again.
The golden light in the spiritual land gathered towards the tip of the pen again. Although the green brush in Yan Yun's hand was dipped in cinnabar, the lines drawn were the rubbings of the spiritual energy contained in this spiritual land on the talisman paper.
The aura generated on the talisman paper was very slow. Yan Yun didn't know how to measure it for a moment. When he drew the third stroke, the talisman paper spontaneously ignited again.
Yan Yun was not discouraged, so he took the talisman paper and drew it again.
However, two consecutive talismans were unsuccessful, and by now, two-thirds of the sandalwood had been burned.
Although Ji Zhao and the other three people did not say anything to disturb, they all shook their heads when they looked at each other.
Yan Yun picked up the talisman paper of Chapter 5. This time he did not rush to write. He looked up at the waterfall and pondered for a long time before dipping the pen in cinnabar.
This time, he drew smoothly, and the outline of the "wind" talisman appeared on the talisman paper. He only needed to complete the last stroke and the talisman was completed.
But his mind was too focused on the talisman paper, and he couldn't think of how to draw the last stroke. When he took a look at the pattern, it was already too late, and the talisman paper spontaneously ignited again.
"Hey..." Ji Zhao's heart was in his throat. He was satisfied that Yan Yun would succeed this time. Seeing this, he couldn't help but sigh.
Yan Yun, however, seemed not to hear, and quickly drew the sequence of "wind, fire, thunder and lightning" strokes in the void with his pen. It lasted for a moment, and there was only a knuckle's length left before the sandalwood was burned out.
Then, Yan Yun lined up four pieces of talisman paper at a time, and drew a circle with his green brush in the air. The golden light flowing in the air seemed to have received instructions and converged on the tip of his pen.
But seeing that Yan Yun's writing seemed to be spirited, this time, he sketched the talismans very quickly. After each drawing, he dipped the tip of his pen in cinnabar and stared at the talisman paper without blinking.
The first piece of talisman paper did not spontaneously ignite, the second piece also did not happen, the third piece...
Ji Zhao, Qing Chan, and Yuantai didn't even dare to breathe. They all stood up, stretched their necks, and looked around like a heron.
When Yan Yun finished drawing four pictures in a row and took out the talisman paper to sketch again, this time, fire appeared again.
Almost at the same time, the last red light of the sandalwood extinguished, and the ashes of the incense head fell to the ground. An hour was up!
Ji Zhao and the other three quickly walked behind Yan Yun and looked at the table together.
I saw four fluorescent talismans lined up on the table, which were the four talismans of wind, fire, thunder and lightning!
"How many spiritual stones are these four talismans worth?" Yan Yun asked.
The auspicious omen was full of surprises and said: "A single one is worth four spiritual stones, two matching pictures of wind, fire or thunder and lightning are worth about ten spiritual stones, and four matching pictures are worth twenty-eight or thirty spiritual stones!"
