When Shang Xia set out to make the second-order rune, he still chose to start with the simplest and most proficient martial talisman he controlled.

This time, the sigil he was going to engrave was a second-order "Golden Sword Talisman".

However, the engraving of the "Golden Sword Talisman" did not go smoothly, although there were four successful experiences in the production of the first-order rune, but the difficulty of the second-order rune was doubled compared with the first-order rune.

Although Shang Xia had figured it out in advance, when the production of the second-order "Golden Sword Fu" was about a quarter of the way through, the fragment of the knife stone in his hand completely shattered into pieces, which made Shang Xia feel distressed.

When Shang Xia regrouped and started to engrave the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" sigil for the second time, this time it was when he was one-third of the way to the mark, and once again a mistake caused a knife stone in his hand to shatter.

However, Shang Xia was not discouraged, and continued to select a fragment of the Knife Insertion Stone for sigil carving.

This time, the carving of the second-order sigil seemed to be progressing slowly, but Shang Xia did not lose any confidence, on the contrary, he was more determined in his heart.

Compared with the continuous attempts to make runes at the beginning, it can even be said that it is like a fly without a head, and it is all verified by luck, but now Shang Xia has found the correct idea of making runes, and all he needs to do now is to make his skills in making runes more exquisite.

However, Shang Xia's third production of the "Golden Sword Talisman" sigil was still not completed, and halfway through, the house he was in was slapped again.

Shang Xia was a little helpless to interrupt the feeling of being done in one go, but after opening the door, he was slightly stunned, this time there were five of the six people in Tongyou's group standing outside the door looking at him, and their eyes looked full of surprise, surprise, seriousness, shock and other complex emotions.

"Guys, this is ...... Is something wrong?"

Shang Xia was a little confused for a while.

Liu Qinglan spread out her palm, and above the palm of her hand was a square stone piece that was one inch square and only five points thick, which was the slightly flawed first-order "Heart Talisman" sigil that Shang Xia had thrown to Chu Jia before.

In order to make the most effective use of the fragments of the knife stone and reduce waste, the four first-order sigils engraved by Shang Xia were all one inch square, but only five minutes thick stone flakes.

I heard Liu Qinglan ask in an unusually serious tone, "You made this?"

Shang Xia looked at Chu Jia, who was hiding behind Liu Qinglan, and the other party hurriedly staggered his eyes, so he smiled and said, "Yes, a temporary practice...... That's why the teacher came?"

"Go in and talk!"

Liu Qinglan couldn't help but say, and directly broke into Shang Xia's house.

Shang Xia, who was originally standing in front of him, hurriedly got out of the way, and the other people behind him also hurriedly followed when they saw this, Yuguan walked in, and even Yun Yichen seemed to close the shop and followed in with a serious face.

When Shang Xia turned around and returned to his house, he saw Liu Qinglan holding his half-carved second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" sigil in his hand to observe.

And several other people also picked up a few pieces of rune fragments that had been scrapped in the process of carving, and looked at them in their hands one by one.

"What are you doing...... Because of the sigil?"

Shang Xia was a little surprised that they realized the importance of the sigil so quickly.

"You're already working on the second-order sigil?"

Liu Qinglan asked with the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" sigil in his hand, which had been carved halfway through.

Shang Xia smiled: "I just started trying, and I haven't been able to succeed yet." ”

Liu Qinglan lit up when she heard this: "That means you have more than this first-order sigil?"

Shang Xia smiled and took out the other two first-order "Wind Arrow Talisman" sigils and one "Heart Talisman" sigil, and said, "Even the one in your hand, all the samples are here." The first-order sigil was too poor to make, so after only completing two first-order sigils, I began to try to make second-order sigils. ”

Liu Qinglan looked at the fragments on the carved table and said, "Didn't it go well?"

Shang Xia smiled bitterly: "There shouldn't be a big problem with the idea, but the craftsmanship is not at home." ”

Liu Qinglan breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and after nodding, she asked with an unusually serious expression: "Then do you know what these ...... 'runes' you made mean?"

Without waiting for Shang Xia to speak, Liu Qinglan said to herself: "After I found that rune in Xiao Chu, I tried it with a first-order rune paper, without a rune pen, I am not a rune master myself, just glue the ink ink, and then slightly control the amount of vitality injected into the rune, and a first-order 'heart talisman' will be formed." ”

Shang Xia was a little stunned when he heard this, but he didn't remember when Liu Qinglan had the ink.

You must know that the first-order seal clay that was blended was all blended on the basis of the first-order rune ink, and it should only be available to him at present.

Liu Qinglan didn't care about what Shang Xia was thinking, but said: "A first-order rune is nothing, but it can make a martial artist who is not a rune master be able to make a steady stream of martial talismans just by relying on a rune, do you know what it means after this news spreads?"

"Since the first-order rune can be made, then it can be made into a second-order rune, a third-order, a fourth-order, or even a higher-order! If this secret is leaked and removed, I am afraid it will cause a sensation in the entire martial arts world, as well as the covetousness of countless people with ill intentions!"

Speaking of this, Liu Qinglan's tone even carried a three-point reprimand: "Since you have stepped into this threshold, you should strictly guard this secret, so easily give the talisman to others, but you don't tell her to keep this secret, once it is leaked, do you know how much trouble it will bring you?"

Chu Jia stood behind Liu Qinglan, and couldn't help but lightly stick out his tongue when he heard the words.

Shang Xia said with a smile: "Teacher, don't worry, the sigil technique I created is not so easy to be imitated or learned. ”

Liu Qinglan's face showed a slight look of surprise when she heard this, and said: "All the engraved marks on this rune are clear, those rune masters will not understand? Besides, there are people outside the human world, but there is more than one great rune master in the two worlds of Cangyu and Cangling, so you must not be lucky!"

After that, Liu Qinglan groaned slightly, and said, "It's really not easy to imitate?"

Shang Xia picked up a rune and explained with a smile: "Teacher doesn't know, the stone I used to carve the rune is unique, and I named it 'Knife Insertion Stone', which I obtained in the Linyuan Secret Realm, and so far I have not found anything similar to or even the same material, but the rest of the spiritual materials are difficult to carry the rune. ”

Shang Xia continued: "Of course, the restriction of materials alone is not safe, the world is so vast that the starry sky is vast, and the knife stone may not be unique. However, even if you can find similar materials, it is not easy to carve the sigil, there are still many skills and secret techniques, which are currently unique and original to the disciples, and others are also confused if they want to imitate them. After all, the rune is not just carved on the rune pattern to be used. ”

Liu Qinglan was immediately relieved when she heard this, and said with a smile: "It's naturally best for you to be so sure, but it's a big matter, and it's always good to be a little more cautious." ”

Shang Xia just smiled and nodded when he heard this.

Liu Qinglan looked at his expression, and suddenly her heart moved, and she was stunned: "You probably didn't want to spread the word about the sigil, right?"

Shang Xia smiled and said, "As long as the martial talismans made of these runes are used in the future, this secret will not be kept sooner or later." In fact, the idea of using runes to make martial talismans is probably not uncommon among the two realms of talisman masters, but everyone has not yet found this path. ”

"But if you can keep it for a while, it's a while, and besides, you're only starting to carve second-order sigils now?"

Liu Qinglan retorted, then looked at Shang Xia and said, "You took out the sigil at this juncture, it shouldn't be the idea of wanting to fight the trade fair, right?"

Shang Xia said with a smile: "I really can't hide anything from the teacher, although the disciple has the support of the academy and various families, but after seeing the rich and powerful skills of the three major factions, he is really not very sure whether he can get something at the fair, so he thinks about whether he can make a dozen ideas on this talisman." ”

Speaking of this, Shang Xia once again added: "Teacher, you must rest assured, the secret technique I use to carve sigils is definitely impossible for others to learn without my teaching. Even if someone figured out the art of sigils in the future, it would only be him who found another way, and it couldn't be the same as me. ”

Liu Qinglan saw that he had made up his mind, and knew that persuasion was useless, so he muttered: "Since you insist on doing so, then this matter needs to be seriously considered." ”

............

After Liu Qinglan and the others left, they also took away all the three first-order runes in their hands.

Shang Xia continued to start the carving of the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" sigil before, but after he didn't have the feeling of doing it in one go, if he wanted to use the knife, he had to start pinching his fingers again to deduce the direction, strength, depth, time of the knife, the length of the cutting time, and so on, which was extremely cumbersome.

After all, until now, he had not completed the carving of a complete second-order rune, so not long after continuing the previous carving, because of the carving of a certain rune, he could not form a vitality resonance with the previous rune when the knife fell, so that this rune was declared invalid.

However, this time Shang Xia was much calmer, because although a pause in the middle made Shang Xia's process of making runes extremely complicated all of a sudden, it also made him have a deeper understanding of the production of second-order runes in the process of calculating and carving, and at the same time, he also had further ideas for improving its production methods.

So Shang Xia made persistent efforts, but this time the selected knife stone chips were expanded from one inch square to one inch and five points, and the thickness of the original five points also increased to seven points.

Compared with the first-order talisman, the increase in the difficulty of the second-order talisman is all-round.

But if it is viewed by a layman, then the most intuitive difference between the two is that the rune lines of the second-order martial talisman have become more complex and denser, which will undoubtedly bring a certain degree of difficulty to the carving of the rune.

In this case, Shang Xia simply exchanged for a larger seal, which allowed him to have more room to play in the process of carving the runes, and at the same time, he could make it a little less difficult.

As a result, after Shang Xia started to make the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" sigil for the fourth time, the final success seemed logical.

However, this change will also increase the cost of sigil crafting, most notably the cost of shards for the Bladestone.

You know, even Shang Xia himself doesn't know where to find the second knife stone.