Chapter Twenty-Six: The Talisman
"Bang" A wild boar slashed a graceful arc in the air, and came into close contact with a boulder. Trying to get up from the ground, its multi-wounded body did not listen to the command, so it had to hum there, and the cry became weaker and weaker.
Not far from the wild boar, on the trunk of a tree that was hit hard, Mao Rui sat on it and smoked a cigarette, quietly waiting for the boar to die.
Fifteen minutes later, the boar stopped struggling. Mao Rui walked up, took out a rope and tied the boar's hind legs, and hung it upside down from the tree. A large cut was made in the boar's neck with a dagger, and blood flowed out and fell into the bucket that had been prepared.
"Including this one, there are five beasts in total, which is almost enough, right?" he said to himself, removing the boar from the bleeding and removing its skin intact.
"Alas, the jade slip says that the rune paper and drawing rune liquid needed to make the rune can be made from demon beast skin and blood. I don't know if it works with this ordinary beast skin and blood. ”
A monster is different from a beast, a beast is a creature that only knows how to survive on instinct, and has no intelligence. And the demon beast has wisdom, not only able to think, but also cultivate. According to the records in the books, when the demon beast cultivates to a certain level, it can still incarnate into a human form. After incarnating into a human form, they already have a wisdom that is not weaker than that of humans, and they can no longer be called 'beasts', they call themselves demon cultivators or demon cultivators.
I don't know if there were demon cultivators on the earth before, anyway, Mao Rui hasn't heard of it now. Not to mention demon cultivators, I haven't even seen demon beasts. This is also the reason why Mao Rui sighed.
Remove the four skins from the space pouch that were previously obtained. Because I wasn't very skilled at skinning at first, there are two hides here that don't look very complete.
Then he took out a large jar of green liquid and threw four hides into it along with the wild boar skins he had just obtained.
"Snort~~"
The green liquid is said to corrode the hair away and make the skin tougher, making it a rune paper that can be used to carve runes. As the hides were placed, there was a sound of red-hot iron being poured into cold water, and the smell of burnt fur spread along with the white smoke.
Seeing the liquid constantly bubbling with small bubbles, Mao Rui knew that it would take some time to complete the soaking, so he covered his nose and retreated.
During the production of rune paper, Mao Rui began to make the drawing rune liquid. Set up a cauldron and pour all the five buckets of animal blood that had begun to coagulate. Pour in a packet of powder prepared in advance, light a fire and boil.
Finally, while waiting, in order to eliminate waste, the wild boar meat was washed and an outdoor solo barbecue began.
After eating and drinking, he smoked a cigarette and came to the jar of green liquid. If you see no bubbles and white smoke coming out, it means that the soak has been completed. I took a pair of pliers and fished out the hide, and it was seen that there was not a single hair on it, and even the thickness had become much thinner, only a little thicker than the card. Wash off the liquid with clean water and bake near the fire.
At this time, the boiling of beast blood has also come to an end, and the original cauldron is only one bowl of boiling. Pour in some anti-coagulation liquid and set aside to cool.
The dried skin paper was cut into a rectangle of equal size, and the rune paper was made.
After finding a flat boulder, placing the rune paper and drawing rune liquid on the boulder, Mao Rui took out a drawing talisman pen that he had taken at Mao's house last time, and began to devote himself to the production of the talisman.
According to the talisman making method mentioned by Yu Jian, he carefully injected the spiritual power in his body into the talisman pen through the hand holding the pen, and dipped the tip of the pen in the drawing rune liquid, and carved it on the rune paper according to the symbols described in the jade slip.
Twenty minutes later, the last stroke, in Mao Rui's care, was successfully engraved on the paper. Wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead, Mao Rui picked up the talisman paper and looked at it.
In appearance, it is no different from the talisman in the jade slip, exuding a faint light and faint aura fluctuations.
Looking at this freshly baked talisman, Mao Rui nodded with satisfaction, ready to try how it worked. Before a spiritual power could be fully injected, the talisman shook slightly, and a layer of flames appeared, which frightened Mao Rui and threw it out directly.
Look at the talisman burning into ashes in mid-air. Mao Rui's face darkened, and what he portrayed on it was a water attribute technique, a water arrow technique. And the flame that appeared on the talisman could only mean that he had failed to refine it.
Shaking his head, he said to himself, "It seems that this thing is not so easy to make." ”
Take out a piece of rune paper again and start a new one. But before the second one was finished, the stroke was crooked halfway, and with a soft "bang", the rune paper turned into fragments all over the sky.
After experiencing another failure, Mao Rui did not give up and continued to paint.
When the third talisman was successfully drawn, before Mao Rui could inject spiritual power, the aura on the rune paper quickly drained and turned into an ordinary animal skin paper with patterns painted on it.
"Hey, I don't believe it yet. Seeing three failures in a row, Mao Rui's stubborn temper came up, and he was ready to fight with this talisman.
Half a day passed, and most of the rune paper was used, but none of them succeeded. Not to mention those portrayal mistakes, which turned into pieces with a bang in the middle, there are thirteen of them that have been portrayed alone. But those thirteen were not half injected with spiritual power, and burned directly into ashes. It is the loss of spiritual power and the transformation into a piece of waste paper.
Mao Rui looked at the eight pieces of rune paper left, and did not make it immediately, but rested beside it. After all, in half a day, the spirit is highly concentrated, even if Mao Rui's divine sense is comparable to the middle stage of foundation building, it is a little unbearable.
After the break, Mauri started working again. As dusk approached, Mao Rui finished the last stroke on the last piece of rune paper.
The remaining eight pieces of rune paper, without a single mistake in the middle, were all made to the end, and three of them became waste paper.
Looking at the five talismans in front of him, Mao Rui tried them one by one. The first one turns to ashes, the second one turns to ashes, and the third one turns to ashes. Picked up the fourth one, mechanically injected half of the spiritual power, and then habitually threw it into the air. It did not burn into ashes like the previous three, but fell to the ground.
Mao Rui, whose hand had already reached for the fifth, was slightly stunned by the fact that there had been no change, and a glimmer of hope flashed in his eyes. Picked up the talisman and injected a complete spiritual power into it, a layer of pale blue light emanated from the talisman, and the talisman transformed into a water arrow and shot forward.
With a big grin, he said with a smile: "The failed product can't afford half of the spiritual power, if the finished product will not make the talisman change, is this the way to distinguish?"
took the last talisman and injected half of the aura into it, and after waiting for a long time, the talisman did not vibrate. Mao Rui smiled slightly and solemnly put it away.