Ling Xiao, who left the table, did not return to the guest room, but went straight out of Nanfang City, took a carriage, and went to Dongfang City.

Dongfang City is the base camp for selling pills, medicinal herbs, and talismans, and Ling Xiao thinks that he is in the imperial capital, and there are many inconveniences in cooking, so most of the follow-up aura intake depends on pills.

Although he has learned to refine medicine, he is only good at refining first-order elixirs, and second-order elixirs have never been refined, and he has no time to study them for the time being.

Or buy it directly, it's more convenient.

After visiting a few stores, Ling Xiao successfully purchased two bottles of "Yuehua Dan".

This is an upgraded version of Yuehualu, suitable for monks in the early stage of foundation building to improve their cultivation, the price is expensive, two bottles totaling 20 pills, a total of Ling Xiao spirit stones were spent!

Holding the moon dew, Ling Xiao had to sigh again: Poor, not worthy of cultivating immortals!

Then, he walked around the Fu Gong Market.

Even in Dongfang City, the number of second-order talismans was extremely rare and expensive.

After all, there is no one in ten thousand monks who build the foundation, and there are even fewer of them who are good at making talismans.

Most of the excellent talisman makers have been trapped in the Qi refining period for the rest of their lives.

In addition, the difficulty of drawing second-order runes has increased linearly, and even the success rate of foundation building talismans is extremely low, which has caused the rarity of second-order runes on the market.

An ordinary second-order talisman requires 200 spirit stones!

After Ling Xiao saw the price, he immediately extinguished the idea of buying a few to study, and went to buy a talisman tool instead.

A bottle of second-order rune ink, a second-order rune pen, a pile of second-order blank rune paper, and a "Second-Order Rune Making Encyclopedia" cost him 5,000 spirit stones.

After spending more than 20,000 spirit stones, Ling Xiao still did not stop buying and plunged into the spirit grass market.

In the next two days, Ling Xiao wandered around various spirit grass stores, familiarizing himself with the larger spirit grass market while searching for spirit grass suitable for him.

Spirit grass has a wide range of effects, the most important of course is used for refining medicine, but there are also a small part, which will be used for cooking, refining tools, talisman making, and so on.

Ling Xiao bought some of the spirit grass that could be used for cooking, and spent another 2,000 spirit stones.

At the same time, he also missed a few spirit grasses.

After finishing his stroll, he left to return to Nanfang City.

During this period, whether Duan Guangxiong had ever looked for himself, Ling Xiao didn't think about it at all.

Although he opened his mouth wide and offered sky-high meals, he only had a "casual" attitude towards this business.

Even if it was done in the end, he didn't go for the spirit stone.

After building the foundation, Ling Xiao sold all the resources that could not be used, and then brought a total of 100,000 spirit stones out of the house, and there was no shortage of spirit stone flowers in a short period of time.

All he was interested in was the recipe for the Eight Treasures Soup.

However, after tasting two pots and personally instructing Huangshi to change the ingredients, Ling Xiao already had a general idea of the production of the Eight Treasures Exquisite Soup.

Even if he can't get the recipe for Yellowstone, he can still make it by trying it a few more times himself.

This is the self-confidence that Ling Xiao has cultivated in cooking day after day.

On the way back to Zhenlong Restaurant, the driver followed Ling Xiao's instructions and went around Zhongfang City.

The scale of the central square market is far better than the other four square markets, and the scale alone spans ten main streets.

The five major families, the other four are already behemoths.

But the Xiao family is still above them!

"Daoye, the Wangfu Hutong you mentioned is in the Fang Market, but in there, we ordinary people can't enter, only a monk like you is qualified to step into it......

While driving the car, the coachman introduced him like a flattering person, and then changed his words and asked: "Master Dao, the relative you owe the debt to is a member of the court?" ”

"It's not clear."

"You've come all the way to ask for it, and this debt must be a lot of money...... "The coachman babbled.

"yes." Ling Xiao smiled and closed the curtain.

Zhongfang City, Wangfu Hutong.

The National Teacher's Mansion is in it.

A cold light flashed in Ling Xiao's eyes.

Almost, it's time to check it out.

Killing people is just a matter of falling with a knife, and it doesn't matter.

The important thing is to prepare before killing.

……

Return to your room at Zhenlong Restaurant.

Ling Xiao took out the "Second Order Runic Recipe Making Encyclopedia", immersed himself in his mind, and studied it silently.

The drawing of second-order runes is far more difficult than that of first-order runes, and even several times more difficult.

Fortunately, Ling Xiao is not bad.

He is a disciple of the old locust tree, this old ancestor has lived for nearly a thousand years, and he can be called a super power in the talisman making world, helping Ling Xiao lay an incomparably solid foundation.

In addition, in the past, Ling Xiao had also "answered" all kinds of strange talisman making problems from his peers, and had already honed his vision, experience, and strain to the point of being extremely top-notch.

After studying for about 3 hours, Ling Xiao picked up his pen and began to draw.

His first second-order talisman chose to make an "Earth Escape Talisman"!

Because he plans to go to the underground world again at night to locate the spiritual vein endings he has discovered, he will definitely drive the dragon vein diagram at that time.

The dragon vein diagram is a sharp weapon for Tu Dun, and he is familiar with Tu Dun in advance, which is also more conducive to making the corresponding talismans.

Experience in talisman making, spell casting, and drawing are all indispensable.

The tip of the pen makes a "rustling" sound on the rune paper.

The touch of second-order rune paper is much more lubricated than that of first-order rune paper, but this is not a good thing, because in this way, it will test the talisman maker's ability to control the rune pen more.

If the control ability is poor, if you are not careful, you will draw an extra stroke, resulting in the loss of previous efforts.

Burst!

I'm really afraid of something.

Ling Xiao looked at the spontaneously combusting rune paper, showing a wry smile, so he had to take out the next rune paper and start again.

Little by little, time passed.

Before you know it, it's late at night.

Ling Xiao had been drawing the runes for 4 hours, consuming 12 blank rune papers, but he hadn't even succeeded once.

That said, there was no discouragement on his face.

There are many reasons for failure, some do not control the pen and ink well, some do not grasp the mana well, and some do not control the divine consciousness well...... Without exception, these problems were experienced by Ling Xiao when he was learning the first-order talisman drawing.

Now, it's just a matter of going through it all over again.

There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of those who have a heart.

Ling Xiao believed that sooner or later he would master the second-order talisman drawing.

In that case, why rush?

Ling Xiao put down the talisman pen, moved his sore wrist, and let out a sigh.

Subsequently, he ran the Huang Ting Sutra and began to recover his mana.

After building the foundation, the thing that made him happiest was the increase in mana!

Although he had only practiced the third layer of the Huang Ting Sutra, the mana storage effect of the Fiber Cloud Yarn had also increased greatly because of the improvement of his cultivation.

In fact, the mana he was able to mobilize was no weaker than that of a foundation building monk of the same level.

This is precious for a talisman!

Ling Xiao was so moved to tears!

He finally bid farewell to the poor era when his mana was stretched thin, and strode towards a well-off life!

Just as he was doing his luck, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Duan Guangxiong came.