Bai Zhi suddenly thought of something again, and looked at Meng Zhou with beautiful eyes.

"You say, you've seen some of the great painter's paintings?"

"Hmm." Meng Zhou nodded hurriedly.

"How much do you remember?"

Meng Zhou thought carefully before slowly speaking.

"Strange to say, because I read it casually, and I am not proficient in it, I almost forgot many details, even what colors were used.

But when I think about it, I can feel the emotions contained in each painting, as if I can reach out and touch it. ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to remember something, and assured Teacher Bai:

"I heard that as your cultivation improves, your soul will become stronger and stronger, and many long-term vague memories will be remembered more and more clearly.

I can't remember it now, but I'll remember it all in the future. I'll copy those paintings then! ”

"Don't!" Bai Zhi hurriedly stopped it: "If you don't want to destroy those paintings, you must not copy them, you can't paint them with one stroke!" ”

"Ah...... So how do you see it? ”

"I have my own way."

Bai Zhi did not talk deeply about this issue, but stretched out his hand to Meng Zhou.

"Take it out."

"What?" Meng Zhou's puzzled face.

Bai Zhi sneered: "Pretend!" Isn't it just that you want me to continue to guide you by playing so many tricks? ”

Meng Zhouhan scratched his head, but took out a carefully folded white paper from his arms with one hand.

He spread out the white paper, revealing a talisman drawn on the white paper.

"Please ask the teacher for advice."

"Hmph." Bai Zhi snorted lightly, but also picked up a thin tube of red pen and stared at the talisman on the paper seriously.

"There is a lot of progress, but there are still many problems......

After a long time, Bai Zhi, who was dry-mouthed, drank tea by herself, while Meng Zhou carefully took this new revised draft of Zhu Pen into his arms.

Bai Zhi suddenly had an extra cloth bag in his hand and threw it to Meng Zhou.

"Take it, this is your spirit stone cost for the next month."

Taking the cloth bag, Meng Zhou immediately noticed that the weight exceeded expectations, and when he opened the cloth bag, he saw that there were thirty-three medium-grade spirit stones inside, instead of eleven as he thought, which surprised him greatly.

"So much?"

Bai Zhi gave an explanation for this.

"Huang Bin said, you did a good job in the first few times, and he was very relieved.

In addition, there were some things in the sect during this time, and he, a miscellaneous deacon, was assigned many irrelevant tasks, and he ran outside for three days.

He adjusted it, from now on, you can come and get the spirit stone once a month. ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhou did not show joy, but was a little apprehensive, and asked cautiously:

"That'...... Can I come to the teacher on weekdays to solve my doubts? ”

Bai Zhi paused, looked at the other party's slightly swollen and flabby old face, and thought, the biggest advantage given to him by age should be that he has no face and no skin, right?

However, thinking of the paintings in his head, she decided to put up with it.

"I'll have half an hour's break every afternoon, and you can come by that time."

"Okay!"

After returning home, Meng Zhou spent another day slowly digesting the main points in the two revised drafts.

He no longer simulated virtual exercises on paper, but took out the rune paper and rune ink from the spirit sealing box, and began to work with real knives and guns.

"Introduction to Talisman Making" details the five basic talismans, which are the Light Talisman, the Traction Talisman, the Flying Arrow Talisman, the Flash Talisman, and the Cleaning Talisman.

The difficulty of their production is similar to that of Meng Zhou, who is still standing outside the door.

This is a question of choosing one of five, and Meng Zhou has already determined his choice.

Cleaner charms.

In the study, in front of the table, Meng Zhou made the preparation to the extreme.

In order to avoid the interference of the wind and all unexpected elements from the outside world, he closed all the windows.

In order to avoid the movement of the rune paper during the drawing process due to nervousness, inexperience, or some other mistake, he used a paperweight to hold it down steadily.

There is also a proper sitting posture, a peaceful mood, and a steady flow of mana in the body.

Everything that should be prepared was done to the best, and he finally dipped himself in the rune ink and put down his pen steadily.

The smooth lines stretched out on the rune paper, and this alone was far more than the previous attempts.

But when the last stroke was completed, and the talisman was off the paper, there was no need to check it, and Meng Zhou knew that this production had failed.

Meng Zhou's mood did not fluctuate at all, but his eyes once again followed the extension of the rune line and retraced it in his mind to confirm what the problem was.

Then, he picked up the second rune and drew it again.

Or failed.

The third time,

Still failing.

Fail.

Fail.

Or failed.

In this way, continuous attempts, continuous failures, and pieces of talisman materials are constantly consumed.

Whenever his mood fluctuated violently, Meng Zhou would take the initiative to stop, regulate his mood, and continue immediately when his mood stabilized again.

Failure was something Meng Zhou had expected.

Learning any craft begins with failure.

What really matters is that he learns something from every failure, and it's small, but it's enough.

He will finally use the steps made by this failure to knock on the door of the talisman.

Meng Zhou's current routine is to have a meal of spiritual food in the morning, and then start to try to make talismans, and in the afternoon, take out an hour or two to hand over the daily failed works to Bai Zhi for correction, and then, continue to make talismans, eat spiritual food in the evening, practice dead wood Changchun Gong, and rest.

And so on and so forth.

Cleaning the pit every five days has become a special way to relax.

Cultivation and fundamental exercises are also slowly improving, and cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds from when they first came to another rhythm.

Twenty days passed, and the cellar had been cleaned four times.

This night, after practicing a round of Dead Wood Changchun Gong, Meng Zhou was not in a hurry to rest, but sat at the table, looking at the things on the table in a daze.

On the left-hand side of the tabletop, there are two jade bottles. Inside, there are ten Qi Nourishing Pills in each.

On the right hand side of the tabletop, there are two piles of spirit stones, one large and one small.

The small pile has eleven medium-grade spirit stones.

The big pile has eighty low-grade spirit stones.

Those twenty Qi Nourishing Pills were originally a gift prepared by Xia Qing for Zhou Qiang, and before today, they had been treasured by Meng Zhou in the bag.

This is his most important asset.

The Qi Nourishing Pill can greatly accelerate the cultivation speed in the middle and late stages of Qi training.

Cultivation broke through to the fourth level of Qi cultivation, and the cultivation speed dropped sharply, and Meng Zhou tried to raise these Qi Nourishing Pills many times, but he vetoed them.

One is to take this pill at the fourth level of Qi training, it is really too wasteful, he is only improving a little slower now, and it is not stagnant.

There is also a more important point, when necessary, the Qi Nourishing Pill can be used as a spirit stone, which is an absolute hard currency.

He had to take into account the terrible situation of having to keep throwing resources into it after all the resources he had had been spent, so that he could get started.

Of course, he wouldn't do it unless he had to.

It's easy to go out, but it's not easy to buy it back. Because the pills that can directly improve cultivation are scarce resources everywhere, not only are they expensive, but they also have a purchase threshold.

As a handyman, it's okay to buy one or two a year at a high premium, but it's impossible to buy twenty.

What's more, with such a noble pill, he could neither reasonably explain its origin, nor did he worry about letting the Chen family brothers handle it.

Meng Zhou knows a truth, don't test human nature.

Every time he handed over the number of spirit stones to the Chen family brothers, he carefully considered them, and he would never take out too many at one time.

And the eleven medium-grade spirit stones on the right hand were the part that was left after Bai Zhi had purchased two of the thirty-three pieces that Bai Zhi had given him.

Those eighty low-grade spirit stones were the "legal" extra money he earned after cleaning the Yin Cellar Pool eight times, which seemed to be a lot, but the value was less than a medium-grade spirit stone.

Now, Meng Zhou has to make a choice.

In two more days, the medicinal power of the second Bigu Pill swallowed by "Xia Qing" was exhausted, and it had to be replenished immediately.

Next time, the next time you clean up the yin cellar pool, you should also start to prepare.

On the other hand, although Meng Zhou has been very economical, even if he is doomed to fail, he must let every rune material give full play to its value, but these days, the batch of rune materials purchased before has also been officially consumed today, and new rune materials must be purchased.

There is so much demand, but there are so few spirit stones.

It was as if he had reached a dead end, and it seemed that he could only plug this hole by taking out one or two Qi Nourishing Pills.

But Meng Zhou didn't make a decision for a long time, because he had a bolder idea in his heart.

And if he did, he would take a bigger risk.

It was Meng Zhoucai who hesitated.

But in the end, Meng Zhou still made up his mind, and he put the two bottles of Qi Nourishing Pill back into the bag.

The next day, Meng Zhou gave Chen Cong all eleven medium-grade spirit stones and eighty lower-grade spirit stones.

"In this purchase, the number of traction charms is still thirty-six, and the cleaning charm is only ninety, which is the amount needed to clean the yin cellar pool next time.

Then buy a Bigu Dan, and the rest of the spirit stones will be used to buy runes. ”

Hearing this, both brothers seemed to think of something, and they all looked up at him in surprise.

Chen Cong couldn't stop asking excitedly: "Brother, have you succeeded?" ”

Meng Zhou nodded confidently: "Well, it was successful." ”

"One step away." He added in his heart.