Chapter 82 Symbol Test
Lianyunzhai is probably the most prosperous sect within a radius of 100 miles, with many disciples, and its influence is radiating to a farther range.
Otherwise, the rare materials of the Far North will not be able to reach this place.
Once the business is opened and it becomes popular, even the cave mansion built in the spiritual land can bring a lot of income.
Since the leasing of the cave house has become a business, it is not possible to be hasty like the general mountain cave house, and the guests must have a home-away experience.
The road leading to the cave is paved with white stones, the flowers and plants are built by special people, the ground is cleaned every day, and each cave is isolated by a simple formation to form an independent space with excellent privacy.
Yan Yun rented the cave mansion for three days with six spirit stones, although Ji Zhao and Yuan Tai felt that it was expensive, but they could accept it, and the green cicada was so painful that he died, he only said that the junior brother should not spend this unjust money, and it was the same for meditating outside, no matter how urgent the cultivation was, it would not be bad for these three days.
When Yan Yun used the token to open the cave house named "Tingtao", the green cicada's complaints about his extravagant spending of spirit stones stopped.
She was shocked by the cave house behind the formation!
To be precise, this is not a literal cave, but a large, intricately carved courtyard just below a waterfall.
There is a two-storey viewing pavilion built in the courtyard, surrounded by bead curtains, green bamboo, wind chimes are hung at the corner of the eaves, as soon as the wind blows, the bell rings.
The pavilion is equipped with a table, a yaoqin, four treasures of the study, two dental beds, and even the futon for meditation is made of herbs.
The supporting facilities in the attic opened the eyes of the "countryman" of the green cicada, and the chatter in his mouth changed from complaining to admiration, saying that the cave is so expensive and really expensive.
Yan Yun became interested in the few books on the table.
One is to introduce the layout of Lianyun Village, refining workshops, garment workshops, plantations, Yuzhu Pavilion auction houses, medicinal materials, ores, groceries and other shops, all listed.
The other two are the "Hundred Herbs Sutra" and the "Collection of Foreign Materials", the former is a book that introduces the medicinal materials and herbs commonly used by monks, listing more than 300 kinds, drawing patterns, indicating functions and efficacy, the more you look at the back of the page, the more precious and rare the things involved.
Until the last page, a woody plant named "Nine Dead Trees" caught Yan Yun's attention, and there seemed to be a small section of this plant in his storage bag.
Looking at the annotation of this object, this wood grows in the land of extreme shade, dies once every fifty years, and is reborn until it dies nine times, and this material can be used.
The value of the Nine Dead Wood is bought and sold in money, and each coin is worth a hundred spirit stones, and it is usually priceless.
Yan Yun estimated that the Nine Dead Wood in the jade box in his storage bag was about half a catty, and according to the value of each penny of one hundred, it reached a terrifying five thousand spirit stones!
So, there are so many unknown materials in Li Ao's storage bag, how much should the total price be?
Yan Yun, who has always been calm, couldn't help but beat his heart at this moment.
Moreover, many of the materials contained in "The Guide to the Souls of the Souls" for refining the Wraith Soul Banner include the Nine Dead Woods, and the other materials are also sky-high, how much should it cost to refine a Soul Banner again?
When Yan Yun thought about it, he felt that the five thousand spirit stones were not worth mentioning again.
The journey of cultivating immortals turned out to be a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor!
Yan Yun looked through the "Collection of Foreign Materials" again, which contained mainly gold and stones, and at the end of the book, he found two things similar to the materials in the storage bag, which were also listed as sky-high prices.
From this point of view, it was really not an easy task for Yan Yun to refine a brand new Wraith Soul Banner.
The primary goal is to earn spirit stones, so that it is possible to achieve the goal.
Talismans are powerful and in high demand, and if you can become a talisman maker, you can speed up the process.
Yan Yun asked, "Senior Brother Ji Zhao, what's the matter with the talisman test?" ”
Ji Zhao, Yuan Tai, and Qing Chan asked almost in unison: "Senior brother wants to test himself before Shizun?" ”
Yan Yun smiled: "What's the harm in giving it a try? ”
"Give!" 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 millipen and inkstone are both innate magic weapons, with a white body and a sparkling fluorescence.
Yuan Tai said: "Senior brother also uses Qinghao pen and dust and sand inkstone? ”
Ji Zhao was surprised: "Senior brother is also secretly practicing talisman making?" ”
Qing Chan smiled bitterly: "Shizun is a talisman maker, as an apprentice, who doesn't want to inherit the mantle of Shizun?" ”
The price of Qinghao pen and dust sand inkstone is not low, it is the best talisman making tool that a condensing level disciple can buy and use, that large stack of straw paper is made of Tongtian grass growing in the spiritual land as the main material, but its supporting auxiliary materials are relatively expensive, such a stack of finished straw paper, about a hundred sheets, worth five spirit stones, this is still the lowest level of talisman carrier.
There are a lot of Tongtian grasses planted in the spiritual land of Xiao Zhongnan, and the green cicadas are usually watching and fertilizing.
Ji Zhao and the others are so poor, probably because they used the spirit stones they obtained to practice talisman making privately.
Ji Zhao poured some cinnabar into the dust and sand inkstone, and drew four patterns on the straw paper with a green pen, representing wind, fire, thunder and lightning in turn.
Qing Cicada looked at these four patterns and sighed: "It would be nice if there was such a simple way as drawing a talisman when making talismans." ”
"The master has a saying, talisman making needs to be calm like a pool, hook the heaven and earth, draw qi into the pen, focus on the sand, pen up and go, all in one go......" auspicious omen to Yan Yun to teach the essentials of talisman making, just a moment to finish, but to put it into practice, and successfully draw a successful talisman, it is not a simple thing.
Yan Yun asked, "How can you tell if you have successfully drawn a talisman?" ”
Ji Zhao said: "Once successful, the pattern on the talisman will fluoresce. ”
"How does a test be considered successful?"
"Within half an hour, draw ten talismans, and if you succeed in two, you will pass the test."
"Just two?"
"Do you think it's easy to make two?" Ji Zhao's face was full of chagrin, and he said dejectedly: "I have been practicing for two years, no matter what I do, I will succeed in half an hour at most." ”
"Senior brother has successfully drawn a talisman?" Qing Chan and Yuan Tai asked at the same time.
"Yes, what's the use? Still unqualified...... "auspicious omen.
Qing Chan and Yuan Tai glanced at each other and didn't say a word, obviously the two of them had never succeeded in drawing the talisman.
Is it so hard to draw a talisman successfully?
Yan Yun's contempt was gone, and he moved his gums to the waterfall, jumped up, and sat cross-legged.
He also put the cinnabar, the green pen, and the dust and sand inkstone on his right hand, the yellow rune paper in front of him, and the four patterns on top of the rune paper, all of which were in a position that he could naturally use.
Then, he runs the exercises according to the 24 diagrams he has created, so that his mind is in a certain state of emptiness.
Ji Zhao, Qing Chan, and Yuan Tai meditated and waited in a place far behind Yan Yun so as not to disturb Yan Yun.
The auspicious omen also lit a pillar of sandalwood and planted it on the ground, which was used to keep time, and when the incense burned out, half an hour had passed.
At the beginning, Yan Yun just sat quietly, repeatedly figuring out the essentials of the auspicious omen's words and drawings in his heart.
When the sandalwood burned a third of the way, he finally lifted the pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and the tip of the pen fell to the rune paper.
This seemingly ordinary depiction with a pen is like a thousand weights, although the pen is fast, but the drag of the strokes is very difficult, and the sparse golden light in the spiritual land is like a bee picking flowers, converging to the tip of the pen.
When this stroke was finished, a sparkling fluorescence appeared on the rune paper, and Yan Yun's heart moved, and at this moment, the rune paper suddenly spontaneously combusted and turned into fly ash.
Yan Yun realized in his heart, it seems that there is no room for distraction when drawing talismans, and a little fluctuation in his mind will lead to failure.
So, he took out another piece of talisman paper and placed it in front of him.
He thought about it with his eyes closed, drove the shadow of his previous failure out of his mind, and put pen to paper again.
The golden light in the spiritual land converged to the tip of the pen again, and although the Qinghao pen 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 rune paper.
The speed at which the aura was generated on the rune paper was very slow, and Yan Yun didn't grasp the sense of proportion for a while, and when he drew the third stroke, the rune paper spontaneously combusted again.
Yan Yun was not discouraged, and took the rune paper again and drew it again.
However, two pieces of rune paper in succession were unsuccessful, and by this point, the sandalwood had burned two-thirds of the way.
Although Ji Zhao and the other three didn't make a sound to disturb, they all shook their heads when they looked at each other.
Yan Yun picked up the fifth chapter rune paper, this time he didn't rush to put down the pen, looked at the waterfall with his head high, and muttered for a long time, and then dipped the pen in cinnabar.
This time, he drew smoothly, and the outline of the "wind" symbol appeared on the rune paper, and with just one final stroke, the rune was made.
But his mind was too focused on the rune paper, and he didn't think of how to draw it for a while in his last stroke, and when he glanced at the pattern, it was too late, and the rune paper spontaneously combusted again.
"Hey......" Ji Zhao's heart was in his throat, and he was satisfied that Yan Yun would succeed this time, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but sigh.
Yan Yun acted as if he hadn't heard it, and quickly sketched the stroke sequence of "wind, fire, thunder and lightning" in the void with a pen, which lasted for a moment, and there was only one knuckle left before the sandalwood burned out.
Then, Yan Yun lined up four pieces of rune paper at once, and the Qinghao pen drew a circle in the air, and the golden light flowing in the air seemed to have received an order, and a stream of brains converged towards the tip of his pen.
But seeing that Yan Yun's pen was like a god, this time, he drew the talisman very quickly, and after each drawing, he dipped the tip of the pen in cinnabar, staring at the talisman paper, and did not even blink his eyelids.
The first rune paper did not spontaneously combust, the second as well, and the third......
Ji Zhao, Qing Cicada, and Yuan Tai didn't even dare to breathe, they stood up together, stretched their necks, and looked around like a heron.
When Yan Yun finished drawing four sheets in a row and took the rune paper to sketch again, this time, there was another firelight.
Almost at the same time, the last bit of red light of sandalwood went out, the ashes of the incense fell to the ground, and the hour came!
Ji Zhao and the other three walked quickly 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!
"Senior brother is really a god!" Ji Zhao shouted.
"Cheng ...... It became ...... It's really a ......," Yuan Tai stammered.
"Woo...... Oh, my God...... It's still four different ones, junior brother, I'll mess with you in the future, don't you want to get rid of me......" Green cicada tears rolled out of her eyes.
"How many spirit stones are these four talismans worth?" Yan Yun asked.
Ji Zhao said in surprise: "A single one is worth four spirit stones, two matching pieces of wind, fire or thunder and lightning are worth about ten spirit stones, and four matching pieces are worth twenty-eight or thirty spirit stones!" ”