Chapter 39: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
In the final analysis, the strength of the sect is too weak!
If the strength of Tianhao Sect was strong, where did Qi Hai dare to kill at the beginning, and Master Wu would not have been seriously injured and died.
If the strength of the Tianhao Sect is strong, Bai Yu of the Flower Washing Sect can only have a lustful heart and no lust when he sees Ziyun, and he will never act rashly and intercept halfway.
If the Tianhao Sect is strong, Yan Xu doesn't have to worry about refining magic weapons and looking at the face of the Sanyuan Sword Sect to do business, for fear of touching the interests of the other party and attracting retaliation.
Since Yan Xu took over the Tianhao Sect, everything has almost started from scratch, and the difficulty is much greater than originally expected.
However, since he took over as the leader, Yan Xu would not give up easily.
After solving the Qi Hai crisis and finally gaining a short respite in exchange for a few hundred points, Yan Xu knew very well that he must let the Tianhao Sect have the power to protect himself before the two factions of the Flower Washing Sect and the Imperial Beast Sect came to him.
Deng Yu brought back this batch of refining tools and talisman materials, and he had to arrange for them to be used, first to create a few suitable magic weapons, and then to keep some offensive and defensive talismans with him, and then consider selling them if there is a surplus.
Yan Xu picked up the storage bag on the table, took out the talisman materials and a few bottles of pills, and handed the remaining refining materials to Deng Yu along with the storage bag, and said, "These materials will be made into a few defensive magic weapons first, and if they go well, they will make two more flying magic weapons." ”
Deng Yu bowed down and took the storage bag, and replied with confidence on his face: "I can't help too much in fighting, and the refining weapon will not disappoint Senior Brother!" ”
Yan Xu nodded, divided the few bottles of the cultivation enhancement elixir 'Qi Gathering Pill' in his hand into three parts, took out two copies and handed them to Cai Die and Deng Yu.
"Now that the sect has the Enlightenment Dao Cliff, you don't have to worry about the bottleneck until the ninth layer of qi refining, and the pills and spirit stones are properly used to raise your cultivation to the late stage of qi refining as soon as possible."
When he came back from Nan'anfang City, Yan Xu had more than 200 lower-grade spirit stones on his body, and after killing Qi Hai, he found dozens of them, plus the low-grade magic weapon long knife used by Qi Hai, as well as various 7788 materials, and sold nearly 100 spirit stones.
It took a total of more than 300 lower-grade spirit stones to purchase this batch of talismans and refining materials, and the remaining seventy or so pieces Yan Xu also divided into three parts and gave them to the two of them.
After disposing of the items, Yan Xu said solemnly: "Although there are few people in the Tianhao Sect at present, the responsibilities of each person must be determined first. From the head down, the positions of peak master, elder, hall master, and deacon will be determined according to ability and contribution. ”
"Kill Qi Hai, you two and make a contribution! Deng Yu is now appointed as the master of the Alchemy Hall, and Caidie is the master of the Alchemy Hall. ”
"Thank you, Master!" The two stood up and bowed.
Deng Yu was appointed as the master of the refining hall, his face was very happy, in the future, the strength of the sect will grow, this position does not need to fight outside, just concentrate on refining weapons, which is very in line with his wishes.
"Senior brother! I don't know alchemy at all, and I'm worried that I won't be able to take the position of alchemy hall master. "Caidie's appointment just now was out of respect for Yan Xu's authority, and now she said her true thoughts.
Caidie rubbed her sleeves and muttered in a low voice: "Alchemy is like an old Taoist aunt, and people's ambitions are happy and revenge!" ”
Yan Xu couldn't help but smile and replied, "Senior sister, don't worry, you will take this position for the time being." As for alchemy, if you have time, you can refer to the Ziyun family tradition "Burning Wood Heart Sutra", and lay some alchemy foundation, and there will be a more suitable person to replace you in the future. ”
Seeing that Caidie no longer objected, Yan Xu continued: "The two of you are the core elders of the Tianhao Sect, and the position in the sect will definitely not be just the hall master in the future, but now refining and alchemy are the top priorities for the development of the sect, you can help the senior brother share it first." ”
After arranging everything, Yan Xu returned to the room to rest.
The reason why he didn't rush to the talisman pavilion right away, Yan Xu planned to adjust his body to the best state first, and the mana was full and full, and then officially start refining the talisman seal.
In the early morning of the next day, Yan Xu sat down at the desk of the talisman pavilion after bathing and changing clothes, and put out all the talisman materials.
Hundreds of several grades and five-element attribute rune papers, fire crow feathers, cold frog slime, stepping snake bile, and other strange first-order or second-order demon beast materials, Lin Lin sorted them out and piled them up in front of Yan Xu.
"Deng Yu bothered, I thought that it would be good to collect three or four percent of the materials on the material list, but I didn't expect to find as many as ninety percent, and it would be a good candidate to let him be in charge of internal affairs!" Yan Xu looked at the material in front of him and thought with satisfaction.
Before, the talisman pavilion only had some simple spare materials, and Yan Xu could only refine some simple auxiliary talismans, but now that the materials are complete, he naturally can't help but show his skills.
However, after a whole day of refining, Yan Xu had mixed feelings in his heart.
What made Yan Xu happy was that in addition to a few failures at the beginning of the experiment, the success rate of refining various first-level runes in the back was very high, and it had reached about seventy percent.
But what is frustrating is that most of these successful refining runes are 'fire bullet talismans', 'icicle talismans' and other low-grade spells of the yellow rank, and if you try to refine the more powerful talismans, they will all end in failure.
The reason for this is that although it is also a first-level rune seal, there are still superior and inferior rune seals that carry different spells.
Yan Xu only cultivated at the fourth level of qi refining, and his understanding of spells and the depth of mana were limited, if the level of carrying spells was too high, even if the level of talisman making reached the level, he would not be able to refine successfully.
If the mana in the body is compared to a teapot containing water, then the talisman is to pour the water in the teapot into the teacup, and the higher the spell level, the larger the teacup.
When the teacup is larger than the teapot, it will not be able to fill it even if you pour it all into the teacup.
Therefore, subject to his own cultivation, Yan Xu can only refine first-level talismans with lower spell grades and less powerful powers.
Moreover, even if it is refining fire bullet talismans, ice pick talismans and other talismans, every time Yan Xu makes about five talismans, all the mana in his body is consumed, and he needs to stop and meditate until he is fully recovered before starting again.
"Sure enough, there can be no shortcuts to anything! Even with the blessing of the talisman expert, he knew in his heart how to refine the talisman seal, but he didn't expect that his mana was not good. It seems that we still have to find a way to raise the cultivation as soon as possible. Yan Xu thought silently in his heart.
However, in the process of refining the talisman seal, Yan Xu had another gain.
First of all, in the process of refining the rune seal, each point of mana is precisely controlled, and the more advanced the rune seal, the higher the requirements for this.
After continuous refining of the talisman seal, Yan Xu's control of mana became more and more accurate, and this control ability was helpful when he practiced and cast spells in his usual life.
When practicing, accurately controlling the mana to move more finely and faster between the meridians and the dantian, can have a better effect on the practice.
Precise control of mana when casting spells reduces unnecessary consumption and increases cast speed.
This kind of subtle difference is usually not very obvious, but if it is a protracted battle, the two people with the same strength often decide the final victory or defeat because of the difference in a trace of mana.
In addition, the process of refining the rune seal is actually to seal the corresponding spell in a special way in the rune paper, and as the same kind of rune seal is refined again and again, the understanding of the composition principle of the spell becomes more and more thorough, which is equivalent to practicing the spell in disguise.
Therefore, continuously refining the talisman seal for a whole day has a practice effect that is even higher than Yan Xu's own pure practice.
The only regret is that Yan Xu's usual practice will also combine alchemy to strengthen the tempering of the physical body.
However, this is not a big problem, as long as Yan Xu is willing, he can intersperse the refining body in the talisman making process, but it will slow down the talisman making speed.
After refining the talisman seal for several days in a row, Yan Xu gradually found a suitable balance between the two, that is, he did not pull down the refining body, but also maintained a good talisman making speed.
After more than ten days, Yan Xu refined a total of more than 100 various first-level rune seals, most of which were basic five-element rune seals such as fire bullet talismans, ice pick talismans, and golden shield talismans, with a success rate of nearly eighty percent.
At this time, Deng Yu was in retreat in the underground stone room of the Refining Weapon Hall, refining magic weapons.
Unlike talisman-making, the refining process is more cumbersome, and it often takes several days to refine a certain material, so Deng Yu has not yet left the customs, and the specific refining situation can only be known when he comes out.
Seeing this, Yan Xu continued to concentrate on making talismans.
A month later, Yan Xu exhausted all the talisman materials and successfully produced more than 200 talisman seals, and the success rate increased to an astonishing ninety percent.
This batch of talisman materials cost one hundred and fifty spirit stones, and Yan Xu made a total of three hundred and forty talisman seals before and after, even if calculated according to the average sale of five lower-grade spirit stones per piece, this batch of talisman seals is worth 1,700 lower-grade spirit stones.
One hundred and fifty lower-grade spirit stones turned into one thousand seventeen low-grade spirit stones, reaching an astonishing profit of more than ten times, which was entirely due to Yan Xu's extremely exaggerated talisman success rate.
If you let the other talismans know, you will be stunned.
In the process of making talismans for more than a month, Yan Xu successfully broke through to the fifth layer of Qi refining, and his cultivation speed was even a few points faster than the previous fourth layer of Qi refining, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Looking at the talisman seals neatly arranged according to categories in front of the table, Yan Xu was guilty: "Three hundred and forty talisman seals, now it's time to think about how to replace them with spirit stones." ”