A day later, Zhu Youdao got the spirit wood from Liu San.

Zhu Youdao saw that it was not early and there were not many people on the street, so he closed the stall and hurried back to his residence.

He took out a wooden box from under his bed, opened it, and took out what was inside: a sharp dagger, several carving knives of various sizes!

Then, he took out the eagle claw wood that he had just arrived, and cut it on it with a dagger, the eagle claw wood was a spirit wood, and the dagger was only made of mortal iron, and it was originally uncut. But this dagger and those carving knives are the work of the refiner's apprentice, and they are also imprinted with sharp sigils, which are much sharper than ordinary daggers, and with the blessing of Zhu Youdao's mana, they can be cut slowly, but it takes a lot of mana.

It took more than an hour to cut a piece the size of a matchbox.

Zhu Youdao got up, went to the courtyard to practice the boy's skills, and played the Mixed Yuan Thunderbolt Gong again to adjust his physical condition to the best, and then went back to the house, picked up the carving knife, and carved it on a small piece of spiritual wood.

The reason why Zhu Youdao did this was to verify one of his conjectures.

I have been in this world for more than a year, and I have a basic understanding of this world.

Zhu Youdao found that the cultivation civilization in this world was very developed, but some technologies were very backward.

Printing, for example, was not born in this world.

The high-level monks wrote and recorded information with their divine consciousness and burned it onto the jade slip, just like the mobile hard disk in the previous life, which was very easy to read.

However, the writing of low-level monks and mortals was copied by hand, and no one invented movable type printing, and no engraving printing technology was introduced.

Zhu Youdao once had a whim when he was practicing drawing talismans: Can you make runes into engravings and then print them on rune paper, so that the efficiency of talisman making will be improved countless times?

Once this idea is feasible, it will be easy to make countless spirit runes, and there will be no shortage of resources for cultivation from now on.

With this idea, Zhu Youdao immediately tried it. He first ordered a carving knife with an apprentice refiner, and then got some cinnabar from Chen Shu. The most difficult thing is the spirit wood, the price of the spirit wood in the shop is too high, he can only find it through Liu San.

It was not until today that Zhu Youdao gathered the materials he needed.

Rao is Zhu Youdao practiced carving on the mortal wood many times, and the first time he carved runes on the spiritual wood still failed.

He was not discouraged, summed up the reasons for the failure, cut a small piece of spirit wood again, and continued to carve.

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Zhu Youdao went out to set up a stall during the day, practiced at home at night, and spent the rest of his time making engravings.

It wasn't until half a month later that Zhu Youdao's first engraving came out.

Engraved on the engraving was the only fireball rune he had mastered.

Full of great expectations, Zhu Youdao laid out the rune paper, dipped the engraving in cinnabar, and then printed it on the rune paper.

Taking off the engraving, Zhu Youdao carefully twisted up the printed rune paper, and after identifying it, he couldn't help but be disappointed. When you hold the finished spirit rune in your hand, you can sense the mana sealed inside, and this printed spirit rune is just a rune array drawn on the rune paper, and it can't react forcefully.

Zhu Youdao put down the talisman paper, frowned and pondered, he thought carefully about the principle and process of talisman making, went through every step in his mind, and finally patted his head, he found out the reason for the failure.

There are a few key factors that make a symbol:

Rune Paper: Used to carry runes and mana, usually used for the leather of demon beasts or the skin leaves of spirit plants are made in a special way.

Cinnabar: Used to draw runes, it is made of ore, herbs, demon beast blood and other materials through secret recipes.

Runes: This is the core part of the rune, when using the rune, as long as a faint trace of mana activates the rune, it can release spells.

Rune Pen: A tool that conducts mana, through which the rune is transmitted by the talisman maker when drawing runes.

And the reason why Zhu Youdao failed to make talismans for the first time was that the rune pen was missing the link of mana transmission.

There is no mana coming in, the runes on the rune paper are not activated, and there is no difference between them and the blank rune paper at all, so it is not surprising that it fails.

found the reason for the failure, and Zhu Youdao reinvigorated. The principle of engraving talisman making is to concentrate the functions of runes, talisman pens and mana on the engraving plate, as long as the engraving is refined into a special talisman pen, this problem will be solved.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youdao frowned again, the production of the talisman pen is not the same as the production of the engraving, which requires the use of both refining technology and talisman making technology, there are many refiners who can make talisman pens, but talisman makers who can refine the talisman are very rare, and out of the principle of confidentiality, it is impossible to entrust others to refine the talisman carving.

Do you still want to learn alchemy?

Zhu Youdao got entangled. From the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to learn too much of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, although the Dan Weapon Rune Array was very useful, the only thing he wanted to learn was the formation.

Including talisman making, they are just a means to earn cultivation resources.

The most fundamental thing for a cultivator is his own cultivation, and no matter how much he cultivates the true arts, it is also to serve to improve his cultivation. Spending too much time on these skills affects the practice, and it is a waste of time.

The reason why Zhu Youdao wants to learn the way of the formation is because everything such as elixirs, magic weapons, spirit runes, etc., can be purchased with spirit stones, but the formation is a kind of knowledge, although it is also possible to buy finished formation weapons, but when you encounter an enemy who really understands the formation, you will definitely suffer a big loss.

Monks can invoke the power of heaven and earth through the formation for their own use, since ancient times, the famous classic battle of defeating the strong with the weak and winning the many with the few, there are formations that play a key role in it. And people who don't understand the formation are trapped alive in the formation is a common thing in the cultivation realm, and Zhu Youdao doesn't want to end up like this in the future.

Therefore, in Zhu Youdao's career planning for cultivating truths, talisman making is just a tool to earn cultivation resources, once his cultivation is on the right track and he can obtain spirit stones with his strength, he will lose the talisman making technique and specialize in cultivating the formation path.

But now, talisman making has not yet begun to make money, do you still want to learn alchemy?

What's more, is it an alchemy technique that consumes more than talismans?

There is a saying in the cultivation world: Alchemy is poor for three generations, and refining weapons ruins a lifetime!

It is said that these two skills are very talented, and if you don't have talent, you can't achieve success by consuming a lot of resources.

Zhu Youdao thought hard all night, and finally was unwilling to give up the idea of engraving talismans, and decided to give it a try, anyway, in the future, it is indispensable to use magic weapons, and it is good to know more about yourself.

Speaking of refining, he really knew an apprentice refiner. Zhu Youdao's dagger and carving knife were refined by that apprentice, but that bear child was more difficult to handle, and he had to think of a way.

The next day, Zhu Youdao and an acquaintance asked about learning spells. The scattered cultivator said enthusiastically: "There is a way, you need a lot of spirit stones to learn spells, and the price of first-order spells in Vientiane City is fixed, and one hundred spirit stones are learned." Let's do some small business, and we don't go out of the city to fight with people, what are we doing with that thing!"

Zhu Youdao was speechless, there are many people who don't know spells in casual cultivation, so what is your cultivation?

Zhu Youdao's plan to learn a few spells fell through.