Chapter Thirty-Eight: Refining the Talisman

There were a total of four people who walked in, two men and two women, one of whom was Senior Brother Chun Yu and Senior Sister Lin of the Dao View of Fate! Su Aotian was startled, instinctively wanted to dodge, and suddenly remembered that he had changed his identity, just to see if others knew him, his heart moved, and he stopped.

The four of them glanced at Su Aotian, and the two people from the Daoyuan Temple really didn't recognize him. When the four of them saw that his cultivation was low, they didn't care.

At this time, I only heard Senior Brother Chunyu smile and said: "Although this shop is mainly engaged in blades, some of the talismans sold occasionally are quite good, Brother Sima is talented, and you can appreciate one or two." There was a lot of flattery in the words.

When the other man heard this, he smiled and said, "Don't dare, I don't dare to say anything about my little ability, I praise my brother falsely." Although the words were modest, there was a smug tone in his tone.

Another woman accompanying her said: "Senior Brother Sima is an unborn talisman genius sent by me, and even Master Lu of Yunxiao Pavilion has praised Senior Brother, saying that sooner or later he will surpass him." As he spoke, his face was full of pride.

Senior Brother Chun Yu hurriedly agreed: "That's natural, in the future, the name of the first talisman master in Qinglong Prefecture will naturally belong to you." Senior Brother Sima hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no." Master Lu is recognized as the No. 1 in Qinglong Prefecture, and I can't catch up with his old man. The implication seems to be that Master Lu is the first, and he is the second.

After Senior Sister Lin came in, she didn't say a word, and there was a hint of impatience between her eyebrows. The four of them said as they went to look at the talismans. After looking at it for a while, Senior Brother Sima pointed at those few talismans, and the guy didn't dare to slack off this time, and served respectfully beside him.

Su Aotian listened to him for a while and said that this talisman was not full of aura and that talisman was flawed, and after talking for a long time, he didn't reveal any information about the production of the talisman, and he was slightly disappointed in his heart, so he didn't want to listen to it anymore, and turned around to go out.

Suddenly, I heard Senior Brother Sima say with a smile: "Although these talismans have been refined a little rougher, this Flame Explosion Talisman has the power of the early stage of foundation building, and I can't refine it at my current level." Although I have a few talismans on my body, but they are not as powerful as this flame talisman, the first time we met, there is nothing to get my hands on, I want to buy this flame talisman and give it to Senior Sister Lin as a self-defense, and please Senior Sister Lin do not refuse. As he spoke, he looked at Senior Sister Lin with a smile, and there was some greed between his eyebrows.

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the other three people were a little unsightly.

Su Aotian suddenly felt in his heart: "It turns out that this Senior Brother Sima is a womanizer. It's just that Senior Brother Chunyu is obviously interested in Senior Sister Lin, can't this guy see it?" I couldn't help but secretly disdain this Senior Brother Sima's character.

Senior Sister Lin was stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect him to say this, and said: "Senior Brother Sima has a good intention, but I don't often walk around, and I have teachers to take care of me, so I don't need such valuable things." ”

The woman who accompanied her pouted directly and said, "Senior brother will take care of Dao Yuanguan's friend, but I didn't expect that your own junior sister has nothing to defend herself?"

Senior Brother Sima smiled dryly: "That, we are guests from afar, thanks to the warm hospitality of Senior Brother Chun and Senior Sister Lin, should we be courteous." As for the talisman, it's not too late for the senior brother to refine it for you after returning to the master's door. The woman said, "I want it now." Senior Brother Sima said, "Okay, well, buy everything." Man, you wrap all these talismans, I'll take them. In addition, there are any good things to take out and see, this counts as a fixed price. With that, he took out something, and immediately the room was filled with aura.

Su Aotian was about to leave, but suddenly noticed this aura, and couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at what Senior Brother Sima took out, and it looked very familiar at a glance: "This... Isn't this the kind of stone in Zhao Yuhao's storage bag?" I saw Senior Brother Sima holding a stone in his hand, glowing with a layer of green light, filled with a rich water aura.

Senior Brother Chunyu's eyes were full of heat, and he said: "Senior Brother Sima is really extraordinary, such a good spirit stone can be taken out at will, so that I will be envious." ”

The woman's face was smug and said, "Senior Brother Sima has been vigorously cultivated by the sect, and there are two lower-grade spirit stones for the monthly offering, as well as the elders in the sect who reward them from time to time, and a mere spirit stone is no longer a problem." ”

Su Aotian suddenly realized, it turned out that this thing was called a spirit stone, and it seemed that this spirit stone was really given to disciples in the sect for cultivation. Seeing that the spirit stone was shining brightly, and the water aura on it was entangled, I couldn't help but look at it twice, and thought: "If I have such a spirit stone, I think the cultivation of the Qiankun Water Sutra will definitely be accelerated." People can't be compared. I thought as I walked out of the store. I could only hear the woman's sneer faintly behind him: "That loose cultivator just now, his face was full of salivation, he must have never seen a spirit stone, I think he can't wait to take it." Senior Brother Chunyu also smiled and said, "How many dares does he have to rob the proud disciples of Yuehua Sect?"

Su Aotian had already heard a lot of such words, so he didn't take it to heart at this time and went back to himself.

One night three days later, a sigh came from a firewood room: "Alas, it failed again, all ten runes were wasted, and not a single rune was made." ”

When Su Aotian returned to the firewood room that day, he took out the talisman and studied it carefully, and looked at the production of the talisman very carefully, and after confirming that it was correct, he was ready to make the talisman. The guy that day was just to ridicule him, he didn't say anything, he looked at the talisman and realized that talisman making is not only to use talisman paper, but also to use talisman liquid and talisman pen. There are levels of these things, and the higher the level, the better. In a hurry, he didn't prepare, so he had to find a brush, pull a few leaves from the medicinal materials in the storage bag, mash them into juice, and make a talisman liquid. According to the talisman, the talisman has very high requirements for the soul, and people who are not strong in the sense of the gods cannot make talismans at all, and they are reluctant to do it, and if they do not control the process of talismans, they will be in danger, and the soul will be damaged at the least, and the body and soul will be destroyed at the worst. I don't know if my divine sense is strong or not, but it seems that it is not worse than that Jiedan monk Yun Tao, that Senior Brother Sima is just a cultivator of the ninth stage of qi refining, his divine sense can be stronger than Yun Tao, he can control it, and I can also control it.

Full of confidence, after adjusting his mind at the moment, he began to make talismans according to what the talisman said. The so-called talisman making is to compress the aura, build a special structure, and then use the runic liquid to guide it to the rune paper, apply a seal, and then use the aura to excite it when used, releasing the energy in it. This makes a simplest talisman. On this basis, the supernatural power is compressed and sealed, and a higher-level talisman is made; and then up, the aura of different attributes is compressed and sealed together, and a composite talisman can be made; on the top, it is to seal the supernatural powers of different attributes together, and the power of this talisman is immeasurable, it depends on how many attributes and several supernatural powers can be sealed by the talisman.

Su Aotian first compressed the aura, this step was not difficult, and then according to the method of the talisman, he established a stable structure without much effort, and then integrated the aura structure into the talisman. He used the wood aura, which had the same attributes as the rune liquid, and it was not a hassle to integrate it, and then he dipped the pen in the rune liquid, condensed the divine soul, and injected the rune into the rune paper. When drawing a symbol, it must be completed in one stroke, without interruption in between, otherwise it will be a failure. At first, it was quite smooth, but halfway through the drawing, I gradually felt that the operation was not smooth, and finally I didn't finish the painting and failed.

The failure of the first talisman was also expected by him, Su Aotian was not discouraged, took a short rest, and began to make the second one. Who knew that five sheets were made in a row, and none of them could be completed in one stroke.

Su Aotian put down the talisman pen, meditated on the process of talisman making in his heart again, feeling that there was no mistake, and then condensed his divine sense again and began to make talismans again. This time, he finally finished drawing the symbol in one go, but after putting down the pen, he couldn't feel any aura fluctuations in the rune paper, and this rune failed again.

The seventh and eighth sheets were remade, but they were not finished, and by the ninth sheet, they were finished in one stroke, but there were still no aura fluctuations. Su Aotian pondered intently, but he didn't know why, he thought about it again and again, and began to make the last one, just after he finished drawing, the aura fluctuations were faintly revealed on the rune paper, and before he could react, it dissipated. After drawing ten pieces of rune paper, he didn't realize that three days had passed, and all of them ended in failure, Su Aotian let out a sigh helplessly, thinking about it left and right, but couldn't find the reason.

He looked up to the sky here and sighed, and couldn't help but begin to doubt whether he had the talent to make talismans, but he didn't know that if someone saw his talisman making process, his jaw would definitely drop, such as Master Lu of the Cloud Pavilion, he would definitely catch him, and he would have to accept him as an apprentice in vain. It turned out that what the guy sold him was only the lowest-level rune paper, which was used by beginners to practice talismans, and the quality was low, and it could only accommodate a small amount of aura, and the talisman maker was successful as long as he could introduce the aura into the talisman paper. In this sense, his tenth talisman is considered to have been made, but this talisman has no power, and is just a waste product for practicing hands. But it's just this kind of waste product of hand training, so that for a so-called immortal genius like Senior Brother Sima of Yuehuamen, it will take at least a thousand times to practice. Just being able to draw a symbol with a single stroke with the control of the divine soul requires hundreds of times of practice to succeed, and for someone with a slightly less qualified person, even if he draws it more than a thousand times, he may not be able to succeed.

In addition, the quality of the rune paper is poor, and the relative rune liquid cannot be used with good materials, the quality does not match, and the rune liquid is also extremely difficult to integrate into the rune paper. The few leaves he picked by his hand were of much better quality than the rune paper, and it was difficult to integrate into the rune paper, and it was even more commendable that he was able to channel the aura into the rune paper.

In the final analysis, all of this stems from his extremely strong divine soul, which is one of them. The reason why talisman making techniques are difficult to learn, and the reason why talisman masters are scarce and regarded as treasures by various sects and sects is because talisman masters must have extremely strong divine sense control, and this is precisely the specialty of Su Aotian, who has practiced the soul splitting technique!

As the monk's cultivation deepens, his divine soul is also constantly increasing, and if he talks about this alone, then wouldn't everyone be able to make talismans. But the control of the consciousness is a different matter. The vast majority of monks release their divine consciousness, that is, they rush out from all directions, and all of them are withdrawn, only a very small number of monks can control the direction and scope of the diffusion of their divine consciousness, and this control is different, some people control it extensively, and some people control it finely. This kind of control is only related to talent, just like only having a spiritual root can be cultivated, and it is not something that can be practiced after tomorrow.

However, there is no generalization about things in the world, since there are people like Su Aotian who have no spiritual roots who can cultivate, and there are people who can come up with an acquired method to practice controlling divine consciousness, this person is the old man Yunyan. In a sense, this person is a real unborn genius, but his genius is not embodied in cultivation, but in the divine soul. Without subtle divine sense control, how could he split his divine soul without harming himself? It's just that although he came up with a method of cultivation, he died before he could try, and was finally succeeded in cultivating by Su Aotian.

Su Aotian's current divine soul is not only as powerful as that of a monk of Jiedan, but the strength of his control is even more incredible, as long as he is willing, he can control his divine consciousness to advance in a straight line the size of a needle's tip, so that he can advance extremely far and far in this direction, dozens of times farther than the divine consciousness probing that spreads out along one side. Of course, the consumption of the divine soul is also very large, and the duration will inevitably be short, and the scope of exploration is too small to have little practical significance. With the support of such a powerful divine soul, he will of course get twice the result with half the effort when he learns to make talismans.

After sighing for a while, Su Aotian couldn't help but think of the ridicule of the guy in the shop, and understood that he must have been laughing at himself for wanting to make talismans without knowing the height of the sky. It seems that this talisman is not an easy task, not everyone can do it, this Zhao Yuhao not only has excellent cultivation talent, it seems that he has also studied a lot in talismans, it is true that he is a good seedling of cultivation, but his heart is not right, he will kill himself for no reason, and he will not be able to complain about others if he finds death.

Fortunately, Su Aotian's mind was resolute enough, whether the rune was difficult to learn did not affect his confidence in cultivation, since the rune paper was used up, he would buy it again, but fortunately, the price of ten spirit coins had no effect on him.

After going out, in a corner, Su Aotian quickly changed his appearance and clothes, and came to the city center again.

This time, he changed shops and bought twenty pieces of rune paper first, then a rune pen, and a few bottles of runic liquid. Here, still with the white eyes of the shop guys, he knew that not only the rune paper, but also the rune pen and the rune liquid were of good or bad quality.

After buying things, he deliberately wandered around the street for a while to see that no one was paying attention, and then Shi Shiran walked to a secluded place, then changed back to his original appearance, and returned to the rented firewood house.

When I got home, I calmed down and then started making talismans again. This time it went much smoother, only the third one was drawn, and the hook was completed, and the fluctuation of the aura was longer than before, but it didn't take long for it to dissipate. Because the quality of the rune liquid and the rune paper this time is well matched, it is much easier to integrate the aura. After that, I failed several times, and finally when I reached the eighth sheet, I finally made the first talisman.

Looking at the rune paper in front of him that exuded faint aura fluctuations, Su Aotian felt a little excited in his heart: "It's not easy, I finally made the first rune." ”

If his thoughts were known to Master Lu, he would definitely cry bitterly, and even doubt his life. I think it took him more than 2,000 runes and more than half a year to make the first rune, and now someone only used less than 20 runes and four days of hard work to make it, and it is not easy to sigh here, I really want to strangle him to death!

After making persistent efforts, the twenty runes were drawn, and five more runes were made, which were six in total, even the previous one.

After a while, the joy in Su Aotian's heart faded, and a new question came to mind. The few runes in front of me, the fluctuation of the aura is very weak, and the estimated power is not strong, it seems that it can't be sold for any price, and the flame burst talisman with the power of the early stage of foundation building is not easy to refine, and it seems that the plan to make money from talismans will not be able to be achieved for a while.

In order to hide people's eyes, Su Aotian did not rush out of the house, firstly, the talisman making was quite consuming, first he would raise the talisman, and secondly, he would be silently familiar with the process of talisman making several times. After two days, he went out, as usual, he changed his appearance first, and then went to another store, this time in addition to buying some low-grade rune paper, he also bought some slightly higher-grade materials.

As he gradually became familiar with talisman making, Su Aotian's success rate in talisman making became higher and higher, and at first ten rune paper could only make four or five talismans, and then slowly increased to seven or eight. Seeing this success rate, Master Lu was only afraid that he would vomit blood again. Thinking of him, the first talisman master in Qinglong Prefecture, the success rate is only about seventy percent, and the success rate of making high-level talismans is only fifty percent. Now a hairy boy, self-taught, learning talismans for less than a month, the success rate is already eighty percent, it is really speechless to ask the sky.

Two months later, the success rate of the junior talisman had reached 10%, and unless he was not focused enough, he would not fail. Su Aotian began to think about making a high-grade talisman and sealing the supernatural power into the rune paper.

In the past two months, with frequent visits to the store, Su Aotian has a lot of understanding of talisman materials. The power of the talisman depends on the quality of the talisman material in addition to the level of the talisman maker. Good talisman materials are often made of some cherished items, such as some cherished medicinal materials, metals, fur and blood of fierce beasts, etc., which can be made into high-grade talisman pens, talisman liquid, talisman paper, etc., and materials with different attributes are made of talismans with corresponding attributes, which can often play a role in blessings, and the power of talismans is even better. Now, if you want to make a high-level talisman, you must add some good tools.

Good materials also mean higher prices, and Su Aotian now has some understanding of the price of materials, and the thought of the spirit coins that will be spent can't help but hurt a little.

Walking to the street, I was thinking about where to buy materials to be less noticeable, when I suddenly saw a pawnshop on the side of the road, and my heart moved, and I walked in instead.