Chapter 12: The Art of Talismans
Three years have passed, Zhang Zhiping's strength has improved greatly, and now if he wants to defeat Yang Qing again, I am afraid that he only needs a few mid-grade fireball techniques. However, Zhang Zhiping's purpose in cultivating immortals is not to fight bravely, and he will not deliberately go to others for trouble.
What Zhang Zhiping wants more now is to continue to study spells, and he thinks that it will be a very interesting thing to express some theories from the previous world with the spells of this world. It's just that he has too few spells now, and his understanding of spells has not yet reached the point where he can create spells, and he needs to learn more spells. Zhang Zhiping couldn't help but put his eyes on the Dharma Pavilion again.
However, this problem returned to the spirit stone, if he didn't need to copy the jade slip, he could only run to the Dharma Pavilion again and again, and he didn't know when he would be able to learn all the spells again, let alone study them in depth. After thinking about it, sharpening knives and cutting woodworkers by mistake, let's first learn some means to earn spirit stones.
It seems that even if you have the plug-in of the Five Visceral God, you still have to find a way to earn spirit stones. The spirit stone is the general equivalent in the immortal cultivation world, and it may not be exchanged for rare treasures, but it can be exchanged for the basic resources needed for ordinary cultivation, and if you want to live a nourishing life in the immortal cultivation world, the spirit stone is absolutely indispensable.
Zhang Zhiping wanted to earn spirit stones, and immediately thought of Qingsongmen's housekeeping method - the art of drawing talismans. There are millions of green pines in the Qingsong Gorge, these green pines have been growing near the spiritual veins for a long time, and after a hundred years of washing by the spiritual energy, they can be used to make rune paper to draw runes. Therefore, the disciples of Qingsongmen have a large number of rune paper to practice drawing runes, and they all have a good skill in drawing runes.
The rune paper made of ordinary green pine cannot draw the talisman of the foundation building period, but in the Qingsong Gorge, there are more than 100 green pines that have reached the level of spiritual plants, which are the treasures of the Qingsongmen town faction. The rune paper made of spirit plants can be used to draw runes above the foundation building period, but it is not easy for spirit plants to grow, and every year Qingsongmen will only cut some sub-branches to make runes.
Qingsongmen did not force its disciples to learn to draw talismans, but the monthly rites issued by Qingsongmen were only enough to maintain their daily cultivation, and they couldn't do anything else. Therefore, the outer disciples will choose some miscellaneous studies to earn spirit stones, and in the Qingsong Sect, they will naturally choose the art of drawing talismans.
There are hundreds of arts in the world of cultivating immortals, but the Qingsongmen has not collected all of them, and only collected fifteen miscellaneous sciences such as alchemy, refining, formation, forbidden, puppet, spirit wine, and planting, and can only learn the basic part. However, the art of drawing talismans of Qingsongmen is quite profound, and it can be used from the Qi training period to the Jindan period. After Zhang Zhiping carefully flipped through these miscellaneous studies, he found that these immortal cultivation arts were also some very interesting things, and he wanted to copy them all back to study. But seeing his empty spirit stone, Zhang Zhiping smiled helplessly, and could only copy the low-level talisman painting technique to the jade slip and leave.
After Zhang Zhiping left the Dharma Pavilion, he came to the Grammar Pavilion in Zhongwei. The Grammar Pavilion is a place where talismans are drawn in the Green Pine Gate, and everyone who registers here can get a room where talismans are drawn. There will be a hundred rune papers in the room and the four treasures of the study needed to draw the runes, these things can be used for free, and they will be replenished every day, but the drawn runes will be charged eighty percent by the Qingsong Gate.
Qingsongmen has divided the level of the rune master, not to mention those who have not yet started, and when they can draw the rune, according to the level of the drawn rune, the rune master can be divided into the rune worker, the rune master and the rune master.
For most disciples, it is easy to look at the talisman diagram and draw a tiger according to the cat, but to draw a talisman, you need to input mana at a uniform speed when drawing the talisman. A talisman without input mana is useless, just like a circuit diagram without input electricity in a previous life, mana is the key. Therefore, the art of drawing talismans requires extremely strong mana control ability, and only after a lot of practice can a qualified talisman be drawn. However, there is plenty of rune paper in the Qingsong Sect, which is enough for each disciple to practice a lot, so after studying for a period of time, they can draw middle and lower grade runes, which are called runes.
But a high-grade talisman can't be drawn with a lot of practice alone. If you compare two of the same high-grade talismans, you will find that these two talismans are very different in subtleties. The reason for this difference is not because of the different drawing techniques of different rune masters, but because the drawing form of each high-grade rune changes from moment to moment.
In order to draw a high-grade rune, one first needs to have a deep understanding of the spells that this high-grade rune represents. Each spell has a different spell structure, and this deep understanding requires the talisman master to keep practicing this spell and constantly extend his spiritual power to the spell to experience the structure of the spell. Therefore, refining a top-grade talisman must have the strength of the late stage of qi refining, and even Zhang Zhiping can't cheat. The monk uses his spiritual power to continuously simulate the structure of this spell, and he will find that this structure changes slightly with each spell cast, so he cannot become a talisman master by penance alone, and he must wait for the monk to have a flash of inspiration after a large number of simulations, forming a spell imprint in the sea of consciousness, and then he can become a talisman master.
After the spell imprint is formed in the sea of consciousness, the rune master will find that this spell imprint is also undergoing subtle changes all the time. When drawing a talisman, the spirit of the talisman master is one, and the spirit is one, and the high-grade talisman can be drawn according to the spell imprint in the sea of knowledge. In many cases, just a few minor disturbances will make it difficult for the talisman master to unite his spirit and spirit, so he must be quiet and sincere in drawing talismans, which is why Qingsongmen established the Grammar Pavilion to specialize in refining talismans.
Due to the rarity of spell imprints, most of the runes can only draw one or two runes. However, with the improvement of cultivation, the growth of the divine soul can improve the chance of forming a low-level spell brand, among them, the high-grade runes that can refine the qi training period are called low-level rune masters, the foundation building period is the intermediate rune master, and the Jindan period is the high-level rune master. There are currently only two hundred low-level rune masters and fifty intermediate rune masters in the Qingsong Sect, one high-level rune master, and that high-level rune master is the Qingsong Ancestor.
Another great benefit of spell branding is that it can instantaneously cast this spell after it is formed, which is one of the reasons why spells have not completely disappeared in the Immortal Cultivator battle system. It's just that it's too difficult to form a spell imprint of the same level, and it is very rare for a high-level or above rune master to be, and there is only one Qingsong Ancestor in the vast Five Kingdoms. This is also the reason why the Green Pine Ancestor is invincible in the five countries, a fully equipped magic weapon and high-level spells that can be instantaneous, few people can block the bombardment of that high-level spell.
Zhang Zhiping couldn't help but be interested when he saw this, his research on spells has been with spells and mudras, and after combining them, they naturally form spells, but he didn't think that these spells could also form spell imprints. This is very important for his own spell research, it seems that he has neglected the art of drawing talismans in the past, so from this point of view, other immortal cultivation arts may not be simple.
In the research of Qingsongmen, some spells of the same level are not the most powerful, but should be the best, that is, the spells that combine spells, mudras and spell imprints. Most of these spells come from the talent spells of demon beasts, and when the monk learned, he found that the physique of the human race was not as good as that of demon beasts of the same level, so he weakened these talent spells to form a top-grade spell. Therefore, the power of generally-grade spells is not as powerful as that of demon beasts of the same level, such as the Vajra Mantra, which comes from a low-level demon beast Vajra Elephant in the world of cultivating immortals, but it casts the Vajra Mantra as strong as a Vajra and is inviolable, far from being comparable to the Vajra Mantra used by monks.
The best spell formed by the three-in-one spell, handprint, and spell brand can reach the point where it is not weaker than the demon beasts of the same level in terms of casting time and power. It's just that it's difficult to form the best spells, and even the Qingsong Gate can use the best spells, so there are not many best spells in the mana system.