Chapter 70.
Wei Lian settled down in Wang Duan’s house.
During the day, she stayed in the courtyard or in the kitchen, practicing her martial arts and helping with the household chores.
Feeding the chickens, chopping wood, cleaning, washing clothes, making tea ……
She didn’t even take half a step out of the house.
At night, they enter the underground chamber to rest.
Wang Dust bought two curtains from the city and hung them on the entrance of the two small rooms connected to the secret room.
One person has a bedroom, and the large chamber in the center serves as a common space for activities.
When they first lived together, Wei Lian behaved very carefully.
In awe of Wang Chen and with a hint of wariness.
But after a period of time together, Wang Chuan was always prudent and respectful, allowing the young girl to gradually let her guard down.
She gradually revealed another side of herself.
“Immortal Master, please have some tea.”
In the secret room, Wei Lian served Wang Chen a cup of steaming tea.
“Thank you.”
Wang Chen took it and took a sip, the tea’s aroma was fresh in the mouth, it was brewed just right.
The same Cloud Mist Spirit Tea, Wei Lian’s flavor was just much stronger than his.
In addition to being proficient in the tea ceremony, Wei Lian also had a good hand at writing.
And knew a lot about painting.
When she was in the mundane world, she was clearly a great lady who had been carefully cultivated!
But here, Wei Lian consciously treated herself as Wang Chen’s maid.
Recently, she had been working hard on her cooking skills again and wanted to contract his kitchen.
Seriously, ever since Wei Lian came, aside from certain aspects that were a little less convenient, Wang Chen felt that his quality of life had skyrocketed.
The days of cultivation weren’t as dull and boring as before.
After drinking the spirit tea, Wang Chen only felt refreshed.
Immediately, he lifted the talisman brush and dipped it into the talisman ink, and stroked it across the talisman paper.
The three-character script was completed in a single breath!
Over the past few months, while insisting on cultivating his techniques, brushing up on his skill proficiency, and excavating the underground fortress, Wang Chuan had also taken as much time as possible to spend on talisman learning.
He had always had the intention of becoming a part-time talisman maker, and for this reason, he had purchased a full set of study tools including the Basic Talisman Illustrations, in an effort to try and step into the door of the Talisman Dao.
Wang Chen’s main purpose for wanting to become a talisman maker was not to make money.
The threshold of making talismans was very low, and the initial investment cost was not comparable to that of alchemy and weaponry, while talismans were consumables that were in great demand, so they became the first part-time job choice for many bottom-level cultivators.
However, it is easy to get started with talisman Dao and difficult to become proficient in it, and it is even more difficult to become a real talisman maker.
And because of the influx of cultivators, resulting in a very serious involution, the prices of low-grade talismans sold on the market are generally low.
Without some unique skills or superior skills, relying on talisman making simply can’t earn a few spirit stones.
Moreover, even if one has mastered outstanding abilities, if one does not attach to a certain power, one would not be able to steal other people’s business within the mountain gate.
Every lucrative business in Yunshan City had one or even several Purple Mansion Superiors standing behind it!
Therefore, Wang Chen’s first consideration in learning talismans was for his own use.
Saving costs to increase combat power!
The entire “Basic Talisman Illustrations” recorded a total of two hundred and thirty-seven talismans, covering most of the first-order magic talismans, as long as one can master one-tenth of them, then it can greatly enrich the means of combat.
For example, the attack type of magic talisman, meteorite fire, wind blade, ice arrow, ground thorn, falling thunder ……
It’s normal for a cultivator at the beginning of qi cultivation stage to hold a handful of magic talismans and beat the crap out of a middle-ranked cultivator.
Compared to the expensive magic weapons that were often worth hundreds or thousands of spirit stones, talismans were undoubtedly the best choice for the bottom cultivators to enhance their combat power.
In Wang Chuan’s conception, if he encountered a strong enemy that was difficult to defeat, such as a high-ranking cultivator or a demon or evil spirit, if he couldn’t defeat them, he would smash talismans wildly, and use saturated attacks to win over the strong with the weak.
Or to fight for the opportunity to escape.
This tactic undoubtedly requires a large number of talismans, with spirit stones to buy truly can not afford to burn.
Wang Dust had the Immortal Cultivation Panel in hand.
If he could brush out a high-grade talisman-making skill, then he would undoubtedly have an additional killer weapon.
However, the problem was that learning the basic talisman path did not have a gongfu jade slip, nor did it get the spirit light method seed, which was not the same as spells.
And how would it appear in the skill bar of the panel?
Wang Dust started learning to make talismans with a complete attitude of trying it out.
He realized that talismans were a very deep and broad discipline.
Just like mathematics, science and chemistry in his previous life, even if he spent his whole life studying it, he might only get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg.
The Basic Talisman Illustrations, which was only suitable for Qi Practicing Stage cultivators, contained three hundred and nine True Seal Characters in addition to two hundred and thirty-seven talisman illustrations.
The True Seal Scripts originated from ancient times and were said to have been created by the three saints of the Taoist Sect, and were profound and esoteric.
All talismans, whether they were magic talismans, spirit talismans, treasure talismans, or even Taoist true talismans, were all drawn with True Seal Scripts.
The three hundred and nine True Seal Scripts in the Basic Talisman Illustrations were only part of the runes.
Different True Seal Characters were combined to form different talismans, from three to five, up to a dozen or even dozens, and they were interlinked with each other, so even one wrong stroke would render the entire talisman useless!
In the beginning, Wang Chen did not dare to directly follow the example of the gourd.
He spent two months copying the talisman diagrams and true seal scripts over and over again.
It wasn’t until he was able to skillfully pantomime all the talismans and runes in the Basic Talisman Illustrations.
Only then did he begin to follow the methods in this introductory talisman Dao tome.
Attempting to draw real talismans on talisman paper!
A standard yellow talisman paper that was half a foot long and three inches wide had its front side filled with dark red three-character true seal script runes.
There were no wrong strokes, broken strokes, or dripping ink.
A spiritual light was faintly translucent in the midst of the strokes.
This was the result of injecting mana during the drawing process and resonating with the aura in the runic ink.
But this did not mean that the talisman was completed.
Wang Chen gazed at his concentration, held the brush and dropped the ink, pointing at the top of the talisman paper.
This was called “pointing the truth”, and it was the final and most crucial stroke in making the talisman.
Previously, when Wang Chen had made talismans many times, he had gotten stuck at this step.
It led to failure.
Dozens of pieces of talisman paper had been wasted.
But Wang Chen was not discouraged.
Failure was nothing at all, what mattered was being able to draw useful experience.
He believed that with his current enlightenment, getting started would never be a problem.
With this stroke of pointing true, Wang Chen was extraordinarily confident!
The tip of the pen fell, and the runic ink instantly haloed on the surface of the paper, and the Three Character True Seal Script runes below it abruptly lit up.
Spiritual light overflows!
[Beginner’s Talisman Making-Experience +1]
The information that appeared steeply in his vision caused Wang Chen to freeze.
Successful?
“Ah.”
Without waiting for him to call out the Immortal Cultivation Panel to check, a soft cry suddenly came from the side.
Wang Chen turned his head to look, only to see that Wei Lian was standing next to the desk, holding a fire bend that had just lit a furnace of sandalwood incense.
Her cherry mouth was slightly open, and her eyes were filled with surprise and curiosity.
Wang Chen laughed, his heart overjoyed.
If he hadn’t guessed wrongly, there should be one more item in the skill bar of the panel at this time.
A whole new world opened up to him!