Chapter 84
It had been five days since the “Lu Zhi Monk” Chidao Murder Incident.
At the beginning, Cloud Mountain City was in a state of panic.
The Outer Sect’s General Hall, which felt that it had been heavily slapped in the face, issued a wanted notice, and at the same time dispatched a large number of cultivators from the two Halls of Punishment and Defense to launch a search in the area around the mountain gate to track down the whereabouts of the murderer.
However, the countryside and wilderness were different from the city, and there were simply too many places to sneak and hide.
Trying to find someone was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The incident also happened extremely suddenly, “Lu Zhi Monk” has long run away without a trace, even if the General Hall offers a very high reward, but no one can claim this rather generous reward.
After a few more days, the situation had already returned to calm, and the guards of Yunshan City no longer checked the storage bags of the loose cultivators.
If they continued like this, it would lead to the collective grievances of the loose cultivators in the outer regions to boil over.
That wouldn’t be good for the Yunyang Sect either.
In fact, there were quite a few inexplicable disappearances or deaths of outer disciples every year.
Some may have been victimized by evil spirits, some were robbed by bandits, and there were also those who made a fool of themselves and ran off to the outer regions to be shipwrecked.
Few of them were ever investigated for the truth.
After a while, even the customers in the teahouse forgot the name “Lu Zhi Monk”.
No one will say it again.
Unless he comes out to commit another crime!
But Wang Chen has already sealed the “Lu Zhishen” vest.
He can’t be proud of it anymore.
Although the Outer Sect General Hall didn’t find out his identity, it doesn’t mean that Yunyang Sect really doesn’t have any way to track down the murderer.
For example, the Heavenly Chance Technique!
The Heavenly Chance Technique was able to probe into cause and effect.
Even if it couldn’t directly lock onto Wang Chen’s true body, it could still find out relevant clues.
However, this spell is very mysterious, and very few people in Yunyang Sect are successful in practicing it.
Moreover, performing the Tian Ji technique not only depletes one’s cultivation, but also reduces one’s lifespan.
Which Purple Mansion Superior is willing to pay for the cultivation and lifespan of a few bottom-level cultivators?
It wasn’t like he was his own son!
Nonetheless, Wang Chen also reminded himself that similar things could not be done often.
Although killing people to get treasure and heavenly merit, but as long as the mistake is exposed once, then it will certainly die without a burial place!
It would be difficult to run away.
Regardless of whether it was an inner or outer disciple, there were soul tags that remained in the sect.
The sect can know the life and death of the disciple.
It can also use the soul plate to track down defectors for miles.
This was undoubtedly a killer mace to restrain the disciples under the sect!
Therefore, even though the wind had passed, in the following days, Wang Chen was still honestly farming outside and practicing painting talismans at home.
Little by little, he improved his strength.
Steady as an old dog.
Winter passed, the earth shed its veil, and the warm spring winds once again began to blow through the Tianyun Mountain Vein.
When everything is reviving, Wang Chen’s five elemental gong that he majored in has reached the tipping point again.
The sixth level of qi cultivation was imminent.
But the first thing he broke through was the Elementary Talisman Making Art!
[Elementary Talisman Making – Experience +1]
[Elementary Talisman Making (Minor Achievement): 299/300]
In the secret room, Wang Chen lifted his talisman brush, and the talisman on the table, which had just finished “pointing the truth”, shone brightly.
Anyone could tell that this was a nearly perfect talisman!
Talismans of the same rank were of different quality, and for the same “Evil-Preventing Talisman”, the power of the finished product drawn by a great talisman master would definitely be stronger than that of an ordinary talisman master’s work.
After Wang Chen’s elementary talisman making skill broke through the small accomplishment level, he was able to grasp the know-how of this skill in a meticulous way.
But this was not enough!
What he wanted to do was not an ordinary craftsman, doing mechanically repetitive work like an assembly line worker.
Adding points!
[Elementary Talisman Making (Great Success): 0/400]
After consuming only 1 point of Human Virtue, the Elementary Talisman Making Technique directly stepped into the realm of Great Achievement.
Thanks to the 5 points of enlightenment, Wang Chen was now able to control the process of skill enhancement very accurately.
The first two realms he was sure he could break through on his own.
Then, unless forced to, he would rely on his own efforts.
The difficulty of breaking through the realm steeply increased.
Then, he would decisively increase his points!
Not only was it true for the Talisman Making skill, it was also true for other skill cultivation.
Thus up until now.
Although Wang Chen hadn’t had half a point of human virtue income recently.
But he had relied on his previous accumulation, and it was also completely enough to push multiple spells to a higher level.
As soon as he entered Da Cheng, a flash of aura instantly flashed through his mind.
It was as if a certain acupoint had suddenly been opened.
Wang Chen probed his hand and ingested a new piece of talisman paper, and the talisman brush held in his right hand skillfully dipped into a bit of spirit ink.
His pen moved like a dragon, and within moments, he drew three characters of the True Seal Characters to fill the paper.
Finally, he finished with a single stroke of “Point True”!
It was quick and painful!
Although Wang Chen had very little mana left in his dantian, and his spirit was already quite tired.
However, this “Meteorite Fire Talisman”, which was drawn at the level of great accomplishment, allowed him to truly experience the comfort and pleasure brought about by realm advancement.
It was as if everything was under control!
Faster speed, less consumption, more perfect quality.
If a talisman drawn by a Minor Achievement Talisman Making Art was a 7, then a Major Achievement was at least an 8.5!
Putting down the talisman brush, Wang Chen admired his new work for a moment.
Putting this talisman to one side alone.
On the other side of the table, there was a thick stack of the same talisman.
All of them were Meteoric Fire Talismans!
The two hundred and thirty-seven talisman legends inside the Basic Talisman Illustrations, as well as the three hundred and nine True Seal Characters.
Wang Chen had long since mastered them all.
He had already drawn more than thirty types of talismans, mainly Meteoric Fire, Wind Blade, Falling Thunder, Warding off Evil, Pathfinder, Flashing Light, Body Protector, and the like, the most commonly used talismans by cultivators.
But the ones Wang Chen really used to brush up his skill proficiency.
It was only the Meteorite Fire Talisman!
This was because he had the highest success rate in drawing the Meteoric Fire Talisman, and the finished product had a better effect.
As long as the mana and spirit could support it, the experience value was brushing up, which could be said to be twice the result with half the effort!
The only problem was that Wang Chen had already accumulated hundreds of Meteoric Fire Talismans.
That night, after his mana and energy had fully recovered.
He finished drawing fifty new Meteoric Fire Talismans in one go, and his success rate was already ridiculously high!
It also consumed almost all of the talisman paper on hand.
It was cool and refreshing!
Wang Chen had already thought about it, he would keep these Meteoric Fire Talismans in his hand as a defense.
Then take out a portion of the ones he had accumulated before and sell them.
Sort of trading in the old for the new.
It really wouldn’t work if he didn’t do it this way.
Not to mention the usual cultivation consumption, just to brush the experience value of the talisman making art, he had smashed down nearly two hundred lower spirits before and after.
Sitting on a mountain of money, ah.
Without the spirit stones gained from several times of killing and seizing treasures, Wang Chen would not have been able to support himself until now.
And this means of obtaining spirit stones was not the right way at all.
It was also impossible for him to do it on his own initiative.
Now that the Primary Talisman Making Art had stepped into the realm of great accomplishment, raising talismans with talismans was no longer a problem.
Calculating the price of these talismans, Wang Chen really had an impulse to be filled with internal oxen.
Finally, he would be able to see the money back!
He decided to go to Yunshan City tomorrow and let his already dried up storage bag bulge up again.