Chapter 267: Talisman Progress (1/2)

If all these twenty disciples can be trained to become mid-level talisman makers, there will be no worries about talismans in the future!

The business of Baibao Pavilion is extremely hot now. What is lacking is nothing more than the source of goods. If there is a sufficient supply of talismans in the future, it is inevitable to make a lot of money, and it is not a dream to make a lot of spirit stones!

By then, with talismans as a signboard and accumulating a certain amount of wealth, the business of Baibao Pavilion can continue to expand!

As long as it is properly managed and no big mistakes are made, the types of items sold in the store will inevitably increase, and the spirit stones earned will naturally rise accordingly. Such a store is worthy of the name of Baibao Pavilion.

In Linwufang, Baibao Pavilion will occupy a place.

One day, there is even hope to become a top-level store like Qianbao Pavilion!

In Qianbao Pavilion, business is extremely hot, and Lin Mu is already accustomed to it.

The items sold in the pavilion are dazzling, and they are all valuable, so the harvest is naturally more abundant.

Lin Mu initially estimated that Qianbao Pavilion’s daily income must be at least more than 500,000 spirit stones!

He was also drooling over such huge profits.

If he could own such a shop, he would wake up with a smile in his dreams.

With enough spirit stones, he no longer needed to intrigue with others, nor did he have to fight with Shi Weihan openly or secretly, nor did he have to help Qianyu Sword Sect train disciples. He only needed to concentrate on hard work. With sufficient spirit stones, resources will surely keep up, and the chances of success in attacking the golden elixir will also increase greatly!

But at present, these ideas are still like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, illusory and not real.

Even what Lin Mu is doing now is not as easy as imagined.

It is not easy to train a talisman maker. The resources consumed are not inferior to those of training an alchemist!

Lin Mu also knows this very well and has a deep understanding of it.

When he first learned to make talismans, it cost a lot. Now teaching disciples is the same.

This was just in the early stage, before any goods were received, in order to buy the green bamboo pen and low-level paper, he had already spent 70,000 low-grade spirit stones!

Spreading it out, he has invested more than 3,000 in each disciple!

3,000 low-grade spirit stones is not a small amount. Many foundation-building cultivators have never had this amount of wealth.

Moreover, even if Lin Mu invested so much, he might not be able to train all his disciples into low-level talisman makers.

Even if he succeeds, the profit that a low-level talisman maker can bring is limited.

Low-level talisman makers can only make low-level talismans such as the "Fire Bomb Talisman".

A "Fire Bomb Talisman" is sold for about six low-grade spirit stones.

Nowadays, prices are soaring and costs are getting higher and higher. A seven-star paper costs three low-grade spirit stones. If the cost of the talisman pen and cinnabar is added, it is nothing but a foolish dream to want to make money from the "Fire Bomb Talisman".

Lin Mu even had no doubt that with the success rate of his disciples making talismans, they might not even be able to make back their capital.

If they wanted to make money, they would have to learn to make intermediate talismans such as the "Explosive Flame Talisman".

Training an intermediate talisman maker, or even a high-level talisman maker, would cost more!

At that time, they would need top-grade talisman pens, third-grade paper, and superior purple sand, which would require another large investment.

After paying so much, if they could successfully train a talisman maker, it would be fine. If not, losses would be inevitable.

Spiritual stones are not easy to earn, and success is not easy.

Everything still needs to be down-to-earth and work hard slowly, and it cannot be achieved overnight.

Lin Mu returned to the wooden house, closed the door, set up a ban, and then flashed into the Xuanyue space.

The eighty acres of third-grade spiritual medicine in the Xuanyue space were already green, and they would mature within a year.

Lin Mu smiled and applied rain again.

Then, he entered the hut, took out a cushion and sat down, and began to meditate and practice.

Shitou was in a deep state of meditation, and had long ignored Lin Mu's communication.

At present, the spiritual medicines in the spiritual field are not yet mature, so Lin Mu did not wake Shitou and let him practice hard.

The spiritual energy in the Xuanyue space is extremely rich, which can be compared with the fifth-grade cave heaven and blessed land.

Shitou has been in seclusion in the Xuanyue space for several years, and his cultivation has greatly increased!

The spiritual power in his body used to be like a big river, flowing downstream and rushing endlessly.

Now, it is different from before.

After several years of hard practice, the spiritual power in Shitou's body has slowly become thicker, which is completely different from the diluted spiritual power liquid before. The spiritual power has also become much gentler and more stable.

Lin Mu believes that with Shitou's current state, even if he does not take any pills, at most twenty years, the spiritual power in his body will be as dense as a solid. By then, he can impact the golden elixir!

There are too many advantages to practicing in the Moon Space.

However, this is only suitable for Shitou, not Lin Mu.

When Lin Mu is outside, he can let the Moon Pendant absorb moonlight at night to increase the spiritual energy of the Moon Space. Once he enters the Moon Space to practice, the spiritual energy of the Moon Space will no longer increase. Moreover, as he and Shitou practice and absorb spiritual power, the spiritual energy of the Moon Space will decrease little by little. In the long run, the Moon Space may even degenerate!

Lin Mu is just guessing about this possibility, but he dare not try it easily.

He waited for decades to let the Xuanyue pendant advance. If because of this, the Xuanyue space degraded, he would have no place to cry.

Therefore, many times, Lin Mu deliberately controlled his cultivation time in the Xuanyue space.

Otherwise, with his qualifications and talents, although he was not as amazing as Gu Yun, his cultivation speed would not be much slower in the Xuanyue space, and it would not be surprising if he could reach the peak of the late foundation building period.

But now, Lin Mu's cultivation is much behind Shitou.

Shitou is not far from the peak of the foundation building period, but his spiritual power is still as thin as water.

Lin Mu has been busy and has no time to practice. Now it takes some time for his disciples to sacrifice the top-grade magic weapon Cuizhu Pen. Taking advantage of this period of time, Lin Mu plans to work hard to practice and slightly improve his cultivation. Otherwise, in another half a year, the spiritual medicines in the spiritual field will mature one after another, and then he will be busy refining pills and will have no time to practice.

Silently running the "Five Elements Heart Method", Lin Mu also quickly entered into a state of meditation.

The spiritual power in the body is like a rushing river, running rapidly. Every time it runs for a cycle, the spiritual power in the body increases by one point.

Lin Mu quickly immersed himself in it...

Time is like water, and three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

One day, Lin Mu woke up from his meditation and opened his eyes. The light in his eyes became more restrained and peaceful, and there was no sharpness at all.

After three months of hard practice, Lin Mu's cultivation has also improved a lot.

Looking at the stone that was still in meditation, Lin Mu smiled and stood up and walked out of the house.

When he came to the edge of the spiritual field, Lin Mu cast rain on the spiritual medicine again, and then exited the Xuanyue space.

Opening the ban, Lin Mu pushed the door and walked out of the wooden house, and began to summon disciples.

Twenty disciples quickly came to the front of the house under his call.

Lin Mu looked at the disciples with smiles on their faces and asked with a smile: "Have you all successfully sacrificed the green bamboo pen?"

"All have been sacrificed successfully!" Xin Yan said with a smile.

"That's good." Lin Mu nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "From today on, I will teach you the art of making talismans."

"Making talismans is vast and unfathomable. Even I am just getting started." Lin Mu smiled and said to his disciples: "Making talismans is not easy. You need to be patient and study hard. Don't give up halfway."

"Yes!" Twenty disciples nodded in unison.

It was just a simple word, but the twenty people looked solemn and serious.

Lin Mu invested in them, and everyone knew it.

Just a green bamboo pen is worth three thousand low-grade spirit stones!

The master spent so much and chose twenty of them from forty or fifty people. Obviously, he believed in them. No matter what, they couldn't let the master down. No matter what their talents were, they would definitely stick to it.

Lin Mu smiled and nodded, and then began to distribute jade slips to the twenty people.

These jade slips are all about making talismans.

"The Beginning of Talismans" and "Random Talks on Talismans" are the main contents, which are relatively complete. There are also some scattered jade slips, which Lin Mu also copied and distributed to everyone. Then he sent everyone back to their houses to study, and agreed to start making talismans in seven days.

Twenty disciples each took the jade slips back to their houses.

Seven days passed in a flash.

On this day, twenty disciples, each of them moved a table and a stool to the center of the island.

Lin Mu walked out of the wooden house with a smile on his face.

From today on, these disciples will officially start making talismans!

After studying the jade slips, the disciples have a certain understanding of making talismans, and what they lack is practice.

Lin Mu gave each of the twenty disciples five dozen yellow sandpaper and two bottles of cinnabar, and asked the disciples to make the "Fire Bomb Talisman" by themselves.

Five dozen yellow sandpaper is five hundred sheets, which is enough for these disciples to use for a period of time.

When the disciples were making the talismans, Lin Mu had been watching from the side, but he did not give any instructions. After a day, Lin Mu had a good understanding of the talents of these disciples in making talismans, but the results were not optimistic.

Twenty disciples, but there was not a genius in making talismans!

After a day, the one with the highest success rate in making talismans was Shi Jian, who was the most honest and conscientious!

But he only made three "Fire Bomb Talismans", with a success rate of just 20%.

Most of the other disciples made two "Fire Bomb Talismans", with a success rate of more than 10%. A few only made one "Fire Bomb Talisman", with a pitifully low success rate.

Such a result was a blow to Lin Mu.

His previous beautiful vision was all based on the situation that these disciples were all mid-level talisman makers.

Now it seems that imagination is indeed unreliable.

This success rate of making talismans is really shockingly low.

However, Lin Mu didn't know what to say. He comforted and encouraged the disciples and let them go back to their rooms.

The situation remained the same on the second day.

Today's result was not much different from yesterday's.

The only thing that made Lin Mu a little relieved was that all the disciples were able to make two "Fire Bomb Talismans".

Including Shi Jian, there were already three disciples who were able to make three "Fire Bomb Talismans".

Lin Mu could only regard this result as good news.

In fact, after thinking hard for a night, he had let it go.

Since these disciples were not talented, they could only be cultivated slowly, spending more time and paying more spirit stones.

As long as these disciples worked hard enough and made up for their shortcomings, Lin Mu believed that they would be able to achieve something in time.

In addition, Lin Mu also tried to find out the reason, hoping to improve this result.

After a brief analysis, he knew that it was the paper.

When he made talismans himself, he used the third-grade seven-star paper, but now these disciples are using the first-grade yellow sand paper, so the success rate is naturally much lower. The surface of the yellow sand paper is rough, and small grass leaves can be seen everywhere. When the talisman pen is on the paper, the pen strokes will easily go out of shape, turn, and interrupt, making the talisman much more difficult!

Fortunately, Lin Mu bought the top-grade talisman pen for these disciples. If they practiced with the lower-grade talisman pen, I am afraid the situation would be even worse, and the success rate would be zero!

But Lin Mu thought about it and thought that it might not be a bad thing now.

If these twenty disciples can practice superb talisman-making skills on such inferior yellow sandpaper, their success rate will surely increase sharply on the smooth seven-star paper in the future!

The fact is indeed as Lin Mu expected.

One month later, the twenty disciples had used up their yellow sandpaper.

After using up five hundred sheets of paper, each person's success rate in making talismans was only 30%!

The number of "Fire Bomb Talismans" produced every day was only about four.

With these ten thousand yellow sandpapers, twenty disciples only made two thousand "Fire Bomb Talismans" in total.

Moreover, such "Fire Bomb Talismans" are less powerful than ordinary "Fire Bomb Talismans". Lin Mu estimated that even if the price was five low-grade spirit stones per sheet, there would not be many people who would come to buy them.

In this regard, Lin Mu could only accept it with pleasure, there was no other way.

After the yellow sandpaper was used up, Lin Mu distributed fifty dozen white cloud paper to the twenty disciples.

The production of Baiyun paper is much more delicate. It is difficult to see the tiny grass leaves on the surface of the paper. The surface of the paper is also much smoother. The brushstrokes are also much smoother when the bamboo brush is used.

On the first day, the disciples tasted the sweetness.

At the end of the day, everyone made more than five "Fire Bomb Talismans"!

Shi Jian's level is slightly better than others, and he made as many as seven!

Unlike the previous use of yellow sand paper, the success rate of the disciples' talisman making is only 40%!

Shi Jian is even close to 50%!

Compared with before, the success rate has soared!