Chapter 30 Qingwu Talisman
After finally getting a few days of free time in Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming also returned to Mujiao Town to visit his family. Coincidentally, there was a happy event at home.
Song Qingming's fourth brother got married a year ago and recently gave birth to a son. The family was discussing when to hold a half-month banquet for the child. Song Qingming happened to return home, so his father Song Dezhang decided that it was better to hold a banquet the next day.
The banquet lasted for two consecutive days, and guests came and went in an endless stream. Many relatives and friends in Mujiao Town came to congratulate. Because Song Qingming became an immortal, the Song family is now a well-known wealthy family in the west of Mujiao Town, and now there are naturally many people who cling to them.
After the banquet, Song's mother led her daughter-in-law to pick up her grandson who had just been born, and came to a quiet house in the backyard. Looking at Song Qingming sitting in the room holding a book, Song's mother smiled and said.
"Third son, your father said you will leave tomorrow, and I don't know when you will return."
The book in Song Qingming's hand flashed with green light, and he put it into the storage bag. He paused and replied softly: "The child has taken on the task of guarding the spiritual mountain outside the clan. It will take another year to return to the mountain. After returning, there will be two years of free practice time, so mother will not miss you for too long."
Both parents have reached the age of enjoying grandchildren, which is considered not young among mortals. Although they have taken some low-level spiritual fruits that Song Qingming got on the mountain, they can't see the signs of aging, but Song Qingming knows that the life span of mortals is no more than sixty years. I hope that the two elders can let him worry about them for a few more years.
"Your father discussed with me yesterday, and he still came to ask you for the name of this eldest grandson, so that he can get some of your immortality. Maybe this child will have the opportunity to ascend to immortality in the future." Song's mother took the child from her daughter-in-law with a smile and brought him to Song Qingming.
The sister-in-law next to her was also a woman from a scholarly family. After entering the Song family, she had been doing her duty to manage the household, respecting her parents-in-law, and was deeply loved by Song's mother. At this moment, she looked at Song Qingming who was thinking, and her eyes were full of expectations.
"A few months ago, the family went to the Floating Cloud Mountains. The luck was pretty good. I also got a lot of opportunities. When I came back, I happened to meet this child. I think this child should be called Yunshan!"
"Song Yunshan" Song's mother read the name and felt okay, so she nodded and let her daughter-in-law hold the child and go out first.
"San'er, I know that you immortals don't like to be tacky with us mortals. You have things you need to do. Thanks to you, the family is getting better and better now. Mother has nothing to ask of you. I just want you to come back often."
Although Song Qingming has been at home these days, he basically stays in his room. Except for a few family members, he has not contacted other people. Song's mother also understands that there is a difference between immortals and mortals, and her son does not belong to this small house after all.
"I don't want to go out and see people these two days, just because I'm afraid that someone in the town will talk about our family. After all, people in the mountains have secular relatives, and things happening down the mountain will inevitably spread to the mountain, saying that I don't follow the family rules and I'm too involved in secular things."
"I also like this little house left for me by my family. I have set up a formation in this room these days. When I'm not here in the future, don't let anyone come in, so as not to trigger the formation and suffer. Don't worry, mother, I will definitely come back often when I have time."
After listening, Song's mother nodded, sighed and said, "Alas, you have grown up, and you have become much more mature in dealing with people, but mother always feels that you are not as cheerful as you were when you were a child."
"Mom, people always have to grow up, don't they?" Song Qingming said to Song's mother with a mischievous smile. Song's mother looked at him as if he had returned to his youth.
After sending Song's mother away, Song Qingming took out his flying sword and carefully dug off a piece of stone brick floor in the house, then dug a small pit and put the jade box containing the water spirit fruit into it, and then slowly restored the stone slab to its original position. He didn't need this thing yet, and it was not appropriate to carry it with him all the time, so he simply hid the water spirit fruit in Mujiao Town, which was in the mountain protection formation of Funiu Mountain, and was much safer than hiding it in Lingyuan Mountain.
After staying in Funiu Mountain for a few days, Song Qingming finally got the permission of the fourth elder Song Gucai and returned to Lingyuan Mountain.
He hadn't been back for more than two months, and his ninth uncle Song Changxin missed him very much. During the days when Song Qingming was away, the family lacked manpower and did not arrange for other people to come to Lingyuan Mountain to help him. In order to keep an eye on the normal operation of the mine, he had not been able to practice in seclusion for a long time during this period.
Seeing Song Qingming coming back, Song Changxin threw him a bunch of talismans and sundries, and immediately began to practice in seclusion again. Song Qingming also quickly resumed his previous days of garrison practice.
However, this time, Song Qingming brought back a bunch of spiritual objects from Guiyunfang, and he was busy in the following days.
More than half a month ago in Guiyunfang, Song Qingming spent hundreds of spiritual stones in one day, and his rich storage bag became poor again in an instant. Now he only had dozens of spiritual stones on him.
On the way back, Song Qingming had decided to find a way to expand his wealth next.
After thinking all the way, Song Qingming still chose to improve his own talisman making skills first. After two years of hard work, his talisman making skills have reached a bottleneck that can be broken through. In the past six months, he has also begun to try to make intermediate spiritual talismans. Although he failed in the end, it was also limited by the scarcity of materials required for making intermediate spiritual talismans in Caolu Mountain, and he could not purchase them in large quantities.
Now that he has exchanged a lot of intermediate talisman paper in Guiyunfang, he finally has the confidence to break through the intermediate-grade talisman maker. As long as he can make a large number of intermediate spiritual talismans in the future, he will not have to worry about the problem of lack of spiritual stones in the short term.
The price of a medium-grade spiritual talisman is several times that of a low-grade spiritual talisman. Although the production cost will also increase, as long as there is a 30% success rate, the profit is also considerable, which is not comparable to Song Qingming's previous daily production of low-grade spiritual talismans.
The medium-grade spiritual talisman is also much easier to sell than the low-grade spiritual talisman in the market. Even in Caolu Mountain, Song Qingming does not have to worry too much about sales.
The Song family's talisman-making skills are quite famous among the nearby Qi-refining families. The family has not only cultivated two top-grade talisman-makers, but also six middle-grade talisman-makers. Even Uncle Jiu, a hard-working cultivator who spends a lot of time on cultivation, can improve his talisman-making skills to middle-grade skills.
After returning to his residence, Song Qingming first took out the talisman-making book he got in Guiyunfang this time and began to study it.
This talisman-making book is called "Qingwu Talisman", written by Qingwu Taoist, a second-level low-grade talisman-maker. Although there are not many types of spiritual talismans recorded in it and the market value is not high, it records in detail the talisman-making experience of this casual cultivator talisman-maker throughout his life, and there are also many of his personal insights into the way of talismans. The talisman-making experience of a second-level talisman-maker is still of some value to a low-level talisman-maker like Song Qingming.
After reading it several times, Song Qingming benefited a lot. He took out the Song family's talisman books and compared them carefully. He found many similarities and clever methods. This senior cultivator named Qingwuzi did have some unique understanding of the way of making talismans.
The "Qingwu Talisman" records few talisman styles, which are far less than those recorded in the Song family's talisman making books. However, the explanation of the talisman making process in it is very detailed, which has helped Song Qingming improve his talisman making skills.
Taking out the talisman pen that had not been used for several months and opening the various talisman making materials he had collected, Song Qingming began his journey of improving the talisman way again.