Chapter 31 Improving the Art of Talisman Making

Three days later, as the spiritual light on Song Qingming's pen tip moved, runes with very strange looks gradually appeared on a yellow talisman. These symbols were neatly arranged on the yellow talisman according to a certain pattern, and there was a layer of flickering golden light.

As time passed, the spiritual light on the talisman paper gradually faded, and finally firmly imprinted on the talisman.

Song Qingming picked up the golden talisman and looked at it carefully, and then pinched the talisman he had just made, and gently pinched it. As a spiritual power flowed into the talisman from his body, the talisman in his hand suddenly glowed with golden light, and then he flicked his finger, and immediately turned into a golden spiritual light that shot out and suddenly exploded on a stone bench in the house.

"Bang!!" There was a loud noise, a burst of white smoke, Song Qingming squinted his eyes and looked at the ground, and the stone bench weighing a hundred pounds had become a pile of rubble in an instant.

"The power is equivalent to the full force of a fourth-level Qi Refining cultivator. This golden light talisman is finally successful." Song Qingming muttered to himself.

In the past few days, he has used dozens of talisman-making materials. After testing the effects of the finished talismans for more than a dozen times, Song Qingming finally successfully drew this qualified mid-grade talisman "Golden Light Talisman".

"Golden Light Talisman" is a kind of mid-level attack talisman of the five elements that is more common in the market. After the test of the effect just now, Song Qingming is finally satisfied with the effect of this talisman. He has also successfully advanced to a mid-grade talisman maker.

Half a month later, relying on the talisman-making speed that is four or five times faster than that of ordinary people, Song Qingming finally increased the success rate of making "Golden Light Talisman" to 20%, and barely became a qualified mid-grade talisman maker.

The final product of more than a dozen talismans also consumed more than 200 mid-level talisman-making materials. Overall, he lost nearly 30 spirit stones.

However, this is unavoidable. If he wants to improve his talisman making skills, he must invest in them. Only when he becomes a real mid-level talisman maker can he slowly earn back all the spiritual stones he invested.

A mid-level spiritual talisman such as the "Golden Light Talisman" on the market can be sold for about three spiritual stones. As long as he can increase the success rate of talisman making to more than 30%, he can make at least one spiritual stone profit for each talisman. If the materials are sufficient, he can draw three or four talismans a day, and earn hundreds of spiritual stones a month, which is quite a considerable profit.

Compared with his low-level spiritual talismans, although he has a success rate of 50% to 60%, the monthly income is no more than 20 to 30 spiritual stones. This comparison shows that the spiritual stones he needs to invest to improve his talisman making skills are definitely worth it.

What he lacked now was mainly materials for making talismans. The hundreds of intermediate-level talisman-making materials he brought from Guiyunfang were almost all used up. As long as he could collect another batch of intermediate-level talisman-making materials, he would have the confidence to increase the success rate of the Golden Light Talisman to more than 30%. Touching his chest, Song Qingming thought that this should not be too far away.

The talisman-making materials in his hand were almost all used up, and Song Qingming had to stop making talismans. It was time to go out and get some talisman-making materials.

Calculating the time, it was time for the monthly Caolu Mountain gathering again. He hadn't been to Caolu Mountain for several months. It was just right to go to Caolu Mountain first to deal with the refined Golden Light Talismans in his hands, exchange some spirit stones, and then go to Qinghefang to purchase some intermediate-level talisman-making materials.

Qinghefang has been much more peaceful in recent years since the incident of intercepting and killing the Huang family cultivators a few years ago. His family no longer stopped them, the young people, from coming out to practice. Now that his cultivation has been improved to the fifth level of Qi Refining, it is naturally not a problem for him to go to Qinghefang.

I don't know if Gao Yuyao has come to Caolu Mountain to find me in the past few months. Whenever Song Qingming meets this woman who has a secret deal with him, he always dares not neglect her, for fear of cutting off a source of elixirs.

After saying hello to Uncle Jiu, Song Qingming came to Caolu Mountain again after nearly three months. Looking at the familiar grass and trees on the mountain, Song Qingming's experience of touching life and death in the past three months was also like a lifetime ago.

The immortal road is long, and I have just taken a step now. Even if there are dangers ahead, no matter if it is a small character like me who is scattered in every corner of the immortal world, or those powerful cultivators in the immortal world, everyone has no way to retreat.

Throwing out a token, the fog on Caolu Mountain slowly dissipated, and Song Qingming took a firm step forward.

After not coming for a few months, the twice-monthly gatherings in Caolu Mountain are still as lively as ever. Just when he arrived at the gate of the yard, Song Qingming met an acquaintance.

"Congratulations to Fellow Daoist Song. I haven't seen you for a few months. I didn't expect that you have made a breakthrough in cultivation. Haha, I was wondering why I didn't see you come here for the past two months. It turns out that you have been practicing in seclusion."

This person is the casual cultivator who helped Song Qingming buy elixirs, Qin Zhen.

After not seeing him for a few months, he didn't expect that Song Qingming's cultivation had already broken through the fifth level of Qi Refining and was about to catch up with him, which surprised him a little.

"This kid is only in his early twenties, but his cultivation has already caught up with him, a cultivator who has been practicing for more than 40 years. It's really enviable."

Qin Zhen looked at Song Qingming and thought, if this man is not a genius with three spiritual roots, it seems that he is a direct descendant cultivator whose family has no shortage of cultivation resources. Such a young cultivator with a promising future in Qinghe County must be made friends with him.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you haven't been here for a few months, and I really miss the talismans made by your family. I feel a little uncomfortable using the talismans purchased from other families in the past few months. After all, I still think that the talismans from your family are of better quality. This time you are here, I will definitely buy more later, so that I won't have nowhere to buy when you are not here."

"No, no, it's just that my family's support has made my cultivation progress. Qingming will ask Brother Qin to take care of me in the future."

Song Qingming came to the yard with ease. Not long after he set up the stall, Qin Zhen came over with a smile.

Looking at the pile of mid-level talismans on Song Qingming's stall, which was more than before, Qin Zhen asked curiously.

"Fellow Daoist Song took out so many mid-level talismans at once. Could it be that your talisman making skills have already broken through the mid-level level? Such a young mid-level talisman maker, you are really a gifted person."

"Brother Qin, you are too kind. Most of the talismans here are entrusted to me by the elders of my clan to sell here. My talisman making skills are still a bit lacking. However, my family has indeed studied the art of talisman making. There are also several top-level talisman makers in the family. These talismans are also made by them. Please rest assured about the quality, Brother Qin."

Although most of these mid-level talismans were made by Song Qingming, Song Qingming claimed that most of the talismans on his stall were made by his family elders when he started learning to make talismans in order to avoid the trouble caused by selling talismans on Caolu Mountain. Otherwise, considering the number of talismans he sold every time on Caolu Mountain, it is inevitable that others would have suspected him long ago.

Even though Song Qingming is now a mid-level talisman maker, he doesn't want to expose his talisman making skills to others too much. After all, if someone asks why his talisman making skills have improved so quickly, it would be troublesome to explain. It would be easier for others to understand if he directly attributed it to the elders of the family, and he saved a lot of trouble.

After listening to Song Qingming's explanation, Qin Zhen thought about it and it was right, but he didn't think much about it. In his opinion, even if Song Qingming could become a mid-level talisman maker at his age, the talismans on his stall could not all be drawn by him alone.

A talisman maker can only draw seven or eight mid-level talismans in a month without affecting his own cultivation. Every time Song Qingming comes here to set up a stall, he takes out a large number of talismans, and it is impossible for all of them to be drawn by him alone.

But he couldn't have thought that Song Qingming would have such a rare treasure as the incomplete map. With the incomplete map accelerating the recovery of mana several times, his talisman making speed is equivalent to four or five times that of ordinary cultivators.