Chapter 23: Immortal Art Skills: A Preliminary Study of the Way of Talismans
Sun Zecheng raised his fingers and counted the various immortal arts skills one by one, vein finding and mining, spiritual planting, alchemy, animal breeding and taming, puppetry, weapon refining, formation, talismans...

Mining? Mining is a huge profit. It is the most important thing for each sect. It is also the profit that has been divided up by various forces. Those that can be found have been divided up. Sun Zecheng, who cannot find the Jindan Patriarch or even the Yuanying Old Monster, does not think that he has any talent or magical power that can be stronger than the Jindan Patriarch and the Yuanying Old Monster. It's better to save it!

Spiritual plants? Come on! Unless you have a cheating bottle like Han Li, otherwise, the spiritual medicines and fruits that take hundreds of years to produce are basically a matter of planting trees for future generations to enjoy the shade. For a robber like Sun Zecheng, don't even think about it!
Alchemy? After building the foundation, you have the innate true fire, you can make alchemy and refine anytime and anywhere. In fact, almost everyone who has built the foundation can make alchemy. However, Sun Zecheng knows that the bottleneck of alchemy is the difficulty in finding raw materials! Forget it if there is no cheating bottle!

Raising and taming animals? This is actually very similar to refining elixirs with spiritual plants, but the raw materials are still hard to find, and there is also the problem of slow results! Think about how Li Huayuan lived by the Panlong River in Yuanwu State for thirty years for his silver-armored horned python. Forget it, robbers like to rob ready-made ones! I don’t have the time and patience to slowly raise it!
Puppetry? To put it bluntly, this thing is also in the category of refining tools, special tools with a certain degree of autonomy, but it is still some garbage with extremely low cost performance! Look at that Dayan God, wasting time, and finally realized it before dying! Sun Zecheng has no interest in this puppet or even "Dayan Jue"! Waste of time!

Refining weapons? In fact, every Jindan cultivator's magic weapon is a product of refining weapons! Sooner or later, it will be needed, but for Sun Zecheng, the most urgent task is to strengthen the strength of the foundation-building period so that he can rob more effectively! This priority will be later, no rush.

Formation? This is a good thing! Speaking of which, in the mortal world, the power of formation is extremely unscientific! A reversed five elements formation can resist the attack of the golden elixir! It consumes ordinary low-level spirit stones, which is completely inconsistent with the scientific principle of energy conservation! This is in the mortal world. As long as the resources are sufficient, Xin Ruyin plus Qi Yunxiao can be more terrifying than several golden elixirs! The cost-effectiveness of the formation is too high, so high that it is unreasonable and unscientific! You must learn it! It’s just that when I robbed Han Li in the forbidden land before, I didn’t get the thousand-year-old elixir that Xin Ruyin needed to treat her illness. Damn! I lack a stepping stone!
Talisman? Oh, yes! It's the talisman! In several scientific robberies, the use of talismans played a huge role! The production conditions of talismans are relatively simple, easy to use, low cost, and extremely cost-effective!

In a few years, it is inevitable to be involved in a group fight with the six sects of the Demonic Path! It is not the current precise ambush, robbery, and single-player assassination mode! The amount of talismans used is estimated to be huge! I can't afford to buy them all! It's just right to use this time to practice making talismans! There are three golden Zhu pens robbed from Han Li! Just use them! This is it!

Having made up his mind, Sun Zecheng ran to find his master Li Huayuan.

"You want to learn how to make talismans? I don't have much to teach you. Here is a book called "Basics of Talisman Making with the Five Elements". Take it and practice diligently!"

Li Huayuan's answer surprised Sun Zecheng!
In the mortal world, among the immortal arts and skills, ranked by cost-effectiveness, the first is formation and the second is talismans. Moreover, talismans are easier to make and use than formations!
Sun Zecheng deeply couldn't understand why the vast majority of immortal cultivators turned a blind eye to such an obvious cost-effectiveness advantage and only pursued alchemy. They were not Han Li, who held a cheating bottle and had thousand-year-old elixirs at his fingertips! The difficulty in obtaining a spiritual medicine of a certain age had blocked the path of advancement for many alchemists. It was really unscientific!
Sun Zecheng naturally would not say what he was thinking. He took the "Basics of Talisman Making Using the Five Elements" with a happy face. He went to the Huangfeng Valley Market to buy talisman-making materials such as talisman paper, talisman ink, and cinnabar. He closed the door and began his exploration of talisman making.

Seeing that Sun Zecheng was concentrating on the research of talisman making, Li Huayuan consciously reduced the number of times he was ordered around, allowing Sun Zecheng to devote himself to his research work!

First use the cheapest yellow talisman paper and the most common cinnabar talisman ink, starting from the most basic

Following the same pattern, with Sun Zecheng's current cultivation level at the initial stage of foundation building, he easily completed the production of many primary lower-level talismans!
Start making elementary and intermediate talismans. Start with the most basic Fire Cloud Talisman and Ice Cone Talisman!
Draw the symbol in the same way,

Fail again,

Fail again,

After drawing many times, I finally succeeded!
Continue, draw the same symbol, repeat it over and over again,

……

As he painted, Sun Zeben instinctively noticed the similarities between the talismans.

For example, this lower-level primary Fire Bomb Talisman and the middle-level primary Fire Cloud Talisman, some of their contents are exactly the same; for example, this lower-level primary Ice Bomb Talisman and the middle-level primary Ice Cone Talisman, some of their contents are exactly the same!

Although Sun Zecheng has only taken the college entrance examination and has not yet entered university, he has participated in courses for young programmers.

It feels that drawing symbols is similar to writing program code!

The similar part is the code segment with similar functions!
Sun Zecheng interpreted the similar patterns of the Fire Bomb Talisman and the Fire Cloud Talisman as the code segment of the "fire bomb" function.

The Fire Cloud Talisman is a more powerful and upgraded version of the Fire Bullet Talisman! Just understand that the functions of the different parts of the Fire Cloud Talisman are "enhanced" and "more powerful".

Then the Fire Cloud Talisman is a "more powerful" Fire Bomb Talisman!

Similarly, there are similar parts between the Ice Bullet Talisman and the Ice Cone Talisman, which can be understood as the code segment of the "send ice bullet" function!
Coincidentally, there are similar patterns between the Ice Cone Talisman and the Fire Cloud Talisman! The similar parts are exactly the different parts between them and the corresponding lower primary level!
That’s right! This part of the pattern is like a code snippet that implements a “more powerful” function!
Well, I already know how to draw the lower-level Great Power Talisman. For the intermediate-level one, should I just use this pattern representing “more powerful” plus the Great Power Talisman pattern?

Sun Zecheng simply started the experiment!
After failing several times, I finally succeeded!
Sun Zecheng activated it and tried it out! As expected, he felt that he had endless power, and the effect was far better than the power talisman!
Sure enough!

He then opened the "Basics of Five Elements Talisman Making" given to him by his master Li Huayuan, and after some searching, he found a primary intermediate talisman called the "Giant Power Talisman", which was basically the same as the enhanced version of the Great Power Talisman that he had created on his own, with only the connecting parts being slightly different!

Sun Zecheng became excited. It is not scientific to just copy the symbols. It is scientific to understand their meaning and apply them flexibly.
Sun Zecheng excitedly wrote down his understanding of talisman making!
Also, my own drawing method is slightly different from that in the book, but it can also achieve the same function. Which one is better?
To know the answer, experiment is always the best way!

Want to know how the thickness of the strokes affects the power of the talisman? Just give it a try and you will know!

Want to know how the length of these connecting strokes affects the talisman? Just give it a try and you will know!

Want to know what happens when you change those curvy strokes into straight lines? Just give it a try and you’ll find out!

……

Sun Zecheng was obsessed with the study of talismans!
After thousands of various attempts, Sun Zecheng gradually understood the impact of different changes!

I also know how to maximize or minimize the power of talismans of the same level!
One mile can be used for a hundred miles!

(End of this chapter)