Chapter 26 Preparing for War
"Not entirely. The rise and fall of a school ultimately depends on people, not external things. So it is reasonable for the Tianwutai discussion to exclude external influences to the greatest extent and examine the inherent strength of the seven schools' new foundation-building disciples." Li Huayuan had a different view.

Excluding external objects? Does the talisman sea I use count as an external object? Sun Zecheng secretly disagreed in his heart, but this rule is more beneficial to him! Otherwise, they are all like the two heroes of Yanyue, and they can easily draw an intermediate talisman that can only be drawn in the Jindan stage. If it becomes a competition of backstage, Sun Zecheng will not be able to win! Not to mention who has stronger backstage strength, just because of Li Huayuan's stingy personality, don't expect him to give much!
The rules of this competition are extremely favorable to Sun Zecheng. So, maybe he really has a chance?

There is hope, but we still have to find a way to get the stingy master to give us some money!
"It's not worth it. The prizes are too little, not even as valuable as a Foundation Establishment Pill." Sun Zecheng sniffed with an indifferent expression.

"Okay, if you can win the third place, I will reward you with an extra invisible needle talisman!" Li Huayuan knew what his disciple was thinking and offered the invisible needle talisman as a reward.

"Internal competition?"

"What are you thinking about? We are talking about the Tianwutai Dao Discussion! There is no reward for winning first place in the sect's competition!"

"Then, what about the second place in Tianwutai?" Sun Zecheng continued to ask. It seemed that his master Li Huayuan was really not rich. He accepted Han Li as his disciple for ten spiritual herbs before, and now he took out an invisible needle talisman for a few dozen yuan of mid-level income in five years. I wonder what he can come up with this time? Let's test it first.

"The second-place sect will be rewarded with 25 mid-level spirit stones every year."

"Oh, what reward did Master give me?" Since Master Li Huayuan didn't mention it, Sun Zecheng had to mention it himself.
"An invisible needle talisman plus a piece of iron essence refined by my master himself" was asked again, and Li Huayuan had no choice but to add more.

"Who's the first place?" Sun Zecheng asked casually.

"First place?! How dare you think that!"

"Who knows? Luck can't be stopped! What if I accidentally get the first place?" Sun Zecheng actually had no idea. How could he know if he hadn't played before? Especially since this was a doubles match, not a one-on-one match, who knew what combined attack techniques Yanyue Sect had? Besides, the two magic weapons that Duobao girl brought out were very powerful. The magic weapon she brought out to participate in the Tianwutai discussion might be even more invincible! The spirit beasts that the mountain people brought with them had the advantage of numbers. Would the spirit beasts be very powerful after building their foundation? These were all unknown. Sun Zecheng asked casually.

“Don’t you like talismans? If you have the ability to get the first place, I will give you two more True Yang Silver Ruler Talismans!” Li Huayuan might have thought of the miracles in the Bloody Forbidden Land, felt lucky, and began to be tempted.

Qiong Laoguai was old and had no hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage, so he refined three talismans. Li Huayuan and Fuyunzi were both the youngest Jindan of various sects. They had such a bright future that they were willing to weaken the power of their own magic weapons and their own vitality to refine talismans! Sun Zecheng originally wanted to say that your True Yang Silver Ruler Talisman could not be compared with Qiong Laoguai's Invisible Needle Talisman, but when he thought of this, he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth and changed them into one word, "Okay!"

"I'm just asking casually. Master, don't hold out any hope." Sun Zecheng thought about it and added something to his master Li Huayuan.

"In terms of talent and cultivation, you have no chance, but you are a person with great fortune, who knows?" Li Huayuan had great hopes for Sun Zecheng's fortune.

"Master, is there luck even in the arena?" Sun Zecheng laughed.

"Who says it isn't? The Blood Forbidden Land is a life and death arena."

I didn’t expect Master Li Huayuan’s insights to be so insightful!

Sun Zecheng laughed and said, "I hope I'll have good luck again!" Then he said goodbye to Li Huayuan and said, "I'm going to go to the market to see if there's anything handy and buy some things for the battle."

"Go and prepare well!" Li Huayuan waved his hand.

This stingy master is also true, can't he give his apprentice 1,200 spirit stones to buy and prepare for the war? Sun Zecheng walked out of the Green Wave Cave while complaining in his heart.

……

Sun Zecheng took a walk around the Huangfeng Valley Market, but he still couldn't muster any desire to shop.

It’s the same for anyone. If you have a bunch of top-quality magic weapons in your pocket, you will think other magic weapons are rubbish no matter how you look at them, and naturally you will not have the slightest thought of buying them.

Wanbaolou did have a new talisman, a broad-backed broadsword talisman, but Sun Zecheng had no shortage of talismans, and the use of talismans was prohibited in the next two competitions, so in the end he didn't buy anything.

Forget it, I'd better buy some talisman paper and ink and go back to draw talismans!

Sun Zecheng bought six hundred sheets of green talisman paper and ten bottles of purple talisman ink, a total of nine hundred lower-level spirit stones.

Another nine intermediate spirit stones were spent! Sun Zecheng thought that the reward for the top two in the sect competition was only twelve spirit stones, which was really boring!
If I can't make it into the top two, I'll lose a lot! It's really boring! It's better to rob! It's a pity that Junior Brother Han is hiding in the Hundred Medicine Garden all day! We have to wait another two or three years for him to come out after building his foundation!

After buying things, Sun Zecheng returned to Green Wave Cave. There was still a month before the internal competition, so the time for making talismans was very tight!
Then I closed the door and drew talismans every day. After two months, all six hundred pieces of green talisman paper and ten bottles of purple talisman ink were used up. The harvest was:
100 pieces of Rock Shield Talisman (primary upper level earth shield)
Ice Shield Talisman (Primary Upper Level Water Shield) 50 pieces

Thunder Explosion Talisman (Primary Upper Level Thunder) 100 pieces
Fire Dragon Talisman (Primary Upper Level Fire Bomb) 100 pieces
Dungeon Talisman: 70

A total of 420 pieces, all primary and advanced talismans! The success rate is 70%!
Pack up the talismans. The internal competition will be held in three days. Is there anything else to prepare?
Oh, I almost forgot, I also need to fix the appearance of Feng Yue's Cloud-Stepping Boots, to avoid suspicion from others who have seen Han Li wearing the same boots as him. I'm not afraid, but it's just a small effort that can save a lot of trouble, so why bother?

There were two pairs of Cloud-Stepping Boots in the bag. Sun Zecheng took out one pair, picked up the talisman pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and drew a crimson pattern of the Flying Talisman on each of the left and right boots. Of course, it had no effect, but it looked like the Flying Talisman was driving the boots.

Sun Zecheng put down the golden brush, looked left and right, and took out the centipede shell material, cut it to fit with the innate true fire, and pasted a piece of centipede shell on the left and right toe and heel. Now it looks completely different from the original pure black boots! The glittering toe and heel centipede shell, and the outside of the left and right boots have a very cool flying talisman pattern. Unfortunately, he didn't use the wood spirit root, so the flying talisman he drew was invalid and just looked good.

Sun Zecheng put on the boots to see the effect, and felt that the black and red boots did not match the yellow clothes of Huang Fenggu. But that was it. The purpose of doing this was just to change the appearance so that others would not recognize him. He was not an artist.

However, when Sun Zecheng unconsciously activated the Cloud-Stepping Boots,
Huh? Before, it was just teleporting at a very fast speed, but now it can fly so lightly?
Sun Zecheng immediately opened the door and went out, driving the boots with all his strength in the valley. Sure enough! The boots used to be able to teleport, as fast as lightning! Now they can actually fly! They have become a flying magic weapon!
Very good!
(End of this chapter)