Chapter 12 Trying to Make a Talisman
There are no Jiazi in the mountains, and it is so cold that I don’t know the year.

For the next two months, Fang Chen lived a secluded life.

He even went to the trading area in the market town only once and bought some spiritual grains and books introducing the Absolute Spirit Swamp.

Life at home is also very regular. During the day, I practice spells to improve my proficiency. While practicing the five elements planting spells, I can also take care of the spiritual plants in the yard. At night, I practice to improve my cultivation.

The second level of Qi training requires opening up the Shaoyin Meridian of the Hand, which has a total of nine pairs of acupoints, two pairs less than the Taiyin Meridian of the Hand.

It's just that due to the improvement of his realm, the difficulty of opening each pair of acupoints has doubled, and the breakthrough to the second level of Qi training that night was due to the enlightenment he just had, so he was able to break through so quickly.

Without this layer of time, it took Fang Chen two months to open up six pairs of acupoints.

Although it was much faster than the original one, he was still somewhat uncomfortable with it as he had experienced many things.

"The White Cloud Spiritual Grass and Spiritual Source Beans are ripe. Let's pick some today to make talisman paper and spiritual ink and learn how to make talismans."

Fang Chen stood in the yard, releasing his spiritual thoughts to sweep across the spiritual plants on the ground, with his focus on the White Cloud Spiritual Grass and Spiritual Source Beans.

Name: Baiyun Lingcao

Level: First-level lower grade

Features: Solid Fiber
……

Name: Lingyuan Bean
Level: First-level lower grade

Features: Aura affinity
……

These two kinds of spiritual plants have matured, or in other words, the new spiritual plants planted by Fang Chen in the yard are basically close to maturity.

The germination method used that day was extremely effective, with the germination rate of the seeds reaching 80%, which was 30% higher than that of normal spiritual plant masters.

This was because he had not mastered the Red Sun Technique at that time.

The Red Sun Technique, a fire-attributed planting spell, can stimulate the activity of spiritual plant seeds and increase the germination rate of seeds.

The spiritual farmers in the world of cultivation are able to maintain a seed germination rate of about 50% using such primitive farming methods, thanks to this spell.

Fang Chen, who was practicing the Five Elements, naturally also learned the Red Sun Technique during these two months. Next time he plants, he plans to use the Red Sun Technique in conjunction with the germination method, which he estimates will increase the germination rate of the seeds to more than 90%.

As for the seeds for the next round of planting, he did not plan to go to the market to buy them, but to keep the seeds for himself.

He would leave a group of spiritual plants that were growing better without picking them, allowing them to continue growing and producing seeds.

These are all things that happened later. Since the Baiyun Lingcao and Lingyuan Beans were already mature, Fang Chen left three for breeding and picked the rest.

After completing this task, he took out the Five Elements Talisman Jade Slip. This time he didn't need to stick it on his forehead. He just probed it with his spiritual thoughts directly, and the information inside was transmitted to his mind.

"By the way, using this principle, can we create a network server that can be connected to the Internet through spiritual thoughts? Can we really plug the brain into the network cable?"

When using spiritual thoughts to read the information, Fang Chen's mind was opened up again and he came up with an idea that was very feasible.

"Once I have established my own power, I can have someone do some research in this direction."

Knowing his main purpose, he did not waste too much time on it. He just memorized it silently in his mind and then started to browse the contents of the jade slip.

As the name suggests, this is a jade slip that introduces the principles of talismans.

Fang Chen had taken a quick look at it before, and learned from it that spiritual plants can be used to make first-level talisman paper and spiritual ink, so he bought the White Cloud Spiritual Grass and Spiritual Source Beans when he went to Lianyun Pavilion.

It also records in detail how to make first-level talisman paper and spiritual ink. Fang Chen read it again just for this reason.

The method of making talisman paper is similar to the papermaking process he learned in his previous life, except that the spiritual energy must be used to comb the spiritual fibers in the Baiyun Lingcao so that they are evenly spread over each piece of talisman paper.

To make spiritual ink, you first need to squeeze out the soybean oil from the spiritual source beans, light the soybean oil, and use an iron cover to collect the oil smoke over the flame. Finally, mix the collected oil smoke with the oil residue that has been ground into powder, add a little soybean oil and stir, and you will get the best first-level spiritual ink. After memorizing the process, Fang Chen spent another two days making first-level talisman paper and spiritual ink.

This time, he harvested a total of eighty plants of Baiyun Lingcao and Lingyuan Beans. With the help of spiritual thoughts, he had very fine control over his magic power and basically made no mistakes during the production process. He obtained more than seven thousand talisman papers and seven and a half boxes of spiritual ink.

According to the price in Lianyunfang City, these things are worth one hundred and fifty spirit stones.

The cost for Fang Chen to buy 100 seeds of Baiyun Lingcao and Lingyuan Beans was 100 Lingshi.

It seems that there is a 50% profit in just two months, which is a huge profit. But in fact, this profit cannot stand up to careful calculation.

The seeds purchased by ordinary people basically have only a 50% germination rate. They don't have spiritual thoughts when making talisman paper and spiritual ink, so it is difficult to guarantee a nearly 100% success rate like Fang Chen. It would be a blessing if they don't lose money after all the trouble.

Although Fang Chen can earn this profit steadily, he does not have the intention to do so at the moment.

In the market town, he just wanted to cultivate to the fourth level of Qi training in peace and stability. Once he started to earn spirit stones, no matter how secretly he did it, he would be at risk of being targeted by people with bad intentions.

He didn't want to cause any trouble, he just wanted to accumulate enough strength to go to the mortal world to be his own landlord and realize some of his ideas about spiritual energy.

"Now we can officially start making talismans."

For Fang Chen, this so-called benefit is not as good as the joy that comes from being able to start learning how to make talismans.

The name of the Five Elements Talisman has a very grand sound, but in fact the method of drawing the Five Elements Talisman recorded in it is the most common Five Elements planting spell.

After reading the jade slip carefully again, Fang Chen silently recalled the essence of the talisman.

The changes in magic power in the cultivator's Dantian are simulated onto the talisman paper, and then the magic power is sealed in the talisman paper.

The talisman paper is equivalent to a cultivator, the soul-trapping fibers are the cultivator's meridians, and the spiritual ink is the magic power flowing in the meridians.

Taking a deep breath, Fang Chen decided to start with the Earth Spirit Spell that he was most familiar with.

After studying the runes of the Earth Spirit Spell in depth, he soon noticed the mystery.

"Why does this rune pattern look like some kind of function graph..."

Before traveling through time, Fang Chen was very bad at math. When he was in good shape, he could get close to full marks, but when he was in bad shape, he could not even pass. However, this did not stop him from being very interested in math.

That was why he felt the rune pattern looked familiar when he took a quick look at the jade slip a few times before, and this time he finally remembered what it looked like.

"Come to think of it, the formation diagram in the first explanation of the formation also follows mathematical laws, and so do the restrictions that need to be engraved when refining equipment. Is there any connection between the three?"

Fang Chen also instantly drew inferences from what he had learned and thought of formations and weapon refining.

What he didn't know was that the runes and formations of talismans were interconnected with the restrictions on refining equipment, which was basically common sense among those big forces.

He shook his head and cleared these thoughts from his mind. He would never get the answer by just relying on his own random guesses. The most urgent thing was to learn how to make talismans.

Standing in front of the table in the study, Fang Chen spread out the talisman paper, took out a talisman pen and dipped it in spiritual ink, went over the rune pattern of the Earth Spirit Spell Talisman in his mind again before he started writing.

It's not even a magical tool. This ordinary talisman pen, which can only be sold on the first floor of Lianyun Pavilion, can only transfer magic power. Unlike those magical tools and talisman pens, it can make the transmission of magic power more stable and increase the success rate of talisman making.

It’s not that Fang Chen doesn’t want a good talisman pen, but this kind of special magic weapon is not usually available in Lianyun Pavilion and can basically only be seen at auctions.

After all, the talisman makers who can afford the talisman pens all have some wealth, and Lianyun Pavilion also understands hunger marketing and earns more spirit stones from them.

But it didn't matter. After a sudden enlightenment, Fang Chen was able to control his magic power freely. Moreover, with the help of spiritual thoughts, it was easy for him to transmit magic power stably.

However, when Fang Chen had just drawn half of the rune, the rune paper flew into the air and burned, leaving not even a trace of ash.

Obviously, his first attempt ended in failure.

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