flstandardbreds Chapter 114: First Encounter with Talismans
Chapter 114: First Encounter with Talismans
On the fourth day after arriving at the market, Chen Yu went to the Shenlu Pavilion to buy a few talismans. It cost a total of 26 spirit stones, which was a bit expensive.
This Shenlu Pavilion is the property of the Lan family, and the pavilion master is a talisman maker who has reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.
Most of the talismans sold were also made by him.
Talismans are different from magical instruments. They do not need to and cannot be controlled.
To be more precise, a talisman is a spell attack stored in a spiritual object.
For family monks, talisman making is basically a compulsory course.
To make elixirs, one needs at least an elixir furnace, and a tripod-shaped magical instrument is very valuable.
Refining equipment and forming formations requires very high talent and comprehension, and it is often difficult to get started even after several years.
Drawing talismans is much simpler. It requires no basic investment and even casual practitioners can give it a try.
The requirement for comprehension is not that outrageous. After learning for two or three years, it will be no problem to at least draw a talisman to clear your mind.
This talisman maker has five family members who follow him to draw talismans.
Of course, everyone has different talents, and only a few can truly grow into profitable talisman makers.
The Pavilion Master's name was Lan Yin, a middle-aged man with a stern look. His apprentices all called him Uncle Eleven.
There were a total of twenty-five Lan family cultivators of his generation, but only Lan Yin eventually grew into a first-class top-grade talisman maker.
To make a talisman, one needs to use fresh blood from monsters as a guide, and inject a certain amount of spiritual energy into it.
The whole action is done in one go, and the spiritual energy does not dissipate after it is formed. Only then can the talisman be considered truly successful.
The raw materials of the talisman determine the upper limit of its grade, and the skills of the talisman maker are the key to whether this limit can be reached.
The Pavilion Master only glanced at Chen Yu when he came in, and then continued to busy himself with his own business.
The person who was in charge of receiving him was an apprentice, who had reached the third level of Qi Refining and whose bone age was approximately twenty-one or twenty-two years old.
This is also the standard configuration of general immortal cultivation families. There is no hope of building a foundation, but there is a chance to grow into the backbone of the late stage of Qi Refining.
This young man has a handsome face and a sweet smile.
The person in front of him was a big customer who spent twenty-six spirit stones without blinking an eye.
The young man tried to please him, and Chen Yu also wanted to find out more.
Since no one else came into the store at that time, the two of them simply sat at the door and started chatting.
The Lan family has been passed down for 970 years, and he is the 42nd generation.
The tribe is famous for making talismans and has the ability to raise spiritual beasts.
The Yangling fish, a specialty of Lanshan Lake, is a treasure designated by the immortal sect to be offered as a sacrifice every year.
These were no secrets to the outside world, and the young man did not hide anything.
His name is Lan Shenyuan. At the age of six, he was diagnosed with middle-grade spiritual roots and began to embark on the path of spiritual practice.
He started learning talisman making from his uncle at the age of nine, and now he is a first-class lower-grade talisman maker. Otherwise, he would not have the chance to continue staying here.
Chen Yu bought the Explosive Flame Talisman, the Ice Thorn Talisman, and the Blood Sword Talisman, two of each, with slightly different prices.
Spirit stones are the smallest currency in the world of immortal cultivation, but sometimes the value of a spiritual object is not as much as that of a spirit stone.
Therefore, Qi-refining monks often traded broken pieces of spirit stones, but because the spirit energy dissipated, the value was greatly reduced.
The grade of these six talismans is first-class superior quality, and they are specifically marked as B and C.
The Qi Refining Stage is divided into nine levels, and the gaps between each level are quite large, so A, B, C, etc. are added after the upper, middle, and lower grades.
Of course, if there are second-level talismans, the effects of the same products will be very different.
The power of a first-grade upper-grade B-level talisman is roughly equivalent to a full-strength attack from an eighth-level Qi Refining cultivator.
The levels of other talismans are similar, and the price difference is huge.
Among the six talismans, only the Explosive Flame Talisman is of Grade B.
This is also the highest level of the talisman maker of the Lan family, but it is not stable. It is said that he can only succeed once in ten times.
The price is also higher, requiring seven spirit stones.
The other five are all grade C, and their prices range from three to four spirit stones.
As for the first-grade low-quality talismans, they basically cost no more than one spirit stone.
The talisman maker is best at drawing fire talismans, which has something to do with the type of materials and the spiritual power attributes.
The Lan family was based on the Lava Island, and their main training was in fire-attributed techniques. Even the five monsters they raised to extract blood for making talismans were red-feathered flame birds, which were famous for their fire.
Of course, the power of a cultivation family is limited, and the materials for drawing talismans are mainly purchased. They also use the materials brought by customers to make talismans, usually three materials for one talisman.
When a monk kills a monster in the wild, he will take away its more precious parts unless the situation is urgent.
If the blood is of useable value, it is usually preserved in jade containers.
Chen Yu returned home and began to study the six talismans in his hand.
According to the apprentice, the material used for this top-grade, second-class flaming talisman is the scales and feathers of a ghostly lizard with the strength of the seventh level of Qi Refining.
The Phantom Flame Lizard is as black as ink and lives in caves near volcanoes. It is born with the ability to spit out flames and often lives in groups, making it very difficult to deal with.
The material of the ice thorn talisman should be the scales of the fish monster, which is cool and smooth to the touch. Chen Yu estimated that its strength when it was alive was about the sixth level of Qi Refining.
The Blood Sword Talisman is made of the bones of an unknown monster. It is said that when used, it can transform into dozens of small swords that stab the enemy densely.
Such a small talisman can store so much spiritual energy.
Chen Yu became more and more curious about the art of talismans and wanted to find out more about it.
With the help of Jianmu's powerful comprehension enhancement, he was almost omnipotent and quickly figured out the rune trend on the talisman.
Even after working backwards, you can store all the spells you know in the form of talismans, but you need materials from monsters with specific attributes.
If the properties conflict, at best the spiritual energy will be disrupted and the materials will be scrapped.
In serious cases, it will explode directly and endanger the safety of the talisman maker.
It seems that the art of talismans is indeed the simplest among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals.
Of course, he has not yet come into contact with talismans above the second level, so it is too early to draw a conclusion at this time.
What's more, Chen Yu used Jianmu to speed up his comprehension, so he cannot be compared with ordinary apprentices.
Moreover, his own realm has reached the late stage of foundation building, and it is common for him to use first-level talismans with ease.
You should know that drawing talismans requires the consumption of the talisman maker's own spiritual energy. Generally speaking, its quality can never exceed the level of the talisman maker himself.
Compared with magical instruments that cost dozens of spirit stones, talismans can be said to be of good quality and low price.
There are definitely not many parts of the monster's body that can be used to make talismans, but they are not too few either.
Generally, a skilled talisman maker has a success rate of over 70% in drawing talismans of corresponding grades.
Most importantly, the use of talismans has its limitations.
The monks fought each other as fast as a flash of lightning. Even though talismans were pre-made spells, it took a certain amount of time for them to fully unleash their power.
Therefore, unless you use dozens of talismans to smash the opponent to death at the same time, it would be too wasteful of spirit stones.
The general practice is to use talisman attacks to divert the opponent's attention, thereby increasing the probability of victory.
Chen Yu felt that this talisman was similar to his own instant formation.