txolops Chapter 12 Finding Bargains at the Market
Chapter 12 Finding Bargains at the Market
Another month has passed in the blink of an eye.
Ji Yun finished his cultivation, exhaled a long breath, and got up to walk to the window.
Looking at their own empty island.
He was momentarily lost in thought.
He had a very peaceful month, practicing and drawing talismans every day, without any disturbances.
After becoming a talisman master in the Zhao family, he no longer went out to set up a stall.
The talisman shop would send a clerk to his door to collect the talismans he had drawn, and then return them to him after converting the cost into a salary.
In this way, he had more time to cultivate and no longer needed to worry about external affairs.
"This month has been remarkably successful."
"It's a bigger improvement than before."
Ji Yun withdrew his gaze and released his divine sense to roam around his body.
His spiritual consciousness grew stronger day by day.
His cultivation level also steadily improved.
He also learned several additional spells, including the Soul Searching Technique.
Aside from the progress in cultivation.
Income has also increased significantly.
During this period, the Zhao family has been purchasing an unlimited quantity of a first-tier low-grade talisman called the Collapsing Stone Talisman at market price.
This matter is related to the Tongling Mine.
Since the last time, the Copper Bell Mine has been harassed by thieves.
The Zhao family sent more cultivators to guard the area, and the thieves attacked and killed the teams transporting the ore, or disguised themselves as miners to sneak into the mine and kill people.
It works almost day and night.
The Zhao family also retaliated, and several major battles broke out between the two sides, resulting in heavy casualties, but the Zhao family clearly suffered more losses.
The mines are far apart and the mining area is huge, making it impossible to guard against them.
The cost of care is too high.
It's already a losing proposition.
The Zhao family decided to abandon the copper bell mine, but before leaving, they wanted to completely empty the core mining area.
The Rock Collapse Talisman is a talisman used for mining.
So Zhao's Talisman Shop began to buy up the talismans in large quantities, taking as many as they could get.
Ji Yun took the opportunity to make a fortune.
The Zhao family provided the talisman paper and spirit ink, and he used the crudest yet fastest drawing method to draw six hundred talismans within a month.
Rockfall Talismans are inexpensive.
But the sheer number of them was overwhelming.
In the end, he made 500 catties of spirit sand from this single transaction.
Among the Zhao family's talisman masters, his number of talisman drawings ranked in the middle to upper range, neither too many nor too few.
After all, he only drew talismans in his spare time.
Five sheets of talisman paper are laid out at once, and five are drawn in one stroke. Twenty or thirty talismans can be drawn a day without taking much time.
However, he had gained some fame within the Zhao family's circle of talisman masters.
Because those ahead of him were mostly Qi Refining Level 2 Talisman Masters, with only a few at Qi Refining Level 1.
Considering the success rate of talisman making for a Qi Refining Level 1 talisman master, and the recovery time required after the spiritual energy in their body is exhausted.
To draw 600 talismans in a month requires a tremendous amount of energy, drawing them from the moment one opens their eyes until the moment one closes their eyes each day.
Zhao Jiafu Shop was also commended.
The top-ranked individuals will each be awarded thirty Qi-boosting pills, ninety Qi-expanding pills, and thirty sticks of mind-calming incense.
Ji Yun was one of them.
He also received a reward.
"If only I had known this would happen."
"It would be better to draw less."
Ji Yun sighed softly; he had only learned of this matter two days ago.
Previously, he had stayed indoors and was unaware of how many other talisman masters had drawn.
He has worked in actuarial science.
Six hundred talismans are not a lot.
But he never expected that the other talisman masters in the Zhao family would be so lazy that they couldn't even draw twenty talismans a day.
What I didn't expect was...
The Zhao family will deliberately publicize this matter.
The intention is obvious: to use these individuals to inspire other talisman masters during this special period.
"The reward is also mediocre."
"It's of no use to me."
Ji Yun turned around and looked at the table, which was covered with bottles and jars.
The ingredients for Qi-replenishing pills are common, and their efficiency in restoring spiritual energy is not as good as several large bowls of spiritual rice.
The fasting pills were useless; he had no intention of fasting.
As for the calming incense, it is completely useless.
He has lived three lives. In his previous life, he had cultivated to the Golden Core stage, yet he still needed external objects to calm his mind and focus his spirit.
But now that we have it...
It's usable, albeit barely.
It's better than nothing, just something to add on.
In addition, he requested 900 sets of talisman materials for this drawing, and after submitting 600 sets, he still had 300 sets left.
For a long time, there will be no need to go out to buy talismans and spirit ink.
However, these talisman papers are made of ordinary material and cannot be used to draw mid-grade first-level talismans; they can only be used to draw talismans for daily personal use.
"This matter is not important; it's just a minor incident during my cultivation journey."
Ji Yun got up and went into the bedroom, then went down to the secret room through the secret passage.
……
Inside the secret room.
The isolation array was constantly in operation.
There were two side rooms, one of which was occupied by Li Meier, and the other belonged to Ji Yun.
Li Meier sat cross-legged in the center of the hall.
Ji Yun changed her into a black palace dress, cut her long hair short and put it up, removed the mole from the corner of her lip, and covered her eyes with a black veil.
In this way...
The smell of death has lessened.
Then, wrap her up with a cloth to accentuate her graceful figure and apply a simple and elegant makeup, which would greatly reduce the chances of her being recognized.
She is currently cultivating.
His aura became even more bizarre.
Previously, Ji Yun had taught her a demonic cultivation technique, which allowed her to cultivate in the form of a corpse puppet and continue to improve her cultivation.
If one cultivates to a high level, one can truly be resurrected from the dead.
However, the spiritual energy in the night sea is scarce.
Without external assistance, or with Ji Yun's aid using the secret techniques of the Demonic Sect, she would not have been able to achieve mastery even after a hundred years of arduous cultivation.
"The key is still the first-tier high-grade talisman."
"Once this talisman is drawn, one will have the power to protect oneself."
Ji Yun walked towards the talisman-making platform and took out a set of talisman materials from his storage bag.
During this period, because the market was extremely lively and there were many cultivators setting up stalls, he often went to the main street to wander around.
He possesses divine consciousness.
They unexpectedly picked up a few bargains.
Its biggest flaw was a piece of pitch-black plant root displayed at an old repairman's stall.
This thing is nothing special.
There was no fluctuation of spiritual energy.
It is over three meters long and one meter in diameter, covered with cracks, wrinkled and withered, completely dried out, and very light in weight.
Anyone can tell that this thing comes from the rootstock of some large tree or vine, and is just a branch of the root system.
If we estimate by branches.
This tree may have been 100 meters tall when it was alive.
Large trees are not common at the bottom of the Night Sea because they grow too slowly, far slower than spiritual plants.
Therefore, Lao Xiu concluded that this root must have come from the upper layer of the night sea.
But it is too light.
There is a mysterious force deep within the abyss that pulls and draws in all sentient beings; the denser the spiritual energy, the heavier the weight.
Lightness means a lack of spirit.
Moreover, even Lao Xiu himself doesn't remember where he picked it up from.
This item has been stored on his floating island for over thirty years, always treated as a decorative piece, something to look at as a novelty.
After all, this item is truly rare, and displaying it on the island can serve as a status symbol. If passersby ask about it, he can boast about it for a while.
Putting it out there now is just a chance to try our luck.
If you can sell it, sell it; if you can't, then give up.
Ji Yun happened to be passing by.
He then used his divine sense to scan the area.
He was shocked to discover that a portion of this dark root was actually alive.
It contains an extremely rich spiritual energy.
Even after many years, its spiritual energy still reaches the level of the mid-stage of Qi Refining.
It's just that the part is hidden deep inside, and the area is extremely small, only slightly thicker than a finger.
Furthermore, the outer shell of this root seems to possess an innate ability to conceal spiritual energy, firmly hiding the vitality at its center.
So for so many years.
No one noticed anything unusual.
With his experience of elixirs from his previous life, Ji Yun immediately saw the clue: the active part in the center of the root was the plant's 'seed'.
Plant it in the soil.
There is a possibility that it will be revitalized.
In addition, the outer shell of the rhizome, although dead, is still of great use.
Given the tree's level of cultivation in its previous life, it was capable of bearing the spiritual energy of a third-level Qi Refining cultivator, which could be ground into powder to become the main material for spiritual ink.
So Ji Yun bought it.
It only cost thirty catties of spirit sand.
The second leak is similar.
It is a stone of special material, very heavy, makes a sound when shaken, and seems to contain liquid.
The stall owner is a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining.
He insisted that the stone contained spiritual liquid and would not sell it for less than 100 catties of spiritual sand.
After setting up a stall for more than half a month, at least dozens of independent cultivators have carefully examined this stone.
In the past, perhaps a wealthy cultivator would have spent money to buy it, treating it as a gambling stone, cutting it open to find out what it was.
But the situation is different recently.
This led to the stone being completely ignored.
Ji Yun was also passing by when he probed the contents with his divine sense and discovered that there was indeed spiritual liquid inside, and in considerable quantities.
There was a whole bowl of it.
The spiritual liquid was light and clear, full of spiritual energy, and seemed to be some kind of spring water, with a quality of the third level of Qi Refining.
This item can also be used to make spirit ink.
So Ji Yun made another move, and after some negotiation, bought it for eighty catties of spirit sand.
In this way...
The materials for making spirit ink have been gathered.
Simply grind the dark root into powder, pour in the spiritual liquid, and mix the two together to create a spiritual ink.
This practice is quite strange.
The final product is difficult to predict.
However, Ji Yun has experience from his previous life and can reverse-engineer the characteristics of the finished spirit ink to draw a matching talisman.
In addition, there was the yellow-patterned spirit paper provided by Zhao's Talisman Shop.
He has obtained everything needed to draw a first-tier superior talisman.
"But I'm not entirely sure."
"And the opportunity only comes a handful of times."
Ji Yun suppressed his inner impulse and ultimately chose to take back the talisman materials.
There's quite a bit of this spiritual ink.
It can probably be drawn five times.
However, each failure results in the loss of a talisman worth 150 catties of spirit sand.
It would be best to wait a few days.
Once one's spiritual awareness advances further, one can begin the drawing process.