Chapter 10: Finally Draw the Talisman

Lu Youling opened her mouth wide and patted Lin Xiaoman on the shoulder.

"Good boy, you are amazing. I heard that Li Qingyue has just broken through to the first level of Qi Refining Stage."

"That's still earlier than me."

They all have four spiritual roots, and others are ahead of them in everything. Her speed is nothing compared to anything else.

"You're just awesome anyway."

Lin Xiaoman smiled helplessly. After the two of them chatted for a while, they went back to their shops to "work".

Nowadays, her days are full and busy, and time passes quickly.

On this day, it had been a month since Lin Xiaoman came to the talisman shop. When she arrived at the shop early in the morning, Tang Chengchao smiled at her.

"Junior Sister Lin, hurry up and get your wages."

This was the first time in the past month that Lin Xiaoman saw Tang Chengchao come so early. Upon hearing this, she nodded quickly and followed him.

Who doesn’t want wages?

300 spirit beads, no more, no less. Lin Xiaoman felt it was heavy in her hand. She had used up only 28 of her original 100 spirit beads in the past month. Now with these 300 spirit beads, she finally didn't have to be so frugal.

When I was walking out after collecting my wages, I happened to meet Li Ling, who also came to collect her wages.

"Huh? Junior Sister Lin has made a breakthrough."

With just one glance, Li Ling noticed the changes in Lin Xiaoman. Tang Chengchao was only concerned about collecting his wages and didn't pay any attention to it. Hearing this, he hurriedly looked at Lin Xiaoman.

"Oh, really? Junior Sister Lin, have you made a breakthrough?"

Lin Xiaoman pursed her lips and smiled.

"Well, it was a fluke."

Tang Chengchao's eyes flashed, and the next moment he heard Li Ling say, "Since that's the case, Junior Sister Lin, come with me to see Senior Yuan."

Lin Xiaoman was surprised and nodded quickly. "Okay."

Tang Chengchao looked at the backs of Lin Xiaoman and Li Ling as they left with envy. He had obviously become an apprentice earlier than Lin Xiaoman, but he broke through later than Lin Xiaoman. It had been three months since he had drawn Qi into his body, but he had not yet successfully broken through to the first level of Qi Refining.

He couldn't be lazy and sleep in anymore. He had to practice at night. He didn't want to squat on the ground making ink and talisman paper forever.

Lin Xiaoman followed Li Ling into Senior Yuan's room.

"Senior, Junior Sister Lin has broken through to the first level of the Qi Refining Stage."

After entering the door, Li Ling saluted Senior Yuan with a smile.

Lin Xiaoman quickly followed suit and saluted, then felt a gaze falling on him as if it were real, and then disappeared the next moment.

"Well, that's right. From now on, you will follow Li Ling in the side room to learn the art of talismans."

Lin Xiaoman was overjoyed. She could finally draw talismans. She saluted quickly and said, "Yes."

After coming out of Senior Yuan’s house, Lin Xiaoman followed Li Ling to the next room, and then took a book on the basics of talismans from her.

"You can read, right? First read this book and memorize it. Then I'll teach you how to draw talismans."

"Yes, thank you, Senior Sister Li."

Li Ling just smiled and said, "No problem. I hope you can learn it soon and help me share some of the tasks."

"Task?"

Lin Xiaoman was puzzled and listened to what Li Ling said.

"Our shop has to pay 2,000 basic talismans to Tianyan Sect every month. We have four seniors in total, so Senior Yuan gets 500 of them every month, 200 each of the Speed ​​Talisman and the Fire Bomb Talisman, and 100 of the Immobilization Talisman."

You can roughly know the function of these talismans just by hearing their names. Lin Xiaoman's eyes lit up. This thing is useful, she likes it.

Seeing her like this, Li Ling couldn't help but laugh and cry, "Do you really like drawing talismans so much?"

"Yeah, I like it." Not only can I use it myself, but I can also sell it for money. Of course I like it.

Li Ling shook her head and said, "When you paint more in the future, you will realize how boring it is." It also consumes spiritual energy and consciousness, which is very tiring.

Before, she was responsible for drawing all 500 talismans from Senior Yuan. She had almost no time to rest. Sometimes, when the success rate was not high enough, she had to stay at least an extra hour every day to complete the goal. Especially at the end of each month, she really worked day and night.

Lin Xiaoman smiled and shook her head. No, that wouldn't happen. She was most interested in drawing talismans now. How could something that could make money be boring?

On this day, Lin Xiaoman was reading the book on the basics of talismans. The book was not thick and she finished reading it in just over an hour. Now that she had practiced, her memory had improved a lot, and she could remember it after reading it twice.

When it was time to work in the afternoon, Li Ling saw that she was so motivated and had finished reading the book on the basics of talismans, so she took out another book of talismans and showed it to Lin Xiaoman.

Lin Xiaoman was delighted when she saw it. This was the book that she had seen when she came to take the assessment to be an apprentice that day. When she opened it, she saw that it was full of various talismans.

"You know from reading the book that talismans are also divided into four levels, from high to low: heaven, earth, black and yellow. This talisman book contains only yellow-level talismans, and each level is divided into elementary, intermediate and advanced levels."

Li Ling saw her looking through the talisman book and told her about talismans, "Now I will teach you the simplest Yellow Rank Elementary Speed ​​Talisman."

"good."

Listening to the method Li Ling said, Lin Xiaoman remembered it firmly. Then he looked at Li Ling sitting at the table, calmly picking up the talisman pen and drawing on the talisman paper in one go. As soon as the stroke was in place, a flash of inspiration came to him, and it was done!

Li Ling's eyes lit up with joy and she breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she did not fail. This was her first time drawing talismans in front of Lin Xiaoman. If she failed, it would not be a big deal, but it would still be a bit embarrassing.

"Wow! It worked!"

Lin Xiaoman was amazed. He lay on the table and looked at it. After the talisman flashed with light, he felt that the talisman paper was different.

"Senior Sister Li, this is it, right? How do I use this talisman?"

Li Ling successfully drew the first talisman today. Seeing Lin Xiaoman's eyes full of amazement, she felt contented and happy, and became more patient.

"Yes, that's it. This is a speed talisman. When you need to use it, just place the spiritual power talisman on it to activate it."

Then he told Lin Xiaoman what to pay attention to when drawing talismans, how to draw the speed talisman, etc.

Lin Xiaoman seemed to understand what she said, but this was a little different from learning magic. After Li Ling finished speaking and asked her to try it herself, Lin Xiaoman returned to her desk and began to draw talismans.

Although the two were in the same room, the places where they drew the talismans were far apart, and there was a screen separating them, so as not to disturb each other.

Lin Xiaoman sat at the table and calmed down. The talisman pen, talisman paper and talisman ink she used were all the lowest-grade ones specially prepared by the shop for apprentices like them. Each apprentice would be allocated a talisman pen, a piece of talisman ink and a stack of 100 low-grade talisman papers.

If she used it up and still couldn't draw a talisman successfully, she would have to buy one herself.

Therefore, she must succeed within 100 tickets, otherwise she will have to spend her own money. She is here to make money and must not spend money, absolutely not!!!

As for drawing talismans, she succeeded in doing so in one try and passed the test. Now she just needs to add some spiritual power to draw it. It shouldn’t be difficult, right?