Study! Study hard!
It's something that you can't master in less than three to five years.
If he were a sword cultivator, he would be too weak after being poisoned to fight anyone; it would be suicide.
After Shen Ling sheathed his sword, Mo Zuili waited for a while longer before finally hearing Chu Qing's movement.
They quickly followed Shen Ling into Chu Qing's courtyard. The courtyard was decorated in a quiet and secluded manner. There was a stone-paved path at the entrance, with a lush willow tree on each side.
Following the stone path, Mo Zuili entered the room, took out the prepared tea, and knelt down to pay respects to her teacher.
After Chu Qing finished drinking the apprenticeship tea, he took out an exquisitely carved wooden box from his Sumeru Ring and said, "This is my apprenticeship gift to you. I heard from your father that you are a talisman cultivator. Inside are cinnabar and talisman paper made by the Xie family patriarch for drawing talismans. He gave them to me before when he was asking for medicine."
Mo Zuili accepted it and sincerely thanked Chu Qing.
The Xie family is renowned for crafting various magical artifact materials, and along with the Mo family, they are considered one of the four great immortal cultivation families of the human race. They are usually very low-key, and many cultivators would spend a fortune to obtain even a single item from a Xie family artifact refiner.
After the apprenticeship process was completed, Mo Zuili began to subtly observe Chu Qing.
Chu Qing was dressed in the same gray-blue Taoist robe as yesterday, but his face showed obvious signs of fatigue.
After Chu Qing gave Shen Ling a couple of pointers on alchemy, he prepared to return to his room.
Mo Zuili simply feigned a pitiful look and asked with concern, "Master, what happened to your health yesterday?"
Although she looked worried, Mo Zuili was only concerned about Chu Qing's unusual fatigue and whether it was related to the plot change.
Chu Qing first waved for Shen Ling to leave, then raised an eyebrow and explained with a smile, "Demonic energy is suppressed at the foot of Medicine King Mountain. If I want to leave Medicine King Mountain, I must set up an array beforehand to prevent the demonic energy from leaking out. Every time I return, the array will fail and I will suffer a backlash, but I will only appear weak and can recover by going into seclusion for a while."
The moment she finished listening, Mo Zuili suddenly understood that Chu Qing, who was in the Tribulation Transcending stage in the original story, would also die in the Immortal Valley.
No wonder Shen Ling hesitated to speak yesterday; she knew it would backfire.
Mo Zuili was about to ask again, "Then why did you come to the Mo family to pick me up in person?"
Before she could finish speaking, Chu Qing, as if knowing that Mo Zuili would ask a question, continued, "Don't overthink it. When I received your father's letter, I vaguely felt that there was still a connection between us, as if I had already taken you as my disciple. That's why I wanted to go down the mountain to see for myself."
After finally getting the answer, Mo Zuili became incredibly nervous.
Is this the power of a Tribulation Transcending stage expert? Even the parallel world of the original work can vaguely sense it!
Mo Zuili's mind raced, and she finally ended the conversation with "Then I am truly destined to be with my master," shifting the focus to the poison in her body.
“One pill can suppress the effects for half a month. There are fifteen pills in total.” Chu Qing picked up a white porcelain bottle from the wooden table beside him and handed it over.
Just as Mo Zuili reached out to take it, Chu Qing continued, "I will be going into seclusion today. Since you have lost your memory, there are many things I cannot teach you. There is a small space behind my courtyard containing books on alchemy and cultivation. You can look at them yourself."
After speaking, Chu Qing handed Mo Zuili a palm-sized, metallic bronze token.
Mo Zuili followed Chu Qing into the small space, holding the sign.
Entering the space felt like passing through a thin film of water, inside which were rows of bookshelves. At Chu Qing's prompting, Mo Zuili quickly stepped forward to look at the rows of books. In the original story, Chu Qing's library was Shen Ling's biggest advantage after arriving in the Demon Realm!
This book contains many records about humans and demons, ranging from the human's living environment, herbs, and food to which magic arrays are more likely to suppress demons.
Unfortunately, there are no demons among them.
"Take whatever book you want to read, you can take it out," Chu Qing added good-naturedly from behind Mo Zuili.
Without any hesitation, Mo Zuili took several books related to talisman cultivation, then took the poison-suppressing pills given to her by Chu Qing, and went straight to her courtyard. After putting down the books, she took out the pills Chu Qing had given her and swallowed them directly.
Early treatment of illnesses is Mo Zuili's consistent philosophy.
Poisoning is another one.
The pill melted instantly upon entering her mouth, and Mo Zuili clearly felt the pain starting from her dantian and rapidly spreading throughout her body via her meridians.
"Damn! They didn't say it would hurt this much..." Mo Zuili said through gritted teeth, enduring the pain.
The excruciating pain lasted for a full quarter of an hour, until a cool sensation came from my lower abdomen, and the pain slowly subsided like the receding tide.
Mo Zuili propped herself up from the ground by the wall, walked to the bed, sat down, and began to cultivate.
When she opened her eyes again, Mo Zuili couldn't help but smile.
Success! The spiritual energy absorbed into the body will no longer desperately try to escape.
Mo Zuili raised her eyes to look at the scrolls on the table, her gaze hardening.
Study! Study hard!
As a niche artist who can create 18 images in three days, Mo Zuili has encountered almost no difficulties since she officially started drawing talismans.
When she was hungry, she would eat fasting pills; when she was tired, she would meditate and cultivate as a form of rest; and the rest of the time, Mo Zuili would use the Spirit Refining Brush to draw talismans.
...
"Squeak"
Mo Zuili pushed open the door and came out, her slender, fair fingers holding a stack of yellow talismans with intricate dark red patterns on them.
Panting, Mo Zuili leaned against the door, her face as pale as snow, her eyelids drooping, and her black eyelashes casting faint shadows under her eyes.
After a long while, Mo Zuili recovered and her slender, porcelain-like wrists touched the wooden door again.
I almost worked myself to death.
In order to increase the level and power of the talisman, Mo Zuili had to inject more spiritual power when drawing the talisman. Even if she held a Rejuvenation Pill in her mouth to replenish her spiritual power, it could not keep up with the rate of consumption.
After her body could no longer produce any spiritual energy, Mo Zuili immediately took out a mountain of spirit stones and began to absorb them frantically.
After using up all the spirit stones, Mo Zuili finally managed to draw a third-tier fire talisman.
Looking at the dappled sunlight streaming through the door, Mo Zuili thought to herself, "I can learn the theory of talisman cultivation in one day, lay the foundation for drawing talismans in three days, and draw a third-order fire talisman in seven days."
Besides self-motivation, who can be smarter and more hardworking than oneself?
As her smile widened, Mo Zuili reflected on her actions in the room over the past seven days. She felt no lingering fear of nearly dying from exhaustion, only a sense of accomplishment.
Perhaps because she had just transmigrated into the book, the first time she used a talisman to attack the man in black, she used a fire talisman, and Mo Zuili has a special fondness for fire talismans.
After finishing the drawing, I went out to test its power.
I don't know how the power of the fire talisman I've drawn so far compares to the one that I can keep in the Sumeru Ring.
The answer to this question came when the explosion rang out and Mo Zuili looked at the large crater ten meters in front of him.
Holding the fire talisman, Mo Zuili watched as the smoke cleared, revealing a... pig with fangs and pink skin covered in large purplish-black spots...
Is this what they call a mythical beast from a fantasy world? It's so ugly.
Mo Zuili made no attempt to hide her disdain.
Perhaps sensing Mo Zuili's disdain, the spirit beast angrily charged at Mo Zuili and launched an attack.
When the spirit beast had withstood the three fire talismans and was only five meters away from him, Mo Zuili gripped the Azure Flame Whip in his left hand and lashed it out at the spirit beast.
The spirit beast collapsed to the ground after being whipped twice.
But Mo Zuili didn't stop. He lashed out with his whip a dozen more times, only stopping when he felt that his fully restored spiritual energy had been depleted by more than half.
The Azure Flame Whip, a top-tier magical artifact that Mo Zuili had promoted himself, was a waste. Apart from being able to swing it a couple of times using muscle memory, Mo Zuili couldn't use any other moves.
It was only because the Azure Flame Whip was of a high enough grade that it didn't consume too much spiritual power.
After carefully sensing her surroundings and confirming that there were no other spiritual energy fluctuations, Mo Zuili relaxed, took a breath, and walked to the spirit beast's corpse to examine it closely.
After comparing the details, Mo Zuili matched the pig with the mythical beast in the book.
The Fire Poison Pig is a second-tier spirit beast. When converted to cultivator level, it doesn't even reach the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
After fighting the Fire Poison Pig, Mo Zuili determined that although the fire talisman she had drawn with all her might had reached the third rank in appearance, its strength and power were still only at the second rank.
No wonder the first and second tiers are classified as low-level, while only the third to sixth tiers are considered intermediate.
Mo Zuili remembered reading in the book that once you reach the eighth rank, a single fire talisman can severely injure a peak Nascent Soul cultivator.
Similarly, spirit beasts are classified into nine ranks from one to nine, with an eighth-rank spirit beast being roughly equivalent to a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage.
In order to better understand the differences between different grades of talismans, Mo Zuili began to actively seek out spirit beasts to practice on. Only after using up all the talismans she had drawn in the past seven days did Mo Zuili return to her courtyard satisfied.
A few months later, when she heard the news that Chu Qing had emerged from seclusion, Mo Zuili raised her hand to draw a talisman, thinking: the days when I could cultivate safely in the mountains were over.
In the past few months, Mo Zuili has been practicing talisman drawing day and night, relying on Chu Qing's pills to suppress the toxins in his body. He has finally raised his cultivation to the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage and has a vague feeling that he is about to break through.
Mo Zuili works so hard not only because she doesn't want to become the useless person she hates, but also because in the original story, Shen Ling had to go down the mountain to return to the Shen family a few months after arriving at Yaowang Mountain due to a change in the Shen family.
In order to test as soon as possible whether the plot related to the male protagonist can be changed, and whether the male protagonist's halo exists in this world.
Mo Zuili decided that she would go down the mountain with the male lead.
In the original novel, when Shen Ling went to talk to Chu Qing about going down the mountain, she claimed that she was in seclusion for cultivation.
To avoid missing it, Mo Zuili carefully put away the talisman and headed straight for Chu Qing's courtyard.
Chu Qing sat at a stone table under a willow tree in the courtyard, on which sat a book and a cup of steaming hot tea.
After Mo Zuili went in and said a few words of concern, she chatted for a while before Shen Ling finally pushed the door open and entered.
Before Chu Qing could reply after Shen Ling suggested going down the mountain to return to the Shen family, Mo Zuili interjected, "May I go down the mountain with my senior brother?"
Seeing Chu Qing looking over, Mo Zuili feigned panic and tried to cover it up, saying, "Now that my cultivation is losing power at a much slower rate, I want to go outside and take a look. Otherwise, with my current state of mind, if I continue to cultivate in seclusion, I'm afraid I'll fall back into the state of almost going into qi deviation."
Perhaps it was a sign that Mo Zuili was about to go astray, because no one refuted her after she finished speaking.
Chu Qing immediately nodded in agreement. Shen Ling was still a cheerful and optimistic young man who cared about the common people and repaid evil with kindness. Hearing that his junior sister had a need, he immediately agreed.
He even promised Chu Qing that he would protect Mo Zuili well after they went down the mountain and would not let his junior sister get hurt in any way.
Going down the mountain is easy, but going up is difficult. With the improvement of her cultivation, when Mo Zuili walked up the stone steps of Medicine King Mountain again, she did not become so tired that she was pale and could collapse in the wind.
Following behind Shen Ling, they entered Qingyou City, where the Shen family was located, without any hindrance.
In Qingyou City, there is only one powerful cultivation family: the Shen family.
If the Mo family, to which I belong, is one of the four top cultivation families of the human race, then the Shen family is an insignificant, third-rate family among all cultivation families.
However, the smaller the family, the more trouble they cause.
In the original novel, Shen Ling returns to the Shen family, but is repeatedly schemed against and harmed by her family members.
The reason was that they thought Shen Ling had returned home to compete for the position of clan leader!
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