In less than a few months.
The eggs began to hatch successfully, much like what Lin Xiuyuan had observed before. In this carefully prepared environment, nearly a hundred eggs hatched into nearly forty larvae of the Yin Spirit White Bird.
Lin Xiuyuan immediately launched a cultivation plan. The first step was to set up a series of spirit beast restrictions, using bloodlines as a guide to form an imprint.
He had been practicing the restrictions on spirit beasts for many days and was quite familiar with them; he had been waiting for this day.
Immediately, he took out a larva, placed it in front of him, and continuously made hand seals, forming runes that landed on the larva, thus gradually forming a restriction to stabilize the spirit beast.
Then, after biting his tongue and spitting out a stream of blood that landed on the larva, Lin Xiuyuan cast a restriction mark and injected it into the larva's body.
Gradually, the streaks of blood mysteriously merged into the entire body of the larva, as if they were being absorbed by it. This was a bloodline imprint, allowing them to control spirit beasts at will with their divine sense.
Spirit beast restrictions are a near-coercive method used to achieve the purpose of forceful control.
Bloodline imprinting is a process of establishing a connection and recognizing a master. At the same time, this imprint can serve as a medium for divine thoughts to invade the consciousness of spirit beasts, allowing for manipulation at will.
However, the spirit beast restrictions and bloodline imprints require a lot of energy. After only a few uses, Lin Xiuyuan's mana was depleted by more than half, and his face turned pale. He had no choice but to stop and recuperate.
After more than a month of effort, the larvae were finally given the opportunity to recognize their master.
Then Lin Xiuyuan selected a few larvae that looked more powerful and carefully nurtured them separately, mainly using the Demon Purification Bottle and supplemented by a large number of rare and precious materials.
The current number is still not enough; another breeding round is needed to reach a hundred or so Spirit White Birds, which should be sufficient. These few selected Spirit White Birds will bear the responsibility of reproduction…
The rest are to be nurtured and developed slowly, at least to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, so that they can be used to expel the poison from the pills in the future.
This process will require a lot of resources and time. It is estimated that it will take about ten years, or maybe two or three years if things go smoothly.
After all, he wasn't a beast tamer, and his cultivation techniques had no effect on raising spirit beasts; he could only rely on external aids.
Lin Xiuyuan had prepared for this long ago and had accumulated a great many spirit stones.
The daily high-intensity talisman-making yielded two high-level talismans. Even though they weren't Golden Sword Talismans, the profits nearly doubled. The monthly income reached seven or eight thousand spirit stones.
Over the past five years, combined with previous savings, and after deducting daily expenses and the costs of nurturing the first batch of Yin Spirit White Birds, he now has nearly 300,000 low-grade spirit stones, enough to fill several Qiankun bags.
Such wealth is beyond the reach of most Foundation Establishment stage experts; it's estimated that he could reach the Purple Mansion stage.
This is something only Lin Xiuyuan could achieve; it's unparalleled in the world. Other Qi Refining stage cultivators wouldn't even dare to dream of it.
With the wonder of purple talismans, the success rate of talisman making is extremely high, especially in the last few years, it can be considered 100%, which is why the returns are so high.
Even so, raising so many spirit beasts at once is no exaggeration to say that it costs money like water.
It takes tens of thousands of spirit stones every month to see a significant improvement... For an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator, tens of thousands of spirit stones would probably be enough to steadily cultivate to the late Qi Refining stage!
But these are demonic beasts after all, and their main improvement is in their bloodline and demonic body; their cultivation progress is nowhere near that of human cultivators.
In response, Lin Xiuyuan could only try to control costs and slow down the pace slightly.
Such an expense was truly beyond Lin Xiuyuan's expectations.
"No wonder those beast tamers are so poor; the cost of raising spirit beasts must be too high!"
Lin Xiuyuan shook his head.
Of course, this doesn't apply to real-world situations. Cultivators who specialize in the art of beast taming will focus on mastering corresponding demon-refining techniques to raise spirit beasts of the corresponding zodiac sign. They prioritize techniques over resources, so their expenses are naturally not as high as Lin Xiuyuan's, and their raising results are better.
"At this rate, all those spirit stones I've accumulated will probably be used up very soon. If that happens, I won't be able to keep up at all, and it will probably take half again as long as I expected... This makes me want to go and capture a beast tamer so he can focus on raising the Yin Spirit White Bird for me!"
Lin Xiuyuan pondered, muttering to himself, "I need to find a way to increase revenue. It seems the only option now is to create secret talismans? That way, I can increase my profits."
"Either I have to give up accumulating purple light from other talismans and focus on making the Golden Sword Talisman. With the insights brought by the mysteries of the purple talisman, I can get straight to the essence and grasp all the fundamentals of this talisman, which greatly shortens the time it takes me to refine this talisman."
"If we only refine the Golden Sword Talisman, we can produce three a day, which will increase our income even further."
But after thinking it over, Lin Xiuyuan felt that the former was a good open-source channel, while the latter was not so good.
Each talisman overflowed with purple light, and the profound mysteries it brought allowed Lin Xiuyuan to achieve significant improvements, making considerable progress in both the art of talismans and combat skills—a comprehensive enhancement.
Giving up on accumulating progress is obviously not advisable and should only be used as a last resort.
As for secret symbols, they seem to be the most suitable.
The so-called secret talisman refers to the talisman masters who have reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. With their abundant magical power and spiritual power that has undergone a near-qualitative transformation, if they possess profound talisman skills, they can use this to imitate higher-level spiritual talismans and use mid-grade talisman-making materials to create yellow talismans whose power surpasses that of high-grade talismans.
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