A talisman paper faintly exuding wood-attribute spiritual energy, spiritual ink made from demon blood and spiritual sand with a slightly fishy smell, and a talisman brush were placed together on the desk in front of Lin Xiuyuan.
It looks similar to the previous talisman-making scenario, but the process and difficulty are completely different.
The talisman carries the power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, which means it needs to contain a large amount of magical power and divine imprint.
The talisman paper itself is not as simple as before; it exudes a strong attribute aura. The talisman paper has undergone multiple refinements, using demon hide containing wood attributes, supplemented with spiritual materials such as yellow spirit leaves and spirit pattern grass, to be refined into the basic talisman paper.
Otherwise, a single talisman wouldn't cost several hundred yuan. Adding in the cost of spiritual ink and other materials, the final cost is close to a thousand yuan, while the selling price is only a little over three thousand yuan per talisman.
Both the cost and the time spent refining it far exceed those of other talismans before, so it can be said that it is not worthwhile, but its power is different from the past.
However, the reason why talismans no longer have an advantage in the Foundation Establishment stage is not only due to their price, but also because their power is generally slightly inferior to that of magic weapons.
Only inherited talismans, like the Fire Dragon Talisman Lin Xiuyuan obtained, possess power far exceeding ordinary talismans and slightly surpassing magical artifacts. However, their price is naturally much higher; it's estimated that such attack talismans would cost at least four or five thousand spirit stones, or even more.
Therefore, due to price and power, talismans have little advantage in the Foundation Establishment stage.
Therefore, apart from talisman masters, most people at the Foundation Establishment stage primarily use magical artifacts. If they have extra resources, they might keep some spirit talismans as a backup, but they no longer use them as a powerful means of combat.
Most talisman masters no longer rely on selling talismans for income; instead, they make the raw materials for talismans...
Only higher-level spirit talismans, carrying power comparable to mid-to-high-level spells, can easily cover tens of feet in size, thus restoring the advantages of spirit talismans. High-level spirit talismans can even be regarded as the foundation of sects and families, which shows their significance.
Lin Xiuyuan slowly picked up the talisman, circulated his magic power, and extended it along his arm, gradually spreading it towards the talisman.
Yellow talismans crafted at the Qi Refining stage only contain basic spells and do not have high requirements for the talisman paper. Many cultivators can easily craft them, making them a source of income for other rogue cultivators.
Therefore, during the Qi Refining stage, as long as there is talisman paper, one can begin to draw spirit patterns.
However, the difficulty increases significantly when it comes to spirit talismans, because they must be compatible with the spiritual energy attribute. For example, the talisman paper in my hand is specifically used to refine wooden spirit talismans.
To create a talisman that can contain the immense magical power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, the talisman maker needs to further refine it to meet the requirements.
This process involves carefully sensing the distribution of spiritual energy on the talisman paper, then refining it again, continuously infusing it with magical power to form a basic operating pattern suitable for outlining spiritual patterns in advance, and then using divine sense to leave an imprint to further strengthen it. At that time, it can directly contain magical power and use a talisman brush to draw spiritual patterns.
Therefore, this step can also be called refining the spiritual network.
The entire process is extremely time-consuming, requiring careful sensing of the specific details, finding the starting point of the spiritual veins, comparing them with the overall spiritual patterns, continuously infusing magical power, and gradually refining each vein.
This step requires extreme care and complete concentration.
The process of refining the spiritual network alone takes seven or eight days. With the subsequent drawing steps, it takes more than half a month in total to make a single spiritual talisman.
The minor Five Elements talismans for the Qi Refining stage are basically made by imitating the Five Elements Spirit Talismans. Therefore, Lin Xiuyuan's first step was to refine the Wood Spirit Talisman. He found this talisman to be extremely practical after using it all along.
Currently, I plan to start with the Wood Magic Talisman, and then consider refining the Fire Dragon Talisman and the Mysterious Armor Talisman. As secret talismans, their power is formidable, but their refining difficulty is naturally much higher.
Once you've mastered the crafting of wooden talismans, crafting fire dragon talismans and black armor talismans will be much easier and cheaper. Although the costs are roughly the same, the cost of secret talismans is naturally a bit higher.
These three types of spirit talismans are Lin Xiuyuan's main focus for refining at present. They are both offensive and defensive, and if he hoards a large number of them, it will be enough for him to continue to exert his own advantages and maintain top combat power!
However, Lin Xiuyuan found it difficult to succeed even in the first step of refining the spiritual network. Ultimately, this was because his magic power contained all five elements of spiritual power, making it undoubtedly difficult to refine a talisman that was entirely of the wood element.
Fortunately, Lin Xiuyuan's divine sense was relatively strong, which somewhat made up for it.
Even so, it took more than half a year to finally make it to the next step: drawing spirit runes.
Only at this point can the basic requirements for accumulating purple light be met.
Lin Xiuyuan did not expect to achieve this in the short term.
Just go for it!
By continuously smashing spirit stones and spending time refining, the purple light will accumulate, and the success rate will naturally increase, allowing you to master this spirit talisman in one fell swoop.
And so, nearly a year passed, and whether it was because the talisman was more difficult and mysterious, or because Lin Xiuyuan truly lacked talent, the purple light accumulated to thirty percent!
Lin Xiuyuan then successfully refined his first wooden magic talisman!
After more than half a year of comprehension and over a year and a half of refining, costing tens of thousands of spirit stones, it was finally successfully refined! A large part of the reason for this success was the accumulation of 30% of the purple light...
After successfully crafting the first wooden spirit talisman, Lin Xiuyuan began refining the fire dragon spirit talisman and the black armor spirit talisman.
The reason why this kind of talisman is a secret talisman is that the overall spiritual pattern is based on the Five Elements talisman, but has been improved and has undergone mysterious changes.
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