After returning to his cave, Lin Xiuyuan took off the Qiankun bag from his waist and muttered to himself:
"It's time. Now, each of us has more than half of our purple light, and with the improvement of our talisman skills and Youxue's help, the success rate is already as high as 70% or 80%."
"Going forward, further improvement won't be possible in a short time. We can only wait for the purple light to accumulate slowly before it can produce a leap forward!"
"It's time to learn and master the three secret runes of the Xue family. This is where my combat power can be greatly enhanced."
A glint flashed in Lin Xiuyuan's eyes, which were full of anticipation.
He has been in seclusion for nearly thirty years, living a life of constant activity between two points. He has mastered all the major spiritual talismans, and the purple light has accumulated during this time. He can only slowly improve it now. It's time to refine the Xue family's secret talisman.
However, he also understood that the three great secret talismans were so powerful and difficult to forge, and could not be mastered so quickly.
The main problem is that making talismans is too costly, comparable to making a high-grade spirit talisman, which can easily cost as much as a magic artifact.
Even the cheapest low-grade magic artifact costs tens of thousands of spirit stones!
Any one of the Xue family's secret talismans costs over 20,000 coins, ten times the price of an ordinary mid-grade spirit talisman...
This is simply an exaggeration.
However, considering its mysterious power, this is not surprising.
This mysterious talisman seems to possess some of the profound secrets of talismans.
The materials required for making talismans all have specific requirements. For example, the materials required for making Xuanfa Lingfu include water-green bamboo that is over 500 years old, hemp spirit that is over 300 years old, and spirit trees that are over 1,000 years old, etc.
The prices of these three items are nearly five thousand low-grade spirit stones, one thousand two hundred low-grade spirit stones, and several hundred...
Other materials such as silver powder, animal bones, and cinnabar all require specific spirit stones to be ground into powder, or have high requirements regarding cultivation level, age, and so on.
Therefore, the cost of the three types of talismans naturally skyrocketed!
As for the other two types of Xue family secret talismans, the only difference lies in the main raw materials of the talisman paper. For example, the main material of the Water Jade Spirit Bamboo is Vajra Spirit Wood, while the Xuan Power Talisman is made primarily of Earth Armor Spirit Vine. The raw materials such as cinnabar, demon blood, and demon bones also have some differences in attributes and parts.
In terms of price, they are basically the same.
None of the Xue family's three secret talismans cost less than 20,000 spirit stones.
This is one of the main reasons why the Xue family's secret talisman has such power.
Naturally, such increased costs and difficulty in refining meant that Lin Xiuyuan had to improve his talisman skills to become fully familiar with mid-grade spirit talismans before he was confident in refining them.
Otherwise, if they had tried to refine the Xue family's secret talisman earlier, given their level of talisman-making skills at the time, even the allocated contribution points wouldn't have been enough to support them in mastering it, considering the three spirit beasts and their own cultivation needs...
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Lin Xiuyuan took out a large wooden bucket and then threw in a large quantity of water-green spirit bamboo, hemp spirit, spirit tree pieces, and some materials for refining talisman paper, such as yellow mulberry, green hemp leaves, paulownia bark, and other common spiritual items.
He then reached out, and several streams of magical power instantly spread out.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Several streams of magical power seemed to transform into wind blades, whistling continuously as they sliced and pulverized the object.
It all turned into powder, piling up in half a wooden barrel.
Lin Xiuyuan conjured water out of thin air and poured it in, instantly turning it into a bucket of colorful porridge.
Lin Xiuyuan dispelled his magic power and reached out to touch the wooden bucket again.
Within moments, the 'colorful porridge' in the wooden bucket began to boil, with wisps of gray steam rising from it, mixed with some black smoke...
The materials required for the Xue family's secret talisman are specific and difficult to buy on the market; one can only refine them by oneself.
The whole process is similar to the secular papermaking process, with roughly the same steps. However, it is naturally simpler and more convenient for cultivators to refine paper.
With Lin Xiuyuan's current level of cultivation, refining it himself would be even easier.
Next, there are raw materials such as cinnabar and silver powder that need to be refined.
It took Lin Xiuyuan more than half a month to prepare the raw materials alone, such as talisman paper, cinnabar, and spirit ink.
And this is still the simplest step.
It's just that some spirit stones are burned.
The quota for three years was used up in one go, a total of 60,000 contribution points, which is six million low-grade spirit stones... But although it seems like a lot, it is only enough for three hundred portions of raw materials!
"Among them are two hundred and fifty sets of materials for mystical techniques and weapons, and fifty mystical power talismans. I estimate that this quantity should be enough for me to master them."
Lin Xiuyuan picked up the Youxue Talisman Brush with anticipation, dipped it in spirit ink, and sprinkled some silver powder onto the talisman paper, slowly beginning to outline the talisman patterns.
Mystic power talismans are used relatively infrequently, except when facing life-or-death situations, in situations where they are unable to cope, or when breaking through to a higher realm, in which case they are used to enhance the physical body.
At this current level, without having embarked on the path of profound cultivation, its effect will not be significant.
Mystic techniques and magical weapons and talismans are more helpful in enhancing combat abilities.
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