The purpose of Colin's visit this time was the same as that of his father, Baron Hawke, but the difference was that Baron Hawke was too arrogant and believed in his own strength, and as a result, he stayed in the far East forever.

Colin was different. He had just transformed from a cripple suffering from severe hemofusion into a normal person full of strength. He was enjoying life now and was absolutely unwilling to take risks.

Therefore, as soon as Colin entered Songtao City, he contacted the Dark Council, hoping to use the power of the Dark Council to investigate all the enemy's intelligence before taking action.

"If your father had not been so reckless and was willing to accept the friendship of our Dark Council like you, he would not have died in this distant eastern country." A smile appeared on Sarna's dry face.

Perhaps realizing that his face was a little scary, Sarna put on his hood again to cover his face.

"The Dark Council hopes to gain the friendship of the vampires!" Sarna said in a hoarse voice, "If you want, we can even send assassins to kill the target. You just need to tour this city for a few days!"

"Actually, I agree with your suggestion very much..." Colin doesn't have any vampire glory. If he could really do that, he would even hope to stay in this room until the target is killed! "But unfortunately, I have to avenge my father personally to inherit the title and the title of Baron Hawke!" Colin said with regret.

"Any ancient family will have many rules and constraints, but this is also a kind of inheritance..." Sarna bowed slightly to show respect: "Master Colin, we will collect the information according to your instructions in three days at most, and I will deliver it to you personally at that time!"

"Okay!" Colin nodded and said modestly, "I'm looking forward to meeting you again!"

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Xu Feng didn't know that someone was targeting him and had already arrived in Songtao City. At this time, Xu Feng was in the secret realm with him, looking at the small gold bars in front of him, with a look of pain in his eyes.

Xu Feng had sold the obsidian gems he had obtained before, and had accumulated some gold. He originally wanted to use this gold to unlock all the other four curse skills at the bottom of the curse skill tree, but he didn't expect that practicing the talisman technique would also require a lot of gold. He had no choice but to exchange this gold for small gold bars of one or two taels each, and prepare to practice the talisman technique! Making gold talisman paper is the first step in practicing the talisman technique. Xu Feng needs to beat this small piece of gold into a piece of gold foil to draw the talisman pattern.

There are strict requirements on the size, thickness, length and width of gold talisman paper. During the process of forging the gold talisman paper, one must constantly integrate one's own spiritual power into it and hammer it together with the gold. Only in this way can one forge a qualified gold talisman paper that is as smooth as silk.

The most important thing is that one tael of gold can only be hammered and forged two or three times at most. Every time it fails, the quality of the gold will deteriorate. After a few times, the gold will not be able to contain spiritual power and cannot be forged into gold talisman paper. In other words, the two taels of gold will be scrapped. This shows how high the cost of practicing talisman techniques is.

This was only the first step. The following steps required concocting the talisman ink with the blood of spirit beasts, condensing the talisman pen with spiritual intuition, and tempering and forging with the mind. Each step was ten or even a hundred times more difficult than making the golden talisman paper. Among all the steps, Xu Feng estimated that he was only familiar with drawing the talisman pattern. The other steps would all take a lot of time and energy to learn.

In the next few days, Xu Feng devoted himself to practicing the art of talismans and asked for leave from the City Defense Office. As for school, it was already vacation time, so he just needed to wait for notification from the school and represent the school in the College Saint Qualification League.

For Xu Feng, it was not difficult to hammer out an ounce of gold into a one-foot square piece of gold foil. The difficult part was to distribute the mental power evenly to every inch of the gold foil while hammering it, not a bit more or less. It was like building a roadbed, making adequate preparations for drawing the talisman pattern on the golden talisman paper later.

Every time the forging failed, the color of the gold foil would dim a little. After repeating this several times, the gold would completely lose its activity and be unable to contain spiritual power. At the same time, it would shatter into grayish-white fine sand and could not be condensed together again no matter what.

Xu Feng expressionlessly swept a small pile of gray-white sand to the ground, took out another ounce of gold, and started forging it again.

After several days, Xu Feng had consumed hundreds of taels of gold, but failed to forge even a qualified piece of gold talisman paper. More importantly, the practice of talismans would not increase his proficiency at all if he failed. This was very depressing. It was like Xu Feng threw hundreds of taels of gold into the water, but did not even hear a sound.

Xu Feng was not discouraged. Compared with his previous life when he was learning alchemy, he had only failed more than a hundred times. It was no big deal. Back then, when one furnace after another failed, Xu Feng persisted for three years before finally giving up.

Another three days passed, and Xu Feng spent nearly three hundred taels of gold, and finally succeeded in hammering out a qualified piece of gold talisman paper! This piece of gold talisman paper was only half a millimeter thick, as smooth as silk. When he shook it gently in his hand, the gold talisman paper made a "rustling" friction sound, which sounded like a small hand gently scratching Xu Feng's heart.

The newly forged golden talisman paper had a golden glow on its surface, like a fine work of art. Xu Feng carefully placed it into a pre-prepared wooden box, with a gratified smile on his face.

Although this piece of golden talisman paper is only the first step for Xu Feng to become a talisman master, it is also of extraordinary significance. If this piece of golden talisman paper is sold, it can be sold for at least ten taels of gold. If it can be finally completed, even if it is just the most ordinary healing talisman, the price will be over one million, which is equivalent to about one hundred taels of gold. The price has increased a hundred times, so the talisman master is the most profitable profession in the world.

Of course, the prerequisite is skilled technique. For someone like Xu Feng, a piece of gold talisman paper cost nearly three hundred taels of gold, and he would lose everything.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Successfully making a piece of golden talisman paper was a great encouragement to Xu Feng. Although he had been practicing for nearly a week, Xu Feng still looked energetic.

After taking a look at the talisman paper in the wooden box, Xu Feng took out another tael of gold and began to hammer and forge it. The clanging sound of forging could be heard again throughout the Xu residence.

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(End of this chapter)