Chapter 58 Wild Ideas
Among the beginner students, Achen was the first to successfully make talisman paper, and the quality of his talisman paper was quite good, almost comparable to the finished product demonstrated by Instructor Su.
But others weren't as lucky as him, especially the bleaching process, which was extremely long.
These young masters and ladies, who usually only focused on cultivation and rarely did any work, couldn't help but groan, "Heavens! When will this be finished?"
"If I had known that making talismans was so troublesome, I shouldn't have wasted so many talismans before!"
"From now on, before I put pen to paper, I will definitely practice drawing the strokes in the air several times with my fingers until I am familiar with the strokes. This way, I can save a lot of paper!"
Hearing their cries of pain, Ah Chen felt that Instructor Chang's decision to have everyone learn how to make talismans was extremely wise.
Think of the ancient poem "Hoeing the Rice Seedlings" by the people of Blue Star. Their students in the talisman-making department should also recite a line: Who knows that every talisman under the brush is the result of hard work!
But as he listened, he suddenly had an inspiration—to draw talismans in mid-air!
If you think about it carefully, the process of drawing talismans is actually about injecting spiritual power into the lines you draw through a talisman brush, so that they can be combined into a simple array, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling spiritual power for your own use.
Some of the talismans drawn on talisman paper require the infusion of spiritual power to activate, such as transmission talismans, sword talismans, teleportation talismans, and earth-遁 talismans.
Another type is the one that will automatically activate when thrown, such as the Violent Talisman and the Mist Talisman, and the one that can be activated by simply patting it on the body, such as the Swiftness Talisman and the Vajra Talisman.
In terms of ease of use, talismans that can be activated without the need for spiritual energy are naturally very convenient.
However, talismans are limited; once they're used up, they're gone.
Furthermore, during the battle, the enemy is very likely to entangle you and prevent you from activating the talisman.
However, if you can draw talismans in mid-air, you can skip the process of activating the talisman. If you are skilled enough, you can do it in one go with just a flick of your finger.
Most importantly, it saves money!
Imagine, the spiritual power within your body can be transformed into a powerful talisman without spending a single spirit stone.
We can skip the talisman brush, spirit ink, demon beast blood, and talisman paper!
Where else can you find something this cheap?!
However, drawing talismans in mid-air must be quite difficult, otherwise why didn't the predecessors leave behind any recorded secret manuals or anything like that?
But that's the kind of kid Achen is. Once he has an idea, no matter how difficult it is, he won't give up easily.
Fortunately, he knew he couldn't go too far beyond the scope of the curriculum, especially before he had mastered the technology. He neither told his classmates nor consulted his tutor.
Otherwise, everyone would definitely think he was daydreaming.
Just like his self-created laundry technique, he would never have told anyone before he created it.
After the practical class, Instructor Su announced some good news: everyone was allowed to take the talismans they made back with them for their own use.
Upon hearing the result, everyone stared at Ah Chen like red-eyed rabbits, making him feel immense pressure.
Helpless, he had no choice but to give 5 of his 200 medium-grade talismans to each of the 35 students in the beginner class, and keep the remaining 25 for himself.
Although the five talismans weren't worth much money, Leng Qiuchan's close female classmates were incredibly excited and decided to keep them as a keepsake.
After class that day, Ah Chen went to the academy's dining hall with everyone for dinner and then returned to his villa.
As soon as he entered the door, Xiao Shi jumped out and urged him to start reading.
He hadn't absorbed any spiritual energy from the book all day; he was really thinking about it.
Ah Chen said earnestly, "Senior Xiao Shi, I have a question I'd like to ask you."
"Hey? You actually have to ask for help now? I thought you only needed books and never needed to ask anyone for anything!" Xiao Shi finally got a chance to mock him.
"I'm just an eight-year-old child, there are many things I don't understand."
You've lived for over 30,000 years and read so many books; there's probably nothing in this world that you don't know.
So I'd like to ask you, is it necessary to use talisman paper to draw talismans? Is there a method that can use the air as a medium to draw talismans directly in mid-air?
It means directly using your fingers to manipulate spiritual power and draw talismans in the void.
"Um, am I being a bit delusional?" Ah Chen's voice trailed off as he spoke, even he himself found the idea absurd.
It was only with Senior Xiao Shi that he dared not say such things in front of anyone else.
"Drawing talismans in mid-air... Let me think carefully, I seem to have seen it in some book, but it's definitely not in the books I lent you."
"Wait here, I'll go back to the ten-story tower and look for it. I'm sure I'll find the answer!" Xiao Shi said, and then disappeared without a trace.
Although he needed to use the books inside to leave the ten-story tower, he attached his spirit to a page of one of the books, and then a student would take the book away.
However, he was, after all, the spirit of the tenth-floor tower, and all he needed to do to go back was to think of it.
Ah Chen heard that the ten-story pagoda contained more than ten million books. He wondered how Senior Xiao Shi would find an answer among those vast and boundless books.
However, since there was no answer in the short term, he decided to try it himself first.
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