In the Bishuixian City, there is the Jindan Patriarch in charge. There are many immortal cultivators in the city and the market for talismans is also large. If you have the skills of talismans, you will never worry about lack of resources for cultivation.

As the departure time was approaching, Shen Lian felt that it was time to make preparations for departure.

"The specialty of Yunmengfang City is various poisons. Collect more poisons before leaving."

"The distance from Yunmengfang City to Chu State is no less than ten thousand miles. Most of the way is through wilderness and mountains, so we must be prepared."

"In case the boat capsizes midway, you must bring enough gear for wilderness survival... Bah bah bah... Crow's mouth..."

Shen Lian clapped his lips twice and quickly killed the thought of further thinking.

It's very unlucky today because you have a bad mouth.

"A complete and intact cultivation technique for the foundation-building stage, even if it's not particularly outstanding, would cost at least 10,000 spirit stones to buy. I need to buy one with suitable attributes and better quality, so I need at least 30,000 spirit stones."

Shen Lian didn't expect to get it in one go and directly buy the Golden Core and Nascent Soul level. Regardless of whether it was for sale, he couldn't afford it.

I can only search for higher-level cultivation techniques when I become stronger in the future.

He was not greedy for any magical skills. Right now, he had to at least ensure that he obtained a cultivation method that could reach the foundation-building level and suit his own practice.

There are risks in building the foundation, and if the skills are not suitable, then you will be unlucky.

Establishing the foundation is the first hurdle for cultivators. There are tens of thousands of disciples in the Bishui Sect, and more than five hundred of them are establishing the foundation.

You should know that the Bishui Sect recruits the best disciples from among the billions of people in the Chu State, and the lowest one has to be of middle-grade spiritual roots.

Only then can we have such a large number of foundation-building monks.

On the other hand, ninety-nine percent of independent cultivators have low-grade spiritual roots, and perhaps only one out of ten thousand people can build a foundation.

"If I can't find a technique that has all five elements, I must at least find a technique that has a fire element."

"In the future, I will improve my success rate in drawing top-grade talismans, and produce a few more top-grade miasma-removing talismans each time."

Thinking about purchasing the spirit stones needed for the exercises, Shen Lian felt that it was time to show more strength.

In two years, he went from a low-level talisman master to a high-level talisman master. Although only Weng Xia knew about this, in order not to attract attention, he announced to the public that his success rate was only 50%, which was barely enough to earn enough for food.

A top-grade miasma-removing talisman costs twelve spirit stones and is sold for thirty.

A success rate of 40% is required to avoid losing money.

Master Shen Fu has a 100% success rate.

A talisman brings a net profit of 18 yuan, and 30,000 spirit stones are only needed to... draw 1,670 miasma-removing talismans.

With his current strength of the sixth level of Qi training, he can draw about six top-grade miasma-removing talismans every day.

Well... one year is still plenty of time.

I really envy those fellow Taoists who are sharpening their knives. They make money so quickly.

The only downside is that your name keeps disappearing on the King of Hell’s red list.

Pushing the materials on the talisman table aside, Shen Lian took out the poison he had brought back.

After obtaining the Hundred Poisons Strategy, he began to consciously collect various poisons.

And according to the above method, I tried to configure several poisons.

In the Hundred Poisons Strategy, the last type of poison is a mixture of venom and miasma from at least a hundred kinds of poisonous insects.

It is called the Hundred Poison Spirit, and it can severely injure or even kill a person who has built his foundation.

He collected various poisons in preparation for refining the Hundred Poison Spirits.

I don't know who wrote this book on poison, but he has deep insights into the art of poison making.

What made Shen Lian praise it even more was that the poisons recorded above were followed by corresponding antidotes.

After inspecting the newly acquired poisons, two of them required preliminary tanning.

Shen Lian patted the storage bag on his left waist, and streams of light flew out.

The most eye-catching thing is a small bronze tripod, about one foot high.

This is a first-grade, mid-quality magical weapon, which he uses as a container for boiling poison.

Next to the bronze tripod, there are all kinds of bottles and jars, which are the products that have been brewed bit by bit over the past two years.

Adding up all the poisons currently available, the first-grade top-grade poisons include poisonous blood spider, celestial corpse rot water, and burial Yin flower.

There are thirteen kinds of first-grade intermediate products, thirty-one kinds of first-grade lower products, and if the inferior ones obtained today are included, there are even more, a total of sixty-nine kinds.

There is no shortage of poisonous weeds and insects in Yunmeng Market, otherwise they would not be able to collect so many.

After refining and storing the six poisons obtained today, Shen Lian took out the new magic weapon, the Chiyang Crossbow, obtained today.

After playing with it for a while, he held the Red Sun Arrow in his hand and thought about it.

Arrows are just physical attacks, too simple.

Or... add some magic.

Shen Lian did it right away and put in various raw poisons according to the proportions.

Behind the bronze tripod, a pale green light emerged.

The light reflected off his head and it turned his whole head green.

He took out his broken flying sword and stirred it in the cauldron a few times. He then used spirit stones as fuel to ignite a spirit fire under the cauldron.

Gurgle——

The green venom began to bubble and reflected a rainbow of colors.

Shen Lian placed the ten Red Sun Arrows he had bought into the cauldron with the arrow heads pointing downwards.

This poison is called the Seven-Colored Corrupt Spirit Miasma.

It can turn a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training into a ball of dirty blood, with colorful skin attached to the blood.

Shen Lian put on gloves made of monster skin and rolled the dried venom into pills.

A total of three poison pills were obtained.

This poison pill can be shattered by spiritual power, turning into poisonous mist that spreads over a radius of ten feet. Those who inhale it will see Grandma waving at them.

Shen Lian was not idle during the process of boiling the poison.

He began to draw various talismans on the side of the talisman table, accumulating spirit stones to purchase martial arts techniques.

As for his own self-defense talismans, he had already updated them one after another in the past two years.

With several experiences of killing, he had already innovated and created a new talisman array.

[Keep calm, insight points +1]

…

[Calm down, insight points +3]

Early in the morning, Shen Lian, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation, opened his eyes and went to the talisman room to check the brewed poison.

After eating the magical rice, he continued to draw talismans.

This kind of ordinary life has lasted for two years. Shen Lian has gained some insights and occasionally some spiritual enlightenment, which makes him enjoy it.

Now he planned to continue using his insights to comprehend the Dao of Talismans, to see if he could upgrade the Dao of Talismans to the lower second level.

In this way, you can try to make a second-level low-grade talisman.

With the second-level talisman, there are more means to deal with foundation building.

Although it takes 10,000 enlightenment points to upgrade to a second-level low-grade talisman, it is still easier to calm down and concentrate every day than to break through the foundation.

In addition to continuing to comprehend talismans, Shen Lian also wanted to specialize in the study of puppets.

In this way, when you encounter a killing move, pick up loot, burn a dragon, etc., it will be more perfect to let the puppet do the operation.

But the puppet is pretty useless.

A first-grade, low-quality puppet is completely useless.

A first-level, mid-quality puppet, without the control of divine consciousness, is like a mentally retarded person.

Only puppets of the highest quality on the first level can initially escape the category of mental retardation.

Shen Lian has not yet developed divine consciousness. If he wants to become a first-class top-grade puppeteer, he needs at least three thousand comprehension points, so he first practiced fire magic and poison refining.

No matter how you calculate it, the insights are not enough.

…

In a blink of an eye, after being busy at home for nearly twenty days, Shen Lian, in addition to practicing, drew a total of thirty top-grade anti-miasma talismans and two hundred mid-grade anti-miasma talismans.

The materials for making talismans in his hands were almost used up, so he left home to exchange them for spirit stones.

Treasure House.

"Brother, you are finally back safely. I was worried to death."

When Weng Xia saw Shen Lian coming in, he was stunned at first, then walked forward quickly.

"What's wrong?"

Shen Lian spoke.

Seeing that Shen Lian looked clueless, Weng Xia reacted immediately.

"Didn't you go to the auction at Miasma Mountain?"

“No.”

Shen Lian nodded, "I wanted to go, but I suddenly had some enlightenment about the way of talismans. When I came to my senses, I found that it was too late."

"Brother, you are really lucky. It's good that you didn't go..."

Pulling Shen Lian to his small counter, Weng Xia came closer and muttered.

"Brother, a mysterious cultivator appeared at the auction at Zhanyun Mountain and killed two foundation-building cultivators. An unknown number of Qi-cultivating cultivators also died."

"Brother, I just got the news too. I sent you a message but got no response. I thought if I don't see you in a few days, I'll come to visit you."

Shen Lian took out the communication talisman from his storage bag.

"Sorry bro, I didn't notice."

This is a first-grade, mid-quality talisman. If the two parties are not far apart, they can communicate with each other.

After two years of contact, Shen Lian and Manager Weng have gone from being casual acquaintances to the point where they exchange communication talismans with each other.

The communication talisman solves the communication problem between cultivators, but it has many problems. For example, it cannot be sensed if it is placed in a storage bag, and it will also be affected by various factors. It is not as useful as the communication jade talisman.

"So many deaths?"

Shen Lian also sighed in his heart.

Damn, I'm glad I didn't go.

The foundation building is dead.

If he goes there to the sixth level of Qi training, wouldn’t that be like delivering food?

Which fellow Taoist is so powerful? I wonder who he is.

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