Chapter 10: Fifth-Rank Talisman Master
Flowers bloom and words fade, spring goes and winter comes, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye. Leng Youran is now nine years old. She is wearing a red long dress and has the simplest flowing hair on her head. Her big watery eyes stare at the thing in her hand without blinking. It is a fifth-grade fire talisman. There is a flickering light on the talisman pen in her hand, and she moves it carefully on the talisman paper. This is her twenty-eighth attempt to make a fifth-grade talisman. At this moment, the talisman pen in her hand stopped moving, and her little hand placed the talisman pen on the pen holder beside her. The light on the talisman paper flickered along the route of the talisman pen. After flickering for a few breaths, it returned to calm. Leng Youran's nervous little face finally showed a smile. She finally succeeded. She was finally a fifth-grade talisman master.
She still remembered how embarrassing it was when she first started making talismans. She had suffered a lot back then! When she first started learning to make talismans, even though she made a first-grade talisman, the power was quite large for her. The first time she made a first-grade talisman, she burned her finger on it. It was because she made a mistake in drawing the formation on the talisman, causing the talisman to catch fire. Because she was too slow to react to such a situation the first time, she got burned on her finger.
After this lesson, she dared not be distracted again when making talismans. She would immediately get away if she felt something was wrong with her hands. So such funny scenes could often be seen in this cave. A little girl of eight or nine years old suddenly changed her face and quickly ran away from the stone table when making a talisman. Then the unfinished talisman on the stone table would suddenly combust or explode, or splash water everywhere. After so many times, the little girl became calm. Although she would still dodge occasionally, she could also face it expressionlessly. In the past three years, she had used up most of the talisman paper her mother bought for her. Correspondingly, her talisman-making level was also raised to the fifth grade. Now she is already a fifth-grade talisman master. Moreover, most of the talismans she makes are of high grade, and occasionally there will be a few top-grade talismans. Alas! She didn't have much blank talisman paper, so she didn't dare waste too much. She made each one with extreme care, fearing that she would waste a single piece. She would buy more materials when she went out, and she would raise the grade to the best quality. You know, there's a big difference in power between the best and the best quality. Leng Youran made a secret decision in her heart. In addition to making talismans, Leng Youran had also been busy during these three years. The secret book she got from the cultivator in the Spirit Severing Stage was a method for cultivating spiritual consciousness: the Spirit Refining Technique. It was perfect for her. She started practicing it three years ago, spending two hours a day practicing making talismans and two hours practicing the Spirit Refining Technique. She used her spiritual consciousness to push small stones to train her spiritual consciousness. "This method was mentioned in a novel she had read in her previous life. She thought that since it was also cultivating spiritual consciousness, it didn't matter if it didn't work. She didn't expect this method to be so effective." She continued practicing the Spirit Refining Technique until her mental energy was completely exhausted. This way, she could achieve twice the result with half the effort. At the beginning, her spiritual consciousness couldn't even move small stones the size of rice grains. He couldn't push it, but now he can push a stone the size of an egg, and he can condense his spiritual consciousness into a beam to attack some not very hard objects. At this time, she didn't know that her sea of consciousness was many times larger than that of a normal person, and many times more condensed than the soul of others. Although her soul was still equivalent to the initial stage of foundation building, it was several times more condensed than that of a normal cultivator in the initial stage of foundation building. Before, her sea of consciousness was only larger than that of a normal person, but her soul was very ethereal and hazy. Since she devoured the soul of a cultivator in the distraction stage, and with the practice in the past few years, although her sea of consciousness did not expand anymore, her soul was condensing little by little. This was something she only found out after returning to the sect a long time later. This is a story for later, so I won't mention it for now.
Her cultivation speed has not slowed down in the past three years. Since she started practicing the Chaos Rotation Technique, her cultivation speed has increased a lot. She also discovered a very strange thing. Originally, she had five spiritual roots and five cyclones in her dantian, but since she opened up space in her body, two more cyclones appeared in her dantian for some reason. Now she has seven cyclones in her dantian. Not only that, but these seven cyclones are also much larger than before. Moreover, her cyclones are not like the color of the spiritual roots as described in the jade slips. Her cyclones are all chaos. No matter what attribute of spiritual power she absorbs, after it circulates in her tendons and veins, it will become chaos when it returns to her dantian. Not only has her dantian changed slightly, but her tendons and veins have also widened a lot than before. Although she doesn't know what's going on, she is not a person who will dwell on it. If she can't explain it, then she will just let it go!
Three years have passed, and her cultivation has reached the peak of the fourth level of Qi training. She doesn't know whether this speed is fast or slow. During the past three years, when she was tired of practicing, she would look at the alchemy jade slips given by her mother, or practice the few small spells at the end of the exercises, which were also found in the memory of that distraction stage cultivator. The memory of that distraction stage cultivator is not something that she, a Qi training stage cultivator, can digest. Most of the memories were sealed up by her, otherwise her sea of consciousness would not be able to withstand so much information, and if she is not careful, her sea of consciousness will collapse.
These spells are commonly used spells on the mainland and are spells that can be used by monks in the Qi training stage, such as the fire spell: Fireball, the water spell: Rainfall, the earth spell: Earth Shield, the gold spell: Pierce, and the wood spell: Entanglement.
Over the years, she had mastered these spells with ease. What pleased her most was the talisman array, which now made her use effortlessly. She could now use a fourth-grade talisman to create an array. If she were to encounter a cultivator in the early stages of the Foundation Establishment Stage, she should be able to protect herself to a certain extent. She also saw a sword manual in the memories of a cultivator in the Spirit Severing Stage. However, his understanding of the sword might not be very high, and he only knew the moves without the sword intent, which could be used against ordinary enemies. Therefore, Leng Youran had practiced the sword manual diligently after obtaining it. With his current level of cultivation, he could only use two moves, and they weren't very powerful, but he could still fight against cultivators of the same level. However, he hadn't even touched the edge of the legendary sword intent. Alas! Sword intent required talent, and she didn't have the brain cells for it! But she wasn't discouraged. Who knew when she would have the opportunity to realize the sword intent?
Her space has also undergone some changes in the past three years. Now the space is already four acres in size. She has planted a peach tree, a small enlightenment tea tree, and the red fruit tree in it. The three trees have occupied half an acre of land. Because she did not have high-level spiritual medicine seeds, she did not plant spiritual medicine in the space. She thought about finding some spiritual medicine to plant when she went out. You know, part of the spiritual energy in the space is maintained by spiritual stones. She is a poor person now, and she wishes she could break each spiritual stone into two pieces to use! A very small part is maintained by the Yin-Yang Spirit Bead: "This Yin-Yang Spirit Bead is the name she gave to the fusion of the Light Spirit Bead and the Dark Spirit Bead. Because they look a bit like a Bagua plate when put together, she named it the Yin-Yang Spirit Bead." Over the years, she had also learned some of the laws of space. This space allowed for growth. One day inside was equal to one year outside. Of course, this only applied to the plants within. Humans and animals grew according to the time outside. This meant that if they spent a year inside, only one day would pass outside. And it wouldn't affect their bodies in any way. This gave her plenty of time to cultivate, to learn talisman making and alchemy. Yes, she planned to learn alchemy once she reached the fifth level of Qi training. This would give her another way to earn spirit stones. She also had no other choice. Spaces relied on spirit stones to maintain themselves. The larger the space, the more spirit stones were needed, unless she could find a spirit vein, one with five different attributes. Alas: the road ahead was long and arduous! Thinking of all this, she planned to go to Xuantian Sect to find her mother after she broke through to the fifth level of Qi training. She wondered how her mother was doing now. Without her burden, she wondered if she had escaped. She knew that with her mother's cultivation level, leaving would be possible. She hadn't escaped because she was by her side. Without her mother by her side, she would have had a better chance of escaping on her own. Alas! It was all her fault that she had harmed her mother. Thinking of all these terrible things, she was even more eager to get out. She sat down cross-legged and began to practice. As early as a month ago, she felt the barrier of the fifth level of Qi training loosen. After a month of practice, this feeling was even more obvious. This time, she must break through and go find her mother as soon as possible, because she knew that if her mother couldn't find her, she would definitely be very sad! She also didn't want her mother to wait for her too long, because she didn't want her mother to be sad.
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