Ling Xiao who left the table did not return to the guest room, but went straight out of Nanfang City, took a carriage and headed to Dongfang City.
Dongfang City is the base for selling elixirs, medicinal materials, and talismans. Ling Xiao thought that being in the imperial capital, cooking would be inconvenient, so most of his subsequent spiritual energy intake would depend on elixirs.
Although he has learned how to refine medicine, he is only good at refining first-level elixirs. He has never refined second-level elixirs and has no time to study them yet.
It is more convenient to buy directly.
After visiting several stores, Ling Xiao successfully purchased two bottles of "Yuehua Dan".
This is an upgraded version of Moon Flower Dew. It is suitable for monks in the early stages of foundation building to improve their cultivation. It is expensive. The two bottles total 20 capsules, which cost a total of Lingxiao Lingshi!
Holding the Yuehua Dew, Ling Xiao had to sigh again: Poor people are not worthy of cultivating immortality!
Then, he visited the Talisman Market.
Even in Dongfang City, the number of second-level talismans is extremely rare and expensive.
After all, there is only one foundation-building monk in a million, and among them, there are even fewer who are good at making talismans.
Most of the outstanding Talisman Makers are stuck in the Qi refining stage for their entire lives.
In addition, the difficulty of drawing second-level talismans has increased sharply, and even the success rate of talisman masters in the foundation-building period is extremely low, which is why second-level talismans are rare on the market.
An ordinary second-level talisman requires 200 spirit stones!
After Ling Xiao saw the price, he immediately gave up the idea of buying a few for study, and instead bought a talisman-making tool.
A bottle of second-level talisman ink, a second-level talisman pen, a stack of second-level blank talisman paper, and a "Second-level Talisman Production Complete Collection" cost him another 5,000 spirit stones.
After spending more than 20,000 spiritual stones, Ling Xiao still did not stop shopping and plunged into the spiritual grass market.
In the next two days, Ling Xiao wandered around various spiritual grass stores, getting familiar with the larger spiritual grass market while searching for spiritual herbs that suited him.
Spiritual grass has a wide range of uses. The most important one is of course used for refining medicine, but there are also a small part that can be used for cooking, refining weapons, making talismans, etc.
Ling Xiao bought some spiritual herbs useful for cooking and spent another 2,000 spiritual stones.
At the same time, he also missed a few spiritual herbs.
After finishing his wandering, he set off back to Nanfang City.
During this period, Ling Xiao did not consider whether Duan Guangxiong came to see him or not.
Although he opened his mouth and offered sky-high prices for meals, he just had a "go with the flow" attitude towards this business.
Even if it was finally done, he would not go for the spiritual stone.
After building the foundation, Ling Xiao sold all the unused resources and took a total of 100,000 spirit stones out. There was no shortage of spirit stone flowers in a short period of time.
All he was interested in was the recipe for Babao Linglong Soup.
However, after tasting two pots and personally instructing Huang Shi to change the ingredients, Ling Xiao already had a rough idea of how to make Babao Linglong Soup.
Even if he couldn't get Huang Shi's recipe, he would still be able to make it if he tried a few more times.
This is the confidence Ling Xiao has developed through cooking day after day.
On the way back to Zhenlong Restaurant, the driver followed Ling Xiao's instructions and circled Zhongyangfang City.
The scale of Central City is far greater than that of the other four cities. Its size alone spans ten streets.
Among the five major families, the other four are already huge.
But the Xiao family is still superior to them!
"Master Tao, the Wangfu Hutong you mentioned is located in Fangshi, but we ordinary people cannot enter there. Only monks like you are qualified to step into it..."
While driving, the coachman made a flattering introduction, and then changed the subject and asked, "Master Tao, how high is the relative in the court who you owe money to?"
"This poor Taoist doesn't know."
"I'm tired of you coming all the way here to ask for it. This debt must be quite a lot of money..." the coachman said nonchalantly.
"Yes." Ling Xiao smiled and closed the door curtain.
Zhongyangfang City, Wangfu Hutong.
The Imperial Master's Mansion is among them.
A cold light flashed in Ling Xiao's eyes.
It's almost time to go check it out.
Killing is just a matter of raising a knife and dropping it, it is not important.
What matters is the preparation before killing.
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Return to the guest room of Zhenlong Restaurant.
Ling Xiao took out the "Second-level Talisman Production Encyclopedia", immersed himself in it, and studied it silently.
Drawing second-level talismans is much more difficult than first-level talismans, even several times more difficult.
Fortunately, Ling Xiao is not bad either.
He is a direct disciple of Lao Huaishu. This ancestor has lived for nearly a thousand years and can be called a superpower in the world of talisman making. He helped Ling Xiao lay an extremely solid foundation.
In addition, in the past, Ling Xiao had also "answered" all kinds of strange talisman-making problems from his fellow disciples, and his vision, experience, and adaptability had already been honed to an extremely advanced level.
After studying for about 3 hours, Ling Xiao picked up his pen and started drawing.
For his first second-level talisman, he chose to make the "Earth Escape Talisman"!
Because he plans to go to the underground world again at night to locate the end of the spiritual vein he discovered, and he will definitely use the dragon vein map by then.
The Dragon Vein Diagram is a powerful tool for earth escape, and if he is familiar with earth escape in advance, it will be easier for him to make corresponding talismans.
Experience in making talismans, casting spells, and drawing are all indispensable.
The tip of the pen made a "rustling" sound on the talisman paper.
The touch of the second-level talisman paper is much smoother than that of the first-level talisman paper, but this is not a good thing, because in this way, it will test the talisman maker's ability to control the talisman pen.
Those with poor control skills will accidentally make too many strokes, causing all previous efforts to be wasted.
puff!
I am really afraid of what will happen.
Ling Xiao looked at the talisman that spontaneously ignited and smiled bitterly. He had no choice but to take out the next talisman and start over.
Time passes little by little.
Before I knew it, it was already late at night.
Ling Xiao has been drawing talismans for 4 hours, consuming 12 blank talisman papers, but has not succeeded even once.
Even so, there was no hint of discouragement on his face.
There are various reasons for failure. Some did not control the pen and ink well, some did not control the mana well, and some did not control the spiritual consciousness well... These problems were all without exception. Ling Xiao had experienced them when he was learning to draw first-order talismans. .
Now, it's just another experience.
Nothing is unachievable.
Ling Xiao believes that sooner or later he will master the second-level talisman drawing.
In this case, why rush?
Ling Xiao put down the talisman pen, stretched his sore and numb wrist, and let out a sigh of relief.
Then, he ran the Huang Ting Jing and began to restore his magic power.
After building the foundation, the thing that makes him happiest is the increase in mana!
Although he has only practiced the third level of Huang Ting Jing's skills, the mana storage effect of Xianyunsha has also been greatly increased because of his improvement in cultivation.
In fact, the magic power he can mobilize is no weaker than that of foundation-building monks of the same level.
This is extremely precious for a Talisman Maker!
Ling Xiao was almost moved to tears!
He finally bid farewell to the poverty era when his mana was scarce, and strode towards a well-off life!
While Zhengyun Gong was there, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Duan Guangxiong is here.
