Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 26 Successfully Drawing the Fire Condensation Inscription (Please Read Further, Vote, and Recommend)
After leaving the stall, Zhou Ling went to a nearby pastry shop and bought nine pastries for three pieces of spirit money before returning home.

I ate three pieces myself and left six pieces for my parents.

Upon entering the kitchen, I lifted the pot lid and found a large bowl inside containing a stewed ham and a bowl full of chicken soup.

The soup was still steaming, emitting an enticing aroma, and garnished with some cilantro.

You can also clearly see a faint aura floating around.

There was also a small dish of stir-fried greens.

The water in the pot was still warm.

Zhou Ling tore off two large chicken legs and ladled out a bowl of chicken soup.

Thinking that my father would come home that evening, I put another chicken leg back in.

After covering the pot with the lid, we enjoyed our meal and ate some spirit cake before returning inside.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Zhou Ling began to circulate the Spirit Flame Technique, refining and absorbing the spiritual energy from the food he had just eaten.

He opened his eyes shortly afterward, then took out the jade slip with the Five Elements Basic Inscription and stuck it to his forehead.

Study the inscriptions carefully.

Only by understanding the structure and connections of the inscription can he repair the Fire Condensation Inscription.

This is the profit of ten low-grade spirit stones, which is equivalent to his father's monthly income from venturing into the mountains.

Moreover, learning through practice will deepen one's understanding of inscription.

It can be said that this achieves two goals at once.

The jade slip records the three most common construction methods for basic inscriptions: inscription composite, interlocking, and arrangement.

In addition, there are thirty-six basic inscriptions based on the Five Elements.

The inscription is accompanied by an illustration that records the type of inscription pattern, the combination of inscriptions, and other key points.

It is a relatively common inscription pattern.

This includes how to choose the method of connecting the inscriptions, how to combine the inscriptions, the different mixing ratios of the spiritual ink, and the need to coordinate the use of spiritual power in the brush drawing method, etc.

It's much more complicated than drawing inscriptions as I learned before.

Zhou Ling also found it somewhat difficult to understand.

This was Zhou Ling's first time encountering inscriptions. Although he had been able to draw six inscriptions at once before, that was only the result of his increasing proficiency.

The difficulty is completely different compared to the inscription in front of me.

Furthermore, the jade slip also states that only those at the third level of Qi Refining can attempt to draw the inscription.

Fortunately, Zhou Ling has now entered the third level of Qi Refining.

After an incense stick had burned, Zhou Ling felt dizzy and almost threw the jade slip away.

Comprehending this inscription is extremely difficult.

How exactly can inscriptions be integrated and linked?

[You are currently cultivating the "Five Elements Basic Inscription" technique. Your resilience has increased by 1, and your comprehension has increased by 3.]

[You are currently practicing the Five Elements Basic Inscription technique. Your innate talent has increased by 1, and your proficiency in the Five Elements Basic Inscription technique has increased by 1.]

As the prompt appeared, a flash of inspiration seemed to strike Zhou Ling; he seemed to have some understanding of the interlocking strokes between the inscriptions.

After pondering for a long time without any clue, things were completely different with the help of talent. In just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Zhou Ling had roughly mastered several main ways of connecting inscriptions.

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After his parents returned, they asked him to go out for a late-night snack.

The large chicken leg that he had deliberately saved for Zhou Shan returned to his bowl.

At her father's insistence, Zhou Ling had no choice but to eat it.

After finishing his meal, Zhou Ling returned to his room and continued to immerse himself in studying the Five Elements Basic Inscriptions.

He felt that the difficulty of this inscription was worlds apart from that of the inscription itself.

The reason is not only that it is difficult to learn, but also that the drawing process is complicated and tedious.

It requires precise proportions of spiritual ink, complete mastery of the inscription, and the coordination of internal spiritual energy.

Moreover, even if you master all of these, success is not guaranteed.

If the connection method is slightly incorrect, it will fail!

The inscriptions did not blend properly, resulting in failure!
The spirit ink is incompatible with the materials; failure!
Every stroke must be flawless.

Once you've mastered the basics, drawing ordinary inscriptions generally has a high success rate.

But the inscription is completely different; if any one of the six inscriptions goes wrong, all the work will be in vain.

Fortunately, Zhou Ling has the advantage of talent, and as long as he continues to cultivate, he will eventually be able to comprehend and master it.

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Time flies.

After half a month of exploration and research, with the help of "the more setbacks you take, the more courage you become" and "I am born with talent", I finally succeeded.

Zhou Ling finally began to grasp the knack of inscription drawing.

Without natural talent, even if Zhou Ling had another year, he still wouldn't be able to find the right path.

However, Zhou Ling's next attempt to draw a basic Fire Condensation Inscription did not go smoothly.

The Fire Condensation Inscription contains six flame runes, two of which Zhou Ling has never learned.

The connection method is quite complex and difficult to draw.

Moreover, all six inscriptions are five-line patterns, which are quite difficult to create and require considerable spiritual power and divine sense.

The drawing of inscriptions is quite difficult in itself, and some tricks are simply impossible to grasp without the guidance of a master.

Fortunately, Zhou Ling had the talent of "becoming stronger with each setback," and after drawing it a few more times, he gradually understood the key to it.

With the help of his talent, Zhou Ling gradually improved his proficiency.

However, as I began to draw on the spirit paper, I consumed a lot of spiritual energy, which made it easy to make mistakes.

Either the drawn inscriptions fail to form a complete seal, or the connection or combination methods are incorrect, preventing the spiritual energy from forming a closed loop.

Moreover, drawing a single piece of paper consumes almost a third of the spiritual energy in the body.

It will take quite a while to recover.

Zhou Ling could only be patient and take it one step at a time.

However, the spirit paper and spirit ink he consumed every day were worth more than ten pieces of spirit fragments, which made him feel very distressed.

[You are currently practicing the Five Elements Basic Inscription technique. Your innate talent has increased by 1, and your proficiency in the Five Elements Basic Inscription technique has increased by 1.]

Fortunately, the system notification sound made him feel that everything was moving in the right direction.

Then I felt relieved.

Five days later, Zhou Ling returned home and quickly finished his meal before starting to continue drawing the Fire Condensation Inscription.

The initial strokes went smoothly, steady and methodical, and I finally managed to sketch it out successfully.

However, it took a while.

It took him nearly half an hour to draw the Six Paths Pattern Fire Inscription, and his spiritual energy was almost half depleted.

However, when Zhou Ling looked closely, he found that the spiritual energy on the inscription was extremely obscure.

[You are analyzing the Condensed Fire Inscription. Basic Analysis +1, Condensed Fire Inscription Proficiency +1]

Zhou Ling quickly discovered the problem.

The first inscription is not powerful enough to cover and guide the other five inscriptions.

After discovering the problem, Zhou Ling activated the Spirit Flame Technique, circulating it for three cycles.

After his spiritual energy recovered somewhat, he continued drawing.

When Zhou Ling drew the sixth inscription, the entire inscription flickered a few times and looked like it was about to dim, but then Zhou Ling put away the inscription pen.

A burst of spiritual light gradually appeared on the inscription.

"It's finally done!"

Zhou Ling let out a soft breath.

After nearly a month, the first inscription was finally successfully drawn.

Zhou Ling was excited, which meant that from today onwards, he would no longer be a weapon-refining apprentice.

They already possess the qualifications of a weapon refiner.

Of course, to become a true first-grade weapon refiner, one must also refine a first-grade high-quality magic weapon and pass the Dao Alliance's assessment and certification.

However, he is already very satisfied with the current progress, after all, he is not even eight years old yet.

(End of this chapter)