Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 148 Talisman Soldier
Ji An came to the ant nest and saw piles of something that looked like slightly reddish fine sand near the cracks in the rocks.

This is the excrement of the fire crystal ants, which contains extremely weak spiritual energy. It can be used to improve the soil and as fertilizer for fire spiritual plants.

However, the strength of the Fire Crystal Ant colony is too low now, and these fertilizers are too low-level for the various fire-type spiritual plants growing on the Red Flame Peak, and their effects are minimal.

When a large number of fire crystal ants in the middle stage of Qi Refining appear in the ant colony, these things will gradually come in handy.

Ji An extended his spiritual sense deep into the anthill and found that the fire crystal ants had already dug out four well-developed passages here.

In the very center of the nest is a standard spherical area, where the queen ant, who has become a fourth-level Qi-refining demon beast, resides.

The rock walls in this area are densely covered with white eggs, roughly estimated to be two to three thousand.

If all hatch, the colony will triple in size.

As the number of fire ants increases, more food can be found for the queen ant.

In this pine forest, there are a large number of first-grade top-quality red cloud pines, which can theoretically cultivate queen ants in the middle stage of foundation building.

When the red cloud pine produces pine cones, the fire crystal ant colony will enter a period of rapid development.

As the queen ant's cultivation level continues to improve and the quality of her eggs reaches a certain level, the newly born fire crystal ants can directly reach the level of demon beasts.

The ecology of Chiyan Peak is still relatively fragile. Since the fire-toothed rabbits and red-tailed squirrels have no natural enemies, their populations have reproduced very rapidly, which has affected the ecological balance.

They could not finish eating it all, so they had to ask monks to hunt for them on weekdays to maintain a suitable number.

Red-tailed squirrels live in pine forests. With the increasing number of high-level fire crystal ants, the excessive growth of the red-tailed squirrel population should be curbed.

Sensing the master's spiritual consciousness coming in, the queen ant's antennae on her head swayed rapidly, conveying a joyful emotion, and communicating with Ji An through a blood contract.

It is like a child, sharing the experiences of this period, the expansion of the population, and the conflicts with other creatures.

Ji An returned to the cold pond and ordered:
"I'm going to draw the Explosion Talisman and get the ink ready."

Now he lives a comfortable life and many of his chores are taken care of by others.

"immediately."

Xia Yuhan agreed and quickly walked into the stone house. She first lit a stove of calming incense, then took out the talisman ink and stirred it to make the solution uniform.

Ji An sat down on the chair, closed his eyes and began to rest and adjust his state.

"Uncle Master, I'm ready."

Hearing the reminder, Ji An opened his eyes, rolled up the sleeves of his Taoist robe, picked up the pen and began to draw talismans.

He first took out a stack of talisman paper and drew the explosive fire talisman. After his hands gradually felt hot, he began to draw the explosion talisman.

Spiritual energy surged in and out of the talisman pen, shining brightly and leaving orange-red lines on the animal hide.

I saw the talisman pen moving up and down on the animal skin, drawing an explosive talisman without any hesitation.

When the last node was drawn, the lines on the talisman flickered slightly for a moment, and the flame-like lines turned bright yellow, occasionally flashing blue light.

"Not bad, a good start."

Ji An nodded slightly, this was a good sign.

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Xia Yuhan complimented him:
"Master uncle's movements when making talismans are so smooth and flowing, and the talismans are so natural and natural. His skills must have improved."

"I like to hear that. You can say more."

Ji An laughed and continued to draw the explosive talisman.

Half a day passed, and he had drawn 10 explosive talismans, 4 of which were successful. The success rate was unsatisfactory, barely enough to hand over to the sect, so it was a waste of work.

The sect's task of drawing the explosive talisman was not urgent, so in the afternoon, Ji An began to make the explosive talisman plate.

It took him five or six days to successfully make two talisman plates, and the wasted materials far exceeded the value of the talisman plates themselves.

If it wasn't for the purpose of increasing my craft experience, I would have lost a lot of money in this business.

Two talisman plates were enough, so Ji An stopped refining the talisman plates and started drawing talisman weapons instead.

Drawing talisman weapons requires a very high level of spiritual awareness, as it requires the most subtle control of magic power. If he is not confident in the strength of his spiritual awareness, he will not try again until he breaks through the middle stage of foundation building.

Talisman soldiers are an important branch of the talisman-making craft. They are condensed into spiritual Taoist soldiers through the arrangement of runes. They have simple intelligence and are used to assist monks in combat.

The so-called Taoist soldiers and puppets have similar functions, but puppets are driven by spirit stones and can be used continuously as long as the body is not damaged. However, talisman soldiers are consumables and have a certain limit on the number of uses.

Generally speaking, a talisman soldier can only be used three times, but if the material is good enough, the number of times can be increased to four or five times.

However, the quality of talisman weapons can be improved through the nourishment of mana. If the materials are good enough, the upper limit of the nourishment of talisman weapons will be higher.

Lv Qingyang, the author of Qingyang Fulue, mentioned in his inheritance that he had cultivated talisman weapons that reached the Chaoyuan level across borders. This is the true charm of talisman weapons.

Ji An took out the talisman paper and found a bottle of the most common talisman ink. It would be a waste to use high-level materials during practice.

The effect cannot be seen without using talisman ink, otherwise he would like to practice with plain water.

Although he was only drawing the lowest-level talisman soldiers, he was not careless at all.

He drew dense lines of talismans on the talisman paper, as if he was drawing on a circuit board.

Just like the requirements for talismans, the drawing of talisman weapons cannot be interrupted, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted and the consumption of spiritual consciousness will be higher.

After two days of hard work and nearly twenty failures, Ji An finally drew a lowest-level bronze armor talisman soldier.

The snow-white talisman paper was covered with light golden lines. He felt it and found it was full of spiritual energy.

"It's not easy."

Ji An smiled bitterly and said that according to the records in Qingyang Fulue, the strength of the bronze armored talisman soldiers was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

He was already at the third level of Foundation Establishment, and it was already so difficult to draw. He wondered how much more difficult it would be when he began to draw the Foundation Establishment Talisman Weapon. He secretly guessed that Lu Qingyang must have practiced the secret method of increasing spiritual awareness. "This is a Talisman Weapon. It can help you in battle. I'm giving it to you."

These low-priced talisman weapons are useless in hand, so it would be better to give them to the maids, which would be a disguised way to improve their welfare benefits.

"Thank you, uncle."

Xia Yuhan happily took the talisman weapon. She had been with her master throughout the process of drawing this thing and was well aware of the difficulty involved.

Considering my uncle's attainments in talisman making, he actually spent so much time and energy on it. It must be a good thing.

"This talisman weapon can be used three times. Let's go outside and input your mana to see how effective it is."

"Yes."

The two walked out of the stone house. Xia Yuhan injected magic power into the talisman soldiers. A humanoid guard in golden armor, about a meter tall, appeared beside her, looking extraordinary and heroic.

Since they were only the lowest-ranking talisman soldiers, the details of the armor and faces of the golden armored guards were very blurry.

Ji An rushed to the open space and stood still, saying:

"Order him to attack me."

"Uncle Master, I'm sorry."

As Xia Yuhan's voice fell, the golden-armored guard took a few steps forward and yelled, "Hey!"

Ji An grinned, the other party was a man who knew how to take the initiative.

The golden-armored guard rushed around like a physical cultivator, causing smoke and dust to billow in the venue, making it look very powerful.

Ji An was so fast that Fu Bing couldn't touch him at all.

After dodging for a while, he felt it was boring. If the bronze armored soldiers only had this little skill, it would be a shame for the high difficulty of making it.

He released the Explosive Fire Technique and began to attack, and something strange happened.

I saw a big golden umbrella in the hand of the golden armored guard to defend against the incoming magic attacks.

As the big umbrella was formed, the aura on its body suddenly dimmed.

After the spell bombardment, the spiritual light on the golden armored guard's body trembled violently, like a candle in the wind, but he finally held on tenaciously.

Ji An raised his eyebrows slightly. Although he only used one-third of his strength, the damage of the spell's attack could reach the full force of a cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Refining.

The fact that they were unable to defeat the Fu soldiers in one fell swoop shows that their defense is still commendable.

He released the explosive fire technique again, and the golden armored guard's spiritual light flashed and dissipated in the wind.

"not bad."

Ji An smiled and said that the talisman weapon can attack and defend, and is a good treasure for cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

However, talisman weapons are difficult to refine and are destined to not be produced in large quantities like talismans.

"Thank you, uncle, for the treasure."

Xia Yuhan raised her eyebrows, smiled and bowed:
Ji An nodded slightly and said:

"Use your mana to nourish it for a quarter of an hour every day, and you will have unexpected surprises in the future."

Wei Songnian took out a wooden box from his storage bag and opened it. Inside was a piece of paper covered with words and a dozen animal skin bags.

"Brother, there's a first-grade material called Star Sea Silver Powder here, ten kilograms in total, and it costs six thousand spirit stones.

There are also some related metal powders, which cost two thousand two hundred spirit stones.

The two thousand high-grade Explosive Flame Talismans you gave me were sold for eight thousand spirit stones.

I was lucky this time and was able to buy one ounce of black yellow soil for four hundred spirit stones."

He took out a topaz box and said, "This is Xuanhuang soil."

Wei Songnian sighed inwardly, his senior brother hadn't changed at all, and was still so generous in spending spirit stones. He didn't know when he would be able to be so domineering again.

Ji An examined the materials and said to the maid behind him:

"Compare the weight of these spiritual objects to the list."

These things are best done in front of the purchasing manager, so he never feels embarrassed.

Xia Yulian picked up the list, carefully weighed it, and whispered:
"Reporting to Uncle Master, the amount is the same."

Ji An nodded slightly and said with a smile:
"Thank you for your hard work, Junior Brother."

With this batch of metal powder, he can push the glazed jade bone body to the silver armor level.

Xuanhuang soil is the second-grade low-grade material for refining the apricot yellow flag, and he needs half a pound.

"It's not hard. It's my honor to serve you, brother. But..."

Wei Songnian changed the subject and said:
“After observing for a year, I found that the shops in the Immortal City have almost no stock of the spiritual objects that Senior Brother requested, and few cultivators are willing to trade them with spiritual stones.

They prefer bartering. If the senior brother wants to gather all these materials, he needs to go to a trade fair or auction.

Especially those second-level mid-grade spiritual objects, it is impossible to buy them with spiritual stones."

"I see."

Ji An nodded slightly. He had anticipated this situation, and asking the other party to help with the purchase was also based on the idea of ​​picking up a bargain.

(End of this chapter)