Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 18 Talisman Configuration
There were changes. Fang Jingxuan clearly remembered that Tuoyuan's bloodline progress was only over eighty.

Although Tuoyuan has grown rapidly in this month, it is difficult to improve his bloodline progress.

This is because Tuoyuan's aptitude is not high, and the Moon Jade Dew can only speed up its growth rate, but has little effect on purifying its bloodline.

But the effect of this tortoise shell bone powder is better than he imagined. Perhaps Tuoyuan and the original body of this tortoise shell should be very compatible.

Currently, Tuyuan's bloodline progress has reached ninety-one, and there are only nine progress points left before he awakens his innate magical powers for the first time.

Basically, as the monsters' cultivation level improves, they will awaken the innate magical powers belonging to their own species.

As for the spirit turtle-like monsters, the innate magical powers that can be awakened are mostly the same.

For example, it can conceal one's own breath and be used to avoid the enemy's [Breath Concealment].

There are [Lightness] that increases one's speed, [Stone Skin] that strengthens protection, and so on.

These are the popular talents and magical powers awakened by the spirit turtle species. Only a small number of spirit turtles will awaken higher-grade talents and magical powers.

Of course, this also depends on the grade of the spirit turtle itself. The higher the grade, the stronger the blood power in the body, and the more powerful the awakened innate magical powers will be.

Fang Jingxuan originally did not have much hope that Tuoyuan would be able to awaken his innate magical powers.

Tuoyuan is just a low-grade first-level Xishui spirit turtle. The innate magical powers that he can awaken are definitely not of high quality.

But now, after drinking a bowl of tortoise shell soup, the bloodline progress can be improved by several points. In this way, Tuoyuan may be able to use the higher bloodline progress to awaken higher-grade innate magical powers.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan became excited. Compared with other cultivators who raised spiritual pets, he could clearly see the progress of the bloodline of his companion beast. This alone was enough to widen the gap.

Perhaps how to control the spiritual pet to awaken what kind of innate magical powers is the unique skill of each beast-taming sect and family, and one's own attribute panel can display it intuitively, which allows one to compete with them.

Suppressing his slightly excited heart, Fang Jingxuan thought quietly.

This bowl of tortoise shell and bone soup uses about one twentieth of the tortoise shell material, which means that the remaining tortoise shells are enough to increase Tuoyuan's bloodline progress to about 300 points.

One hundred points can awaken a natural talent. Should I use these three hundred points to awaken three ordinary natural talents, or use these more than three hundred points to exchange for a rare innate talent?
For a moment, Fang Jingxuan fell into happy contemplation.

After feeding Tuoyuan and cleaning up, Fang Jingxuan returned to his quiet room.

Although the tortoise shell soup is good, it also takes time to digest. If it is fed three times a day, it will take five or six days for Tuoyuan to digest all the tortoise shells.

By that time, it was almost time for the next neighborhood mutual aid meeting.

However, thinking of the blocked situation, Fang Jingxuan felt a little depressed. He couldn't just sit there and eat up all the money.

Maybe I should be more proactive and find out the situation in the market. If it is really blocked for a year or two, I can make plans.

Shaking his head and putting these bad things aside, Fang Jingxuan took out the paper, ink, brush and inkstone he had just received today from his storage bag.

From now on, I will also become a talisman maker!

Fang Jingxuan placed various items on the desk in front of him, then solemnly took out a book and opened the first page.

On the withered and yellowed title page, a long line of text appeared: "Eight Common Talisman Making Methods for Practitioners in the Early Stage of Qi Refining."

The eight kinds of talismans recorded in this book are the cleaning talisman, the silent note talisman, the guiding talisman, the evil-repelling talisman, the arrow-avoiding talisman, the light body talisman, the demon-dispelling talisman, and the self-defense talisman.

But as the pages turned, Fang Jingxuan's expression gradually darkened. The lines on the page seemed to make him see a scene dominated by advanced mathematics. After a moment, Fang Jingxuan threw the book down and rubbed his brow.

Now when I think about the jade slip that Huo Cang gave me, it was truly a treasure trove of wealth. I could read it directly with my spiritual sense and it was completely engraved in my mind. It was many times more efficient than looking at it with my eyes now.

But unfortunately, Fang Jingxuan couldn't exchange that kind of jade slip for spiritual rice at the moment.

"Perhaps I shouldn't be so ambitious and start directly with the talisman making method. It's a bit too difficult. I'd better read this book."

Fang Jingxuan took out another book from his storage bag. On it was written:

On the One Hundred and Eight Basic Configurations of Primary Talismans

"The book says that for the three types of talismans—the Cleansing Talisman, the Silent Note Talisman, and the Guiding Talisman—you only need to learn the basic eighteen configurations before you can try to imitate them. I learned one a day, and I was able to get the hang of it in half a month!"

With this thought in mind, Fang Jingxuan picked up the book and began to read it with a focused expression, as if he had seen a mountain of gold.

"Snapped!"

"Talismans! Even dogs don't learn this!"

Fang Jingxuan threw the book fiercely on the table. He had just been shocked by the rune lines all around him and had lost his mind.

The configuration of the talisman is like the structure on a circuit board. In the eyes of those who are not familiar with it, it is like a heavenly book.

Fang Jingxuan just hasn't gotten the hang of it yet. He looked at it for a long time and recognized the first few configurations, but if he wasn't paying attention, these configurations would run around in his mind and become mixed up in the blink of an eye, and he couldn't recognize them anymore.

"No wonder talisman makers are so arrogant. It turns out they really have the capital to be arrogant. Damn it, talisman making is so difficult. Those formation masters and alchemy masters who still look down on talisman making, don't they want to master something even more perverted?"

Fang Jingxuan sighed a few times. The world of cultivation was really changing. Without a master to guide him, it would be difficult for him to learn the art of talismans quickly by relying on self-study.

But now Fang Jingxuan is reluctant to find a master. It is so good to be free. Why should he rush to be humble and serve others?

The master-disciple inheritance system in the cultivation world today is even more cruel than the old society in Fang Jingxuan's previous life. Once you become a disciple, it will be a lifelong commitment.

It's okay if you meet a good master, but if you meet a master with bad intentions, your life will be ruined.

Fang Jingxuan didn't dare to gamble. It's okay if it's difficult. I'll take my time!

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan cheered up, picked up the book again, and began to compete with the basic structure of the talisman.

So, in the next few days, Fang Jingxuan's progress was like this.

On the first day, learn about three types of configurations.

On the second day, learn about five configurations.

On the third day, we will re-understand the three configurations
Five days later, Fang Jingxuan looked at Tuo Yuan with a dazed look on his face. After a long time, the light returned to his eyes.

Good news, Tuoyuan's blood progress has finally reached a new level after continuous nourishment of tortoise shell and bone soup in the past few days.

[Companion Beast: Tuoyuan, a first-rank low-grade water-breathing turtle, Qi Refining Level 3.]

[Bloodline Progress: 318/100 (Innate magical powers can be awakened)]

(End of this chapter)