My Optimized Immortal Life

After acquiring the Han Yin Li Huo Gong, Chen Qing prepared to return to the cave. He quietly released his spiritual sense, taking in all the movements within a hundred meters around him. After confirming that no one was following him, he walked towards Xinghua Lane.

Xinghua Lane was the name of the alley where he lived. The entire alley was a hundred meters long, with dozens of courtyards. The cultivators living there were all the most powerful independent cultivators in Wanren City. As far as Chen Qing knew, the independent cultivators in the entire Xinghua Lane were actually divided into two factions.

One faction is the Huaren Society, which is headed by a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator. He controls many import channels for spiritual medicines outside the city, and thus indirectly controls half of the cultivator shops in the city. Even the alchemists are controlled by him.

The other faction is the Hundred Sects Association, which is headed by a second-level weapon refiner. It has gathered more than a dozen weapon refiners and monopolized the sale of all first-level magic weapons in Wanren City, making it a huge force.

These two factions are the independent cultivator forces in Wanren City today, and the garrisoned cultivators sent by the four major sects are to unify the two sides. All businesses in the entire Wanren City are under their jurisdiction. Therefore, although the two sides occasionally have disputes, they dare not make things worse.

However, Chen Qing was not planning to join these two forces. He looked down upon both of them. A group of casual cultivators gathered together for profit and would inevitably disperse due to profit. Moreover, the entire Wanren City was controlled by the four major sects. Unless a Jindan cultivator could emerge from this group of casual cultivators, everything would be a mirage and a castle in the air.

As he walked into the alley, a familiar figure came towards him. When he saw Chen Qing, he immediately bowed and greeted him with a respectful look on his face.

"senior."

Chen Qing nodded at him and said.

"Little friend Li, are you preparing to go out?"

When Li He saw Chen Qing's response, a smile immediately appeared on his face and he said.

"My talisman skills have improved slightly recently, and I'm preparing to go out and buy some more materials."

As he spoke, Li He took out a talisman from his storage bag and handed it to Chen Qing.

Chen Qing took it, took a look, and smiled.

"Little friend Li, this talisman is quite good. If you have any good talismans in the future, you can come to me."

After saying that, Chen Qing continued to move forward.

Hearing this, the smile on Li He's face suddenly became brighter. Chen Qing's words were equivalent to giving him the qualification to visit. Although it did not give him a backer who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, it at least gave him an extra way out when encountering troubles.

"Thank you, senior. Take care."

He bowed to Chen Qing and watched him leave, feeling extremely happy in his heart.

Chen Qing took another look at the talisman in his hand and smiled meaningfully.

"Mysterious Spirit Shield Talisman, wow, this thing is really rare."

The talisman that Li He handed to him was called the Xuanling Shield Talisman. It was a top-grade first-class talisman and was also the most difficult defensive talisman to draw. This meant that Li He's talisman-making skill had reached the first-level perfection.

A first-level peak talisman maker, wow, not more than thirty years old, not bad, not bad.

When Chen Qing returned to the courtyard, he did not see Xu Lingxin in the yard. His spiritual consciousness immediately spread out from his body, directly covering the entire courtyard. Then Chen Qing found the remnants of Xu Lingxin's magic power outside the retreat room.

Seeing this, Chen Qing nodded involuntarily. Xu Lingxin was still as diligent as ever.

However, Xu Lingxin's magical aura still remains at the initial stage of foundation building.

This is actually the normal situation.

When it comes to the foundation-building stage, the spiritual energy required to improve cultivation is even greater, dozens of times that of the Qi Refining stage. For an ordinary foundation-building cultivator, it will take at least ten years to break through from the early stage to the middle stage. Even a genius with earth-grade spiritual roots like Xu Lingxin will need four or five years to break through. People like Chen Qing who jumped from the early stage to perfection in three years are just an exception.

Both the Earth Fire Transformation Technique and the Earth Fire Vein are things that cannot be replicated. Therefore, even if Chen Qing wanted Xu Lingxin to quickly improve her cultivation, there was actually no good way.

The problem of spiritual energy concentration has been solved. If Xu Lingxin wants to improve her cultivation faster, she can only rely on the power of elixirs.

The elixir that can help foundation-building monks quickly improve their magic power is called Yiqi Dan. Its refining materials include two second-level spiritual medicines, which need to be purchased from Wanbao Pavilion and other shops.

Chen Qing pondered secretly.

He had been practicing in seclusion in the Sky Valley for three years. Although he did not use spirit stones for practice, he used quite a few spirit stones to maintain the formation on a daily basis. Now he only had more than 900 spirit stones on him. If he went to buy spiritual medicine, it might not be enough.

I have to go make money again.

Chen Qing sighed. It was really difficult to cultivate immortality. Not only did he have to worry about the techniques, alchemy, and cultivation, but he also had to worry about spirit stones.

But as long as your cultivation is improving, then it's all worth it.

Thinking of this, a flame of ambition burned in Chen Qing's eyes.

He is now only one step away from forming a pill. Once he passes this level, he won't have to worry about anything in the entire Song State.

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The next day, Chen Qing sat in front of a square table, holding a wolf-hair brush in his hand, and sketched many talismans on the talisman paper. Around the talisman brush, spiritual energy was continuously absorbed by the light red talismans. Not until the last stroke was completed did Chen Qing put down the brush and breathed a sigh of relief.

This "Lihuo Talisman" is indeed a second-level talisman. The number of its runes and the complexity of its structure far exceed those of a first-level talisman. However, for someone like me who has natural abilities, it is just so-so.

Picking up the Fire Talisman, Chen Qing looked it over from beginning to end before nodding and putting it into his storage bag.

Then he picked up the talisman paper from the side and prepared to continue drawing the talisman, but the talisman he was going to draw next was not a second-level talisman.

To draw a second-level talisman, one needs second-level talisman paper and talisman ink. Both of these things are not cheap, so Chen Qing mainly focuses on drawing first-level talismans, winning by quantity.

With his current rank as a second-level talisman maker, drawing first-level talismans is a piece of cake for him. For example, he couldn't say that the Thunder Talisman that Li He gave him was 100% accurate, but he was very confident that it would work 80% to 90%.

Speaking of talismans, Chen Qing pulled out a stack of talismans with gray rune patterns from his storage bag, a hint of fear on his face. This was the Soul-Destroying Talisman he had drawn for Zuo Ze. The effect of this talisman was extremely strange, seemingly able to directly attack the cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness and damage the cultivator's soul. This was also the reason why Chen Qing was able to remain unscathed during his battle with Liu Yanghe.

And now, although Chen Qing's attainment in talismans has reached the second level, he still cannot replicate this kind of talisman.

Although he had memorized the method of making talismans, he had no idea where the ink needed to draw them came from.

Otherwise, Chen Qing wanted to optimize this talisman to the second level and use it as his trump card in battles.

If there is a way in the future, you can consider showing this talisman to those high-level talisman makers and let them identify the talisman ink used to draw this talisman. Maybe they can even reproduce this soul-destroying talisman.