My Optimized Immortal Life

After returning to his residence, Chen Qing put the matter of Cheng Xiaoxiao behind his mind and continued to make his talisman.

During the past few days, Chen Qing spent most of his time trying to draw new talismans. Although without the bonus of his innate abilities, the process was still slower than making the ice arrow talisman.

Having said that, Chen Qing still had a great advantage when drawing these other talismans because he had experience in drawing ice arrow talismans. After all, the key points were almost the same, and he was still much faster than those talisman makers who had obtained new talisman drawing methods.

The talisman pen moved across the talisman paper, and strange talisman patterns were printed on the talisman paper, glowing vermilion.

The talisman brush that Chen Qing used to make talismans was a low-grade blue-hair brush that the original owner spent more than twenty spirit stones to buy. It can only be said that it is just right for drawing low-grade talismans. If it is used to draw medium-grade talismans, it will depend on Chen Qing's skills.

Talisman ink is made from the blood of the first-level monster blue wolf and spirit sand. A small jar requires more than ten spirit stones. Most of the time, Chen Qing buys the materials and prepares them himself. This is also something he came up with in the process of optimizing his innate abilities.

After drawing all the necessary runes, Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the talisman did not show any unusual phenomena.

He picked up the talisman, looked at it carefully, and after confirming that it was correct, Chen Qing put this first fireball talisman he had drawn by hand into his storage bag.

Taking out a piece of talisman paper, Chen Qing drew again, and soon, another fireball talisman came out.

Seeing this, he nodded involuntarily. He now had two kinds of talismans under his control, and it had only taken him three days to master the fireball talisman.

This is all thanks to the role of the innate ability. Although it is an optimization, the optimized content will be fully mastered by Chen Qing at the same time, which is equivalent to allowing Chen Qing to learn to make talismans from scratch.

After drawing the fireball talisman, Chen Qing began to try the third talisman, the wind blade talisman.

He next planned to master the remaining four talismans and then try to refine the weapon. As for the reason.

In the world of immortal cultivation, formation masters are rare due to the difficulty of entry. However, the demand for elixirs and magical instruments is extremely high, so many cultivators try to refine elixirs and instruments. The result? Huge losses!

It is true that refining medicine and weapons is not as difficult as setting up formations, but it consumes materials. Even for foundation-building sects like Qingyu Sect and Heishui Sect, it is extremely resource-consuming to support a second-level alchemist or weapon refiner. Therefore, both sects currently do not have a second-level alchemist, and at most they only have first-level top-grade alchemists and weapon refiners.

Chen Qing also had a deep understanding of this. After all, Taoist He was an example close to him. When his original body first came to Maple Valley, he saw this old Taoist refining the Qi Pill. It has been more than four years since he successfully refined it. The amount of materials he had invested in the process was so great that Chen Qing couldn't even count them. Anyway, when Taoist He was the poorest, he would come to Chen Qing to borrow spirit stones, and three of them at a time.

Although the money was indeed returned after borrowing, Chen Qing also felt that alchemy was a waste of money. And refining equipment was not much better than alchemy. With Chen Qing's comprehension, if he did not use the golden finger, he would have to throw hundreds of spirit stones into the equipment before he could hear any movement.

That's why Chen Qing had to get up early and work late to make talismans and earn spirit stones. After all, spirit stones were needed for cultivation, buying materials, and renting a house. He was under a lot of pressure.

Time flies, and before you know it, five months have passed.

During these five months, the exploration of the secret realm of Yuncang Mountain has gradually come to an end. According to the information Chen Qing has heard, the secret realm of Yuncang Mountain is actually an ancient paradise. It is not of high level, but the current Southern Wilderness immortal cultivation world has long lost its prosperity in ancient times. Therefore, the group of independent cultivators are very enthusiastic about the opportunities in the paradise. In the paradise, there is also the ruins of an ancient Jindan sect, Tianhuo Sect, which is the focus of competition among the independent cultivators. It is said that some people have obtained foundation-building spiritual objects from it.

Of course, that was all three months ago. After learning that there were foundation-building spiritual objects in the Tianhuo Sect, the Qingyu Sect, the Heishui Sect, and the Xue Family formed an alliance. The two sects and each family sent out foundation-building cultivators to work together to seal off the secret realm, not allowing independent cultivators to enter. So in the last two months, it was basically only the cultivators from the sects and the families fighting for the secret realm. The craze in the market also ended in two months, and it returned to its previous state.

As for how much the last two sects gained in the secret realm, there was not much information that Chen Qing could get.

Chen Qing had also made a killing in the past few months by crafting talismans. After calculating, he discovered that he had earned over 1,400 spirit stones. Furthermore, his storage bag contained dozens of elementary talismans like the Fireball and Ice Arrow talismans, ten Golden Light talismans, and even five of the top-grade Golden Sword Light talismans.

With the addition of Chen Qing's Golden Feather Sword, now unless one encounters a cultivator who has reached the tenth level of Qi Refining, even a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining cannot defeat Chen Qing.

Of course, Chen Qing did not relax because of this. In the past five months, in addition to saving a bunch of spirit stones and talismans, he also took advantage of the sharp drop in the price of magic tools in the market and bought a top-grade defensive magic tool, the Qingling Bronze Shield.

With this top-grade defensive magic weapon, even a cultivator who has reached perfection in Qi training cannot break through his defense.

However, this top-grade Qingling copper shield is regarded as a trump card, and Chen Qing will not take it out to fight the enemy unless it is a critical moment.

In five months, Chen Qing has completely mastered the five types of talismans. Now he can be considered a true first-grade lower-grade talisman maker.

As for refining equipment? Chen Qing didn't have that need right now. After all, with his wealth of over a thousand spirit stones, he could easily buy two or three even top-grade magical instruments. Learning to refine equipment was no longer necessary for him. Of course, the most important point was Chen Qing's cultivation level. He was now approaching twenty years old, and his cultivation level was still at the fourth level of Qi Refining. He had to hurry up and improve his cultivation level. Otherwise, with his aptitude, it would be very difficult for him to break through the bottleneck of the late Qi Refining stage after the age of forty.

Moreover, after his cultivation level is improved, Chen Qing will be able to quickly master refining equipment through his innate abilities, and there is no need to waste so many resources to figure out refining equipment by himself, which is not worth the effort.

His cultivation level had not improved at all in the past five months, but due to his aptitude issues, his progress was very slow compared to his talisman making skills. There was also the Qi-gazing technique that he had obtained from Jie Xiu before.

At first, Chen Qing thought he had picked up a great bargain, but after five months of studying, he had only learned the part of the Qi-gazing technique that allowed him to see through the cultivator's cultivation level, which was the same as the Tribulation Cultivator. As for the subsequent observation of the terrain, search for the spiritual eye, etc., he really couldn't understand them at all, so Chen Qing temporarily reduced his energy on the Qi-gazing technique, and only took it out to study it a little in his spare time, just as a puzzle game.

Chen Qing estimated that if he wanted to truly comprehend the art of qi-gazing, he would have to rely on his innate abilities. If he relied on himself alone, he would have to live another twenty years.