My Optimized Immortal Life

After getting started with body refining, Chen Qing gave up this expensive and time-consuming activity and started drawing high- and medium-grade talismans. After two years, he felt that he could upgrade his status to a low-grade talisman master.

The main reason is that the spirit stones earned from drawing low-grade talismans are no longer enough to meet his daily needs. The materials for making talismans cost money, the materials for refining equipment cost money, the materials for refining the body cost money, and buying elixirs to increase mana costs even more. I'm really fed up.

Although Chen Qing would occasionally send the magic weapons he refined to the market to sell, it still could not fill the gap, but only made it much smaller. In this way, Chen Qing could not go to Tianxianfang to reward himself at will, so the days of wreaking havoc on the battlefield had to be postponed.

After making a stack of mid-grade Fire Crow Talismans and Mysterious Water Talismans, and feeling that he was in the best condition, Chen Qing took out a piece of talisman paper made of a hundred-year-old Qingling bamboo, took a deep breath, and the talisman pen in his hand immediately began to move on the talisman paper. One by one, the talisman patterns were drawn on the talisman paper by Chen Qing, and the magic power contained in them was gradually increasing, which meant that the pressure on the talisman paper would become greater and greater.

The total amount of mana that can be carried by talisman paper of different grades is also different. If it is a ten-year-old talisman paper, it can only bear the mana required for drawing medium-grade talismans at most, and cannot accommodate the mana required for top-grade talismans, unless some talisman-making perverts change the rune patterns of top-grade talismans to reduce the mana required, so that top-grade talismans can be drawn on ten-year-old talisman paper. However, in this way, although the talisman drawn is a top-grade talisman, its power is far less than that drawn on hundred-year-old talisman paper. Therefore, basically no one will use ten-year-old Qingling Bamboo Talisman Paper to draw top-grade talismans. It is laborious and thankless.

Although Chen Qing has natural abilities and the capital to become a perverted talisman maker, this thing will reduce his cultivation level once used, so it is better not to use it if possible.

On the Qingling Bamboo Talisman Paper, as Chen Qing's talisman pen danced, more than a dozen talismans were connected on the talisman paper, and magic power fluctuated between these talismans. Chen Qing's forehead was covered with sweat without knowing when. Drawing this top-grade talisman was still quite difficult for him even though Chen Qing was already a top-grade talisman master. The only improvement in his innate ability was his proficiency in the method of drawing the Soul-Destroying Talisman. Even if he could apply what he had learned to other situations, it would be difficult for Chen Qing to draw it as easily as he did the Soul-Destroying Talisman.

He made another stroke of the pen and drew the last rune that made up the talisman. Only after the magic power flowed through it unimpeded did Chen Qing breathe a sigh of relief.

Successful.

He picked up the Golden Sword Light Talisman on the table as his trump card for killing the robber cultivator for the first time. The Golden Sword Light Talisman of top grade could still serve as his trump card. After all, its power was considered top-notch among the top grade talismans.

Chen Qing planned to stock up on twenty or thirty cards first, and then use four or five cards at a time. Even a top-grade magic weapon would be unable to withstand his attack.

Nodding secretly, Chen Qing was quite satisfied with his own talisman tactics. At this stage of Qi Refining, as long as Chen Qing had enough talismans, he could fight back even if his Qi Refining was perfect.

As for building the foundation, haha, do you think second-level talisman paper is free?

Although Chen Qing can earn spirit stones, he spends them very quickly. Now he can only ensure a balance between income and expenditure. If he continues to play like this when he reaches the foundation-building stage, he will go bankrupt in a few days.

Putting the drawn Golden Sword Light Talisman into the storage bag, Chen Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead, took a short break, and then continued to draw. He planned to draw seven or eight of them today.

As for Xu Dong downstairs, after selling the number of talismans specified by Chen Qing, he will leave and go off work, so there is no need to worry about him.

Xu Dong: I know you don’t treat me as a human being, but you are really a dog.

Tianxianfang.

In a private room on the second floor, Yan Qingyan lay on her side in a bathtub strewn with flower petals, her fingers gently stroking her jade-like skin. Her black hair spread in the water, covering most of her snow-white body.

She murmured softly, "There's a small primary spiritual vein on Qiuye Island, which is almost enough for me to break through to the foundation-building stage. After the foundation is established, then Zuo Ze... hehe."

She chuckled as if she was thinking of something happy.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and her face immediately fell.

She stood up from the bathtub, and her magic power immediately removed all the water droplets from her body. The wide robe flew from the hanger to her side and was put on by her lightly. Then she heard a melodious sound.

"Come in."

"Yes." The female cultivator outside the door answered and then pushed the door open. She quickly walked to Yan Qingyan and nodded, saying, "Sister Yan, the hidden man has been successfully arranged."

Yan Qingyan nodded and said, "Qing Ning, have him find a way to get into the upper echelons of the Three Islands Alliance and plant some more spies. Our plan goes beyond just taking control of Qiuye Island."

"Yes."

Qing Ning nodded and left the room.

The sound of the door closing was heard, and Yan Qingyan slowly walked to the table, sat on the chair with her right leg crossed over her left leg, then took a sip of the tea on the table and commented.

"It's a bit astringent."

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Three days later, Chen Qing came to the market again. He walked to a talisman shop as if he was familiar with the place and walked in with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist Jiang is here to sell talismans again."

The shop owner, who was sitting behind the counter counting on an abacus, greeted Chen Qing immediately when he saw him come in, appearing to be very familiar with him.

Chen Qing nodded, walked quickly to the shop owner, waved his hand, and took out a stack of medium-grade talismans from his storage bag. He smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Gongyang, I will give you twenty of these Fire Crow Talismans and Mysterious Water Talismans, and ten of the Golden Light Talismans. Isn't that quite righteous?"

Gong Yangchang said with a smile, "Daoyou Jiang is not only kind and righteous, but also a man of his words. Thanks to you, I couldn't sell enough talismans in my shop during the past few days without you."

When Chen Qing asked this, he nodded and said, "This shows that Daoist Gongyang's business is doing well. Congratulations, and I wish you good fortune soon."

Seeing Chen Qing mocking his suggestion, Gong Yangchang's mouth twitched, and he cursed in his heart: You Jiang Baopi, you come to me from time to time to sell talismans, don't you know that I am almost driven crazy by those casual cultivators?

To be honest, ever since Jiang Baopi started selling talismans to Gong Yangchang two years ago, his income from talismans has skyrocketed. After all, the talismans sold to him by Chen Qing are of excellent quality, better than the ones he bought from other talisman makers. This has led many cultivators to wait for Chen Qing's talismans to buy them. Every time Gong Yangchang takes out Chen Qing's talismans, they will be sold out very quickly. If it were just that, Gong Yangchang would wake up laughing in his dreams, but things went against his wishes. This guy Chen Qing sometimes came to his shop to sell talismans every few days, and sometimes he could not be found for half a year. What's more annoying is that he only sold forty or fifty talismans each time, and they were all bought up by those casual cultivators in an afternoon, so that the later cultivators kept asking him if he had any talismans to sell, and Gong Yangchang had no choice.

Chen Qing was fully aware of Gong Yangchang's difficulties, but there was nothing he could do. Every day he was either making talismans or refining weapons, or meditating, practicing spells and the "Hundred Beasts Skill". He really couldn't spare the time.

So, Fellow Daoist Gongyang, there’s nothing I can do about this.