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"The Myriad Talismans Technique before you is my life's work, containing all sorts of talisman patterns."

"If you can memorize all one hundred patterns within half an hour and draw them within half an hour, then you will have completed the challenge I set."

"Of course, the time for memorizing and drawing is separate. The first half hour is for looking through books, and the second half hour is for drawing."

What he didn't tell these people was that these hundred patterns weren't so easy to remember.

Because these copied books were specially suppressed, after looking at the first picture, it would take a lot of physical and mental energy to turn to the next page.

This was something he researched in his spare time. He hadn't been able to use this research when he was alive, but now that he's dead, he can use it for inheritance.

Upon hearing this, everyone thought, "There are only a hundred patterns? Isn't that incredibly simple?"

On average, it takes nineteen seconds to memorize one, which is not difficult at all. Besides, they are cultivators, so their memory speed is naturally faster.

Once you have the design in your mind, you can complete even the most difficult drawing by spending more time on it.

Some of them can read three lines at a glance, let alone this is a pattern; he didn't say whether to memorize the difficult or the easy ones.

"I have a timer hourglass here. When all the gold sand in the upper half of the hourglass has flowed into the lower half, that means the time is up."

Upon hearing this, everyone raised their heads to look at the old man in the golden robe in front of them, in front of whom was a golden hourglass about the size of a human head.

There looked like a lot of gold sand inside, but the middle part looked very small. It didn't seem like it would have been drained in half an hour.

However, none of them would be foolish enough to remind him, because if the hourglass ran slower, they would be able to remember more pictures, which would further ensure that they passed the test.

"In that case, the assessment shall officially begin."

As soon as he finished speaking, the golden hourglass began to flow.

No one expected the challenge to start so quickly. One second they said it was a timed event, and the next second it had already begun, giving him no time to prepare.

Fortunately, no preparation was needed. When the old man in the golden robe said to begin, they quickly opened the books on the table and started reading.

"These patterns don't look too difficult. Half an hour should be enough for me to memorize about three hundred of them."

After a female disciple opened the first page of the book, she looked at the pattern that could be drawn with just a few strokes, and the slight worry that had been on her mind eased.

But as she memorized the first two and tried to flip to the next one, she felt a small resistance.

However, eager to read, she didn't take this small matter to heart and continued to turn to the next page.

Sometimes I close my eyes, sometimes I turn my head, trying to memorize these patterns more deeply.

The same was true for several other disciples, but when it came to Qin Hui, Gu Lingyu, and another female disciple!

They frowned slightly, noting this small discovery to themselves, feeling that something else might happen later.

"What's going on? Why is this book so hard to turn?"

The female disciple mentioned at the beginning also realized that something was wrong. After flipping through the book once, twice, three times, or four times, she felt that the book seemed to be getting harder and harder to turn.

When she tried to turn the page for the fifth time, she felt as if something was firmly holding her hand in place, requiring even more effort than before to turn the page.

Even after turning the page, she felt his arm tremble slightly, and his breathing became a little heavier.

The others experienced the same thing, and they were all horrified.

They thought it was just a simple memory and drawing, but it turns out it wasn't. It seems they were underestimating the problem.

Five minutes have passed, but most of them have only memorized the first ten patterns. If they continue to memorize at this speed or even slower, they will definitely fail this test.

So one by one they stopped looking up at other places and focused all their energy on fighting against the books.

Since there was no rule against using external assistance, many people took out pills and immediately took a Spirit Recovery Pill when their bodies couldn't hold on any longer, which immediately restored a lot of their spiritual power.

(The significant restoration of spiritual energy refers only to Gu Lingyu, Qin Hui, and another female disciple; the effects of the pills on the rest of the group were not as good.)

"Oh no, why is the hourglass going by so fast!"

About five minutes later, the disciples who had not received enough elixirs were too exhausted to even turn the pages of the book.

So they looked up to check the golden hourglass, wanting to see how much time was left and whether the hourglass would really slow down.

Normally, it would take at least an hour for the sand to completely drain.

But when they looked up and saw the hourglass, they were shocked to find that such a large hourglass with such a small opening had already lost a third of its sand.

When they looked more closely, they saw that the golden sand was flowing down from the small opening like water; although it was very fine, the speed was not slow at all.

Seeing this, they completely forgot about their physical and mental exhaustion and buried themselves in their work again.

They thought that even if they couldn't inherit the skills, they could still learn more about drawing patterns, which would be a valuable experience.

As the time came to about twenty-five minutes, Qin Hui had turned to page forty-five and had memorized ninety patterns, with only the last ten remaining.

Gu Lingyu's progress was at the same pace, and he saw the same page as Qin Hui.

Another woman had already turned to page forty and memorized eighty patterns, but she was still twenty short of one hundred, so it was probably hopeless.

The other eleven people only remembered between twenty and fifty names, but most of them remembered around thirty.

Although the three of them were making good progress, the redness on their faces, the sweat on their foreheads, and their heavy breathing all showed that it was not easy for them to pass the challenge.

With only a few drops of gold sand remaining in the hourglass, the woman closed her book in despair. Qin Hui and Gu Lingyu had just finished recording the last crime, so the Venerable Tanuki took all the books off their table.

"You will have half an hour to draw the patterns you have memorized on the paper on the table. The person who successfully draws one hundred patterns will be personally taught my talisman-making technique by me."

"Those with more than fifty members can choose a secret manual to leave; the rest will receive nothing."

After he finished speaking, he turned the hourglass upside down, indicating that the drawing process had already begun.

Several other disciples who had given up halfway through regretted their decision when they heard that there was a secret manual for those who had memorized more than fifty. They wished they had been told this earlier, as they would have desperately tried to memorize more.