Peace in the fairyland (6): Talisman

After that, Li Shunchen took Guyuan Pills every day to assist his cultivation. Even so, he still found it very difficult to catch up with Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian. He finally advanced to the second level of Qi training, but found that the two had already reached the third level of Qi training.

Now that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian also had the Guyuan Pill, Li Shunchen seemed to have foreseen that he would be left behind in the future. Suddenly, his round face became depressed, and he did not feel any joy of receiving a reward.

The disciples of the Lecture Hall found it strange that Li Shunchen did not look happy after receiving the reward from the headmaster. In comparison, it was more normal for Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian to thank the headmaster happily.

Dugu Shanhai could guess a little bit of Li Shunchen’s thoughts, but he could only smile and do nothing.

There was no way. Whenever a peerless genius was born, his peers would always be severely suppressed. There was no other way except to figure it out by yourself. It was better to get used to it in advance.

After the three new disciples had personally demonstrated the Cleansing Dust Technique, Dugu Shanhai explained it in detail, and it became easier for the other young people to understand.

After all, the newcomers in the same batch could all perform well, so how could they not understand?

After explaining the Cleansing Dust Technique, Dugu Shanhai went on to explain the Light Body Technique and the Clearing Mind Technique.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian listened attentively with their ears cocked. The immortal’s profound and simple explanations were much more vivid and easier to understand than reading the jade slips themselves. In just one short class, they gained a new understanding of the techniques.

When it came to talking about the Light Body Technique, Dugu Shanhai wanted to let Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian demonstrate it, but after thinking it over for a moment, he decided not to do so, mainly because he was worried that the other disciples would be stimulated too much.

Moreover, seeing how Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian performed the Cleansing Dust Technique, one could tell that their ability to learn on their own was unquestionable, so Dugu Shanhai finally suppressed his thoughts.

As soon as the class was over, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian prepared to rush back to their rooms to practice as usual.

According to the headmaster, the Clearing Mind Technique was also a very useful auxiliary method. Xia Ruize was very interested in it and was eager to unlock the content of the Clearing Mind Technique after mastering the Light Body Technique. With the newly acquired longbow, it could be predicted that he would be busy in the future.

The other disciples were already used to going about their daily lives in pairs, and after being rejected so many times, they no longer tried to get closer to them. Instead, they made way for Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were sitting in the middle, to quickly leave the Lecture Hall.

Everyone watched Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian chatting as they walked away. It seemed as if the two of them were immersed in a world completely different from theirs and would not allow outsiders to interfere at all.

Maybe that was the common language between geniuses? They were too far away to be included in the group chat?

After returning to the room, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian took out the weapons given by Master Dugu and began to cast the Observation Technique on the weapons over and over again.

The feedback they received was a mysterious feeling, as if they had a stronger connection with the weapons in their hands, and even a vague sense of closeness.

The only bad thing was that the Observation Technique consumed spiritual energy very quickly, and the spiritual energy of both of them was used up before lunch.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian ate lunch leisurely and began to practice their mental skills.

The difference from before was that they now had the Guyuan Pill in their hands. Since they had received the reward, they had no intention of saving it.

There were twenty black round pills in the exquisite white jade bottle. Xia Ruize took out one and put it in his mouth. The pill immediately turned into liquid and flowed into the area near his dantian.

Xia Ruize, who was practicing the mental method, found that at the end of a cycle, when the spiritual energy circulated through the dantian wrapped in the medicinal liquid, more spiritual power was left than before.

He immediately understood that this was the effect of the Guyuan Pill. It was almost the same as taking a magic potion to practice magic.

Soon the Dantian was filled with spiritual power again, but the medicinal liquid around the Dantian was not completely consumed.

Xia Ruize quickly consumed the spiritual energy in his Dantian by casting the Observation Technique, and then seized the opportunity to continue practicing his Heart Method before the medicinal power of the Guyuan Pill was completely consumed.

Before dinner, Xia Ruize finally used up all the medicinal power of a Guyuan Pill and successfully advanced to the fourth level of Qi training.

Xia Ruize opened his eyes, clenched his fists and felt the slight changes in his body.

It must be said that after taking the Guyuan Pill, although the amount of spiritual power converted each time was only a trace, but after a cycle, a lot of spiritual power was converted cumulatively, which helped him successfully break through to the fourth level of Qi training stage ahead of schedule.

Wu Wei, who came to deliver dinner, discovered that he could no longer sense Xia Ruize’s realm. There was only one possibility for this situation, Xia Ruize’s realm was already higher than his!

Wu Wei: …

Wu Wei began to wonder if he had wasted his time and life in the past three years. But he was not the last one among his fellow servants, was he?

When Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were having dinner, Wu Wei couldn’t help but ask:

“Brother Xia, why is your cultivation speed so fast?”

“The Guyuan Pill given by the Headmaster is really very useful.” Xia Ruize replied with a smile.

Wu Wei wanted to retort that Xia Ruize was not the only one who had Guyuan Pill, but suddenly he remembered that he didn’t have any, so he immediately shut up and began to wonder whether he should save up immortal stones and buy a bottle of Guyuan Pill?

Just when Wu Wei’s mind was full of Guyuan Pill, someone casually knocked on the door and walked into Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai Qian’s room.

“It’s so difficult to get into the room of the two senior brothers. I wonder what they do secretly in the room every day? Hahaha…”

The joking and teasing voice came from an outer sect disciple dressed as a young man from a wealthy family. Although he wore the same green disciple shirt as the others, the jade crown on his head, the accessories around his waist, and the shoes decorated with pearls on his feet all showed that he was of wealthier family than the other outer sect disciples.

Xia Ruize frowned. The other party came with malicious intent, which was really unpleasant.

Cheng Huaiqian noticed that Xia Ruize’s expression was not right, and his action was even more direct. He grabbed the empty fruit plate on the table and smashed it at the other party’s feet. Not only did the rich young man’s laughter stop abruptly, but he was also frightened so much that he jumped up and took a big step back, retreating to the door.

“Hey! What are you doing…”

The frightened rich young man came to his senses and became very angry. He pointed at Cheng Huaiqian and questioned him.

Then he heard Cheng Huai interrupt him nonchalantly and said casually:

“My hand slipped.”

While speaking, Cheng Huaiqian stood up and walked towards the door. His extremely oppressive height and aura made the rich young man involuntarily take two steps back and completely walk out of the room.

Cheng Huaiqian then asked with a fake smile:

“What do you want?”

“Hey, why are you so unreasonable? It was obviously you who smashed the plate, and you said your hand slipped? Do you think I’m blind?”

The rich young man became even more angry and humiliated because of the oppression, and he wanted to stand on tiptoe and speak harshly to Cheng Huaiqian.

But the only response he got was Cheng Huaiqian’s sudden slamming of the door. The rich young man’s nose was nearly crushed by the door because he leaned forward while speaking.

The tightly closed door silently laughed at the visitor’s arrogance. The rich young man, who had never thought that he would be kicked out of the room, had an extremely ugly expression on his face, as if he was brewing the desire for revenge.

The servant beside him quickly reminded him: “Sir, Sir, we are here to do serious business!”

“I know!” The rich young man growled with displeasure, glared at the servant beside him, then restrained himself for a while and began to pound on the door.

Wu Wei in the room looked blankly at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian who continued to eat as if nothing had happened, then looked at the door that was being knocked loudly. He seemed to have endless things to say in his heart, but in the end he just gave a brief reminder:

“That Huangfu Lizhuo seems to have some connection with the Shenhui royal family. I heard that he is trying his best to collect Guyuan Pills recently. He may have seen that you have Guyuan Pills, so he wants to buy them.”

“Oh.” Cheng Huaiqian responded casually, then smiled and put the remaining dishes that Xia Ruize didn’t like into his own bowl and ate them.

“I really don’t understand why anyone would like to eat bitter vegetables.”

Xia Ruize laughed and complained that he could not understand the existence of bitter melon in the real world. He never thought that in the world of immortal cultivation, there were green leafy vegetables that tasted bitter and often appeared on the dinner table. His lover even looked happy to accept it.

Wu Wei watched the two of them chatting to themselves with the frantic knocking on the door as the background noise, and felt that he still had a lot to learn, such as the ability to ignore irrelevant people as if they did not exist.

After Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian finished their lunch, Wu Wei went forward to pack up the lunch boxes, and saw the two men stand up and walk towards the door. Cheng Huaiqian suddenly opened the locked door, and Huangfu Lizhuo, who was knocking on the door outside and was about to explode, was dodged and rushed into the room unsteadily.

Cheng Huaiqian had no intention of lending a hand to help. Instead, he took a step back to make room for him to fall.

In the end, it was the servant behind Huangfu Lizhuo who grabbed him and prevented him from falling flat on his face at the door of someone else’s room.

“What on earth do you want? If you have nothing to do, don’t block the road.”

Cheng Huaiqian saw that the other party did not fall, and thought it was a pity, and asked with a half-smile.

As he spoke, Cheng Huaiqian looked around and found that everyone in the rooms in the courtyard was attracted by the hustle and bustle here, and they all walked to the door to observe the situation.

Worried that Huangfu Lizhuo would make things even more awkward, the servant simply spoke up and helped:

“Senior Brother Cheng, Senior Brother Xia, my master heard that you have Guyuan Pills, and is willing to buy it for twenty immortal stones.”

Xia Ruize on the side nodded to show that he understood, then decisively refused: “No, you can go now.”

“Two senior brothers, we came here with sincerity, but your hospitality is really disappointing. I don’t know how we have offended you two. Please tell us clearly so that we can understand!”

Huangfu Lizhuo was humiliated again and again, and he became furious and started to mock.

Cheng Huaiqian smiled and said, “There’s no other reason, I just don’t like being disturbed by strangers when I’m eating, and I don’t like having my door slammed by someone for no reason.

You guys go now, don’t think about buying the Guyuan Pill from us, just fight for the Immortal’s reward if you have the ability.”

After saying that, Cheng Huaiqian reached out and gently pushed Huangfu Lizhuo who was blocking the door, but pushed him back a few steps. After making room, Cheng Huaiqian turned around and signaled Wu Wei that he could leave.

After watching Wu Wei leave the courtyard, Cheng Huaiqian turned his gaze to the angry Huangfu Lizhuo next to him and threatened, “I’ll attack you if you knock on the door again.” Then he slammed the door again in front of Huangfu Lizhuo.

Huangfu Lizhuo was so angry that he wanted to break down the door, but his servants knew that he could not beat Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, so they quickly stopped him and took him away.

The news of the conflict between Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian and Huangfu Lizhuo quickly spread to all the outer disciples, and later all the servants in the same batch knew about it.

Most people who heard the news found it very confusing. How did the two sides suddenly have a conflict? And it sounded like the two sides started arguing with each other almost as soon as they met. What was going on?

Someone secretly inquired with Wu Wei. Inspired by Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, Wu Wei had been concentrating on cultivation whenever he had free time. Even so, those who were obsessed with watching the show still waited until he finished his cultivation and squeezed over to inquire about the situation at that time.

Wu Wei: …

Wu Wei was actually also very confused. Although he watched the scene, he really didn’t know why Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were so rude to Huangfu Lizhuo who came to their house.

Could it be that Huangfu Lizhuo entered their room without permission and teased them for hiding in their room every day?

No matter what he thought in his heart, Wu Wei was unwilling to say bad things about Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai to others. In the end, he sent back all the people who ran to his room in the middle of the night to wait for the melon to go back and rest, saying that he didn’t know either.

Wu Wei really cherished the job of taking care of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian. After all, it was really easy. The two of them seldom made requests that were difficult for him. In fact, they seldom made requests at all. They did most of the things themselves.

On a daily basis, Wu Wei was not forced to stand at the door all the time on standby. Recently, Wu Wei’s own practice time had increased sharply.

Therefore, although he couldn’t understand why Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian disliked Huangfu Lizhuo, Wu Wei just knew that he should not express his opinions carelessly.

The new day’s class was the talisman class, and the teacher was the Immortal Elder Song Fengyu.

Standing on the high platform, Immortal Elder Song looked around and found that there were already thirty disciples who had advanced to the first level of Qi training in the Lecture Hall. He nodded with satisfaction, thinking that maybe he could let his disciples learn to draw talismans during the next class.

As a result of Immortal Song’s good mood, he taught more content in this class, and the disciples below were busy taking notes.

Even if some people were muttering in their hearts about the news they had just heard about the conflict between Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian and Huangfu Lizhuo, seeing that there was nothing unusual on the expressions of the parties involved, they had to give up the idea of ​​watching the excitement.

Fortunately, the teaching content of the talisman class was accelerated, and the alchemy, weapon refining, and formation classes in the next few days still followed the original pace to instill relevant common sense into the disciples.

What was interesting was that during the alchemy class, the immortal Luo Qi, who had a long white beard, looked around at the disciples below and warned them earnestly:

“You must remember that any elixir will have elixir poison. The difference between different grades of elixir lies in the effectiveness and the amount of elixir poison.

Taking pills does help with cultivation, but over-reliance on pills is not a good thing.

Of course, the problem of erysipelas has the least impact on cultivators in the Qi training stage, because when you are promoted to the foundation building stage, you will experience cleansing of the meridians and marrow, and this process will clear out all the impurities and toxins in your body.

The only question is, can you lay the foundation in this lifetime?

Therefore, you must not let your guard down and allow yourself to become overly dependent on elixirs.

For example, the most suitable Guyuan Pill for you at the moment is to take no more than three pills a day, and be sure not to be greedy.”

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were listening to the class attentively below, looked at each other, and thought of the rapid consumption of Guyuan Pills in the past two days. They decided to take no more than two pills a day in the future, although the accelerated speed of cultivation was indeed addictive.

After the words of warning, when the alchemy class was about to end, Immortal Luo Qi waved his hand, and the thirty Qi training disciples each received a bottle of Guyuan Pills.

“I don’t have much else, but I have a lot of elixirs. You should work hard to cultivate them.”

After giving the instructions, Immortal Luo Qi left the temple.

Leaving behind a group of young disciples with excited and complicated emotions.

The exciting thing was that many people got the Guyuan Pill this time, and those who didn’t get it may be able to buy a few to try by using their connections.

The complicated part was that during class, Immortal Luo Qi had just warned them that the elixirs were poisonous, but he gave them the elixirs after class. It always felt strange.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were delighted with the replenishment of Guyuan Pill, stood up and prepared to leave the lecture hall. At this moment, Xia Ruize keenly sensed a strong gaze from the crowd. He turned around and quickly locked onto Huangfu Lizhuo who was not far away.

Huangfu Lizhuo was staring at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaqin’s backs angrily, secretly cursing Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaqin for their good luck. He hadn’t yet broken through to the Qi training stage, so naturally he hadn’t been able to get the Guyuan Pill as a reward from the immortal today. He was so jealous that his heart ached.

However, Xia Ruize suddenly turned his head and looked at him with eyes as sharp as arrows. Huangfu Lizhuo was startled and subconsciously looked away.

When Huangfu Lizhuo, feeling extremely embarrassed for his subconscious dodge, turned his head back and tried to glare back, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were no longer to be seen in the crowd.

“Humph, you’re just sitting in the same room, what else can you do except practice?”

Huangfu Lizhuo complained angrily, and the disciples next to him accidentally heard it and quickly stood up and avoided this person. If he could achieve the current level of cultivation of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian by practicing until death, he would want it too!

After listening to Immortal Master Hua Manyue’s teachings on the Heart Method and general knowledge of cultivating immortals, the young disciples who had been in the sect for more than half a month faced the mid-month examination.

The person in charge of supervising the exam this time was Immortal Elder Song Fengyu. Immortal Song, who usually wore a white long gown, always had a smile on his face and looked easy to talk to.

As a result, after the ten-day examination was over, Immortal Song took out two rolls of brocade from his sleeves and threw them into the air. The confused young disciples saw the small brocade grow in the wind and turned into a large background in the blink of an eye.

Then, everyone’s names and test scores were displayed on the silk cloth.

There were two scrolls of brocade, one showing the outer disciples and the other showing the servants.

Everyone stared at the ranking on the brocade with wide eyes, and was stunned for a few seconds before realizing that their results were made public so suddenly.

After accepting this cruel fact, most people not only paid attention to their own rankings, but also paid attention to the performance of the last outer disciples and the first servants. Then they found that the scores of the top fifty servants were higher than those of the last thirty outer disciples.

The scene was completely silent. When the ranking on the brocade silk was displayed, those at the bottom of the outer disciples lowered their heads in shame.

This ranking had torn off their fig leaf; they enjoyed better resources and more time to practice, but their grades were no better.

If they got the same results in the monthly exam, they would be eliminated.

It was unknown when the Immortal Song Fengyu had left the Lecture Hall, but he did not take the brocade with him. Instead, he let everyone’s names and scores continue to be displayed above the Lecture Hall.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at their names hanging high at the top of the outer disciples’ ranking, so they naturally had nothing to worry about, and turned around and went back to continue their cultivation.

Their mental strength was very strong. They could remember everything taught by the immortals just by attending the classes. Just glancing at the notes when they were free can consolidate the knowledge they had learned.

More importantly, their progress in cultivation was fast enough, and they were able to fully understand what the immortals taught and even apply it on their own. They had a deep understanding and were naturally able to answer questions easily during the exams.

The other young people were not as relaxed as them, especially the outer disciples who were ranked at the bottom. They were so stimulated that they simply stayed under the silk and browsed the rankings repeatedly. In the end, they masochistically copied down the rankings of the outer disciples at the bottom and the servants at the top.

After returning to their room, they would stick the copied rankings on the wall next to their bed. They would look at the rankings several times a day, and every time they would be motivated.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had gradually developed a new habit recently. They carried the weapons given to them by Master Dugu on their backs at all times and anywhere. No matter what they were doing, they would cast the Observation Technique when they remembered to do so.

As they practiced the Observation Technique on their weapons more and more times, the two could feel that their understanding of their respective weapons was gradually deepening. A unique connection was created between them and their weapons, and sometimes there was even an illusion that the weapons became extensions of their arms.

At the same time, the jade slips of martial arts that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian each obtained opened up a new part of the content, introducing that the second step to becoming familiar with weapons was to use them.

Cheng Huaiqian acquired a simple sword technique, which had basically no lethality and was all basic longsword moves. The technique required Cheng Huaiqian to practice weapon observation while practicing sword moves, observing and familiarizing himself with the differences in weapons when they were being used.

Xia Ruize’s technique was even simpler, as it required him to become familiar with the characteristics of the bow and arrow through repeated practice of drawing the bow and shooting arrows.

The long sword and the longbow had always been the main weapons of the two. They were already very familiar with them. It was not difficult for them to complete similar exercises, and they didn’t feel impatient.

On the contrary, after personally experiencing the effects of the Observation Technique, they had realized the superiority of the Martial arts techniques in the world of immortal cultivation in certain aspects, and were looking forward to the subsequent parts of the practice even more.

So recently, whenever they had free time, they would run to the landscape forest in front of the courtyard to practice swords and bows.

The result of frequently practicing the Observation Technique that quickly consumed spiritual energy was that the two had to practice mental skills frequently to restore their spiritual energy.

As time went on and the number of times increased, the two discovered that the efficiency of the consumption-replenishment cycle was higher than practicing the method in seclusion every day.

It had been proven that the cultivation experience in the magic world was also applicable in the world of immortal cultivation.

Compared to Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were obsessed with cultivation every day and delighted with their continuous progress, Li Shunchen’s life had been a bit miserable recently.

At first, he could still face the excellence of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian with a smile, but later he found that these two people were a huge mountain of pressure on him. Every time he mustered up the courage to talk to them, Li Shunchen would find that he had been left behind in some aspect.

So after returning to his room, he could only grit his teeth and work harder to cultivate, but the gap between the two sides became larger and larger. This situation made Li Shunchen, who had been extremely successful since birth, feel a frustration he had never experienced before.

Li Shunchen, who was gritting his teeth to catch up with Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, had a hard life. His originally smiling round face turned into a dull round face. There were even several times when he saw Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, the first thought in his mind was to avoid them.

Li Shunchen himself realized that something was not right with his recent condition and could only try his best to adjust himself, feeling exhausted both physically and mentally.

In a talisman class after the mid-term exam, the immortal Song Fengyu, who was standing on the high platform, looked around and found that 45 of the disciples below had reached the first level of Qi training and had the ability to practice drawing talismans themselves.

Then Immortal Elder Song waved his hand, and stacks of yellow palm-sized talisman papers, brushes and boxes of red cinnabar were delivered to the table in front of the 45 outer disciples in the Qi training stage.

“After studying the theory for so long, I think you would like to try drawing talismans yourself, right? Today I will give you this opportunity.

A talisman is actually a spell sealed on talisman paper. If you have an immortal stone mine at home, you can buy any talisman you want and as many as you want. You can just play with it. Unfortunately, most people don’t have immortal stone mines, so they have to learn to make talismans themselves.

Only by drawing more talismans in normal times can you use them to kill your opponents at critical moments!

Because the spiritual power required to activate the talisman is less than one tenth of the spiritual power required to perform the corresponding spell, that is to say, as long as you have enough talismans prepared in your hands, your battle can be ten times more powerful or last ten times longer.

This is the function of talismans.

Of course, the prerequisite for drawing talismans by yourself is that you must first master the corresponding techniques. I heard from the Headmaster that the first technique you practiced was the Cleansing Dust Technique?

Very good, today we will learn how to draw the Cleansing Dust Technique talisman. “

On the high platform, Song Fengyu, who looked like a scholar in white, smiled and spoke to the thousands of disciples below. After the introduction, without even looking at the pleading eyes of the young people who did not get the talisman paper and cinnabar, he raised his hand and slowly drew a complex pattern in the air.

As Immortal Elder Song moved, shining star sand flowed out from his fingertips and condensed into a three-dimensional model in the air.

This three-dimensional model not only allowed the young people below to clearly see the width and depth of each stroke, but also the depth of each stroke, fully revealing the Cleansing Dust Technique talisman pattern in detail.

After drawing such a model in the astonished eyes of his disciples, Master Song nodded with satisfaction. Then he pushed his hand, and the large three-dimensional model in front of him suddenly split into hundreds of smaller three-dimensional models and flew towards the young men below.

Each of the 45 Qi training stage disciples received a palm-sized talisman model, while the other disciples shared one model with four or five people.

The young people who saw this method for the first time looked at the model closely with their eyes wide open with curiosity.

“What you are seeing now is the pattern you need to draw to seal the Cleansing Dust Technique on the talisman paper. As long as you can draw the same pattern, you can successfully make a Cleansing Dust Technique talisman.”

Immortal Song encouraged with a smile, and the young people below suddenly became more eager to try.

Those who had talisman paper and cinnabar were trying to copy the model, while those who didn’t were just gesticulating in the air with their fingers.

Xia Ruize also looked at the model spinning in front of him with curiosity. Finally, he couldn’t help but touch it carefully with his hand. Then he found that the model had a sense of touch and he could use his fingers to feel the bends, widths, thicknesses, etc. of every part of the model.

Xia Ruize boldly took up the task and used his hands and mental power to carefully feel the entire model from beginning to end several times. Then he constructed a corresponding space model in his mind. As he continued to observe, the space model became more and more complete.

When he touched the model for the last time, Xia Ruize closed his eyes and used the spatial model in his mind to verify what was at hand. All the details were verified one by one.

After he was confident in his mind, Xia Ruize dipped his brush in cinnabar, held his breath, and began to draw the pattern in his mind on the yellow talisman paper.

Xia Ruize could clearly feel that as his pen continued to draw, the spiritual power in his body was also integrated into the cinnabar and remained on the talisman paper.

Slowly, a pattern consistent with the star sand model appeared on the talisman paper written by Xia Ruize. However, when he finished the last stroke, the tip of the pen left the talisman paper, and the spiritual power returned to his body. The originally bright red cinnabar pattern on the talisman paper suddenly became extremely dim, even grayish white, and the next second, the yellow talisman paper also cracked in the wind.

Obviously, the talisman failed.

This idea immediately came to my mind.

Xia Ruize was not in a hurry. He carefully observed the pattern he had drawn, recalled his previous actions, and verified it with the space model in his mind. Finally, he personally felt the star sand model drawn by Immortal Elder Song twice. After that, he knew where he had gone wrong.

After taking a deep breath, Xia Ruize put the discarded talisman paper aside, dipped the brush in the cinnabar again, and placed it on the new talisman paper. He slowly drew the already very familiar pattern, knowing every stroke of the brush clearly.

This time, when Xia Ruize stopped writing, the bright red cinnabar pattern on the talisman paper only dimmed slightly, and did not turn grayish white, and the talisman paper did not crack. It seemed to be a success, but he always felt that something was not pleasing to the eye no matter how he looked at it.

Xia Ruize reviewed the entire process of drawing the talisman again, verified it, and after pondering for a moment, he began to draw the talisman on the third piece of talisman paper.

This time his movements were smoother and he drew the talisman faster.

When the brush in Xia Ruize’s hand left the talisman paper, the bright red cinnabar pattern was still bright red, and the talisman paper was smooth as if no pattern had ever been drawn on it, just like a brand new talisman paper.

“It’s very well drawn. The effects of talismans drawn by the same person are different. Your second talisman is actually usable, but it can only be considered a second-rate product. The effect is probably only two-thirds of the effect of the Cleansing Dust Technique you cast yourself.

Your third talisman is the final product, and can produce the same effect as if you cast the spell yourself.”

There was a voice beside him, and Xia Ruize looked up to see Immortal Song Fengyu standing next to him, looking down at the talisman paper on his desk, nodding with a smile on his face.

Song Fengyu was actually more satisfied in his heart than he showed. In his lifetime, he actually saw another genius who could draw inferior or even finished talismans on his first attempt. The art of talismans finally had successors!

Xia Ruize asked curiously, “Is there any talisman whose effect can surpass the power of the talisman drawn by the person himself?”

“Yes, it is a super-quality talisman.”

Song Fengyu replied, and then he casually drew a spell on the talisman paper in front of Xia Ruize. It was a very complicated spell that Xia Ruize was completely unfamiliar with.

When Master Song stopped writing, the bright red cinnabar on the talisman paper instantly lit up and even emitted a red light. After two or three seconds, the red light converged on the talisman paper, and the entire talisman paper returned to normal.

“This strange phenomenon means that the super-quality talisman has been completed! The effect of the talisman is even better than that of me performing this magic myself. However, beginners do not need to pursue such strange phenomena too much. Once you are very familiar with the magic, you will naturally gain some insights.

I also only have a few techniques that can create super-quality talismans, and this sword technique is one of them.

Good, keep practicing.”

After finishing the explanation, Immortal Song Fengyu left with a smile. As for the super-quality sword technique talisman he had just completed, he left it directly to Xia Ruize.

The outer disciples around him had always been paying attention to Xia Ruize’s movements in drawing talismans. Now they saw with their own eyes that Immortal Song was teaching them patiently and even gave them a talisman casually. They couldn’t help but feel jealous.

Then they shuddered, thinking back to Boss Xia’s performance in recent days, and immediately suppressed their anger. Why did they have to compare with this guy when there were so many people to compete with? It was really asking for trouble.

After Immortal Master Song Fengyu taught Xia Ruize personally, he did not ignore the other Qi training disciples and looked at them one by one.

In the end, he only stayed longer at the tables of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, because these two had successfully drawn the talisman, while the others were still at the stage of failure at the first try and the talisman paper shattered at the first try.

Although he knew that the performance of other disciples was normal, Song Fengyu still couldn’t help but sigh inwardly. He felt a little regretful that he had watched the performance of the two talented disciples first and unconsciously raised the standard in his mind. As a result, when he looked at the performance of other disciples, he was even more disappointed.

After giving the young disciples some time to practice on their own, Song Fengyu once again stood on the podium and explained every detail of the star sand model in detail, and then continued to give everyone the opportunity to try.

However, drawing talismans might really require a certain feeling. No matter how detailed Song Fengyu’s explanation was, it only increased the success rate of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian. Drawing three or four finished Cleansing Dust Technique talismans in a row did not increase the talisman drawing progress of others much.

By the end of the class, apart from Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian who could complete the Cleansing Dust Technique talisman on their own, and Li Shunchen who could draw half of the pattern, the other Qi training disciples were still at the level of being able to draw only one-tenth at most.

There were even a few Qi training disciples who had just been promoted and had not yet mastered the Cleansing Dust Technique and were unable to draw it no matter how hard they tried.

Therefore, Immortal Song Fengyu only gave Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian and Li Shunchen each a jade slip recording the talisman-related contents, which corresponded to the jade slips of magic spells they had obtained earlier. The main contents of the talisman jade slips were the talisman patterns of various magic spells.

The reason why the jade slips were only given to three people was explained by Immortal Song:

“There are different talents in the art of talismans. The most important thing for you right now is to cultivate your mental skills and techniques. As for talismans, if you are interested, you can put more effort into it. Otherwise, just prepare the immortal stones in advance.”

After saying this, Master Song left the Lecture Hall, leaving behind a group of young disciples with distressed expressions.

Immortal Song’s meaning was very clear. Among the more than a thousand disciples in the Outer sect, currently only Xia Ruize and three others were qualified to focus part of their energy on the study of talismans. As for the others, instead of pinning their hopes on studying talismans, it would be better for them to prepare the immortal stones and buy talismans as soon as possible.

How could the other disciples not be shocked by such a blatant difference?

However, after being hit for a while, they seemed to get used to it.

The talisman class had begun to be put into practice, but the alchemy class, weapon refining class and formation class were still at the stage of learning theoretical knowledge.

They cultivated themselves in the mountains for countless hours, and soon, this group of new disciples faced their first monthly examination after entering the outer sect of Qingyang Sect.

This monthly exam was supervised by Immortal Master Dugu Shanhai and Immortal Master Hua Manyue, which showed how much importance the outer sect attached to this monthly exam.

Although Immortal Hua Manyue had said earlier that the outer disciples would not be eliminated in the first monthly exam, the outer disciples who had ranked last in the last ten-day exam were still extremely nervous since the day before.

They had been studying very hard lately, fearing that they would be punished in public again when the results were announced after the monthly exam.

If their grades couldn’t improve despite their hard work, they really suspected that they would have to move out of the outer disciples’ courtyard in a month.

“The monthly written test will only take half an hour, so pay attention to your speed in answering the questions.”

Before the exam officially started, a reminder from Master Dugu made the disciples below shudder in their hearts. Fortunately, they had inquired about the monthly exam situation from their servants in advance and were mentally prepared. If they had known about this change at the last minute, it might have affected their answers.

The reason why the written test time is half of the ten-day test time is because according to the custom of the Qingyang Sect’s outer sect, each monthly test will not only test the disciples’ mastery of the content of the month’s lectures, but more importantly, it will test the disciples’ progress in cultivation.

The final comprehensive written test score and training score is the real monthly exam result.

When the Si hour arrived, Master Dugu waved his hand and distributed the examination papers to the table in front of each disciple.

The young students first glanced through the entire test paper and immediately found that the number of questions on the monthly exam paper was obviously less than the usual ten-day exams, but the difficulty of the questions had increased.

The number of questions with definite answers that test memory ability had decreased, and more questions were testing the disciples’ understanding of cultivation.

For example, 60 disciples had now advanced to the first level of Qi training and started to practice the techniques, so questions about personal understanding of the techniques appeared in the exam.

This question really troubled the disciples who had not yet broken through to the Qi training stage, but they dared not protest and could only answer it. Unfortunately, they had to answer questions related to the techniques before they even started practicing it.

In fact, from the usual course arrangements, the disciples had sensed the partiality of the immortals.

For example, in the classes of cultivation techniques and talismans, the immortals always paid more attention to the disciples who made faster progress in their cultivation, and the disciples who made up the majority of the number were just like the background of the lecture hall. However, they did not expect that the immortals were also partial in setting the test questions.

Half an hour of answering time was much shorter than the usual ten-day exams. It was as if they had just started writing when they heard the immortals telling them to stop and put away the papers. They looked up and saw that the hourglass in the air had indeed run out.