The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 188 It’s broken! The talisman drawn on my dressing box is better than me!
Shen Le happily practiced the spell given by the copper piece.

There were only two patterns on the copper plate. Shen Le had to figure out how to draw them, what to use, and how to use them after drawing them bit by bit.

Is it outlined using inner breath?

Or is it like in the fairy tale novels, using mental power or divine consciousness to outline and form a mark in the sea of consciousness?

Or maybe just draw the talisman directly, using something like ink mixed with cinnabar, and draw it on yellow paper?
Looking through the website of the Special Affairs Bureau, it is indeed selling talisman paper, talisman ink, and talisman pens. The universal yellow talisman paper used for the most basic talismans is sold in a stack of 100 sheets for 20 points;

Universal cinnabar ink, 100 ml per bottle, priced at points;
A universal spirit rabbit hair talisman pen, made of the lowest level of spirit rabbit, the kind with the most neutral and peaceful rabbit hair spiritual properties, priced at two hundred points.

By the way, there is also a collection of universal talismans, each book is worth 10,000 points, which is equivalent to a decent car.

After all, if it weren't for places like Binhai, where a license plate costs 80,000 or 90,000 yuan, the cost of buying a car for a normal person would be the car itself, insurance, and vehicle purchase tax...

Shen Le flipped through the Special Affairs Bureau website several times and shook his head helplessly.

It was a shady business, really a shady one. I taught myself talismans by purchasing materials online. Before I could make a profit from it, I probably spent at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.

After all, the official sale of the Diamond Talisman only costs 10 points each;

Heart-clearing talismans, 20 points each;

Explosive Flame Talisman, 20 points each.

The purchase price is at most half of the sales price. So, assuming that a bottle of ink can be used 100 times, ignoring the loss of the talisman pen, and the success rate rises to 20%, it is difficult to even break even...

However, the complete collection of general talismans only has pictures, but no mantras for moving qi, guiding the mind and concentrating the spirit, nor any detailed explanations!
Drawing talismans is so expensive, not to mention refining elixirs and refining equipment which are even more expensive.

Shen Le casually glanced at the raw material prices on the official website and felt that even if he had a fortune of 100 million, he could not afford to buy the materials and teach himself without any golden fingers.

Ah, is this why the boss of a big company who resigned with hundreds of millions in bank deposits said, "Enjoy life for a while, and then find a job"?

You really can't afford to use your own money to practice your skills!

...Luckily I have other ways to make money.

I am not one of those casual cultivators with no inheritance in novels who can only afford this kind of entry-level stuff, and rely on a few basic talismans to work my way up bit by bit, and finally become a True Man of Longevity, a Taoist Lord, or something like that.

Shen Le used great willpower to stop his happy behavior of browsing Taobao of the cultivation world.

He ordered a hundred sheets of yellow paper, a bottle of cinnabar ink, and a universal rabbit hair brush as backup, and began to practice his new spells:

First, use your consciousness to slowly outline. First, imagine a light spot in your mind, then move slowly along the pattern given by the copper sheet, and try to draw a complete pattern.

failure.

The light spot just moved a little bit and then he lost his focus and the line went crooked.

failure.

I didn't get distracted this time, but when the light spot moved to one-third of the way, I forgot the pattern that followed.

Fail again.

After repeatedly strengthening my memory and outlining it, I made sure I remembered the details of the pattern. However, halfway through the light spot, the condensed light quietly dissipated from the beginning...

It feels like the mental strength or consciousness is no longer enough to maintain the meaning of the entire pattern?
Shen Le tried it twice, but didn't get any results except making his head buzz and having a splitting headache.

Helplessly, he could only have a good sleep, adjust his condition, and then try another technical path:
Use the heat in your body, or perhaps your inner breath, to outline the pattern given by the copper sheet...

Calm your mind, concentrate your spirit, and slowly mobilize the heat flow to penetrate the twelve meridians in your body, and then outline the pattern little by little.

One stroke, two strokes, three strokes... one third, half...

Suddenly, the direction of the heat flow changed, and the two patterns collided with each other inexplicably and began to conflict. Shen Le only felt a pain in his dantian, and the whole person was immediately shaken out of his state of concentration.

He pressed his lower abdomen with one hand and touched the copper plate with the other hand tremblingly. In just such a short while, the pain was so severe that his vision went black and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

He didn't even have the strength to take off the copper plate, but instead pressed it hard against his chest, shouting in his heart:

"Help me! Help me! - You gave me the method, you can't just ignore me!!!"

【Useless.】

A light complaint seemed to echo in Shen Le's heart.

Then, the copper piece vibrated slightly, instantly absorbing the disordered breath, leaving the pain gone but the dantian empty.

Shen Le concentrated and felt it for a moment, and couldn't help but smile bitterly:

This copper piece is really greedy. In just this one move, the power it absorbed has reached one-fifth of his internal strength, right?

Although he could slowly regain his strength after meditating for a day...but the strength he just summoned was probably less than one tenth at most...

The medical fees charged are too high!
There is no room for bargaining with the copper piece, and what's more, we should be grateful that others are willing to help us!
He patiently tried twice more, but failed twice. He dared not try again and could only sit in meditation and restore his internal strength.

After replying, luckily the Special Affairs Bureau's express delivery speed was quite good, and the talisman ink, talisman paper, and talisman pen he ordered had already arrived at his home.

Shen Le first drew the picture on the computer, printed it out, and confirmed that the printed pattern had no effect;
Then use a brush dipped in ordinary paint to draw on ordinary white paper. There is nothing wrong with simply drawing, but there is no effect;
It is very difficult to channel the heat flow in the body into an ordinary brush and ordinary white paper, just like digging in the mud with a bean sprout. It cannot be said that you can get twice the result with half the effort, but you can still not get one point of gain even if you put in one hundred percent of your effort.

Shen Le drew the pattern seventy or eighty times in a row, and finally turned to the standard tools for drawing talismans. As soon as he started, a new problem immediately arose:

"The Special Affairs Bureau is so shady! Why didn't the universal talisman book tell me that drawing talismans is so difficult to control!"

Of course, it could also be because Shen Le didn’t buy it at all… He only looked at the product introduction page, which didn’t introduce the essentials of drawing talismans at all…

Anyway, he felt the heat in his hand running uncontrollably in the pen shaft and the tip of the talisman pen.

According to the advertisement, the rabbit hair brush is the most flexible, and a stream of heat can flow in seventeen or eighteen directions;

If you want to guide the force along the tip of the pen, you can make it bigger or smaller, thicker or thinner. Within one second, you can create seven or eight different shapes!
With every stroke Shen Le made, a piece of talisman paper was wasted. With every stroke Shen Le made, another piece of talisman paper was wasted.

After wasting one third of the talisman paper, he threw down his pen and sighed to the sky:

"Ah——Why is it so difficult to draw talismans!!!"

Maybe I should ask Gu Yulin and the others for advice? Or spend some points and find a reliable teacher to teach me?
If the promise is that it is for personal use only and not for sale to outsiders, the teacher should still be able to find it, right?

【Do you want to draw this pattern? 】

Suddenly, a gentle, very elegant and soft voice sounded in his heart. Shen Le was slightly startled and looked around:

There was no light on the wick of the small oil lamp. Perhaps the main body was left here, and the spirit of the instrument followed the wire and went to play somewhere else.

The little ink fountain in the next room was flicking the ink line with a "bang, bang, bang" sound, giving orders to the woodworking tools, and he was working happily.

Pinocchio was out working, and the doll cabinet was in the next yard. Even if he wanted to talk to him, he wouldn't be so close...

【It’s me! 】

The voice chuckled again. Shen Le shifted his gaze again, his eyes brightening:
The dressing box he placed on top of the cabinet in the corner of the room, which was specially covered with a glass cover and equipped with a constant temperature and humidity device inside, lit up slightly.

The brilliant light interweaves and flows quietly on the glass cover, creating a magnificent scene. The light is unprecedentedly strong and the speed of its flow is also unprecedented.

Compared with the previous dim aura, compared with the subtle aura on the dressing box, the porcelain box, the comb, and the bronze mirror, it was at least ten times stronger!
[It's you? You...you can talk to me now? ]

Shen Le was surprised and delighted. In his heart, he let out a low laugh:

[I could have said it a long time ago. It’s just that you couldn’t hear it. Thank you for what I said before. I am really happy that my master’s descendants can meet and find their homeland…]

Shen Le also laughed. He scratched his hair and wanted to refuse, but the dressing box had already started to act on its own:

The lock popped open by itself, and the two black lacquered doors with gold-painted landscapes and pavilions opened, and the black lacquered drawers inlaid with treasures opened one by one.

The bronze mirror turned sideways, reflecting the pattern that Shen Le had printed out and used as a template;

The porcelain boxes unscrewed one by one, revealing the various cosmetics that Shen Le had bought specially and filled one by one:

【Do you need me to draw for you? 】

Shen Le couldn't help but laugh. Half of it was joy, and half of it was bitter. He was really happy that the spirit of the dressing box had finally been nurtured.

However, his ability in drawing talismans was so great that he couldn't even bear to look at his dressing box?
"Then...would you like to draw?"

He asked tentatively. In the dressing box, a cloud of powder suddenly rose up, moving and interweaving in front of Shen Le.

Soon, a thin layer of film floated up on the surface of the bronze mirror, which was exactly the same as the pattern reflected on the bronze mirror.

Shen Le watched intently, the anticipation on his face quickly turning into regret. The pattern on the dressing box was drawn very accurately.

The bronze mirror reflects the pattern of the printer and keeps it there. The dressing box then stirs the powder and draws on it according to the pattern without any mistake.

But, it’s useless!

He couldn't feel any power from this pattern...

[You pour that ink for me? ]

The makeup box was also stunned, silent for a while, and asked tentatively. Shen Le thought about it, emptied the smallest eyebrow ink box, and filled it with cinnabar ink.

In a moment, cinnabar ink quietly rose into the air and once again outlined an accurate pattern above the bronze mirror.

This time, an inexplicable force quietly spread out, like a breeze, circling around Shen Le.

Shen Le: “…”

broken!

My dressing box is better than me at drawing talismans!
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