One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 199: A Few Things About Opening a Store
Zhao Fuyun planned to give him a talisman.

He actually doesn't like owing favors to others.

He immediately took out a talisman from the box and said, "Manager Huang, I'll give you a talisman."

What he held was the 'Red Flame Talisman'. The Red Flame Talisman he drew at this moment was very different from the one he drew before he established his foundation. Both the rhyme and the way of drawing the talisman were greatly different.

The talisman paper is just an ordinary yellow talisman, the cheapest kind.

In fact, Huang Donglai didn’t think Zhao Fuyun could draw any outstanding talismans.

In his opinion, the more mysterious the talisman is, the better the talisman paper that carries it must be.

Only an extremely skilled talisman master can draw his favorite talisman on ordinary talisman paper.

Huang Donglai didn't think Zhao Fuyun had such ability.

Yellow talisman paper is of the lowest grade, so the talismans drawn by Zhao Fuyun must be talismans for ordinary people.

However, when Zhao Fuyun handed over the Red Flame Talisman, he looked at it carefully and felt that the talisman looked like a child's scribbling with a brush.

There was a pool of thick cinnabar ink on it, which formed a strange bird body. Of course, it had the head and feet that a talisman should have. The core of the talisman was a thick ink doodle in the middle, but he couldn't quite understand it.

Is this also a talisman?
However, when he held it in his hand, he felt a warmth, the same feeling as the fire talisman he knew.

"What kind of talisman is this?" Huang Donglai asked. As a foundation-building cultivator, he was not good at fighting and the talisman did not contain many magical powers. However, as he was in the largest market in the country of Da Zhou, he was considered knowledgeable.

"The Red Flame Talisman." Zhao Fuyun said.

"The Red Flame Talisman?" Huang Donglai repeated the name. It's not that he hasn't heard of it before, because he knows that the advanced talisman of the Divine Fire Talisman is often called the Red Flame Talisman. It's just that the Red Flame Talisman has no fixed pattern, and everyone draws it differently, so the power is naturally different.

"Is this just a transformation of the fire talisman?" Huang Donglai held it in his hand and felt that the feeling was not much different from that of himself holding the fire talisman.

"No, this is my unique Red Flame Talisman." Zhao Fuyun said seriously. Huang Donglai still didn't believe it in his heart, but seeing that Zhao Fuyun said it so seriously, as a knowledgeable person, he knew better that there was no need to expose others.

After he put it in his arms, he gave Zhao Fuyun some ideas and told him that the house should have some style, so that at least people would not feel it was shabby.

Zhao Fuyun thought about it and felt that there was some truth in it.

He had some ideas in mind, but he needed to do it step by step himself.

For example, wind just blew in, and he wanted to stop the wind from blowing in. A wind-stopping talisman would be enough. However, if he wanted to make it both durable and beautiful, it would be difficult to do. After all, materials were needed, and all of these required flower spirit stones.

He discovered that when a person wanted to settle down and live a proper life, the expenses would be huge, especially if he wanted to open a shop, which could also be considered as starting a career. If he did not have the spiritual stones given to him by Xie Anlan, he would hardly be able to move forward.

He has been traveling between heaven and earth for nearly two years, but has hardly spent any spirit stones. This shows that wandering is the cheapest way of life.

Huang Donglai put his hands on his hips and walked out with the teapot in his hand.

He returned to his shop, looked around, and then handed everything over to the shopkeeper who was on duty that night. Then he went out with two farmhands and went home.

His residence was in a workshop outside the market town, far away from where people lived. The workshop was next to a forest. Because talisman paper was needed, a large space was required, and many workers lived here.

There is some distance from the market town to his Huang's Talisman Paper Workshop. Although the entire Luodu City is patrolled day and night, and is not much worse than the capital city compared to the entire Great Zhou, for safety reasons, he has brought two farmhands with him when he went home for so many years.

The farmhands all had Xuan Guang cultivation and carried blue talismans on their bodies, which they had bought at the White Tiger Hall with a lot of spirit stones.

Baihutang is a shop that specializes in selling talismans. It is very famous in the entire Dayingfang. The most famous of them is the "White Tiger Star Talisman". It is said that someone once used this talisman to block the attack of a Purple Mansion monk.

Of course, what he bought was not the White Tiger Constellation Talisman, but other talismans, because the other talismans in his talisman shop were also of very good quality.

Holding the red flame talisman in my arms and walking in the snow with an umbrella, I actually felt warm. I couldn't help but think that this fire talisman could be used as a stove to warm myself up.

When he got home, his son was about to go out.

His family has inherited this small talisman paper workshop, and his son is considered to have some talent. He has been polishing the Xuan Guang and wants to comprehend a talisman as a foundation-building talisman. He wants to become a true foundation-building cultivator, rather than a foundation-building cultivator like his father who only possesses a Dharma nature.

In his mind, such a foundation-building cultivator cannot be called a true foundation-building cultivator.

In order to hone his mind, make his Xuan Guang more condensed, and enable his magical Xuan Guang to carry more Dharma nature in the future, he joined the night patrol team of Luo City.

Huang Ji was about to go out, looking at the heavy snow in the sky, when Huang Donglai came back and couldn't help but said, "Did you bring the fire talisman? Here is a fire talisman. Take it. It's cold, and you can keep warm with it."

Huang Ji wanted to refuse because he had it on him, but Huang Donglai had already handed it to him, so he took it.

"Be careful, don't take it lightly, and be alert to any suspicious places." Huang Donglai instructed.

"I understand, father." Huang Ji said and went out. He did not wear a raincoat to protect himself from the wind and snow, nor did he hold an umbrella. Instead, he walked into the wind and snow with his head bare. He felt that facing nature and enduring its wind, cold, rain and wetness was also a kind of tempering.
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Zhao Fuyun did not close the door. He wrote on a piece of paper the names of the talismans he was selling.

Fire talisman, divine fire talisman, red flame talisman, invisibility talisman, demon-suppressing talisman.

There are five kinds of talismans in total, written on white paper. The black characters are quite conspicuous but not very big, and they are pasted on the wall outside.

Zhao Fuyun sat back in the house, by the fireplace. The night manager of Huang's paper talisman shop came to Zhao Fuyun and the two got to know each other. The other person's name was Huang Beixuan, a majestic name like Huang Donglai. He was Huang Donglai's cousin.

He also gave Zhao Fuyun a pot of wine, saying it was rice wine brewed by himself.

Zhao Fuyun did not refuse a small pot of wine. The two talked for a while and then he went back.

Of course, there is much less business at night, but it is still there.

For the monks, night and cold were never too much of an obstacle.

There was silence all night. At dawn, a female cultivator suddenly stopped at the door. She looked up at the words "Cloud Pattern Talisman" and then at the name of the talisman written on the white paper.

After hesitating for a moment, he was about to leave, but turned around and walked in.

She had made an appointment with someone to explore the Hell, which required fire talismans and divine fire talismans. She had already bought the divine fire talisman, but she saw the relatively rare 'Demon-Suppressing Talisman' here.

Although it was just a newly opened talisman shop, she couldn't help but want to come in and see if it was real.

When she entered the shop and took a look at the simple shelves with a few boxes scattered around, she felt disappointed. However, when she saw the Taoist priest sitting by the stove, who looked ordinary but had a good aura, she couldn't help but ask.

"It's written on the paper outside that you have 'Demon-Suppressing Talismans' for sale, right?" Jing Qing asked while standing behind the counter.

Zhao Fuyun naturally knew when she came in, but he didn't want to smile like other shoppers when someone came in. He felt that his talismans didn't need to be sold like this. He looked up and saw that the other person was a tall woman from the height of the counter through her upper body.

The woman was wearing leather armor, her hair was tied up in a single bun, with an ebony hairpin inserted horizontally. It could be seen that there were talismans engraved on it, which should be a magical tool that helps to practice and calm the mind.

Her hands were on the counter, with wrist guards locking her sleeves at her wrists.

Her face is slightly long. Although it is not an oval face, it can still be described as elegant and graceful.

Zhao Fuyun looked at the other person, and the other person also looked at him.

In her eyes, Zhao Fuyun was wearing an extremely ordinary blue Taoist robe, white pants, and black cloth shoes. His hair was not all tied up and looked very smooth. His face had an ordinary appearance. The only thing that caught her attention was the bracelet on Zhao Fuyun's right wrist, which looked like it should be a good magical weapon.

"Yes, how many do you want?" Zhao Fuyun did not put down his hand, but stood up.

"I want to see the quality." Jing Qing said seriously.

"Okay." Zhao Fuyun certainly did not refuse. If someone came to buy the talisman for the first time, who would dare to buy it without feeling its quality? What if the talisman was useless when saving a life, wouldn't that be costing a life?

Zhao Fuyun took one out of the box in the container.

There were tiny handwritings densely written on the yellow talisman paper. This magic spell to suppress the devil was what he got from the Tianfu in Mount Li.

He wrote it down and was able to 'suppress the devil'.

This spell to suppress evil spirits was the most tiring for him to write, because there were many words and they had to be written in very small letters, so it was not easy to finish writing them on this piece of talisman paper.

Jing Qing took it in her hand and looked at it. She felt that the talisman paper was very heavy. When she held it, the wind around her seemed to stop.

She wanted to recognize the words on it, but found that the only word she recognized was the one at the front, "Zhen". Of course, she recognized that word half-guessingly.

She touched it slightly with her magic thought, and the talisman paper began to glow. Faintly, it seemed that a powerful energy was about to burst out.

She immediately restrained her thoughts and asked, "How many spirit stones does this demon-suppressing spell cost?"

"Five spirit stones for one." Zhao Fuyun said.

Jing Qing remained silent. She did not say it was expensive. But if she had to say it was expensive, it was indeed expensive. This was the price of famous talismans in those famous talisman shops.

The so-called master is a talisman master who is recognized by everyone here, and who is good at drawing talismans. For example, a certain talisman drawn by a certain talisman master is recognized as good by everyone, and the price of this talisman will be higher than that of others.

Even the 'White Tiger Constellation Talisman' in the White Tiger Hall sells for ten spirit stones each, and the 'Tiger Sword Gangsha Talisman' also costs the same amount.

This kind of talisman is often bought to save lives.

Jing Qing was somewhat unwilling. Although she felt that the talisman seemed good, the talisman master in front of her was unknown and his shop was newly opened. Without a reputation, how could he sell it at such a high price?

"Do you think it's expensive?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"It's a bit expensive." Jing Qing said.

"There's nothing I can do. I don't have much business here. Only one person came to buy in a whole day. I can only sell at a higher price." Zhao Fuyun said.

Jing Qing thought, what is this? She couldn't help but said, "No one comes just because you're new and people don't know about it, but that's not a reason for you to sell it at such a high price."

"Well, is that so? Oh, then I think it's worth that much, not because few people buy it." Zhao Fuyun changed his tone.

Jing Qing felt that this person didn't know how to do business and deserved to have no business.

Before she could say anything, Zhao Fuyun had already reached out to take the talisman back.

She was furious, put down the talisman, turned around and walked out.

But when he arrived at the door of the store, he thought again that he had agreed with everyone this time to explore the Hell in depth. He might encounter danger, and there were the most monsters in the Hell. With a talisman like this one, he would not be invaded by monsters, and it could protect his life at the critical moment.

After walking out, she walked back and put five half-thumb-sized spirit stones on the counter.

The spirit stone was crystal clear, and there seemed to be smoke inside, which looked quite beautiful, reflecting the crystal light in the firelight.

Zhao Fuyun didn't say anything else. He stood up and took out the 'Demon Suppression Talisman' and handed it to her. When she turned to leave, thinking that she might want something else, he said, "I also have an Invisibility Talisman and a Red Flame Talisman, which are also very useful."

She said without even turning her head: "Keep it for yourself."

She decided that she would never come here next time. Although talismans for suppressing demons were rare in other places, they could still be bought if she prepared in advance.

Zhao Fuyun felt the other party's anger.

Sitting down again, as he had been good at observing people's words and expressions since he was a child, it was easy for him to see the inner meaning of other people's words and their real thoughts.

But now he no longer agrees and just wants to be himself. His travels in the past two years have worn away his original layer of protective color, or shackles, or outer coat.

He has to be true to himself.

Returning to nature requires a process and time.

Opening a small shop in a busy city, doing some small business, not caring about profits or losses, just wanting to watch the people coming and going, and observing the world's trends, is also a beautiful thing.

At daybreak, he closed the door and decided to have some breakfast, because he suddenly felt that if he sat there every day without eating or drinking, his life would be less interesting, and he might be able to hear something in a place where he ate.

For example, what he wanted to hear most was about Tiandu Mountain.

When the shop was closing, the night watchman Huang Beixuan who was selling paper talismans next door was changing shifts.

"Master Fuyun, would you like to have breakfast?" Huang Beixuan said.

The streets are crowded with people.

"Yes." Zhao Fuyun answered straightforwardly.

Huang Beixuan thought this young man was very nice and not shy at all.

"Come on, I'll take you to a delicious bun shop to eat buns." Huang Beixuan pointed and said, putting his arm around Zhao Fuyun's shoulder.

(End of this chapter)