Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 476 The Second-Order Spiritual Vein of the Gourd World

Ji An leisurely arrived at the Wei family's talisman shop and was respectfully welcomed into the VIP room.

After exchanging pleasantries, Wei Xianglin asked with a smile:
"Senior, how's the talisman-making going these past few days?"

During this period, Hongyan Immortal City and the surrounding area were calm, but the nerves of the higher-ups were actually on edge.

The escaped demonic cultivator possessed an unusual ability: he could transform cultivators into demonic soul puppets. In that case, even if a catastrophe broke out, it wouldn't be revealed in the open, which was the most terrifying aspect.

One moment the situation may be very favorable, and the next moment it may be completely reversed.

Therefore, it is still necessary to stock up on purification talismans, as they will come in very handy sooner or later.

Currently, the prices of various materials for the Purification Talisman are stable, and they can be purchased at low prices. However, once the demonic calamity breaks out, the price of the talisman will inevitably skyrocket.

Every disaster represents a crisis, but sometimes it also represents an opportunity.

Ji An took out the Cleansing Spirit Talisman, scratched his head, and said:

"I am ashamed to say that only a little over 130 talismans were successfully drawn from 200 sets of materials."

Perhaps it was because his spiritual power was particularly strong, or perhaps it was because the talisman he drew was relatively low-level, but he found that it was not difficult to draw, and he did not feel any difficulty at all as the other party had said.

However, it is somewhat unusual that among so many finished products, there is not a single masterpiece.

He had a suspicion that this talismanic tradition originated from Buddhist cultivation, and now he was even more certain of that suspicion.

"What? A success rate of over 60%?"

Wei Xianglin couldn't contain his shock. Whether it was the family's talisman makers or the talisman makers they collaborated with, the highest success rate in drawing the Purification Talisman was barely 40%, a difference that was extremely obvious.

He hurriedly checked the talismans and found that apart from a few low-grade ones, most of them were mid-grade, and there were even eight high-grade ones.

This was the first time he had ever seen a superior-grade purification talisman.

Wei Xianglin composed himself and said:
"Senior's skill in talisman making is astonishing, I admire you!"
"It seems you've mastered drawing the Purification Talisman. I have some first-tier talisman paper and cinnabar on hand. Would you be interested in giving it a try?"

"Of course I'm interested!"

Ji An smiled. High-level resources are always scarce, and the more outstanding one's skills are, the more resources one can obtain.

He bet that the Wei family's shop didn't have any second-tier talisman materials yet.

Drawing a Cleansing Spirit Talisman at the Qi Refining stage yields almost no benefit. The only advantage is that low-level talismans consume very little spiritual energy, and if he wanted, he could draw two hundred talismans a day.

"Now that we have plenty of materials, how many sets are you planning to take, senior?"

Ji An pondered and said:
"Then let's start with three thousand servings."

Drawing first-order talismans significantly increases the consumption of spiritual energy; he made this choice while ensuring his cultivation and alchemy.

Wei Xianglin grinned, "Three thousand servings is too much! The shop's current material reserves are only a little over six thousand servings."

Ji An noticed his expression and asked with a smile:
"Is there a problem?"

Wei Xianglin shook his head, "No, I'll go get the materials."

He went to the warehouse to retrieve the materials and began to calculate the accounts:
"The reward for all the Cleansing Spirit Talismans at the Qi Refining stage is 112 spirit stones. I'll pay you that first."

He took out the spirit stone, placed it on the table, and continued:

"Two thousand sets of materials, totaling thirty-two thousand spirit stones."

Ji An counted the materials, took out spirit stones to pay, and smiled wryly:
"The profits from this purification talisman business are entirely yours to make."

Judging from the current situation, the remuneration he can receive in the short term is pitifully small, which is equivalent to exchanging labor for the qualification to purchase the inheritance.

But he couldn't bear to give up the bait offered by the other party, and he felt a little frustrated. He could only wait until his skills improved a bit more before reneging on the payment with the other party.

"That's not how it works. It's as if the senior has already received a portion of the inheritance."

Ji An shook his head, ignoring the other party's accusations of being ungrateful despite getting a good deal, and put the materials into his virtual space.

"I'm leaving now. See you in two months."

After the news of the demonic cultivators was released, everyone started hoarding combat supplies. In order to encourage shops to raise prices, the demon hunters held onto high-level materials.

He was unable to acquire materials for Fire Dragon Talismans and Explosion Talismans from the shops, but this situation would not last long, and eventually one side would be unable to sustain the initiative to trade.

Without a doubt, it will be the independent cultivators who give up first, because they don't have much accumulated wealth and are less able to withstand risks.

Back in his cave, Ji An couldn't wait to take the armor plates out of the cave stone and assemble the Sky Soaring Armor by performing hand seals.

Because I was trying to nurture the spirit armor within my dantian, the armor plates were not covering my body.

He changed his incantation and activated the second layer of the Ruyi Magic Restriction, which could only be activated when the magic was not worn.

The entire spirit armor rapidly shrank into dust and disappeared into his palm, flowing along the immortal meridians and entering his dantian.

As soon as the spirit armor entered the primordial fire, the flames immediately began to flicker, and Ji An felt his breathing suddenly become heavier. It took him a moment to recover.

The Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and the Spirit Armor met amidst the yellow flames, yet parted ways as if they were strangers.

With four top-grade spiritual artifacts packed into his dantian, Ji An felt he had almost reached his limit.

He stood up and took a few steps, feeling as if his legs were filled with lead, and immediately became breathless.

Having an extra magical artifact makes a huge difference.

He now understood why others advised against refining so many top-grade spiritual artifacts; they feared that others would experience discomfort if a second top-grade spiritual artifact entered their dantian.

Ji An sat in the chair and felt that the weight was reduced a little when he sat still, but he still felt very uncomfortable.

He summoned his spirit armor, abandoning his idea of ​​nurturing it with the flames of his primordial life.

Every few days thereafter, when you enter the gourd world, you can store it in your dantian for a short while to nurture it.

The Yuanming Fire will be enhanced as cultivation progresses; we can only wait and test later whether it can simultaneously nurture so many top-grade spiritual artifacts.

"In the end, I was just too greedy."

Ji An chuckled self-deprecatingly, "When people have a choice, of course they want the best."

Two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the quiet chamber of the cave, Ji An finished his cultivation, a smile appearing on his lips.

My magical power has been steadily accumulating without encountering any bottlenecks, which is a good thing.

The later the bottleneck appears, the greater the potential it proves, and he is very satisfied with his current situation.

He focused his mind on his dantian, connecting it with the stone tortoise, and lines of elegant characters appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness.

[Master: Ji An]

【Daoyun: 0】

Spiritual Ability: Kan Spirit 2258.6, Gen Spirit 1256.8, Zhen Spirit 611.2, Xun Spirit 1246.9, Kun Spirit 2838.6, Qian Spirit 914.8, Dui Spirit 921.4, Li Spirit 862.9

[Spell: Spirit Sealing Technique (Perfect 2%)]

Fire Release Technique (Perfect 14%)

Metal Escape Technique (Perfect 16%)

Mental Roar (Small Success 79%) Thread-Pulling Spell (Perfect 1%)

Nothing happened within the Red Rock Immortal City area. In his spare time, Ji An would go to the Nulan River outside the city to practice his water escape technique, and finally he mastered the technique to the highest level.

Now, by fully activating the Water Escape Technique, one can traverse five hundred feet across the river, a distance sufficient to escape the attack range of a Golden Core cultivator.

He had never seen the range of spellcasting of a Nascent Soul cultivator before, and did not know what it was like.

During the practice of escape techniques, he gained several points of water-based Daoist essence, which he used entirely to cultivate the gourd world.

Next, Ji An will focus his main efforts on practicing the mental roar.

Through years of observation, he discovered that practicing this soul-attacking spell was somewhat helpful in controlling one's consciousness.

Ji An gave the order, "Enter the gourd world."

The stone tortoise emitted a dim gray spiritual light, and its figure immediately disappeared into the quiet room.

The gourd-shaped stone floats in the air, emitting a warm and spiritual light, and patterns of flowers, birds, insects, fish, sun, moon and stars are reflected on the rock wall.

Flowers bloom, birds flap their wings as if soaring in the sky; insects land on the flowers, and fish gracefully sway their tails as if swimming in water.

The sun, moon, and stars, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, seem to flow through the evolving passage of time.

Ji An was completely unaware of all this. At this moment, with his feet on the yellow earth, he couldn't help but open his arms wide.

Six months ago, all five spiritual fields in the Calabash World were cultivated to the second-tier lower grade and began to nourish the spiritual veins.

Three days ago, the spiritual veins of the small world were upgraded to the second-tier low-grade, and the area increased significantly, with each spiritual field being about fifteen acres.

This opens a new chapter. With his perfected planting spells, he can cultivate spiritual plants to the mid-grade level of the second tier.

Such spiritual plants possess high value and truly become his support.

The Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner flew out of the dantian automatically, circling around the Gathering Yuan Tree. The earth unicorn's deep roar, like a low horn, resounded throughout the sky.

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root is now five feet tall and as thick as an arm, and its leaves are no longer sparse but show signs of flourishing.

The five-colored leaves are full of vitality, and their shimmering light seems to reflect the interaction of the five elements.

Ji An took out the Sky Soaring Armor and stored it in his dantian. After the spiritual weapon was refined, it needed to be nourished with magic power so that it would respond more quickly when used.

Tianxiangjia didn't have such treatment; he could only take advantage of his 'elder brother's' absence to nurture himself in his dantian for a short while.

He scanned the nests of spirit-devouring insects near the spirit tree. After several years of reproduction, a large number of individuals at the Foundation Establishment level had emerged.

Even as their strength increases, they remain harmless spirit insects, like a pure mass of spiritual energy.

The tallest insect tower is over ten feet high, and there are twelve insect towers in total. They shimmer with spiritual light, each resembling a rugged yellow jade mountain.

As long as a large number of individuals in the Soul-Eating Insect swarm show significant improvement in strength, they will build new nests.

The abandoned nests are natural high-grade spiritual soil. If we are cultivating spiritual fields now, the demand for earth-elemental spiritual soil can be reduced appropriately.

Ji An activated the Yellow Dragon Enhancing Yuan Technique, and a yellow spiritual light shone brightly. The Spirit Devouring Insects left their nests one after another, greedily absorbing the rich spiritual energy containing the power of the earth element.

A rumbling sound came from deep within the earth, and the ground trembled slightly, as if an earth dragon was moving through it.

The 'scales' of the spiritual soil on the ground were broken apart, forming new fish-scale patterns.

The earth's energy rises, causing the golden leaves of the black-leaved sword bamboo to sway and rustle.

Two Earth Spirit Fruit Trees are planted here, both reaching the second-tier low-grade level, and they are currently bearing fruit.

In another six months, the harvest will come; these are the first batch of second-tier spirit fruits in this small world.

There are four Xuan Ye Jian Zhu plants, all of which are of the second-tier lower grade. Although bamboo shoots sprout every year, Ji An has no plans to expand the scale.

He would dig up the bamboo shoots, dry them, and then burn them to return them to the field.

Ji An took out a bamboo tube, caught some spirit-devouring insects, and then flew on a cloud to the pond above the black soil.

He scattered the spirit insects, and a large number of spirit fish emerged to fight for them. A red carp and a precious dragonfish even clashed, whipping each other's bodies with their tails.

The red carp, about four feet long, was originally the overlord of the pond, while the precious dragonfish, though only eight or nine inches long, was by no means inferior.

The two strongest individuals among the spirit fish are at the early Foundation Establishment stage.

"Grow up quickly, then you'll be qualified to be on my barbecue grill!"

Ji An smiled wickedly and activated the Cloud Dragon Rainmaking Technique.

A dark cloud quickly spread out, enveloping the black earth, with flashes of lightning revealing black scales and claws.

The raindrops, as white and sparkling as jade, fell, and the mist quickly evaporated, spreading a moist atmosphere that masked the struggle in the pond.

Ji An looked down at the dark clouds, but there was no black dragon inside. The scales and claws that appeared were just strange phenomena caused by changes in the airflow.

Two Tianyuan pears swayed in the rain, their egg-sized spiritual fruits shimmering with pale blue spots.

He smiled and nodded, then flew down to the green land and activated the Azure Dragon Awakening Technique.

A green dragon, about ten feet long, appeared, its horns radiating light. With a dragon's roar, a green beam of light spread out from it, instantly engulfing the entire green land.

Blue specks of light fell from the sky like a rain of stars, and each speck contained a swimming dragon.

On the ground, a scene of lush grass and blooming flowers unfolds, and the manifestation of the power of wood-elemental magic always brings a sense of beauty.

The towering dragonwood was bathed in light, and the two green ivy trees were laden with fruit.

More than a hundred mulberry trees were covered with pale yellow flowers, and white jade bees were buzzing incessantly as they flapped their wings.

Initially, Ji An did not intend to plant too many spirit mulberry trees. However, he later discovered that the land was underutilized and the Baiyufeng clan was in danger of extinction due to insufficient flowers. So, he gradually planted some more.

Using mulberry leaves as fertilizer is one way to utilize them, and in the future, deer can also be raised here.

He rode away on a cloud and came to the red earth.

The ears of pearl-red rice bent the stalks under their weight, and the fragrance of rice filled the air, attracting the amethyst bees.

Ji An staggered the planting time of pearl blood rice, and with the addition of peach blossoms and fire coral flowers, this land now has a source of nectar for most of the year.

The population of the Amethyst Bees is several times larger than that of the Jade Peak Bees. The second-grade low-quality nectar not only sustains the bee colony but also leaves more than 100 kilograms.

This is also what prompted Ji'an to expand the scale of mulberry planting; without comparison, there is no harm done.

Depending on the source of the nectar, the amethyst honey is sealed in different jars and stored in a small warehouse.

The initial planting of spirit peach trees, dragon blood trees, and red cloud pines all reached the second-tier low-grade level, and more than thirty fire coral plants reached the second-tier low-grade level.

The pine tree has already produced pine cones. The fire crystal ant colony splits into two parts: one part collects pine honey, and the other part collects crystals from the surface of the fire coral to brew a red jade paste that Ji An does not recognize.

Ji An unleashed the Zhu Rong Divine Fire Spell, and the phantom of the Fire God appeared in the sky, with flames rising from the ground.

The fire crystal ants and amethyst bees stopped working and began to dance joyfully.

Looking at this thriving scene, Ji An smiled.

The selected spiritual seeds are all of the highest quality, the planting techniques are excellent, and coupled with the unique conditions of the small world, it's only a matter of time before the small world flourishes completely.

(End of this chapter)