Everyone's Immortal Cultivation: Starting from a Junior Talisman Maker

Chapter 120: Spending Over 100 Million, Seeking Advice on Fake Elixirs (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Time flies and two months have passed.

Yang Feng had already returned to Tianhe Taoist Temple.

After holding the Foundation Establishment Ceremony, Yang Ningning, whose qualifications met the requirements for further study at the Xia Kingdom's Sacred Immortal Academy, also went to the sacred land of the Xia Kingdom's capital for further studies.

As for whether she can be listed as a potential Core Formation cultivator by the Xia Kingdom in the future, that depends on her future destiny.

After Yang Ningning entered the Holy Immortal Academy, she told Yang Feng about some of her experiences.

Yang Feng learned that the Holy Immortal Academy was full of geniuses, and there were many geniuses in their twenties who had achieved the Foundation Establishment stage.

Furthermore, most of them come from powerful families, either from True Core families or Nascent Soul families, and their spiritual roots are all quite strong.

People like Yang Ningning, who, with Yang Feng's help, only managed to raise their spiritual root aptitude to the upper grade after consuming various precious materials to enhance it, and who do not have a powerful family background, are basically considered poor students in the Holy Immortal Academy.

Yang Feng can't provide Yang Ningning with much resource assistance at this stage, so if Yang Ningning wants to catch up with the other students of the Holy Immortal Academy in the future, she can only rely on her own efforts.

Of course, in the past two months, Yang Feng has also successively improved the other two cultivation techniques, "Demon Blood Body Refining Technique, Second Stage" and "Divine Forging Visualization Technique, Second Stage", to the proficient level.

Afterwards, his cultivation speed increased by 20% compared to before.

Furthermore, they obtained two second-tier superior natural treasures from the system.

One of them is a second-grade high-quality treasure material that can enhance the cultivation of the soul. Yang Feng has only consumed one-third of it so far, and he has already raised his soul cultivation to the second stage of the second tier.

As for the rest, since Yang Feng's physical capacity is limited, he can only consume them slowly in the future after he has completely mastered his rapidly increasing spiritual cultivation.

The other item was a second-tier high-grade divine soul defensive magic weapon.

Although a soul-defense magic weapon of this grade costs more than 20 million spirit coins in the Xia Kingdom's resource department, it is no less valuable than a second-grade top-quality pill that can improve spiritual root aptitude.

But for Yang Feng, at this stage, he actually hopes to obtain rare and precious materials from the system to improve his spiritual root aptitude.

After all, he spends most of his time cultivating at the Dao Academy at this stage, and he doesn't plan to enter the Tianlan Secret Realm anytime soon to launder some of his unused resources.

Moreover, because he usually keeps a low profile, he doesn't have any enemies to be wary of.

Therefore, such magical artifacts that can enhance self-protection are not very effective for him.

On the contrary, in terms of spiritual root aptitude, Yang Feng at this stage is far inferior to those cultivators who come from True Core or even Nascent Soul families and possess Earth-grade and Heaven-grade spiritual roots.

In addition, Yang Feng broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage at an age that was at least twenty years later than those geniuses who possessed Earth-grade or even Heaven-grade spiritual roots.

In this situation, if he cannot improve his Five Elements spiritual root aptitude as soon as possible...

As time goes on, the gap between him and those geniuses will only widen.

"Well, the rewards from the system are all pretty good."

"But every time I receive a reward, it's like opening a blind box; not everything I want is perfect."

Yang Feng felt somewhat helpless.

After mastering all three main cultivation techniques, Yang Feng realized that he needed a full 40,000 experience points to advance to the next level.

Based on the amount of experience points Yang Feng currently gains each day, he estimates that it would probably take at least several years to raise his three main cultivation techniques to the proficiency level.

As for spells, Yang Feng has only mastered two spells to the proficiency level so far.

These two spells are the second-tier Golden Light Thunder and the second-tier Flight Technique.

To master these two spells, you'll need 40,000 experience points.

Therefore, it is also unrealistic for Yang Feng to raise one of the second-tier spells to the proficiency level in a short period of time.

Moreover, Yang Feng discovered that after he raised his spells to the proficient level, it became more difficult to gain experience points.

This led Yang Feng to consider hiring a cultivator who had mastered the Golden Light Thunder or Flying Escape Technique, two second-tier spells, to provide guidance and see how effective it would be for him.

After making some inquiries, Yang Feng learned that there was a well-known elderly cultivator in Tianlan Immortal City who had reached the Pseudo-Core Realm and had cultivated the Golden Light Thunder to the Perfect Realm. He had opened a teaching center at his home.

However, the fees are quite high. A single lesson costs as much as 500,000 spirit coins, and you have to wait in line to make an appointment.

Yang Feng spent 500,000 yuan to make an appointment, but was scheduled for a month later.

However, although Yang Feng improved his Golden Light Thunder and Flying Escape Technique to the proficient level, the experience points he gained became more difficult to obtain.

However, it became much easier for him to gain experience points when practicing other second-tier spells that he had only reached the beginner level.

Therefore, in order to obtain more second-tier high-grade natural treasures from the system, Yang Feng has recently focused on practicing several other entry-level second-tier spells.

Especially the Flame Technique, because it requires the least amount of experience points to break through to the proficient level, Yang Feng spends the most time practicing the Flame Technique every day.

Of course, besides spells, Yang Feng also spends a few hours every day learning to draw second-tier low-grade talismans.

Furthermore, he plans to quickly upgrade the two-tier low-grade acceleration talisman, which has the highest experience value among the three types of low-grade second-tier talismans he currently possesses, to the perfect state.

"Shhhhh..."

That day, Yang Feng was carefully drawing talismans in the talisman-making room of his residence at the Taoist temple.

As the talisman brush continued to draw on the talisman paper, at a certain moment, a dazzling light suddenly burst forth from the paper.

Immediately afterwards, a message notification appeared before Yang Feng's eyes:
"You have successfully drawn a Tier 2 Low-grade Acceleration Talisman. Tier 2 Low-grade Acceleration Talisman experience points +20."

Upon seeing this, Yang Feng immediately put down his talisman brush and placed the successfully drawn second-tier low-grade acceleration talisman into a talisman box in his storage ring.

At this moment, his talisman box contained dozens of second-tier low-grade acceleration talismans, all of which he had successfully drawn in the last two months.

Since obtaining the second-tier low-grade talisman maker certificate, Yang Feng has spent two to three hours every day, in addition to his cultivation, to learn how to draw second-tier low-grade acceleration talismans during the breaks when his meridians are recovering from fatigue.

Over the past few months, Yang Feng has increased the success rate of drawing second-tier low-grade acceleration runes to over 70%.

Moreover, as his success rate increases, he now gains more experience points every day.

Yang Feng estimated that even if he only spent two or three hours a day learning to draw second-tier low-grade talismans, it would only take him two or three months at most to grind the experience points of second-tier low-grade acceleration talismans to the maximum.

"In recent months, the war between Wuqi Kingdom and Yunlai Kingdom has caused the purchase prices of various strategic materials such as elixirs and talismans in the country to rise significantly."

"Now, I have accumulated more than sixty second-tier low-grade acceleration talismans, and I'm almost out of second-tier low-grade talisman paper and blood ink. It's time to sell them and recoup some losses."

Yang Feng glanced at the talismans, blood ink, and other supplies in his hand, muttered to himself, and then rode his escape light to the resource department of Tianlan Immortal City.

Both Wuqi and Yunlai are located in the Northern Plains, not far from the Xia Kingdom, but their overall strength is considerably weaker. The war between the two countries requires a large amount of first and second-tier pills, talismans, and magical artifacts—strategic resources. However, the artisans within both countries cannot meet the demand, so they have to purchase from other countries. As a result, within just a few months, the prices of pills, talismans, and magical artifacts in the Xia Kingdom have increased by at least 30% compared to a few months ago.

"Greetings, Senior Yang!"

"It's a pleasure to serve you."

Before long, Yang Feng arrived at a VIP area in the Resource Department that was specially reserved for Foundation Establishment cultivators. After recognizing Yang Feng's identity, a staff member immediately and respectfully led him to a reception room.

"Senior Yang, please have some tea."

After Yang Feng sat down, the staff immediately brewed him another cup of spiritual tea.

"Could you calculate for me how much these talismans can sell for in total?"

Yang Feng took a sip of spiritual tea, then took out a talisman box from his storage ring and handed it to the staff member opposite him.

"Ok."

The staff member took the talisman box from Yang Feng, gently opened it, and saw dozens of second-tier low-grade talismans neatly stacked inside.

Her eyes lit up, and she put on a pair of spirit-suppressing gloves, carefully counting the talismans in the talisman box.

"Senior Yang, there are a total of sixty-three ordinary quality Tier 2 low-grade acceleration talismans. According to the current acquisition price of the Resource Department, these sixty-plus Tier 2 low-grade acceleration talismans can be exchanged for a total of 788 million spirit coins and 355 contribution points."

After some calculations, the staff quoted the price.

"Row."

Upon hearing this, Yang Feng nodded.

After selling the talismans, Yang Feng saw that his savings had increased to more than 60 million spirit coins. He then spent nearly 30 million spirit coins to purchase a second-tier top-grade treasure material from the resource department to improve the aptitude of water-attribute spiritual roots.

In addition, there were one hundred sheets of second-tier low-grade talisman paper and several large bottles of second-tier low-grade blood ink material.

These talismans and blood ink were already processed. Although they only cost a little over 500,000 spirit coins, only talisman makers who have obtained a second-tier low-grade talisman maker certificate are authorized to buy them.

Previously, before Yang Feng obtained the second-tier low-grade talisman maker certificate, he could only purchase second-tier low-grade spirit wood or animal hides, as well as second-tier low-grade demon beast essence blood and other raw materials to make his own talismans.

Moreover, there are restrictions on the amount of raw materials that can be purchased each month.

Now that Yang Feng has obtained a second-tier low-grade talisman maker certificate and his own identity and authority have reached level three, the amount of talisman-making materials he purchases from the Xia Kingdom's resource department each month is five or six times more than before, enough for him to study drawing every month.

In addition to the supplies mentioned above.

Yang Feng also purchased some second-tier spiritual liquid needed for daily cultivation, second-tier demon beast blood, and various second-tier pills used to restore his soul, mana, and blood when practicing various spells.

Given Yang Feng's current daily cultivation intensity, the resources required for his daily cultivation would cost at least a million spirit coins per month.

If Yang Feng hadn't been able to gain experience through grinding and obtain a large number of rare and precious materials from the system, he wouldn't have been able to acquire them.

The money he earns from drawing talismans in a month is probably barely enough to cover his daily cultivation needs.

It would be far from enough to purchase additional precious materials to enhance spiritual root aptitude or even temporarily improve comprehension.

And this is all based on the fact that their Xia Kingdom has a relatively strong overall national strength and a relatively safe domestic cultivation environment.

If Yang Feng lived in a small country like Wuqi or Yunlai, let alone buying these precious resources, finding a place to cultivate peacefully would be a luxury.

"I hope that our Xia Kingdom's leader can live a few more years and stabilize the domestic situation as much as possible. Otherwise, if domestic turmoil breaks out or war breaks out with other countries, my peaceful days will come to an end."

Yang Feng thought of their Xia Kingdom's leader, who was in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm and was said to have only a little over a hundred years left to live, and whose strength was not as great as before.

Furthermore, their Xia Kingdom has suffered provocations from neighboring countries in recent years, resulting in some minor conflicts, which makes them somewhat worried.

"Senior Yang, please take care."

After purchasing all the necessary items, Yang Feng left the Resources Department with the staff seeing him off.

After returning home, Yang Feng consumed the second-tier top-grade natural treasure that enhanced his water attribute spiritual root aptitude, raising it by 7 points from 33 to 40.

"Sigh, there's still a long way to go if I want to improve my spiritual root aptitude."

Yang Feng thought about the various rare and precious materials he had consumed over the past ten years to enhance his spiritual root aptitude; their combined value was probably over a hundred million spirit coins.

Even now, he has only improved his five elemental spiritual root aptitude to 42 for wood, 39 for fire, 34 for earth, 40 for water, and 32 for metal, and he can't help but feel a little helpless.

Yang Feng dared not imagine how many precious resources he would have to consume if he wanted to raise his Five Elements Spiritual Root aptitude to Earth Grade or even Heaven Grade in the future.

No wonder, even those Nascent Soul families in the Xia Kingdom that have been passed down for thousands of years find it difficult to raise the Five Elements spiritual root aptitude of their direct descendants to the Earth grade or even the Heaven grade level.

……

A month later.

Yang Feng finally arrived at Tianlan Immortal City, where the pseudo-core cultivator who had perfected the second-tier spell Golden Light Thunder made time to instruct him.

According to the information Yang Feng had gathered, this fake alchemist, whose Daoist name was Qingfeng Zhenren, was said to be over 340 years old this year.

According to the calculations of a fake immortal, the maximum lifespan is only about 400 years.

This fake alchemist has at most fifty or sixty years left to live.

On this day, Yang Feng arrived at the address provided by the other party in Tianlan Immortal City, at a spiritual vein dojo with a spiritual energy concentration reaching the third level.

"Hello, I am a student who has booked a private lesson."

Yang Feng arrived at a manor, rang the doorbell, and saw a cultivator with a cultivation level of mid-Foundation Establishment open a crack in the door and look at him. He immediately showed his reservation voucher and said.

"Crack!"

Upon hearing this, the Foundation Establishment cultivator glanced at Yang Feng's reservation voucher before opening the array's restrictive gate.

"Please wait here for a moment, I will go and invite the master over."

Seeing that Yang Feng was probably over fifty years old and only at the second level of Foundation Establishment, the Foundation Establishment cultivator did not engage in much conversation with him.

After leading Yang Feng to an open-air magic practice area in the manor, he gave Yang Feng a brief instruction and then turned to leave.

(End of this chapter)