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Chapter 185 A spark of inspiration becomes a talisman; the world wastes ink and cinnabar in vain.
Chen Xu carefully conducted a comparative test.

He currently has five types of potted plants: red cinnabar, golden bullet tree, kumquat, fig, and raspberry.

Several of the kumquat bonsai have just sprouted small flower buds. These buds usually only bloom for a day or two, making them particularly convenient for comparison.

The red cinnabar is currently in bloom. According to the flower vendors, this type of red cinnabar is specially cultivated by them and has a blooming period of two to three months.

The fruiting period is even longer, lasting beyond May.

After Chen Xu grouped the potted plants into groups, he ignored those placed in the real world and let those placed in the kitchen and firewood shed grow naturally.

The last group was also inside the kitchen, where Chen Xu was grinding ink and laying out paper.

The ink was mixed vermilion ink, and the paper was pre-cut yellow paper.

Both items came from the Qingxu Taoist Palace outside the city. Chen Xu did not buy them himself, but sent the steward of the Feng family's villa to purchase them.

To be honest, the cinnabar ink and yellow paper are quite expensive; a stack of twelve blank yellow papers costs one tael of silver.

Chen Xu spent a total of fifty taels of silver to buy six hundred blank talisman papers.

It is said that even a well-drawn talisman for warding off evil spirits or bringing peace and safety costs one or two taels of silver, even if it is drawn by an ordinary Taoist disciple.

However, if it is painted by a Taoist priest or a true master, then the price is immeasurable.

After all, some things can be bought with money, while others are beyond the measure of ordinary gold and silver.

In addition, Chen Xu also had half a jar of Netherworld Ink, but since demons and ghosts could eat it, Chen Xu naturally could not use it as ordinary ink, so he kept it for the time being and will not go into details.

He picked up a brush and drew talismans.

Over the past few days, Chen Xu has practiced the "Transformation of All Things Talisman" at least a thousand times, taking advantage of the time difference in the kitchen.

As the saying goes, "Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will become clear," let alone practice it thousands of times.

Chen Xu was not stupid; he had even tasted the Moon Essence Flowing Elixir Tea and the Lotus Wisdom-Nourishing Soup, which were wondrous spiritual foods that enhanced comprehension.

Now that the brush and ink are used to create talismans, flashes of inspiration come from my mind.

He seemed to return to that day at the Qihe Mountain literary gathering, when the world was in turmoil, but at that moment he saw the true talisman reflected by nature through the floating mountain and river patterns above the ancient inkstone!
The All Things Transformation Talisman seems to have extracted some kind of spiritual essence from heaven and earth.

Then, this spiritual essence is recorded and printed using runes.

Chen Xu's soul was in the kitchen, but his thoughts were clearly merging into the vast and boundless underworld through the kitchen.

A separate courtyard, a side room, a small world within a small space.

Night deepens, wind rises, and the boundless blue sky unfolds.

A flash of inspiration struck, and a vast array of runes was created in a single stroke.

In the wondrous kitchen filled with fireworks, Chen Xu's brush moved with divine skill, drawing ten talismans for the creation of all things in succession, without a single failure.

On the eleventh talisman, the inspiration suddenly faltered, Chen Xu's brushstrokes veered, and the innate Qi in his dantian failed to connect. The talisman on the table then spontaneously combusted without fire.

Failed.

The inspiration ended there.

Chen Xu checked his internal energy and found that the primordial energy in his dantian was actually quite abundant.

Therefore, it was not his lack of cultivation that led to this failure, but rather that the little bit of spiritual light he had just captured was only enough to support him in drawing ten talismans.

The art of runes is indeed profound and mysterious.

No wonder there's a saying in the world of talismans: "A spark of inspiration is all it takes to create a talisman; people waste ink and cinnabar in vain."

Chen Xu was lamenting the difficulty of drawing talismans, unaware that if his success rate were to spread, all the talisman masters in the world would probably be envious and doubt themselves.

After drawing ten pictures and failing at one, Chen Xu rested for a while.

He relaxed his mind, strolled slowly through the kitchen, and casually checked the supplies.

After looking around the woodshed again, Chen Xu noticed that many potted plants were just piled on the ground. He thought he should buy a few more shelves to organize them. He also figured he didn't have to buy any; the seemingly inexhaustible pile of wood in the woodshed could actually be used to make shelves if it wasn't chopped into smaller pieces.

Doing this is just a way to relax your mind and body.

On that day, Chen Xu's spiritual attribute broke through to 200 points, and the Fireworks Kitchen underwent a transformation, adding a small door and a firewood hut.

But we don’t know when the next evolution will happen, or what the conditions for evolution will be.
Chen Xu remained calm and composed, letting his emotions settle before returning to the table to continue drawing talismans.

Send forth your thoughts, and seek inspiration once more.

Clouds surged from the tip of the brush, and the work was completed in a single stroke.

After going back and forth like this for five hours, Chen Xu obtained a total of one hundred and twenty Myriad Creations Talismans.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't draw it again. It wasn't because his cultivation was lacking, but because his inspiration for the day seemed to have been completely exhausted.

No matter how much Chen Xu tried to grasp the essence of things, there was always an inexplicable sense of sluggishness in his thoughts.

Even if Chen Xu decisively added three attribute points to himself at this moment, throwing five points into his Divine Soul, Essence, and Blood Qi all at once, it would only restore his mental agility.

It doesn't affect his other cultivation practices, nor does it affect his combat strength.

The only thing that can be done is draw talismans; if you can't draw them, you simply can't draw them.

It was through this process of drawing talismans that Chen Xu truly experienced the superiority of the innate Qi.

Drawing talismans actually consumes a lot of true energy, but Chen Xu's innate qi has a unique characteristic of being inexhaustible.

He successfully drew 120 talismans, but also wasted 20 or 30. In the end, the energy consumed by drawing talismans could not keep up with the recovery speed of his innate Qi.

With everything ready, Chen Xu first selected a pot of kumquats.

He noticed that after nearly six hours, the small flower buds on the kumquat branch seemed to be showing some signs of opening slightly.

Chen Xu was certain that this was not his imagination. With his current cultivation level and spiritual power, he would not easily have such an illusion.

Therefore, even without being able to compare it with the kumquats outside, he could be certain that the kumquats in the kitchen had indeed been growing continuously over the past six hours!

This good news immediately lifted Chen Xu's spirits.

He took out a Talisman for the Creation of All Things and activated it by channeling his true energy.

The talisman instantly floated up, leaping above the kumquat and emitting a hazy, clear light.

Chen Xu immediately sensed an indescribable, refreshing, and lively energy surrounding him, and below, the small kumquat tree's branches and leaves swayed.

On the branches, the small flower buds that were originally half-open and half-closed bloomed one after another, and just like that, under Chen Xu's naked eye, they completed a flowering process.

When the flowers bloom, the petals and leaves move without any wind.

Under the clear light, it seemed as if dust and mist were floating. In the blink of an eye, Chen Xu knew that this was the kumquats being pollinated by the wind.

As for where the wind comes from, it naturally comes from that highly spiritual talisman that brings forth all things.

Chen Xu felt as if he were experiencing a blossoming journey of life, the most romantic pursuit in the world, a growth and passion that is rarely felt in the mundane world, a sudden and overwhelming surge of courage and vigor.
Chen Xu stood in front of the small kumquat bonsai, stunned for a moment.

He then sensed that the floating Myriad Creations Talisman seemed to be running out of power, so he immediately took out another Myriad Creations Talisman and activated it.

Then he saw the fruit grow after the flowers withered.

The fuzzy little fruits peeked out from the branches, and although they were plants, their rapid growth at the moment gave Chen Xu a strange sense of dynamism.

Chen Xu then sensed the extension of the kumquat roots inside the pot, the rapid loss of soil fertility, and the extending roots protruding from the top of the potted soil in the opposite direction.

They seem to instinctively and greedily want to acquire more spiritual essence, so their root systems are actually extending upwards.

The third All Things Transformation Talisman then floated into the air, releasing a large amount of spiritual energy. At this crucial moment, it completed the relay, instantly ripening all the kumquats.

The new food entry was thus created!

(End of this chapter)