Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 21 Talisman Room lv0

Alchemy arrays and talismans, corpse puppets and ghost beasts, feng shui divination, face reading and aura analysis...

All of these involve the various arts of cultivating immortality.

In fact, Ji Yuan's current pig and chicken farming, or Luo Tong's butchering, are all considered among the various arts of cultivation, just not as famous as alchemy, array formation, talisman, and artifact.

Of course, their status wasn't as high as theirs, and they didn't earn as many spirit stones.

Ji Yuan had also learned about this during this time. In this Cangluo Continent, the highest-ranking people are the array masters.

This formation is different from others. Even in alchemy and weapon crafting, as long as you invest without regard to cost and practice diligently, you can still achieve some results.

But formations are different.

This line of work... relies purely on talent.

After understanding it, Ji Yuan felt that this formation was just like mathematics in his previous life.

You can learn other subjects if you try hard, but with math, if you don't know it, you really don't know it.

The same applies to formations.

Things are valued for their rarity; in places like Zengtou City, there are practically no array masters.

Secondly, there are weapon crafting and alchemy. Both of these are extremely resource-intensive, especially weapon crafting, where each failure results in significant losses.

On the contrary, the art of drawing talismans does not consume many resources.

Although talent plays a role, even if someone lacks talent, they can still improve through experience.

Like Lu Wan, the original owner's good friend, who simply had high talent. It is said that she initially tried to draw a water ball talisman on her own after seeing a few of them, and then her father tried his best to help her find a master.

Ji Yuan thought it over carefully, and if he had to choose one from the various arts of cultivating immortality...

That must be the making of talismans.

However, one must also learn alchemy and weapon crafting. Later on, one will definitely have to do everything oneself to refine Foundation Establishment Pills or natal magic treasures.

Moreover, the panel has given me such good conditions, so there's no reason to say it's a waste.

As for now, the priority is to draw more runes to obtain more spirit stones and improve strength... In addition, runes need to be inscribed for both the subsequent upgrades of the [Fish Pond] and [Pig Pen].

Learning in advance now is paving the way for my future.

After making up his mind, Ji Yuan began to plan whether he could upgrade the talisman-making room.

With upgrades, everything is possible.

Unable to level up...start over.

But how do I create a talisman-making room? Or more precisely, how do I make the panel recognize that I have this talisman-making room?

After a moment's thought, Ji Yuan took out paper and pen from the room, wrote down the three characters "Talisman Making Room", and then pasted the paper on the door with rice paste.

After waiting for a while, the panel did not respond.

"That shouldn't be the case."

Ji Yuan turned the room over again and changed the name of the talisman-making room to the talisman-making workshop, and then to the talisman-drawing workshop. After changing it back and forth, the panel finally changed when he pasted the three characters "talisman room" on the door.

[Talisman Room lv0]

[lv1: Effect: Success rate of Tier 1 talismans +20%, success rate of Tier 2 talismans +5%]

[Upgrade Requirements: 10 Low-grade Spirit Stones, 1 "Introduction to Talismanic Arts", Successfully draw 1 "Tranquility Talisman" (Not yet achieved)]

It finally worked!

Looking at the effect of the Level 1 Talisman Room, Ji Yuan summed it up in four words: simple and brutal!

Unlike chicken coops and pigsties, which have various other auxiliary effects, the effect of this talisman room is extremely simple: it increases the success rate of drawing talismans.

Moreover, it directly increased the success rate of first-tier talismans by 20%, and even the success rate of second-tier talismans commonly used in the Foundation Establishment stage was increased by 5%.

Do it!

We have to get started!

Ji Yuan could easily take out 10 spirit stones. The "Introduction to Talismans" was also cheap; it was sold in many places in Zengtou City for 1 spirit stone per book.

The Tranquility Talisman is just a low-grade first-tier talisman, on par with the Water Ball Talisman. It shouldn't be too difficult to draw it yourself... You can just try a few more times.

It was still early, so Ji Yuan, who had just returned from Zengtou City, went there again.

First, I bought a book called "Introduction to Talismans". It was cheap and contained information on the first-tier talismans commonly used in the Qi Refining stage.

Secondly, there are the three essential elements for drawing talismans: talisman paper, talisman brush, and talisman ink.

As for talisman paper, there are three main types of first-tier talisman paper sold in Zengtou City, from the lowest to the highest quality: hemp talisman paper, cloud pattern talisman paper, and high-quality shark talisman paper.

Since Ji Yuan was still a beginner, he naturally bought the cheapest hemp talisman paper.

One spirit stone contains 100 sheets, made from ten-year-old green hemp grass and black spirit fish blood. Each sheet can hold the maximum amount of spiritual power twice, but its drawback is that it is prone to spontaneous combustion.

The ink used was the lowest grade of Zhu Xuan ink, which is suitable for basic Five Elements talismans.

If you want to draw high-level talismans, you naturally need to prepare talismans with the corresponding attributes.

This ink was cheap; it only cost Ji Yuan two spirit stones.

The only expensive item is the talisman brush.

No matter what, this talisman pen is a magic artifact. Even if Ji Yuan bought an entry-level talisman pen, it still cost him a full 22 spirit stones.

He had only one thought about this.

Break even! We absolutely must break even!

Regardless, let's first use talismans to earn back those thirty or thirty spirit stones.

The talisman pen is named "Green Bamboo Spirit-Guiding Pen". It is made from fifty-year-old mist spirit bamboo and has spirit-gathering patterns engraved inside.

After purchasing these items, Ji Yuan was left with only 24 spirit stones.

He still had quite a bit left, so he followed the method Qiu Qianhai had told him last time and made a set of itchy venom and water ball talisman, which cost him five spirit stones.

Finally, he remembered the good thing called corpse-dissolving water.

Well, since we're already here, we might as well buy them all at once.

Before long, after searching for a while, Ji Yuan finally found the house number 9 that Qiu Qianhai had mentioned in a corner of the northwest corner of Zengtou City.

Apart from being located at the end of an alley, the house was otherwise unremarkable.

Ji Yuan stepped forward and knocked on the door, then stepped back and waited silently for a moment.

A short while later, the door opened, and a middle-aged man with gray hair and uneven eyes poked his head out.

"Who are you looking for?" The man with the uneven eyes looked Ji Yuan up and down, but didn't recognize him.

"May I ask if it was Fellow Daoist Li in person?"

Ji Yuan bowed slightly to him.

"No, you've got the wrong person."

The man with the uneven eyes slammed the door shut.

"no……"

Ji Yuan had no choice but to go back out and take another look at the doorplate. Only after confirming that he hadn't made a mistake did he step forward and knock on the door again.

"I've already said no, are you ever going to stop...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Ji Yuan lowered his voice and said a name.

"Qiu Qianhai".

Limpy Li stopped. "Come in."

Although Ji Yuan didn't quite trust the person in front of him, he trusted Qiu Qianhai.

As soon as he entered the room, he smelled an indescribable odor, like the fragrance of herbs, but also an undeniable fishy smell.

Ji Yuan glanced casually at the closed room on his right. This cripple Li... was actually an alchemist.

Limpy Li was indeed a cripple; he walked with a limp.

Before entering the house, he poured Ji Yuan a cup of tea.

"Where did that kid Qiu Qianhai go?"

Ji Yuan accepted the tea with both hands, but remained silent.

Limpy Li sneered, "I know even if you don't tell me, he probably fled to another market... He's really reckless, daring to kill even Liu Laizi."

"If it really comes down to killing, how many people in Zengtou City could actually kill Liu Laizi? It's hardly his turn!"

"It's not all because they're afraid of the Qin family behind them."

Ji Yuan placed the tea on the table and sighed, "Who can argue with that?"

"Alright, he probably sent you here for this, right?"

Limpy Li casually reached to his waist, and a bottle of corpse-dissolving water appeared in his hand. "A little thing, worthless, one spirit stone a bottle."

Ji Yuan quickly stood up. "I'd like four bottles."

After saying that, he handed over four spirit stones.

"Take it."

Having obtained the four bottles of corpse-dissolving water, Ji Yuan breathed a slight sigh of relief. However, looking at the lame Li before him, he hesitated for a moment before asking, "May I ask who Fellow Daoist and Qiu Qianhai are?"

"I am his uncle."

Limpy Li didn't hide anything and just blurted it out.

Ji Yuan was slightly taken aback. He remembered that when Qiu Qianhai introduced him last time, he called him "Crippled Li"... Would a normal person call their uncle that?

Ji Yuan had no idea what had happened between them, nor was he curious. He simply cupped his hands in farewell and took his leave.

Just as he was about to reach the door, he heard a voice behind him again.

"Since Qiu Qianhai allowed you to come here, it means he trusts you a lot. If you see him again next time, tell him... that I, Crippled Li, have agreed."

(End of this chapter)