I'm in Yellow Maple Valley, and I have one equipment slot!

As expected of a long-established and renowned talisman-making sect, the Heavenly Talisman Sect's method for crafting the Spirit-Subduing Talisman is ingeniously conceived, demonstrating profound and unique insights into the Dao of Talismans, the characteristics of demonic beast souls, and the sealing and activation of energy.

However, Zhou Yuan himself is exceptionally skilled in weapon crafting, alchemy, formation making, and talisman creation.

comprehend by analogy.

In addition, he had already replaced his equipment with several items that could enhance his comprehension and improve his understanding of talismans and soul power.

His speed of comprehension is terrifying.

It only took a little over ten days.

He had thoroughly mastered the intricate and profound tradition of crafting spirit-summoning talismans, understanding the key points, timing, and taboos thoroughly.

"We can begin."

Zhou Yuan returned to the newly opened quiet room, and with a wave of his hand, took out all the items needed for refining and neatly arranged them in front of him.

Talisman pen, talisman paper, cinnabar, animal hide.

All materials used are top-quality.

Everything is ready.

Zhou Yuan sat cross-legged, regulated his breathing for a moment, and adjusted his state to its best.

Immediately, he took out a palm-sized jade bottle from his storage bag. The bottle was dark green and covered with fine sealing runes.

This is the container that seals the essence of the level eight Gale Beast.

With a solemn expression, he carefully pried open the bottle cap a crack.

"Pfft!"

With a soft sound, a fist-sized, hazy, and spiritually vibrant ball of light shot out from the bottle's mouth like a startled fish, leaving a yellow afterimage in the quiet room!

It was the essence of that level eight Gale Beast! Even after being sealed for many years, its instinctive resistance and wildness remained strong.

As soon as they were freed, they tried to escape.

Zhou Yuan's expression remained unchanged, as if he had expected this.

He raised his right hand and grabbed at the fleeing yellow light in mid-air!

"Buzz!"

A flash of blue light appeared in the quiet room, and an incredibly solid and lifelike blue hand materialized out of thin air. Its five fingers were spread wide, carrying an invisible force of restraint. It arrived first after the opponent's move and instantly scooped the fleeing yellow light into its palm!

The large cyan hand slightly clenched and trembled its five fingers, and the yellow light in the palm was suppressed by a gentle yet irresistible force. The spiritual light subsided, revealing its true form.

It turned out to be a spirit several inches in size, semi-transparent, and identical in appearance to the Gale Beast, only shrunk countless times!

The little beast struggled desperately, its tiny eyes filled with ferocity and resentment, constantly trying to break free and escape from the grasp of the large, cyan hand.

But that cyan hand, though seemingly illusory, actually contained Zhou Yuan's pure magical power and a trace of divine consciousness, firmly trapping it within a small space in his palm, like a caged bird. No matter how it struggled, it could not be shaken in the slightest.

Zhou Yuan glanced at it briefly, confirming that the essence's activity was still acceptable, and then paid no further attention. The most important thing now was to process the talisman embryo.

He opened his mouth and spat out a wisp of pure and refined azure infant fire. The flame was not intense, but it contained the pure primordial fire power of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The infant fire, like a serpent, wrapped a pre-prepared, specially cut-out beast hide inside and slowly burned it.

Strangely, the infant fire was extremely hot, and the spirit skin, which was wrapped in it, was not ignited or carbonized. Instead, under the licking of the flame, the impurities on the surface, the residual blood energy, and the yin and impure energy that had to be removed during the refining process began to be forced out little by little.

Zhou Yuan raised both hands, his ten fingers moving swiftly like butterflies flitting among flowers, forming a series of complex and profound hand seals, which he continuously injected into the spirit skin enveloped by the infant fire.

At the same time, several cyan threads, thinner than a strand of hair, extended from his fingertips, precisely entering the flames and connecting to the spirit skin.

As the incantation and the green silk were injected, the spirit skin that had been quietly suspended began to slowly rotate, its speed varying from fast to slow. Guided by the green silk, it rose and fell and tumbled in the flames with a strange rhythm.

Zhou Yuan's deep incantations continued unabated, the syllables ancient and obscure, echoing the spell he was casting.

His expression was calm, his eyes focused, and he was precisely controlling everything in front of him.

Gradually, under the combined effect of the continuous burning of the blue infant fire and the incantations and spells, a faint gray-black aura began to seep out from the surface of the spirit skin.

As soon as these black wisps came into contact with the surrounding infant fire, they were as if they had met their nemesis, emitting a faint "sizzling" sound, and were instantly burned clean and turned into nothingness.

A faint, unpleasant fishy odor then filled the quiet room.

Meanwhile, as the impurities were removed, the size of the spirit skin visibly shrank, becoming more solid and translucent.

Zhou Yuan ignored this, his mind completely absorbed in the refining process, continuously manipulating the infant fire, incantations, and green silk to carry out the final refinement and shaping of the spirit skin.

This continued for more than an hour. When the last stubborn black aura on the surface of the spirit skin was refined and dissipated, and the entire spirit skin became crystal clear with a faint shimmering light, Zhou Yuan's expression relaxed slightly. He slowly stopped chanting and let out a long sigh.

But he didn't stop. He reached out and took several auxiliary materials that had already been ground into powder from the side—a certain type of yang-attribute spirit stone powder, dried flower powder of the Soul-Stabilizing Flower, etc.—and flicked them with his finger, sprinkling them evenly into the flames.

As soon as the powdered material came into contact with the infant fire and spirit skin, it quickly merged into them, causing the color of the spirit skin to change from its original pale yellow to a bright red, and its volume eventually stabilized at the size of a palm.

"puff!"

Zhou Yuan opened his mouth and inhaled, retracting the ball of azure infant fire. The flames went out, revealing the talisman embryo that had already been refined.

At this moment, the talisman embryo was uniformly crimson, as thin as a cicada's wing, yet it gave people a sense of resilience. Its surface was smooth, with a faint spiritual light flowing around it, emitting a strange energy fluctuation that mixed the aura of yang fire and the aura of the demon beast skin itself.

A look of satisfaction appeared on Zhou Yuan's face. He raised his hand and the crimson talisman embryo floated lightly into his palm.

Only then did he look up at the Gale Beast spirit still struggling futilely in the cyan light's hand, his eyes no longer showing any hesitation.

"go!"

He pointed at the spirit.

The large blue hand that had trapped the spirit paused for a moment, then transformed into specks of blue spiritual light and dissipated into the air.

The spirit of the Gale Beast, now freed from its restraints, was initially taken aback, then instinctively tried to escape once more.

However, just as it was about to make a move, the crimson talisman embryo in Zhou Yuan's palm below suddenly erupted with a strong and special fluctuation that had a fatal attraction to the souls of demonic beasts!

"Chirp—!"

The spirit of the Gale Beast let out a sharp, yearning, and slightly confused cry. Instead of fleeing, it turned into a yellow streak of light, like a moth drawn to a flame, and shot straight toward the crimson talisman embryo at an even faster speed than when it had fled!

"Slurp!"

A soft sound, like a drop of water falling into boiling oil, rang out.

The yellow light precisely entered the center of the crimson talisman embryo and disappeared instantly.

On the surface of the talisman embryo, a complex, pale yellow beast-shaped pattern lit up, which was the Gale Beast pattern shrunk countless times!

The pattern flashed by and disappeared completely inside the talisman.

The talisman's light also became more subdued, simple and unadorned. Only when you hold it can you feel a gentle yet violent power slowly flowing through it.

The spirit summoning talisman is complete!

Zhou Yuan held the newly made spirit-summoning talisman in his hand and examined it carefully.

The talisman felt slightly cool to the touch, and the sealed essence of the Gale Beast within it possessed a stable yet active aura.

With a slight thought, he infused a trace of magic power into the talisman and activated it. The surface of the talisman immediately lit up with a faint yellow light, and a fierce aura belonging to an eighth-level Gale Beast and fluctuations of wind-attribute spiritual power were faintly revealed, but it was firmly bound by the power of the talisman itself.

"good."

A genuine look of satisfaction flashed in Zhou Yuan's eyes.

Once this spirit-summoning talisman is used, it will not only grant him a portion of the Gale Beast's power for a short period, but also cause his physique and cultivation to surge.

More importantly, it can inherit its terrifying speed that is unparalleled among its peers!

Whether used for chasing, escaping, or launching a sudden attack, it is a divine skill that can elevate his combat ability to another level.

Without stopping, Zhou Yuan continued his work, extracting the remaining sealed demon beast essences one by one.

Following the same steps, the corresponding spirit-summoning talisman was carefully crafted.

With the experience of the first success, the subsequent refining became more and more skillful and smooth. Although the attributes of each demon beast essence were different, and there were slight differences in the processing of the talisman embryo and the fine-tuning of the spell, everything went smoothly without any major incidents thanks to Zhou Yuan's superb control and the support of the equipment slots...

Looking at the four spirit-summoning talismans lined up in front of him, their spiritual light subdued, Zhou Yuan felt reassured.

With this talisman by his side, he could protect himself in the land of Tiannan as long as he didn't encounter those legendary Nascent Soul stage monsters.

"The talisman is complete; it's time to claim the opportunities that should have been mine long ago."

Zhou Yuan carefully put away the spirit-summoning talisman, his eyes gleaming as he began to plan.

He is now in the Kingdom of Xi.

It belongs to the northernmost part of Tiannan.

The closest and most important opportunity to him was the corpse demon trapped in the "Yunmeng Mountains"!