Chapter 70: Doubling Efficiency
Chapter 70: Doubling Efficiency
Xu Chuniang smiled faintly, put away her brush and ink and began to condense the Water Binding Technique.
Seventy percent of the aura of the Water Binding Technique was perfectly executed, and then sealed into the seal, some operation in a smooth flow, a trace of the aura has not been leaked.
As the last of the aura was sealed into the rune, a new Water Binding Talisman was born.
Taking out a new piece of talisman paper, Xu Chuniang continued to draw.
Only this time, she wasn’t so lucky, and as the rune was about to be finished, there wasn’t enough ink on the rune brush to make it work.
Xu Chuniang could only watch as this talisman paper was scrapped.
Shaking her head, she crumpled the scrapped rune paper into a ball and threw it to the side, and instead took out another piece of rune paper ……
After refining it ten times in a row and using up a portion of the ink, Xu Chunniang ended up with three Water Binding Techniques.
A full thirty percent success rate!
Don’t underestimate this 30% success rate, it was already barely at the threshold of a talisman maker, and generally speaking, with this kind of success rate, one would almost be able to preserve one’s capital.
Xu Chuniang, as a newcomer who had officially started making talismans in only ten days, was able to achieve such a result, which was truly remarkable.
This was thanks to her ability to control her aura, otherwise it would never have been possible to have such a high success rate.
Xu Chuniang tightly gripped the three Water Binding Talismans in her hand, her eyes filled with excitement.
Ten ingredients only cost one and a half spirit stones, while the three Water Binding Talismans could be sold for two spirit stones, so at least she wouldn’t have to lose money.
Xu Chuniang took a deep breath and suppressed the waves in her heart.
The amount of spirit qi needed to draw a Grade 1 lower-grade talisman wasn’t much, and it didn’t consume much for Xu Chunniang, who was already at the sixth level of qi cultivation.
After using up ten points of materials, she didn’t stop and took out the talisman paper again to start drawing.
Once she picked up the talisman brush, Xu Chunniang’s mind slowly calmed down.
It wasn’t until her mind was like still water that she moved her brush.
After using up a portion of ink once more and obtaining three more water-binding talismans, her proficiency and speed increased slightly.
Xu Chuniang put away the newly obtained talismans and was about to continue when her stomach growled.
Only then did she realize that it was getting late, and even the sky was getting darker.
It was just that she was so focused on making the talisman that she didn’t even notice.
Xu Chuniang didn’t continue making talismans, and first went to the spirit field to let the spirit rice drink its fill before taking out the spirit rice and starting to condense spirit dew and cook spirit food.
As she condensed the spirit dew, she pondered.
As her talisman-making proficiency increased, her speed of talisman-making grew faster and faster.
It was just that it was still a bit slower because there was just too much to do.
By the time the spiritual food was cooked, Xu Chuniang finally came up with a method that might speed up the speed of talisman making.
Refining talisman seals was divided into two steps, the first step was to draw the runes, and the second step was to seal the spells into the runes to refine them into talisman seals.
If the two steps were operated separately, would the speed be faster?
The more Xu Chuniang thought about it, the more she felt it had a chance, and resolved to try it tomorrow, and if it didn’t work, it would be a waste of some materials at most.
If it worked, she would be able to refine talisman seals much faster in the future.
The next morning, after Xu Chunniang finished a set of boxing, she returned to her room and began to try out the new method she had thought of yesterday.
She took out a copy of ink and a blade of talisman paper, and drew runes directly onto the blank talisman paper.
When she finished drawing one, she first put it aside, then took another piece of rune paper and continued.
If there were any failures in the middle of the process, they were simply thrown to the side. After using up the ink and half a blade of talisman paper, Xu Chuniang had obtained a total of seven semi-finished talisman seals.
She put away everything else on the table, leaving only one semi-finished talisman seal on the table, and began to seal the spells into the runes.
“Pah!” , failed!
Xu Chuniang’s face was bland as she quickly tidied up the table, took out another semi-finished product, and continued!
Success.
Unexpected, yet reasonable.
Xu Chunniang took this Water Binding Talisman and examined it carefully, it was no different than the rest of the talismans.
In other words, the method of drawing the runes first and then sealing the spells into the runes one by one was feasible!
As Xu Chuniang put the talisman away, another half-finished product appeared in her hand, and she continued to seal spells into it.
It wasn’t until she had used up all the semi-finished products and obtained three Water Binding Talismans once again that Xu Chunniang finally settled down.
Using this method to refine talismans, the success rate did not decrease, but the efficiency was at least doubled.
In order to verify this method, Xu Chuniang took out another material and began a new round of drawing runes.
This time, there were still only seven semi-finished products obtained.
In addition to proficiency and technique, the successful drawing of runes was also closely related to the quality of the rune brush.
The talisman pens that Xu Chuniang bought were only cheap goods of ten spirit stones each, but they were barely usable, and sometimes the ink would still get stuck and fall out of the hairs, affecting the smoothness of the talisman drawing.
Talisman brushes were already expensive, and the better lower-grade talisman brushes could easily cost thirty to forty spirit stones, and could only draw first-grade lower-grade talisman seals, which wasn’t a good deal.
When she saved up enough spirit stones, she would directly exchange it for a Grade 1 medium grade talisman pen, the kind that could draw Grade 1 medium grade talisman seals.
Xu Chuniang longed for the good old days when she would be able to exchange her talisman paper for a mid-grade talisman paper, while carefully using her talisman pen, which was stuck in ink and had split hairs, to draw one talisman after another.
After using up the entire forty materials, she counted her harvest and nodded in satisfaction, having obtained a total of fourteen Water Binding Talismans today.
Under the premise of maintaining a thirty percent success rate, the efficiency had increased by a full double compared to yesterday.
She put all the Water Binding Talismans together, a total of twenty-two, including the two that were initially refined.
Once those last materials were used up, she would sell all these talismans and exchange them for some more materials back.
With the last twenty materials, Xu Chuniang got a total of seven Water Binding Talismans.
With all the talisman seals, she went to the middle-aged scribe’s nameless store.
It was midday when she arrived, and there weren’t many customers in the store, so she didn’t have to wait long before Xu Chuniang was greeted by the middle-aged scribe.
Looking at the young girl cultivator in front of her, who wasn’t exactly tall in stature, the middle-aged scribe’s eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, as if he hadn’t expected Xu Chuniang to arrive so quickly.
After all, when she left the day before yesterday, she had taken a full eighty refining materials with her, and had she used them all up so quickly?
Xu Chunniang didn’t think too much about it, only leaving behind the two Water Binding Talismans that she had initially refined, and taking out all the rest, “A total of twenty-seven Water Binding Talismans.”
The middle-aged scribe had even more surprises in his eyes as he received the talismans, examining the quality while secretly pondering.
Using only eighty materials, he had managed to refine twenty-seven talismans, or in such a short period of time, although they were the lowest grade of Grade 1 Lower Grade, they were still quite rare.
This unassuming female cultivator in front of her, although her cultivation was average, her talent in the Dao of talismans was not low.
However, the middle-aged scribe had been operating a talisman seal store for many years and was considered to have seen a lot of things, and although this female cultivator had some talent in talisman making, that was all she had.
He quickly finished checking the talisman and after confirming that there were no problems, he took out eighteen spirit stones and handed them over.
Receiving the spirit stones, Xu Chuniang inwardly lamented.
Two days of hard work making talismans, and in the end, she had only earned a mere six spirit stones!
Calculating it out, on average, she had only earned three per day.
(End of chapter)