Chapter 18: The Third Level of Qi Practicing
Chapter 18: Third Level of Qi Practicing
Returning to Spirit Plant Mountain, Li An took out the talisman pen and talisman paper.
The talisman pen bought from Xu Qiuhui was actually not completely obsolete and could still be used for a while, but Li An put that talisman pen away and treasured it for the time being.
Then took out the new talisman pen.
“Flame talisman, cold wind talisman and earth shield talisman, more is better!”
Li An whispered, in that battle with Fan Jie, he was actually only ninety-five percent sure of killing Fan Jie.
First, he poisoned Fan Jie, so that Fan Jie had the cultivation to not use it, and then all the talismans came out …… but there was still a risk.
If it is not Fan Jie pushed people too far, the figure is poor …… Li An is actually not willing to commit a risk to kill him.
Immediately, he began to make three major fine talismans again.
Nowadays, his techniques became more and more skillful, and his success rate also increased, as he used up all one hundred pieces of talisman paper and produced ten Flame Talismans, four Cold Wind Talismans, and three Earth Shield Talismans.
Seventeen sheets!
Even though they were first rank low-grade fine talismans, the success rate was approaching twenty percent.
This success rate, even in the Xuan Yang Sect, could be said to be a very outstanding talisman master.
“Currently, with my mental power, I won’t feel sleepy even if I continuously draw a hundred first-order low-grade talismans, and when fighting, I can even drive ten first-order lower-grade talismans at the same time!”
Li An nodded happily, with the talisman in his hand, the sense of security was raised a lot.
The remaining forty-three pieces of talisman paper, Li An used for other talismans.
“It’s been a year since I made the Spirit Gathering Talisman, so I can make the Qi Replenishing Talisman!”
Qi Replenishing Talisman, was also a first-order low-grade talisman, but it was slightly better than Spirit Gathering Talisman, second to fine-grade talisman, and sold better than Spirit Gathering Talisman.
The function was to allow the cultivator to quickly recover spiritual qi from the spirit stone.
It was especially useful for low-ranked cultivators in times of battle.
The price was also a bit better, three Spirit Gathering Talismans could only be sold for one Spirit Stone, but three Qi Replenishing Talismans could be sold for an extra half, with a unit price as high as half a Spirit Stone!
Qi Replenishing Talisman Li An was not too difficult to make, however, in order to comply with the growth time of an ordinary talisman master, it had been delayed until now.
Holding the pen, concentrating, the rune was slowly sketched out under his brush ……
That night, Li An utilized the remaining forty-three sheets of talisman paper to create fifteen Spirit Gathering Talismans and five Qi Replenishing Talismans.
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Time passed in a flash.
In the blink of an eye, it was another half year.
For half a year it was quiet, Li An regularly went to the trading market to peddle Spirit Gathering Talismans and Qi Replenishing Talismans, and had gained some small reputation in the trading market.
After all, a handyman actually being able to become a talisman master was considered a piece of news among the bottom disciples.
During this period, Li An had been to the Tao Nurturing Residence three more times, and still had not seen Xu Qiuhui.
During this period of time, Li An’s cultivation speed was a bit faster than before, as he was finally no longer short of spirit stones, and he was able to use them for daily cultivation.
Just daily cultivation alone would cost around five spirit stones per month.
The purity of the spirit stones was higher, the absorption speed was faster, and the second leaf of his life seed grew wider and thicker!
At the same time, he was also continuously strengthening the two spells, Water Arrow Technique and Light Body Step.
Although he was limited to his realm and couldn’t go to the next level, he was already able to control the Starry Mantle Dagger as delicately as he controlled the Water Arrow, and the dagger, which only had one advantage of being sharp, became his flying sword!
Four months later, the sect examination finally approached.
On this day, Li An took stock of the gains he had made in the past year.
Through the constant sale of spirit talismans, as well as the accumulation of Spirit Plant Mountain’s monthly regulations and extra reward harvests, in addition to what was consumed for daily cultivation, there were still twenty-three spirit stones left.
At the same time, he always had thirty Flame Talismans, ten Cold Wind Talismans, and ten Earth Shield Talismans on him, which could be said to be “luxurious” amongst the low-level cultivators!
Most importantly, the second leaf of his Life Seed had reached completion, and the third leaf, too, had sent out shoots.
He closed the door and started to impact the third level of Qi cultivation!
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Half a month later.
Li An walked out of his residence, his breath on a higher level.
In the dantian, the Seed of Destiny grew its third leaf.
He was refreshed!
“My current lifespan should reach around one hundred and eighty years old!”
Li An Xin became more and more lighthearted, with this steady and steady progress, knocking at the door of longevity, there might really be a glimmer of hope!
Moreover, with the growth of the Life Seed, his life force and spiritual force became more vigorous.
The Spiritual Root was also slowly changing, and although it was still only a Yellow Grade Low Grade Spiritual Root, he could feel that his sense of the Great Dao and Spiritual Qi was even sharper than before.
Generally speaking, a Yellow Grade Low Grade Spiritual Root had a sensing value of around 30 for the Great Dao.
Now, Li An felt that the sensing value had increased to something like 40!
When the sensing value reached 60 points, it was a yellow rank middle grade Spiritual Root, and could be compared to Mu Qingwan, who had been the first to enter the sect in the first place.
For the next period of time, Li An continuously consolidated his realm.
On this day, in the mountain forest.
Li An sat on a rock a hundred meters away from the mountain stream, meditating and listening to the subtle fluctuations in the water pool, he suddenly condensed eight water arrows and shot them extremely fast towards the small tan.
Puff puff puff!
The eight fish fluttered a few times in the water and all surfaced, all dead.
“The ear power is enough to hear the insects from a hundred meters away …… The Water Arrow Technique also has a range of a hundred meters, and can shoot eight water arrows at a time!”
Li An whispered, then his aura stirred, and the starry dagger in the palm of his hand was instantly catalyzed and forced to hang in the air, and then with a surge, it was instantly shot out!
Thirty meters away, a thick tree was directly pierced through, the hole in the tree was crimson.
The two woodpeckers in the tree that were making love to each other were captured by his voice, and then destroyed with a single sword strike!
“When fighting, using runes for cover and ‘flying dagger’ surprise attack, even a cultivator at the fourth level of qi cultivation may not be able to defend against it.” Satisfied, Li An got up and walked over to the woods to pick up the dagger, then returned to the bottom of Spirit Plant Mountain.
That night, he took a hot bath and slept beautifully, and the next morning, he packed two talisman pens, a few Qi Replenishing Talismans that he hadn’t sold yet, and the remaining four Spirit Stones into his bag and went out.
Having stayed at Spirit Plant Mountain for three years, it was time to say goodbye.
“Li An, are you going to take the sect examination?”
Prince Lin limped over, various emotions seeming to flood his eyes.
“Right.”
“The three of us came to Spirit Plant Mountain together, now Su Su is dead, I’m limping, you’re the only one left who can still walk out, it’s so good ……”
In Prince Lin’s eyes, there was sentimentality, inexplicably there was also some reluctance, once Li An left, he was left alone.
“These rice are for you, I picked them from the fields in the past few days, the best!”
He took out a small packet of refined rice and handed it to Li An with both hands.
His hands were full of calluses, it had only been three years, and his whole person had become vicissitudes, saying that he was an Immortal Cultivator, but he looked no different from that farmer in the mundane world.
Li An sighed slightly in his heart, then took it.
“You keep this talisman, if the new deacon of Spirit Plant Mountain deducts your monthly routine, you will send him the rune.”
Li An took out a qi replenishing talisman and gave it to Prince Lin.
Prince Lin instantly agitated, “No, this is too expensive, I can’t take it …… I didn’t give you the meter for this.”
“Don’t be polite.”
Li An stuffed it into his hands, then turned around and left.
Walking out a hundred meters, Li An suddenly stopped again and turned his head, “Remember, your monthly allowance, it’s one dollar per month, not half a dollar!”
Then he left without looking back.
And when Prince Lin, who had stopped in place and was immersed in moving emotions, heard this, they all froze.
Leaning?
“Li Pickpocket ah Li Pickpocket, you’ve been fucking withholding from me? You really aren’t human.”
He gritted his teeth and stared at Li An’s back, his eyes were red as he shouted, “Li Pickpocket, come back to visit sometime!”
His voice echoed in the empty Spirit Plant Mountain.
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When he stepped out of Spirit Plant Mountain and arrived at the outer gate, it was already noon.
The gate was very lively, and on a wide open space, the Alchemy Hall, Alchemy Artifact Hall, Talisman Hall, Physician Hall, and other halls, each set up their own venues, in the process of welcoming enrollees, and screening the enrollees.
Especially in front of the three halls, there were especially a lot of people, and the lines were long.
Named disciples with ordinary qualifications, who wanted to impact the official disciples, in addition to their cultivation having to reach the fifth level of Qi cultivation, they also needed a large amount of contribution points.
There were very few people who could fulfill it.
Therefore, the dream of most people was to enter the Third Hall.
Dan, Weaponry, and Talisman, these three halls had the most oil and were the easiest.
“Brother Li, you’ve finally arrived!”
Wang Dazhu and Zhao Xianchuan walked over, both with excitement and anticipation in their eyes.
The three of them exchanged greetings and each said many words of encouragement before heading to their different halls.
“Hm?”
Suddenly, Li An noticed that there were two bright young girls in the crowd, who were talking and laughing side by side.
One of them, with a light yellow long dress and a tall and beautiful figure, was Xu Qiuhui.
The other girl is a flash of light white pear shirt, like a jasmine, hair black as ink, fair skin, posture than Xu Qiuhui is not bad at all, temperament is slightly different.
If Xu Qiuhui is the imperial sister, high cold some, then this girl is the spirit of wisdom for more, lively some.
Li An didn’t line up, walked over and saluted, “Greetings Immortal Xu!”
Xu Qiuhui smiled faintly and said, “Qingxue, this is the Li An I’ve spoken to you about, Li Rune Master.”
Li An was keenly aware of the change in title in her words.
The young girl named Qingxue looked at Li An in surprise and said, “I know him, Li An of Spirit Plant Mountain, since he went to the trading market, our talisman hall disciples, we can’t sell Spirit Gathering Talismans and Qi Replenishing Talismans over there …… because the quality isn’t as good as his.”
She had a smile in her eyes, “A narrow road between enemies!”
Li An smiled faintly and said, “It’s Li An’s fault, sorry.”
Saying that, he took out two flame talismans and handed them to Xu Qiuhui and this young girl named Qingxue respectively, “Immortal Xu, I’m sorry for the recent fluke of refining two flame talismans.”
He also looked at the white-shirted maiden, “A slight apology!”
In the eyes of the white-shirted maiden, a look of surprise immediately appeared, and after receiving the Flame Talisman handed over by Li An and looking at it carefully, a trace of gravity could not help but rise in her beautiful eyes!
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(End of chapter)