Chapter 30.
Chapter 30: Closure
[Ding! Achievement task released, requesting the host to complete thirty drawings of second-order talismans]
[Current Progress: 18%]
Hearing this voice from the system, Jiang Chengxuan was just stunned.
His first reaction was that this time, how come the mission wasn’t in units of 100 achievements anymore?
But his second reaction was a secret sigh of relief.
Luckily, it wasn’t asking him to complete a hundred drawings of second-order talismans.
In that case, with his current wealth, he really couldn’t afford to do such a task.
After all, there was a considerable difference between the value of the materials used to draw a second-order talisman and the value of the materials used to draw a first-order talisman.
The 1,700 points of family contribution that he had on him alone, if all of them were used to purchase materials for drawing second-order talismans, would at most be enough for him to draw more than 40 second-order talismans.
And it was still the cheapest kind of second-order talisman.
But right now, if he wanted to draw thirty second-order talismans, Jiang Chengxuan could afford it for the time being.
Moreover, the system had also counted the number of second-order talismans he had drawn before.
At that moment, he carefully checked the list of jade slips.
In the end, from amongst them, he picked a Second Order Lower Grade Talisman Pen worth six hundred contributions.
After all, if one truly intended to study second-order talismans, a second-order talisman pen was indispensable no matter what.
As for the remaining eleven hundred family contributions, Jiang Chengxuan decided to exchange them all for materials to draw second-order talismans.
In this way, it would be enough to support him in completing the mission issued by the system this time.
After he and Shen Ruyan, who had told Shen Baifei about the items they were each going to exchange, Shen Baifei couldn’t help but nod his head.
Soon after, Shen Baifei walked over with two storage bags.
He handed the two storage bags to Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan respectively, saying:
“These are the items you are exchanging this time, take a look at them both.”
Receiving the storage bags, Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan both checked them, and after confirming that there weren’t any problems, they couldn’t help but both nodded to Shen Baifei and said thank you.
Soon after, the two of them took their leave of Shen Baifei.
Coming outside, Shen Ruyan couldn’t help but look at Jiang Chengxuan with a smile:
“Elder Jiang, are you planning to return to your cave house next?”
“Uh-huh.”
Jiang Chengxuan nodded.
“I’m going to go back and digest the harvest this time, what about you?”
“I’m about the same.”
Shen Ruyan smiled and said, “Then let’s part ways here, and meet again when we have time.”
“Okay, see you later.”
Some time later, Jiang Chengxuan returned to his own cave and immediately began his seclusion.
For this retreat, Jiang Chengxuan had a total of six things to do.
The first thing was to utilize that Shang Yuan Dan to break through his own cultivation to the second level of Foundation Establishment.
Then it was to refine that second-order lower-grade defensive magic weapon, the Purple Gold Spirit Shield, as well as that second-order lower-grade talisman pen.
After that, he still needed to cultivate the Second Order Lower Grade Illusory Body Steps, as well as the Clear Wind Sword Technique.
That would be five things.
As for the last thing, that would naturally be trying to create a second rank talisman.
Jiang Chengxuan roughly estimated.
When he finished these six things, it would take him four or five years to do so.
Time was long.
In the blink of an eye, it was already half a year later.
At this time, Jiang Chengxuan had already utilized that Shangyuan Dan to break through his own cultivation to the second level of Foundation Establishment.
The total amount of true essence around his body had directly increased by more than 20% compared to before.
If the previous him had used a spell like the Arctic Divine Light twice, it would have drained all of his true essence, then nowadays, he wouldn’t be in that situation anymore.
At least the ability to escape was still there.
In addition, the strength of his true essence, not to say that it was comparable to a cultivator at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, right, but it wouldn’t be too far off either.
Combined with the second-order mid-grade Purple Flame Sword, and if combined with the Qingfeng Sword Technique, he was already fully capable of threatening a cultivator at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.
In the next half a year or so, Jiang Chengxuan put most of his energy into refining the Purple Gold Spirit Shield and the Second Order Talisman Pen.
The former was able to enhance his life-preserving ability, while the latter would help him better draw second-order talismans.
Both were very important things.
Jiang Chengxuan didn’t dare to be sloppy at all.
Fortunately, everything was still going well.
More than half a year later, the two second-order magic weapons were all successfully refined by him.
No extra time was wasted.
After Jiang Chengxuan successfully refined the Violet Gold Spirit Shield and the second-order talisman pen, he put all of his energy into comprehending and practicing the two second-order techniques, the Illusory Body Steps and the Clear Wind Sword Technique.
The Clear Wind Sword Skill was fine.
After all, when the system had rewarded him, it had already allowed him to get started.
Jiang Chengxuan’s side didn’t encounter any too many difficulties when he cultivated it.
After a small half year, he had raised the Clear Wind Sword Skill to the realm of minor accomplishment.
It had to be said that this sword skill rewarded by the system was indeed quite powerful.
Although it was not explicitly stated exactly what grade this sword skill was.
But as far as Jiang Chengxuan’s feeling was concerned, the power of this small-completed Qingfeng Sword Skill nowadays was already no less powerful than the power of certain second-order lower-grade great-circle arts.
It was conceivable that when he cultivated this Clear Wind Sword Technique to the realm of Grand Completion or even Great Completion, it would certainly be able to match the power of Second Order Upper Grade techniques.
In contrast, the cultivation of the Illusory Body Steps, on the contrary, made Jiang Chengxuan feel a little difficult.
But this was also considered relatively normal.
As everyone knew, body type arts, when cultivated, were often a bit more difficult than normal attack type arts.
Plus, his own enlightenment was not particularly outstanding.
Feeling some trouble while practicing Illusory Body Steps was not a big deal.
Fortunately, this situation did not last too long.
After about half a year, Jiang Chengxuan finally managed to get started with the Illusory Body Steps.
At this time, his speed of vacillating in a small area was clearly more than 20% faster than before.
And when he was prancing around, an additional figure exactly like him would appear beside him.
If there was no corresponding technique to break through, for a moment, it would be really hard to tell which one was his real body and which one was his phantom.
In this way, more than two years have passed.
Jiang Chengxuan still has no intention to come out.
Because he still had one last thing to do, and that was to try and draw second-order talismans to enhance his own talisman-making cultivation.
This time, Jiang Chengxuan didn’t try to draw many kinds of second-order lower-grade talismans at once like he did last time.
This time, he placed his main goal of talisman making on a second-order lower-grade talisman called the Armor and Wood Rejuvenation Talisman, or Rejuvenation Talisman for short.
In reality, it was a talisman used to heal a cultivator’s injuries.
It was one of the many second-order lower-grade talismans that was relatively easy to start with.
After drawing four or five in a row, the results were all failures, failures, failures!
Fortunately, the drawing progress under his retina didn’t remain motionless, but instead changed from the original 18%, to 35%.
Tickets seem to be a little less, worship a wave, thank you, thank you, thank you!
(End of chapter)