73: Chapter Drawing Talisman

"Haha, I guess I can be considered proficient in both Alchemy and Crafting Talismans now. Even those senior Talisman Masters in the Talisman Hall probably aren't as good as me."

In the quiet cultivation room, Chen Jiancang stood tall and straight in the center of the room, like a sturdy pine tree.

His expression was focused, his slender fingers steadily holding a newly completed Flame Talisman.

The Flame Talisman trembled slightly in his hand, as if a spiritual aura was flowing within it.

His gaze was as deep as a secluded pool. With a slight turn, a fleeting look of smug satisfaction flashed across his eyes.

As he looked at the Spirit Talisman in his hand, emitting a mysterious glow, it was as if he saw his future in Crafting Talismans constantly ascending.

"Strike while the iron is hot, let's craft some more Spirit Talismans."

In this cultivation world full of hidden dangers, Chen Jiancang knew deeply that only a large number of high-quality Spirit Talismans could add a solid layer of protection to his safety.

He planned to fill his storage bag with those powerful Spirit Talismans in a short period.

Harvesting Lueling Grass had accumulated experience in Crafting Talismans for him, like an invisible treasure trove. Now, this accumulated experience was bursting forth, enough to support him in making great strides on the path of Crafting Talismans.

Without further ado, Chen Jiancang made a decisive move, quickly sweeping his hands across his storage bag.

Several stacks of fine quality Talisman paper, an ancient-looking Talisman brush, and a bottle of freshly prepared spiritual ink were taken out by him in sequence.

The Talisman paper emitted a faint luster, as if waiting for the spiritual brush to endow it with new life; the handle of the Talisman brush was carved with exquisite patterns, and the bristles were soft and elastic; the spiritual ink emitted a faint fragrance, its color rich and deep.

Chen Jiancang slowly took a deep breath, his chest rising and falling slightly, trying to completely calm his mind.

Then, he held his breath and concentrated, fully focused, as if the entire world had stopped at this moment.

Chen Jiancang closed his eyes and entered that wonderful state of forgetting both self and object.

In this state, he felt himself merge with the surrounding spiritual energy, as if he could hear the sound of the spiritual energy flowing.

His cultivation at the Qi Refining Stage Seventh Level made his perception more sensitive.

Chen Jiancang mobilized the spiritual energy within his body. The spiritual energy slowly circulated along his Meridians, finally gathering at his fingertips.

The spiritual brush in his hand danced across the Talisman paper like a dragon or a snake. Wherever the brush tip passed, mysterious Talismans appeared vividly on the paper.

Chen Jiancang's movements were smooth and natural, without any pause or hesitation.

Another First Order High Grade Spirit Talisman was successfully crafted.

This Spirit Talisman emitted a soft light, its Talismans shimmering, as if containing endless power.

Looking at this Spirit Talisman, Chen Jiancang immediately felt a surge of confidence.

He began to speed up the crafting rhythm. The spiritual brush in his hand moved rapidly, and one Talisman after another was born under his brush.

His gaze was focused and firm, and the astonishing speed of crafting left people amazed.

However, after Chen Jiancang continuously crafted dozens of Spirit Talismans, the consumption of spiritual energy within his body became increasingly obvious.

He could feel his spiritual power constantly draining away, like a dry riverbed where the water source gradually dried up.

Chen Jiancang made a decisive move, quickly taking out a Qinghe Qi Cultivation Pill from his storage bag.

He didn't hesitate to put the pill into his mouth. The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth, and a cool medicinal energy flowed down his throat into his body.

After the medicinal energy took effect, he felt his spiritual power surge again like spring water.

Picking up the spiritual brush again, this time the crafting process was smooth and unimpeded, truly like flowing clouds and water.

Every stroke was just right, and every Talisman was full of spirituality.

One First Order High Grade Spirit Talisman after another came into being under his brush. The light emitted from the Talisman paper also became increasingly bright and dazzling, shining brilliantly.

The night gradually deepened. The moonlight, like water, gently sprinkled onto the Spirit Talismans on the table through the window lattice.

The moonlight and the light from the Spirit Talismans intertwined, reflecting beautiful and dazzling spiritual light.

"Finally, I have some ability to protect myself."

Chen Jiancang sighed with emotion, his voice carrying a trace of fatigue, but more of satisfaction and relief.

A night of hard work was not in vain; he had crafted no fewer than a hundred First Order High Grade Spirit Talismans.

In the Market, a First Order High Grade Spirit Talisman is worth up to a hundred spiritual stones, while crafting a single Spirit Talisman only takes less than a quarter of an hour. However, the spiritual energy consumed in Crafting Talismans is far higher than in Alchemy.

However, Chen Jiancang had Alchemy skills at his disposal and did not lack spiritual pills to replenish his spiritual energy at all.

Relatively speaking, Crafting Talismans was actually easier. Crafting pills was too time-consuming. Although the time it took him to craft a furnace of Qi Gathering Pills had been compressed from one hour to half an hour, crafting pills for a long time would still exhaust his mind.

However, currently Chen Jiancang only knew how to craft Qi Gathering Pills. When he learns to craft other pills in the future, the profit from crafting a furnace of pills will be far higher than Crafting Talismans.

Chen Jiancang carefully put the crafted Spirit Talismans into his storage bag, one by one.

"Now that I have these Spirit Talismans, I have a bit more confidence."

The recent series of events that occurred in the Chen Family had made him subtly uneasy. Only now, with these Spirit Talismans by his side, did he feel slightly more at ease.

The next morning, he felt refreshed.

Outside the window, the faint light of dawn gently parted the curtain of night, spilling onto the window front.

A gentle breeze blew, and the branches and leaves outside the window rustled, as if whispering about the tranquility of the previous night.

The distant green mountains appeared faintly in the thin mist, like an elegant ink wash painting.

Chen Jiancang woke up early and went to the Market to hire several spirit farmers. He had Plot 147 Spiritual Field tidied up again and replanted the Lueling Grass.

In the Qingya Mountain Range, hiring other spirit farmers to assist in managing Spirit Fields is a common practice.

Since Chen Jiancang joined the Dan Hall, his time had gradually become tight, and recently he had been busy with Alchemy. Chores like cleaning the Spirit Field could indeed be handed over to them.

In the Market, there is a dedicated area providing spirit farmer hiring services, where information is centralized and transaction safety is guaranteed. Some spirit farmers who cannot afford to rent Spirit Fields but have rich experience in planting and managing spiritual plants are hired to perform some heavy tasks.

Chen Jiancang needed to harvest spiritual plants to get rewards, so the entire process of planting spiritual plants had to be done by himself. However, chores like tidying up the Spirit Field could be done by hired spirit farmers.

Returning to the Dan Hall, as Chen Jiancang passed Room 3 of Grade A, he found that Room 3 of Grade A, which had always been tightly shut, was surprisingly wide open today. Chen Jiancang, passing by, couldn't help but look inside.

This Alchemy room primarily used green jade as its main material. The walls were inlaid with finely carved spiritual wood panels with dense cloud patterns. The floor was paved with crescent-white cold jade bricks. In the center hung a gilded crane-headed Alchemy furnace, its body circulating a faint purple spiritual fire, and its base was carved with a Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams array diagram.

On the agarwood treasure shelf on the east side, ice-cracked pattern porcelain bottles were neatly arranged. Each compartment was hung with silver wire bells to prevent medicinal qi from mixing.

A Jiaoxiao gauze curtain hung on the west wall. Behind the curtain was a purple sandalwood meditation platform with cloud patterns. On the platform was a thousand-year ice silkworm meditation cushion, and next to it was a bronze turtle-crane incense burner, from which calming incense smoke curled up.

The north window was inlaid with glazed carvings. The daylight passing through was refracted by the seven Mysterious Ice Mirrors hanging on the window lattice, projecting flowing star track patterns onto the wall.

In the corner stood a bronze immortal crane holding a lamp in its beak. The luminous pearl in the crane's beak reflected the radiance of the Alchemy furnace, enveloping the entire space in a misty purple haze.

What surprised Chen Jiancang was that there were two people chatting inside the Alchemy room at this moment, and one of them was Chen Youwan.