34: Chapter 34 Half a Year's Harvest, Golden Armor Talisman

In less than an hour, the small Chen family courtyard became completely lively.

Steam rose in the kitchen, and Jiang Rou moved with fluid grace.

The fattest parts of the sand lizard's hind legs, and the tender meat rich in Spiritual Qi essence from within the Iron-tailed Rock Scorpion!

Paired with the beast meat and vegetables stored in the house, it soon turned into a table full of delicacies.

Inside the main room, the aroma of wine and meat intertwined and rose, dispelling every trace of cold creeping in through the door cracks.

"Come, come, come! Don't just sit there! Start eating!"

Big Tooth Dong's loud voice drowned out the whistling wind outside.

"Mmm! So delicious!" These were the exclamations of Xiaochuan and Xiaohu!

"Cheers!" Chen Qingshan raised his bowl, his voice resounding.

"Cheers! Cheers!" Chen Qingyuan smiled and chimed in, the rims of their bowls clinking together with a crisp sound.

Outside, the north wind was like a knife, swirling with heavy snowflakes, crazily lashing against the doors and windows, emitting wails and roars.

The world was a mess of Chaos, deathly silent and bitterly cold!

Inside, the furnace fire blazed, cups and chopsticks were exchanged, and Big Tooth Dong recounted interesting tales of hunting monsters with great enthusiasm!

Chen Qingyuan tilted his head back and drained the strong wine in his bowl in one gulp!

Since Chen Renhai passed away, the Chen family had never been this lively!

Perhaps this was the meaning of his Transmigration!

The banquet ended, and it was already midnight.

Big Tooth Dong stepped through the snow and returned home in high spirits!

Chen Qingyuan returned to his own left side room.

On the talisman table, a Storage Pouch sat quietly, beside it were neatly stacked, unsold spirit talismans.

Just now, his sister-in-law Jiang Rou had returned all of these to him!

Because the end of the year was approaching, the wilderness winds and snow were fierce, and the West Market was deserted, so the plan to set up a stall had been temporarily cancelled, allowing everyone to safely hunker down for the winter.

Taking advantage of this leisure time, Chen Qingyuan sat cross-legged, preparing to take stock of the harvest from the past half year.

Over the past one hundred and eighty-six days and nights, thanks to the help of his brother and sister-in-law, he had been able to continue his work without pause, never missing a day of talisman making.

He silently calculated in his heart!

Total talisman paper consumed: two thousand two hundred and thirty-two sheets.

Light Body Talisman: 1,116 sheets of paper consumed.

Success rate: stable at over 85%! A total of 949 talismans made.

782 sold, among which, due to long-term supply to the Monster Hunting Team, a 10% discount was given, earning 586 Spirit Stones.

The small fraction of spirit sand can be ignored!

Rejuvenation Talisman: 1,116 sheets of paper consumed.

Success rate: now stable at around 40%! A total of 368 talismans made.

311 sold. Because this talisman was his unique skill, the selling price was also much higher than the Light Body Talisman, ranging from 1 Spirit Stone to 1 Spirit Stone and 5 spirit sand, earning a total of 403 Spirit Stones.

Excluding those given to Chen Qingshan and Big Tooth Dong, there were 47 Rejuvenation Talismans and 137 Light Body Talismans remaining!

Converted at market price, they were worth about 145 Spirit Stones.

Chen Qingyuan simply picked up his pen and recorded it!

Material costs: over 2,000 sheets of talisman paper and corresponding Spirit Ink, totaling about 781 Spirit Stones.

Actual Spirit Stones obtained: 989 Spirit Stones.

Excluding inventory, net profit was about: 208 Spirit Stones.

Including the one-time purchase of Medicinal Pills in between, which cost about 100 Spirit Stones!

Calculated this way, after being busy for half a year, he hadn't accumulated much surplus.

However, Chen Qingyuan was not discouraged!

Although he hadn't saved many Spirit Stones, the leap in his talisman-making standard was real!

Especially the Rejuvenation Talisman, from the initial disastrous success rate, he had forcibly raised it to a stable 40%. Only he knew the mental effort and hardship involved.

And the 85% success rate of the Light Body Talisman marked that he was far beyond the standard of a Low Grade Tier 1 talisman master!

"At this rate, it's hard to make further progress with Low Grade Tier 1 spirit talismans."

"It is time... to try and attempt Medium Grade Tier 1 spirit talismans!"

And in "the thousand questions of spirit talismans", there happened to be one, a Medium Grade Tier 1 spirit talisman, the golden armor talisman!

This talisman could condense Metal Spirit Qi into protective armor, with quite impressive defensive power. It was one of the life-saving spirit talismans for early and mid-stage Qi Refining Cultivators, and its value was incomparable to the Light Body Talisman.

"In that case, starting tomorrow, I will focus on the Rejuvenation Talisman and the golden armor talisman!"

The next day!

Chen Qingyuan arrived at the Chisha Pavilion early, using all his remaining Spirit Stones, including the Iron-tailed Rock Scorpion gifted by Big Tooth Dong, to trade for 144 sets of Low Grade Tier 1 talisman-making Materials and 144 sets of Medium Grade Tier 1 talisman-making Materials!

Among them, the Medium Grade talisman paper was particularly expensive!

The talisman paper cost 6 Spirit Stones per dozen! The Spirit Ink cost 9 Spirit Stones per portion!

It was still Chen Yanhu grinding the ink!

In the morning, he switched to drawing Rejuvenation Talismans.

Thanks to long-term hard practice, Chen Qingyuan's technique became increasingly proficient.

With his brush moving like a dragon or snake, spiritual light flowed, and six sheets of talisman paper were quickly used up.

Three succeeded, three failed.

After a simple lunch and meditating to restore his consumed spiritual power, he closed his eyes and focused for a long time, adjusting his state to the Peak!

Chen Qingyuan faced a true challenge—drawing a Medium Grade Tier 1 spirit talisman for the first time: the golden armor talisman!

Lift the brush, dip in ink, drop the brush!

Drawing Medium Grade spirit talismans required much higher precision in spiritual power output and intensity of Divine Sense concentration.

The brush tip wandered, spiritual power like a trickling stream slowly poured into the talisman paper, his arm steady as a rock, but the spiritual power within his body was consuming rapidly like a floodgate opening.

"Hiss..."

The first one turned to ash.

The second one, failed again.

Rest for a moment! Restore spiritual power! Continue!

The third one, failed to connect perfectly, failed.

Summarize experience, calm the mind.

The fourth sheet of Medium Grade talisman paper was spread out!

The brush tip dropped again! This time, his movements were steadier and smoother, his Divine Sense highly concentrated!

When the last stroke was firmly dotted down!

All the talisman lines suddenly brightened, then quickly retracted, all gathered into the talisman paper, leaving a golden talisman seal!

Success!

First attempt at drawing a Medium Grade Tier 1 spirit talisman, four chances, and one was made!

"Success! Ninth Uncle! You succeeded!"

Chen Yanhu had been keeping his nerves tight, only now daring to excitedly cheer out loud, his face full of excitement and admiration.

Chen Qingyuan let out a long breath of turbid air and muttered to himself!

"It seems that the deep understanding of talisman runes brought by long-term drawing of the Rejuvenation Talisman is far more valuable than I expected... I underestimated my accumulation in the talisman Dao."

However, after the immense joy, a strong sense of Divine Soul weakness washed over him like a tide, causing his vision to darken slightly.

Clearly, it was caused by excessive consumption of the Divine Soul!

"It seems that with my Qi Refining Fifth Layer cultivation and Divine Sense strength, drawing four Medium Grade spirit talismans consecutively is the limit." Chen Qingyuan understood in his heart.

Forcibly suppressing the discomfort!

He carefully put away the golden armor talisman, and a smile finally appeared on the corner of his mouth.

As long as he could gradually increase the success rate to 40%, he would be a true Medium Grade Tier 1 talisman master!

By then, it would naturally be a broader sky.