88: Concentration Talisman, Mid-stage Qi Refining

That book on the Dao of Talismans records five types of Ninth Grade Talismans: Mind-Calming Talisman, Golden Light Talisman, Spirit Healing Talisman, Fireball Talisman, and Wind Movement Talisman.

In this world, Talismans and Medicinal Pills are ranked from Ninth Grade to First Grade, from low to high; Ninth, Eighth, and Seventh Grade correspond to the Early, Middle, and Late Stages of Qi Refining, respectively, and each subsequent grade corresponds to a major Realm.

Starting from the Sixth Grade, Talismans of each grade are further divided into Low, Middle, and High tiers, corresponding to the Early, Middle, and Late Stages of each Realm.

Whoever can draw a certain grade of Talisman or refine a certain grade of Medicinal Pill is called a Talisman Master or Pill Master of that grade.

Looking at it this way, this book of yours really is an introductory text for the Dao of Talismans.

Your plan for what comes next is to draw Mind-Calming Talismans to sell to other Outer Sect Disciples. Actually, you originally intended to sell them to the Sect, but unfortunately, the Sect does not accept them.

The effect of the Mind-Calming Talisman is to allow the user to have a more focused mind for three hours. Its specific function is to accelerate the absorption speed and refining efficiency of Spiritual Qi, and it can be used in conjunction with Qi Gathering Pills.

Many Outer Sect Disciples use Mind-Calming Talismans when they Cultivate; a single Mind-Calming Talisman can satisfy these people's daily Cultivation needs.

Because even for those with a high-grade spiritual root, the daily time spent on Cultivation cannot exceed three hours, otherwise, long durations will cause damage to the Spiritual Root.

Afterward, you carefully studied this one type of Talisman, the Mind-Calming Talisman. After spending nearly fifty Spirit Stones, you were finally able to draw Mind-Calming Talismans of perfect quality one hundred percent of the time.

In this world, the quality of Talismans of the same grade is divided into Inferior, Ordinary, and Perfect.

Inferior quality only has seventy percent of the effect of Ordinary, Ordinary is the normal effect, while Perfect is fifty percent more powerful than Ordinary, and the price reflects this as well.

Afterward, you exchanged all your remaining Spirit Stones for Mind-Calming Talisman Materials, and then spent three days drawing one hundred and twenty perfect Mind-Calming Talismans.

You are not worried that these Talismans will not sell. The market price for an Ordinary Mind-Calming Talisman is one Spirit Stone each, while your pricing is very cheap: you can get eight perfect quality Mind-Calming Talismans for just ten Spirit Stones.

And if one wants to purchase them from the Sect, the price is seven Talismans for one Contribution Point; you are quite a bit cheaper than the Sect.

As for not buying from the Sect but from other Outer Sect Disciples, you feel that in the Outer Sect, there should be no one selling cheaper than you.

Not to mention that Outer Sect Disciples are all busy Cultivating, wanting to become fourth level of Qi Refining and promote to the Inner Sect as soon as possible, just consider the cost of drawing Talismans.

The Materials for a Mind-Calming Talisman cost three Low-Grade Spirit Stones per set, and one set can draw ten Talismans.

For a novice Talisman Master, having a twenty percent success rate is considered not bad, and what they draw is still an Inferior Talisman.

To draw a Ninth Grade Talisman of perfect quality, even an Eighth Grade Talisman Master only has a thirty percent success rate, unless they delve deeply into studying one type of Talisman like you.

Moreover, being a Talisman Master requires talent. If one lacks talent, even spending several hundred Spirit Stones will not get them through the door; even if they do get started, they cannot compete with the Sect in the early stages.

Because the low-grade Talismans purchased from the Sect are all of perfect quality.

Next, you listed these Mind-Calming Talismans on the trading section of your disciple token, setting the price: ten Spirit Stones for eight, and adding the note, "Handling fee to be paid by the buyer."

Since the disciple token can transmit items, it naturally has a trading function, but this function requires a handling fee, which is one-tenth of the transaction value.

If it were not for the fact that the items sold there are not much cheaper than purchasing from the Sect, and you have to buy them one by one, you would have bought your previous Talisman-drawing Materials there.

Your one hundred and twenty Mind-Calming Talismans sold out in less than ten minutes after being listed.

You are not surprised by this. The Azure Cloud Sect recruits Disciples every ten years, and among them, there are at least nearly ten thousand Outer Sect Disciples.

And in the Outer Sect, only those who cannot reach the Middle Stage of Qi Refining within a hundred years will be expelled from the Sect, which leads to the exceptionally large number of Outer Sect Disciples in the Azure Cloud Sect.

With such a large number of Disciples and such a huge market, even if you listed over a hundred thousand at once, as long as the price is right, you would not need to worry about selling them at all.

Afterward, you had quite a lot of Spirit Stones coming in every day, and you felt that at least during the Early and Middle Stages of Qi Refining, you would not need to worry about resources anymore.

With sufficient resources, your Cultivation speed was completely liberated, and in just four months, you broke through to the third level of Qi Refining.

After breaking through to the third level of Qi Refining, your Dantian expanded fourfold, the quality of your Spiritual Qi improved by forty percent, and the Meridians throughout your body became much tougher.

After reaching the third level of Qi Refining, you chose two more low-tier Spells: Wind Movement Spell and Lightning Strike Spell.

And what you need to do next is to reach the Middle Stage of Qi Refining to be promoted to the Inner Sect.

To reach the Middle Stage of Qi Refining, you must not only fill your Dantian with Spiritual Qi, but also bring your application of Spiritual Qi to the Microscopic Level.

Once the application of Spiritual Qi reaches the Microscopic Level, you can exert greater power with less Spiritual Qi.

This step of achieving Microscopic Level Spiritual Qi is the most difficult part for other cultivators to break through to the Middle Stage of Qi Refining, because this step relies a bit on Comprehension Ability, but for you, it is the easiest.

Based on the techniques recorded in your Cultivation Technique, it only took you ten days to bring your Spiritual Qi application techniques to the Microscopic Level. After that, the only thing separating you from breaking through to the Middle Stage and entering the Inner Sect was the accumulation of Spiritual Qi.

At seventeen, although the improvement in your cultivation base increased your abilities, the Dantian at the third level of Qi Refining is much larger than that of the second level, and filling it requires more time.

Seven months after breaking through to the third level of Qi Refining, your Realm finally broke through the Bottleneck and reached the fourth level of Qi Refining.

At this moment, your Dantian has expanded tenfold compared to the third level of Qi Refining, and the quality of your Spiritual Qi has more than doubled.

Not only that, after reaching the fourth level of Qi Refining, every inch of a cultivator's Physical Body will be covered with threads of Spiritual Qi. These threads form a dense Spiritual Network, and this Spiritual Network can act as a conductor.

From then on, the force of any attack received by the cultivator's body will be dispersed to every part of the body.

Unless the Spiritual Network inside the cultivator's body is severed, even someone at the same level cannot break through the defense of a fourth level of Qi Refining cultivator by focusing power on a single point.

At this step, the cultivator's ability to withstand blows, which can also be said to be their survivability, has had a leap-like improvement.

Having reached the Middle Stage of Qi Refining, you can now directly enter the Inner Sect.

In the Azure Cloud Sect, the promotion of Disciples is very intelligent. Just like when you previously collected Spells, as long as you infuse Spiritual Qi into the token, and after the detection passes, the Outer Sect Disciple token will become an Inner Sect Disciple token, and the permissions will naturally be upgraded to Inner Sect Disciple permissions.