"I really wish I could come here every day."
Chu Liang took another lap around the valley, making sure not a single venomous bee had been left behind before reluctantly departing.
Back at Shushan Sect, there was still proper business to attend to in his little cottage.
Making money was ultimately an Outer Dao. At the same time, he could not neglect improving his own strength.
Thus, Chu Liang first claimed the venomous bees' rewards. After rewarding himself more than thirty times in a row, he began studying with single-minded focus.
Naturally, he studied the talismanic sword art Jiang Yuebo had taught him.
The essence of the talismanic sword art lay in combining talismans with Sword Qi. To learn this sword art, one first had to learn how to make talismans.
The art of talisman-making was itself a profound discipline.
Things like talismans, alchemy, and artifact refining were all deep fields of study in their own right. Shushan did not force its disciples to practice them. Chu Liang had never dabbled in them before, but now that the need had arisen, there was no harm in learning more.
When traveling the martial world, there was one saying that mattered greatly: one should learn until old age and live until old age.
If one did not learn until old age, one might very well fail to live until old age.
What Jiang Yuebo had taught him was the essence of the sword art; she could not possibly start teaching from the very foundations. So Chu Liang still had to return and slowly study it himself. Jiang Yuebo had given him one month to learn talisman-making.
He went to the Dharma Protector Hall and bought a copy of "True Explanation of the Talismanic Dao," then went to the Sword Transmission Hall to