Blood Talisman Scripture!

Back in his room, Bai Yu opened the Blood Talisman Scripture.

It recorded three types of Blood Talisman crafting methods.

The Divine Strength Talisman, the Gathering Affliction Talisman, and the Sharp Metal Armor Piercing Talisman.

Bai Yu already possessed the Gathering Affliction Talisman, so let's leave that aside for now.

The Divine Strength Talisman, as the name suggests, allows the user to surge Blood Essence within a short period, greatly increasing their strength.

The Sharp Metal Armor Piercing Talisman, on the other hand, could be attached to weapons to pierce through armor or a martial artist's defense.

Ordinary martial artists simply couldn't withstand weapons enhanced with the Armor Piercing Talisman.

If the Armor Piercing Talisman were added to crossbow bolts, they would be unstoppable.

After all, not everyone was like Bai Yu, who had cultivated Horizontal Training to the point of mastery.

Bai Yu was secretly delighted, having gained a few more trump cards.

In the following days, he began to draw Blood Talismans.

A small wooden table, a yellow talisman paper, and Black Dog served as a paperweight.

Bai Yu held the brush, his strokes like dragons and snakes.

The brush was steady, without the slightest tremor, and flowed smoothly.

However, when he reached the crucial stroke in the very center, the entire yellow talisman paper exploded.

"Another failure."

This was his ninth failure.

Bai Yu closed his eyes and recalled the process of drawing the talisman, savoring every detail.

Drawing talismans without knowing the key, only invites laughter from ghosts and gods.

The most important part of a Blood Talisman was the crucial strokes, known as the talisman's qiao, equivalent to the core of the talisman.

If a talisman were likened to a bomb, the qiao would be the explosive inside.

It was precisely because the qiao was so crucial that each time it was formed, there would be an invisible resistance, similar to forcing the same poles of two magnets together.

Any tremor in the hand would lead to the failure of the qiao.

Bai Yu suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze burning brightly.

He laid out the yellow paper again and began to draw the talisman.

The beginning was as smooth as before, and when it came to forming the talisman qiao, he channeled Blood Essence into both arms, his spirit more focused than ever before.

As expected, as soon as he made the stroke, he felt a strong repulsion.

But Bai Yu steadily caught it and continued to draw unhurriedly.

Finally, the talisman qiao was formed, and the entire talisman paper glowed with a faint layer of blood.

When Bai Yu finished drawing the talisman tail, the layer of blood slowly dissipated.

"Phew, Divine Strength Talisman, success!"

Bai Yu activated the Divine Strength Talisman and stuck it on his chest.

Immediately, his heart began to thump loudly.

His muscles swelled, and blood surged through his veins.

"Ha!"

Bai Yu stomped his foot, leaving a deep footprint in the ground.

With a casual palm strike, a tree as thick as a thigh was blasted in half!

Using this Divine Strength Talisman, his entire body's strength instantly increased by one-tenth!

Don't underestimate this one-tenth increase in strength. After a martial artist reaches the Third Rank, every increase in strength becomes extremely difficult.

Even at the limit, it's only about one or two thousand jin of strength.

Any more than that, and the bones would not be able to withstand it, and they would break with any exertion.

Many professional athletes in his previous life were prone to fractures because their muscles were too strong.

Therefore, the Divine Strength Talisman's ability to increase strength by one-tenth was already extremely powerful.

Bai Yu was very satisfied and removed the Divine Strength Talisman.

Immediately, he felt a sense of emptiness in his body, as if he had rewarded himself a dozen times in a row.

There was always a price to pay for over-releasing one's strength.

Bai Yu calmed his mind and began to draw other Blood Talismans.

Armor Piercing Talisman, Gathering Affliction Talisman, Corpse Control Talisman, Kindling Fire Talisman.

The Armor Piercing Talisman, when attached to a crossbow bolt, could pierce through a three-inch-thick stone slab.

The other three Blood Talismans were more auxiliary in nature, and Bai Yu drew a few of each as spares.

After his previous training, his success rate was around one in five, and it was still slowly increasing.

Fortunately, he had obtained five hundred taels of silver notes before, enough to prepare a lot of Essence Nourishing Powder, providing an ample supply of Blood Essence.

Otherwise, anyone else wouldn't dare to practice so extravagantly like him.

A new record appeared on Bai Yu's skill panel:

[Blood Talisman Art: Practice Makes Perfect, 360/1000]

In the past half month, Bai Yu had been drawing talismans in addition to practicing the Funeral Blade Technique.

He finally raised the Blood Talisman Art to the level of Practice Makes Perfect.

In addition, he kept practicing crossbow bolts to the point of Practice Makes Perfect.

[Archery: Practice Makes Perfect, 23/1000]

His martial arts cultivation was also progressing slowly. He had just opened the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian, comparable to drinking a hundred bottles of kidney tonic, and obtained an indestructible diamond.

"All ten meridians are open, only the last two are left, but opening the last two is even more difficult than all the previous ones combined."

"Relying solely on Bloodline Power to break through the meridians is really too difficult."

Bai Yu stroked his chin, lost in thought.

Finally, he came up with a solution.

Switch to a different internal skill and cultivate internal force to break through the meridians!

The Four Elephants Five Elements Fist is an external skill that can temper the body and increase Blood Essence.

However, it is very slow in converting Blood Essence into internal force.

Up to now, Bai Yu has only converted 50 points of internal force.

If he had an internal cultivation method, he could cultivate a large amount of internal force to open the last two meridians.

Thinking of this, Bai Yu couldn't help but feel eager.

"I'll ask Ninth Uncle if he has any way to get an internal cultivation method."

He went to the front hall, where Zhu Tong was carrying several bowls of noodles in.

"Xiao Bai, you're up so early? Come and eat noodles."

"I'm really having rotten luck, plain noodles have gone up to five copper coins a bowl now."

Bai Yu raised an eyebrow and asked strangely:

"Weren't they two copper coins a bowl before? Why did they suddenly go up so much?"

Zhu Tong handed a bowl of noodles to Bai Yu and rambled on:

"Let me tell you, the latest news is that the water bandits on the White Dragon River robbed the grain ships entering the city."

"The Liu Family and Zhao Family, those bastards, took the opportunity to raise grain prices, and grain prices in Jiang City have doubled."

"If this continues, we'll be eating two meals a day like those mud-legged peasants."

Bai Yu wasn't worried. He had searched five hundred taels of spoils before, so he was quite confident.

However, with grain prices doubling, other people's lives would be difficult.

Zhu Tong snorted:

"The Liu Family and Zhao Family, those bastards, are no different from the Black Wolf Gang, one is robbing openly, and the other is robbing secretly."

"But fortunately, the Prefect has sent soldiers to suppress the bandits."

Zhu Tong cursed and went inside to deliver noodles to the others.

Bai Yu shook his head. Life is hard for the common people.

He finished his noodles and went to find Ninth Uncle.

Ninth Uncle was eating breakfast in the yard.

"Xiao Yu is here? The Sun Widow's shop just sent over a roast chicken, have some."

Bai Yu didn't stand on ceremony, tore off a chicken leg, took a bite, and his mouth was full of oil, fragrant and fragrant.

"Ninth Uncle, business has been good lately, eating chicken every meal."

"Speaking of which, I want to ask you a question."

Ninth Uncle didn't mind at all, tearing off half a chicken leg for Bai Yu:

"Speak, have you encountered a problem with the Zhu You Yin Fu Jing."

Bai Yu smiled:

"Not really, I've almost finished learning that half-volume of the Yin Fu Jing."

"I've encountered a problem with martial arts. External skills aren't progressing much, and I want to find an internal cultivation method."

"I don't know if Ninth Uncle has any way to get an internal cultivation method?"