True Person Fu Xuan was also a cultivator who did not stand on ceremony. The furnishings throughout his cave abode were quite simple, without any lavish or extravagant decorations.
Li Qing and Shen Ningbing exchanged a glance, then followed Daoist Jinbao into the cave abode.
The moment they entered, Daoist Jinbao clasped his hands, about to explain why they had come, but before the words could leave his mouth, a bright young woman's voice rang out from within the cave abode.
"Ah! I mastered the variations of these basic runes ages ago. I refuse to repeat these dull and tasteless rune exercises!"
Very soon, True Person Fu Xuan's rather imposing rebuke resounded:
"Outrageous! The foundations of the Talisman Dao are of utmost importance. These basic runes involving transformations in particular are closely tied to whether drawing talismans succeeds or fails!"
"Your master came from a Rogue Cultivator background. It was precisely because I laid my foundations incomparably solidly that I could achieve an eighty or ninety percent success rate in drawing talismans, saving vast amounts of cultivation resources and materials. That is how I attained what I have today!"
For Rogue Cultivators, cultivation resources were what they lacked most.
In just a few words, True Person Fu Xuan had revealed the key to how he had reached his present position.
It was by relying on an extraordinarily high success rate in talisman crafting, saving enormous resources step by step, that he had become a great master of the Talisman Dao known throughout the Great Desolation Region!
In truth, when ordinary Talisman Masters drew talismans, producing five talismans from ten batches of materials was already considered a rather impressive success rate.
Especially later on, the more profound the talisman, the lower the success rate of drawing it.
Though it was merely