Just as Spirit Planter inheritances were divided into various schools, Talisman Master inheritances also had many schools.
Basically, Talisman Masters divided their schools according to talisman attributes, functions, and drawing methods.
Among these, talisman attributes were the main focus.
Most complete Talisman Master inheritances specialized in one attribute.
For a lightning attribute inheritance, the entire set consisted of lightning attribute talismans, from low-grade Postnatal lightning talismans to mid-grade Postnatal lightning talismans, then high-grade Postnatal lightning talismans, and finally supreme-grade Postnatal lightning talismans. It had everything.
There were clear and complete connections between lightning talismans of different grades. Once one mastered low-grade Postnatal lightning talismans, learning mid-grade Postnatal lightning talismans would be twice as effective with half the effort!
Moreover, a complete set of lightning talismans contained lightning talismans with various functions, such as increasing speed, defense, and offense.
However, this kind of Talisman Master inheritance had one flaw.
Although a specialized Talisman Master inheritance was orderly and easy to master, and included talismans with many functions, specializing in a single attribute made it easy to encounter situations beyond one's ability.
Take lightning talismans as an example.
If one encountered a situation that required bringing rain, then even with a large supply of lightning talismans in hand, there would be nothing one could do.
Therefore, most Talisman Masters with the means would master some talismans of other attributes while mastering one complete Talisman Master inheritance.
And this required time, effort, talent, and sufficient spirit stones!
Time, effort, and talent were not problems for Zhang Wan, but sufficient spirit stones left him in a difficult position.
All his assets amounted to only fifty low-grade spirit stones.
There was simply no way he could master one complete Talisman Master inheritance while also dabbling in talismans of other attributes.
In fact, fifty low-grade spirit stones were not even enough to obtain one complete Postnatal Talisman Master inheritance!
Even the incomplete Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance, which could only cultivate low-grade Postnatal spirit plants, cost fifteen low-grade spirit stones. A complete Postnatal inheritance involving Ultimate-grade Postnatal talismans could not possibly cost only fifty low-grade spirit stones.
Inheritances like this became more expensive the more profound they were!
Although Zhang Wan had prepared himself before coming, he still felt helpless when he actually saw the price of nearly one hundred and thirty low-grade spirit stones.
With no other choice, he had to abandon the idea of obtaining a complete Postnatal Talisman Master inheritance.
"In truth, most Rogue Cultivator martial artists are the same. It's difficult for them to obtain complete inheritances. The Talisman Master inheritances in their hands are even pieced together from here and there, containing talismans of every attribute. Learning them takes twice the effort for half the result."
"Compared to them, even if I can only obtain an incomplete inheritance, the portion I acquire is fairly complete. I won't need to piece it together myself."
After thinking briefly, Zhang Wan used fifty low-grade spirit stones and most of the low-grade Postnatal spiritual items in his possession to exchange for an incomplete fire attribute Postnatal Talisman Master inheritance.
The Wu Family had the complete version of this inheritance. Zhang Wan did not have enough spirit stones and could only exchange for part of it.
Zhang Wan was fairly satisfied.
Although it was incomplete and lacked the portion involving Ultimate-grade Postnatal talismans, the inheritance for low-, mid-, and high-grade Postnatal talismans was complete. For him now, that was enough.
As for the subsequent inheritance, he could find a way to obtain it in the future.
After completing the trade, Zhang Wan took the inheritance and left without the slightest intention of lingering.
Elder Wu had passed away in meditation, and this was a turbulent time.
If the inheritance had not been so tempting, Zhang Wan would not have wanted to come.
Now that he had obtained it, there was no need to stay here any longer.
After leaving Fengliu Commandery, Zhang Wan hurried all the way toward the Beginner Martial Arts Academy. Once he reached the area near the academy, he found a place to remove his disguise and smoothly returned to his small courtyard.
Under normal circumstances, Zhang Wan would not have worried about his safety outside.
Fengliu Commandery was located in the central region of the Jade Bone Sect's territory. Few Rogue Cultivators or brigands dared to run wild here.
But now, Elder Wu had passed away in meditation, and this area no longer had a Prenatal expert guarding it on behalf of the Jade Bone Sect.
Before the Jade Bone Sect sent a new Prenatal expert, it was certain that the security of Fengliu Commandery would suffer.
Leaving aside the Rogue Cultivators who had heard that Elder Wu had passed away and wanted to come see whether there were any opportunities to pick up, the martial artists who had clashed with the Wu Family in the past alone would throw Fengliu Commandery into chaos for a while.
Moreover, it was not only outside martial artists who had conflicts with the Wu Family. Even within the Jade Bone Sect, there might be people secretly making their own moves.
Greed moves the heart.
Even fellow disciples could not be trusted.
At a time like this, only staying inside the academy could be considered safe.
As long as no one wanted to completely offend the Jade Bone Sect, no one would easily attack the academy. Furthermore, the principal and the three vice principals were all veteran Postnatal experts above the Seventh Level Postnatal, and with the numerous instructor martial artists, ordinary martial artists would not dare attack the academy either.
Of course, Zhang Wan was not afraid.
If he really encountered an unexpected crisis—
he could simply spend his experience points on the spot!
With over ten thousand experience points, he could casually make his strength surge.
It was just that unless the critical moment arrived, Zhang Wan did not want to do this. The hidden dangers were too great.
Once he used them, he could no longer return to the Jade Bone Sect. Packing up and wandering the world would be his best choice.
Moreover, without subsequent cultivation techniques, merely raising his cultivation realm would make him a fake expert. And deducing the subsequent cultivation techniques and martial skills would cost far too much.
Unless absolutely necessary, Zhang Wan did not want to deduce the subsequent inheritance himself for now. Finding a way to obtain it from the sect and fleece the sect was the proper choice!
After inspecting the condition of the low-grade Postnatal spirit plants he had planted and confirming that there were no problems, Zhang Wan took out the Talisman Master inheritance and began examining its contents.
The inheritance was divided into two parts.
One part was basic fire attribute runes, while the other was talismans formed from basic fire attribute runes.
Runes were written characters that possessed power. But if they were merely copied, the runes would only be dead objects without any power. They had to be drawn with magic power to possess strength.
And the power contained in a single rune was extremely weak. Only when they were combined to form more complex talismans could they possess extraordinary power sufficient to threaten martial artists!
They were not only used to form talismans.
Runes were also the foundation of the two cultivation arts of artifact refining and formations.
Once one mastered runes, studying artifact refining and formations in the future would become much easier.
Although the runes one needed to learn for drawing talismans differed from those one needed to master for learning artifact refining and formations, they were all runes. After mastering one portion, learning another portion would also become much easier.
"The reason the Talisman Master inheritances pieced together by Rogue Cultivators are so difficult to learn is largely because they collect complete talismans but fail to collect all the runes corresponding to those talismans."
"Without a foundation, directly learning the final form of a talisman is naturally not easy to master."
"There's even less connection between the talismans before and after it, making them even more difficult to master."
"An inheritance that's as complete as the one I have is much easier to learn."
Zhang Wan quickly browsed through the inheritance.
There were more than three hundred basic fire attribute runes in total, and over a hundred fire attribute talismans.
There were more than thirty talismans of each grade—low, mid, and high Postnatal—and the inheritance was orderly.
Take the most common Fireball Talisman as an example.
The inheritance contained the low-grade Postnatal Fireball Talisman, the mid-grade Postnatal Fireball Talisman, and the high-grade Postnatal Fireball Talisman.
After mastering the low-grade Postnatal Fireball Talisman, it would be easy to master the next stage of the Fireball Talisman in the inheritance.
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