Green Arrow Talisman

The Immortal Sect had inherited quite a few systems from the previous civilization on Earth Origin Star. For example, before any pill could be put on the market, all the ingredients contained within had to be listed on its packaging.

In other words, for every kind of pill sold, the pill formula had to be attached.

But if someone wanted to rely on the formula attached to the pill instructions to refine a finished product, that was basically a fool's dream.

Modern pharmaceutical processes combined with alchemy involved so many intricacies that even three days and three nights would not be enough to explain them all. So, although pill formulas were public knowledge, alchemy and pharmaceutical production remained monopolized industries.

However, every time the major academies and Dao academies researched a new kind of pill, they had to expend enormous resources. It was only right that they made money from it. Otherwise, relying on the Immortal Sect's subsidies alone, no one would be willing to invest in the pharmaceutical industry at all.

Crimson Cloud Academy's Purple Fire Pill was a pill specifically used for breaking through realms in the middle stage of Qi Cultivation.

Among them, when breaking through from Qi Refining Layer 4 to Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, the success rate of taking the Purple Fire Pill was the highest, roughly sixty to seventy percent. But when breaking through from Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer to Qi Cultivation Level 6, the success rate was directly chopped by more than half at the waist, leaving only twenty to thirty percent.

Moreover, if a cultivator had a higher proportion of Water Spiritual Root Attribute, its effect would drop by another half when taken. If a cultivator had more Wood-Fire Spirit Root Attribute, on the contrary, it could raise the success rate by another ten percent.

Even so, the Purple Fire Pill was still the most popular among pills of the same level.

Because its medicinal nature was mild, and Crimson Cloud Academy had spent several hundred years refining the pill-making process for the Purple Fire Pill to ever greater perfection, it had already reached the flawless degree of having no Pill Toxin.

After taking it, one only needed to use the Qi Nourishing Technique common to the masses of the Immortal Sect to nurture oneself for ten days to half a month, and the aftereffects of a forced breakthrough could be dissolved.

Chen Mobai's luck was very good.

Because the Purple Fire Pill used Vermilion Cloud City's unique "Purple Sun Sunflower" as its Main Medicine, it contained a thread of yang-fire purple qi. If it was nurtured and dissolved with Water Spiritual Energy, one could get twice the result with half the effort.

This Water Mansion happened to be built atop a Second Grade middle-rank water-type Spirit Vein, where Water Spiritual Energy was at its densest.

Two days later.

Chen Mobai opened his eyes with a face full of pleasant surprise.

Sensing the spiritual power inside his body, which now moved as freely as his own arm and no longer had the slightest obstruction, he confirmed that his realm at the fifth layer of Qi Cultivation had completely stabilized.

It had taken even less time than he had expected. All he could say was that he had underestimated the spiritual energy of a Second Grade middle-rank Water Vein.

But this could not be blamed on him either. After all, he was a child from an ordinary family, and he had never cultivated before in a Spirit Land of the Water Mansion's level.

He took out the box of Glass Beads he had bought before.

One bead, two beads, three beads... only when the fifth bead suffused with colored light and slowly flew up from his palm did Chen Mobai reveal a happy smile.

Right now, perhaps he really could cultivate to the sixth layer of Qi Cultivation before the College Entrance Exam.

He stood up and stretched lazily.

Chen Mobai once again began to size up this Water Mansion.

It was still the same as usual, without the slightest change.

Over the past two days, he had also consulted Old Man Ding again, using the excuse that his private tutor had seen his rapid progress, increased the difficulty of his coursework, and given him this huge problem of a Compound Restriction.

Old Man Ding thought that his teaching had been greatly useful to Chen Mobai, and he could not help but feel deeply comforted in his old age. After asking even more carefully about the characteristics of the Compound Restriction, and combining it with his own teaching experience, he gave two more methods to break it.

The first was more or less what Chen Mobai had thought of: use a powerful restriction-breaking Talisman, blast it at the weakest point of the restriction, and break the restriction with force.

The second was to break craft with craft. Although a Compound Restriction was powerful, because it was a combination of multiple spells, linked ring to ring and extremely precise, one only needed to break one of them. Then even if the rest were not broken, they would jam because one of the spells had vanished.

If the person who set the restriction was only average in skill, the remaining spells might even clash with one another after one spell was broken, automatically collapsing.

Old Man Ding was also quite a proud person, and he gave Chen Mobai the latter solution.

It required using a Forbidden-Breaking Artifact to cut off the supply of spiritual energy from the Water Mansion's Spirit Vein. Once the Compound Restriction revealed itself, it could then be broken one by one with the corresponding methods.

But Chen Mobai was utterly penniless. The only artifact he had was the children's version of the Demon-Subduing Sword hanging in his room. Because Light Spell had been applied to it, it could barely be counted as a Grade 1 Low Rank ornamental artifact.

He went to the trading market on the Immortal Sect Network to take a look, and discovered that the cheapest artifact meeting the requirements still cost 500 Merit Points.

He could only turn back to the first method of breaking it.

Chen Mobai took out three Talismans from his pocket, each engraved with a long green arrow, his face full of heartache.

This was a Grade 1 Middle Rank "Green Arrow Talisman," worth 35 Merit Points each.

After asking Old Man Ding for advice over the past two days, Chen Mobai knew that when dealing with an unfamiliar Water Attribute restriction, it was still best to use Wood Attribute spells, Talismans, or artifacts to break it.

Attacking water with fire was naturally the most effective.

But once the hidden power of a Water Attribute restriction far exceeded the estimate made beforehand, the intense reaction of Water and Fire spiritual power would affect the person breaking the restriction. With one careless slip, he would have to explain himself on the spot.

Wood also countered water, and its stimulation of Water Attribute spiritual power was not as intense as fire spiritual power. Even if the restriction's power was abnormally high, the aftershock would not be too fierce.

The power of this "Green Arrow Talisman" was not much different from the "Water Sword Talisman" Chen Mobai had previously taken a liking to and placed in his shopping cart.

After the "Water Sword Talisman" was cast, it would condense into a transparent long sword of flowing water, gathering and dispersing as one wished, flowing according to one's heart, and could last for up to a quarter of an hour.

After the "Green Arrow Talisman" was released, it would condense long green arrows according to the caster's cultivation level, and at most could release six in one breath.

Chen Mobai was at the fifth layer of Qi Cultivation, so after casting it, there would be five long arrows.

Although it was a bit wasteful, there was no other way. This was the Talisman most suited to breaking restrictions.

In order to finish the whole task in one stroke, Chen Mobai not only used up all his savings, but also found time to sell all the blank Talisman Paper he had cut and accumulated during his spare time, barely scraping together the Merit Points needed to buy these three "Green Arrow Talismans."

"If there's nothing valuable inside after I break open the restriction, I'm going to lose so badly I cough blood."

Chen Mobai muttered to himself, gathering the spiritual power inside his body. He even took out his "Wood Armor Talisman" and injected a stream of spiritual power into it, pre-activating it to guard against any accident when he broke the restriction later and avoid being struck by the aftershock.

Splash, splash! Just then, the sound of surging water rang out in waves.

Under Chen Mobai's wide-eyed, incredulous gaze, he saw the spherical light barrier enveloping the entire Water Mansion open a gap. Immediately afterward, two figures dropped down.

The two were one old and one young.

The old one had gray-white hair and held a Black Banner, yet brilliant light flashed again and again in his eyes.

The young one had an ordinary face and wore a Brown Robe. After landing, he immediately maintained a distance of two meters from the old man.

Together with Chen Mobai, who was standing in the front hall, the two of them happened to form a triangle, each staring at the others in mutual dismay.