Li Yuan sat in front of the stone table in the main room, and Aura Concealment suppressed the apparent spiritual power fluctuations to the level of Qi Refining Sixth Layer.
There is a piece of Golden Talisman Paper spread on the table, and Dark Gold Spirit Ink glows slightly on the tip of the pen. Azure Cloud Talisman Brush is held in the hand, and the pen barrel is steady and warm.
Spirit-Condensing Pattern Halfway through the fourth lap--
Suddenly there were footsteps outside the courtyard gate.
Two people.
The steps of the one in front are steady and powerful, while the steps of the one behind are faster, as if they are following.
The Talisman Brush in Li Yuan's hand stopped.
The next moment, a sense of oppression came directly from outside the courtyard wall.
It's not a spiritual attack, it's not a spell wave, it's the weight brought by pure existence itself.
Spiritual Pressure.
Foundation Establishment monk's Spiritual Pressure.
It is different from Alchemist He. Spiritual Pressure of Alchemist He is like an anvil placed on the table, quiet, and you can only feel its weight when you get closer. This Spiritual Pressure is more exposed, and you can feel it before you even enter the door.
The courtyard door was pushed open.
Two people walked in.
The man in front is an old man in his sixties. He is not tall but extremely tall, and his back is as straight as an iron pillar.
He has a thin face, high cheekbones, white temples, and small but bright eyes.
Wearing a dark blue robe, there are no patterns on the robe, but the material is of excellent quality and has a restrained luster in the sunlight.
Foundation Establishment.
Followed by Wang Lu.
The old man didn't stop after walking into the yard. His eyes swept over the stove in the corner of the yard, then passed over the door frame of the main room, and finally landed on Li Yuan standing next to the stone table.
When he walked to the stone table, he lightly scratched the edge of the table with his fingertips, looked down at the trace of Spirit Ink powder on his fingertips, and flicked it away without expression.
Then his eyes fell back on Li Yuan.
The two layers of Breath Concealment and Aura Concealment, Affix, are running at full strength, and the effect of Breath-Concealing Pill has not yet passed. Triple Concealment is stacked together, suppressing the breath of Qi Refining Seventh Layer to the level of Qi Refining Sixth Layer.
After a breath, the old man's eyes moved away from Li Yuan and fell on the half-drawn Spirit-Refining Talisman on the table. He lowered his head and took a breath, and the corners of his mouth moved slightly.
The moment his eyes left, a familiar line of words emerged from the depths of his consciousness.
[Breath Concealment (green) permanent conditions have been met]
[Is it permanent?]
Li Yuan's complexion did not change at all.
Yes.
[Permanent success]
[Breath Concealment (green) has become Permanent Affix]
[Equipment has been consumed]
Equipment Slot has a vacant position.
Li Yuan made no movement and stood in place with the same expression.
The old man's eyes paused on the Spirit-Refining Talisman for two breaths.
"The technique is okay."
He drew an arc on the table with his index finger.
"Spirit-Condensing Pattern When reaching the fourth circle, most Talisman masters will have problems with the increasing density. Your path is right, pull it up at a constant speed and don't jump up the steps."
He lifted his finger from the table and clicked on Li Yuan.
"But when the talisman heart is collected in the fifth circle, there is a trace of your spiritual power leaking out. Not much, but there is. The leaked spiritual power will interfere with the precipitation of the talisman heart and reduce the quality of the finished product by 10%."
He put his hand back behind his back, and his tone didn't sound like he was teaching, but more like Chen Shu a fact.
"Not bad."
After saying that, he turned around.
He took two steps and stopped again.
He turned his head and glanced at Li Yuan from above his shoulder.
"Which Talisman Hall are you from?"
"Qinghe Market Talisman Hall. Grade C Talisman Master."
"C and so on." The old man repeated these two words without knowing what they meant.
The old man took out a thin booklet, placed it on the stone table, and pushed it towards Li Yuan.
"Take it and have a look."
The thin booklet was heavy to hand, and the cover was wrapped in dark gray animal skin. It had no title, and only had the three words Essence of Talisman Making engraved in tiny characters on the lower right corner.
From entering to leaving, it took less than half an hour.
Wang Lu did not follow, but stayed in the yard.
He waited until the old man's footsteps disappeared completely, then turned around and looked at Li Yuan.
"Lineage is bigger than Elder, Lineage is one of the two Foundation Establishment."
His tone was calm, as if he was introducing someone who didn't need much explanation.
Wang Lu sat down on the stone bench in the yard and put his hands in his sleeves.
"Big Elder is here to find Senior He."
Li Yuan sat down opposite and waited for him to say.
"Looking for Senior He to refine the Foundation Establishment pill. This is not some private information. The rules of Senior He are there. Everyone knows that anyone who comes will not be refused. If you give money, you can practice it."
Wang Lu holds out a finger.
"But he also has his own values. For example, if Wang Family and Li Family are fighting, both sides need Foundation Establishment Dan. Senior He will not have a good relationship with whom. Just help one side. His rule is that each side does it once. Wang Family came to him to do one, and Li Family came to him, and he would do one. Even if Spirit Stone took less, he would do both."
He took his finger back.
"To put it bluntly, it's about balance. If only Wang Family is trained, Li Family might hold a grudge."
Li Yuan hummed and then asked a question.
"Herb Garden The main ingredient of the Foundation Establishment pill that was stolen over there was lost, right? What did Elder use to refine it?"
"The missing one is the Herb Garden one." Wang Lu took his hand out of his sleeve and patted it twice on his knee. "There is more than one Herb Garden in the Lineage. The core medicinal materials are fully protected and cannot be risked in a peripheral Herb Garden."
He glanced at Li Yuan.
"The one in Herb Garden that was snatched away is indeed a pity, but it is not the only one. Lineage has a lot of background. Losing one will break the bones but it will not break the roots."
Li Yuan nodded and did not continue to ask further questions on this topic.
There was silence for two breaths.
Li Yuan spoke.
"I have something to ask you. Is there any other way to control your aura besides covering it up externally?"
Wang Lu's eyes paused on Li Yuan for a moment longer, without asking, he thought about it and spoke.
"The movement of spiritual power in a monk's body will cause leakage, and the amount of leakage depends on how refined the spiritual power is. The rougher the control, the more leakage. The finer the control, the less leakage."
"For example, if you carry a bucket of water while walking, the more the bucket shakes, the more you will spill. The more stable you hold it, the less you will spill. The same goes for spiritual power. If the spiritual power inside your body rotates in a circle, if it is rough, you can feel it from the outside. If you spin it so finely that there is no leakage, it will look like there is no spiritual power from the outside."
He paused.
"To the extreme level, there is almost no leakage of spiritual power when it is running in the body. However, this level of control is almost impossible to achieve by practicing spiritual power manipulation alone. It also requires special Cultivation Method or methods to assist."
"What kind of Cultivation Method?"
"I don't know the specifics." Wang Lu shook his head.
Li Yuan listened to these words in his heart and nodded.
Wang Lu took out two rolls of animal skins from his sleeves and placed them on the stone table.
"The preparation methods you requested have arrived. Blood-Replenishing Talisman and Detection Talisman."
He pushed the animal skin over, stood up and pushed the door open and went out. The yard became quiet again.
Li Yuan opened the thin booklet.
There is no nonsense on the first page, it is directly Spirit Pattern.
A complete trend chart of Fire-Gathering Pattern, from the beginning to the end, each turning point is marked with the precise value of Spiritual Qi Density and the rotation angle of the wrist. It is not a general description of "the force must be even and the hand must be steady", but it is accurate to the point where Spiritual Qi Density increases by 12% from the baseline value at the third turning point and the wrist is externally rotated seven degrees.
Li Yuan's brow moved slightly.
He has never seen annotation with such precision. The Talisman Hall training textbook also has the Spirit Pattern trend chart, but the accuracy is more than one level worse than this. Those textbooks follow the "universal route", which is suitable for most people, but is not precise enough. The trend image in this booklet is to look at the same Spirit Pattern from a ten times magnified perspective, and every inch of detail has been taken apart.
Turn back.
The second page is Armor-Condensing Pattern. The same precision, the same meticulousness.
Li Yuan Continue to turn back.
Page three, page four, page five.
Each page is an in-depth analysis of Spirit Pattern, covering common Spirit Pattern with five attributes: Fire Element, Earth Element, wood type, Metal Element, and water type.
But what really made Li Yuan stop and take a closer look in this booklet was not the precise numerical annotations, but the annotations scattered in the corners of each page.
Pieces of short text, some three to five lines, some only one or two sentences, are like the author suddenly thought of something when he was drawing symbols to a certain place late at night, and jotted down his feelings.
"The essence of Spirit Pattern is not the drawn lines, but the traces left by spiritual power on Talisman Paper. The lines are just carriers, and the direction of spiritual power is the core. The same Fire-Gathering Pattern is drawn with different directions of spiritual power. The lines look exactly the same, but the effect can be 30% different."
"The center of the talisman is not the end point. The center of the talisman is the starting point of the entire talisman. The process of drawing the talisman is to start from the first stroke and move towards the center of the talisman, but the movement of spiritual power on Talisman Paper is from the center of the talisman to the outside. The direction of drawing and the direction of use are opposite. If you understand this, you will no longer worry about the strength when finishing."
"After Talisman Making reaches a certain level, the biggest bottleneck is not the technique or spiritual control, but the understanding of Spirit Pattern itself. Each Spirit Pattern has its own 'temper' - some like to be pushed and others like to be led along. Once you understand your temper, the scrap rate will naturally decrease."
Li Yuan turned the booklet from beginning to end, then back again, and read it twice.
It's not that he can't remember it, it's that some of the annotations need to be understood based on his own Talisman Making experience. There were a few parts that made sense when he read them for the first time, but only after reading them for the second time did he understand which link they were referring to.
The half-painted Spirit-Refining Talisman was still on the table. When Spirit-Condensing Pattern reached the middle of the fourth circle, Spirit Ink was already dry and could not be continued.
Li Yuan lifted up the waste talisman and put it aside, then laid out a new one Golden Talisman Paper.
After finishing the last stroke, the dark golden light gathered layer by layer from the outside to the inside, condensing into a light spot at the center of the symbol.
The light spot didn't flash - every time I succeeded in the past, the light spot would flash for a moment and then sink to the paper. This time it didn't flash, it just sank.
Then open the crafting hide of Blood-Replenishing Talisman.
The spiritual direction of Blood Pattern is somewhat similar to that of Rejuvenation Talisman, but the core has been changed from wood nourishment to Qi and Blood acceleration Backflow.
Dip in ink and put pen to paper.
The first one is useless. Blood Pattern's spiritual power sank too hard in the middle section.
For the second one, I adjusted the force and it became a layer of dark red luster floating on the surface of the rune, which was heavier and darker, with a warm and thick feeling.
Replaced with Detection Talisman.
The combination of Sensing Pattern and Expansion Pattern, the spiritual power radiates outward. The first one is it. A very light silver luster floats on the surface of the rune, spreading outwards from the center of the rune.
The two new Talismans are very fast to use. Now the structure of Low-grade First-Order and Spirit Pattern has no technical difficulty for him.
Li Yuan folded the finished product and placed it on the corner of the table, and took out another Spirit-Refining Talisman. After using it, he improved his soul.