[Skill: Talisman Crafting (1/100)] [Water Condensation Talisman (Foundational): 1/10 (Beginner)]
The newly appeared panel entries made Yue Shuo let out a soft breath. At last, he possessed a cultivator skill profession.
Previously, after he had grown Gathering Spirit Grass,
there had unexpectedly been no skill entry for a spirit plant cultivator.
For a time, Yue Shuo had thought the panel could not record it.
As it turned out,
that was not the case.
"Could it be that it can only record the four arts of cultivation?"
Yue Shuo actually found this Cultivator Character Panel rather familiar. It somewhat resembled something from a game he had played in his previous life.
But after all, it had been twelve years since his reincarnation.
No matter how good his memory was,
he could not possibly still remember the details of some casually played game he had not cared about twelve years ago.
"What a pity..."
Yue Shuo muttered.
If the panel had activated right after his reincarnation, he probably would have remembered things more clearly then.
"Strange. There's only one proficiency entry and the Water Condensation Talisman. Is there nothing else?"
Yue Shuo probed the newly appeared data with his thoughts for a while. Finding nothing more, he could only set it aside for the moment.
He checked his Divine Sense.
He had used up a little.
He had consumed ten points of Spell Power.
The expenditure was not much, yet he had gained the first Foundational spiritual talisman he had personally crafted!
Yue Shuo played with it for a while.
Only then did he continue practicing.
In one go, he depleted four points of Divine Sense—no, five points of Divine Sense!
That was because while practicing Talisman Crafting, he had recovered another point of Divine Sense. Repeated failures at making talismans had not consumed Divine Sense.
Only success consumed it.
Perhaps Foundational runes consumed very little.
[Skill: Talisman Crafting (5/100)] [Water Condensation Talisman (Foundational): 5/10 (Beginner)]
Gaining one point of proficiency for each success was not strange. After thinking it over, Yue Shuo packed up a stack of talisman paper, Talisman Ink, and a talisman brush.
Then he headed into the Spirit Field.
After some thought, he moved another writing desk down as well.
Fortunately, the gaps between the Gathering Spirit Grass were wide.
On average, only one stalk of Gathering Spirit Grass was planted every four or five square meters.
He placed the writing desk between four stalks of Gathering Spirit Grass, giving himself an area nearly the size of a small study.
He was basically living in the Spirit Field now.
As for what others thought?
During his term of office, everything in the Spirit Field was under his responsibility. So long as he did not damage the Spirit Field or its formation,
and could pay the rent when the time came,
basically,
no one would care what others did during their term.
Yue Shuo had sounded that out while chatting idly with Gu Jiu.
Next,
Yue Shuo repeatedly tried to arrange the most efficient balance between restoring Divine Sense, cultivating, crafting talismans, and planting.
On the second day after he began practicing Talisman Crafting,
he raised the proficiency of the Foundational rune, the Water Condensation Talisman, to the Mastery level.
[Talisman Crafting (11/100)] [Water Condensation Talisman (Foundational): 1/20 (Mastery)] (Mastery: You have gained a measure of insight into the Water Condensation Talisman.)
As this information appeared,
Yue Shuo realized all at once why he had only succeeded once in every ten attempts.
He had been repeatedly studying the several runes and spells he remembered,
analyzing and summarizing their similarities.
As a result,
he had gotten one detail wrong in the preparation of Talisman Ink.
The Water Condensation Talisman required cinnabar and clear water. It was the Fire-Starting Talisman that needed cinnabar mixed with rooster blood!
Of course, this was not his mistake.
It was because the "Foundational Talisman-Making Notes" his father had written were wrong! His father in this life was far too good at screwing over his son!
Fortunately, Foundational runes did not demand much in this regard.
Even with the wrong Talisman Ink,
he had somehow still achieved a one-in-ten success rate.
Yue Shuo could not help thinking,
Could it be that I really do have decent talent for Talisman Crafting?
His heart stirred. Naturally, he immediately switched to the correct Talisman Ink and made another Water Condensation Talisman to see whether he could succeed.
Calm his heart, focus his mind!
The talisman brush dipped into the ink!
Done in one smooth stroke!
Complete!
[Talisman Crafting (12/100)] [Water Condensation Talisman (Foundational): 2/20 (Mastery)]
If crafting talismans had not also consumed Divine Sense, Yue Shuo truly would have wanted to keep practicing. After changing to the new ink just now, everything had felt far smoother.
"The remaining Talisman Ink and runes can't be wrong too, can they?"
Yue Shuo recalled the contents of the book.
Still, the runes were branded in his mind, so he was certain there was no problem in that regard.
But Talisman Ink was harder to say.
However, there was also one method.
That was to use universal Talisman Ink!
Cinnabar mixed with spiritual well water had no special enhancement. Aside from perhaps slightly lowering the success rate when making Fire-Starting Talismans,
it could basically satisfy the creation of all Foundational talismans.
However, the proper method was to distinguish the Five Elements inclination of the Talisman Ink.
Rooster blood leaned toward fire.
Black dog blood leaned toward yin.
Or rather,
rooster blood leaned toward yang, while black dog blood leaned toward yin. In truth, both could be used on Five Elements runes that did not reject them.
Yue Shuo set aside his research.
He felt that he might need more knowledge.
Of course, he had not yet fully digested all the cultivation techniques and knowledge he currently possessed.
After pondering for a while, he glanced at the breakthrough chance again.
He still decided to break through first!
Ever since filling his cultivation on the fifteenth and beginning to temper it, Yue Shuo had held tremendous interest in the Talisman Crafting he had newly begun practicing.
Yet he calmly maintained his plan of prioritizing cultivation and advancement.
Six days.
Or rather, around five days.
By the twenty-first, after he had spent most of his Divine Sense each day cultivating, circulating his technique, and tempering his cultivation,
at last!
[Breakthrough Chance: 100%]
Before he even had the chance to improve his cultivation technique, he had filled his breakthrough chance to the maximum.
It was only the afternoon of the twenty-first.
Yue Shuo could not wait until nightfall. After assigning an errand outside to Gu Jiu, whose injuries had recovered,
he adjusted the Spirit Field's formation state once again by himself.
He set it to a misty state that obscured some of the view.
Remaining within the Spirit Field,
he began advancing!
Because he had long since discovered
that when he circulated his cultivation technique and tempered his cultivation within the Spirit Field, perhaps due to his primary cultivation technique, the Wood Essence Art,
the Gathering Spirit Grass in the Spirit Field gained immense benefits.
These benefits
were no less than those from his current casting of the Lesser Cloud-Rain Technique.
After all, the Lesser Cloud-Rain Technique could presently irrigate only one-tenth of an acre at a time, while his cultivation affected the entire Spirit Field!
The effect on each individual stalk was small, but taken together,
its efficiency was higher.
Moreover, he deliberately cast the spell to specially irrigate the ten stalks of Gathering Spirit Grass on that one-tenth of an acre.
At present, after casting his spell tonight at the latest,
he would be able to harvest another ten stalks of Gathering Spirit Grass!
Yue Shuo deliberately sat cross-legged amid those ten stalks of Gathering Spirit Grass that were about to mature.
He began meditating, calming his heart!
Then, following the contents of the cultivation manual, he broke through and advanced!
Rustle...
A breeze rose. The Gathering Spirit Grass swayed and stretched, and as specks of Yi Wood Spiritual Light danced through the Spirit Field, Yue Shuo's surroundings shone crystal-clear.
Half an hour later,
Yue Shuo opened his eyes.
Without the slightest hitch, peacefully and smoothly, he had advanced to Qi Refining Level One.
Yue Shuo examined the Cultivator Character Panel inwardly once more.
He discovered that it had undergone considerable changes!
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