Hearing this, Xiao Hua was stunned. His face flushed bright red, and he hurriedly waved his hands. "Senior, you misunderstand. It is not that this junior refuses to give you one—it is... it is that this junior simply has no communication talismans!"
"You... have no communication talismans?" Ma Dengsheng found this most strange.
"That is right. This junior has never been to a market and has never bought communication talismans!" Only then did Xiao Hua realize that he had never asked Gong Mingwei or Zhang Qingxiao where their communication talismans had come from. The Sound Transmission Talismans, communication talismans, and the like that he used had all been casually given to him by Zhang Qingxiao!
"Pfft!" Ma Dengsheng could not hold back his laughter, then burst into loud guffaws. Xiao Hua's face... turned even redder!
"My apologies, my apologies, Fellow Daoist Xiao. I truly never expected that you had never been to a market and... had not even refined a communication talisman before!" Ma Dengsheng cupped his hands in apology, but then he laughed again. "This poor Daoist... hehe, this poor Daoist truly does not know how Fellow Daoist Xiao has cultivated these past ten-odd years!"
Xiao Hua muttered to himself and said nothing.
After laughing to his heart's content, Ma Dengsheng said, "Communication talismans... differ from other yellow talismans. They do not require high cultivation; any ordinary blank talisman paper can be used to refine them, with no need for special talisman brushes or talisman ink. At a market, a very small amount of low-grade spirit stones can be exchanged for many already-refined communication talismans. All it takes is a thread of one's own spiritual power to turn a blank communication talisman into one's own. Oh, right. Since Fellow Daoist Xiao is a Rogue Cultivator and has never visited