Grains of Sand Make a Pagoda
Sun Qin naturally wouldn't refuse Yin Yunze's request.
After receiving the pen from Yin Yunze, Sun Qin skillfully used her left hand to hold up her right sleeve and wrote characters with a very elegant calligraphic style.
Seeing that Sun Qin's calligraphy was clearly the result of hard work, Yin Yunze wisely kept quiet.
It's not terrible to be inferior to others; after all, everyone has areas where they're not good at. But trying to make up for it when you're not as good as others is rather shameful.
Without disturbing Sun Qin, Yin Yunze waited a moment before picking up a character with dried ink and beginning to seal in the corresponding skill.
The whole process wasn't complicated, but Yin Yunze still spent more than half an hour making it to produce more than twenty sheets of various characters.
The reason Yin Yunze stopped was that as these characters were created, Yin Yunze discovered that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in Clear Creek Village was also becoming thinner.
Although the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi outside Clear Creek Village is slowly flowing in, the efficiency is not fast.
Upon discovering this, Yin Yunze stopped creating characters and began to count the characters that had been created.
Because of the different skills, the amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi required for each character is also different.
So the final result was that Yin Yunze obtained ten Fire Character Talisman, six Illusion Character Talisman, four Heal Character Talisman, and five Expel Character Talisman.
Of these four types of characters, the one for Expel Evil and Dispel Filth is the one that consumes the most Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, almost five times the consumption of Illusion Technique spells.
In comparison, Yin Yunze's main attack method is now Fox Fire, the most basic of which is only 1.5 times the damage of a single-target Illusion Technique.
Even healing skills like Heal Wounds and Cure Illness only consume three times the cost of a single-target Illusion Technique.
This five-fold consumption of Expel Evil and Dispel Filth was particularly proven on the little ghost girl, Spirit Medium Wang.
Yin Yunze felt a sense of anticipation, perhaps because this Expel Evil and Dispel Filth wasn't what he had initially thought, merely expelling impurities.
Who knows, there might be hidden effects such as attribute-specific attacks.
To be honest, it's quite annoying that there's only a general introduction without detailed skill explanations.
Yin Yunze just hoped it wasn't some kind of useless skill like "Blessing," whose effects weren't even visible yet.
Finding that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was running low, Yin Yunze gave up on continuing.
Based on these estimates, Yin Yunze discovered that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi of the entire Clear Creek Village was roughly equivalent to the Power of Incense Offerings of about fifty novice believers for one day.
Don't think it's too little. Clear Creek Village isn't some kind of paradise; it's just an ordinary little mountain village. The amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi it has is already quite substantial. Moreover, this energy can be replenished every day.
In comparison, among the two hundred or so believers in Clear Creek Village, there are probably fifty believers who can provide Power of Incense Offerings every day.
The villagers aren't human generators; they don't have anything better to do than wait to replenish Yin Yunze's Incense of Faith.
In fact, apart from the times Yin Yunze would gather a crowd to perform his miracles in front of people, the daily incense offerings were only enough for twenty or thirty believers.
When there is a lack of exposure, you can't expect believers to constantly praise you.
But the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is different; it is automatically replenished regardless of wind or rain.
Furthermore, the current number is due to the drought that has lasted for more than half a year, which has affected the overall environment of Clear Creek Village.
If the drought is resolved, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi of Clear Creek Village might be further enhanced.
Therefore, in conclusion, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is only slightly less important to Yin Yunze than the Power of Incense Offerings.
After this process, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi changed from an external blue bar in a specific area into a Law Technique scroll that Yin Yunze could carry around.
Just think about it, getting twenty or thirty more Law Technique scrolls every day, that makes it incredibly valuable.
Aside from its relatively fixed type and lack of flexibility in use compared to direct activation, it can be said to have all the advantages.
As for the lack of flexibility, as long as there are enough characters, what does flexibility matter!
I unleashed five hundred Fire Character Talisman in one go. Can you withstand a month's worth of training?
If that doesn't work, then add another month!
Imagining the scene of his father being blown up in the future, Yin Yunze's mood immediately improved a lot.
After classifying and organizing the completed talismans, Yin Yunze took out two of each type from the more than twenty talismans and gave them to Sun Qin.
"These four talismans, according to the words written on them, have the effects of creating Illusion Technique, creating fire, healing injuries, and exorcising evil spirits, respectively. The method of use is to first call out 'Fox Spirit, help me!' and then throw them at the target!"
Having learned from the experience of the three women, including Spirit Medium Wang, Yin Yunze realized that he really needed to provide Sun Qin with some security.
Otherwise, given Sun Qin's weak and vulnerable nature, she might have been tricked into leaving the village, just like Zhao Wan.
Back then, Yin Yunze couldn't have possessed Sun Qin with his Spirit Descent like he could this time.
However, it's impossible for Yin Yunze to stay in this world 24 hours a day.
Upon receiving these characters, Sun Qin's face betrayed her excitement. This meant that Sun Qin, too, possessed extraordinary power.
Without these characters, Sun Qin would just be a fake fairy who can only pretend to be powerful.
With these characters, Sun Qin would be a genuine, truly magical fairy whose words could be obeyed!
If used carefully, Sun Qin could hold out for several years even if Yin Yunze disappeared right now.
However, amidst her joy, Sun Qin also became somewhat worried.
Does this mean that this trip is extremely dangerous, and that this is the money Yin Yunze gave her to save her life?
Thinking about it that way, these characters didn't seem so appealing anymore. Sun Qin gripped the characters tightly in her hand.
"Lord Fox Immortal, are you going to take Wan'er away now?"
"Let's go?" Yin Yunze, unaware of Sun Qin's thoughts, casually replied, "No way! Let me collect them all first... Hmm, at least fifty of each kind! I won't feel at ease if I don't have a larger stockpile! I have a fear of running out of ammunition!"
If he hadn't discovered the application of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in this area, Yin Yunze might have gone to check it out directly. But after discovering that the characters could increase his strength over time, Yin Yunze was no longer in a hurry.
After all, Yin Yunze is the kind of person who plays PUBG and carries 300 rounds of every type of bullet, a full load of various medicines, and carries a whole squad's worth of supplies all by himself.
It's one thing to not be able to prepare the necessary supplies, but now that there's a way to collect them, how could Yin Yunze not maximize his resources!
If I'm really that unlucky, and this ten-day delay leads to that malicious source coming after me...
Doesn't this further demonstrate that Yin Yunze was well-prepared?
"Fifty for each..."
Upon hearing Yin Yunze's words, Sun Qin was momentarily speechless.
At this rate, it will take at least ten days to collect all two hundred characters.
Finding that Yin Yunze was far more cautious than she had imagined, Sun Qin felt much more at ease.
"Fifty sheets aren't enough for me! The more the merrier with this kind of thing!" Sending the characters into reality, Yin Yunze casually asked, "By the way, are you free now? I'm planning to go check out the Fox Immortal Temple, wanna come along?"
With ample strength as a foundation, Yin Yunze stopped pretending and reverted to his original personality.
Sun Qin felt somewhat uncomfortable hearing Yin Yunze's suddenly more friendly tone.
After all, although Yin Yunze didn't put on airs in front of Sun Qin like he did in front of ordinary people, he still maintained a certain air of a fox spirit.
After thinking about it, Sun Qin assumed that Yin Yunze was affected by Zhao Wan's young age.
Sun Qin carefully put the characters away from her body and nodded, saying, "Lord Yi Yun, how could I dare disobey!"
After tidying up the cinnabar and yellow paper and changing into a red and white shrine maiden's outfit in the inner room, Sun Qin led Yin Yunze to the Fox Immortal Temple that now nominally belonged to him.
In fact, Yin Yunze was mentally prepared for the dilapidated state of the Fox Immortal Temple.
But seeing it from an outsider's perspective for the first time, Yin Yunze still found it to be incredibly shabby.
Even after the renovations, Yin Yunze thought it was not even as good as the small temples he had seen in the mountains when he was a child.
The only thing worth mentioning is that its floor area is actually quite decent; it's not as small as I expected.
After all, in these ancient rural areas, the one thing that was never lacking was land for building houses.
Seeing that there wasn't much to see outside, Yin Yunze pushed open the door and went inside.
Upon seeing the fox spirit statue in the center of the Fox Immortal Temple, Yin Yunze couldn't help but frown.