Chapter 1440: Crafting Talismans

Amid this frantic shopping, Lin Feng quickly bought a good amount of talisman materials of grades 1 to 4.

However, the points card he holds is still some way short of the requirement to reach the fourth tier.

Of course, it isn't that he's reluctant to keep buying.

Rather, his purpose in buying the materials this time is simply to study talismans and see whether he actually has a talisman aptitude.

Indeed, his purpose is that simple.

Therefore, he currently has no need to purchase such expensive high‑grade talisman materials!

After all, he doesn't think he can raise his talisman‑crafting level in a very short time.

Consequently, he isn't in a hurry to buy high‑grade talisman materials.

"Xiao Rong, this is your payment for guiding today; the extra is my tip to you."

After leaving the talisman material pavilion, Lin Feng promptly bought a few cheap grade‑1 and -2 talismans for reference, then casually took out ten drops of low‑grade spirit liquid and handed them to the guiding woman.

"Thank you, Mr. Xiao Yan."

Seeing the spirit liquid worth twice his own payment, Xiao Rong was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him as she took the liquid.

While speaking, she glanced at the sun hanging directly overhead and couldn't help but feel lucky.

She hadn't really done much work on this trip.

She only pointed out the general direction during the guide's walk; everything else, including hurrying, was basically taken care of by the other party.

Having money without any work, she could only say, "Please let me do this countless more times!"

However, Lin Feng naturally didn't keep watching the woman's thoughts.

After paying the fee and tip, he simply waved at her.

Then, in a few flickers, his figure vanished from her sight.

At the same time, after parting from the guiding Xiao Rong, he wandered the maze of streets for a while.

Eventually, his figure stopped in front of a fairly nice inn.

"Fine, I'm too lazy to look elsewhere; besides, the environment here isn't bad, so this will do."

Seeing the rather luxurious inn, Lin Feng immediately grew too lazy to keep wandering and went straight inside, then booked a deluxe room.

"A talisman is, at its core, a cultivator embedding his known elemental arts and captured spirits into talisman paper via an intermediary."

"The talisman paper itself is divided into three, six, or nine grades; the lowest grade is made from various spirit woods and herbs using specific methods."

"The lowest, first‑grade paper is yellow and can craft talismans of grade 3 or below. The second grade is a universal purple—or the color corresponding to the elemental art's attribute—and can craft talismans of grades 4 to 5."

"As for the higher grade, because it must bear much stronger elemental power, metal additives are required to boost the paper's durability."

In the small training chamber attached to the room, Lin Feng sat in the cramped twenty‑something‑square‑meter sealed space, watching the book on talisman knowledge he had taken from Liuxi's storage bag, his eyes flickering with anticipation.

Of course, perched on his left and right shoulders, Xiao Ling and Xiao Jiu, the two petite girls, peeked out from behind, their curious faces fixed on the talisman‑crafting book.

They had both personally witnessed Liuxi's battle with the Soul Emperor before.

And the talismans that shone brilliantly in that fight are, of course, vividly remembered by the two girls!

"By the way, I bought some low‑grade talismans; let me see how these so‑called talismans actually work."

As he spoke, Lin Feng pulled out two talismans, and his soul power burst through his body.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Before his soul power could fully enter the two talismans to sense their inner structure, a colorful figure and a golden one flashed across his front, and the two talismans in his hand vanished.

Then, as if sharing a tacit understanding, the two figures each chose a direction and settled on Lin Feng's left and right.

"Hehe."

Seeing the talismans they had, the two girls simultaneously smiled, reached out, and infused their power into them, eagerly sensing the interior.

"These two girls are getting more and more mischievous."

As for Lin Feng, seeing the talismans suddenly disappear, he shook his head and gave a mute smile.

He didn't stop them nor feel angry about their actions.

After all, the talismans he bought this time are more than enough for the three of them to study.

So if the two girls like to take them, let them.

As long as they don't hinder him, it doesn't matter.

At the same time, he flipped his palm and immediately took out another lowest‑grade, grade‑1 fireball talisman.

Then a powerful soul force burst through his body and slammed into the yellow talisman.

Under his mighty Imperial Realm soul, all internal details of the talisman instantly appeared before Lin Feng's eyes.

Whether it was the qi content, the operation method, or the paths the qi might travel along the ink lines when the talisman activates, he could guess almost everything.

"So that's how it is. So that's how it is!"

After carefully sensing the interior of the fireball talisman, Lin Feng suddenly had an epiphany and muttered to himself.

Previously, although he had obtained a lot of information about talismans from Liuxi,

unfortunately, the talismans in that woman's storage bag had already been completely consumed during her battle with the Soul Emperor.

Therefore at that time he couldn't get any actual physical talismans.

He could only keep guessing the internal energy flow by looking at pictures in books.

But now, having probed the talisman's interior, he fully understood it.

Although this fireball talisman isn't a high‑grade one,

the principle remains the same; those high‑grade talismans likely just build on this foundation, employing the material at a higher level to unleash greater power and various wondrous effects.

"Now, let me give it a try."

After watching for a while, Lin Feng promptly folded the yellow talisman in his hand, murmuring to himself.

Then he waved his large hand lightly, pulling out a stack of yellow talisman papers and a few small jars of red talisman ink.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

However, just after the former took out the items, Xiao Ling and Xiao Jiu, the two girls, as if equipped with radar, flew over again, each grabbing a handful of talisman paper and a jar of talisman ink.

After returning to their original spots, they immediately recalled the tutorial they had just seen in their master's book, and began to imitate it closely.

However, Lin Feng couldn't be bothered to deal with it.

Anyway, this time he bought plenty of materials for talismans of grades one to four at the Talisman Materials Pavilion, so he had nothing to worry about.

Moreover, he was also very curious.

Could these two girls, who don't even have their basic gear ready, actually manage to produce that talisman?

Thinking of this, he casually glanced at the two enthusiastic girls, then flipped his hand and took out a black brush.

Of course, he didn't take this out just for fun at this moment.

But because this item is a talisman brush, which, when a talisman artist creates talismans, serves to mediate between the artist, the talisman paper, and the talisman ink.

If one must say, it's like a compiler in programming, which translates between the programmer and the computer.

Of course, this is just one of its functions.

After all, whether it's a talisman brush or the compiler used as a metaphor, they actually have many more functions.

"Anyway, I bought a lot of materials this time, so let's first test out some of the combat techniques I learned before."

Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately decided to forgo making low-level talismans like fireball talismans and water curtain talismans common on the Baiyuan Continent, and instead turn the combat techniques he had learned into talismans.

After recalling the method of making talismans, he then took a deep breath, opened the lid of the container holding talisman ink beside him, and picked up the talisman brush in his hand.

At the same time, Lin Feng's inner qi flowed along the first seal of the Grand Void-Sealing Seal, and the meridians of the seal began to circulate.

However, during this flow of qi, he did not follow the normal path of executing this combat technique, gathering it in his palm.

Instead, he directly poured the combat-technique qi that was just about to take shape continuously into the wooden brush in his hand.

"Hum!"

At the same moment, the talisman brush receiving this surge of energy instantly burst forth with purple-gold light.

Next, the qi surging into the brush like a flood was transformed by it, then steadily and orderly appeared at the brush tip.

"Swish!"

Seeing this, Lin Feng immediately began to wave the talisman brush in his hand, starting to draw on the yellow talisman paper before him.

Humming.

Accompanying the former's vigorous brushwork, strange red characters that were hard to comprehend soon appeared on the yellow talisman paper.

But Lin Feng had never heard of this, and simply continued to write and draw on the talisman paper.

Until he had drawn from the top to the bottom of the talisman paper, he then waved the black talisman brush in his hand and slowly withdrew his hand.

And as his hand left, the yellow talisman paper before Lin Feng astonishingly turned into a talisman flashing with purple-gold light!

"Bang!"

However, before Lin Feng could even be happy, that talisman suddenly exploded in midair.

It then turned into nothingness, completely disappearing from this world.

"Ah, it seems that jumping straight into high-difficulty talismans really isn't that easy!"

Watching the talisman before him vanish without a trace in an instant, Lin Feng let out a disappointed sigh.

However, regarding this, he had already been mentally prepared.

After all, talismans of this difficulty are now hard for even him, a Dou Emperor powerhouse, to succeed in one try.

"It's fine, anyway there's plenty of material; I'll just keep trying a few more times."

Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately moved his thoughts, once again controlling a talisman paper to float before him.

Next, he dipped the talisman brush into the ink container and, with vigorous brushwork, wrote strange, oddly shaped characters on the yellow paper.

However, this time when Lin Feng condensed the Grand Void-Sealing Seal within his body,

compared to last time, he used much less energy.

so that this combat technique remained at the attack level of a Condensed Pellet Realm cultivator.

And soon, the talisman brush in Lin Feng's hand also reached the final point on the yellow paper before him.

"Hum!"

At the same moment, as the talisman brush left his hand, this talisman, with its flowing red characters and the paper itself, instantly burst forth with dazzling purple-gold light.

Furthermore, compared to the previous defective talisman that had exploded quickly due to unstable internal energy,

this time the talisman Lin Feng drew did not repeat the mistake, but instead remained quietly in place!

"Hehe, although I succeeded on the second try largely because of my strength, it seems my talent for talismans isn't bad either."

After waiting a few minutes, Lin Feng saw that the talisman had not self-destructed due to unstable internal energy; he then gave a light laugh and reached out to pinch the yellow talisman before him.

"Huh?"

However, before he could firmly grasp the talisman in his hand, his expression suddenly shifted as he sensed something amiss.

He quickly summoned a circular energy shield, protecting himself from all angles.

"Boom! Boom!"

Just as he had put up the shield, golden lightning and colorful flames violently struck his energy barrier.

"Bang!"

Soon after, a somewhat muffled explosion was heard not far to his left.

"Bang!"

However, before the previous explosion's sound had even finished, a loud blast came from his right as well.

"Damn it, why is it still not working!"

Immediately after, Xiao Ling's somewhat angry voice shook the entire cultivation chamber as if it were about to jump up.

「Agreed, my side also doesn't work; it's definitely because the talisman paper is of poor quality. 」.

Upon hearing that, Xiao Jiu on the other side also hurriedly nodded in agreement with the former's words.

「These two girls, could it possibly be your own problem? 」.

Watching these two girls who usually quarrel so fiercely they'd rather fight to the death, now being so unanimous on clearing up their relationship, Lin Feng's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

However, shortly after, he glanced around his surroundings and silently thought: 「Fortunately, these two girls only displayed the strength of the Gathering Pill Realm during the experiment, and the room I rented is of high enough grade. Otherwise, this entire inn would likely be razed to the ground. 」.

「Furthermore, I refuse to believe that, as the number one Strange Fire Emperor Flame on the Dou Qi Continent, a former Dou Emperor powerhouse like me, still can't handle a lousy little talisman of yours! 」.

Meanwhile, while the former observed whether the training room was damaged, Xiao Ling beside him let out a roar that broke through defenses.

Shortly after, she picked up the yellow paper in front of her and continued the experiment.

「Me too, I refuse to believe I can't make this little talisman. 」.

Upon hearing that, Xiao Jiu also nodded in deep agreement, then likewise picked up a talisman and continued the experiment. (End of chapter)