Chapter 262: Three-Origin Lightning Talisman

Half a year later, in Song Qingming's cave dwelling on Mount Funiu.

Looking at the pile of materials on the table, a trace of greedy joy rarely appeared on Song Qingming's face. A few months ago, he had already taken the initiative to send several second-grade low-quality spiritual talismans to the Song clan's shop in Qinghe Square. Soon, almost the entire Qinghe Square was speculating that the Song clan should have produced a second-grade talisman maker.

It didn't take long before people began to take the initiative to bring materials to the door, asking if the Song clan could help make second-grade spiritual talismans.

It was just that the talisman-making materials in the hands of the cultivators who took the initiative to come to the door were all relatively rare spiritual talismans. Under the condition that the other party provided materials and you were responsible for processing and making them, if you succeeded, you could collect a portion of the commission. Once you failed, even if the other party didn't pursue the matter, you would have wasted more than ten days of work. Drawing a strange spiritual talisman that you were not very familiar with, it certainly wouldn't be too high.

Moreover, making second-grade spiritual talismans was also a time-consuming matter. Putting all your energy into this would also easily delay the cultivator's own cultivation. Generally speaking, a second-grade talisman maker was unlikely to easily agree to this kind of request.

There wasn't only one second-grade talisman maker in Qinghe County like Song Qingming. The Huang family and the Gao family each had one, and there was also a person with extraordinary talent in a vassal Qi Condensation family of the Gao family. It was just that the second-grade talisman makers of these families only borrowed their own familiar spiritual talisman business, and for these strange spiritual talisman materials, they all directly opened their mouths to refuse.

The reason Song Qingming did such an abnormal thing was because he had something on him that just happened to be able to make up for this major shortcoming. After knowing this news, he let Song Qingwan and the others start collecting these second-grade talisman-making materials that came to the door. As long as you brought them to the door, the Song clan would not refuse anyone and would directly send them to Mount Funiu to Song Qingming's hands, which made his talisman-making skills suddenly advance by leaps and bounds in a few months.

Compared to the materials he collected by running his legs off in major squares back then, the difference was really a bit big. If he had known that he could get these materials easily by sitting at home, he really shouldn't have deliberately hidden his identity as a second-grade talisman maker back then.

The only thing that was a bit bad was that the books on talisman making in his hands were relatively not many. There were some talisman-making materials brought over that he had really never seen before, and he didn't know what spiritual talismans to make, so he could only return them to people as they were. Even so, the talisman-making materials Song Qingming currently obtained were already very saturated, which kept him so busy that he didn't even walk out of the cave dwelling for a few months.

With the help of the remnant map, Song Qingming could almost shorten the time of talisman making by eighty percent. What others needed more than ten days to complete, it only took him two or three days. It was precisely because of this help that Song Qingming had the confidence to collect a large number of those second-grade materials that took the initiative to come to the door.

Today, Song Qingming was, as usual, seriously waving a black talisman brush in his hand in the cave dwelling.

This talisman brush was something he had spent hundreds of spirit stones to find in the square when he advanced to a second-grade talisman maker a few years ago. It could be considered a masterpiece of a second-grade artifact refiner, and he was already very handy using it now.

This spiritual talisman had been drawn for several days in a row. Song Qingming, who had failed several times, finally successfully drew this cyan spiritual talisman filled with lightning light this time.

Looking at the spiritual talisman in his hand that was shining with spiritual light and filled with restless electric arcs, Song Qingming felt the fluctuating spiritual power in the spiritual talisman, nodded with satisfaction, put it aside, and began to draw the next spiritual talisman.

Unlike making first-grade spiritual talismans, the magic power required to make second-grade spiritual talismans was very large. Whether it was a Qi Condensation cultivator or a Foundation Establishment cultivator, the magic power stored in the body was very difficult to draw a complete spiritual talisman in one stroke. Basically, one had to stop the brush in the middle and wait for one's own magic power to recover before continuing to draw. In this continuous process, it was very easy to have a situation where the brush strokes were not complete enough, thereby causing the drawing of the entire spiritual talisman to fall short of success.

This point was also the biggest difficulty in the process of drawing second-grade spiritual talismans. Without a bit of talent in talisman-making skills, it was very difficult to control this point well. This was also the reason why second-grade talisman makers were so rare.

However, after so many years of pondering and training, Song Qingming had already controlled this point very well. With the help of the remnant map, even in the process of making talismans, he could slowly absorb spiritual energy to replenish the magic power in his body. By comparison, he could also need fewer connections than others when drawing spiritual talismans. Some spiritual talismans with relatively simple talisman scripts could even be drawn in one stroke like drawing first-grade spiritual talismans.

It was precisely because of this reason that Song Qingming was able to be diligent and make up for his clumsiness, and successfully broke through to a second-grade talisman maker when his own talisman-making talent was just average.

After drawing three spiritual talismans in a row, Song Qingming finally consumed all the materials on the table that had been swallowed for more than ten days. After putting away the black talisman brush in his hand, he slowly approached the hj step by step.

"Seven portions of materials in total, and I actually succeeded in three. My luck was not bad this time."

Feeling the terrifying spiritual power fluctuations filled in the cyan spiritual talisman, Song Qingming slowly put away the spiritual talisman. This spiritual talisman had extraordinary power. If he were hit head-on at close range, he estimated that even with the protection of the Clear Water Bell, it would be very difficult for him to retreat unscathed.

"Three-Origin Lightning Talisman. This is the Three-Origin Lightning formed by refining the magic power of any three attributes among the five elements between heaven and earth. Although its power is not as good as the real heaven-and-earth thunder, it is also a spiritual talisman with very fierce attack power among second-grade low-quality spiritual talismans. Keeping one on my body can be somewhat useful."

A second-grade spiritual talisman was worth about between 200 and 300-plus spirit stones. For a relatively rare one like the Three-Origin Lightning Talisman, it should be able to sell for about 280 spirit stones in the square. This time, his talisman-making success rate had finally improved quite a bit, so naturally, he had to take one spiritual talisman. Leaving the remaining two spiritual talismans to the client was already enough for them. After all, if they really found a half-bucket-of-water second-grade talisman maker for such a rare spiritual talisman, there was an 80% chance that it might be thrown into the water. If Song Qingming could give them two, they would all have to be grateful.

Just like that, Song Qingming began to be busy with this very interesting item of talisman making all day long, constantly enriching his types of talisman making. If things continued like this, it was estimated that in another year or two, his talisman-making technique would be able to make another breakthrough.

Just as Song Qingming was burying his head in hard work, a sound transmission talisman suddenly flew into the cave dwelling. Seeing that it was Sixth Uncle Song Changfeng looking for him, Song Qingming hurriedly stopped the talisman brush in his hand and walked out of the cave dwelling door.

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