Chapter 514

"Who exactly are you?"

Great Elder Yu Zhi True Person looked at He Pingsheng.

With the Qi Kingdom in turmoil, he truly did not know the purpose of He Pingsheng's arrival.

Just at this moment, a black-clad woman with a graceful figure suddenly descended from the void.

Her hair was like a waterfall, her skin was fair, and she was naturally extremely beautiful.

Between her brows, there was still a hint of hesitation.

"Biyun Laozu..." Everyone cupped their hands toward the black-clad woman.

The black-clad woman was undoubtedly Wu Mi.

Wu Mi nodded at the crowd and said, "You may all withdraw!"

"Yes!"

The Nascent Soul cultivators dared not ask more and left one by one.

On this patch of ruins, only He Pingsheng and Biyun Laozu Wu Mi remained.

The woman, who had lived for who knows how many years, landed lightly upon the ruins, reached out, and found the storage bag from earlier. She took out the items inside to look at them, quickly put them away again, and said, "That's right, this is indeed what I gave to Wang Dun!"

"Are you a friend of Wang Dun?" The woman looked toward He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng cupped his hands: "Greetings, Senior Wu Mi. I am his junior brother!"

"Hmm!" Wu Mi said, "Follow me!"

She led He Pingsheng across the mountain range and arrived at a high peak in the back.

Atop the high peak stood another massive palace, and the two walked into it one after the other.

He Pingsheng swept his spiritual sense over the woman and discovered that she was at the third layer of the Soul Transformation Stage.

This cultivation base was neither high nor low.

It was exactly the level of cultivation that He Pingsheng could easily suppress.

"Sit!" The woman invited He Pingsheng to sit down.

The two sat face to face.

Wu Mi asked, "Where did you see him?"

He Pingsheng thought for a moment and said, "In the Chu Kingdom... some time ago!"

"Hmm!" The woman took a deep breath: "All these years, he and his pursuers have been chasing him relentlessly. He has been on the run the whole time; life must have been very bitter for him, right?"

Uh...

Facing this question, He Pingsheng actually did not know how to answer.

Bitter... was it?

This word didn't seem quite accurate when applied to Wang Shixiong Shixiong.

"Cough, cough..." After a third of a breath's time, He Pingsheng decided to tell a lie: "Wang Shixiong Shixiong has indeed been drifting from place to place, with no place to rest!"

Wu Mi said, "It has been hard on him!"

As she spoke, clear tears actually flowed from her eyes, and in an instant, her eyes became moist.

At this moment, He Pingsheng felt envious!

Wang Shixiong Shixiong is truly a role model for our generation.

"By the way!" Wu Mi wiped the tears from her face and asked, "May I ask your esteemed name?"

He Pingsheng felt that there was no point in hiding anything from Wu Mi, so he told the truth: "Junior He Pingsheng..."

"It's you!" Hearing that this was He Pingsheng, Wu Mi was startled: "It's actually... you!"

"Heavens..."

"You and Wang Dun are actually junior and senior brothers!"

"Hiss... what kind of sect could cultivate the two of you... it's truly..."

Clearly, this woman was no stranger to He Pingsheng's name.

"Senior, you flatter me!" He Pingsheng reached into his storage bag, threw out the thirty-zhang corpse of the giant ape, and said, "Junior heard from Wang Shixiong Shixiong that you are proficient in the art of talisman drawing, so I would like to beg you to help me draw some fifth-tier talismans!"

"Of course, I won't let you work for nothing, Senior!"

"Whatever the reward should be, I will pay every cent!"

"Easy!" Wu Mi nodded: "Since you were introduced by him, anything is fine!"

"However, my success rate for drawing fifth-tier talismans is pitifully low. Sometimes I only succeed once in twenty or thirty attempts... are you sure you want me to draw them?"

He Pingsheng nodded: "Is this beast hide acceptable?"

"It is!" Wu Mi said: "A Soul Transformation Stage spirit ape, did you kill this?"

"Truly impressive. I'm afraid that at this very moment, even I am no match for you, right?"

He Pingsheng smiled without a word.

Wu Mi said: "Back then, even Jiang Yu was killed by you, and now that so many years have passed, I presume your combat power has increased quite a bit, fellow Daoist!"

"What kind of talismans do you want to draw?"

He Pingsheng said: "Let's draw some defensive talismans, for example, the 【Thick Earth Talisman】; as for offensive talismans, Junior doesn't know what is available?"

The Thick Earth Talisman can be strengthened into the 【Earth Root Talisman】.

This thing is extremely powerful, and He Pingsheng felt it was quite good after using it last time.

Wu Mi said: "For an offensive attribute, let's go with the wood-attribute 【Heavenly Dao Lei Fu】!"

"However, you will have to wait a while; I still need to refine the talisman paper and talisman ink!"

"Very well!" He Pingsheng made a very excessive request: "Senior, when you draw the talismans, may I watch from the side? I would like to learn as well!"

"Certainly!" Wu Mi agreed readily.

Next came the refining of the talisman paper and ink.

It took about ten days or so.

A thirty-zhang beast hide was refined by Wu Mi into about three hundred sheets of talisman paper.

Besides the paper, she also refined some talisman ink.

There were two types of ink: one offensive and one defensive.

"Wu Mi... cough, cough... sister-in-law!" He Pingsheng approached with a smile and said: "When we refine elixirs, under normal circumstances, we trade five batches of materials for one batch of elixirs. What is the ratio for your talisman drawing?"

Wu Mi glanced at He Pingsheng and said, "Ten!"

The success rate for talismans is even lower than for elixirs.

"Come, help me out..." Wu Mi said: "Tidy up the table, then lay out the talisman paper for me!"

"Grind the talisman ink a bit more; the finer, the better!"

He Pingsheng followed Wu Mi's instructions and helped her grind the ink.

Before long, she began.

"Let's draw the 【Thick Earth Talisman】 first!"

She picked up the talisman brush, dipped it in the ink, and began to sweep it across a three-foot-wide sheet of talisman paper.

Dense, varying strokes of the talisman were drawn as if by flowing water.

It took half an hour to finish drawing this one.

The result... failure.

The talisman did not undergo any change.

"Failed!" Wu Mi said: "The success rate for these fifth-tier talismans is too low. Let's try again..."

He Pingsheng put away the failed talisman and secretly tossed it into his ring.

The second sheet.

"Ssh..." The second one didn't succeed either; in the end, it not only failed but turned directly into ash.

He Pingsheng understood now.

This stuff is just like alchemy; some result in pills, some are waste, and some explode the furnace.

This talisman burning is equivalent to an exploding furnace; there's nothing left.

They continued drawing.

One, two, three...

Who knows how many days passed.

Wu Mi drew fifty 【Thick Earth Talismans】 in total, and only four succeeded.

Of the rest, twenty burned, and twenty-six were wasted.

After drawing the Thick Earth Talismans, she began drawing the offensive 【Heavenly Dao Thunder Talismans】.

She drew fifty of those as well.

But this time, the probability of destruction was even higher.

Three succeeded, thirty disappeared, and seventeen were wasted.