Chapter 131

But just as Jiang Yu finished the last stroke, with a bang, the nearly formed lightning-pattern fire electric band exploded like lightning.

Jiang Yu only had time to turn and shield her face with a fling, but her protective aura couldn't rise in time, and the robes behind her, along with her hair, were instantly scorched by electricity.

"Jiang Yu!" The two dragon treasures immediately shot out water columns toward her, instantly forming a watery light shield around her.

"Hiss, the talisman paper is too weak." Jiang Yu's whole back ached; if she weren't wearing inner armor, she would definitely end up a bloody mess today.

Sui Lv Zhenjun, who was still at the main peak of New Year Peak, had flown halfway when he saw the water curtain disappear; Jiang Yu also sat up, and he then returned silently.

But the divine sense that had not yet been fully withdrawn heard Jiang Yu say: "I need to ask my master what talisman paper and brush can withstand this lightning talisman."

Upon hearing this, Sui Lv Zhenjun turned and flew to his dwelling, beginning to select the finest talisman brush from his secret store, as well as the high-grade talisman paper he had made himself in his youth.

But he never expected that, as soon as Jiang Tu sensed his aura disappear, he hurriedly said to Jiang Yu: "Your master has left; were you just saying that on purpose just now?"

"You wouldn't be planning to hand over the Primordial Talisman Scripture to the Grand Void Sect, would you?"

Jiang Yu took the Lesser Return Pill, circulated her spiritual power throughout her body, and after the wound on her hand healed, she said: "Handing it over is impossible."

"But this book was originally a fragment my master gave me, so I was able to obtain another part from the library and then complete it from Dongzhou."

"As the saying goes, when drinking water, do not forget the one who dug the well; since the talisman book can now be taken out of my sea of consciousness, naturally I want my master to look it over."

"Moreover, many of the symbols on it I currently cannot draw; perhaps my master can."

"Aren't you afraid the talisman book will be snatched away? What about the ancient spiritual treasure!" Ao Ze couldn't help but step closer and say.

"No, the Grand Void Sect isn't lacking in inherited spiritual treasures." On this point, Jiang Yu still trusts her master.

"If every junior in our sect who gains a treasure were to be snatched away by the elders, the Grand Void Sect would have long since been unable to pass anything down."

Thinking of this, she quickly sent a message to Sui Lv Zhenjun, then tidied the mess by the river, returned to her bamboo lodge, changed clothes, and tidied her hair.

Looking at the inner armor she had taken off, it was actually blasted into two large charred patches by this lightning talisman.

Jiang Tu chattered on the side: "Jiang Yu, good thing we're not poor now, otherwise if our defensive magic tools were damaged one by one, it would truly break someone's heart."

"I remember when Wan Xiyue and the others gave you five magic tools; now only a bronze mirror remains usable, right?"

"Look, I told you earlier not to use magic tools anymore; using a higher-grade treasure means you won't use one and waste one."

"That makes sense; I'll go back to the Internal Affairs Hall later to look for this kind of top-tier treasure inner armor." Jiang Yu still cherishes her own life.

But she didn't expect that, half an hour later, after her master had finished eating, he not only sent her a set of high-grade talisman paper, brush, and ink, but also a treasure-grade inner armor.

Moreover, after she released the Primordial Talisman Scripture from her sea of consciousness, her master said he couldn't see the characters and symbols on it.

"Some opportunities are only for specific later."

"The body-refining methods in the book can be copied and given to the library; copy as much as possible."

"As for the symbols, it's probably hard to copy the original; after you draw them, just keep one copy of each to give to the sect." Sui Lv Zhenjun said, then added solemnly:

"One must never lack caution toward others; henceforth, any treasure that nourishes your sea of consciousness, unless it endangers your life, should not be lightly shown."

"Not even the master?"

"No, every cultivator has their own secrets and should keep a trump card for self-preservation.

"Now, draw that talisman again."

"Yes, disciple receives the teaching." Jiang Yu calmed her mind, grasped the newly obtained talisman brush, and began to input fire spiritual power to draw the talisman.

However, strangely, as she neared completion, the high-grade talisman paper still burst forth with lightning.

This time, because Sui Lv Zhenjun was present, he promptly wrapped the finished talisman in spiritual power and flung it away, thus avoiding an explosion that would have hit her and the table of paper and brush.

He pondered for a moment: "Try using metal or water spiritual power instead."

The result was that Jiang Yu, using either of those two spiritual powers alone, still caused the talisman to explode; moreover, when she tried to draw the talisman in the void with her finger, she couldn't produce anything, and even drawing on a piece of hide didn't work.

"Try using hide of seventh rank or higher, or like the wood-hidden talisman Jiang Yu bought before, carve it from seventh-rank spiritual wood." Seeing the master and disciple repeatedly fail to draw, Jiang Tu put forward this suggestion.

"Just now there was a piece, exactly seventh-rank hide.

"Let's try this again." Sui Lv Zhenjun, feeling reluctant, took out a piece of spiritual wood from his storage ring, and with his spiritual power turned the carving blade into several slices.

And indeed, this time Jiang Yu, with brush dipped in ink, smoothly drew the lightning talisman.

On the spot, Sui Lv Zhenjun threw a top-grade magic shield into the water, then hurled the wooden lightning talisman to test its explosion; with two booms, the river water over a hundred zhang away was blasted into the sky.

Several second-rank river fish in the water were instantly struck by the lightning that sprang from nowhere, and together with that black shield, they turned to ash in an instant.

Sui Lv Zhenjun flashed forward to examine the actual effect.

Jiang Tu stared agape, and Ao Ze couldn't help but run up to Jiang Yu, saying: "Sell them to me; would a hundred be okay?"

"The power isn't that great." As soon as Jiang Yu finished speaking, Sui Lv Zhenjun waved his hand.

She circulated her body technique for a moment and flew over; seeing the river blasted open into a huge ditch, she said, "Master?"

Sui Lv Zhenjun raised his hand, parting the river water to let her see the depth blasted into the riverbed, saying: "Not bad; although it doesn't match a Golden Core stage sword talisman, it also has about one-tenth the power of a sword talisman.

"Taking the enemy by surprise, a late Foundation Establishment cultivator could be wiped out in an instant."

"The usable spiritual wood is seventh rank; using it to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator is very uneconomical." Jiang Yu had her own ledger: the price of seventh-rank spiritual wood could not buy even hundreds of blank talisman sheets.

She said: "Since talisman paper can bear minor lightning techniques, it should also be able to bear higher-rank lightning patterns; I just haven't grasped the trick yet.

"Master, why not set up the Lightning-Fire Formation One first, then after I refine a thread of lightning power within my body, I'll draw again?"

"First train your hands with spiritual wood; otherwise, after a long time your hands will become unskilled, making it hard to regain today's feeling." Sui Lv Zhenjun again stroked his storage ring, and with a swish-swish-swish produced several more pieces of spiritual wood, not to mention he then cut each one into slices with his blade.

"Master, use fifth-rank wood to train the hands; seventh-rank is too expensive." As spiritual wood reaches seventh or eighth rank, selling it yields gleaming spirit stones; Jiang Yu feels the pinch.

Sui Lv Zhenjun glanced at her: "Don't put on airs like a little girl; it's just a few pieces of seventh-rank mulberry wood.

"I only have time tonight; tomorrow I must fully devote myself to arranging the Supreme Ultimate Fish Plaques.

"Remember, pine-type wood is too flammable; best not to use it."

"Yes." Jiang Yu, without pretense, embraced a pile of wood slices and began drawing lightning talismans on each piece one by one.

She drew from midnight until dawn; as her strokes became smoother, the news that the Grand Void Sect had found a hundred Supreme Ultimate Fish Plaques had already spread rapidly throughout the cultivation world.

This number caused the Demonic Sect to seethe with envy; they gathered together, discussed, and organized a team to come to the Grand Void Sect.

Before they even arrived, many Nascent Soul cultivators of the Daoist Sect had already assembled at the Grand Void Sect, and jointly announced externally that on a certain year, month, and day, a trial would be held in the Southern Heaven Mountain Range.

But it's not about taking disciples; it's to test whether you can obtain the Tai Chi Fish faction's approval.