Chapter 80: The Degenerate Son

  Tianxuan Sect, Guxiang Studio!

  Shi Sheng trudged back into the house, panting heavily with a large sack slung over his shoulder. Jin Ling sprang out of his sleeve and onto the table with a soft thud. Shi Sheng set down the sack, picked up a cup of water and gulped down several mouthfuls before plopping himself down in a chair.

  "Heh heh, with these beast skins, several hundred talismans are no problem at all. It's just a pity that there aren't many beast skins that can be used to make mid-grade talismans!" Shi Sheng looked at the bag beside him and smiled in satisfaction.

  Everyone returned to the sect and directly transported their harvest to Tianyang Pavilion. After distributing the harvest, Shisheng kept all the beast skins that could be used for talisman paper, while selling off the remaining materials in exchange for over 40 pieces of Xuanjing Jade. The others obtained over a hundred pieces each, which was quite a substantial gain, enough to purchase a piece of spiritual equipment.

  However, if Shi Sheng were to sell these beast hides, he would get at least over a hundred Xuanjing Jade. The total gain would be more than others, but Shi Sheng decided to refine these beast hides into talismans. This way, the price of these beast hides would double, and he could sell all the talismans for at least two hundred Xuanjing Jade.

  "Selling beast skins can fetch over a hundred Xuanjing Yu, and turning them into talismans would only sell for a little over two hundred Xuanjing Yu. But if we refine hundreds of talismans into talisman scrolls and sell them, hehe, I reckon we could at least get four or five hundred Xuanjing Yu!" Shi Sheng smiled as he calculated the profits in his mind, while Lin Wan'er walked out of the room.

  "Asheng is back! How was it? Was this trip smooth? Were you injured?" Lin Wan'er didn't care about Asheng's gains, her first sentence was to ask about his safety.

  "Wanniang, don't worry, this time it's going smoothly!" Shi Sheng said with a great mood: "Wanniang, it won't take long before I can get the Jyunian Dan for you. Once you advance to the Huahai realm, those few Xuanling Dans will be left for you, and I won't need them anymore!"

  "Take your medicine first, I'll go cook!" Lin Wan'er was like a considerate little wife, carefully taking care of Shi Sheng.

  Shi Sheng looked at the little monkey who was holding a banana and biting it randomly, with a thoughtful expression in his eyes. Even though so many people couldn't detect the danger ahead of time, he didn't know why this little guy could detect it ahead of time.

  However, the two demon beasts that appeared in the end didn't give this little guy any warning. Even so, Shi Sheng vaguely felt that Jin Ling was not ordinary, it seemed that bringing him along might be useful in the future. Of course, he would try his best to avoid contact with women, lest this guy's lecherous heart grew stronger!

  After dinner with Lin Wan'er, Shi Sheng hurriedly started to work, taking out the animal skin and cutting it into pieces with a blood shadow knife, each one slightly larger than normal talisman paper because they would shrink after drying.

  It took Shi Sheng three whole days to sort and categorize all the animal hides, filling the entire hall with rows upon rows of them. During this time, Shi Sheng didn't idle around, but instead went to the Alchemy Pavilion to inquire about the prices of elixirs and spiritual medicines.

  "No need to ask, just take it back and look at the price list yourself. There are so many kinds of elixirs and spiritual medicines, I won't be able to finish explaining them all even if I spend half a day talking about it. Just bring it back after you've finished looking!" Inside the Alchemy Pavilion, a disciple on duty handed over a small booklet to Shi Sheng, who began to study it carefully.

  It took Stone five whole days to finish reading the Dan Pu and spiritual medicine introduction, he couldn't help but secretly sigh in amazement. The recorded Dan medicines had more than twenty kinds, each with prices, efficacy and usage methods, just lacking the refining techniques. What's even more regrettable is that now Stone can't afford any of these Dan medicines.

  "It's indeed a good thing, quickly recovering spiritual power, treating various injuries, and increasing the speed of Yuanhe realm cultivation. These elixirs really have everything! Shi Sheng couldn't help but sigh in admiration, he didn't expect that the elixir would have so many effects, it seems that it's even more useful than his own Blood Stopping Symbol for treating injuries."

  "Medical talismans are after all for ordinary people and ordinary injuries, these medical talismans may have some effect. It seems that for cultivators to treat injuries, they still need to rely on these miraculous pellets. It looks like I'll really have to study hard if I get the chance!" Shi Sheng said, looking again at the introductions of those spiritual medicines.

  Through the records above, Shi Sheng learned about the characteristics, shapes, years and prices of more than 100 kinds of medicinal materials, and also understood the use and price of the mysterious flower in Wang Bo's mouth.

  "Moling flower, consolidating the foundation and cultivating the origin, has a remarkable effect on mental trauma and internal injuries. Ten years of age, five thousand pieces of Xuanjing jade?" Shi Sheng couldn't help but secretly curse, no wonder that old man had such a big temper that day, being robbed by himself, no, being swindled out of five thousand Xuanjing jade by Jin Ling.

  If it were in the past, Shi Sheng would have been puzzled as to why Wang Bo had such a precious elixir. However, now that he thought about it, Shi Sheng found himself unable to see through Wang Bo anymore. As for Wang Bo possessing such a valuable elixir, Shi Sheng wasn't too surprised.

  Several days later, Shi Sheng studied the spiritual medicine for a while. The animal hides that had been cut and dried were also ready. Shi Sheng took out the previously prepared Tian Shan Luo and soaked all the animal hides in it.

  Tianshan Rong is a must-have for making talismans, which requires soaking animal hides in it to make them soft and supple. After air-drying, the animal hides remain extremely soft and can then be made into talismans.

  After waiting for some more time, when it felt about right, Shi Sheng began to shut himself in and not come out. This was the most critical step in making talismans, requiring him to infuse his spiritual energy into the animal hide, then use his mental fire to dry it. If he wasn't careful, there would be a high chance of failure.

  Shi Sheng took out a beast skin from the wooden bucket, and with a slight movement of his mind, a pale blue fireball appeared in mid-air. He didn't use an ordinary fireball because at this moment, the higher the purity of the flame, the better.

  With a final thought, he poured it into the beast skin, slowly approaching the pale blue fireball. According to Wang Bo's ancient scroll, Shi Sheng began to refine the talisman paper.

  With a sudden burst, just as the animal hide was about to dry out, it suddenly caught fire and turned into ashes that dispersed in mid-air, leaving Shi Sheng unable to help but pucker his lips in dismay.

  However, after several repeated experiments, Shí Shēng finally grasped the temperature of the fireball and the distance between the beast skin and the fireball. He refined thirty talismans and only failed five times. For this fairly good result, Shí Shēng was not too satisfied.

  Shi Sheng gradually became more skilled, and the room was filled with ten small fireballs floating in mid-air. The number of talismans he could refine at one time also increased from a single tentative try to two or three, and eventually to over ten at once.

  More than half a month later, Shi Sheng looked at the finished talismans and revealed a disappointed expression: "I didn't expect the failure rate to be even higher than expected, yet so few succeeded."

  Intermediate lower-tier talismans thirty-three, lower top-tier talismans over seventy, lower high-tier talismans over eighty, lower middle-tier talismans over forty, and more than twenty lower-tier talismans. I'm afraid they can only be used for healing talismans. It's probably difficult to use them as attack talismans for cultivators.

  However, these more than 200 talismans might be able to sell for at least over 300 pieces of Xuanjing Jade, heh heh, it wasn't a waste of my time after all!

  After resting for two days, Shi Sheng finally successfully refined twenty high-grade fire talismans, twenty high-grade golden talismans, ten top-grade fire talismans, ten top-grade golden talismans, and then refined ten mid-grade golden talismans and fire talismans each. Currently, Shi Sheng only knows these two types of talismans, so he left behind a lot of talisman paper, preparing to learn some other talismans.

  ……

  On this day, Shi Sheng invited Lin Pangzi to come and be a guest!

  "You want to sell the talismans? Shi Shidi, are you short of Xuanjing jade? No way, I'll lend you some, it's a pity to sell such things, and we'll lose money if we sell them privately!" Lin Pangsou hurriedly shook his head and dissuaded Shi Sheng from selling the talismans.

  "Heh heh, you don't have to worry about that. It's just that I didn't expect it to be sold privately, and it would still be restricted by the sect. If it's cheaper than the sect's talismans, then how many Xuanjing Yu would this high-grade fire symbol cost?"

  Shi Sheng casually pulled out a high-grade fire talisman, the same kind he had used to kill the evil cultivator earlier. According to Shi Sheng's guess, this talisman would be at least twice as expensive as the talisman paper, and could probably sell for around ten pieces of Xuanjing Jade.

  Lin Paozi shook his head: "Alas, the failure rate of Zongmen's Lianfu disciples is extremely high. This talisman requires 40 pieces of Xuanjing Jade, which ordinary people can't afford to buy. After all, this is a consumable item, unlike spiritual instruments that can be used for a long time. If we sell it privately, the most we can get is 30-35 pieces of Xuanjing Jade."

  "What? Thirty pieces of Xuanjing Jade?" Shi's eyes widened, a single piece of spiritual equipment was only worth six or seven hundred Xuanjing Jade, yet this high-grade Fire Symbol could be sold for such a high price? Wouldn't that make him rich?

  Lin Pangzi thought that Shi Sheng was dissatisfied with the low price, and said: "This is the rule of our sect. The higher the level of the master, the less likely they are to refine this kind of low-level talisman. They usually assign this task to their disciples for practice."

  "But the success rate of refining is too low, and it's already good if one-third of them succeed. So naturally, the price will be high. Do you think that refining ten pieces can guarantee nine successes?" Lin Paozi sneered.

  Shi Sheng was somewhat excited, wanting to tell Lin Paozi that he had indeed successfully refined nine out of ten times. However, if the success rate was really only 30-40% as Lin Paozi said, then selling each talisman for 30 yuan would not be much different from his own estimated price of 10 yuan. He was just taking advantage of the success rate and would definitely make a big profit.

  Shi Sheng was overjoyed, and casually took out a top-grade fire talisman refined from the paper of the top grade symbol. With a mysterious smile, he asked: "Then, how much Xuanjing Jade do you think this top-grade fire talisman can sell for?" Shi Sheng's heart began to feel some anticipation.

  "Does he think that just by drawing high-level talismans on top-grade talisman paper, it's considered a top-grade fire talisman? Shi Shidi, if you bought this thinking it was a top-grade fire talisman, then you've been thoroughly deceived! This guy is either an idiot or a swindler!"

  "Cough, cough!" Shi Sheng's face turned black as he violently suppressed the urge to spit out blood and almost slapped Lin Pangzi to death! (End of this chapter, next chapter is even more exciting!)

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