Chapter 37: Four Consecutive Spirit Symbols

  Before making the talisman, Yuan Tian first sorted through the leftover scraps of fabric from cutting out the horse cloak. Waste was shameful; as long as it could be used to print a single character, he kept it.

  These irregularly shaped talismans, some can print one or two characters, and a few can print three characters, but there are none that can print four characters. No wonder last time after getting drunk, the talisman only printed three characters at most.

  Printing a single character is no need to worry, having a big seal in hand is safer than writing characters by thousands of times. When printing two or more characters side by side, the source heaven must be extremely careful.

  Holding the Great Seal in his right hand, with his left hand stuck to his clothes, he was ready to activate the eighty-one layered defense net at any time if he found any unstable factors. The first rune went down, but the second one hesitated and refused to fall.

  Wine is truly a wonderful thing, how dare I put three flame symbols together at the beginning, and they are closely linked with each other. Now that I haven't drunk wine, I'm afraid of covering them incorrectly or biasedly.

  Took a deep breath, steadied his hand. With one swift motion, "slap" the second flame rune was slapped on. Fortunately, there were no unstable fluctuations, no need to activate the defensive shield.

  With experience, the source of the ribs is no longer so tense. The two flame runes are not intended to be auctioned off by Yuantian. They are not much higher than ordinary flame runes and will not sell for a good price, so it's better to keep them for personal use.

  People's hearts are really weird things, when two talismans were still quite tense, three talismans were not so tense. Before that, it was not as if no one had ever made them, although they were products of drunkenness, after all, there were successful examples out there.

  There are eight to ten layers of defensive talismans, what's there to fear? Yuan Tian picked up the seal, dipped it in cinnabar. He activated his spiritual power, "slap slap slap" three times. Under the continuous infusion of spiritual power, a triple flame talisman was born like this.

  Nothing much, it seems I was worried for nothing earlier. The effect of the seal is surprisingly good. These people in the Eastern Continent are really stupid, when I create a spiritual symbol printing machine, they will be shocked to death.

  These linked talismans, when the last talisman is imprinted with spiritual energy, can evenly distribute it among the three talismans. This way, one infusion yields triple the spiritual power, which is truly exhausting.

  Pai Guo was feeling pleased with himself at this time, so he put down the work in his hands, took a few Qi-replenishing pills and swallowed them, then sat back to recover for a bit.

  The blue-eyed unicorn slept very soundly, probably the best it had in many years. The bright red light that appeared when making flame talismans didn't even disturb its deep sleep.

  The cave had no sound insulation, on the contrary, it would amplify the sound. The stone pillar was a distance away from the old cow, and Yuan Tian could still hear its humming voice over here. In fact, for a spiritual beast, this cow is not old at all. Its age is not even middle-aged, it can be said to be a young man. It's just that after being tossed around by Niu Huang for these few days, it would become so weak.

  The blue-eyed unicorn cow has recovered, and it should be able to carry heavy loads now. I've heard about this kind of cow before, they have extraordinary strength, and Yuan Tian is looking forward to its performance after recovery.

  After a flip and a breath, the state returned to its peak. Standing up and stretching his arms, he felt a bit hungry. Although the Nourishing Qi Pill could replenish spiritual energy, it couldn't solve the problem of an empty stomach.

  Why didn't the rabbit run into the cave this time? The roasted rabbit meat tasted pretty good last time, but it was far inferior to the five-spice sauce braised beef. Looking up at the cow sleeping soundly, even if it's thin, it has more meat than a rabbit. This thought is too evil, can't have it, can't have it.

  Although the stomach is hungry, it cannot affect work. Especially for making talismans and earning spirit stones, that's more important than anything else. Yuantian took out a second intermediate-grade talisman paper, this time not to cut out horse jackets, but to cut out all the talismans.

  Four-character fire pattern, I'll give it a try. Once successful, there will be some confidence at the auction.

  First, cut a square piece of talisman paper and lay it neatly on the stone pedestal. After a brief observation, I felt that it wasn't very reassuring. The three-character talisman had been done before, so I just followed the example. This was the first time making a four-character talisman, so it's better to be more careful.

  It's good to have some white paper with me, learning is a lifelong process, and I never lack pen, ink, and paper. According to the size of the talisman paper, I cut out several square pieces of white paper. Yuantian had a new idea, drawing "ten" character grids on the paper.

  In the middle is a ten-character grid, with four edges evenly placed with four symbols. Several white papers have been printed with the "ten" character grid, and the seal is picked up to try it out first.

  "Bang" things are always more difficult than imagined, the first character was printed, and Yuan Tian discovered the problem. The paper cut was too small. The "ten" grid divided the white paper into four small squares, one grid couldn't print the character, which means all four grids couldn't be printed.

  Nothing much to say, the few good white papers all have to be scrapped. Fortunately, it's not a test with rice paper, otherwise wasting so many sheets would make this skinny guy heartbroken.

  Re-cut a slightly larger white paper, and then printed the "ten" word grid. Close to the inner border line, the first symbol was printed. Good no problem, just the paper is slightly larger, which does not affect the printing of symbols.

  "Bang bang bang", the seal swung three times, and three more symbols were stamped. Using ordinary white paper to stamp the symbols didn't require injecting spiritual energy, so it didn't take up much time.

  Along the inner edge, four runes are tightly arranged, and the effect is not bad. Yuantian picked up a small straight knife and used it as a ruler to draw two horizontal and two vertical lines along the outer edge of the rune.

  Because the paper was cut a little bit just now, the small square of this new painting is slightly smaller than the original paper. The larger talisman paper does not affect the printing of the talisman text, what is Yuantian going to do?

  Of course it's for saving paper. The white paper is easy to say that it was given away by the grocery store for free. When using medium-grade symbol paper later, not a single thread or bit will be wasted.

  Waste is shameful, this has been Yuan Tian's motto all along. When eating dishes, eat to the bottom of the plate, when drinking wine, drink to the bottom of the tank. It doesn't matter if things are expensive, the key is to make full use of them.

  The small square I just drew is exactly the area occupied by the four characters. The "ten" grid and the small square form a "field" character. This field grid is really practical, with a feeling of practicing calligraphy when I was young.

  According to the small square just now, some white paper was cut again, and all "ten" word grids were completed. Through multiple practices, I sought a sense of distance. To achieve no dispersion, no overlap, increase speed and success rate.

  After practicing the most, Yuan Tian felt that it was okay. According to the size of the white paper, a medium-sized talisman paper was cut out. This time, you can't draw "ten" character grids on the paper, and nothing else can be used on the talisman except for the talisman script.

  "Those who have codes in their eyes but none in their hearts."

  Oh! Not right! If there is a "ten" character in one's heart, then there will be a "ten" character in one's eyes.

  Yuan Tian referred to the "ten" character grid in his mind, and first slowly printed the first symbol. No problem, it just occupied one quarter of the area in the upper left corner.

  With this first rune as a reference, the other three are much easier. The "ten" character pattern in my mind is really effective. After printing another flame rune in the lower right corner of the opposite side, this rune is already half successful. The other two runes, as long as your hands don't shake, just print them close to the inner edge.

  There's no need to hesitate anymore, and then printed the third one, followed by the fourth rune. After printing the fourth rune, a large amount of spiritual power needs to be infused.

  Zhī Líng Gēn is a wood attribute, also known as Mù Líng Gēn. As a large amount of wood attribute spiritual energy poured in, the four talismans simultaneously emitted a red glow. This red glow grew stronger and stronger, causing the source of heaven to narrow its eyes.

  But that's still not enough, the four consecutive talismans require too much spiritual energy. Fortunately, my cultivation has improved to the sixth layer of Qi Refining, otherwise I wouldn't know if I have enough to support the consumption of this linked spirit talisman.

  This can't be stopped halfway, hold on, persistence is victory. Yuan Tian held the seal in his right hand and placed his left hand on top of it, desperately pouring in spiritual energy.

  This slightly trembling small body is completing a great masterpiece. The power of the Four-Linked Flame Symbol can be glimpsed from the rising red light alone.

  At this moment, Yuan Tian's eyes were already unable to open, firstly because the red light was too dazzling and hurt his eyes. Moreover, sweat was pouring down at this time, and if he didn't close his eyes, it would flow in.

  Perseverance is victory, just talking about it earlier. Now I think it's not possible to not persevere, the Flame Talisman is almost successful, but the spiritual power is a bit insufficient. Just now, let's first get some spiritual wine to drink, Yuan Tian still remembers the spiritual wine at this time.

  This also makes sense, as the spiritual power contained in the spirit wine is not as rich as that of the elixir, but it's easier to absorb. The nourishing elixir I took earlier while meditating still hasn't been fully consumed, but its digestion is too slow and can't keep up with my body's consumption.

  His long legs were trembling at this moment, and his waist was shaking. If it continued like this, the seal would fall out of his hands.

  Hold on! Hold on! At this time, it's purely relying on willpower to hold on, I didn't realize it was so hard when there were three runes just now, how come adding one more rune makes such a big difference.

  The difference in production difficulty is huge, and the difference in power when used will also be huge. Spirit stones, spirit stones, indeed the root of all evil, for you I can only go all out.

  The red light flashed its most dazzling blow and quickly converged into the talisman. Done, finally succeeded. This one spiritual symbol, feels like it took a year to make.

  Yuan Tian sat on the ground with a thud, panting heavily. He didn't want to move at all, and couldn't even be bothered to lift a finger.

  Meditation is too much trouble, I'd rather just sleep. People are really exhausted to the limit, there's nothing more effective than sleeping. Meditation is for quickly recovering spiritual power, but if physical strength has reached its limit, only sleep is most effective.

  "Wuu... wuu..." The snoring sounds of Yuantian and the Biyedan Jiaotu, sometimes high, sometimes low, rose and fell in a rhythmic pattern. This man and beast had reached the highest state of harmony at this moment.