Chapter 15: The Talisman Career
Zhao Di walked into Yunxian Residence, and immediately an old man surnamed Yun who was fifty or sixty years old greeted him and politely asked him if he wanted to stay. This old man also had a flash of spiritual light, and his cultivation was not much different from Zhao Di.
After Zhao Di gave an affirmative answer, the old man quoted several accommodation methods and prices in Yunxian Ju.
The first way is to rent a pavilion for a short period of time, and the rent is two low-level spirit stones per month.
The second type is long-term rental, and the rent is ten low-level spirit stones per year.
Either way, the guests of Yunxian Ju can set up a stall in the market for free, otherwise, they must hand over a sum of spirit stones to the market management every time they set up a stall.
In addition to the pavilions, Yunxian Ju also has a larger cave house to rent, but the rent is much higher.
"Do you have to be a spirit stone, can you do gold?" Zhao Di asked tentatively.
The old man was stunned when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Daoist friends are joking, what is the use of worldly things that we immortal cultivators want to use, but if it is tens of thousands of taels of gold, it can be reluctantly accepted." ”
Zhao Di only had the pitiful twenty taels of gold, so he could only choose to hand over the spirit stones, he chose to rent a pavilion close to Fang City for a long time, and paid the first year's rent - ten low-grade spirit stones.
The old man handed Zhao Di a jade plate engraved with a lot of delicate runes and the size of a palm, and said: "Every pavilion cave provided by our Yunxian Residence comes with a prohibition, and this jade plate is a magic weapon that inspires Daoists to rent a pavilion with prohibition, and the method used is also very simple, it is written on the back of the jade plate, but if Daoyou opens the prohibition for a long time, the spirit stones consumed by the forbidden magic circle need to be produced by Daoyou themselves." If there is anything you don't understand or what you need, just come to the old man. ”
"Thank you, Daoyou!" Zhao Di left Yunxian Ju and came to his residence, a two-story wooden carved pavilion, built on a rock-stacked foundation, not too big, each floor has three or four rooms with different uses, although all kinds of tables, beds and chairs are simple and simple, but they are all available. He then activated the forbidden magic circle according to the method engraved on the back of the jade plate, and the entire pavilion was immediately covered by a layer of light, and a trace of mist slowly emanated from the light mask, and soon formed a white cloud, covering the attic.
Since then, Zhao Di has started his career in making and selling talismans in Liuyunfang City.
He only made a few commonly used primary talismans in the Qi refining period, such as "Fireball Talisman", "Vajra Talisman", and "Fixing Talisman", and became more and more proficient, and the success rate gradually reached about three or four percent. This is already a very high success rate, and it is estimated that only a beginner talisman maker can have such a high success rate.
He calculated an account, the price of a dozen dozen primary low-level blank rune papers is two low-level spirit stones, if you buy more at a time, it can be cheaper, plus the cost of dansha, the cost of making ten primary runes is about six or seven low-level spirit stones, and he can make a little more money by selling one spirit stone and one rune, and there are about ten low-level spirit stones every month.
After earning a little spirit stone, Zhao Di went to buy some pills that were suitable for his cultivation level to use to improve his cultivation, only when his own cultivation was promoted to the fifth and sixth layers of the Qi Refining Period, he could barely have enough spiritual power to practice several more powerful Qi Refining Period mid-level spells such as "Fire Snake Technique", "Golden Shield Technique", "Earth Thorn Technique", "Winding Technique", "Arrow Rain Technique", etc., so that it was possible to produce the corresponding spell runes.
This kind of time is two years in a flash, and for Zhao Di, who is accustomed to a boring cultivation life, although this kind of talisman making a living is dull, it is also busy and fulfilling.
During this period, he also gradually became familiar with Liuyunfang City, and also got to know several low-level cultivators who often bought talismans from him, and Zhao Di, who was also struggling at the lower level in the Qi refining period, often discussed his cultivation experience with them, and over time he became acquainted.
However, in addition to the owner of the talisman shop who supplied him with blank rune paper and dansha, Zhao Di had the most contact with in the past two years, Liu Yingying, a low-level alchemist. The two often set up stalls together, and over time they became friends who talked about everything.
It turned out that the Liu family in the northwest of Liuyun Mountain, where Liu Yingying was located, was a very small family of cultivating immortals, and it was too reluctant to even call it a family of cultivating immortals. In addition to her and her father, there was only one young brother and a cousin and a cousin who had spiritual roots, and there were a total of five monks in the family, and all of them were monks in the Qi refining period. Her father is also an alchemist, but he can only refine two or three junior and low-level pills, but he can be regarded as having a skill, refining a few furnaces of pills for the Lihuo Sect every month, and he also has a certain amount of spirit stone income.
And it was a bit reluctant to call Liu Yingying an alchemist, after all, she would only refine one kind of elixir, and it was the most rudimentary and cheapest kind - three low-level spirit stones and one refining qi dispersion.
The cost and risk of refining the elixir is much higher than making a talisman.
The refining cost of a furnace of refining qi dispersion is not to mention that there are twenty or thirty spirit stones, if it is successfully baked, you can get twenty or thirty refining qi dispersion, so that Liu Yingying can make a lot of money. If you fail several times in a row, you will really lose all your money.
Unlike Zhao Di, who makes a slight profit every month, Liu Yingying's income fluctuates greatly, and she always has excellent luck this month, and she successfully bakes a furnace of elixir, and she can earn sixty or seventy low-level spirit stones at once, and suddenly she fails several times in a row next month, not only does she not have a penny of income, but she also wastes dozens of spirit stones. But overall, her average monthly profit is a little more than Zhao Di's.
This is because this kind of elixir that has a beneficial effect on cultivation is basically not unsellable. And although the talisman made by Zhao Di is also very useful, it can only sell twenty or thirty pieces every month.
However, there have been two or three such situations, Liu Yingying's character was extremely poor for a period of time, and she failed continuously, losing all her family resources, so she could only borrow dozens of spirit stones from Zhao Di first.
With the help of taking a lot of Qi Refining Dispersion, Zhao Di's cultivation gradually improved. But he soon found that he didn't know if it was because he had taken too much Qi Refining Dispersion, and he felt that Qi Refining Dispersion had helped him very little. In terms of efficacy, it is far inferior to the slightly higher level of elixir - Qingling Pill.
Although the price of the Qingling Pill was as expensive as twenty spirit stones each, the effect of improving cultivation was very significant, and Zhao Di had to take out the spirit stones he had worked so hard to accumulate every two months to replace them with a Qingling Pill.
And this has already made Liu Yingying very envious, although she is still a little richer than Zhao Di, but she is worried about her younger brothers and sisters who are still low in cultivation at home, and always leaves the spirit stone pills she saved, and she has to go home once every six months to bring pills and some interesting things to her younger brothers and sisters. Therefore, although the Qingling Pill was also of great help to her at the fifth level of the Qi Refining Period, she was reluctant to buy it often. It's only when the character breaks out occasionally and one or two more furnaces of good pills are refined, that I buy one pill at a cost.
Although Zhao Di's spiritual root qualifications were extremely poor, with the help of many Qingling Pills, he finally broke through the bottleneck of the fourth layer of the Qi Refining Period two years after entering Liuyunfang City, and his cultivation reached the fifth layer of the Qi Refining Period, and he could barely be regarded as a middle-level immortal cultivator among the Qi Refining Period cultivators.
Zhao Di practiced the "Chasing the Waves" exercises, originally he only had the first five layers of formulas. However, this basic Five Elements formula was extremely widespread, and it was easy for him to buy a complete set of "Chasing Waves" formulas that were available from the first to the thirteenth layer, and it only cost him three low-level spirit stones. He had bought it at a trade fair at the beginning of the month, from a stall set up by a loose cultivator. If it is in the "Wanjing Pavilion", which specializes in selling classic exercises, it will be sold for five low-level spirit stones.
There are still many martial arts books that Zhao Di is interested in in the Wanjing Pavilion, but unfortunately the price is not expensive, he has only bought three copies in total, and all of them are of great help to his talisman making skills.
One is a spell book, which has several common high-level spells in the Qi refining period, because it is not comprehensive, there are only seven or eight spell formulas, so it only sells fifteen spirit stones.
There is also a talisman book, which specifically describes the production rules of mid-level spell talismans in the Qi refining period, which is undoubtedly very useful for Zhao Di, who plans to gradually increase his talisman level. Although the price of this book was as high as fifty spirit stones, Zhao Di had no choice but to buy it.
The last book is a miscellaneous book dedicated to the deeds of some legendary immortal cultivators in ancient times, because the price is cheap, it was bargained by Zhao Di, and the shopkeeper of Wanjing Pavilion took it as an addition to the first two books, and bought two and gave one free to Zhao Di.
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