divine talisman

Southern Border, Songyan City.

The dusk is heavy, and the setting sun is like fire.

As usual, Chen Xi opened the door and walked into Zhang's grocery store.

Zhang's Grocery Store is just an ordinary store in Songyan City, with a small scale. It relies on self-made and self-sold talismans that cultivators need daily to maintain its business. The basis of survival, the business is not big, the victory lies in the steady flow of water, barely able to gain a foothold in Songyan City.

"To make talismans, talisman paper, talisman pen, and ink are all indispensable. It seems simple, but the way to do it is very complicated. From today on, you will first learn the identification of talisman paper, the use of talisman pen, and the composition of ink." , When the foundation is solid, I will teach you how to make talismans."

It was only then that Chen Xi realized that the shop had recruited seven or eight more talisman-making apprentices with immature faces.The boss Zhang Dayong was lecturing, and his dry voice echoed in the grocery store.

"I'll give you one month. After one month, if you don't satisfy me, you can go home and play in the mud. Finally, you have to remember that if you want to become a qualified talisman master, you must study hard and practice hard. Your only way, no one can succeed casually!"

The eyes of the newly recruited seven or eight talisman apprentices were full of excitement and eagerness, eager to try.

"Well, Chen Xi is here."

Zhang Dayong turned his head to see Chen Xi, and greeted him with a smile.

"Uncle Zhang, here are thirty Fire Cloud Talismans for today." Chen Xi took out a stack of light blue Talismans and handed them over.

Zhang Dayong waved his hand: "Don't worry, since you are here, help me teach these little guys first, the salary is extra, um, the price is three yuan stones per hour, how about it?"

After thinking for a moment, Chen Xi nodded: "Okay!"

Thirty Fire Cloud Talismans can be sold for ten yuan stones, but it took him nearly five hours to make them. In this way, the price is indeed rich enough.

Zhang Dayong smiled, turned around to look at the group of newly recruited talisman apprentices, with a solemn expression, and said in a deep voice: "A talisman making is extensive and profound. In order to better get you started, your senior Chen Xi will give you Demonstrate how to make a first-grade fire cloud talisman. I dare not say anything else, but if you say that the basic skills of talisman making are solid, no one in the entire Songyan City is worse than Chen Xi. In this regard, even I feel ashamed. You should take a good look, Study hard and don’t miss this opportunity.”

brush!

All eyes fell on Chen Xi, but when they saw that the other party was just a thin and pale young man, not even a few years older than themselves, the young men couldn't help but have a hint of suspicion in their eyes. This guy really has Uncle Zhang. That's what you said?

Chen Xi's expression remained unchanged, as if he didn't notice the subtlety of the surrounding atmosphere, he went straight to the talisman making table, picked up the light blue talisman paper beside the table and spread it out on the table, then dipped a brush in the ink, and swiped it down.

The movements are skillful and smooth, as if coming at your fingertips.

Seeing this, the teenagers quickly gathered around.

Holding the talisman pen in his hand, Chen Xi's demeanor changed completely. His eyes were deep and clear, his wrists swayed like snakes, and the tip of the pen was light and lively, rustling... Slender and graceful dark red arcs spread across the talisman paper, like strands of Cooking smoke curls up, like flowing clouds and flowing water, comfortable and natural.

The newly recruited talisman apprentice opened his eyes wide, staring at Chen Xi's wrist, talisman pen, and the rudimentary talisman patterns on the light blue talisman paper without blinking, and a sense of shock gradually surged in his heart.

Ninth-grade talisman and first-grade fire cloud talisman are just one of the most basic talismans, and naturally, it is also the lowest-level talisman.The teenagers originally didn't think much of Chen Xi, who was not a few years older than them. However, when they saw Chen Xi making the talisman with their own eyes, even though it was only a few movements, it was full of graceful and agile beauty and precise control. His heart was instantly conquered.

Chen Xi's expression was focused, completely forgetting himself, and he didn't notice the changes in the eyes of his surroundings at all. Once the talisman was made, he was immersed in a state of mysterious tranquility, with only the slender and dense talisman lines on the talisman paper in his eyes.

Seeing the astonishment on the faces of the teenagers, Zhang Dayong couldn't help but smile knowingly, not to mention these newcomers, even he himself couldn't help being amazed every time he witnessed it with his own eyes, just as he said, in the basic talisman In terms of attainments, Chen Xi has indeed reached an extraordinary level.

Pointing, dialing, hooking, scribing, and spinning with the pen, the force is sharp and precise, and a thin piece of light blue pine-patterned talisman paper is gradually formed into a dense and delicate pattern under the sway of Chen Xi's talisman brush.

After a stick of incense.

call!

The talisman paper suddenly lit up, as if breathing in and out, and then returned to its original state.

Chen Xi put down the talisman brush, his whole body seemed to be falling apart, his body was unbearably sore and swollen, his thin and handsome cheeks were pale and almost transparent.

Before he came to the grocery store, he had already made thirty first-grade Zhang Huoyun Talismans, and his true energy had already been exhausted, not to mention his mental strength. Finishing this talisman at this time completely drained his true energy. Mental and mental exhaustion.

The newly recruited young talisman apprentices didn't pay attention to these. Seeing Chen Xi complete a talisman so smoothly, he instantly exploded.

"It's amazing! The speed, agility and precision of the pen movement are really scary!"

"Wow, Senior Chen Xi succeeded in making the talisman in one go. Such a success rate can only be described as perfect!"

"In the future, I must ask Senior Chen Xi for advice. I must practice such a skillful brushwork!"

……

However, at this moment, a strange voice suddenly sounded at the door of the store.

"Huh, what's so great about making a first-grade basic talisman? I'll give you five years, and you'll be able to play with the basic talisman just like the facial paralyzed Chen. Why don't you ask the facial paralyzed Chen, when will you be able to make the second-grade talisman?" ? With his level, he can only bluff you rookies."

At the door of the grocery store, at some point, there stood a young man who was doing nothing. He had long and narrow cheeks, arms crossed over his chest, and a pair of goldfish eyes were full of disdain.

Hearing this, all the admiration disappeared without a trace in an instant, and there was a trace of suspicion and weirdness in the eyes of the teenagers who were originally fiery and reverent.

Five years to master only one basic talisman?

How bad is such a qualification!

Facially paralyzed Chen, ha, what a nickname...

Wait, it turned out to be him!

The new apprentice Fu finally remembered who Chen Xi was, and his eyes revealed a strange look.

In Pine Smoke City, Chen Zhiming, who was paralyzed with a face, was well known to everyone, and he was a well-deserved No. [-] broom star.

On the day he was born, the Chen family, which was originally a first-class family, was destroyed by the enemy overnight, leaving only his grandfather, father, and mother.

When he was one year old, his grandfather was seriously ill and was bedridden. He lost all his cultivation and became a cripple. The family of four was also forced to move into the civilian area of ​​Songyan City.

When he was two years old, his younger brother Chen Hao was born, and his mother Zuo Qiuxue was missing. Rumor has it that she disliked the decline of the Chen family and couldn't bear this kind of poor life, so she eloped with a young and handsome son-in-law.

When he was three years old, his father Chen Jun left home and has never returned.

When he was four years old, the Su family in southern Xinjiang, who was originally close to him, dispatched more than ten Huang Tingjing masters to stand in the sky, tear up the marriage contract in front of everyone in Songyan City, and float away.

For five consecutive years, the unlucky things that happened to Chen Xi, one after the other, became more sensational than the other. Pine Mist City was not big at first, and soon, Chen Xi’s name as the sweeping star seemed to have grown wings. It spread throughout Songyan City, and everyone knows about it.

Due to Chen Xi's unsmiling and indifferent expression since he was a child, no one had ever seen him smile before, and coupled with the publicity of some good-for-nothings, the nickname Chen was completely resounding in Songyan City.

"Uncle Zhang, I'll come back tomorrow."

The atmosphere was very weird, and Chen Xi could feel it. In other words, he had grown up with this kind of gaze all these years, and he had already gotten used to it. He nodded towards Uncle Zhang, turned around and left calmly.

"Humph!"

Not long after Chen Xi left, Zhang Dayong gave the young man at the door a hard look, and scolded, "Yunhong, come with me!"

"Uncle, I..."

The young man named Yunhong was startled, and opened his mouth to explain, but saw that his uncle had already walked into the back hall, trotted to follow him, and muttered bitterly: "I don't know why, why didn't I just tell the truth with my face paralyzed?" Seriously then."

As soon as the two left, a group of newly recruited Fu apprentices couldn't help discussing.

"Oh, it turned out to be Chen with facial paralysis. If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have come. I don't know if I will have bad luck if I learn how to make talismans from him."

"Ah! Oops, I accidentally touched Chen Zhifu when his face was paralyzed just now... No, I have to go home and take a shower."

"Haha, look, it scares you. I heard from my father that the broom star Chen with a paralyzed face only harms the Chen family, and has nothing to do with us."

……

The night is like ink, full of stars.

In the bitter wind, Chen Xi silently let go of his clenched fists with white knuckles, tightened his thin clothes, and walked quickly towards home.

As he approached the door of his house, he suddenly saw a thin figure sitting in front of the door. Through the starlight, he could vaguely distinguish that it was his younger brother Chen Hao.

"Brother, you're back." Chen Hao, who was only 12 years old, stood up and shouted cheerfully, then he seemed to sense something wrong and quickly lowered his head.

"Raise your head." Chen Xi stepped forward, with a hint of coldness in his voice.

Chen Hao was like a child who made a mistake, but he stubbornly did not raise his head, and murmured, "Grandpa is waiting for you to eat, let's go in first." After saying that, he turned around and was about to enter the room, but Chen Xi stretched out his hand from behind and grabbed him. Hold on.

"Are you fighting again?"

Chen Xi stretched out his hand to lift Chen Hao's chin, looking at the red and swollen scars on his younger brother's face, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

Chen Hao violently broke away from Chen Xi's hand, raised his head, his eyes were as stubborn as ever, and said loudly, "They called me a bastard, called my brother a bastard, and called our family to die sooner or later. Of course I want to beat them up."

Chen Xi was startled, looking at his stubborn younger brother, seeing the angry and unwilling expression on his immature face, an indescribable pain suddenly surged in his heart.

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