divine talisman

Chen Xi silently walked on the way home, thinking about something on his mind.

The departure of his grandfather and younger brother did not make him too sad. As far as he knew, the Qianjianzong of Longyuan City was quite famous in the whole southern border, and the various schools opened in Songyan City could not compete with Qianjianzong. compared to.

For thousands of years, with the improvement of the practice system, various new things have appeared in the practice, and the school is one of them.

These schools are set up in towns, employ some knowledgeable cultivators to sit in town, teach various basic cultivation knowledge, and use this to earn money.

There is no limit to the group of people that the academy targets. No matter you were a mountain dweller, a slave, a wealthy businessman, or a peddler, as long as you pay enough primeval stones, you can enter the academy to study.

The types of institutions of learning are also varied, and they are divided into different institutions of learning according to different names.

Like the various schools opened in Songyan City, there are weapon refining, puppet making, talisman making, alchemy, planting, animal husbandry and so on.Chen Xi's younger brother, Chen Hao, had previously studied basic swordsmanship at the Tianxing Academy.

However, schools also have their limitations. The knowledge they teach is the most basic and superficial. If you want to learn more advanced knowledge, you still have to enter the sect.

As for the Zongmen, there are often great monks sitting in the town, and the mountain gates are usually set up in the famous mountains and rivers with rich aura, and the conditions for selecting disciples are extremely harsh.People who are not with excellent qualifications and a solid foundation will not pass the assessment of the sect's apprentices at all, and they are far from being able to compare with those rotten schools.

Chen Xi knew very well how much his younger brother had been wronged these years. Because of himself, he was ridiculed by children of the same age as a little bastard. No one wanted to get in touch with him, and he didn't even have a real friend. , For the younger brother who is obsessed with practicing swordsmanship, it is undoubtedly a happy event, and it will also be of great benefit to his growth.

The younger brother is only 12 years old this year. He is talented and intelligent. He has already cultivated to the acquired Dzogchen realm. Under the careful training of his grandfather, his foundation is extremely solid. Passing the examination of Qianjianzong should not be a problem.

Approaching the door of the house, Chen Xi saw from a distance a five or six-year-old girl sitting at the door of his house with her chin in her hands. Her hair was braided, her eyes were black and shiny, and she looked very cute.

"Brother Chen Xi, where is Xiao Hao? I took his favorite lime candy, but I just couldn't wait for him." Seeing Chen Xi, the little girl ran all the way over and said excitedly.

The little girl was named Xixi, lively and cute, without a father, and lived with her mother, Bai Wanqing. The mother and daughter moved into Songyan City a few years ago, and they were neighbors with Chen Xi's family. The relationship between the two families has always been very good.

"He went to a distant place to learn art from a teacher, and I'm afraid he won't come back in the past few years."

Chen Xi rubbed Xixi's little head. He also loved Xixi very much in his heart. The little girl was a few years younger than his younger brother. Whenever his younger brother came back from Tianxing Academy, the little girl would pester Chen Hao to play like a fart, taking some from time to time. The candy was distributed to Chen Hao, and the relationship between the two was very good.

What's more important is that Xixi and her mother, Bai Wanqing, have never disliked Chen Xi's family, nor have they ever treated Chen Xi as a bastard. Chen Xi cherishes this unadulterated trust.

"The distance? Where is the distance?" Xixi raised her face and asked in a daze.

Chen Xi thought for a while, and said, "A place that you can't go to is called a distant place. But when Xixi grows up, you can go there."

Xixi let out an oh, with her head downcast, with a sullen little look on her face.

Chen Xi comforted, "Why don't you go to my house to play."

Xixi's eyes lit up: "Okay, I'm going to see Brother Chen Xi making talismans."

"follow me."

Seeing that the little girl was happy, a smile appeared on the corner of Chen Xi's lips, and it disappeared in an instant, before returning to that cold and dull look.

Holding Xixi's chubby little hand, Chen Xi walked into the house.

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On the table was a stack of blank light cyan talisman paper, a plate of dark red ink, and a dark talisman pen.

Chen Xi sat upright in front of the wooden table with his back straight, while Xi Xi obediently sat on the small bench next to him, his little face full of curiosity.

"This is pine-weave talisman paper, the cheapest one on the market. It is hard and rough in texture. It is generally used to refine the simplest basic talisman." Chen Xi pointed at the stack of light blue talisman paper, and explained softly. road.

Like a student, Xixi nodded fiercely and said, "Brother Chen Xi, I remember."

Chen Xi was speechless, shook his head, pointed to the plate of bright red ink, and said, "This ink is drawn from the blood of the Red Flame Deer. The Red Flame Deer itself is one of the lowest monsters in the cultivation world. Apart from the blood that can be used to make ink for making talismans, there is no use value for the whole body. Even the merchants in the city who specialize in raising monster birds for a living are unwilling to domesticate such useless monster birds."

Xixi nodded and said, "Where's that pen?"

"That's a talisman pen, and talisman pens are also good or bad. When making talismans, a high-quality talisman pen can not only draw smooth strokes and well-proportioned traces, but also increase the chance of successful talisman making. This talisman pen It’s just an ordinary talisman, but it’s enough for me.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xi suddenly realized that what he said today seemed to be much more than usual. Could it be that because of the departure of his grandfather and younger brother, he regarded Xixi as the person to confide in?

Thinking of this, Chen Xi turned his head to look at Xixi, only to find that the little girl had fallen asleep on the table at some point, with a trace of saliva hanging from the corner of her mouth.

For no reason, Chen Xi remembered that his younger brother looked like this when he was a child. He couldn't help feeling warm in his heart. He carefully picked up Xixi, put him on his bed and covered him with a quilt, and then sat back at the wooden table.

Without wasting any more time, Chen Xi picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and swiped the calligraphy talisman.

Rustle, rustle... The tip of the pen dipped in bright red ink gently slid across the blank talisman paper, and thin red lines gushed out from the tip of the pen, like a spirited earthworm, following a graceful and smooth trajectory in the light blue color. Spread quickly on the loose-grain rune paper.

When Chen Xi was making the talisman, he focused carefully, his eyes were fixed on the talisman paper under his pen, his back was as straight as a spear piercing the air, his right arm was hanging in mid-air, motionless, like a scorpion growing out of the gap between the rocks on the cliff The strong pine branch did not move at all from the beginning to the end.

It was his right wrist that moved!

His right wrist is extremely flexible, controlling the talisman pen in his hand, and he traced and wiped the talisman paper with an astonishing frequency. With a light and harmonious rhythm.

When a complicated and mysterious pattern quietly blooms on the talisman paper like a flower.The surface of the talisman paper suddenly brightened, then dimmed and returned to normal.

Without even looking at it, after casually putting the first-grade Fire Cloud Talisman aside, Chen Xi picked up a blank piece of loose-grained Talisman paper again, and swiped it down, not wanting to waste a single bit of time.

Five years ago, Chen Xi's grandfather, Chen Tianli, took out what little savings he had left and asked Chen Xi to study at a talisman making school. After Chen Xi successfully mastered the making of first-grade basic talismans, talisman making became the responsibility of the three of them. sole source of livelihood.

However, Chen Xi can only make first-grade basic talismans, there is no way, the method of making talismans that he learned in the academy is only one-grade.If one wants to learn higher-level talisman making, one must spend a lot of money to buy the corresponding books. The price is too high, and Chen Xi simply cannot accept it.

Even so, Chen Xi was very satisfied.

When he first started making talismans, he could only produce five first-grade talismans every day, but now, he has been able to produce [-] talismans, which can be exchanged into Yuanshi, which is as much as ten yuan. The livelihood of the three of Sun, and it can also provide for his younger brother Chen Hao to study swordsmanship at the school.

Now, his grandfather and younger brother went to the southern border, and he was the only one left. As long as he lived frugally, he would be able to save a lot of primordial stones in a short time. In this way, it is not impossible to buy higher-grade talisman making books.

Of course, before that, he first had to pay back the hundred spirit stones he owed to Uncle Zhang.

Time passed by bit by bit, and in the cramped and dark room, Chen Xi leaned over his desk and swiped his pen. His expression was concentrated, his movements were smooth and familiar, and his whole person was immersed in a state of ecstasy.In this state, the stack of blank pine-grained talisman paper gradually turned into pieces of talismans with complicated and mysterious patterns as time went by.

Call ~

When the last talisman was finished, it was already dark. Chen Xi carefully placed the talisman pen on the inkstone, and only then did he let out a long breath, and there was a deep tired look between his brows, which made him feel tired. The already thin cheeks became paler.

With his mid-innate cultivation base, the true energy in his body can barely support him to make thirty first-grade talismans, and he wants to make more unless his realm improves and his true energy skyrockets.

However, it was easy to say, but for Chen Xi, it was extremely difficult to further improve his realm.

His aptitude is not bad, and the "Zixiao Gong" handed down by his family is not comparable to ordinary goods, but unfortunately, his realm has been stuck in the mid-innate stage for five full years without any progress.

It is precisely because of this that grandfather Chen Tianli pinned all his hopes on Chen Hao, and he was also arranged to learn how to make talismans...

Is it really because you are too stupid?

Chen Xi had questioned and denied himself more than once, and only he himself understood the struggle and bewilderment, pain and loss in it.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

There was a gentle knock on the door, and along with the knock, there was a soft female voice, "Chen Xi, is Xixi at your house?"

Chen Xi woke up from his contemplation, opened the door, and there was a beautiful woman standing outside the door. She was dressed in plain clothes, but she couldn't hide her graceful charm. It was Xixi's mother Bai Wanqing.

"Aunt Bai, Xixi has fallen asleep." Chen Xi said.

Bai Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "The little guy didn't bother you, I'll take her home right away."

Chen Xi shook his head.

Bai Wanqing knew that he was taciturn and didn't like to talk, so she smiled, went into the room and hugged the sleeping Xixi before leaving.

However, not long after, the door rang again, this time the knocks were rapid and intensive, like drums.

Chen Xi frowned, and opened the door again, but it was Bai Wanqing who left and returned with an anxious expression.

what happened?

Just when Chen Xi was puzzled, Bai Wanqing quickly shouted: "Quick! Go outside the city quickly, it seems that something happened to your grandpa!"

what?

Something happened to grandpa?

Chen Xi's head buzzed, as if struck by lightning.

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The second one is still there in the evening.In addition, this book is not abusive, and it will be very cool in the future, which can be guaranteed.