In the great world of martial arts, you use the Tao of Talisman to rule the ages

Chapter 46 Jubao Mountain (please read)
  Wait until the adulation in the mountain market ends.

With a few hundred coins, a bag of polished rice purchased in the county, and some spices for seasoning, Chen Lin quickly returned to the small mountain village.

Put these things in the corner.

He immediately turned his attention to the many pieces of bark placed on the bed.

These were scraped back by the way when he went into the mountains to get meat these days.

There are all kinds of trees that are common in mountains.

Pine trees, camphor trees, elm trees, birch trees...

A total of twenty different kinds of bark were neatly arranged on the bed.

They are all options for accumulating talisman paper.

Chen Lin picked up these barks and inspected them one by one, sensing the flow of mana inside.

A quick frown followed.

Because the bark still didn't meet his standards.

In fact, a batch has been screened before, and those who are left now are those with relatively high potential.

However, even the best performing of these barks can only sustain mana for about an hour.

After an hour, mana must be replenished.

And this kind of bark is the 'pine oil wood' that he had high hopes for before, a tree that is extremely flammable after burning.

If you want to collect this kind of bark, you have to go 20 miles deep into Xiaojin Mountain, which is very difficult.

Next door, Uncle Ping and his men went into the mountains to cut down trees. The main target of cutting down trees was this kind of tree. The blacksmith shop in Dongcheng harvested them all year round.

"The bark of pine oil wood needs to replenish mana every hour. With my current total mana, I can actually turn it into talisman paper, but the problem is that this is too troublesome."

"The nourishing talisman must be soaked with mana for ten consecutive days, and it cannot be interrupted in the middle..."

"In other words, if I choose pine oil bark, I will have to get up every two hours to replenish its mana, and I won't even have to sleep!"

The test results are good.

But not too good.

This made Chen Lin tangled.

While he was hesitating, there was a knock on the door from outside.

It was Uncle Ping who asked him to go next door to eat and drink.

Something that happens all the time these days.

Chen Lin didn't refuse either.

My aunt's cooking skills are quite good, and she is willing to sacrifice the taste when cooking, which is much better than his usual skill of just cutting up meat and grilling it.

Anyway, after eating, if you use your energy to digest it, you can go back to the big snake cave to get a basket of ghost tooth pork as a midnight snack.

"By the way, Uncle Ping is logging in the mountains. Maybe he has seen some special trees."

Open the door and walk into the next door.

Chen Lin randomly found a reason to ask this question.

Uncle Ping, who was playing with a radish, sat on a chair and pondered for a moment:
  "Special trees?"

"That's probably lamp oil wood."

Chen Lin was confused: "Lamp oil wood?"

He had never heard of this name in the county before.

"Yes, it's the lamp oil wood." Uncle Ping pointed to the stone lampstand at his house, "Look, it's that thing!"

I saw a piece of bark cut into small strips, twisted into a twist and lit, and a steady fire appeared on the sunken stone.

It's quite bright, but the light is faintly green.

"This kind of lamp oil tree grows in Xiaojin Mountain. I didn't know it before. I only saw it when I followed the logging team."

"The bark of this kind of tree can be ignited by scraping it off without drying it, and it is very resistant to burning. Many people in the team will take a break from logging to scrape a batch to take home."

"I went to shave with them before..."

Uncle Ping put down the radish, turned around and picked up a pile of tender green bark from the corner. The color was so bright that it seemed that it did not belong to winter.

"Come on, Ah Lin, take some too. Although this thing doesn't burn as well as the oil lamps of wealthy families, it's better than costing us nothing!" Chen Lin took it and subconsciously channeled mana into it.

A peculiar wave of feedback came back quickly.

His eyelids twitched, he took a deep breath and asked:

"...Uncle Ping, where did you scrape these tree barks?"

"Then we have to go far."

"It's about ten miles from the logging camp to the deep mountains. I've never hunted so deep before. If there weren't so many people, I wouldn't have dared to go with them..."

Uncle Ping spoke while thinking about it.

Chen Lin listened carefully.

Uncle Ping's lumberyard needs to walk about twenty miles into Xiaojin Mountain. If we walk ten miles further north, we will indeed enter the deep mountain area.

The deep mountains usually mentioned by mountain people and hunters generally refer to a majestic mountain range further behind Xiaojin Mountain.

Xiaojinshan is just a remnant of the big mountain.

According to legend, that is the real treasure mountain there, and some even say that there are gold mines everywhere...

Even people's name for that mountain is simply and crudely called "Jubao Mountain".

However, these are just legends.

Not many people can enter and leave the Jubaoshan area at will.

I heard that every time an organization enters or exits the county, it must be led by an inner city martial artist. Ordinary people have no chance to enter.

So not many people know what it looks like inside.

There are only a few rumors.

'I have speculated before that there may be many strange beasts and alien species gathered in Jubao Mountain. If I hadn't met the ghost-toothed pig just after I came back this time, I would have been on the way to explore the mountain now...'

'But I didn't expect it...'

'We haven't even entered Jubaoshan yet, but the bark guarding its entrance is actually equivalent to a natural talisman! ! ! '

He was rubbing the tender green bark of the lamp oil tree in his hand.

Chen Lin could hardly suppress the surprise in his heart.

He had just transferred some mana into the bark of the tree, and the feeling returned was exactly the same as the talismans he had cultivated with his own hands in the world of immortality!
  That alone was enough to make him sure.

'The bark of this kind of lamp oil tree can be scraped off and preserved. It doesn't require any steps of conservation, and you can directly draw talismans on it! '

'If the blue water stone obtained from the Big Snake Cave before is like a drop of essence condensed by a spiritual vein over the years...'

'Then this kind of tree simply grows directly on the spiritual veins, and is nourished by natural spiritual energy all the time! '

Now look at Uncle Ping rolling up the bark of this tree and burning it with lamp oil.

Chen Lin had only one word in his mind:

What a waste!

He let out a long breath to calm himself down.

The logging team can scrape the bark of the trees every time they go into the mountains to cut trees, which shows that there are a lot of lamp oil trees and they are not particularly rare.

Next, just ask for directions.

Unfortunately, the bark Uncle Ping brought back was too slender.

Not suitable for drawing symbols.

After all, Uncle Ping brought it back to use as lamp oil, so he could peel it as convenient as possible.

In the end, after finishing his meal, Chen Lin only brought back two pieces of kerosene bark for study after asking for directions.

Studying alone at home until midnight.

He became more and more certain that the bark on his hand was a natural talisman!

“Jubaoshan’s name is indeed correct!”

"Tomorrow, wait for me!"

　Thank you everyone for your monthly tickets. I just found out that there is an event with double monthly tickets. Thank you! ! !
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)