Ugly Cultivation Notes

Chapter 71 Three Years of Penance
Although three spiritual stones per day are not many, after a year of accumulation, it will be more than 1000.

In the eyes of other outer disciples, this is already an extremely generous income, but in the eyes of Xu Chunniang, it is really not much.

After all, she used to earn spirit stones by relying on condensed spirit dew, and she could get eight spirit stones in an hour of hard work.

In comparison, drawing talisman seals is laborious and laborious, and it does not make money.

But Xu Chunniang did not make talismans to make money, but to learn the art of talismans.She is already very content with being able to achieve such results.

Before the newly obtained 18-yuan Lingshi was warmed up, Xu Chunniang spent all of it in exchange for 120 copies of paper and ink for making talismans.

And these materials will be refined into more water-binding talismans, and finally they will be exchanged for spirit stones in exchange for more talisman seal materials.

Since starting to make talismans, apart from tending the Lingtian every day, Xu Chunniang has devoted more time to practicing talisman seals.

In such a high-intensity talisman seal practice, her technique of drawing runes became more and more stable, her proficiency became higher and higher, and her success rate also increased steadily.

From [-]% at the beginning, it reached [-]% in the end.

On average, for every two water-binding talismans refined, one will be successful.

It's just that the success rate has stopped increasing since it reached [-]%.

Xu Chunniang guessed in her heart that maybe the talisman pen she used was of poor quality.

A [-]% success rate is a watershed.

Theoretically speaking, if one could have such a success rate in refining first-level low-grade talisman seals, one could try to refine first-level mid-grade talisman seals.

But for the time being, Xu Chunniang has no idea of ​​refining medium-grade talisman seals.

After all, she had just started refining middle-grade talisman seals, so she must have burned spirit stones, and she didn't have so many spirit stones to smash into them.

After the success rate of the water-binding talisman reached [-]%, Xu Chunniang, besides drawing the water-binding talisman every day and earning a certain amount of spirit stones, began to draw a new talisman: the spiritual rain talisman.

With her rich experience in refining water-binding talismans, she successfully refined the first spirit rain talisman in just four days.

The effect of the Spiritual Rain Talisman is relatively weak, it can only be used to water the spiritual plants, and its effect is not as good as the direct use of the Spiritual Rain Technique.

There is no spiritual rain talisman for sale in the market at all, and the spiritual rain talisman in Xu Chunniang's hand naturally cannot be sold.

After a few days of refining, she stopped refining the Spirit Rain Talisman, but went to Chuan Gong Pavilion and spent huge sums of money to buy many common attack and defense spells.

The spring birth technique and soil moistening technique she knows are similar to the spirit rain technique, and they are all auxiliary techniques that are not suitable for refining into talismans.

Even if it is barely refined, it will only be smashed in the hand, wasting spirit stones and materials in vain.

Looking at the pile of low-grade Spirit Rain Talismans in front of her, Xu Chunniang showed heartache. She knew she wouldn't be refining so many.

After the success rate of the water-binding talismans increased to [-]%, she didn't take out all the water-binding talismans, but kept some in her hand.

Xu Chunniang didn't want people to know the true success rate of her making talisman seals, which would attract attention and cause trouble.

So in the past month, Xu Chunniang really didn't earn much except for the spirit stones for buying materials.

And these spirit stones are all smashed into these spells right now.

Alas, it seems that the plan to change the character pen has to be postponed again.

Xu Chunniang shook her head helplessly, put away the Spirit Rain Talisman, and looked at a large pile of spells on the table.

With so many techniques, where should I start learning them?
Forget it, her water root is the best, let's start with water archery.

Anyway, the entrustment of Lingtian planting was five years in total, and there were still nearly three years left. Such a long time was enough for her to slowly learn the spells.

Three years is really fast for monks.

The spiritual rice on Lingzhi Peak grows season after season. Every year, new disciples take up the commission and go up the mountain, and some old disciples complete the commission and go down the mountain.

Since the couple of Lingzhi husbands headed by Zhou Cang completed their mission and left the mountain, Xu Chunniang's life has completely returned to peace, and no one who is not open-eyed will bother her anymore.

Her daily life is very fulfilling, except for farming, it is academic law and talisman making.

After spending two years, she finally learned all these basic techniques and successfully refined the corresponding talismans.

In the last year, in order to make a breakthrough in the way of talisman seals, Xu Chunniang spent a huge sum of money to buy a medium-grade talisman pen.

The low-grade talisman pen, which was almost bald with use, finally ushered in retirement.

It took Xu Chunniang only two years to refine first-grade low-grade talisman seals, but she persisted every day and refined enough quantities, so shortly after changing the talisman brushes, she refined a first-grade medium-grade talisman seal.

At present, there are only six kinds of medium-grade talismans that she can refine, namely, the speed running talisman, the fireball talisman, the water arrow talisman, the earth shield talisman, the wooden shield talisman and the ice burst talisman.

Among them, the success rate of Water Arrow Talisman and Speed ​​Talisman is the highest, reaching [-]%.

The Fireball Talisman, Earth Shield Talisman and Wooden Shield Talisman are almost as good as [-]%.

The Ice Explosion Talisman was even worse, barely [-]% of it.

The success rate of the Ice Burst Talisman is so low. Apart from Xu Chunniang's lack of time to practice, there is another reason. She has no abnormal spiritual roots, and her progress in transforming the aura of the wind, thunder and ice is slow.

As for the two elements of gold and fire, they are not difficult to control.

The auras of the five elements generate and restrain each other, and can be transformed into each other.

If Xu Chunniang is given some more time, the success rate of the Ice Burst Talisman may be increased by [-]%.

It's just that seeing that the spiritual rice is about to ripen, she can only temporarily stop the practice of talismans and devote herself to the spiritual field.

The harvest of Lingtian, as always, did not disappoint, maintaining a stable output.After Xu Chunniang put away the new Lingmi and Crescent Rice, she went to check on the new rice she cared for most.

She still insists on the habit of breeding new varieties. Over the past few years, although the new rice bred has more aura, they have not met her expectations.

Maybe it's because of the limited aura contained in the spiritual field.

Therefore, although Xu Chunniang is still persisting, she has given up much hope.

Afterwards, she ate all the new rice harvested, except that some were set aside each time as seeds.

This time, however, things seem to be a little different.

Looking at the full-grained new rice in her hands, Xu Chunniang's eyes lit up.

Rice grains are almost twice as small as crescent rice, but the aura contained in them is almost twice as much as crescent rice.

This time it worked!
Xu Chunniang was a little surprised. Compared with the careful care and cultivation of the past few years, in the past six months, she has not paid as much attention as before, and she did not expect to gain something.

The millet grains are round and plump, like little pearls, so Xu Chunniang named it "pearl rice" to distinguish it.

After collecting the pearl rice, Xu Chunniang cleaned up all the spiritual rice before returning to the wooden house and started digging with the tools she had prepared.

In the past three years, the spiritual soil in the wooden house has increased by a few pieces, reaching as many as ten pieces.

When she was about to leave, Xu Chunniang naturally wanted to take these spiritual soils with her.

Not only the spiritual soil, but even the soil around the spiritual soil, she was going to replace it and restore it to what it looked like when she moved in.

Xu Chunniang took out the soil that had been prepared in the storage bag and put it aside for later use.

The soil was dug secretly by her on the other side of Lingzhi Peak a few nights ago when there was no one around in the dark.

After emptying out the soil in the storage bag, she began to shovel the spiritual soil.

The spiritual energy contained in the spiritual soil was rich, and the soil was very soft. Without much effort, Xu Chunniang easily shoveled out the spiritual soil, leaving only a small hole on the ground.

After shoveling out all ten pieces of spiritual soil, Xu Chunniang put them into a storage bag specially used to hold sundries, and then used a cloth bag to collect the surrounding soil before starting to fill the hole.

While filling, step on the soil tightly, trying to keep them hidden.

(End of this chapter)