Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 12 The Second Level of Qi Refining
In the middle of the night, the candles in the hut were brightly lit.

Lu Zhongzheng was leaning over the square table, holding a cracked mouse hair talisman pen, concentrating on making talismans.

Stimulated by the scene during the day, his desire to increase his strength reached an unprecedented height.

But the improvement of strength is inseparable from the supply of various resources.

And if you want to get cultivation resources, you need spirit stones.

Therefore, he would stay up all night practicing talisman making.

According to the demonstration memory of the cleaning talisman in his mind, after such a long period of practice, Lu Zhong's mastery of the cleaning talisman has improved a lot, and it is almost the same as that of the old book seller.

He estimated that his success rate in drawing cleaning symbols should have reached [-]%.

This is also the level demonstrated by the old book seller, and this means that the cleaning talisman in Lu Zhong's mind to guide memory has no reference value now.

"It seems that if you want to improve the success rate in the future, you can only rely on your own research." Lu Zhong thought so, took out a blank talisman paper and continued making talismans.

His hand holding the talisman brush was extremely steady, each stroke was well thought out, and the transmission of spiritual power was very smooth during this period, without any accidents, and the whole talisman was drawn in one go.

Seeing the fading aura on the surface of the cleaning talisman, Lu Zhong knew that he had successfully drawn another cleaning talisman.

He was no stranger to this, and brought a blank talisman paper again.

Talisman-making is a time-consuming and energy-consuming craft. During the process, spiritual energy in the body must be continuously injected into the talisman paper, so the output of each talisman maker is limited.

Naturally, Lu Zhong was no exception. After succeeding and failing twice, his dantian became empty.

Only then did he eat the boiled Lingmi rice in the pot, and then run the Shuimu Sword Art to refine it.

The kung fu circulated for a small week, and the part of the spiritual energy contained in the Qingheling rice was refined and became the pure spiritual power in his body.

Because of financial constraints, Lu Zhong could only eat two ounces of rice per meal, so the aura he ate was quickly refined, and he had to choose to absorb the aura of the surrounding world.

After more than a dozen small cycles in a row, he didn't stop practicing until he felt a tingling sensation in his meridians.

Sensing the changes in his body carefully, Lu Zhong was pleasantly surprised to find that the total amount of spiritual power in his dantian had increased a bit, and the mottled degree of spiritual power had also decreased, making it obviously more pure.

"It seems that every time the spiritual power is exhausted and the spiritual power is restored by exercise, you can get some benefits from it."

Although the increase in spiritual power each time is very small, the accumulation of small amounts is not a small amount.

Under the circumstances that all the conditions are not as good as the disciples of the family sect, if the casual cultivators want to have a bright future, it is estimated that they can only have a little hope of catching up through unremitting efforts.

Pulling himself together, Lu Zhong looked at the white belly outside the window, and picked up the talisman pen again.

……

There were few people on the street in the afternoon, because of yesterday's incident, the atmosphere in Qingliu Market was a little tense at the moment.

Lu Zhong put away the sheets for setting up the stall, but his face was full of joy.

I thought it would be very difficult to sell the sanitizers before the market opened today.

He even made plans to sell the talisman by severely lowering the price of the acquired store.

But I never thought that I was lucky enough to run into a team of casual cultivators who came out to purchase.

As expected of those five people earning their living in the wilderness, they bought twenty-eight finished cleaning symbols without blinking an eye.

In this way, eighty-four talismans came into the account.

Subtracting the cost of the talisman paper, which costs sixty-two talismans, his profit is twenty-two talismans.

When Lv Zhong calculated, he was immediately delighted.

After such a whole month, the income of nearly seven spirit stones.

According to his understanding, this kind of income can be regarded as the middle to lower level in Qingliu Market.

"The future can be expected, the future can be expected!"

……

Time passed day by day, and Lu Zhong's life was dull and fulfilling.

He relied on making talismans unremittingly every day, and then sold all the talismans when the market opened.

Selling talismans can bring in considerable income, and while meeting his daily spiritual rice needs, he has gradually saved a lot of savings.

One day half a year later, the night was like water.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Lu Zhong's eyes were tightly closed, and his forehead was covered with sweat.

At this moment, the spiritual energy of the surrounding world suddenly became restless, and then frantically poured into the body.

He only felt that the zhenqi in his body was boiling like boiling water first, and then the total amount of spiritual power began to increase rapidly, and did not stop until it reached a new upper limit.

Lu Zhong opened his eyes in surprise, and thought that he had practiced for so long, and finally broke through to the second level of Qi Refining.

Compared with the first level of refining Qi, the spiritual power in his body has doubled.

"The greater the total amount of spiritual power, the higher the output of talismans every day, which also means the increase in the income of spiritual stones."

Thinking of this, he almost danced with excitement.

Forcibly suppressing his excitement, Lu Zhong walked to the square table that served as a talisman-making workbench.

Picking up the somewhat bald talisman pen, dipped some talisman ink in the talisman ink pot, and the brush started to draw cleaning talismans like a wandering dragon.

After his cultivation improved, he found that it was much easier for him to draw the cleaning talisman.

Converted to the success rate of making cleaners, it should be nearly half of the improvement.

Don't underestimate this improvement, it is reflected in the making and selling of talismans, which can be regarded as a considerable profit.

"Now that you have been promoted to the second level of Qi Refining, it's time to learn how to draw new talismans."

In recent days, Lu Zhong has found a talisman maker who is willing to teach him how to avoid arrows.

It wasn't anyone else, it was the old man who sold him the talisman book before.

This old book seller is surnamed Li Mingdong. Even though he only has the third level of Qi Refining now, he used to be a well-known talisman maker in Fang City of Yanling Mountain, and his monthly spiritual stone income was double digits at his peak.

It's just that for reasons unknown to outsiders, the hands Li Dong relied on to make the talismans were abolished.

Judging from the current condition of his hands, he should have been treated by someone later, but unfortunately he has not returned to normal level, only able to draw one or two talismans.

But even if he found such a disabled talisman maker to teach him the technique, the price Lu Zhong had to pay for it was still astonishing.

According to the terms agreed between the two, he needs to pay twenty-five spirit stones at one time, which is his income from drawing talismans for nearly four months, in exchange for Li Dong's guidance on how to draw arrow-avoiding talismans.

In fact, for this kind of extremely expensive guidance, the general practice of talisman makers is to practice in advance, and only after they have a certain understanding of the arrow-avoiding talisman will they reluctantly spend a large sum of spiritual stones to hire someone to guide themselves.

Only in this way can the effect of guidance be maximized.

But Lu Zhong believed that he had the space of gray mist, and for him, once instructing him was equivalent to countless times.

……

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Zhong went out early.

Passing through Qingliuxu Street, he came to the street position.

At a corner of the alley near the street, there is a brick house made of blue bricks. This is the home of the talisman maker Li Dong, and the talisman making guide will be carried out in it.

Lu Zhong knocked lightly on the door, and someone inside answered immediately.

"Squeak..." The wooden door was opened.

The person who opened the door was a middle-aged lady. She didn't have the slightest cultivation, she was obviously a mortal.

Seeing Lu Zhong knocking on the door, the woman showed a smile on her face, and said: "So it's Lu Xianshi, please sit inside, the master has something to go out just now, you may need to wait for a while."

Then, Lu Zhong was invited to the waiting room.

A cup of hot tea was quickly handed over, and he began to wait patiently while sipping the tea.

Two hours later, Li Dong hurried back with a boy.

(End of this chapter)