Immortality cultivation starts from Dongxuan Lake

Chapter 10 Hoarding of Goods

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While the weather was still clear, Lu Ming jogged all the way back to Lingmi Lane.

When I got home, I felt hungry and thirsty. I quickly washed the spiritual rice and cooked. After eating, I continued to practice and strive to improve my strength.

This time he had enough talisman paper and winter was coming, so he decided to practice at home and draw talismans.

The next morning, when the red sun rises and the purple energy emerges, it is a good time to meditate on the "Pui Yuan Gong" every day.

Just this moment of practicing to absorb this purple energy is comparable to two hours of meditating on weekdays. All casual practitioners will start practicing at this time, and Lu Ming is no exception.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, eyes closed, breathing long, concentrating on running the magic power in the body, the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth slowly surged towards him, and finally merged into one.

After a long time, Lu Ming exhaled a breath and opened his eyes to watch the sun rising from the east.

The time for the purple energy to emerge has passed.

The closer it gets to winter, the less time this purple energy has to appear.

After the meditation just now, Lu Ming felt that the magic power in his body was more stable, but there was still no sign of breaking through.

But he was not in a hurry. After breakfast, he started drawing talismans again today.

After repeating this cycle for more than ten days.

Lu Ming looked at the snowy weather outside the window and sighed: "It's going to snow so early this winter!"

"I wonder when I will be able to break through?"

Thinking in my mind, I habitually picked up the talisman pen on the table, dipped it in spiritual blood and started drawing talismans...

He drew talismans one after another, meditating without stopping when he ran out of energy. By the time it was almost dark, he had drawn more than a dozen talismans.

Looking at the piles of talisman papers on the table and the four finished products next to them, Lu Ming was secretly happy: "Today's success rate is higher than in the past. It seems that my skills have improved a lot."

But then he felt the mana in his body was empty and needed to meditate to recover.

So he stood up and stretched his stiff legs, and then performed "Peiyuan Gong" for a big Zhou Tianhou. Lu Ming's face turned rosy and he was full of energy.

After several days in a row, Lu Ming felt that he had reached his limit in drawing low-grade talismans, so he thought he could try to draw medium-grade talismans.

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Instead of choosing a more difficult amulet, choose a flashing amulet!

Lu Ming prepared the spiritual blood and talisman paper in advance, took a deep breath, and then dipped the talisman pen in the spiritual blood to draw the runes for the flashing talisman.

The difficulty of drawing a talisman is related to the number of runes. The more runes required, the more difficult it will be to draw on a palm-sized talisman paper.

The middle-grade talisman has between two and four runes. This flashing talisman only uses two, which is the simplest middle-grade talisman.

Start drawing runes. The first rune is okay to draw, but the key is the second one.

Lu Ming used all his strength, veins on his forehead bulged, his arms trembled slightly, and he finally drew the second rune on the rune paper.

I saw that the talisman paper suddenly emitted a faint white light, and it became brighter and brighter, and finally turned into a dazzling silver, as bright as a night pearl.

"Successful!" Lu Ming thought in surprise as he looked at the flashing talisman in his hand.

But the next moment, light continued to erupt, and the spiritual energy on the talisman was consumed violently. In a few breaths, the spiritual energy was exhausted.

Failed!

Lu Ming frowned: "How could this happen? I could have sketched out the runes just now!" He was puzzled.

Moreover, after just drawing it once, the mana in his body was already empty and he needed to meditate to recover.

If he is drawing a middle-grade talisman, he can do it up to three times a day.

After taking a look at the night outside the window, it was estimated that everyone else would be asleep by now. Lu Ming was also worried that the flash would disturb other people, so he tidied up the room and fell asleep.

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When I got up the next morning and tried again, it still failed.

After this failure, Lu Ming finally summed up some experience. The reason why he failed to make the flashing talisman was that the outline of the overall rune was a bit rough, and the connection points were not completely connected, causing the aura of the talisman to continuously leak out.

With his current ability, he still has some way to go to ensure that the talisman is drawn completely, or at least his cultivation level does not support it. Lu Ming could only sigh: "It seems that it is a bit reluctant to draw a middle-grade talisman with a third-level Qi training level."

"Let's do this. From now on, I will mainly focus on drawing low-grade spiritual talismans. When I earn enough spiritual stones, I will buy a barrier-breaking pill to break through to the fourth level of Qi training."

According to the income of ten spiritual stones per month, it only takes half a year.

In this way, in the following days, when the materials in hand were exhausted, Lu Ming came to Fangshi with the drawn talisman.

As before, those stores, except for the Zhao Family Talisman Store, all had lower prices. Only the Zhao Family Shopkeeper Xiao still purchased at the original price.

Lu Ming naturally had some concerns in his mind. There were more talismans sold to the Zhao family and the others were slightly smaller.

For six months in a row, Lu Ming sold more and more talismans and had sixty spirit stones in his hand, which was a huge sum of money for him before.

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"Hey, Master Lu Fu is here." Shopkeeper Xiao greeted with a smile.

In the past half year or so, Lu Ming has not come to the shop many times, but the monk has a strong memory. Moreover, the number of talismans sold by Lu Ming is also quite astonishing. It may not take long for him to reach the level of mid-grade talismans.

Maintaining a good relationship with a mid-level Talisman Master is a compulsory course for every shopkeeper.

Lu Ming nodded, took out thirty more low-grade talismans from the storage bag and handed them to the shopkeeper.

"Following the old rules, I'll get a portion of the talisman paper and cinnabar."

Every time, Lu Ming paid attention to the fact that he only earned five spiritual stones from the talismans sold and the materials purchased in the store.

However, at this time Shopkeeper Xiao said: "Friend Lu Dao, I still accept the talisman this time, but I won't need it in the future."

Lu Ming suddenly frowned: "Shopkeeper Xiao, what does this mean?"

"But I have someone whose shipping price is lower than mine, and they still want to lower the price."

Shopkeeper Xiao quickly explained: "It's like this. Nowadays, the shipment volume of talismans in the market is small. There is already a lot of low-grade talismans in the store. I'm afraid they won't purchase any more from outside within three to five months... And it's not just us. One family does this, and so do all the shops that buy talismans in the market."

"Of course, this is only limited to low-grade talismans. If fellow Taoists have mid-grade talismans, we will accept them no matter how many, especially if there are as many amulets as there are."

As soon as Lu Ming thought about it, he knew that low-grade talisman masters were the best achievements. As long as they were proficient, most people could become low-grade talisman masters. Naturally, the price of low-grade talisman masters in the market was very low.

But the number of Talisman masters didn’t increase suddenly, so why did the store suddenly stop accepting them?

So he handed over two spiritual stones and asked calmly: "Shopkeeper Xiao, I remember that the price of talismans in the market has always been very stable. Why did they suddenly stop accepting them?"

After looking at the spirit stone underneath, shopkeeper Xiao smiled and accepted it, then looked outside the shop and whispered.

"That's because the previous auction of Foundation Establishment Pills also attracted a lot of people, so the sales of high-grade talismans have increased significantly. In the past six months, all the inventory in the store was sold out, and now the backlog of acquisitions for six consecutive months has been full, so naturally it will not continue Acquired.”

"In addition, several troublesome late-stage qi-training cultivators have been caught and killed by the Gongsun family. There are many fewer robber cultivators, and the demand has been greatly reduced."

When Lu Ming heard this, he immediately understood.

After all, these low-grade talismans are still sold to casual cultivators or demon hunting teams who go out to hunt demons. The consumption of the demon hunting teams is fixed. There are fewer tribulation cultivators outside the city, so naturally there will be less consumption.

But he was more embarrassed. If he couldn't sell low-grade talismans, wouldn't he have to pay for each one he drew?

The storage time of low-grade talismans is only about three months, and the talisman in his hand has sufficient spiritual energy and can be stored for up to half a year.

If Shopkeeper Xiao can tell him this news, everyone on this street must know it, and I'm afraid he won't be able to sell it even if he sets up a stall.

Unless you follow what Shopkeeper Xiao said and directly draw the middle-grade talisman, you will have as many as you can get at that time.

But in the past six months, I have always failed to draw middle-grade talismans, and I have never succeeded in drawing one.

This low-grade spiritual blood is perfect for drawing low-grade talismans, but it is much worse for mid-grade talismans, and my own cultivation...

Thinking of this, Lu Ming suddenly asked: "I wonder if there is a barrier-breaking pill in Shopkeeper Xiao's shop."

(End of this chapter)