Mortal Cultivation: Immortality begins with the Spirit Gathering Array!

Walking to the halfway point of the Giant Stone Peak, the full view of the Talisman Hall came into Su Ming's sight.

The ancient palace pavilion is located halfway up the mountain, and there is also an ancient courtyard next to it. From time to time, you can see a few spiritual lights flying out of the attic. The powerful spiritual pressure is obviously from a master uncle in the foundation-building period.

Under the leadership of Chang Yun, we arrived in front of the ancient courtyard.

Chang Yun bowed respectfully at the door and said, "Senior Sister He, Junior Brother Su Ming, who is here to take care of the chores, is here."

"Come in."

A cold voice came from the depths of the courtyard. Chang Yun pushed the door and took Su Ming into the courtyard.

The ancient courtyard is very simple. There is nothing else except a few spiritual trees along the way. Occasionally, you can smell the fragrance of spiritual ink used to refine talismans.

Passing through the small courtyard, there is a hall. The hall is simple and majestic, giving people a sense of oppression.

Entering the hall, a female cultivator stood in the hall, looking at the two quietly.

She stood there quietly, with a white and delicate face and a white robe on her body, long black hair falling on both sides of her shoulders, and eyes like a pool of clear water, like an elegant ink painting.

Su Ming looked at the female cultivator with a flickering eye. He didn't care about her face, but the deep spiritual pressure on her body was hard to ignore.

The woman in front of him did not deliberately hide her cultivation. The fluctuation of her spiritual power had reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, and she was only one step away from the perfection of the tenth level of Qi Refining.

"Senior Sister He Ru, this is Junior Brother Su Ming who received the miscellaneous tasks."

"Junior Brother Su Ming, meet Senior Sister He." Su Ming bowed.

"Have you ever been exposed to talismans?"

"No."

"Then learn the basics from Junior Brother Chang first." After saying that, He Ru waved her hand and threw a light green talisman pen to Su Ming, saying: "The pen holder of this jade bamboo pen is made of green jade spirit bamboo, the texture is hard, and the pen tip is made of gray wolf hair, which is enough for you to use for miscellaneous tasks in the talisman hall."

"After a year of miscellaneous tasks are over, this talisman pen will belong to you."

"Starting tomorrow, you will learn the basics of talisman making from Junior Brother Chang, and start making talismans on your own after three months. If you fail to meet the requirements after three months, you will be expelled from the talisman hall, and this miscellaneous task will be invalidated."

"Understand?"

"Yes, Junior Brother understands."

"Well, you can go to the paper room to get the talisman paper you need on weekdays."

After explaining these, He Ru nodded and left the hall.

"Junior Brother Su, let's go."

Chang Yun took Su Ming out of the hall and then took him to his residence for the next year. On the way, Chang Yun said, "Senior Sister He has a cold personality. Junior Brother, don't mind. In fact, Senior Sister He is very caring towards us disciples from other courtyards."

"So, Senior Sister He is from the 'other courtyard'?" Su Ming heard this, his eyes flickered.

There are only a few people with spiritual roots in this world. Often, only a few people have spiritual roots among thousands of people. The possibility of a mortal like Su Ming having spiritual roots is extremely small, and there may not even be one in ten thousand.

But if one of the parents is a cultivator, the probability of the offspring having spiritual roots will be greatly increased. If both parents are cultivators, this probability can even reach one in ten.

So cultivators rarely combine with mortals. Even if they want to find a Taoist partner, they will look for people who are also cultivators. Over time, large and small cultivator families have been formed.

As a large Yuanying sect, Guiyuan Sect is a large and powerful sect. It is impossible for it to rely on finding disciples with spiritual roots from the mortal world to replenish fresh blood. There are many family disciples in the sect.

For a long time, Guiyuan Sect has been divided into two major factions. One is the "separate courtyard faction" which is mainly composed of disciples from other courtyards. Most of them are direct cultivators of Guiyuan Sect from Guiyuan courtyard.

The other "family faction" is composed of family cultivators in the sect. Now in Guiyuan Sect, the "family faction" is more powerful, and the reason is very simple.

The Yuanying Zhenjun of Guiyuan Sect, Tianyuan Patriarch, was a cultivator of the "family faction" before breaking through the Yuanying stage.

Hearing Su Ming's question, Chang Yun nodded.

"Of course, if you are a cultivator of the 'family faction', you must return this jade bamboo pen after the chores are over!" Chang Yun smiled: "Don't feel pressured by what Senior Sister said. After three months, you just need to be able to make the most basic wind-traveling talisman by yourself."

"As long as you practice more on weekdays, it will be no problem to meet the requirements of the talisman hall in three months."

"Thank you for your guidance, Senior Brother!" Su Ming bowed his hands to thank him.

"You and I are both disciples of the 'other courtyard sect', so we should help each other."

Wang Chang waved his hand and smiled, then pointed to the courtyards in front of the two and said: "These courtyards are empty, Junior Brother Su can choose one as a residence. There are restrictions in each courtyard, so don't worry about privacy issues."

"The two courtyards next to it have been chosen by the other two fellow disciples. I live in the courtyard on the northernmost side. You can come to me if you have any questions within this year."

Su Ming glanced at the two courtyards that had already opened the restrictions, and pointed to the courtyard at the edge: "Then Junior Brother, I will choose this one."

"This is the token. I will come to teach Junior Brother the basics of the way of talismans tomorrow."

"Thank you, Senior Brother Chang."

After Chang Yun left, Su Ming walked into the selected courtyard to open the restrictions and felt the concentration of spiritual energy. It was indeed more concentrated than the spiritual energy of Qingcui Peak.

"No wonder the outer disciples are so eager to do the chores issued by these halls. Just being able to practice in the first-level upper-grade spiritual veins is catching up with the cave residence treatment of the inner disciples."

After confirming the courtyard's prohibition, Su Ming set up a water-based spirit gathering array in his room, and then took out a silver wolf-hair brush, blank talisman paper, talisman ink and other talisman-making materials from his storage bag.

For ten days, he used all his spare time to carefully study the basics of talismans, and found that there were many similarities between the talisman and the array, especially in the most critical talisman patterns and array patterns.

The principles of the talisman are similar to those of the array, both of which aim to control the natural forces of heaven and earth through human power.

The cultivator uses the talisman brush and spiritual ink to outline the "rules" for controlling the spiritual forces of heaven and earth on the talisman paper, and then guide this controlled natural force of heaven and earth to achieve the desired effect.

After this period of speculation, he felt that he had thoroughly understood the basics of talismans, and had some ideas about the refining of basic talismans, and was ready to start his talisman-making career.

Novices usually learn to make talismans from the easy to the difficult, and Su Ming is no exception.

[Basics of Talismans] records the methods of refining two types of talismans, namely the first-grade lower-grade "Fireball Talisman" and the first-grade middle-grade "Vajra Talisman".

He planned to start with the Fireball Talisman. Compared with the first-grade middle-grade Vajra Talisman, the Fireball Talisman is easier to refine and consumes less mana and consciousness, making it the perfect entry-level talisman.

A tall building rises from the ground, and starting from easy to difficult is the only way for every talisman apprentice. Otherwise, no matter how amazing your talent in the talisman path is, without this step-by-step process, it is difficult to go far in the talisman path.

Even if Su Ming has the River Map and Luoshu, it only shortens the time spent on the formation. In the simulated formation of the River Map space, the effort and failures he has experienced are actually far more than ordinary cultivators.

Placing the talisman paper and spiritual ink on the table, Su Ming picked up the silver wolf hair brush and began to invest in the production of the Fireball Talisman.

He followed the method of making talismans in [Basics of Talismans], injected the mana in his body into the pen through his right hand, then dipped some spiritual ink on the tip of the pen and drew talismans on a piece of talisman paper.

For Su Ming, who had thousands of times of experience in engraving arrays, drawing talismans was not difficult.

Half a minute later, Su Ming stood up with a happy look on his face, stretched his aching right arm, looked at the fireball talisman floating in front of him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

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