Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 252 - 191: The Arrival of the Demon Race (Long - )
Half an hour later.
Li An finally got what he wanted!
Four-tier talisman inheritance!
Years of planning had not been in vain.
He collected Guo Jisheng and Lu Tong’s storage bags, rings, etc., discarded anything marked, and then burned their bodies clean before packing up the surrounding arrays and leaving.
On the way, he went to the other two locations and dismantled the arrays there, leaving no traces.
After changing his appearance, Li An headed towards Mountain Master Bai’s territory.
In the Celestial Killer Mountain range, killing and robbing are common occurrences, and Li An’s identity was well hidden, so there was no worry about exposure.
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Soon after, he returned to his cave abode in Spiritual Evil Peak.
He took stock of the spoils from this operation:
Besides the four-tier talisman inheritance, Guo Jisheng also had a used Rank Four talisman pen and over a dozen Rank Four talisman papers, all of which were water-attribute.
Upon reaching Rank Four, the requirements for talisman papers become higher, needing corresponding attributes!
Different talismans require different kinds of talisman papers, for instance, water-attribute materials can create talisman papers for Rushing Stream Talismans, Ice Talismans, Rain-Deploying Talismans, etc., while fire-attribute talisman papers can produce Spirit Fire Talismans, Exorcism Talismans, etc.
The five elements are fundamental; besides them, there are also some special attributes, like thunder and wind, which are rare to find.
Inheritance, talisman pen, talisman paper—these are all very precious items.
Additionally, there were three to four Rank Three Magical Artifacts and some Third Grade Pills.
Over seventy Upper Grade Spirit Stones, more than fifty thousand Middle Grade Spirit Stones, and over thirty thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones were collected, making not much in terms of Spirit Stones.
The main reason was that Guo Jisheng had few Spirit Stones on him, evidently having been impoverished for a long time due to the Soul Evil.
"Next, I should prepare talisman paper and try to create Rank Four runes..."
With Rank Four runes, combined with the Divine Bird and his Golden Core Cultivation, by the later stages of cultivation, he might even contend with an Early-Stage Nascent Soul.
In fact, his own strength in the Core Formation realm... was already very solid!
Even if it was a True Core at Great Perfection, facing him and the Divine Bird wouldn’t necessarily end well for the opponent.
However, Li An wasn’t in a hurry. The materials for making Rank Four talisman paper are hard to find, and he wasn’t going to rush it. The remaining dozen sheets of talisman paper he had, he didn’t intend to use now, as producing Rank Four runes was difficult, and attempting now might just waste them.
First, he planned to take a few years to become familiar with and comprehend the four-tier talisman inheritance while also collecting materials for making talismans, as that was the proper task.
"The Golden Treasure Skill can now be cultivated for another part... the spleen!"
He had already trained his lungs, liver, and kidneys; only the heart and spleen were left.
The spleen belongs to the earth element, so materials for refining the spleen mostly relate to it, such as Third Grade Earth Milk, Celestial Gold Stone, etc.
Gathering these wouldn’t be easy.
"Rank Four talisman paper, array materials, Third Grade body refining materials, and main ingredients for the Nascent Soul Pill..."
He contemplated that apart from cultivation; he needed to speed up earning Spirit Stones.
Both he and the Divine Bird were at Mid-Stage Golden Core, consuming a considerable amount of Spirit Stones, with monthly usual cultivation consuming about twenty Upper Grade Spirit Stones, around two hundred forty a year!
Rank Four array materials cost a lot, with a set ranging from five or six thousand to two or three thousand Upper Grade Spirit Stones.
The raw materials for Rank Four talisman paper are also expensive. Averaging a single Rank Four talisman paper may cost two Upper Grade Spirit Stones, and without truly mastering Rank Four talisman techniques, significant initial consumption would yield little return, consuming at least a thousand sheets a year, incurring a two to three thousand Upper Grade Spirit Stones expense!
Oddly enough, Third Grade body refining materials like Earth Milk were relatively easier to find, but even one plant could cost several tens of Upper Grade Spirit Stones. Even using just two or three plants a month would cost nearly a thousand Upper Grade Spirit Stones a year.
Plus, there were additional miscellaneous expenses like rent paid to Mountain Master Bai.
To quickly develop and enhance himself now, he needed at least around six or seven thousand Upper Grade Spirit Stones on hand.
This gave Li An quite a headache.
In recent years, he had repeatedly acted as a "robber cultivator," and with previous accumulations from the Jiang Clan, he currently had nearly three hundred Upper Grade Spirit Stones in total of about thirty-three hundred thousand Middle Grade Spirit Stones, and about two hundred twenty thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones, equivalent to around three thousand six hundred Upper Grade Spirit Stones.
Including other miscellaneous captured materials converted into Upper Grade Spirit Stones, he had merely over four thousand eight hundred Upper Grade Spirit Stones.
If it was only about regular cultivation, he could hang on for a long, long time, without worries for twenty or thirty years.
But the things he wanted were too expensive; pushing the limits with Rank Four talismans and arrays, there was still a deficit of Spirit Stones.
What typical True Core cultivator could bear this expense!
Li An also had a headache; accumulating around two thousand Upper Grade Spirit Stones in a short time would be difficult to achieve.
He could only balance his cultivation and the Golden Treasure Skill for now.
"Three-tier runes, arrays, and Third Grade pills can be sold..."
The pressure on Li An increased, but thankfully, he was now a Third Grade Talisman Master, Third Grade Alchemist, and Rank Three Array Master, which made earning Spirit Stones significantly easier than for others.
A set of three-tier arrays could fetch about fifty Spirit Stones; selling two sets a month would mean earning a hundred Upper Grade Spirit Stones!
Three-tier runes were worth one to three Upper Grade Spirit Stones each. Selling a hundred a month would yield two to three hundred Spirit Stones.
Additionally, a Third Grade Purifying Evil Pill could sell for about ten Upper Grade Spirit Stones each, and selling ten pills a month could earn another hundred!
Altogether, this would bring a monthly revenue of four to five hundred. After deducting material costs, he could make a profit of two to three hundred.
