With the stable supply of raw materials from Taoist Pinglu, Song Qingming's path to making talismans became much more stable. With no shortage of materials in his hands, he gradually stabilized his mood. Time seemed to have returned to normal. After returning to Lingyuan Mountain, in addition to the fixed time required for making talismans, he also took more time to practice.
Soon it was almost three months since Song Qingming returned to Lingyuan Mountain. During these few months, in addition to the steady growth of his cultivation, Song Qingming's talisman-making skills, as he had no shortage of materials, also made great progress.
Now, he can easily draw five or six kinds of mid-level spiritual talismans, and the success rate of his best golden light talisman has increased to nearly 40%. He has finally made up for the spiritual stones he lost in the early stage and become a qualified mid-level talisman maker.
In the past few months in Caolu Mountain, in addition to the Taoist Pinglu who provided the materials for making talismans on time, Qin Zhen also came frequently and took good care of Song Qingming. He not only purchased a lot of talismans from Song Qingming, but also introduced him to a lot of independent cultivators. The talismans made by Song Qingming in the past few months suddenly became a hot commodity in Caolu Mountain, and his business was getting better and better.
This really made Song Qingming very happy, but it was a pity that the mid-level talisman-making materials in his hands were used up early every month, and he had no plans to make a large number of talismans for the time being. He knew that this was a way to make money, but he couldn't be too anxious. In a place like Caolu Mountain, carrying too many spiritual objects on him would inevitably arouse the greed of those cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining.
Now that he no longer had the materials to make talismans, Song Qingming finally had some free time, so he wanted to take this opportunity to spend some time refining the top-grade flying sword he got in Guiyunfang.
The reason why I didn't choose to refine this sword early is that refining a top-grade magic weapon is not an easy task. The time required to refine a magic weapon of this level is much longer than that of a mid-level magic weapon.
Last time in Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming refined the Lieyang Sword, but it only took him more than a day. This time, he refined the Taixu Sword, which is a top-grade magic weapon. The higher the grade of the magic weapon, the more complicated the refining process is and the longer it takes.
Song Qingming estimated that this ritual would take at least three days. Before refining the magic weapon, he had already asked Song Changxin for a few days off, saying that he would be in seclusion for a few days.
After leaving Guiyunfang, he hurried back to Qinghe County. He was so busy traveling that he had no time to refine this item. After returning to Lingyuan Mountain, he was busy making talismans every day. Until now, he finally had time to come.
Taking out the Taixu Sword from the storage bag, Song Qingming carefully observed the flying sword from beginning to end again.
The silver sword body is about three feet long, with a red stripe running through the middle, and a long white beard hanging from the green hilt. As a top-grade flying sword, the Taixu Sword does not look special on the surface. If it was placed in that ordinary grocery store, it would be just an extremely ordinary magic weapon.
Song Qingming still didn't know what attracted him to this top-grade flying sword. It was just a strong and vague consciousness in his heart that guided him to find it.
After thinking about it for several months, Song Qingming still couldn't figure out the problem.
Since we are destined to meet, let's just go with the flow. After adjusting his state, Song Qingming released a trace of spiritual power from his body, which quickly wrapped around the Taixu Sword in his hand. As Song Qingming slowly drew out the spiritual power from his body, the red sword body was soon completely covered by the white spiritual energy.
Song Qingming held his breath and concentrated, took out a drop of blood from his body and placed it on the sword. Soon, the Taixu sword wrapped in white light shook and made a buzzing sound.
The time taken to refine the Taixu Sword this time was beyond Song Qingming's expectations. It was not until five days later that, as a white light spread out, the spiritual power in Song Qingming's body, wrapped in the essence and blood he had released earlier, finally entered the body of the Taixu Sword.
Seeing that his essence and blood had already entered the sword, Song Qingming hurriedly increased his spiritual power input, wanting to integrate the essence and blood into the magic weapon in one breath and complete the magic weapon ritual.
At this moment, the Taixu Sword suddenly turned into a dazzling white light. After the white light dissipated, there was a crisp sound, and the Taixu Sword suddenly broke into two pieces with a bang and fell to the ground, which frightened Song Qingming and made him break out in a cold sweat.
Song Qingming stared at the two broken swords on the ground in amazement, his mind was blank. These were 150 spirit stones. How many talismans would he have to draw to exchange them for another top-grade magic weapon?
Could it be that the steps of my ritual are wrong?
Or was it because he was too young and fell into the trap set by the master and disciple? How could this flying sword be considered a top-grade magical weapon? Song Qingming took the initiative to think about it again. There was indeed no major problem with his own ritual. Even if the ritual failed, it would not destroy this top-grade flying sword on the spot.
It seems that there is indeed a quality problem with the magic weapon itself. After all, it was he who took the initiative to buy the magic weapon. Even if he was tricked by those two people, he can only accept it now. He will go to Guiyunfang to meet them again when he has the chance in the future.
Song Qingming smiled bitterly and used the object control technique to take the broken sword into his hand. Just as he was about to put it into the storage bag, he suddenly felt a strange spiritual power fluctuation coming from the broken sword. Song Qingming picked up the half-broken sword and took a closer look. He unexpectedly discovered that there was something hidden in the broken sword.
When he took it out and looked at it, it seemed to be a volume of martial arts manual. Song Qingming opened it and read it carefully, then he found that it was a Taoist martial arts manual called "Yuxuan Sutra". There were no spiritual root requirements, but only the part about the Qi Refining Period.
It was unknown whether the techniques for the foundation-building period and beyond at the back of the book were sealed by some advanced restriction, so the pages were just blank. Song Qingming tried it, but found that his current abilities were completely unable to open it, so he had to give up.
It seems to be a rather special Qi Refining Stage technique, but I don't know why that person hid this technique in the Taixu Sword. Was it because I was attracted to this sword that day that this technique was destined to be with me?
Song Qingming looked at the "Yuxuan Sutra" in his hand with a somewhat amusing look. He had spent 150 spirit stones and thought that all his money was lost. However, unexpectedly, he got a volume of Qi Refining Stage exercises. He didn't know whether he had made a profit or a loss.
The value of martial arts techniques is difficult to estimate. A general Qi-refining martial arts technique with the five elements is worth at most a dozen spirit stones in the market. If it is a rare martial arts technique with special abilities, it may not be possible to buy it with hundreds of spirit stones. If you hand it over to the family treasury, you may be able to get more spirit stones.
Song Qingming didn't know the effectiveness of this technique yet, so he didn't dare to offer it to his family rashly.
"Since it is destined to be with me, I might as well try to practice it myself first. If there is no problem with this technique, I will copy a copy and hand it over to my family when I have time." Song Qingming said to himself.
Over the past two hundred years, the Song family has collected dozens of Qi Refining techniques in the Gold Storage Pavilion, but this technique is not included. As long as Song Qingming copies a copy of it to the Gold Storage Pavilion in the future, it will definitely be beneficial to the family, and he can also gain some good merits.
In the Yuxuan Sutra, there is only one magical spell in the Qi Refining Stage that can slightly increase one's cultivation speed. It is called "Spirit Gathering Technique" and is a spell to assist in cultivation.
There is no shortage of such spells in the world of immortal cultivation that can increase the speed of cultivation, but most of them can only increase it by one or two percent. There are similar spells in the Song family's treasure pavilion, but they are restricted to spiritual roots, and one must have water and wood spiritual roots to practice.
Song Qingming lacks water in his five elements and has no water spiritual roots. He has not practiced this technique before. The spirit gathering technique he has obtained now just fills this gap for him.
Although this magical power cannot be used against the enemy, it is still of some use. Combined with the incomplete map on his body, Song Qingming expects to increase his cultivation speed by about 20%. In addition, he has been taking elixirs to improve his cultivation for a long time, which has allowed him to almost reach the cultivation speed of a cultivator with three spiritual roots.
Although the Yuxuan Sutra did not contain any powerful magical powers, it was still quite good as an auxiliary practice. Song Qingming gained something from obtaining this technique, and the gloom from the broken Taixu Sword gradually disappeared from his face.
Now Song Qingming has no shortage of spirit stones. He takes spiritual pills every month, his cultivation is steadily improving, and the magic weapons in his hands are also quite good. What he lacks is a method like this that can help him increase his cultivation speed.