Qi Rui’s words made Chen Mobai even more interested in joining the Shenmu Sect.

In the next two days, there were scattered attacks by the Black Plague Birds. The remaining members of Chen Mobai’s team were all elite and there were no more casualties.

“Elder Wang, since the situation is basically stable, I won’t come over anymore.”

After receiving the 10 spiritual stones, Chen Mobai proposed to leave.

Wang Yuanwu looked at him with surprise. Other casual cultivators would do anything to stay for the opportunity to easily obtain spiritual stones without having to experience battles. Even some casual cultivators who retreated during the most intense battles were now applying to rejoin.

“Friend Chen, I appreciate your kindness, but the Shenmu Sect doesn’t lack these spiritual stones. If you want to leave because of guilt, there’s no need.”

Before Wang Yuanwu could speak, Qi Rui spoke up.

During this period of time, his relationship with Chen Mobai had been getting better and he basically regarded him as the next junior brother to be recruited by the Shenmu Sect.

“Well… it’s mainly because I felt an opportunity for a breakthrough during these short battles and I don’t want to miss it.”

Chen Mobai could only smile bitterly and come up with an excuse. If possible, he also wanted to stay here every day to kill demonic beasts and easily earn spiritual stones.

But tomorrow, he had to go to the Danzhu Academy to participate in the competition. It was a major event in his life and he absolutely couldn’t be late.

“That is indeed more important.”

Using his breakthrough in cultivation as a reason, neither Wang Yuanwu nor Qi Rui insisted on keeping him.

Wang Yuanwu took out a roster from his storage bag, crossed out Chen Mobai’s name, and gave him a certificate.

Qi Rui pulled Chen Mobai aside and gave him a notebook he had summarized on talisman-making.

“Since you’ve decided to cultivate the Immortal Longevity Scripture and the Crimson Flame Sword Technique, you should familiarize yourself with the talisman-making technique of the Crimson Flame Sword Talisman in advance.”

“As long as you can refine this talisman, any senior disciple will accept you as their junior.”

“Of course, if someone asks, just say you bought this talisman-making notebook outside and don’t mention that I gave it to you.”

Because the Five Elements Sect had the inheritance of the Five Meridians, in order to recruit mortals with spiritual roots in the Eastern Wilderness, they spread many Qi Refining techniques and basic spells to the secular dynasties. Even if these people stood out, they would eventually join their sects because they cultivated the Five Elements Sect’s techniques.

So in the Nanxi Market, there were also many Five Elements Sect techniques and talismans for sale.

The Blackwater Technique in Chen Mobai’s hands was considered to have this kind of origin by Old He.

“Thank you, Senior Qi.”

The term “senior” made Qi Rui unable to help but burst into laughter.

“Junior Chen!”

He reached out and patted Chen Mobai’s shoulder forcefully.

A silver light flashed.

Chen Mobai returned to his own home and looked at the roughly bound and rough paper Crimson Flame Sword Talisman notebook in his hand, feeling warm in his heart.

In the Tianhe Realm, it wasn’t all about deceit and intrigue.

People like Wang Yuanwu and Qi Rui from the Shenmu Sect, and even Qi Hou at the beginning, all felt real and resilient cultivators when he got to know them.

Of course, it could also be because the cultivation environment for casual cultivators was too harsh and there were wolves around who wanted to plunder their cultivation resources, which made the casual cultivators outside the major sects become so ruthless.

If they could cultivate and improve peacefully, most cultivators would prefer to stay in seclusion in their caves and avoid unnecessary trouble.

Sitting in front of his desk, Chen Mobai carefully read through the Crimson Flame Sword Talisman notebook.

To refine this talisman, one needed to cultivate the Crimson Flame Sword Technique so that the Crimson Flame Sword Qi could be sealed into the talisman paper.

Of course, the notebook mentioned that the senior cultivators of the Shenmu Sect had also tried to use the same type of fire attribute spiritual energy sword qi to achieve the same effect.

The later proof showed that this was possible.

However, some brushstrokes and lines needed to be adjusted to balance the sword qi and the talisman paper.

The “Crimson Flame Sword Talisman” was not something that could be achieved overnight.

It started with the “Crimson Fire Talisman” and the “Sword Qi Talisman” of the first rank, then combined the two talismans to create the first-class “Crimson Flame Sword Talisman,” and then the “Second Sword Talisman” and the “Third Sword Talisman.”

But Qi Rui himself only refined one sword talisman.

He had tried to refine the Second Sword Talisman for several years, but only succeeded twice. After that, he was too lazy to refine it anymore.

After all, the demand for the first sword talisman was greater and it could be sold better.

Qi Rui also tried to refine the Third Sword Talisman, but after failing twenty or thirty times, he couldn’t afford to continue. Although the Third Sword Talisman was still a first-class talisman, it was already in the realm of a second-rank talisman maker.

Many talisman makers used second-rank talisman paper and ink to improve their success rate. Qi Rui was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining, so he couldn’t afford it.

Chen Mobai immediately opened the Immortal Gate Network and checked the prices of these items.

Second-rank talisman paper cost 50 Good Deeds for a large sheet, and if it was cut, there would be an additional 10 Good Deeds for processing.

The price of talisman ink depended on the type. Since each talisman had different ink, most of them needed to be prepared by oneself after reaching the second rank.

The ink for some common second-rank talismans could be industrialized and was not expensive, costing 100 Good Deeds for a small bottle.

Chen Mobai looked at the dozen or so pages in Qi Rui’s notebook about preparing ink, which were full of his complaints about wasting ninety percent of his time on preparing ink when refining talismans.

Then he looked at the specific steps for preparing ink.

The materials were fine, and they were produced in the Jumu Ridge. It was a kind of cinnabar called Red Vermilion.However, this kind of cinnabar is exceptionally hard. It requires a Qi Refining cultivator to grind it with a special tool for three days and three nights before it can be crushed into a usable fine powder.

After the grinding is completed, a kind of spiritual yellow glue extracted from the spiritual wood needs to be added, then a certain proportion of spiritual water is mixed to fuse the two. Then, it is slowly simmered over a small fire in a specially made furnace.

This small fire requires a kind of spiritual wood with gentle heat, which is also an investment.

When the ink in the furnace is no longer flowing, it needs to be taken out and dried in the shade, a process that takes another three days and three nights.

Only after the ink has completely solidified can it be taken out.

Among them, the color of the ink block on the top layer will be slightly yellow, the color at the bottom will be slightly purple, and only the bright red in the middle layer is the second-order ink.

After separating the three types of cinnabar, the final step is filtration, which involves filtering out the impurities in the ink.

The time depends on the previous grinding and the grade of the raw materials. The first time Qi Rui made ink, due to incorrect techniques, he filtered for a whole month and still could not meet the requirements, so he had to discard the ink.

No wonder he only complained about the ink-making process in this notebook.

To refine the Three Swords Talisman, if you want a high success rate, it is best to use the second-order bright red ink.

Of course, if you are an expert, even the slightly yellow and slightly purple cinnabar can be successfully refined.

After reading these steps, Chen Mobai felt it was very troublesome, but he had his own methods.