After Yan Bingxuan finished her performance, she confidently took a cup of coffee and left.
Chen Mobai escorted her to the entrance of the cultivation gym, thinking that he couldn't waste the two hours and returned to the spell field. Following her instructions, he began practicing the Frost Spell.
With the transfer of spiritual power from Yan Bingxuan and his personal experience, he had already understood how to convert the spiritual power of the Five Elements into ice spiritual power. The only problem now was to grasp the moment when the ice spiritual power took shape.
But even if he understood the key points, he still needed to practice diligently to master the subtle moment of exhaling the cold breath.
If he was too fast, he would freeze the Twelve-story Tower; if he was too slow, he wouldn't achieve the freezing effect.
After more than an hour of diligent practice, Chen Mobai returned home, feeling hoarse and unable to speak.
On the way, he bought a dozen bottles of pear syrup from a large pharmacy. After returning home, he drank half a bottle with warm water in one breath. The next day, he felt his throat was slightly better.
When he went out, he saw a huge package as expected.
The shopkeeper of the Wood Spirit Talisman Store sent it with the same-city express delivery. After Chen Mobai opened it, he saw four to five hundred talismans neatly placed in transparent plastic boxes according to their different types. He couldn't help but admire the shopkeeper's thoughtfulness.
He put the low-level talismans into his backpack and then carefully placed the eleven first-class talismans on the inner pocket of his ancient-style suit.
Finally, Chen Mobai's gaze fell on the only sealed talisman.
Second-grade lower-level, Wood Thunder Talisman!
Just this talisman alone was worth 50,000 Good Deeds, the most expensive thing he had bought since he had money.
After opening the accompanying instruction manual provided by the shopkeeper, Chen Mobai carefully read it word by word.
The way to activate the "Wood Thunder Talisman" was the same as ordinary talismans, but it consumed slightly more spiritual power for Qi Refining cultivators. The shopkeeper had conducted experiments, and a Qi Refining cultivator at the seventh level would consume nearly half of their spiritual power when activating it.
Chen Mobai had long been aware of this, after all, it was also mentioned in the product description.
To be on the safe side, he also bought five recovery talismans, so he wouldn't be at a disadvantage if his spiritual power was insufficient during a fight.
Carefully putting the sealed "Wood Thunder Talisman" into the pocket of his sleeve, Chen Mobai felt a great sense of security.
He called his mother and told her that he had purchased a monthly card for the cultivation gym. During this period, he would be spending every day in the gym with some motivated classmates, honing his spell skills.
Tang Pancui also knew that this year's entrance exam for the Daoist Academy would involve fighting. Naturally, she strongly supported her son's decision and transferred him 1,000 Good Deeds, telling him not to be frugal.
Chen Mobai immediately refused, knowing that the family was currently tight on money. He told his mother that after getting the gym membership, everything including meals, accommodation, and bathing were covered, so there was no need for additional expenses.
After everything was ready, he teleported to the Tianhe Realm with his backpack full of talismans and spiritual medicines.
In the flickering silver light, Chen Mobai opened his eyes and saw the familiar wooden walls on all sides, letting out a sigh of relief.
As expected, the Turtle Treasure worked just like his previous experiments. Wherever he teleported from, the next time he teleported, it would anchor to that location. Although the rule was simple, this was Chen Mobai's first time teleporting back to a crowded place, so he was still a little nervous, afraid of attracting attention.
Looking around after going out, he found that he was still the only one living in this cheapest low-lying feng shui treasure land, which made him feel relieved.
In the following days, while practicing the Frost Spell, Chen Mobai set up a stall on Qingguang Island to sell talismans and also inquired about which direction in the Dream Swamp was most suitable for him to practice against the demonic beasts.
Thanks to the cultivators here having the ability to appraise talismans, his business was doing very well.
The price of a low-level talisman was 200 gold in Nanxi Fang Market, but he could sell them for 300 gold here. The Green Arrow Talisman and Wood Armor Talisman, both of which were mid-level talismans, could be sold for 2,000 gold here.
As for the first-class talismans, he didn't plan to sell them for now.
After all, his business was already attracting attention from his peers in the market. He planned to focus on the middle and low-level markets first. These talismans were all traded in gold, and those Qi Refining cultivators with backgrounds were basically too lazy to earn such a small amount of money.
When setting up the stall, Chen Mobai wrote the names and prices of each talisman on a piece of cloth and then sat on the small stool he made from a wooden stump. When a customer came and asked for the price, he would point to the cloth and then point to his throat, coughing twice to indicate that his voice was injured and he couldn't speak.
In this way, he drank pear syrup to warm and heal his frozen throat while reading the book "The Dragon Subduing Chronicles of the Cloud Dream Great River" given to him by Lu Shu.
It was a palm-sized book specifically for passing the time.
It was about the last Deification cultivator who ascended to the Upper Realm in the Tianhe Realm, the Cloud Dream True Immortal.
In the Tianhe cultivation world, the current calendar was based on the Cloud Dream Era.
The year of the Cloud Dream True Immortal's ascension was set as the first year of the Cloud Dream Era, which was exactly 6,478 years ago. Before this True Immortal, the Dream Swamp was not the current vast water area but a continuous range of mountains known as the "Cloud Dream Great River," a nearly sixth-grade spiritual land.
At that time, the one occupying the Cloud Dream Great River was a fifth-grade Yellow Dragon demonic beast.This beast not only possesses the bloodline of a true dragon but is also at the Deification level. Even Deification cultivators of the same realm would lose nine out of ten times when facing it.
During his Qi Refining period, Yuan Zhenjun trained in the vast Yunmeng River. He witnessed humans being brutally enslaved by the beasts and, in anger, he fought back. However, he was severely injured and luckily fell into the ruins of an ancient cultivator, where he obtained a great opportunity.
A thousand years later, Yuan Zhenjun achieved perfection in Deification. Before his ascension, he single-handedly entered the Yunmeng River with his sword.
After slaying eighteen fourth-order Elemental Infant beasts, he battled the Yellow Dragon Beast King for seven days and nights, shattering the Yunmeng River into a vast lake. He then expended a great amount of energy to use a heaven-defying immortal technique to subdue this fifth-order beast, finally ascending on the back of the dragon.
The small book that Lu Shu gave to Chen Mobai told this story.
After reading it, Chen Mobai had only one thought.
He absolutely must not let the Tianhe Realm know about the existence of the Earth Elemental Star.
In the history of the Earth Elemental Star, although there have been quite a few Deification ancestors, there has never been a detailed record of anyone ascending. At most, they cultivated to the extreme and explored the boundless starry sky.
In comparison, although the Immortal Gate has two Deification ancestors, its overall strength may not be as strong as the Tianhe Realm.
Unfortunately, there are no books in the market that introduce the cultivation world beyond the Eastern Wilderness. It is said that only the seven major sects and the large merchant associations have these. Chen Mobai could only lament that the transmission of information in this world is too outdated.
If he were on the Earth Elemental Star, he could easily find out how high the sky is, how thick the earth is, and how much territory the Immortal Gate covers.