Chen Xi walked silently on his way home, thinking about his thoughts.
The departure of his grandfather and younger brother did not make him too sad. As far as he knew, the Qianjian Sect of Longyuan City was quite famous in the entire southern border, and the various schools opened in Songyan City could not keep up with it. Compared with Qianjianzong.
For thousands of years, with the improvement of the cultivation system, a variety of new things have appeared in the field of cultivation, and academies are one of them.
These academies are set up in towns, and they employ some knowledgeable practitioners to teach various basic practices and earn money.
There is no limit to the group of people targeted by the academy, no matter if you were a mountaineer, slave, rich businessman, or hawker, as long as you pay enough primeval stones, you can enter the academy to study.
The types of colleges are also varied, and they are divided into different colleges according to different names.
Like the various colleges opened in Songyan City, there are refining tools, puppets, talismans, alchemy, planting, and beasts. Chen Xi’s younger brother, Chen Hao, had previously studied basic swordsmanship at Tianxing Academy.
However, the academy also has its limitations. The knowledge it imparts is the most basic and simple. If you want to learn more advanced knowledge, you must enter the sect.
As for the sects, there are often great monks in charge. The sects are usually set up in the famous mountains and rivers with rich spiritual energy, and the conditions for choosing apprentices are extremely harsh. Those who are not highly qualified and have a solid foundation cannot pass the examination of the sect’s acceptance of apprentices.
Chen Xi is very aware of how much grievances his younger brother has suffered over the years. Because of himself, he is ridiculed by children of the same age as a little broom star. No one wants to contact him, and he doesn’t even have a real friend. Qianjianzong is undoubtedly a happy event for the younger brother who is crazy about practicing swordsmanship, and it will also greatly benefit his growth.
My younger brother is only twelve years old this year. He is talented and intelligent. He has already cultivated to the state of acquired great perfection. Under the careful training of his grandfather, his foundation is extremely solid. Passing the assessment of Qianjianzong should not be a problem.
Approaching the door of the house, Chen Xi saw from a distance that a little girl of five or six years old was sitting at the door of her house holding her chin.
“Brother Chen Xi, where is Xiao Hao? I took his favorite lime candy, but I couldn’t wait for him.” The little girl trotted over when she saw Chen Xi, and said excitedly.
The little girl’s name is Xixi. She is lively and lovely. She has no father and lives with her mother, Bai Wanqing. The mother and daughter moved into Songyan City a few years ago. They are neighbors with Chen Xi’s family, and the two have always had an excellent relationship.
“He has gone to a distant place to learn arts, and I’m afraid he won’t come back in the next few years.”
Chen Xi rubbed Xixi’s little head. He also loved Xixi very much in his heart. The little girl was a few years younger than her younger brother. Whenever her younger brother came back from Tianxing Academy, the little girl would play around with Chen Hao like a fart. From time to time, I give some candy to Chen Hao to eat, and the two have an excellent relationship.
The most important thing is that Xixi and her mother Bai Wanqing have never disliked the Chen Xi family, and they have never regarded Chen Xi as a **** star. This trust that is not mixed with anything makes Chen Xi especially cherish it. .
“The distance? Where is the distance?” Xixi raised her face and asked in a daze.
Chen Xi thought about it for a while, and then said, “Where you can’t go, it’s called a distant place. But when Xixi grows up, you can go there.”
Xi Xi snorted, her head lowered, and she looked like she was sullen.
Chen Xi comforted and said, “Otherwise, you can go to my house to play.”
Xixi’s eyes lit up: “Okay, I’m going to see Brother Chen Xi make a talisman.”
“Follow me.”
Seeing that the little girl was happy, a smile appeared on the corner of Chen Xi’s lips, and it was fleeting, and she returned to her stern and indifferent appearance.
Holding Xixi’s chubby little hand, Chen Xi walked into the door.
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There is a stack of blank light cyan rune paper, a plate of dark red ink, and a dark rune pen on the table.
Chen Xi had a straight waist and sat upright in front of the wooden table, while Xixi sat obediently on the small bench next to him, and his little face was full of curiosity.
“This is pine-patterned rune paper. It is the cheapest type on the market. It has a hard texture and rough texture. It is generally used to refine the simplest basic rune.” Chen Xi pointed at the stack of light cyan rune paper. explained softly.
Xixi looked like a student and nodded fiercely, “Brother Chen Xi, I remember it.”
Chen Xi was dumbfounded, shook his head, pointed to the plate of dark red ink again, and said, “This plate of ink is drawn from the blood of the Chiyan Deer, and the Chiyan Deer itself is the lowest-ranking beast in the cultivation world. One, apart from the ink that blood can be used to make talismans, the whole body has no use value at all. Even the merchants in the city who specialize in raising demon birds for a living are reluctant to tame such useless demon beasts. .”
Xixi nodded and said, “Where’s the pen?”
“That’s a rune pen, and rune pens are also divided into pros and cons. When making a rune, a rune with good quality not only has smooth strokes and well-proportioned traces, but also can improve the chance of success in making a rune. The rune pen is just a normal rune pen, but for me, it’s enough.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xi suddenly realized that what he said today seemed to be much more than usual. Could it be that because of the departure of his grandfather and younger brother, he took Xixi as the object of his confession?
Thinking of this, Chen Xi turned his head to look at Xixi, only to find that this little girl had fallen asleep on the table at some point, with a trace of saliva hanging from the corner of her mouth.
Chen Xi had no reason to remember that his younger brother looked like this when he was young, and he couldn’t help feeling warm in his heart. He carefully picked Xixi up, put it on his bed and covered the quilt, and then sat down at the wooden table again.
Without any further delay, Chen Xi picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and swiped the calligraphy talisman.
Swish… The tip of the pen dipped in dark red ink gently slid across the blank talisman paper, and thin red lines spewed out from the end of the pen, like a spiritual earthworm, following a graceful and smooth trajectory in light cyan spreads quickly on the pine rune paper.
Chen Xi was serious and focused when he was making the talisman. His eyes were fixed on the talisman paper under his pen, his back was straight like a spear piercing the sky, and his right arm was suspended in the air, motionless, like a scorpion sprung from the crevices of the cliffs. A piece of Qiu Jin pine branch did not move at all from beginning to end.
It’s his right wrist!
His right wrist is extremely flexible, he controls the rune pen in his hand, and strokes and swipes on the rune paper with an amazing frequency. Generally, with a light and harmonious rhythm.
When a complex and mysterious pattern is like a flower, it quietly blooms on the talisman paper. The surface of the talisman suddenly lit up, then dimmed and returned to normal.
I didn’t even look at it, and after casually putting this first-grade Fire Cloud Talisman aside, Chen Xi picked up a blank pine-patterned talisman paper again and waved it down, not wanting to waste a single bit of time.
Five years ago, Chen Xi’s grandfather, Chen Tianli, took out what little savings he had left and asked Chen Xi to go to a talisman school to study. After Chen Xi successfully mastered the making of a first-grade basic talisman, the talisman-making became his grandson. The only source of sustenance for the trio.
However, Chen Xi can only make first-grade basic talismans. There is no way. The method of making talismans that he learned in the academy is only first-grade. If you want to learn the crafting of higher-grade talismans, you must spend a lot of money to buy the corresponding books. The price is too high, and Chen Xi simply cannot accept it.
Even so, Chen Xi was very satisfied.
When he first started making talismans, he could only make five first-grade talismans every day, but now, he has been able to make 30 talismans, which can be exchanged for prime stones, and there are as many as ten pieces. To maintain the livelihood of their grandfather and grandson, and also to provide younger brother Chen Hao to practice swordsmanship in the school.
Nowadays, grandfather and younger brother went to the southern border, and he was the only one left. As long as he was frugal, he would be able to save a lot of primeval stones in a short time. In this way, buying higher-grade talisman-making books would not be a problem. impossible.
Of course, before that, he must first return the hundred spirit stones he owed to Uncle Zhang.
Time passed, and in the cramped and dimly lit room, Chen Xi was sitting at his desk and waving his strokes. His expression was focused and his movements were smooth and familiar. In this state, the stack of blank pine-patterned talisman papers gradually turned into talismans with complicated and mysterious patterns over time.
Call~
When the last talisman was finished, it was already dark, and Chen Xi carefully placed the talisman on the inkstone. Only then did he let out a long breath, and a deep look of exhaustion appeared on his brows. , making his already thin cheeks even paler.
With his mid-innate cultivation, the real essence in his body can barely support him to make thirty first-grade talismans. If he wants to make more, he will not be able to make more unless his realm rises and his real essence soars.
However, it is easy to say, but for Chen Xi, it is extremely difficult to further improve his realm.
His aptitude is not bad, and his family’s “Purple Xiaogong” is not comparable to ordinary things, but, unfortunately, his realm has been stuck in the middle stage of the innate for five years, and there is no progress.
It is for this reason that grandfather Chen Tianli put all his hopes on Chen Hao, and he was also arranged to learn to make talismans…
Is it really because I’m too stupid?
Chen Xi has questioned and denied himself more than once, and only he himself understands the struggle and frustration, pain and loss.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A soft knock on the door rang out, and along with the knock, there was a sweet and soft female voice, “Chen Xi, is Xixi at your house?”
Chen Xi woke up from his contemplation and opened the door. A beautiful woman was standing outside the door. She was clothed in twigs, but she couldn’t hide the graceful charm on her body. It was Xixi’s mother, Bai Wanqing.
“Aunt Bai, Xixi fell asleep.” Chen Xi said.
Bai Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: “The little guy didn’t bother you, I’ll take her home now.”
Chen Xi shook his head.
Bai Wanqing knew that he was taciturn~IndoMTL.com~ did not like to talk, she smiled, went into the room and hugged the sleeping Xixi and left.
However, not long after, the door rang again, this time the knocking on the door was rapid and intense, like a drum beat.
Chen Xi frowned and opened the door again, but Bai Wanqing left and returned, looking anxious.
What happened?
Just when Chen Xi was puzzled, Bai Wanqing quickly called out: “Quick! Quickly go outside the city, it seems that something happened to your grandfather!”
What?
What happened to grandpa?
Chen Xi’s head buzzed, as if struck by lightning.
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Second update, there will be more at night. Another point, this book is not abusive, it will be very cool in the future, this can be guaranteed.