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Because there was no sun, people's concept of time was also confused. Although there were still clocks that could show the exact date and time, how could you say that it was daytime? Every minute and every second was nighttime!
So since the red-shelled insects didn't appear, people gradually followed the 24-hour system. There was no longer any distinction between day and night.
The door of building No. 8 was destroyed by the red-shelled insects, and there was no material to repair it. So people moved out from other buildings one after another and moved into building No. 8. When it was 20 o 'clock, Chu Yunsheng saw through the peephole that his door was filled with people who came to seek refuge.
It seemed that only building No. 8 could give people a sense of security. More and more people came. Two hours later, someone finally began to knock on Chu Yunsheng's door.
Chu Yunsheng didn't care about them. It was already good enough for him to take care of himself. After the life and death battle a few hours ago, he clearly understood that if he wanted to survive in this world where insects could appear at any time, he had to cultivate his Yuan Qi as soon as possible.
In the past two days, he tried to figure out the meaning of a few symbols in the ancient book. He found that he was only at the level of Yuan Tian stage one. This level was too low! Not only the amount of Yuan Qi that his body could absorb was not much, but the level of talismans he could make was also greatly limited.
Talismans were what he relied on to survive. His situation was not the same as those self-awakened masters.
Although the self-awakened masters only had one type of elemental energy, such as fire, ice, or other types, there were many types that were introduced in the ancient book. But generally, after they awakened, they could directly use the power of their physical strength. It was as if they had some kind of talisman sealed on their bodies.
Just like the man with the ice fist, he could unleash ice energy just by waving his fist. This was something Chu Yunsheng couldn't do. He followed the orthodox cultivation method described in the ancient book. Only when his physical strength reached Yuan Tian stage three would he be able to practice those physical combat skills without the help of talismans. Of course, if he combined it with talismans, the power would be even more powerful.
Before that, he had to use talismans to unleash his power. But what was different was that the variety of talismans also allowed him to use all kinds of elemental skills. And with the help of talismans, his power was not any weaker than a self-awakened master.
Right now, he could barely make level-two talismans. If he wanted to make level-three talismans, he had to reach Yuan Tian stage as soon as possible.
Third-level talismans were reusable talismans, unlike the one-time-use talismans in his hand. Every time the talisman ran out of energy, he would need to replace it with a new one.
Advancing from Yuan Tian stage one to Yuan Tian stage two was not too complicated. According to the ancient book, as long as the Yuan Qi inside the body was completely released, and then filled again, a total of eighty-one times, so that every part of the body was fully tempered. After the eighty-first time, Yuan Tian stage two would be reached.
However, his cultivation speed was too slow, as slow as a snail! Although he didn't eat or sleep, he was basically trying his best to cultivate Yuan Qi, but the density of Yuan Qi was still increasing very slowly, it was not affected by his urgent mood at all!
At this rate, it would take him about eight to nine days to fully recover his Yuan Qi. Even if he didn't count the time to release Yuan Qi, it would still take him almost two years to reach Yuan Tian stage Yuan Tian stage!
Two years? If it was the peaceful age of light, he could practice slowly, but now that it was the dark age where danger lurked everywhere, he definitely could not! It was already very difficult to deal with three red-shelled insects, if he encountered fifty insects outside a few hours ago, he would not even have the chance to escape.
Two years was enough for those insects to kill him countless times!
He needed to find a better way to practice, otherwise, even if he had the ancient book, his life would still be in danger at any time!
He took out the ancient book again and flipped through it tirelessly to study it. He believed that there must be a way, but the characters that he could recognize were too few. Otherwise, if he could read the ancient book smoothly, there would definitely be something that he couldn't think of!
After searching for a while, he finally found a few things that were related to the talisman. He tried them one by one, but most of them failed. Only a talisman called "absorption talisman" was left.
Chu Yunsheng looked at the name of this talisman uncertainly. Although he could recognize the three characters, he didn't know more than two-thirds of the function of this talisman. Fortunately, he knew how to make it.
This talisman was a level-two talisman, so he needed to use all of his Yuan Qi to make it. Just now, he was busy trying other methods, which used up almost half of his Yuan Qi, so it was impossible for him to make it now. He had to wait for another four days!
Over the past four days, when he was tired from practicing, he would take out his crossbow and follow the shooting tutorial that he had downloaded at night. He would desperately practice his shooting accuracy. With his current Primordial Qi, which could only shoot a few arrows, shooting accuracy was extremely important. If he missed, the loss of Primordial Qi would be immense.
After four days of practice, coupled with the energy shield talisman, he was confident that he could accurately shoot a red-shelled insect within thirty meters. But the premise was that the red-shelled insect was still. After all, the ability to shoot moving objects was not something that could be developed overnight, it was more important to have experience.
Four days later, he finally finished making the absorption talisman, but there was a small problem when he used it. No matter how he tried to activate it, the talisman didn't absorb Yuan Qi from Heaven and Earth.
After struggling for a long time, an idea came to Chu Yunsheng's mind. Since this talisman couldn't absorb Yuan Qi from Heaven and Earth, did it mean that it could absorb and store Yuan Qi from human bodies?
Thinking of this, he immediately prepared to do it. But he was disappointed to find that his Yuan Qi was very thin, so he couldn't test it at all.
Then he immediately thought of the red-shelled insect. The light red energy shield on its body was definitely activated by Yuan Qi, which meant that there should be Yuan Qi inside its body!
Chu Yunsheng immediately took out the red-shelled insect's body and activated the talisman. Sure enough! The talisman that didn't move before immediately shot out a beam of white light and shone on the red-shelled insect's body. Then a milky white light was absorbed into the talisman. It only took about ten seconds for the talisman to retract the white light. Chu Yunsheng took the talisman and looked at it. On the blank space, there was an extra one-sixth of the flame pattern.
Chu Yunsheng guessed that this should mean that the red-shelled insect's body had fire elemental Yuan Qi.
But just when he was about to put the talisman back into the storage talisman, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the Yuan Qi he used to communicate with the absorption talisman immediately caused the talisman's Yuan Qi to flow backwards into Chu Yunsheng's body!
Of course, he could stop this, but he didn't. He wanted to see what would happen!
The whole process was twice as slow as absorbing the Yuan Qi. After almost twenty seconds, the flame pattern disappeared, and the talisman also broke into pieces. A level-two talisman could only be used once.
But Chu Yunsheng didn't feel sad about the broken talisman at all. Instead, he was so excited that he wanted to scream. He could clearly feel that his Yuan Qi had been replenished by one-third!
This was equivalent to him practicing hard for nearly three days to reach this level!
How could he not be excited? A red-shelled insect's Yuan Qi might be consumed a lot after using the talisman, but it could still replenish one-third of his Yuan Qi!
Then, he only needed three red-shelled insects to completely replenish his Yuan Qi. He didn't need to practice hard for eight to nine days!
A training plan immediately appeared in his mind. It was exactly what he had been looking for for the past few days.
First, he needed to make an absorption talisman. Then, he needed to spend eight days to replenish his Yuan Qi. Now, he could shoot out six frost arrows at full power. If he didn't miss his target, he would be able to freeze six red-shelled insects. In the frozen state, the red-shelled insects didn't have any energy shield, so he could use other methods to kill them. The talisman could absorb the Yuan Qi of six red-shelled insects.
Because the talisman was a one-time use talisman, it didn't matter how much Yuan Qi it absorbed before. When the Yuan Qi was completely released, the talisman would break.
Similarly, this kind of one-time use talisman, after absorbing Yuan Qi, no matter how much Yuan Qi was released, the empty talisman would not be able to enter again.
Therefore, in order to make the best use of the talisman, one must first absorb a full amount of Yuan Qi, and then split it into two parts to rush into one's body. Each time, it would be filled with Yuan Qi. Of course, when the Yuan Qi in the talisman was completely released, it would automatically shatter.
In this way, after freezing six red-shelled insects and using the talisman to absorb their Yuan Qi, his body would be almost depleted. So he could immediately replenish his Yuan Qi. After that, he would need to make a new absorption talisman to replenish his Yuan Qi. Then he would need to replenish his Yuan Qi again. The old talisman would break, but after it was filled with Yuan Qi, he could kill another six red-shelled insects and use the new talisman to absorb Yuan Qi again.
In theory, as long as he killed two hundred and forty-three red-shelled insects, he would be able to break through Yuan Tian stage one and enter Yuan Tian stage two. When he reached Yuan Tian stage two, he would be able to make level-three talismans that could be used multiple times. He would no longer need to calculate the number of times he could use talismans.
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