One Talisman to Immortality
Walking on the bustling street, Wang Changsheng revealed a thoughtful expression.
He originally wanted to take advantage of the Five Poison Sect's disciple recruitment to sneak into the Five Poison Sect and wait for an opportunity to steal the next part of the technique.
However, according to the middle-aged man, the Five Poison Sect only recruited disciples once every twenty years, and one must be recommended by someone from the Five Poison Sect. Moreover, the Five Poison Sect had just recruited a batch of disciples half a year ago.
Wang Changsheng was unfamiliar with the people and the place, so it was impossible for someone from the Five Poison Sect to recommend him. Moreover, the Five Poison Mystic Codex was the Five Poison Sect's ultimate technique, so the place where it was stored would definitely be heavily guarded. With his current strength, wanting to steal an ancient book from an important place of the sect would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
As such, there seemed to be only one path left, which was to find a high level cultivator who practiced the Five Poison Mystic Codex and kill them to steal their treasures. Perhaps he could obtain the next part of the Five Poison Mystic Codex from them.
With Wang Changsheng's early stage Core Formation cultivation and the Beast Soul Talisman refined from the sixth grade Fire Jiao's soul, even against a middle stage Core Formation cultivator, Wang Changsheng still had the strength to fight.
Thinking up to this point, Wang Changsheng walked into a bookstore and bought a map of the area around the Five Immortal Mountain.
Immediately after, he walked into a large store and bought a large amount of talisman crafting materials.
Early in the morning of the next day, Wang Changsheng left the market and transformed into a streak of black light that pierced through the sky.
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Green Sprout Mountain Range was located in the southern part of Shaoyang Prefecture. It was named after the large number of Green Sprout Trees.
On the west side of the Green Sprout Mountain Range, there was a Green Sprout Valley. Green Sprout Valley was a market that provided residences and all kinds of cultivation resources for cultivators coming and going.
The location of Green Sprout Valley was very unique. A few thousand miles to the east was the Five Immortal Mountain Range, a few thousand miles to the west was the headquarters of the Poison Dragon Sect, and a few thousand miles to the north was the headquarters of the Poison Saint Sect, the Hundred Poison Mountain Range.
Back then, in order to fight over the ownership of the Green Sprouts Mountain Range, the three sects fought fiercely, and many of their disciples were injured or killed. Later on, the three sects reached an agreement and jointly established the Green Sprouts Valley, with the management rights belonging to the three sects.
Because it was a market jointly opened by the three sects and had a deep background, no one dared to cause trouble in the Green Sprouts Valley. In addition, there were some measures to encourage foreign cultivators to do business here and the special geographical environment of the Green Sprouts Valley. Thus, the Green Sprouts Valley prospered year after year. From time to time, some rare items would flow out of the market, attracting even more cultivators to trade here.
A month later, an inconspicuous little shop in the Green Sprout Valley suddenly had a new owner. It was a young man in white with delicate facial features.
As soon as the white-clothed young man took over the shop, he immediately changed the name of the shop from "Chen's General Goods" to "Thousand Talisman Pavilion".
The store sold all kinds of low-level and middle-level talismans, and most of them were low-level talismans.
What made the owners of the nearby shops feel strange was that the white-clothed young man never interacted with the surrounding neighbors. Normally, he would hold a thick ancient scroll and read it non-stop.
Occasionally, there would be customers, but the white-clothed young man did not show too much enthusiasm. Regarding this, the surrounding shop owners did not feel strange, because they had already used the Heaven's Eye Technique to see that the white-clothed young man was a late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. Most of the customers here were Qi Condensation cultivators. If a late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator were to greet a Qi Condensation cultivator with a smile, that would be strange!
The white-clothed young man was naturally Wang Changsheng.
The reason why Wang Changsheng would open a shop here was naturally not to earn that little bit of spirit stones.
Firstly, the Green Sprouts Valley was not very far from the Five Poison Cult's headquarters. Opening a shop in the Green Sprouts Valley would make it convenient to inquire about the whereabouts of the high level cultivators of the Five Poison Cult. Secondly, he could also find time to learn about formations.
In the past, Wang Changsheng had roughly glanced through some formation books, so he did not have much understanding of formations. If he wanted to draw a formation talisman, he must be proficient in the Dao of formations.
In the past, Wang Changsheng relied on a large amount of talismans to win, but after advancing to the Core Formation stage, low-level and middle-level talismans were not very useful. The power of a common magic weapon far surpassed the power of hundreds of middle-level talismans.
The only high-level talismans that Wang Changsheng could draw were the Shadow Transforming Talisman and the Spirit-Transforming Talisman. These two high-level talismans were auxiliary types, and could not cause heavy damage to the enemy.
As a result, Wang Changsheng could only set his sights on the Beast Soul Talisman and the Formation Talisman.
The Beast Soul Talisman required the soul of a demon beast to be refined, and every time it was used, the demon beast's soul would be exhausted. When the soul's energy was exhausted, the Beast Soul Talisman would be useless.
The Formation Talisman was different. As long as one was proficient in the Dao of formations and had a good blank talisman paper, they could be drawn.
Back in the Great Song Dynasty, when Wang Changsheng left the sect to gain experience, the Formation Talisman saved him many times. When he went to the Sea of Stars, he also studied the Formation Talisman for a period of time. However, because he cultivated the Vajra Subduing Devil Scripture, he did not have the time to study it in depth. Now was the perfect time to study it properly.
The Formation Talisman was not something that could be drawn by reading a few formation books. It required a lot of trial and error.
The refining principle of the Beast Soul Talisman was basically the same. After the demon beast's soul was sacrificially refined, it was sealed into the talisman paper. However, the more powerful Beast Soul Talisman had stricter requirements for the talisman paper.
The Formation Talisman was different. The Formation Talisman was another form of formation. A set of formation could only have one attribute, or it could have many attributes. This caused the method of drawing different Formation Talismans to be greatly different.
For example, the Firestorm Formation was an offensive formation that had two attributes. If one wanted to draw the Firestorm Formation into a Formation Talisman, one needed to draw thousands of wind attribute talisman characters and thousands of fire attribute talisman characters. These talisman characters were drawn on different talisman papers. When used at the same time, one could set up a Firestorm Formation. As for the Rockfall Formation, it was an earth attribute formation. One needed to draw hundreds of earth attribute talisman characters.
Learning how to draw Formation Talisman required purchasing large amounts of talisman crafting materials to practice. Wang Changsheng could not run to the market every few days. As a result, he simply bought a shop. While secretly investigating the whereabouts of high level cultivators, he also studied the Dao of Formations.
Just like this, Wang Changsheng stayed in the market for two years.
In these two years, he looked through large amounts of formation books and his understanding of formations deepened day by day.
During this time, he also indirectly inquired about many matters regarding the Five Poison Sect from other people.
Before the Five Poison Sect's previous sect leader died, he asked two Guardian Elders to support the Five Poison Sect's Saintess Quyun. However, after one of the Guardian Elders advanced to the mid Yuanying stage, he planned to become the sect leader himself. This caused the other Guardian Elder to be dissatisfied. However, in order to maintain the overall situation, the two sides did not publicly shed all pretense of cordiality.
Of course, these matters were all concluded by Wang Changsheng based on the information he inquired about.
Regrettably, although Wang Changsheng encountered several Five Poison Sect's Core Formation stage cultivators, they were all traveling together. Moreover, they were all at the mid Core Formation stage and above. Naturally, he was unable to make a move.
In these two years, the "Thousand Talisman Pavilion" gradually gained fame in the market because the "Thousand Talisman Pavilion" sold a great variety of talismans. Every few days, one could even buy a few mid grade talismans. After the news spread, a few low grade cultivators frequently came to the Thousand Talisman Pavilion to buy talismans.
The shopkeepers of several large stores also sent people to investigate. However, these people were unable to see through Wang Changsheng's true cultivation. They only thought that Wang Changsheng was an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator. There was even a large store that invited Wang Changsheng to craft talismans for them. However, Wang Changsheng refused.
On this day, as usual, Wang Changsheng opened for business early in the morning.
The shelves weren't filled with talismans. Instead, they were filled with large amounts of yellow wooden plates. The names of the talismans were written on the wooden plates. Which type of talisman one wanted and how much one wanted to buy, they would tell Wang Changsheng and Wang Changsheng would take them out from his storage pouch.
From time to time, cultivators would enter the store to purchase talismans.
Wang Changsheng didn't stand up to greet them. Instead, he sat behind the counter and said, "Little ~ Little ~!" He told them to choose what they wanted.
These cultivators were already used to this and didn't mind.
Not long after, these cultivators finished choosing their talismans. They went to the counter and reported the name and quantity of the talismans. Wang Changsheng would then take them out from his storage pouch.
After paying the spirit stones, they walked out with smiles on their faces.
"Wang Daoyou, how have you been these days?" A forthright voice sounded.
Wang Changsheng raised his head to look. A middle-aged man with a rough face walked in.
"Eh, it's Fellow Daoist Huo. Didn't you say you were transferred back to the main altar? Why are you back so soon? "Wang Changsheng said with a smile.
The middle-aged man was a deacon disciple of the Sacred Poison Sect. He was a forthright person. Wang Changsheng had heard a lot of information about the Five Poison Sect from this person.
"Isn't this the once-in-a-century large-scale auction about to start? The higher-ups are worried that someone will cause trouble, so they sent a group of people to patrol the market city to ensure that the auction will run smoothly. "The middle-aged man casually said.
Wang Changsheng chuckled and casually said, "So you're saying that there will be a lot of good things in this auction."
Two months ago, news of the Green Sprout Valley holding a large-scale auction had spread. However, Wang Changsheng didn't have much interest in it.
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