After exiting the shanty town and turning onto the gravel road, the crowd suddenly became denser around us.
A large number of casual cultivators outside the city carried large and small bags along the gravel road towards the city gate, looking like traders entering the city for the market.
From the shantytowns on both sides of the gravel road, people carrying various packages come out from time to time and join the flow of people on the gravel road.
In the direction of the city gate, more than twenty young people wearing standard black robes were maintaining order.
Therefore, although there are many people around, they are still in order.
Gao Yuan looked at the roadside for a few times, then followed the crowd and walked towards the city gate.
Along the way, Gao Yuan discovered an interesting phenomenon. The people around him, regardless of gender, all looked young.
After thinking about it, this actually makes sense.
These people who have been living in shantytowns for a long time have basically poor cultivation qualifications and few cultivation resources. If they want to practice to the point where they can gain a foothold in shantytowns, it will naturally take a long time.
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Unlike the market town where I lived before, Qingyuan Town does not collect city fees.
Following the flow of people, Gao Yuan quickly entered the city.
The scene in front of me suddenly changed. Unlike the gray stilts outside the city, the architectural colors inside the city were much richer.
The dark red towers, bright yellow pavilion roofs, and green plants on both sides of the streets are as brilliant as an oil painting compared to the outside of the city.
Loose cultivators cannot move freely after entering the city, and can only go to the market that specializes in external business along fixed passages.
This is a huge square enclosed square. The stone brick road connecting the square gate across the north and south divides the square into two parts, the east and the west.
The eastern half of the area is a free stall area. At a glance, there are hundreds of neatly built stalls. Casual practitioners only need to pay two small yellow croakers at the gate to find a stall here to set up a stall.
The western half is a row of shops with uniform specifications. From a distance, you can see that there are banks, restaurants, pharmacies, utensil shops, etc. all available.
Gao Yuan's eyes couldn't be moved away from the moment he saw the steaming heat at the door of the restaurant. It had been a full day since he arrived in this world, during which he hadn't eaten a bite of food or drank a mouthful of water.
When he was in the shantytown, his emotional depression was not obvious yet. Once he arrived in the city, he was safe, and when he was stimulated by the aroma of food, Gao Yuan couldn't help it anymore, and walked over in three steps at a time.
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Two small yellow croakers in a drawer of steamed buns?
Although he was mentally prepared, Gao Yuan was still a little speechless.
If these two small yellow croakers cost almost 100,000 yuan on earth, they can only buy a drawer of 20 buns in this world?
Complaining in his heart that his hands were not slow, Gao Yuan quickly took out two gold bars and handed them to the store. He found a place to sit down in the store and started to wolf down the free water.
After eating all twenty buns, he sighed with satisfaction.
This rare feeling of comfort made him a little intoxicated, and for a moment he didn't want to get up.
Shaking his head vigorously to expel such negative thoughts from his mind, Gao Yuan left the hotel and started walking around the city.
The original person has always lived under the wings of his father, has no experience in setting up a stall, and does not understand the prices of many low-level items.
In order to have a thorough understanding of the prices in the market, Gao Yuan looked at each house from the shop area to the stall area.
It took more than three hours to complete the trade, and he finally had a systematic concept of prices in this world.
The cheapest ones are of course the items sold by casual repairmen in the eastern half of the area, mostly raw materials and semi-finished products.
From various ores to monster meat, monster skins, and various wild fruits collected from the wild, there are many types and the prices are not expensive.
The items in shops run by city dwellers are much more expensive, especially the elixirs sold in pharmacies, which start at the price of spiritual stones.
Fortunately, the price of the talismans was better than Gao Yuan expected.
The nine kinds of talismans recorded in "Notes on Talisman Making" are all sold in every talisman shop in the city.
Among the low-level talismans, the cheapest one is the dust-avoiding talisman, which costs five gold bars, while the evil-warming talisman costs fifteen gold bars.
The price of the three intermediate-level talismans is around fifty gold bars, while the price of high-level talismans such as the thunder talisman starts from two low-grade spiritual stones.
Gao Yuan was so excited to see this that he wished he could go home and start making talismans right now.
After wandering around for a while, he began to purchase items such as buckets and oil lamps as planned, which were cheap and could significantly improve the quality of life. Finally, he bought some steamed buns and dried meat as dry food, and then left the market.
After fetching a bucket of water from the Nanhe River not far from the door of his home, Gao Yuan returned home again.
Before entering the door, Gao Yuan lowered his head and looked at his feet. The leaves of the weeds he had caught next to the door frame when he went out were lying there intact. Gao Yuan suddenly felt relieved.
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Sitting at the table, Gao Yuan began to carefully read the part about the evil talisman in the "Notes on Talisman Making".
Making talismans is a very delicate job, and just the lines of the spiritual lines drawn are very complicated.
People without skills would have to practice for a long time just to copy the spiritual patterns, let alone control the inner energy to blend into the cinnabar to imprint the real spiritual patterns on the surface of the talisman paper.
In the next few days, Gao Yuan did not go out again and read every sentence in "Notes on Talisman Making" word by word.
From time to time, I used my fingers to copy the spiritual patterns of the evil-proof talisman on the dirt floor in the house. During this period, I also followed the inner qi guidance method in the "Talk Making Notes" to exercise the stability of my inner qi output.
When you are hungry, you will light the remaining fragments of the wooden bed, bake some steamed buns on the stove, and make a meal with dried meat and cold water.
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Seven days flew by.
After the attack the previous night, no one came to test him, and Gao Yuan gradually calmed down.
After these days of unremitting copying, Gao Yuan asked himself that he was already familiar with every detail of the spiritual lines on the evil amulet, and the stability of his inner energy had also made great progress through continuous training.
At noon that day, Gao Yuan finally made up his mind to try out a talisman to ward off evil spirits.
Gao Yuan laid the bright yellow talisman paper flat on the table, opened the lid of the porcelain jar containing cinnabar, stood in front of the table and took several deep breaths, trying to calm himself down.
He mentally went through the key points of making the evil talisman carefully, and after confirming that there were no omissions, Gao Yuan pointed out his index and middle fingers, and used his inner energy to ingest a small amount of cinnabar in the cinnabar jar.
Afterwards, Gao Yuan followed the previous exercise method and began to adjust his internal energy to mix and compress the ball of cinnabar hovering half an inch from his fingertips. While incorporating the internal energy, he shaped it into the shape of the tip of a brush.
After a short pause, Gao Yuan began to draw on the talisman paper.
The surface of the cinnabar integrated with the inner energy flashes with bright light, appearing on the surface of the bright yellow talisman paper like blood.
He carefully controlled the output of his inner energy, trying not to cause any fluctuations.
However, the more deliberately I control myself, the more my body loses control.
Less than a quarter of the spirit pattern of the evil-proofing talisman was drawn, and Gao Yuan's internal energy output became a little unstable.
A few seconds later, as the inner energy output fluctuated slightly, the cinnabar brushstrokes hanging on Gao Yuan's fingertips instantly deformed, and the two adjacent spiritual lines on the talisman paper also touched together.
With a "pop" sound, a ball of fire burst out from the surface of the spirit pattern, burning the entire talisman paper into ashes.
Gao Yuan sighed, and deeply realized what it means that the eyes have learned, but the hands have not.
Although the original owner's father has listed various precautions and countermeasures in detail in "Notes on Talisman Making", the transmission ability of words is limited after all. A slight deviation in understanding will cause great variables, and some detours will still be taken.
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Sitting cross-legged on the small wooden platform, Gao Yuan quietly meditated and adjusted his breath, replenishing the inner energy consumed in making the talisman just now.
Then pull out a piece of talisman paper again and continue making talismans!