The old man's shocking words made Shen Li stunned on the spot.
"You...teach me how to draw talismans?"
Shen Li came back to his senses and looked at the old man in front of him in surprise: "Are you also a Talisman Master?"
"Why, doesn't it look like it?"
The old man straightened his back subconsciously, as if he was very confident.
At this moment, the white wolf next to the old man yawned unfavorably and glanced sideways at the old man.
"You bastard, get out of here..."
The old man slapped the white wolf angrily and was very angry.
"Why do you want to teach me how to draw talismans?"
Shen Li coughed twice and asked this question.
"Don't you want to learn?"
The old man returned to his previous lazy appearance and said.
"But...I have a master." Shen Li said.
"Tch..." the old man dismissed it: "How many real Talisman Masters are there in this world now? What do you think you can learn from them?"
"But I'm already an Earth-level Talisman Master, so it's not bad?" Shen Li said awkwardly.
"Prefecture level? If you were thrown into the ancient times, your ability to draw talismans would not even be considered an apprentice today." The old man said disdainfully.
"Are you sure?" Shen Li asked with some doubts, because the old man's words really made people feel unreliable. You must know that Su You is at least a king-level talisman master. If he is even a king-level talisman master, If you can’t reach the table, what other level can you use? Emperor level?
"Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I will talk to you today, so that you won't have to sit down and watch the sky with a leaf blinding you."
The old man sneered, sat up and said to Shen Li: "Draw the runes you are best at."
"Okay." Shen Li nodded.
"Draw..." The old man glared.
"Right here?" Shen Li was stunned.
"if not?"
"No talisman paper and pen and ink?" Shen Li asked cautiously.
"If you have heaven-level talisman paper and ink, even two strokes on a pig can produce spiritual energy. Why do you want your talisman master to be useless?" The old man lectured Shen Li rudely, and then threw a branch to Shen Li. : "Just use this to draw on the ground."
Shen Li took the branch and was at a loss. He originally wanted to draw the Xuan Jade Return to Origin Talisman, but now he didn't have any materials, just a broken branch. How to draw it?
This is not the clear water talisman that Shen Li drew randomly just now. The mysterious jade return talisman is a third-grade rune. It is very difficult to draw. Taking a branch to draw, and without any materials, Shen Li really can't draw it.
"But we don't even have the materials, so even if we draw it, it won't be of any use, right?"
Shen Li couldn't help but said, now he actually doubted whether this old man was a layman of Fu Dao. You must know that a clever woman can't make a meal without rice. There is no material, and it will be useless even if the gods come.
"Who told you that you can't draw runes without materials? How did you draw the water talisman just now when you didn't have materials?" the old man sneered.
"That Clear Water Talisman is not even a first-grade one..." Shen Li argued.
"The essence of all runes in the world is the same. The grades were only distinguished by the effectiveness of the people later. What does it have to do with the materials?" the old man said.
"I can't draw it." Shen Li shook his head.
"What did you want to draw just now?"
"Xuan Jade Return to Origin Talisman." Shen Lida said.
"Watch it."
The old man smiled lightly, squatted on the ground, picked up a branch at random, and started drawing it directly on the ground.
Line after line was outlined under the old man's branches, very fast, and the strokes were moving like a dragon and a snake, opening and closing in a majestic manner.
Looking at the old man's technique, he did have the style of everyone, but Shen Li couldn't believe it when he said that runes could be made without using materials. This was too unbelievable, and it simply overturned what he had learned before.
In just a few blinks of an eye, the old man had already stood up. Lines on the ground were crisscrossing each other, like ghostly symbols, which were obscure and difficult to understand.
"Look, let me just say, how can it be possible without materials..."
Shen Li was about to speak, but the next scene left him stunned on the spot.
I saw only a branch of the old man's tree, and the lines on the ground suddenly burst into astonishing brilliance, and a powerful energy rushed out and rushed directly into his body.
Shen Li only felt a warm energy flowing through his body, warming his meridians and replenishing his true energy. He was very familiar with this effect. It was exactly the function of the Xuan Yu Origin Talisman.
Shen Li was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He couldn't believe that the old man could actually do it. Moreover, the quality of the runes just now was extremely high. Even if Shen Li used the best rune paper and Chixiao pen to draw it, it was still up to 100%. Not of this quality.
But the old man just used a dead branch to draw it directly on the ground. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Shen Li wouldn't have believed it.
"How about it?"
The old man looked at Shen Li's dumbfounded expression, smiled teasingly, and asked.
"Old man...who are you?"
After being silent for a long time, Shen Li finally asked such a question. He was sure that the old man's move, let alone him, would never be possible even by his teacher.
"A Talisman Master..."
The old man threw the branch away casually and said with a smile.
"I really want to know, why do you inject spiritual energy into the lines when there is obviously no material?" Shen Li asked, this was the question he wanted to know the most right now.
"Then let me ask you, what is needed to make this Xuan Jade Origin Return Talisman?"
"Xuanyu..."
"Why do you need Xuanyu?"
"We need the spiritual energy in the mysterious jade." Shen Li said.
"How did Xuanyu appear?"
"How did it appear?" Shen Li stared, wondering why he still had such a question. After thinking for a while, he weakly answered: "Born from the aura of heaven and earth?"
"Since Xuan Jade is born from the aura of heaven and earth, it means that the essence of Xuan Jade exists in heaven and earth. Since heaven and earth already have it, why do you still want to look for Xuan Jade? Isn't it better to absorb it directly from heaven and earth? "The old man said.
The old man's words were like thunder exploding in Shen Li's ears. Shen Li was stunned on the spot. He had been in Fu Dao for more than two years, and his understanding was amazing. He could be regarded as a master, but as the old man said, , he has never seen it in any classics, it simply subverts the convention and is unbelievable.
"Yes, since we already have everything in heaven and earth, why should we abandon the basics and pursue the weak?"
After a long time, Shen Li finally came back to his senses and his eyes became sparkling.
"Have you figured it out?" the old man asked with a smile.
"I figured it out a bit, then if that's the case, why do both masters and newcomers use materials to refine them in our current Fu Tao classics?" Shen Li asked.
"Because today's Talisman masters do not have the ability to absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth. There are more than tens of thousands of spiritual energy in heaven and earth. Most people can't even distinguish them, let alone absorb them." The old man said.
"Even a king-level talisman master can't do it?" Shen Li asked.
"This has nothing to do with level." The old man shook his head.