Chapter 33: I Just Want To Rely On Little Assistant

After returning to his small cave, Chen Mu began to read the old book, “Introduction to the Talisman Dao”.

There were a total of ten thousand words in this book, which explained the principles of the Dao of Talismans clearly.

In fact, the Dao of Talismans could be considered a type of Array Dao. It could be called a miniature Array Dao.

The spirit talisman was the location to set up the array formation.

Cinnabar and spirit monster blood were materials for setting up formations.

One could set up a miniature array that could store spiritual techniques on the talisman and inject them into it.

When it was needed, by just destroying the array, the spiritual technique would be released.

This was the Dao of Talismans.

The fundamental reason why the Dao of Talismans was different from the Dao of Arrays was that setting up a miniature array formation on a talisman was actually not difficult.

The difficult part was the process of infusing the spiritual technique.

During this process, a single mistake would cause the talisman to collapse, causing the talisman drawing to fail.

Under normal circumstances, an ordinary talisman practitioner could only succeed with one talisman after using ten spiritual techniques.

Even a skilled talisman practitioner would need to do it five to six times.

To put it simply, drawing talismans depended 70% on luck and 30% on familiarity.

Because of this, the Dao of Talismans became rather useless.

A powerful spiritual technique consumed too much energy. A talisman practitioner could attempt it once a day. If one was unlucky, it might take ten days to succeed.

If he had the time and resources, he might as well cultivate and raise his strength.

As for weaker spiritual techniques, drawing them would not have much practical value to him.

As a result, the greatest use of talismans became “elders draw two talismans occasionally for juniors to defend themselves”.

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After understanding the basic principles of talismans, Chen Mu first tried to draw a miniature array formation with ink on the white paper.

Of course, because there was no spiritual energy, it only had its shape.

Unknowingly, four hours had passed. Chen Mu had already drawn hundreds of talismans!

After feeling that it was exactly the same as the miniature array formation inscribed on the book, he took out the ten blank spirit talismans that Elder Xu had given him.

Taking a deep breath, he began to use cinnabar to inscribe an array on the talisman.

With hundreds of previous practice as the foundation, he was quite proficient in carving formations!

Success on the first try!

Holding the blank talisman that had been engraved with the array formation, Chen Mu extended his right index finger. A weak flame appeared on his fingertip.

Fire spiritual technique, basic spiritual technique, Fireball.

Thump… Thump…

The cave was extremely quiet. Chen Mu could even hear his own heartbeat.

The next moment, the Fireball Technique came into contact with the spirit talisman.

Guh!

With a light sound, the spiritual talisman was ignited and the Fireball Technique shot out and hit the table in front of him.

Chen Mu jumped in fright and instinctively tried to put out the fire.

In the end, the table was only slightly chipped.

Oh, he had almost forgotten. This was no ordinary table.

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Chen Mu did not give up. He drew another talisman and injected the Fireball Technique into it.

He was an extremely focused and serious person. The moment his spirit fire came into contact with the spirit talisman, his mind was empty without any distracting thoughts.

As soon as the Fireball Technique came into contact with the spiritual talisman, the flames instantly disappeared and the array on the spiritual talisman flashed with a weak spiritual light.

“It’s done?” Chen Mu looked at the talisman in his hand in disbelief.

This was only the second time, and it was already done?

With a casual wave of his hand, the spirit talisman was ignited and a fireball hit the table, ruining some paintwork.

This was indeed a successful talisman.

At this moment, he recalled Elder Xu’s words.

“If you can draw a basic spirit talisman within ten days, you are considered talented…”

Although Elder Xu only gave him ten spirit talismans, he meant ten days to draw one talisman instead of drawing all ten successfully on these free sheets.

What could ten talismans do?

It would take two hours at most to draw them all.

He had to buy the rest himself.

In that case, being able to draw one in ten days was considered talented.

However, he did not expect his second attempt to succeed.

Was this what it meant to be gifted?

“It is my duty to revitalize the Dao of Talismans!” Chen Mu thought to himself.

Then, he checked on the Little Assistant and directly used the single-use skill he had obtained during the first upgrade.

He wanted to learn the Earth Spirit Shield.

Basic spiritual techniques were easy to learn. This single-use skill could only save him a few days, so it was not a pity to use it here.

If he used it now, he would have a certain understanding of similar skills in the future.

Previously when he sparred with Zhou Jinglei, he had accumulated six Earth Spirit Shield attributes.

After using the skill, he only expended one.

The remaining five turned into five chances to release the Earth Spirit Shield directly.

If he relied on absorbing attributes to learn the Earth Spirit Shield, it would likely consume more than one attribute.

Chen Mu had an understanding now.

This Instant Learning skill was still useful because it was impossible to continuously unleash ultimate moves. In a battle, it was very likely that only one or two attribute points of an ultimate move could be extracted.

If he had an Instant Learning skill, he would be able to learn this ultimate move directly.

If not, he would have to accumulate many points before he could learn the move.

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After learning the Earth Spirit Shield, Chen Mu drew another talisman.

This time, he did not use the Earth Spirit Shield to store it in the talisman. Instead, he used one of the five Earth Spirit Shield uses stored in the Little Assistant.

This time, the Earth Spirit Shield did not even shine, and the use of an Earth Spirit Shield was expended in the Little Assistant.

Chen Mu looked at the talisman in his hand with a complicated expression.

Success again!

Not only did it succeed, it was done very easily without any twists and turns!

It was much easier than injecting it himself!

After some thought, Chen Mu tried three more times.

In the end, he succeeded three times and obtained three Earth Spirit Shield Spirit Talismans.

It was much better than he had expected!

Next, Chen Mu tried to inject the Fireball Technique again.

The first and second attempt failed, while the third succeeded.

Two successful attempts in four tries!

This could be considered a shocking talent!

However, when he saw the last blank talisman, Chen Mu stopped trying.

He figured it out.

So what if he was gifted in the Dao of Talismans?

In the end, he could not compare to the Little Assistant.

Forget it!

Even if he was gifted, he would not learn it!

He wanted to rely on the Little Assistant!

Sigh…

I have a Little Assistant, I’m just so willful!

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After confirming that the Little Assistant could draw talismans easily, Chen Mu began cultivating the Divine Earth Technique.

Compared to the most basic spirit circulation method, the Divine Earth Technique was much more complicated. However, the speed at which his cultivation increased was also slightly faster.

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Two days later, Chen Mu was able to practice the Divine Earth Technique proficiently.

With a spirit physique, cultivation technique, and life skill, the next step was to cultivate in peace.

But before that, there was another problem that needed to be resolved.

That was to allow the Little Assistant to steadily extract some attributes.

It was definitely impossible for him to spar with Zhou Jinglei from time to time, and it would be too crippling to his confidence, nor would it make sense.

It was impossible to bully fellow disciples frequently.

Actually, Chen Mu had already considered this matter and had done some investigations.

There were two places where battles often took place in the sect.

The first place was the Immortal Seeking Peak’s Battle Arena. There were often stories such as “counterattack of the weak youth” and “stay away from my senior brother”.

Not only were Outer Sect disciples fighting here, even Inner Sect disciples and personal disciples were resolving problems here.

Apart from the Immortal Seeking Peak’s battle arena, there was another place called Spirit Beast Peak.

Spirit Beast Peak had raised many spirit beasts which often fought.

However, according to Chen Mu’s estimation, the attribute that would drop the most when close to a fight between spiritual beasts was physical strength.

This was a good place for Body Tempering.