Chapter 1348, Strange Insects
"I got these two bugs by chance."
The old man smiled lightly and said: "These two insects are very strange. They can spit out poisonous mist and can kill many poisonous snakes and beasts."
"Of course, they also have weaknesses. They can only spit poisonous mist and cannot fight at close range, otherwise they will lose their value."
"I see."
Zhou Yan suddenly realized that this is a highly poisonous insect. Once it gets close, it will definitely be poisoned to death, and no one can stop it.
"I plan to bring these two bugs back to the cottage for breeding." The old man said, "Would you like to come back to the cottage with me?"
"Can you?" Zhou Yan was ecstatic.
"Of course no problem." The old man smiled and nodded.
Zhou Yan was ecstatic in his heart. He had long been tired of city life, and now that the opportunity came, how could he miss it.
So, with the help of the old man, Zhou Yan escaped smoothly, got into the carriage, and returned to the city.
A town, somewhere in an inn.
"Zhou Yan, you are back."
Seeing Zhou Yan coming back, Fatty Wang greeted him immediately with a smile on his face.
"Yeah." Zhou Yan nodded slightly, went straight to the room to rest, and after washing up, lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
Last night they had a series of fierce confrontations. Although they were victorious, they were exhausted and had to be replenished.
In a daze, Zhou Yan had a dream.
The dream is hazy, I can't see clearly, I can only vaguely see that there are several majestic palaces floating in the air, the sun is shining, and the auspicious colors are colorful.
"Huh? That's..."
Zhou Yan was startled, tried to open his eyes wide, and finally saw clearly that in the center of the palace complex, a huge pillar stretched across the sky, reaching directly to the sky.
At the top of the giant column, there is a huge egg, the skin of which is shining brightly, exuding a majestic aura.
This breath is very strong, like a vast ocean, deep and unpredictable, which makes Zhou Yan feel out of breath.
"Boom..."
The giant egg trembled slightly, bursting with dazzling silver light, and roared, the giant egg cracked open, revealing wisps of silver light, which was very dazzling.
After a while, the silver light disappeared, revealing the true face of Mount Lu.
It was an egg, crystal clear and emerald green, like emerald, shining with colorful luster.
"Chirp..."
Suddenly, a young bird flew out, its wings vibrated, and a gust of wind was set off, which made the windows rattle, broke through the roof in an instant, and soared into the sky.
All of this is like a movie in slow motion, slowly pulling over, which is amazing.
Zhou Yan was surprised to find that just after the young bird left the nest, a vague and illusory figure emerged, condensing its essence, it was the old man.
At this moment, the old man was sitting cross-legged, his hands were forming seals, and the fingering moves were changing, mysterious and complicated, seemingly slow but actually fast, and finally stopped at one point.
Afterwards, the old man stretched out his palm and patted it down, and the Yin Jue merged into the young bird's body.
hum...
In an instant, the young bird flapped its wings and flew higher and higher, before finally disappearing from sight.
"Ugh."
The old man sighed, shook his head and said, "Young man, you are very unlucky. Newborn chicks are the easiest to domesticate, so I took a sheep and adopted one."
While speaking, the old man looked around and said softly to himself: "In these years, no one except me knows the existence of this place."
"It's a pity, I've run out of fuel, I'm afraid I won't be able to last for a few days..."
"Forget it, when I ride a crane to the west, the secrets here will naturally be kept forever..."
While speaking, the figure of the old man gradually blurred, became ethereal, and disappeared into the sky...
"call out……"
At this moment, a black shadow flew from the window and landed on the table. It was two palm-sized black butterflies.
The butterfly fluttered its wings, flapped twice, then flew out of the window, landed on the table again, and continued to flap its wings, as if looking for something.
"Huh? Why are these two little butterflies a little strange?"
Zhou Yan pondered, focusing on the butterflies, and suddenly discovered that there was a tiny golden thread growing from the tails of the two butterflies.
The gold thread is slender, with a metallic luster, very eye-catching, very similar to Zhou Yan's hair.
"hiss!"
Zhou Yan gasped, feeling uncertain, his heart beating faster, and his heart pounding: "Could it be that these two butterflies are the gift that the mysterious strong man gave me?"
"It doesn't matter, anyway, these two butterflies are not harmful to me, so why not do it?"
While thoughts were surging, Zhou Yan took out two talisman papers, pasted them on the back of the black butterfly, and said softly: "You stay here for now, and when I settle down, I will ask someone to find you a good mother."
The black butterfly flapped its wings, half understanding, then flew out and disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.
"What a beautiful butterfly."
As he spoke, Zhou Yan stroked his chin and said in a deep thought: "Perhaps we can ask someone to help us to make a batch of 'Blue Pattern Spirit Butterflies' so that we can sell them for money."
Thinking of doing it, Zhou Yan paid immediately, found a shop, and asked the shop owner to help order materials.
Soon after, the supply of goods arrived one after another. Zhou Yan selected materials suitable for making jade charms and prepared to start work.
"Huh? Zhou Yan, why did you buy so many materials?" the owner asked curiously.
"Hehe, I have nothing to do, I want to give it a try." Zhou Yan replied with a smile.
In fact, the shop owner didn't know that Zhou Yan wanted to make talisman paper, purify talisman ink, and enhance spirituality.
In the world of cultivating immortals, talisman paper is divided into five stages, elementary talisman ink, intermediate talisman ink, advanced talisman ink, talisman treasure, and talisman sage of the talisman sect.
Rune strokes draw runes with rune ink. Rune ink is divided into ordinary rune ink, which contains aura, low-level rune ink, which has mundane spirituality, intermediate rune ink, which has spirituality, and high-level rune ink, which has runes and contains mysterious power.
To make talisman paper, ordinary talisman ink needs to be refined into ordinary talisman paper first, and then intermediate-level talisman ink is burned to ashes with spiritual fire before it can be used to draw talismans.
This is the second step, called 'Ink Induction'.
"So that's the case, then I wish you a successful start and successful production of talisman ink."
The owner is kind and flattering, then walks away busy.
After a while, Zhou Yan took out the talisman pen, talisman inkstone, and various materials.
"The talisman pen and talisman inkstone are of ordinary quality and should be successful."
Zhou Yan meditated, adjusted his mood, concentrated, waved the nib of the pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and swiped it vigorously.
"Scrub..."
The pen is like a dragon and a snake, the pen is as sharp as a knife, and it can be done overnight.
"Shuh..."
When the brushstrokes were drawn, a flash of brilliance flickered, and intricate patterns appeared on the talisman paper.
With sharp eyes and quick hands, Zhou Yan hurriedly copied a copy, stuffed it into his arms, and with a bright smile on his face, he muttered to himself: "The talisman ink is complete, only the talisman paper is left."
"I hope this piece of turtle shell talisman paper won't disappoint me..."
Along the way, Zhou Yan flipped through ancient books and knew a thing or two about talisman paper.
Talisman paper is the ancestor of talisman seal.
According to legend, in ancient times, talisman masters were prevalent, and they could use talisman paper to draw talismans to attack magic tools, pills, magic tools, spiritual pets...
Talisman paper, refined from special materials, is durable and expensive, not only rare in quantity, but also difficult to make and expensive to produce.