Chapter 406 Tianfu Sect
Nanyu City.
North Gate.
A thin middle-aged man in linen clothes looked up at the three ancient characters "Nanyubei" hanging high on the city wall, and a trace of nostalgia appeared in his eyes. Then he mixed in the crowd and walked towards the city gate as if nothing had happened.
After paying a low-grade spirit stone, Zhan Nianchuan successfully entered the city.
Looking around, everything in the city has not changed at all from decades ago. There are still surging crowds and hawking sounds.
Rejecting several guides who were enthusiastic about providing information services to Zhan Nianchuan, Zhan Nianchuan went directly to the Tianfumen shop in the south of the city.
This is the first thing to do now.
An hour later, a three-story shop with a width of more than 100 feet appeared in front of Zhan Nianchuan. The three golden characters of Tianfumen on the top could be seen clearly from several miles away.
At the door of the shop, many cultivators kept coming in and out, and there were many with extremely powerful auras.
It seems that the Tianfu Sect is not bad. It can own such a large shop and the business is really good, Zhan Nianchuan thought to himself.
However, thinking that the Tianfu Sect produced nearly half of the low- and medium-level talismans in the whole Cangzhou, Zhan Nianchuan was relieved.
Putting aside his thoughts, Zhan Nianchuan also mixed in the crowd and entered the store. As a young cultivator in the Condensation Realm, he was inconspicuous in the crowd, and no one noticed him.
Zhan Nianchuan was also happy with this. He did not rush to ask how to enter the Tianfu Sect, but seemed to observe everything around him casually.
The entire first floor was filled with various talismans in different categories. There were several Condensation Realm cultivators in charge of selling each category, and dozens of waiters were busy meeting the needs of buyers.
All the talismans were covered by a transparent light curtain with extremely strong defensive power. At first glance, it was obvious that an extremely powerful formation was applied. There was no way to touch it directly, but the divine mind could directly probe into and sense everything about the talisman.
Once a cultivator takes a fancy to a certain kind of talisman, a dedicated Tianfu Sect cultivator will take it out for the buyer to further appreciate.
However, this situation is rare. Most cultivators just take a casual look and directly ask the waiter to get the name and quantity of the talisman they need. It is obvious that they have great confidence in the talismans sold by Tianfu Sect.
Zhan Nianchuan is also a person who has handled countless talismans. However, both the types and the number of talismans here amaze Zhan Nianchuan. Even the extremely rare invisibility talismans have dozens of them placed in the light curtain. There are also many talismans that he has never seen, which aroused his great interest.
In his opinion, the talismans sold by Tianfu Sect are of various categories and good quality. Although the price is a little expensive, it is a good choice for buying talismans because of its large scale and completeness.
After half an hour, Zhan Nianchuan finished visiting the entire first floor and bought several talismans that he did not have.
Looking at the stairs leading to the second floor, Zhan Nianchuan hesitated and gave up going up, because he was about to join the Tianfu Sect, so he naturally didn't want to attract too much attention.
In fact, he already had enough talismans on him, both for attack, defense and control, and he didn't need high-level talismans. The talisman he wanted most, even if the Tianfu Sect had it, he wouldn't dare to buy it, which was the Thunder Escape Talisman used by Pan Shibing, the master of Wanbao Pavilion in Yandang Mountains.
He was extremely envious of the teleportation of the Thunder Escape Technique. This talisman could instantly teleport dozens of miles away. If it was combined with his Burning Blood Escape and White Cloud Boat, no one could catch up.
However, he knew very well that this Thunder Escape Talisman must be extremely expensive, because thunder-attributed monsters were extremely rare, and there were almost no third-level monsters. It should be possible for only the top forces in the state, such as Taiqing Palace, to have it.
Thinking of the large amount of monster blood and fur he had on hand, Zhan Nianchuan spent thousands of spirit stones to buy a yellow-grade top-grade talisman pen and some talisman paper, preparing to practice making talismans in his spare time.
After touring the entire first floor, Zhan Nianchuan walked to a corner of the store, where a long line had already formed.
Just after lining up at the end of the line, a chubby boy in front of him greeted him with a smile:
"Hello, brother, where did you come from before?"
Zhan Nianchuan smiled faintly, "Chuzhou."
The boy saw Zhan Nianchuan's perfunctory attitude, but still introduced himself enthusiastically:
"I really envy you, brother. You have been to so many places at such a young age. I, Zhu Balu, have been wandering around in Cangzhou within tens of thousands of miles since I was born."
Hearing this, Zhan Nianchuan's heart suddenly moved, and he took the initiative to talk:
"Brother Zhu, since you are from Cangzhou and have such good qualifications, why did you think of joining Tianfu Sect?"
"There is no way. My father died early, and I don't like to be restricted by the sect. After so many years, I think it is better to join a sect, so I came here." Zhu Balu said nonchalantly.
"By the way, I wonder how to enter the Tianfu Sect. Is it to test the spiritual root qualifications or the talisman refining level?" Zhan Nianchuan was a little worried about whether he could successfully join the Tianfu Sect. After all, his qualifications were too poor.
Although the Tianfu Sect was not strong, it was at least a mid-level sect. Maybe they would not want a cultivator with low qualifications like me. Moreover, although I had heard Bai Tianchi talk about the method of refining talismans, I had never tried it. If I wanted to inspect the refining of talismans, I would have to wait for half a year.
"Haha, it's very simple. It depends on how many flying needles you can control." Zhu Balu seemed to be very familiar with the Tianfu Sect.
"Control flying needles?" Zhan Nianchuan was a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this was indeed a good idea.
Whether it is alchemy, weapon formation, or talisman making, all of them require strong spiritual awareness and mental power, so that everything can be accurately controlled. It can be said that an excellent alchemist, weapon refiner, or talisman maker, their spiritual awareness is definitely much stronger than that of ordinary people.
However, it is extremely rare to have a strong spiritual awareness. In most cases, it depends on the growth of realm to increase spiritual awareness.
If someone is born with a strong spiritual awareness, even if his spiritual root qualification is a little worse, there will be people willing to spend resources to cultivate him.
However, spiritual awareness is actually difficult to detect, unless you use spiritual awareness to force it into the body and judge it by the resistance of the other party's spiritual awareness. The stronger the spiritual awareness, the more magic tools you can control, and the more skilled and smooth it is to use.
After knowing this, Zhan Nianchuan began to calculate how many flying needles to control.
"Well, let's see first."
Most of the casual cultivators looked indifferent, as if they came here to test just because they had nothing to do. This made Zhan Nianchuan feel relieved and knew the cohesion of the Tianfu Sect.
At the front of the team was a large bluestone table, on which were placed thousands of red flying needles as thin as hair. A lazy and greasy man sat in the back, with messy hair like a chicken coop, and his face was full of impatience and disappointment.
"Fifty pieces, unqualified!"
"Seventy pieces, barely qualified, take the sign and stand over there."
The speed of the inspection was still very fast, and it was Zhu Balu's turn in a short time.
"Next!"
Zhu Balu walked forward carelessly, waved his hand and rolled up dozens of flying needles. Under the urging of his spiritual consciousness, these flying needles were connected end to end and kept swimming in the air, like a thin red line.
After dozens of breaths, Zhu Balu's forehead was sweating, and he controlled the flying needles to fall, and then sat down on the chair and panted.
"Yes, with the sixth level of Qi Condensation, you can control eighty flying needles at the same time. Your spiritual awareness is really strong, at least 30% stronger than the cultivators of the same level. You can pass the test." The man nodded and threw a silver token to Zhu Balu.
Zhu Balu took the token and walked behind the greasy man with a smile.
Next it was Zhan Nianchuan's turn.
He bowed slightly to the greasy man, walked to the stone table under the latter's indifferent eyes, and waved his hand to bring up hundreds of flying needles.
"You dare to roll up so many flying needles with only the eighth level of Qi Condensation, aren't you afraid of being embarrassed."
Seeing this scene, the greasy man sneered in his heart.