Preparations

When he heard this, Zhen Yuan sneered.

Although he was a country bumpkin, he was not naïve.

He was not grateful that the talisman association, Rong and Su families didn't offer a reward for himself and Shen Xu.

Rather, he felt an urgent need to become stronger.

'If my strength was not enough to intimidate Su Tang, the Talisman association would not have been so polite.' He thought, stood up, and directly left the restaurant.

At first, Zhen Yuan wanted to return to the inn.

However, along the way, he saw the main shop of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and decided to go inside.

"Welcome to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. Is there something the young master needs?" An attendant asked.

"I will look around."

"Please take your time."

With that, Zhen Yuan began to look around.

The first floor had level-one resources including herbs, pills, talismans, and formation disks.

However, Shen Xu was about to advance to the foundation establishment realm.

After thinking about it, Zhen Yuan felt it was unnecessary to buy level one resources so he climbed the stairs to the second floor.

The second floor was arranged in the same way as the first.

However, there were only level two resources on this floor.

After a casual glance, Zhen Yuan disregarded the talismans area and walked towards the ores area.

'If there is a good ore, I will buy it for XiaoXu.' He thought and began to look around.

'Black iron ore, grey iron ore, red copper…' Zhen Yuan read the labels but didn't stop to look at the ores.

After all, those ores were common and could be bought at a cheaper price in the Dragon City market.

After looking at more than thirty kinds of common ores, Zhen Yuan finally stopped in front of a blue stone.

"River water sand." He muttered and a smile flashed in his eyes.

Seawater sand was a common refining material that could be found in most ordinary shops.

However, river water sand was different.

Although it was not precious, it was rare.

"This young master has a good eye." An attendant walked over to stand beside Zhen Yuan.

"This river water sand is just enough to refine a sword." She said and Zhen Yuan nodded in agreement.

After reading the refining materials encyclopaedias, he knew the uses of many materials.

If used normally, the river water sand was a good material for refining soft and flexible weapons and equipment.

However, if used expertly, it could not only refine flexible items but also give them the water attribute.

'Unfortunately, XiaoXu doesn't have the corresponding inheritance. Without inheritance, he won't be able to refine attribute weapons.' Zhen Yuan thought but still chose to buy the stone.

After all, they were about to enter the Divine Rainbow Academy.

When the time came, Shen Xu would need the river water sand after he learned how to refine attribute weapons.

"How many spirit stones for the river water sand?" He asked.

"Thirteen thousand spirit stones." The attendant said.

Without bargaining, Zhen Yuan paid for the stone, put it away and continued to look around.

When he left the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Zhen Yuan was in a good mood.

After two hours of looking around, he bought six ores, a weapon refining furnace, ten fire flints, one hundred porcelain bottles, thirteen books, two robes, and some rare monster blood.

Although none of the purchases were particularly precious, they were useful.

'As expected, the Myriad Treasures Pavillion is a treasure trove.' He thought and hurried toward the inn.

Half an hour later, Zhen Yuan was safely back in the Chaos Flame space.

After confirming the alchemy room door was still closed, he returned to the training room.

"First things first." He said and began to remove things from his storage bag.

"Furnace, flint, gourd filled with spiritual water, two porcelain bowls, water basin, herbs,..."

After removing everything he needed, he arranged them on his work table and then sat on a mat.

Soon after, he opened the gourd and poured water into the two porcelain bowls.

After that, he opened a wooden box, took out the level one seven-leaf fir grasses and placed them in the bowl of spiritual water.

Similarly, he opened a second box, took out the level two grasses and placed them in the second bowl.

'It will take at least one hour for the spiritual water to remove the impurities from the spirit grasses.' He thought and put the bowls aside.

From his inheritance, Zhen Yuan knew three methods of refining talisman paper.

The first method was the process of refining monster skin into Talisman paper.

However, most of the time, it wasn't necessary to go so far because monster skin could also be used without much processing.

The second method was refining spirit grasses into Talisman paper.

Among the spirit grasses that could be used for this method, the seven-leaf fir grass was the most common and the easiest to handle.

As a result, most talisman masters in the Canglan continent used seven-leaf fir grass to refine talisman paper.

Finally, the last method required a variation of spirit grasses, ores, blood, and monster skin amongst other things.

The refining method for this kind of special Talisman paper varied according to the type of Talisman a master wanted to draw.

Generally, only the most talented talisman masters would choose to refine this kind of Talisman paper because it required innovation and self-creation.

At this time, Zhen Yuan planned to only refine the simplest of Talisman papers. However, he had never done it before and didn't know if he could do it on the first try.

Thinking of this, he sat cross-legged and began to review his inheritance.

An hour later, Zhen Yuan opened his eyes and took a deep breath.

With a confident expression, he lit the flint and placed it under the weapon refining furnace.

"It's the first time using the furnace so I must clean it thoroughly."He said and poured some spiritual water into the furnace.

When the water began to boil, Zhen Yuan removed the furnace from on top of the flint and poured the water into an empty basin.

At a glance, the water was blackish and Zhen Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

After that, he placed the furnace on top of the flint and waited for the remnant water to evaporate.

This took an incense stick.

When the furnace was completely dry, Zhen Yuan took a stalk of seven-leaf fir grass from the first porcelain bowl and put it into the furnace.

Soon after, a sizzling sound filled the room as the remnant water on the spirit grass evaporated.

When there was no more sizzling, Zhen Yuan began to form hand seals above the furnace.

"First is to extract any remaining impurities." He said and formed seals while using his spiritual sense to observe the stalk of seven-leaf fir grass.

Extracting impurities took half an hour.

Ordinarily, this process only required an incense stick.

However, Zhen Yuan was a beginner and he didn't dare to rush the process.

After removing all the impurities, he changed his hand seals and the grass stalk began to melt.

Less than a cup of tea later, a stalk of grass turned into a lump of liquid.

At this point, Zhen Yuan changed the hand seals again and the lump divided into one hundred small lumps.

According to the refining method, these one hundred lumps were the foundation of one hundred sheets of talisman paper.

As such, the lumps needed to be the same size and purity.

Otherwise, the refining would fail and the materials would be wasted.

Thinking of this, Zhen Yuan used his spiritual sense to carefully check the lumps.

After making sure everything was as it should be, he changed his hand seals and the liquid lumps began to solidify and flatten into white paper.

Soon after, a paper fragrance exuded from the furnace and Zhen Yuan smiled in satisfaction.

However, he wasn't complacent.

Although the refining had already been completed, there was still a chance of failure if Zhen Yuan was a breath late in scooping the papers out of the furnace.

Considering this, he took a deep breath, changed his hand seals and watched as one hundred sheets of talisman paper flew out of the furnace and landed on the table.

At the same time, the flint went out and the furnace cooled.

"Success." Zhen Yuan smiled while carefully examining the talisman papers.

After confirming their quality, he put them away and lit another flint.

In the next few days, Zhen Yuan refined all the seven-leaf fir grasses into talisman paper.

At first, he refined one stalk at a time.

However, as he got used to it, he began to refine two, followed by three.

In the last batch, he refined ten stalks in the same furnace.

Unfortunately, he didn't have more herbs so he didn't know if ten was his limit or if he could refine more.

After refining the talisman paper, Zhen Yuan didn't stop there.

Without taking a long break, he refined one hundred bottles of rune liquid and processed all the monster materials in his hands.

When everything was ready, he went into seclusion.

First, he drew five thousand level one and five thousand level two talismans.

After that, he drew twenty monster skin talismans, engraved thirty formation bones, carved five formation jades, and refined twenty demon core explosive beads.

However, Zhen Yuan only planned to sell the ordinary talismans.

As for everything else, he wanted to leave them to his wife for self-defence.

Time passed quickly and before he knew it, it was three days before the registration day of the Divine Rainbow Academy.

Knowing there was little time to make preparations, Zhen Yuan left the space and messaged manager Zhang.

Four hours later, two men sat in a private box, on the second floor of a moderately unpopular restaurant.

"Has young master Zhen been doing well?" Manager Zhang greeted while looking at the stranger in front of him.

"I haven't encountered any problems." Zhen Yuan said.

Before he met Manager Zhang, he used a one-day disguise talisman.

In this way, he could meet the person without exposing his identity.

"What about manager Zhang, have you settled in the capital?"

"If the young master needs something, he can directly ask."

Hearing this, Zhen Yuan didn't continue to beat around the bush.

Without hesitation, he removed two boxes from his storage bag and pushed them towards the older man.

"Please take a look." He said.

"Good."

Because he had previously done business with Zhen Yuan and knew the youngster's high productivity, Manager Zhang expected a lot of talismans.

However, the previous trades hadn't prepared him for ten thousand talismans.

"This…" He muttered, his eyes filled with shock.

"Do you want them?" Zhen Yuan asked.

Hearing the question, Manager Zhang was a little embarrassed.

If he could, he naturally wanted all the talismans.

However, he didn't have enough spirit stones to meet such an expenditure.

Seeing the man's embarrassment, Zhen Yuan immediately understood.

"You can give me a deposit first. The rest can be paid when you sell the talismans."

"I am afraid it will take some time to sell all of them."

When he heard this, Zhen Yuan frowned but soon regained his composure.

"We can settle accounts at the end of each month."

"Good." Manager Zhang immediately agreed.

After that, the two negotiated terms and wrote them on a sheet of contract paper.

In the contract, Manager Zhang wanted priority for all future goods and Zhen Yuan wanted anonymity.

In addition to that, they specified the terms of payment and goods delivery.

Since neither had a problem with the other's terms, the process went smoothly and they soon signed a contract.

When that was done, Manager Zhang checked the ten thousand talismans, paid a deposit of ten million spirit stones, and left the restaurant without having a meal.

Soon after, Zhen Yuan also left and returned to the inn.