When Shang Xia started to make second-order talismans, he still chose to start with the simplest and most skilled martial talismans under his control.
This time, the talisman he was about to engrave was the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman".
However, the engraving of the "Golden Sword Talisman" was not smooth, despite having the experience of successfully making first-order talismans four times, the difficulty of making second-order talismans was more than double that of first-order seals?
Although Shang Xia had figured it out in advance, when the production of the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" was a quarter of the way, the fragment of the knife stone in his hand completely shattered into fragments, which made Shang Xia feel distressed.
When Shang Xia regrouped and began to engrave the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" talisman for the second time, this time it was when it was engraved to one-third of the place, and once again a knife stone in his hand was shattered due to a mistake.
However, Shang Xia was not discouraged and continued to select a fragment of the knife stone for carving the talisman.
This time, the carving of the second-order talisman seemed to be progressing slowly, but Shang Xia did not lose any confidence, on the contrary, he became more determined in his heart.
Compared with the continuous attempts to make talismans at the beginning, it can even be said that it is like a headless fly, all verified by hitting the luck, now Shang Xia has found the correct idea of making talismans, all he needs to do now is to make his skills in making talismans more exquisite.
However, Shang Xia's third production of the "Golden Sword Talisman" talisman was still not completed, and halfway through, the house he was in was photographed again.
Shang Xia reluctantly interrupted the feeling of being done in one go, but after opening the door, he was slightly startled, this time Tongyou and his party of six people were standing outside the door at this time, looking at him, and their eyes looked full of complex emotions such as surprise, surprise, seriousness, and shock.
"Everyone...... Did something happen?"
Shang Xia was a little clear for a while.
Liu Qinglan spread out his palms, and above his palm was a square stone piece that was one inch square and only five points thick, which was the slightly flawed first-order "Heartbeat Talisman" seal that Shang Xia had thrown to Chu Jia before.
In order to make the most effective use of the fragments of the knife stone and reduce waste, the four first-order talisman seals carved by Shang Xia were all one inch square, but only five points thick.
I only heard Liu Qinglan ask in an unusually serious tone: "Is this what you made?"
Shang Xia looked at Chu Jia hiding behind Liu Qinglan, and the other party quickly staggered his eyes to look at him, so he smiled and said: "Yes, it is a temporary practice, ...... the teacher came because of it?"
"Go in and talk!"
Liu Qinglan couldn't help but break into Shang Xia's house directly.
Shang Xia, who was originally standing in front of him, quickly stepped aside, and the others behind him quickly followed suit, and even Yun Yichen seemed to have closed the shop and followed in with a serious face.
When Shang Xia turned around and returned to his house, he saw Liu Qinglan holding his half-carved second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" talisman in his hand to observe.
And several other people also picked up several pieces of talisman fragments that had been scrapped during the carving process and checked them in their hands one by one.
"You guys are ...... Because of the seal?"
Shang Xia was a little surprised that they realized the importance of the talisman so quickly.
"Are you already working on the production of second-order talismans?"
Liu Qinglan asked while holding the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" talisman seal in his hand, which had been carved halfway.
Shang Xia smiled and said: "I just started trying, not yet
It didn't work."
Liu Qinglan said brightly when he heard this: "That means you have more than this first-order talisman?"
Shang Xia smiled and took out the other two first-order "Wind Arrow Fu" talismans and one "Heart Movement Fu" talisman, and said, "Connect the one in your hand, all the samples are here. It was too bad to make a first-order seal, so I only completed two first-order seals, and then I started to try to make second-order seals."
Liu Qinglan looked at the fragments on the carved table and said, "Didn't it go well?"
Shang Xia smiled bitterly: "The idea should not be a big problem, but the craftsmanship is not yet home."
Liu Qinglan breathed a sigh of relief slightly, nodded, but asked with an extremely serious expression: "Then do you know what these ...... 'talismans' you made mean?"
Without waiting for Shang Xia to speak, Liu Qinglan said to himself: "After I found the talisman seal in Xiao Chu, I tried it with a first-order talisman paper, without a talisman pen, I am not a Fu master myself, I just glued the ink mud, and then slightly controlled the amount of vitality injected into the talisman seal, and a first-order 'heartbeat talisman' was formed."
Shang Xia was a little stunned when he heard this, but he didn't remember when Liu Qinglan had ink.
You must know that the little first-order ink that was blended was all made on the basis of first-order talisman ink, and he should only have it at the moment.
Liu Qinglan didn't care what Shang Xia was thinking, but said: "A first-order talisman seal is nothing, but it can allow a martial artist who is not a Fu master to be able to continuously produce martial talismans with just one talisman, do you know what it means after this news spreads?"
"Since the first-order talisman can be made, then it can be made into the second-order talisman, the third, fourth, and even higher! If this secret is leaked and removed, I am afraid it will cause a sensation in the entire martial arts world and be coveted by countless people with ulterior motives!"
Speaking of this, Liu Qinglan's tone even had a three-point reprimand: "Since you have already stepped into this threshold, you should strictly keep this secret, giving the talisman to others so easily, but not telling her to keep this secret, once it is leaked, do you know how much trouble it will cause you?"
Chu Jia stood behind Liu Qinglan and couldn't help but stick out his tongue gently when he heard this.
Shang Xia smiled and said: "Don't worry, teacher, the technique of this talisman I created is not so easy to be imitated or learned."
Liu Qinglan showed a slight surprise when he heard this, and said: "All the engravings on this talisman are clear, will those Fu masters understand? Besides, there are people outside the world, but you are not the only great Fu Master in the two realms of Cangyu and Cangling, so you must not take chances!"
After that, Liu Qinglan pondered slightly, and then said: "Is it really not easy to imitate?"
Shang Xia picked up a talisman seal and explained with a smile: "Teacher, I don't know, the stones I use to carve the talisman seal are unique, I named it 'Knife Insertion Stone', which I obtained in the Linyuan Secret Realm, and so far I have not found any similar or even identical materials to it, but the rest of the spiritual materials are difficult to carry the talismans."
Shang Xia continued: "Of course, the limitation of materials alone is not safe, the world is so vast and the starry sky is vast, and the knife stone may not be unique. However, even if you can find similar materials, it is not easy to carve the talisman, there are still many techniques and secrets in it, which can be regarded as unique and original to the disciples, and others are confused if they want to imitate it. After all, the talisman seal can not only be used by carving the pattern of the rune pattern on it."
Liu Qinglan was immediately relieved when she heard this, and said with a smile: "It's best for you to be so confident, but this matter is big, one more point
It's always good to be cautious."
Shang Xia just smiled and nodded when he heard this.
Liu Qinglan looked at his expression, his heart suddenly moved, and he said in astonishment: "Shouldn't you have wanted to spread the talisman in the first place?"
Shang Xia smiled and said, "As long as the martial talismans made of these talismans are used in the future, this secret will not be kept sooner or later. In fact, the idea of using talismans to create martial talismans is probably not uncommon among the Fu master groups of the two realms, but everyone has not found this path yet."
"But if you can keep it for a while, and you yourself are just starting to carve the second-order talisman seal now?"
Liu Qinglan retorted, then looked at Shang Xia and said: "You took out the talisman at this juncture, could it be the idea of holding a trade fair?"
Shang Xia smiled and said: "I really can't hide anything from the teacher, although I have the support of the academy and various families, but after seeing such a wealthy handwriting of the three major factions, I really don't have much certainty about whether I can gain anything at the trade fair, so I thought about whether I could make a dozen ideas on this seal."
Speaking of this, Shang Xia added again: "Teacher, you must rest assured that the secret technique I used to carve the talisman seal would definitely not be able for anyone else to learn without my teaching. Even if someone figures out the technique of the talisman seal in the future, it can only be that he finds another way, and it cannot be the same as me."
Liu Qinglan saw that he had made up his mind and knew that persuasion was useless, so he pondered: "Since you insist on doing this, then this matter needs to be seriously discussed."
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After Liu Qinglan and the others left, they also took away all three first-order talismans in their hands.
Shang Xia continued to start carving the previous second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" talisman, but after losing the previous feeling of being done in one go, if he wanted to use the knife again, he had to start pinching his fingers again to deduce the direction, strength, depth of each falling knife, the time of falling the knife, the length of the cutting time, etc., which was extremely cumbersome.
After all, he had not yet completed the carving of a complete second-order talisman seal until now, so shortly after continuing the previous carving, because of the carving of a certain rune, it could not resonate with a certain previous rune when the knife fell, thus causing this talisman to be scrapped.
However, this time Shang Xia was much calmer, because although a pause in the middle made Shang Xia's process of making the seal suddenly extremely complicated, it also made him have a deeper understanding of the production of second-order seals in the process of calculating the knife and carving it, and at the same time, he also had further ideas for improving its production method.
So Shang Xia continued to work hard, but this time the stone piece selected for inserting the knife was enlarged from one inch square to one inch and a half points, and the thickness of the original five points also increased to seven points.
Compared with the first-order martial talisman, the increase in the difficulty of making second-order martial talismans is all-round.
But if it were for a layman, then the most direct and intuitive difference between the two was that the rune lines of the second-order martial talismans became more complex and denser, which would undoubtedly bring certain difficulties to the carving of the talisman.
In this case, Shang Xia simply exchanged for a larger seal, which allowed him to have more room to play in the process of carving runes, and at the same time, he could also reduce the difficulty of crafting.
Therefore, after Shang Xia made the second-order "Golden Sword Talisman" talisman for the fourth time, everything seemed logical in the end.
However, this change will also increase the cost of seal production, and the most direct is the increase in the consumption of fragments for the blade stone.
You know, even Shang Xia himself didn't know where to look for a second knife stone.