Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 19: Sharp Gold Technique
The night was not suitable for flying, so Ji An decided to camp out in the open space outside the General Affairs Hall.

The bright moon was in the sky, and its light shone on his face.

He sat down cross-legged to practice his skills, not wanting to delay his cultivation at all.

The night was as cool as water. After quitting his training, Ji An began to practice magic.

The two new spells I acquired were a bit more difficult than the Small Cloud and Rain Spell. It took me three or four attempts to cast the Fire Spell before I could master it.

He spent half an hour trying to master the Sharp Gold Technique, but still failed. This was the first time he felt challenged.

I still can't believe it. How difficult can an entry-level planting spell be!

The setback instead aroused Ji An's pride. He studied the spell word by word, repeatedly casting the spell through trial and error, and gradually understood the difficulty of this spell.

The other four spells have very low requirements for controlling mana output.

The Sharp Gold Technique requires the caster to have extremely fine control over the magic power, and to separate the magic power into strands of gold spiritual energy and release them out. It also has high requirements for the strength of spiritual consciousness.

The difficulty is not even on the same order of magnitude.

Even though there are detailed descriptions in the techniques, the distance between knowing and doing is as far as heaven and earth.

Repeated failures did not discourage Ji An. When he was a salesman in his previous life, it was not uncommon for him to make cold calls to hundreds of people but not make a single sale.

The stone turtle is his support, which can help him save a huge amount of time and grow at a faster rate.

However, he himself cannot be a useless waste without the golden finger, absolutely not.

He clearly remembered that he obtained the stone turtle after he opened the immortal vein with his own strength.

Perhaps his current state of mind was in line with the divine will of the Gold Element Technique, and he became more and more proficient in casting spells.

Gold means sharp.

In the darkness, the boy continued to sum up his experience and made fewer and fewer mistakes.

With his magic power exhausted, Ji An took out a yellow bud pill without hesitation and used the Qingyuan Sutra to refine the pill's spiritual power into magic power.

The setting moon was setting in the west and was blocked by a dark cloud, making the world even darker.

At this moment, strands of golden light rippled out from Ji An's fingers, piercing through the deep darkness and lighting up his deep eyes.

"Master Dao, I am done!"

Ji An laughed wildly. Is there anything difficult or easy in the world?
The dark clouds drifted away at some point, and the moonlight filtered through the leaves, casting patches of light in front of Ji An, like the reflection of the stars in the sky.

Being too excited, Ji An simply didn't want to sleep. He took out the third level of the Small Cloud and Rain Technique jade slip and placed it on his forehead.

A quarter of an hour later, he pondered the differences between the inherited third-level formula and what he had comprehended, and concluded where his thinking needed improvement.
The sky gradually brightened, and the sunlight swept from the mountain peak to the mountainside, casting a layer of gold on Ji An's face.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, his mind moved on to the stone turtle, and clear handwriting emerged in his mind.

[Master: Ji An]

【Daoyun: 0】

[Spiritual Ability: Kan Spirit 18.5, Kun Spirit 11.7, Xun Spirit 3.7]

[Spell: Minor Cloud Rain Spell (Minor Success 2%)

Thick Earth Technique (Minor Success 1%)

Withering and Flourishing Secret (Minor Success 1%)

Fire Curse (1% Beginner)

Sharp Gold Technique (Entry 2%)]

I have already comprehended about 50% of the essence of the third level of the Small Cloud and Rain Technique. If I want to gain a deeper understanding, I need to practice it.

Refine 10 points of Kanling!
The reason why he didn't go all in was that if the Small Cloud and Rain Technique reached the fourth level, the mana in his body might not be able to meet the needs of the spiritual grain during the ear-forming period.

As his mind turned, his consciousness was pulled into the stone turtle space, where he practiced the small cloud and rain technique over and over again in the Kan position.

Threads of insights flowed through his mind, and he gained a deeper understanding of the third level of the technique.

Kan Ling's numbers were like the water in a dripping water, which kept decreasing, and his understanding of the small cloud and rain technique kept increasing.

When the 10 points of Kan Ling were consumed, Ji An's consciousness exited the stone turtle space.

Spell: Minor Cloud Rain (Minor Achievement 2 → 31%)

It only took a moment to refine 10 points of Kan Ling. In the eyes of others, Ji An just blinked.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly. "What a joke! I thought this many Kanlings would be enough to push the Small Cloud Rain Technique to the fourth level, but it turns out it's far from enough." He wasn't disappointed. With the Spiritual Valley in its ear-forming phase, he needed to cast rain every day. Combined with the Kanlings he gained daily, he could quickly raise the spell to full perfection if he wanted to.

The Great Mastery of Small Cloud and Rain Technique can increase production by about 30%.

The Great Thick Soil Technique can increase production by 20%.

The secret of great success in prosperity and decline can increase production by 30%.

Ji An rode the talisman bird, left the General Affairs Hall, and headed straight to the Bishui Market to find Wei Songnian.

"Brother Wei, give me twenty Yellow Bud Pills!"

He is now very rich, and the best option is to spend the spirit stones and convert them into strength.

"Haha, Junior Brother is here to take care of my business again, good."

Wei Songnian was very surprised and couldn't understand where his junior brother got the spirit stone.

However, he did not show any emotion on his face, and handed over two porcelain bottles with a smile on his face.

Ji An counted the pills and put them in his arms, then took out two spirit stones and said:

"I plan to learn the craft of a talisman maker in the future. Do you have any suggestions, senior brother?"

He has a good understanding and has the stone turtle as his support, so talisman making is a career tailor-made for him.

Wei Songnian took the spirit stone and looked troubled:

"If you want to sell planting spells, your sales will be worrying."

A talisman maker can only draw the spells that he knows, and if the other party wants to sell them, they can only sell talismans that can be used to draw spells.

Taking the Small Cloud and Rain Technique as an example, rain needs to be applied every day during the heading period of spiritual grains, and rain also needs to be applied every few days during the spiritual medicine period.

Planting spells are not suitable for making talismans at all. No one will buy them if you sell them at a high price, and you can’t even make the money back if you sell them at a low price.

"Brother, I'm talking about later, later!"

Ji An was speechless. If one had to buy talismans to cast spells, then spiritual farmers would make a lot of crystals.

"Haha," Wei Songnian smiled, "Junior brother thinks long-term."

He stopped laughing and said seriously:

“If Junior Brother is also capable of learning offensive spells, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to prepare early.

In my opinion, Junior Brother, you might as well learn how to make talisman paper and mix talisman ink first.

In this way, even if he doesn't have the talent to be a talisman maker, he can still learn an extra skill.

Spiritual farmers can grow talisman grass themselves, and the cost of making talisman paper is lower."

Wei Songnian paused and continued:

"The contribution points required to inherit the Talisman Master's legacy are quite a lot, but the contribution points required to learn basic Talisman paper making and Talisman ink mixing are much fewer. I remember it was twenty contribution points."

"Thank you, senior brother," Ji An thanked him sincerely.

"We are brothers, why are you being so polite?
If you make talisman paper and ink, you can ask me to sell them on your behalf.

Ordinary talisman paper has a slim profit margin, but high-quality talisman paper is in short supply and quite profitable."

Ji An thanked him again, said goodbye and left, riding the Fu Bird back to the bamboo house in the valley.

After arriving home, he took out everything in his arms and counted the family assets.

I went out for two days and borrowed seven spirit stones.

Exchanging contribution points and purchasing elixirs cost a total of three spirit stones and sixty spirit crystals.

Including the crystals and pills that he had saved from before, he currently had four spirit stones, twenty spirit crystals, and twenty-one yellow bud pills in his hands.

Of course, there is also the debt of eighteen spirit stones.

Putting aside the debt, Ji An wondered if he could advance to the fourth level of Qi Refining with the resources he had.

It's a bit uncertain, but considering the spiritual grain harvest within a year, it's possible.

He put away his belongings, swallowed a yellow bud pill, and began to practice martial arts.

(End of this chapter)