Although three spirit stones a day are not a lot, after accumulating over a year, it would be more than a thousand.
In the eyes of other outer disciples, this was already a very generous income, but in Xu Chunniang's eyes, it was really not much.
After all, she had once relied on condensing spiritual dew to earn spiritual stones, and could get eight spiritual stones after working hard for an hour.
In comparison, drawing talismans is laborious and time-consuming, and does not make money.
But Xu Chunniang made talismans not to make money, but to learn the art of talismans. She was already very satisfied with the results.
Before the eighteen newly acquired spirit stones had even warmed up, Xu Chunniang had spent all of them and exchanged them for one hundred and twenty pieces of paper and ink for making talismans.
These materials will be refined into more water-binding talismans, and finally exchanged for spirit stones, in exchange for more talisman materials.
Since she started making talismans, in addition to tending to the spiritual fields every day, Xu Chunniang spent more time on practicing talismans.
Through such high-intensity rune practice, her technique in drawing runes became more and more stable, her proficiency became higher and higher, and her success rate also increased steadily.
From 30% at the beginning, it reached 50% at the end.
On average, one out of every two water-binding talismans refined will succeed.
However, the success rate stopped increasing after reaching 50%.
Xu Chunniang guessed that it might be because the talisman pen she used was of poor quality.
A 50% success rate is a watershed.
Theoretically speaking, if one can achieve such a success rate in refining a first-level low-grade talisman, then one can try to refine a first-level medium-grade talisman.
However, for the time being, Xu Chunniang has no idea of refining a mid-grade talisman.
After all, when she first started to refine a mid-grade talisman, she would definitely have to burn spirit stones, and she didn't have that many spirit stones to throw into it.
After the success rate of the Water Binding Talisman reached 50%, Xu Chunniang, in addition to drawing the Water Binding Talisman every day to earn a certain amount of spirit stones, also began to draw a new talisman: the Spirit Rain Talisman.
With her rich experience in refining water-binding talismans, it only took her four days to successfully refine the first Spirit Rain Talisman.
The effect of the Spiritual Rain Talisman is rather useless and can only be used to water spiritual plants. Its effectiveness is not as good as that of directly casting the Spiritual Rain Spell.
There were no Lingyu Talismans for sale on the market, so naturally the Lingyu Talisman in Xu Chunniang's hand could not be sold.
After refining it for a few days, she stopped refining the Spirit Rain Talisman and instead went to the Transmission Pavilion and spent a huge amount of money to buy a number of commonly used attack and defense spells.
The Spring Birth Technique, Soil Moisturizing Technique and Spirit Rain Technique that she knew were similar, and were all auxiliary techniques that were not suitable for being refined into talismans.
Even if you manage to refine it, it will just be a waste of spirit stones and materials.
Looking at the pile of low-grade Spirit Rain Talismans in front of her, Xu Chunniang showed a painful look. If she had known earlier, she would not have refined so many.
After the success rate of the Water Binding Talisman increased to 50%, she did not sell all of the Water Binding Talismans, but kept some in her hands.
Xu Chunniang didn't want people to know her actual success rate in making talismans, as this would attract attention and cause trouble.
Therefore, in the past month, apart from the spirit stones used to buy materials, Xu Chunniang really didn't earn much.
And now all these spirit stones are used in these spells.
Alas, it seems that the plan to change the talisman pen has to be postponed again.
Xu Chunniang shook her head helplessly, put away the Lingyu Talisman, and looked at the pile of spells on the table.
There are so many techniques, where should I start
Forget it, she has the best water spirit root, so let’s start with water arrows.
Anyway, the spiritual field planting commission is for a total of five years, and there are nearly three years left. This is enough time for her to slowly learn the techniques.
Three years is a very fast time for a monk.
The spiritual rice on Lingzhi Peak grows season after season. Every year, new disciples take on the commission and go up the mountain, and old disciples complete the commission and go down the mountain.
Ever since the spirit plant husbands headed by Zhou Cang completed their mission and went down the mountain, Xu Chunniang's life has completely returned to peace, and no blind people come to disturb her anymore.
Her daily life is very fulfilling. Besides farming, she studies magic and makes talismans.
It took her two years to finally learn all the basic techniques and successfully refine the corresponding talismans.
In the last year, in order to make a breakthrough in the art of talismans, Xu Chunniang spent a huge amount of money to buy a mid-grade talisman pen.
The low-quality talisman pen that was almost worn out finally retired.
It took Xu Chunniang only two years to refine a first-grade, low-quality talisman. However, she persisted every day and refined a sufficient number of talismans, so soon after she changed the talisman pen, she was able to refine a first-grade, mid-quality talisman.
At present, there are only six kinds of medium-grade talismans that she can refine, namely the speed talisman, the fireball talisman, the water arrow talisman, the earth shield talisman, the wooden shield talisman and the ice explosion talisman.
Among them, the Water Arrow Talisman and the Speed Talisman have the highest success rate, reaching 40%.
The Fireball Talisman, Earth Shield Talisman and Wooden Shield Talisman are almost as good, about 30%.
The Ice Explosion Talisman is even worse, barely reaching 20%.
The success rate of the Ice Explosion Talisman is so low, not only because Xu Chunniang has less time to practice, but also because she does not have any special spiritual roots, and her progress in transforming the three types of spiritual energy of wind, thunder and ice is slow.
As for the magic of gold and fire, they are not difficult to master.
The five elements' spiritual energy are inherently mutually reinforcing and restraining, and can be transformed into each other.
If Xu Chunniang was given some more time, perhaps the success rate of the Ice Explosion Talisman could be increased by 10%.
However, seeing that the spiritual rice was about to ripen, she had to temporarily stop practicing talismans and devote herself to the spiritual field.
The harvest from the spiritual field did not disappoint as usual, maintaining a stable yield. After Xu Chunniang put away the new spiritual rice and crescent rice, she went to check on the new rice that she had been taking special care of.
She still sticks to the habit of cultivating new varieties. Although the new rice she has cultivated in the past few years contains more spiritual energy, it has not met her expectations.
Perhaps it’s because the spiritual energy contained in the spiritual field is limited.
So although Xu Chunniang was still holding on, she no longer held much hope.
Later on, she was asked to eat all the new rice, except for some that was set aside for seeds.
However, this time, things seem a little different.
Looking at the plump new rice in her hand, Xu Chunniang's eyes lit up.
The rice grains are almost half the size of crescent-shaped rice, but the spiritual energy contained in them is almost twice that of crescent-shaped rice.
This time it actually worked!
Xu Chunniang was a little surprised. Compared with the careful care and nurturing in previous years, she had not been as attentive in the past six months. Unexpectedly, she gained something.
The millet grains are round and full, just like small pearls, so Xu Chunniang named it "pearl rice" to distinguish it.
After collecting the pearl rice, Xu Chunniang processed all the spiritual rice cleanly before returning to the wooden house and starting to dig the soil with the tools she had prepared long ago.
During these three years, several more pieces of spiritual soil were added to the wooden house, now totaling ten pieces.
As she was getting ready to leave, Xu Chunniang naturally wanted to take the spiritual soil with her.
Not only the spiritual soil, but even the soil around the spiritual soil, she planned to replace it and restore it to the state it was in when she moved in.
Xu Chunniang took out the soil that had been prepared long ago from the storage bag and put it aside for later use.
She had secretly dug this soil from the other side of Lingzhi Peak a few nights ago when it was dark and no one was around.
After emptying the dirt from the storage bag, she began to shovel the spiritual soil.
The spiritual soil contained rich spiritual energy and was very soft. Without much effort, Xu Chunniang easily shoveled out the spiritual soil, leaving only a small hole on the ground.
After shoveling out all ten pieces of spiritual soil, Xu Chunniang put them into a storage bag specially used for sundries, and then used a cloth bag to collect the surrounding soil before starting to fill the pit.
While filling, they compacted the soil tightly, trying to make it invisible.