At night, Shen Luo sat alone in front of the window of the guest room. A dim oil lamp was lit on the table by the window, and on the table lay a piece of purple talisman paper and three pieces of green talisman paper.
The purple talisman paper had runes of the Armor-Breaking Talisman drawn on it, while the three pieces of green frost paper had runes of the Falling Thunder Talisman drawn on them. All of them were already completed talismans, and they were all drawn by Shen Luo on the way to Yuzhou.
Among them, the Thunderfall Talisman is okay. Although the success rate is not high, it consumes all Qingshuang paper. However, the Armor-Breaking Talisman consumes the more precious Ziyun paper.
Even though Shen Luo had experience in drawing talismans in dreams and had practiced thousands of times on white and yellow talisman paper, when he actually tried to draw it, he still used up all the purple cloud paper he had saved up to buy, and finally made a talisman like this.
He stared at the cloudy sky outside the window and could only see a vague light hidden in the clouds. The sinkhole below was pitch black and he could not see anything clearly.
According to the records in the travel notes, the Green-Eyed Golden Toad is the descendant of the Jade Toad of the Moon Palace. It is born with the ability to absorb the Moon's Soul through moon-gazing practice, so extremely pure Moon's Soul essence is accumulated in its body.
However, this creature is timid and cautious by nature, hiding underground all year round, and it is difficult for ordinary cultivators to find it.
Only during the rainy season every year, the sky is covered by dark clouds for a long time, the moonlight cannot shine on the earth, and the golden toad cannot absorb the moon soul, so during this period of time, it will fall into a dormant period.
When the rainy season is over, there will be a loud thunder, and the golden toad will wake up again. It will boldly leave its hiding place and expose itself to the moonlight to replenish the moon soul that it had previously consumed.
And this is the best time to capture it. Once you miss it, you will have to wait at least another year.
This is also an important reason why Shen Luo decided to look for this thing first.
After watching for a while, Shen Luo put the talisman paper on the table into his sleeve, blew out the oil lamp on the table, returned to his bed and sat cross-legged in meditation, continuing to practice. Although his practice speed was not fast at the moment, he couldn't stop.
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Early the next morning, Shen Luo opened the window and looked at the cloudy sky. He frowned for a moment, then suddenly supported the table next to the window with one hand, flipped his body nimbly, jumped out of the window, and flew outside.
His window was right next to the steep cliff of the tiankeng, and there was not even a place to stand, so his body fell directly into the tiankeng.
Not until he had fallen more than ten feet did he grab a protruding rock with one hand and hang himself on the cliff.
Shen Luo turned his body and caught a glimpse of a row of towering ancient trees more than ten feet away from him.
He then loosened his hands that were holding onto the stone wall, pushed his legs hard against the cliff, turned a semicircle in the air, and landed silently on the top of an ancient tree not far away.
When he got closer, he stretched out his arm and grabbed the top of an ancient tree, which slightly cushioned the force of his fall. He then slid nimbly toward the branches below, and after several repetitions, he landed steadily on the ground.
After landing, he did not move in a hurry, but took out a mountain-crossing talisman from his sleeve, shook it around, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual on it, he put it back into his arms.
The tiankeng is quite quiet in the early morning. Apart from the intermittent chirping of insects, the only sound is the rustling of the wind through the forest.
Shen Luo remembered that the travelogue mentioned the place for catching golden toads, which was next to a crescent-shaped lake in the center of the tiankeng. So he didn't stop and went straight to the center through the dense forest.