Niu Qianjin looked at the puzzled expression on Ye Li's face, laughed, and said, "Well, Ye Li, you are sharp-eyed and saw that I added a little more stuff in.
The reason why I can use Xuan-level materials to make Earth-level talismans is indeed related to the fact that I added one more material.
However, what I used was not the correct method to make talismans of higher levels, but just a shortcut.
Now that I think about it, being able to complete the casting of this talisman within the specified time did involve some luck.
After all, when I experiment privately on weekdays, there is no time limit and the surrounding environment is very quiet, so casting is much easier."
Hearing Niu Qianjin's words, Ye Li was slightly stunned. He also remembered that Niu Qianjin successfully completed the casting at the last moment before the end of the game, and his face was full of fatigue at that time, as if he had consumed a lot of energy.
It seems that Niu Qianjin really took some risks. It is definitely not an easy task to cast a ground-level talisman with mysterious materials.
Ye Li thought for a moment and said, "Second Brother, you just said that you added one more material and used a tricky method to make this talisman. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Niu Qianjin glanced at Ye Li, then said with a smile: "Try to activate this talisman and see how it works."
Ye Li hesitated for a moment, then nodded, picked up the shield-shaped talisman, and drew the rune core of the talisman, wanting to inject spiritual energy to control it.
However, when he followed the normal steps and injected the spiritual energy into it completely, the moment he wanted to activate the talisman, a series of crisp "crackling" sounds came from the shield-shaped talisman.
Ye Li was stunned, and felt that the spiritual energy he injected into the talisman began to become disordered. The originally complete spiritual energy circuit was damaged, and the entire talisman seemed to have become a broken water bag. All his spiritual energy flowed out of the talisman.
"This... What's going on?"
Ye Li was shocked to find that dense cracks began to appear on the entire talisman, covering the entire talisman like a spider web.
The shield-shaped structure was full of cracks inside and out. The originally perfect spiritual energy veins and origin runes were now completely broken and could no longer be used.
"Hahaha, Ye Li, now you know why I say it's a trick, because this talisman is just a showpiece. Although it looks like a real earth-level talisman, it is completely unusable.
The material that makes it up has reached the critical value of collapse since it was formed. Once you try to activate the talisman, the power generated by the internal spiritual energy circuit will destroy it. "
Niu Qianjin looked at Ye Li's surprised expression and immediately explained with a smile.
Hearing Niu Qianjin's words, Ye Li couldn't help but swallow his saliva and said, "Second Brother, it's a pity that you dare to act like this. If the judges want to activate this talisman to test its power, then all your tricks will be exposed."
Niu Qianjin scratched his chin and said, "No, they chose the center of the town as the venue for the competition, and there are so many people around. If they really want to test the talisman, they may hurt people if they are not careful, so they will definitely not activate the talisman at will.
I had considered this before the test.
The Luo family holding this kind of competition is definitely beneficial to their own contestants. At the beginning, I didn't know whether the judges had any relationship with the Luo family, so I felt that if I and Panshan Qingsong both made top-grade Xuan-level talismans, even if I was faster than him, I might not necessarily beat him.
If the judges were slightly biased, they would find some reason to let the other party win, so I just took a risk and used a trick to make this useless product. "
Hearing this, Ye Li couldn't help but nodded in admiration. He also fully realized the cleverness of his second senior brother from these things.
Niu Qianjin looks honest on the surface, but he is actually very flexible and thoughtful. That is why he is so thoughtful in what he says and does.
After thinking for a while, Ye Li continued to ask: "Brother, you still haven't told me how you managed to forge a mysterious material into an earth-level talisman, and what is the difference between your tricky method and the orthodox one?"
Niu Qianjin smiled and said, "Don't worry, Ye Li, I will tell you slowly.
First of all, regarding the question of how to cast Xuan-level materials into Earth-level talismans, I can only tell you that just as you see in the talisman, all the patterns in the entire talisman material must be used.
As for how to do it, the first thing is to have a solid foundation far beyond that of ordinary people, and the second is to combine the three steps of the original guide pattern to form the spiritual energy veins, origin runes and talismans together to complete it.
If the three steps are done separately, then after the spiritual energy veins are formed, the origin runes can only be arranged along the direction of the spiritual energy veins. Those runes that are in the opposite direction or bent too much and are very different from the direction of the spiritual energy veins can only be discarded and cannot be used again.
The subsequent talismans must be determined according to the position of the original rune, so the range of usable patterns is even smaller, which will inevitably lead to a large part of the patterns being wasted.
However, if the three steps can be carried out simultaneously when casting the talisman, and the spiritual energy veins, original runes and spells are formed at the same time, then there will be no restrictive relationship between them, and the patterns in all directions can be used as much as possible.
Well... When I say this, you may think it is simple, but it is actually a very difficult thing.
It's simple in theory, but very difficult to put into practice. As of now, if I am in the quiet room of the base, I can barely guarantee success once or twice out of ten times of refining, which is very difficult.
The only people who have truly mastered this skill and can accomplish it easily are the master and the eldest senior brother.
It is precisely because of this that I can only use tricks to get away with it.
As for how to take shortcuts, I won’t teach you because that is not the right way. It is just a method that I came up with accidentally.
Because of this incident, I was severely scolded by my master. My master said: "Using Xuan-level materials to make Earth-level talismans is a test standard for your ability. What's the point of you passing this standard? You won't get any reward."
If your ability is not enough to meet this standard, you should think about how to improve your ability, rather than focusing on how to use shortcuts to meet the standard, which will only make you go further and further astray.'
Since then, I have never used this unconventional method again, because my master is right, this is just a standard to test my own strength. There is no point in me fooling around with it. If I only think about how to meet this standard, it is simply wrong.
What you should really think about is how to improve yourself and then surpass this standard.
This time, because of the special circumstances, I had no choice but to use this method. However, I will not tell you how I did it, lest you become distracted by the method I taught you when you reach my level in the future. Then the master will definitely scold me as well."