Chapter 1: The Yang Family's Trash

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  "Can't you make a seal now? I want to see your seal." Yang Yue said, holding her own chin.

  He had originally wanted to refuse, but seeing Yang Yue's expectant gaze, Yang Wei nodded, "Alright then. But if I fail or the painting doesn't turn out well, don't laugh at me."

  "It won't work." Yang Yue said, "I believe you can."

  Yang Lei took out the talisman paper, the talisman pen, and the cinnabar. After spreading the talisman paper flat, Yang Lei picked up the talisman pen and activated the system.

  Seal cutting art.

  With dragon-snake-like strokes of his brush, a talisman was quickly drawn by Yang Yue.

  "Ding! Congratulations, player has successfully crafted the Fire Snake Symbol. Experience +2000, Qi +20, Points +20, Proficiency increased."

  Not bad, this is a Fire Snake Talisman. Once torn open and used, the talisman will transform into a long fire snake that attacks the enemy, capable of dealing certain damage to cultivators at the Warrior Realm level.

  Yang Lei didn't expect himself to succeed all at once, this was just a low-grade talisman seal, but succeeding in one try wasn't easy, he had never even made a talisman before.

  "Not bad, eh? I didn't expect you to be so capable, brother. You can really make talismans! Quick, let me take a look. What's the quality of this talisman like?" Yang Yue hastily snatched the Fire Snake Talisman from Yang Wei's hand.

  "Seal mark, unexpectedly there is a seal mark, this is a spiritual seal, a one-star seal mark, this...this is a one-star spiritual seal, how can this be possible." Yang Yue looked at Yang Lue with a demonic gaze.

  "Second sister, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong with this seal? You're staring at me like that, it feels strange." Yang Wei was startled by Yang Yue's gaze, which was even more terrifying than Zhao Yuan's back then, as if she thought he was some kind of monster.

  "Do you know what this seal represents?"

  "I don't know."

  Yang Lei shook his head and thought to himself, "If I knew, would I still be asking you? Am I an idiot?"

  "This is a spiritual seal, and this kind of seal is only possessed by spiritual symbols. Those who can refine spiritual symbols are at least earth-level symbol masters." Yang Yue said, "You're not an earth-level symbol master, are you?"

  "Cough, how is that possible? I've just started learning about talismans." Yang Lui shook his head and said, but in his heart he felt very strange. The talisman he had refined, how did it become a spirit talisman? Talisman seal, this thing he hadn't paid attention to before. If elementary talisman crafting can produce spirit talismans, then if he reaches intermediate talisman crafting, wouldn't he be able to create even higher-level talismans?

  "It's because of that mysterious inheritance of yours, isn't it?" Yang Yue thought for a moment and could only come up with this explanation. She turned her eyes to look at her younger brother, "I wonder what kind of power this talisman has?"

  "Just try it and you'll know," said Yang Wei.

  "Alright, let's try." Yang Yue tore the talisman in her hand and said, "Fire Snake Talisman, go for me."

  As soon as the voice fell, the fire snake symbol instantly transformed into a huge fire snake, like a fire dragon, and rushed towards the distant empty space.

  Immediately afterwards, a loud noise was heard, and the empty ground burst open, forming a crater with a diameter of over ten meters.

  "Hiss..."

  Yang Lei and Yang Yue both took a cold breath, what kind of fire snake is this? This is a huge fire dragon, it's simply the Fire Dragon Symbol.

  Although the power is terrifying, Yang Yue knew that this talisman was still inferior to a Star Spirit Talisman, but compared to ordinary talismans, its power was much greater. It could be compared to an ordinary Xuanjie talisman.

  "Hmm, this talisman is quite good, but it's still different from a real spirit talisman. Although it's inferior to a true spirit talisman, its power is much stronger than ordinary talismans. And there's also a seal, let's just call it a pseudo-spirit talisman for now."

  "Fake spirit symbol, this is not bad either." Yang Lei nodded, anyway it's not a real spirit symbol, just a name, and Yang Lei didn't care about this at all. "By the way, Second Sister, you said, if we use talismans in the Grand Competition, can we win?"

  "Such power poses some danger to cultivators in the Martial King realm, but it's not too great." Yang Yue said, "So thinking of gaining victory is still quite difficult."

  "I naturally know that one or two Fire Snake Talismans won't have much effect on Yang Tianlei and Yang Tianfeng, who are at the Martial King realm. But what if it's a hundred? At worst, several hundred should be enough to exhaust him to death, right?" Yang Lei said, looking at his second sister.

  "You think these talismans are cabbage, where do you have so many talismans to waste? Moreover, using talismans also consumes true energy each time. I can use at most twenty of these fire snake talismans." Yang Yue said, "Twenty fire snake talismans are not enough to win. Although the Martial Artist Realm and the Martial King Realm differ by only one realm, they are worlds apart. Once you enter the Martial King Realm, you can condense your own martial soul. When the martial soul is formed, your strength will surge, almost ten times that of before."

  "This true energy consumption I naturally considered, the huge consumption can be replenished, Second Sister, you forgot, I am still an alchemist, and I refine ten percent pellets, even if it's nine percent pellets, there are a lot of elixirs as backing, do you think we need to worry about consumption? Not at all." Yang Luei smiled slyly.

  "Right, how could I forget? You're still a Dan Master, brother. With the elixir and talismans combined, we can completely exhaust them to death. Not bad, not bad at all. We still have a chance to get into the top three. Hmph, genius? So-called geniuses are nothing in front of my brother. My brother is the real genius." Yang Yue was overjoyed upon hearing this. With the talismans and elixirs, he could make a dash for second place. Just thinking about it made him feel excited. Defeating Wu Wang? That was something he didn't even dare to think about before.

  "Cough, Second Sister, don't be too happy too early. Don't they have talismans and elixirs? If the gap in strength is too big, it's still not going to work. I suggest you try to enter the middle stage of Martial Arts during this period, at least reach the sixth rank of Martial Arts. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to win." Yang Lei poured a bucket of cold water on her excitement.

  "Not bad, little brother, you're right. If they also have elixirs and talismans, it'll be tough for us to win." Yang Mei furrowed her brow, "Then... what do we do? Wanting to break through the third stage in just one month is really too difficult. Although we have elixirs to help, I think breaking through to Martial Artist Fifth Stage is already quite good. Reaching Sixth Stage is truly very hard."

  "Don't worry, second sister, I'll give you other elixirs. I'm preparing to refine a higher-level Earth Yuan Dan. As for the talismans, after some days, I'll refine a few Golden Talismans. With them, our chances of winning will greatly increase. Unfortunately, I don't have the technique to draw Golden Talismans." Yang Lue said.

  "Alright, the Vajra symbol's drawing method, I'll go find it. Hand this over to me and that's it. Tomorrow, I'll bring it back to you." Yang Yue was overjoyed upon hearing that Yang Wei could create even higher-level talismans and elixirs, which meant victory was within sight.

  Looking at Yang Yue's back, Yang Lai couldn't help but smile. Having a sister like this wasn't bad after all. At least she cared about him and didn't look down on him because he was once a good-for-nothing. Nor would she fawn over him now that he could refine pills, create talismans, and had made great progress in his cultivation to become a genius-like figure. Everything felt so natural, this was what true familial bonds were like.

  Having collected my emotions, since I've already started making talismans, I might as well refine a few more.

  Seal cutting art.

  Refine the Fire Snake Talisman.

  "Ding! Congratulations, player successfully refined. Experience +2000, Qi value +20, Point value +20, Proficiency increased."

  It succeeded again, is it easier to refine this Fire Snake Symbol?

  Once again.

  Seal cutting art.

  "Ding, player Huo She Fu's refinement failed, experience +200, internal energy +2, points +2, proficiency increased."

  It's not omnipotent after all, and it failed this time.

  Once more.

  Failure after failure.

  Refined ten times, succeeded four times, this probability is still considered good, compared to the success rate of alchemy is higher.

  Four Fire Snake Talismans were put away and replaced with a new Seal of Fate.

  Ice Cream Cone.

  Like Huo She Fu, it is also a yellow-level seal script, but with opposite attributes.

  Thus, Yang Lian refined a few ice cone talismans. The success rate of these ice cone talismans seemed to be slightly higher than that of the fire snake talismans. Out of ten, six were successful, which was quite good. Perhaps it was due to his increased proficiency.

  Looking at the ice cone symbol, Yang Lei tore one open and tested it. The power of the ice cone symbol was in no way inferior to that of the fire snake symbol. A vast expanse of ice cones appeared, terrifyingly abnormal. If one were to be caught off guard, they would probably be beaten into frozen meat.

  One cold and one hot, if these two talismans are used at the same time, they will definitely have a huge impact. But can't we draw both talismans on one piece of talisman paper? Draw an ice cone symbol on one side, and a fire snake symbol on the other. As soon as this thought occurred to him, it was like a sprouting seed that grew wildly in his mind.

  "Just do it, even if you fail, all you'll lose is a sheet of paper."

  Yang Lei took out a well-drawn Huo She Fu and placed the blank side on top.

  Seal script, cinnabar.

  Seal cutting art.

  "Ding, Ice Cream failed."

  A fire snake talisman was scrapped, but Yang Wei didn't think it was a big deal and wasn't heartbroken. Anyway, Yang Wei never thought that one attempt would be successful; if not, he'd just continue with the next one.

  Seal cutting art.

  Failure after failure.

  Yang Lei didn't give up and came again.

  The ritual failed again.

  Can't use fire snake symbol to draw ice cone symbol, then is it using ice cone symbol to draw fire snake symbol?

  Well, let's get started then.

  Take out an ice cream cone and lay it flat.

  Seal cutting art.

  Seal script, cinnabar.

  "Ding, congratulations player, a new symbol has been created. Experience +50,000, Qi +500, Points +500, Proficiency increased."

  "Ding, congratulations player, Sealcraft has been upgraded to Intermediate Sealcraft."

  "Ding, congratulations player on leveling up."

  A string of system sounds, Yang Lei was confused, new symbol refinement successful, symbol crafting technique upgraded, level increased again, this is too cool.