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While Ling Yan was trying to figure out the skills in making jade talismans, he was also taking a glance at Ji Xiaoqian's crafting skills. Ji Xiaoqian was trying to slow him down so that he could observe and compare them, and said, ”Brother, you're really smart now. You only learned how to make jade talismans in two days. I learned from Mistress for more than ten days before finally succeeding!”

”Hmm?” Ling Yan was surprised. ”It's been two days?”

Lifting his head, Ling Yan realized that Xiong Yu had long since run off to somewhere unknown. Ling Yan only felt that it had only been a short while. Although Ji Xiaoqian had said that he was smart, Ling Yan didn't think much of it. He had never mastered the setting of restrictions and Zhen Yuan, and had only succeeded once every two days. Ling Yan felt that he was pretty stupid.

Regarding the function of jade talismans, Ling Yan did not take it to heart. He only felt that the career of a cultivator was very long, and no matter what, he might as well try to learn it to enhance his body's adaptability in the natural world. After all, learning a skill was beneficial to him.

He sat there for three days and three nights, gradually familiarizing himself with Ling Yan's Quintessential Essence. Later on, his scrapped jade medallion also decreased, and even if Ji Xiaoqian had not stopped refining and gave him the jade medallion, the jade medallion in front of Ling Yan would not have been enough for him to use.

It was only on the second day that Ling Yan was able to produce all of the jade plates in one go. Looking at the last successful jade talisman in his hand, he felt a sense of accomplishment, and the jade talisman in his hand was two inches long and one inch wide, so thin that it was about half a centimeter in length. It was translucent, and appeared light blue, its thick edges becoming thinner and thinner in the middle, and its four corners were round, giving people the feeling that it was a small decorative work of art.

The shape of this jade talisman was exactly the same as the one Ji Xiaoqian crafted by Ji Xiaoqian. It was much more beautiful than the one crafted by the bear, but the size of Ling Yan's jade talisman was slightly larger than the ones crafted by the three of them. However, Ling Yan was already quite satisfied with the talisman; it was nothing compared to Ji Xiaoqian and Xiong Yu's jade talismans.

Ji Xiaoqian took the jade talisman from Ling Yan's hand and carefully examined it. Her pretty face froze for a moment as she looked at the jade talisman in Ling Yan's hand, unable to say a word. Ling Yan was puzzled. ”Why are you looking at me like that?” Is there a problem with the jade token? ”

Ji Xiaoqian shook her head and said in shock, ”How did you manage to get the Zhen Yuan inside this jade talisman? ”You even added an auxiliary formation to it. If this jade talisman explodes, I estimate that everything within a hundred miles will evaporate like air. This …”

After he had successfully made the first jade talisman, not only did Ling Yan constantly adjust the true energy and array layout, he also gradually increased the true energy capacity within the jade talisman. This was because he discovered that the jade talisman was limited by its quality and size, and if the jade talisman was placed in a formation array a thousand times over, then it would be very difficult to further enhance the jade talisman's power. The only way to achieve a breakthrough was to correct and adjust the array formation.

No matter what kind of jade talismans were, most of the formations inside them, other than the main magic formations, had the functions of restraining and protecting them: restraining true essence from leaking out; protecting the jade talismans from accidental explosions; and also a small triggering array. Through constant adjustments, Ling Yan managed to come up with a solution, which was to join a spatial compression type array. This kind of array was very common; in the cultivation world, it was a necessary one for artificers to forge storage bracelets or rings.

It was recorded in the spatial array jade eye manual that Ling Yan had learned how to use them. Through continuous attempts, he fused several array formations and then injected primeval essence into the core, causing the core to contain endless amounts of primeval essence. Only when Ling Yan felt that it was about time, did he begin the final step of sealing it.

Although the five jade talismans that Ling Yan had made were slightly larger, they were still several times more powerful than the ones the three of them had made. This was based on the true essence of the ordinary cultivators, as well as the true essence within the core that had yet to explode.