Chapter 9 (1/2)

This time to Green-sun Tribe, Lian Rufeng and the rest of the guardians traded some daily supplies that villagers needed urgently. As usual, these supplies would be distributed to villagers at the ancestral hall.

Summoned by Shiao Tianren, all villagers flocked to the ancestral hall soon.

Lin Xun was invited too. But he declined politely. As a new comer, he should be the last person to get a share.

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Late in the afternoon, Lin Xun sat under the green weeping willow in his courtyard. He was sculpturing a Lycopodium Silver with the pale cyan dagger in the rays of the setting sun.

Duo Duo Duo!

With delicate skills in exerting force, the sharp edge of the dagger roamed the surface of the Lycopodium Silver smoothly like floating clouds and flowing water. Wood chips fell like snowflakes, making unique and rhythmic sounds.

Lin Xun got slender fingers and broad palms. The pale cyan dagger held casually in his fair hand danced like a butterfly in flowers, creating a unique sense of beauty.

A spiritual tattoo apprentice must practice his skills to exert force before learning to inscribe spiritual tattoos, which was inseparable from the exercise of fingers on both hands.

The flexibility and stability of palms and fingers were the most crucial parts for inscribing spiritual tattoos.

After all, inscribing spiritual tattoo was much more than just sketching or painting. It also required a spiritual tattooist to guide the spiritual energy in his body to control the degree of shade, thickness and intensity of the spiritual ink as well as its integrating degree to the tattoo.

For instance, an inscribing pen, a plate of Birthwort Spiritual Ink and a carrier were needed to complete a basic Birthwort Spiritual Tattoo.

The inscribing pen was a tool used by a spiritual tattooist, which greatly tested the accuracy and flexibility of fingers.

It was worth mentioning that the quality of an inscribing pen varied. A superior inscribing pen integrated better with both the spiritual ink and the spiritual energy, while an inferior one did the opposite. The Flaming Gold Master Lu broke off, for example, was a rare and priceless treasure of inestimable value in Lin Xun’s memory.

The spiritual ink was used to sketch spiritual tattoos, which was usually refined with various spiritual materials. Each kind of spiritual ink possessed a special power.

The Birthwort Spiritual Ink was fused and condensed with 16 spiritual materials including birthwor root, white spirit leaves, spirit yorphoon blood, red warbler teardrops…in different proportion.

Inscribing a Birthwort Spiritual Tattoo with a spiritual ink refined this way was the best option to increase integrating degree and chance of success.

The carrier was the place where inscription occurred. It must also be a spiritual item. One could either inscribe a spiritual tattoo on a weapon, an armor or something else like a house, a tea set, a carriage, etc.

For the Light-attracting Spiritual Tattoo inscribed yesterday, Lin Xun used his fingertip as the inscribing pen, bone meal of gold-eating mice the spiritual ink, and the spiritual land, the carrier. With the spirit energy in it, the spiritual lands were apparently a type of spiritual item.

However, the Light-attracting Spiritual Tattoo inscribed in the spiritual land was a bit coarse and shallow without a spiritual source, which could not be preserved after single-use.

A spiritual source, which could be a spiritual stone, spiritual vein, or some other treasures rich in spiritual energy, could endlessly provide energy for spiritual tattoos.

It may look easy to inscribe a spiritual tattoo with just a pen, some spiritual ink and a carrier. However, the complicated and rigorous procedures were anything but simple.

It was even harder to become a qualified spiritual tattooist. That was why a spiritual tattooist was highly and widely respected.