LGHTNOVELBOOK 2: Attribute Enhancement Panel
Chu Sang, forgotten by everyone, rushed to a town near the foot of the mountain and spent the night in the cheapest room available.
Inside the room.
The young woman sat on the bed in meditation, eyes tightly closed, with her five centers facing the sky.
Although Tianyan Sect was one of the Eight Great Sects, the spiritual energy at the foot of the mountain wasn’t particularly dense, but it wasn’t too thin either.
As she inhaled and exhaled, the scattered specks of spiritual energy swirling around her were slowly trying to enter her body.
Chu Sang’s brows furrowed tightly, beads of cold sweat appearing on her smooth, fair forehead. The moment the spiritual energy entered her body, it scattered with a “bang!”
…It still wasn’t working.
Chu Sang opened her eyes and clutched her chest, sighing.
Ever since her spirit root was damaged three years ago, her body had struggled to gather spiritual energy.
However, when she just used her spiritual sense to guide the spiritual energy into her body, she seemed to feel that something new had appeared in her sea of consciousness?
Chu Sang then recalled that last night when she entered the forbidden area, a mysterious dark light from an unknown source had entered her brow. But the next second, the female protagonist had jumped off the cliff as if she’d seen a ghost, followed by all those messy events, leaving her no time to investigate what exactly had appeared in her sea of consciousness.
She sat down to meditate again, closed her eyes, and sent a wisp of spiritual sense, as thin as air, into her sea of consciousness.
Darkness stretched before her eyes, silent and still. This was the depths of her sea of consciousness.
Taking a few more steps forward, she glimpsed a faint light source. Her fire spirit root appeared like a gnarled, half-withered old tree. For some unknown reason, the middle trunk and upper canopy had been completely cut away, leaving only the bottom stump, barely clinging to life, on its last breath.
Chu Sang clenched her fists, her eyes turning slightly cold. Something must have happened during her coma three years ago!
She couldn’t believe that merely being injured by a spirit beast would damage her spirit root to such an extent… Unfortunately, she had no memory of that period, and in the original story, she was just an insignificant cannon fodder character, so there wasn’t much explanation about this incident.
Just as she was feeling cold and disheartened, the air before her eyes rippled, and a virtual character in ink-wash style slowly appeared.
[Host: Chu Sang]
[Physical Constitution: 0, Comprehension: 0, Aptitude: 0, Luck: 0]
Immediately after, a special message was transmitted to her sea of consciousness.
[Congratulations on successfully binding the Good Person Enhancement System. Reward: New User Gift Package: 1 Distributable Attribute Point. Please choose the attribute to enhance. Once confirmed, it cannot be changed.]
Chu Sang’s eyes widened as she stared blankly at the panel that appeared in her sea of consciousness. Could this be what she obtained in the forbidden area?!
“An attribute enhancement panel, how awesome!”
Isn’t this more high-tech than the female protagonist’s “old man’s jade tablet”?
As an avid female reader in her previous life, Chu Sang’s ability to accept this was strong. After being stunned for just a few seconds, she decisively said,
“Enhance Comprehension!”
Physical Constitution could help her dominate among cultivators of the same level, but it wasn’t crucial at this stage. Luck wasn’t that important for now either. Aptitude was probably related to the spirit root and might help restore her damaged spirit root, which was very important. But after careful consideration, she decided to first allocate this crucial attribute point to [Comprehension].
Breaking through bottlenecks, cultivation, talisman drawing, formation arranging, and pill refining all relied on comprehension.
And now she was in dire straits, unable to scrape together even ten spirit stones from her entire being.
Spirit stones were not only the universal currency necessary for daily life but also an indispensable resource for cultivators’ practice.
She urgently needed to find a way to earn spirit stones, and drawing talismans, arranging formations, and refining pills were the quickest ways to earn them.
[Enhancement successful, Comprehension: 1]
As the voice faded, Chu Sang clenched her hand but didn’t feel any substantial change in her body…
She hesitated for a moment, then took out cinnabar paper and an ordinary talisman brush from her storage bag. A flash of gold passed through her eyes, and suddenly, her mind, which had previously been clueless about talisman drawing, became as clear as clouds parting to reveal the sky. Thousands of talisman patterns appeared in her mind, forming a comprehensive book of talismans.
A year ago, Qin Xixue had accidentally burned the talisman books on the second floor of the Scripture Pavilion while practicing fire control techniques. Chu Sang couldn’t resist this innocent and kind little junior sister’s earnest pleas and took the blame for her.
The Sect Leader was furious and confined Chu Sang for half a year, making her copy all the texts from the entire second floor.
Even though a year had passed, the experience of being confined for half a year, copying talisman books day and night, was still vivid in her memory. Her hands had swollen from writing, not to mention it was during the cold winter month, and she was confined in the damp and chilly Water Ravine. Her fingers developed chilblains, bleeding and painful.
Chu Sang was extremely resentful at the time. How could Qin Xixue, a once-in-a-century fire spirit root genius, not even be proficient in the most basic fire control techniques?
It was as if the spirit root didn’t belong to her.
It’s worth noting that as a fellow fire spirit root, Chu Sang remembered that when she first stepped onto the path of immortality at five years old, she was more proficient in fire control techniques than the female protagonist.
However, no matter how resentful she was, Chu Sang couldn’t help but want to slap herself. How could she have been so foolish back then, willingly taking the blame and punishment for the female protagonist without any complaints?
She later learned a term called “the irresistible factor of plot.”
Come to think of it, wasn’t she just a cannon fodder supporting character whose intelligence was lowered by the female protagonist’s halo?
Moreover, it took her an entire half year to finish copying the books from the second floor.
Chu Sang had an exceptionally strong photographic memory since childhood. Any book she had seen was memorized by heart, and she could recite them backwards and forwards.
Having a strong memory isn’t rare for cultivators. What’s most important is comprehension. If one’s comprehension isn’t up to par, even if they could recite books backwards and copy them a hundred times, they still wouldn’t be able to draw a single talisman.
Chu Sang was just such an “idiot” with no talent in talisman drawing.
After her comprehension increased to “1,” not only did the talisman patterns in her mind become clearer and more intuitive, but she also had a feeling of sudden enlightenment. Her hand moved faster than her mind, and with two swift “swoosh” sounds, her brush danced like a dragon and snake, sketching out a few smooth and unbroken talisman strokes on the cinnabar paper.
A Speed Talisman, formed!
If someone had been watching from the side, they would have been dumbfounded. Cultivators were as common as dogs on the Spirit Abyss Continent, but formation masters, alchemists, and talisman masters were extremely rare, usually found only in major sects and clans.
Besides the fact that raising these specialists was extremely costly, the main reason was that it really depended on talent and comprehension.
Even for a basic talisman like the Speed Talisman, it would take at least half an hour for a Foundation Establishment stage talisman master with years of practice to draw one, and they couldn’t guarantee a 100% success rate, let alone a beginner like her who had never touched talisman drawing before…
Not only did Chu Sang succeed.
She drew over thirty talismans in one go.
She only stopped when her already limited spiritual energy was completely exhausted.
The next day, before dawn, Chu Sang tidied herself up and went out early. She found a relatively bustling spot and set up a stall to sell talismans, along with some unused treasures and entry-level cultivation manuals she had accumulated at Tianyan Sect, all of which she intended to sell.
From sunrise to sunset, people came and went on the street, but not a single person stopped to look.
“Tsk tsk, so young and already out here scamming people. The world is really going downhill, morals are declining.”
A passerby shook his head, giving her a pitying look before trying to quickly leave. But the young woman grabbed his wrist and met his eyes with her clear gaze,
“Brother, what do you mean by that? I’m a legitimate talisman seller. These are not fake talismans.”
Lin’an City was just a small town, and although it was blessed with spiritual energy due to its location at the foot of Tianyan Sect, and many cultivators frequented the area, with disciples from Tianyan Sect occasionally coming down the mountain to maintain order, the phenomenon of selling counterfeit goods was still rampant.
Obviously, Chu Sang had been mistaken for a middleman selling fake goods by the passerby.
No wonder no one had bought her talismans all day.
The passerby hadn’t expected that cultivators would have such keen hearing, and his casual mutter had actually been heard. His eyes darted around, “If you’re really a legitimate talisman master, why aren’t you selling in a proper shop? I’ve never seen a talisman master casually setting up a small stall on the roadside.”
“If you really want to sell talismans, why don’t you go to the Black Wind Forest at the edge of the city? There’s been a spirit beast tide there, and many cultivators have gone to help. Your talismans would surely be useful there.”