“Who tore it off?”
Was it the Dragon Protector Pavilion’s Pavilion Master, or the grey-clothed old man? Who else had access to this booklet? What exactly was it trying to hide?
Zhang Ruochen’s brows were tightly locked, but he could never ponder over the reason for it, and in the end, he could only put the matter aside and stop thinking about it for the time being.
Zhang Ruochen began to study some of the knowledge on top of the Blood Clan Secret Scroll, mainly wanting to master the method of identifying the Undying Blood Clan, with some means of dealing with the Undying Blood Clan.
Blood Suppressing Talisman.
One of the means to deal with the Undying Blood Race was to use a Blood Suppressing Talisman.
As long as the Blood Suppressing Talisman was affixed to their bodies, it would suppress the blood qi in their bodies, thus rendering them incapable of fighting.
On top of one of the pages of the Blood Clan’s Secret Scrolls, there were a total of four rune seals, and by referring to the patterns of the rune seals, the Blood Suppressing Talisman could be carved out.
The four rune seals were all different, one more complex than the other, and one more arcane than the other.
“Using the Blood Suppressing Talisman is rather a most simple and direct means. If, however, one is able to carve out a large number of Blood Suppressing Symbols, would it not be difficult to deal with the Immortal Blood Race?”
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ruochen shook his head gently again and muttered to himself, “Even if we were to publish the Blood Clan Secret Scrolls, we can’t publish the four talisman seals. Once the Immortal Blood Race knows the method of burning the four rune seals, they will surely research means to counteract the rune seals. The method of burning the four rune seals can only be held in the hands of a few.”
Next, Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spiritual power completely to study the first rune seal.
Although Zhang Ruochen hadn’t specialised in learning how to inscribe and refine talismans, his spiritual energy was strong enough that he could learn a lot of things as soon as he did.
The more powerful the mental energy was, the faster the speed of learning would be.
The materials used to refine the Blood Suppressing Talisman were quite special, one had to use holy bones to make the talisman paper and divine blood as the ink in order to bring out the strongest power.
Both the sacred bones and divine blood were incomparably precious treasures.
Especially divine blood, every drop was worth a fortune, using divine blood to refine talismans couldn’t be more extravagant.
The materials for a single Blood Suppressing Talisman were already enough to discourage a Saint Sect, and to want to refine it in large quantities was almost an unlikely thing.
“If I had known that the sacred bones could be used to refine the Blood Suppressing Talisman, I should have included all those corpses of the Indigenous Martial Saints into the Scroll World.”
Zhang Ruochen let out a long sigh, feeling regret and pity.
Right now, even if Zhang Ruochen used the Spatial Teleportation Array to return, it was probably a wasted journey.
Trying to find the planet that had killed several Indigenous Martial Saints in the vastness of the starry sky was no different from finding a needle in a haystack.
Zhang Ruochen still found some Saint Bones in the Scroll World, Saint King Bones to be exact.
Those Saint King Bones were peeled off from the top of the Green Flame Xuanwu’s corpse.
The Saint King Bones and the Xuanwu Shell were some of the last remaining valuable things of the Greenflame Xuanwu.
Xiao Hei had once used a portion of the Saint King Bones to refine something else, thus, there were not many Saint King Bones left.
The Saint King Bone of the Greenflame Xuanwu was quite hard, and even when Zhang Ruochen used the Ancient Sword of the Sinking Abyss, it took him quite a bit of effort to cut it into a bone rune paper as thin as a hair’s thread.
The energy contained in the divine blood was extremely strong, therefore, it had to be inscribed carefully, and with the slightest negligence, the divine blood would destroy the bone runic paper.
Zhang Ruochen took out an inscription pen that was refined using the wood of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, dipped it into the divine blood, and carefully carved on the bone runic paper.
Just halfway through the carving, Zhang Ruochen accidentally carved a wrong stroke, and all of a sudden, the energy of the divine blood soaked into the bone runic paper.
“Puffing.”
The bone runic paper burned, and in an instant, it turned into ashes.
Zhang Ruochen felt heartbroken, not only was it a piece of talisman paper that was destroyed, but at the same time, two drops of divine Blood were lost.
Zhang Ruochen took out a second piece of bone talisman paper and continued to carve it again.
Fail.
Fail.
……
After failing seven times in a row, finally, on the eighth time, Zhang Ruochen carved out the first Blood Suppressing Talisman.
He wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and exhaled a long breath, with some joy as well as some emotion.
“It took fifteen drops of divine blood to successfully inscribe a Blood Suppressing Talisman, such an expense is also too huge and heartbreaking!”
Zhang Ruochen wore a bitter smile on his face, however, seeing the Blood Suppressing Talisman in his hand, there was still some sense of achievement in his heart.
In fact, only three drops of divine blood were needed to inscribe a Blood Suppressing Symbol, the key was that the success rate was too low, which was why a large amount of divine blood was consumed.
With each failed one, Zhang Ruochen’s heart was dripping blood.
“As long as I carve one successfully, the success rate should increase quite a bit.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Next, Zhang Ruochen took out ten sheets of bone talisman paper in a row, slapped them neatly together, and inscribed them one after another.
In the end, of the ten sheets of talisman paper, three were successful.
The 30% success rate was still too low, Zhang Ruochen was not satisfied, so he continued to practice and continue carving.
Without knowing how long it took, the number of Blood Suppressing Talismans in Zhang Ruochen’s hand had reached thirty, and the success rate had increased to fifty percent.
Almost for every two that were inscribed, one would succeed.
Inscribing the talisman pattern was only the first step.
One still wanted to carry out the second step, using only flames, or another secret technique, to preserve the talisman. When using it, the cultivator only needed to inject holy qi into it, and the talisman would be able to exert its proper power.
Zhang Ruochen refined all thirty Blood Suppressing Talismans and placed them into his spatial ring, next, he began to study the second talisman seal on the Blood Clan Secret Scroll.
The number of talisman patterns on the second talisman seal was several times that of the first, more complex and more complicated, just staring at it made Zhang Ruochen feel dizzy.
“The second talisman must be used to deal with the Saint amongst the Immortal Blood Clan, with my current talisman dao attainments, I simply can’t carve it.”
The second talisman was even more demanding, as it had to use a Saint King’s bone to make the talisman paper, and inscribing a Blood Suppressing Talisman would cost at least dozens of drops of divine blood.
Earlier, Zhang Ruochen had already spent more than two hundred drops of Divine Blood to inscribe the first Blood Suppressing Talisman.
If he were to practice inscribing the second Blood Suppressing Symbol, even if he had quite a lot of Divine Blood at his disposal, he would probably have to use it up cleanly.
Zhang Ruochen approached Little Black and asked it to study the runic seals of the four Prison Suppression Talismans.
Xiao Hei’s attainments above the Rune Dao were much higher than Zhang Ruochen’s, so perhaps he could burn the second Blood Suppressing Talisman.
After some careful study, Little Black said, “The four talisman seals are of four levels. The first Blood Suppressing Talisman can be used to deal with the Immortal Blood Race’s Half-Saints. The second Blood Suppressing Talisman can be used to deal with the Immortal Blood Race’s Saints. The third Blood Suppressing Talisman could be used to deal with Saint Kings of the Undying Blood Race. The fourth ……”
Eye-catching auras emerged from Little Black’s eyes as he said, “The fourth Blood Suppressing Talisman will most likely be able to suppress the Blood Emperor of the Undying Blood Clan. I’ll go, as long as we can refine the four Blood Suppressing Talismans in large quantities, dealing with the Undying Blood Clan is no different from playing?”
Zhang Ruochen said without a trace of anger, “How can it be easy? Even the simplest Semi-Saint Grade Blood Suppressing Talisman is not something that an ordinary talisman master can refine. Not to mention a Saint Grade Blood Suppressing Talisman. Saint King level blood suppression talismans? As for a Great Saint Grade Blood Suppressor Talisman, in today’s world, it is estimated that no one is able to refine it.”
In order to refine a Great Saint Grade Blood Suppressor Talisman, one had to use divine bones to make the talisman paper, and the amount of divine blood spent would be massive.
The most important point was that it had to be a talisman master whose spiritual power had reached the Great Saint level before it could be successfully inscribed.
In the entire Kunlun Realm, there might not even be any Great Saints of Spiritual Power, let alone a talisman master who had cultivated his spiritual power to that level.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Can you carve out a Saint-level Blood Suppressing Talisman or not?”
Since he was going back to the Blood God Sect to deal with the lurkers of the Immortal Blood Race, it was only natural that he had to master the Saint Grade Blood Suppressing Talisman to be the safest.
“How much divine blood can you provide this emperor with?”Little Black asked.
In the netherworld, Zhang Ruochen had indeed obtained a pool of divine blood, but he had consumed a small portion of it in cultivating his fleshly body, and he would definitely have to spend a large amount more when he impacted his fleshly body to become a Saint.
Right now, the divine blood he still had at his disposal was actually not much.
“Two thousand drops.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Little Black nodded and said, “This Emperor will give it a try! It’s really hard to say if it can succeed.”
Xiao Hei had extremely high attainments in formation, artefact refining, alchemy, and beast mastery, only its study of the Rune Dao was a bit weaker.
Thus, it didn’t dare to boast that it would definitely be able to refine the Saint Grade Blood Suppressor Talisman.
After studying it for three days in a row, Little Black acted and began to carve it. After more than ten attempts, it all ended in failure, wasting close to three hundred drops of divine blood.
“Can you do it or not?”
Zhang Ruochen felt quite distressed as he watched the Divine Blood and Saint King Bones continue to consume.
“A Saint-level Blood Suppressor Symbol is many times more difficult than a Half-Saint-level Blood Suppressor Symbol, how could it be so easy to be able to carve it out?”
Little Black picked up the Secret Scroll of the Blood Clan and continued his research.
While studying and practising, soon a thousand drops of divine blood were consumed.
Knowing that a single drop of divine blood could be sold for an astronomical price, after only a few days had passed, Xiao Hei had consumed a thousand drops of divine blood, even a medieval century probably wouldn’t be able to last.
Zhang Ruochen rubbed his temples, already on the verge of vomiting blood, and didn’t dare to continue looking for fear that he would be infuriated.
Separating from Little Black, Zhang Ruochen summoned Zhao Shiqi over.
Zhao Shiqi’s spiritual strength had already reached the peak of the forty-ninth rank, and was just one step away from Spiritual Power Sainthood, counting him as a high-ranking member of the Ming Sect.
Zhao Shiqi bowed to Zhang Ruochen and inquired, “Patriarch, what do you have to order your subordinates?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I’m going to continue to stay in the Scrolls World for a while, so you should first return to the Blood God Sect and help me probe the situation in the sect. In addition, help me find out the details of the Palace Master and the two Vice Palace Masters of the Spectral Character Heavenly Palace, the more detailed the better.”
“Understood.”
Zhao Shiqi retreated and left the world of picture scrolls.
The Spectral Character Heavenly Palace, the head of the Blood God Sect’s Cross Heavenly Palace, only took orders from the Blood God Sect’s Sectmaster and was responsible for guarding the Endless Abyss.
How could the Blood God Sect’s Sectmaster arrange for such an important task to be given to an outsider?
Zhang Ruochen very much suspected that amongst the top echelons of the Phantom Character Heavenly Palace, there was a high probability that there were lurkers of the Immortal Blood Race.
