Chapter 109: Requesting Talismans!
After parting ways with Qi Zhenbai, Chi Shuyan wiped her cold sweat. Recalling Qi Zhenbai’s ashen face just now, she felt this man probably wouldn’t look for her again. Chi Shuyan had put on an innocent expression to express that she hadn’t wanted to say it, but he was the one who insisted on hearing it. It had nothing to do with her!
As for what would happen in the future, Chi Shuyan decided to take it one step at a time. Perhaps the changes in their future relations.h.i.+p would start here. Thinking this, Chi Shuyan let out a long sigh of relief.
After returning home, Chi Shuyan first went to the bathroom to take a shower. When she came out, she felt the abundant spiritual energy in the room, and the pores all over her body felt so comfortable and were about to open up.
There was a Millenium Spirit Gathering Tortoise in the fish tank in the room and a pot of fairy-like orchid flowers on the windowsill, which gathered the spiritual energy together before releasing it. Chi Shuyan stretched. It was very comfortable in the presence of spiritual objects. It seemed that she would have to find more of this type of spiritual object in the future. Not only was it beneficial for cultivation, drawing talismans gave her twice the effect with half the effort.
Chi Shuyan casually picked up the watering can on the windowsill and poured water into it. She picked up the Blood Drinking Wood that was hanging in the middle of the orchid flowers and saw that it was glowing radiantly. It no longer looked as unremarkable as before as it absorbed more than half of the spiritual energy that flowed out of the orchid.
Chi Shuyan glanced at the rotten roots under the orchid. She didn’t know if she was seeing things, but it seemed that the rotten parts were diminis.h.i.+ng, as if they were slowly recovering and healing themselves. After looking at them and thinking for a long time, she felt that she was probably imagining things.
After all, apart from one cactus that was impervious to the cold, any plant or flower that she raised in her past life died eight or nine out of ten times. Besides, even an expert had been helpless when it came to this fragile orchid.
Chi Shuyan was a little regretful that this spiritual object was destined to wither and decay, but it was worth the 500,000 yuan to immerse this Blood Drinking Wood in the orchid’s spiritual energy. People shouldn’t be too greedy.
After laying out the talismans and cinnabar which she had bought today on the table, Chi Shuyan lifted her cinnabar pen and focused on drawing talismans. This time, she planned to draw a Thunder Light Talisman with equal offensive and defensive power, but one level higher than before.
It would be a level-two Thunder Light Talisman.
Two hours later, Chi Shuyan finished the last stroke on the talisman.
Smelling the fragrance of the spiritual orchid, she had felt in unprecedentedly good condition when she drew the talismans, and hadn’t even wasted a single sheet. As if she had divine help from G.o.d, she finished each talisman in one go.
After Chi Shuyan turned on her computer and logged onto the Taobao platform, her notifications beeped. The DMs were all customers who wanted to buy more products. When she checked the goods on the shelves of her shop, she found that almost all of them were sold out.
She couldn’t help but click her tongue. Because she had been busy recently, she hadn’t drawn many talismans, while it was her ghost servant who managed things behind the scenes, sent out the goods, and did a host of other miscellaneous things.
Chi Shuyan was about to restock her Taobao shop when her phone rang.
“Master Chi, have you been very busy recently?” Yang Hongsheng inquired.
“It’s not too bad.” Chi Shuyan was confused.
“What have you been busy with all day?”
“Reading.” It wasn’t appropriate for Chi Shuyan to tell Yang Hongsheng that she was researching how to crack the luck-borrowing array, so she found an excuse to brush him off.
“AHHHH! Master Chi, you can’t forget serious business just because you’re reading.” On the other end, Yang Hongsheng wailed, “All the talismans in your shop are sold out. When are you going to restock your products? I’ve been keeping watch at my computer every day until I’m about to grow gra.s.s, and I check it when I wake up first thing in the morning.”
Ever since Master Chi neatly solved his cousin’s problem, his parents and that bunch of relatives kept urging him to drop by to get talismans from the Master.
But he had already troubled Master Chi quite a bit, and was embarra.s.sed about it. So, he could only keep watch at the computer every day to snap up the talismans, and he had been prepared to fight a protracted war. In the end, he was dumbfounded when he opened the Taobao shop. Everything was sold out and Master Chi hadn’t restocked.
Yang Hongsheng waited and waited as he clawed at his ears and cheeks. He wanted to call and ask many times, but in the end, he thought about how Master Chi was in the special college entrance exam period, so it would be normal for her to be busier. Even his three brothers almost called her, but Yang Hongsheng stopped them for the sake of leaving a good impression on Master Chi.
But today, he finally couldn’t wait anymore, so he made a phone call to sound her out. He didn’t expect to be struck by a bolt from the blue. It turned out that Master Chi wasn’t busy at all and was still in the mood to read. So, why hadn’t he called earlier to ask?
The corner of Chi Shuyan’s mouth twitched. “Can you stop howling and making so much noise in the middle of the night? I’m restocking right now. By the way, a new talisman called the Thunder Light Talisman will be put up for sale. The quality of the talisman is higher than the ones before, with both offensive and defensive capabilities. I’ve just put it up, so you can bid on it if you like.”
“A combination of offensive and defensive power?” Yang Hongsheng was puzzled. “But weren’t all the talismans before the same?”
“The previous talismans can be considered to have both, but they had elementary and less offensive power, and were mainly defensive in nature. With the Thunder Light Talisman this time, let’s put it this way: With the previous talismans, if a car hits you, you would be sent flying but come out unscathed. With the Thunder Light Talisman, it won’t be you that is sent flying, but the car.” Chi Shuyan paused in filling in the online information for the new talisman as she patiently explained it to him.
“Ahhh, Master Chi, this new type of talisman is so powerful, why didn’t you say so earlier? I’m still outside!” Yang Hongsheng pushed the person next to him away and sprinted out. “Master Chi, you must wait for me.”
“You can also do it on your phone!” Chi Shuyan was puzzled as she listened to Yang Hongsheng huffing and puffing.
“You don’t understand those beastly robbers. How can I beat them without computer hacks?” Yang Hongsheng directly threw his jacket over his shoulder and got into his car.
“Drive safe.” Chi Shuyan was speechless. “I won’t release it so early. By the way, remember to let Zhou Kunxiong and the others know.”
“Okay, leave it to me.” Yang Hongsheng let out a breath.
Chi Shuyan had just hung up, when Zhu Bocheng called her. After finding out that she would be putting up a new talisman and learning its functions, he was thrilled and expressed that he wanted it. Afraid that he wouldn’t be able to fight for it, he may as well curry favor, and said, “Sister Shuyan, tell me, with our close relations.h.i.+p, is there any need for me to fight for it? Why don’t I just buy a few from you on the side?”
Seeing that Chi Shuyan didn’t speak, Zhu Bocheng was afraid she would refuse, so he quickly said, “Sister Shuyan, I really need it urgently. You don’t know, but recently, a bunch of rascals around me said that they were going to do a midnight horror adventure livestream. Those rascals bought a huge pile of talismans from who knows where, but I could tell with one glance that they’re fake. They didn’t believe me when I told them that they’re fake, and one of those rascals is Zhenbai’s cousin. How can I not be worried? I wanted to tell Zhenbai, but his cousin insisted that I couldn’t tell him. I don’t have any other choice now, so I can only beg you. As the saying goes, better to be safe than sorry!”
The more Zhu Bocheng spoke, the more helpless he felt. If it wasn’t because it was Zhenbai’s cousin, he really wouldn’t have bothered. Furthermore, in Zhu Bocheng’s heart now, he felt that he couldn’t trust any other Celestial Master except Sister Shuyan. Those few brats, however, insisted that he had met a swindler and that the Celestial Master they had met was the real one.
Chi Shuyan didn’t think much about it and was about to agree, when a thought suddenly struck her. She didn’t know why, but she suddenly remembered something from her past life, when the Qi family had held several funerals in succession. Those funerals caused a sensation, and seemed to have started when the son of Qi Zhenbai’s Second Uncle died suddenly and his soul couldn’t be found. His mother couldn’t accept the fact and committed suicide that same night. After his wife and son died, the Qi family’s Second Uncle also died from depression not long after. This incident dealt an incomparably severe blow to the Qi family and Qi Zhenbai. If Qi Zhenbai hadn’t acted ruthlessly and decisively at that time, the Qi family might have long fallen into chaos.
Later, she vaguely heard that everything had appeared to be a setup, mainly because the Qi family’s Second Uncle held an important position in the Qi family and was on extremely good terms with Qi Zhenbai. So, the person behind the scenes orchestrated this incident to lure out Qi Zhenbai’s cousin and thereby strike a blow to Qi Zhenbai’s power.
Thinking of this, Chi Shuyan’s face changed color repeatedly. Although she didn’t have much of a relations.h.i.+p with that man, Qi Zhenbai, she was indebted to him several times and he treated her alright. With this in mind, Chi Shuyan immediately said, “Deal. Come and get them tomorrow morning. Just nice, I’ll use this time to refine a few more talismans that will be useful to them.”
“Thank you so much, Sister Shuyan!”