3: Study the talisman! New intelligence!

He placed the ancient Jade Slip against his forehead, slowly probing it with his Divine Sense.

In the next moment, a vast and profound torrent of information instantly flooded into his mind.

"golden plume brush."

Three ancient, large characters first appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.

So this miraculous Talisman brush was named the golden plume brush.

The brush tip was crafted from the crown feathers of a Fifth-Order Great Yao Beast, the Golden Feather Eagle, refined through a secret method and sealed with a trace of the beast's essence, thus preserving its spiritual nature.

The brush shaft was forged from a rare spiritual ore called Starstone, and it was ultimately tempered with the Natal True Fire of a Golden Core True Person for a full forty-nine days before taking its final form.

The value of this brush alone was as high as several thousand Spirit Stones, and it was practically impossible to find on the market.

"What a treasure!"

Lu Qiu felt a surge of excitement in his heart.

For a Talisman master, a good Talisman brush was no less important than a Sword Cultivator's Lifebound Flying Sword.

This golden plume brush was practically a divine weapon tailor-made for him!

He continued digesting the information within the Jade Slip.

It turned out that the one who left this Legacy was actually a Golden Core Stage Loose Cultivator and Talisman master.

This Senior was not a local of Yue Country. Back then, severely injured, he fled here and rented this Chunfeng Small Courtyard to recuperate.

Before leaving after recovering from his injuries, for reasons unknown, he had a sudden whim and left behind his Talisman Dao insights and this golden plume brush, simply waiting for a destined individual.

"This Senior is truly an interesting character."

A sense of admiration arose in Lu Qiu's heart.

In the Cultivation World, everyone hoarded their own secrets, guarding their Cultivation Techniques and secret arts more dearly than their own lives. Who would be so generous as to casually leave their own mantle and Legacy for an unrelated junior?

Unless one's great limit was approaching, such a thing was utterly impossible.

This Senior's mind was truly open and broad.

He cast aside distracting thoughts and continued immersing himself in the contents of the Jade Slip.

The latter part of the Jade Slip recorded densely packed Talisman crafting methods, as well as that Golden Core Senior's lifelong insights into Talisman making.

From the most basic Cleansing Talisman and Fireball Talisman to the Diamond Talisman and Swiftwind Talisman used by Qi Refining Stage Late Stage Cultivators, there were well over a hundred types, each accompanied by detailed diagrams and key crafting points.

What made Lu Qiu's heart race even more was that it also contained the complete crafting methods for over ten types of mid-grade Talismans!

Mid-grade Talismans—that was a Domain only Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators could venture into!

The original owner had struggled for half a lifetime, with a pitifully low success rate even for a single low-grade, High Grade Talisman, let alone mid-grade Talismans.

With this Legacy, he had truly stepped through the gates of the Talisman Dao and become a genuine Talisman master!

Lu Qiu thirstily absorbed the knowledge from the Jade Slip, completely engrossed.

Those Talisman-crafting problems that had long perplexed him were all resolved before the Golden Core Senior's insights, giving him a sense of sudden enlightenment and clarity.

Time slipped away unnoticed.

When a ray of morning light filtered through the window lattice, illuminating the room, Lu Qiu was jolted out of that wondrous state of immersion.

"It's already dawn?"

He rubbed his slightly throbbing temples, feeling no drowsiness at all. Instead, he was energetic and alert, his mind filled with the profound combinations of various Talisman scripts and spiritual inks.

The gains from this single night were greater than those of the past ten years.

At that moment, the familiar text panel before his eyes quietly materialized, its content now completely refreshed.

[White Information: Qi Refining Realm Cultivator Zhang Yin has been poisoned by 'Three-Day Soul-Severing Powder'. He will succumb to the poison and die in his residence in one hour.]

[White Information: At the bottom of the Lishui Pond, five li outside the east gate of the market, a hundred-year-old 'Water Spirit Grass' grows within the silt.]

[Silver Information: Qi Refining Realm Cultivator Zhao Yu, whose ancestor was once a Golden Core True Person, left behind a mysterious wooden chest. The chest is protected by a powerful Restriction that only a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator can break. Inside the chest lies a 'talisman treasure'. Currently, Zhao Yu is severely injured and urgently needs a Spirit Pill to sustain his life. He will be at the front of the 'Duobao Pavilion' in the market's western district today at Shen hour, willing to exchange the wooden chest for healing Medicinal Pills.]

Looking at the three reorganized pieces of information before him, Lu Qiu's breathing hitched slightly.

After yesterday's verification, he had roughly discerned the pattern of this information System.

White Information corresponded to Opportunities or events that basically remained at the Qi Refining Stage level. Whether it was mutated Blood Essence or hundred-year Spirit Medicine, they were nothing significant to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Silver Information, however, directly jumped to the Foundation Establishment Stage level. Yesterday's Storage Pouch contained the entire wealth of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Then, the higher-level gold intelligence likely corresponded in value to a Golden Core True Person!

Lu Qiu's gaze locked firmly onto that piece of Silver Information.

His heart skipped a beat when he saw the words "talisman treasure."

talisman treasure!

He was thunderously familiar with the great reputation of this item.

It was an extremely special and devastatingly powerful treasure that only high-level Cultivators at the Core Formation Stage or above had the ability to create.

They would Seal a portion of their Lifebound Treasure's power into a specially made Talisman paper through a secret method, granting it both the convenience of a Talisman and the might of a Magic Treasure.

The holder only needed to inject spiritual power to briefly unleash a terrifying strike far exceeding their own Realm!

Therefore, talisman treasures were also jokingly called 'pseudo-Magic Treasures' by Cultivators and were the dream protective trump card countless low-level Cultivators yearned for.

Most crucially, creating a talisman treasure required Core Formation Stage cultivation, but using it had no threshold at all!

Even a Qi Refining Stage Cultivator could activate it!

If he could obtain a talisman treasure, it would be like gaining an extra life!

At a critical moment, this thing could completely turn the tide of battle, even allowing one to kill an opponent of a higher level!

For Lu Qiu, who was currently only at the Twelfth Layer of Qi Refining, the allure was fatal.

He carefully analyzed the information.

Zhao Yu, a Qi Refining Realm Cultivator.

Wooden chest, with a Restriction only a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator can break.

Transaction location: 'Duobao Pavilion' in the market's western district.

Transaction time: Today, Shen hour.

Transaction item: Healing Medicinal Pills.

All the information was crystal clear, forming a complete path.

The only apparent problem seemed to be that Restriction that 'only Foundation Establishment can break.'

But Lu Qiu didn't care in the slightest.

So what if he couldn't break the Restriction?

As long as he could get his hands on the wooden chest, once his cultivation reached the required level in the future, there would naturally be plenty of ways to open it.

The most crucial thing now was the 'healing Medicinal Pills' needed to exchange for the wooden chest.

Zhao Yu was severely injured and urgently needed to sustain his life. What he needed was definitely not ordinary healing medicine.

It must be that kind of extremely High Grade, potent Spirit Pill.

And such a Spirit Pill would inevitably carry an exorbitantly high price.

An ordinary Qi Refining Cultivator simply couldn't afford it.

But for Lu Qiu, who had just 'inherited' the entire fortune of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, this was not a problem at all.

What he lacked least right now was Spirit Stones!

A clear plan instantly took shape in Lu Qiu's mind.

Without further hesitation, he carefully stored the golden plume brush and that Talisman Dao Legacy Jade Slip, keeping them close to his body.

Then, he stood up, pushed open the bedroom door with large strides.

The morning sunlight bathed the entire small courtyard, the air fresh and the Spiritual Qi abundant.

Lu Qiu's figure crossed the courtyard without the slightest pause, heading straight for the courtyard gate.

His target was clear.

Ten Thousand Medicines Shop!