After leaving the stall, Zhou Ling went to a nearby pastry shop and spent three pieces of broken spirit to buy nine pastries before returning home.
He ate three pieces himself and left six pieces for his parents.
He came to the kitchen and opened the lid of the pot. He found a large bowl inside, which contained a stewed fire-patterned chicken and a full bowl of chicken soup.
The soup was still steaming and exuding an attractive fragrance, with some coriander on top.
A faint spiritual energy could also be clearly seen floating.
There was also a small dish of stir-fried vegetables.
The water in the pot was still a little warm.
Zhou Ling tore off two large chicken legs and filled a bowl of chicken soup.
Thinking of his father coming back in the evening, he put another chicken leg back.
He covered the pot, ate the meal happily, ate the spiritual cake, and returned to the house.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Zhou Ling began to practice the Spirit Flame Art to refine and absorb the spiritual energy of the food just now.
He opened his eyes after a while, then took out the five-element basic inscription jade slip and stuck it on his forehead.
He studied the inscription carefully.
Only by understanding the structure and connection of the inscription first, could he repair the fire-condensing inscription.
This was the income of ten low-grade spirit stones, which was equivalent to his father's income from venturing into the mountains for a month.
Moreover, learning and practicing at the same time would deepen his understanding of the inscription.
It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone.
The jade slip recorded the three most common construction methods of basic inscriptions, the combination of inscription patterns, the connection method, and the arrangement method.
In addition, there are thirty-six five-element basic inscriptions.
There are illustrations attached to the back of the inscription, recording the inscription pattern type, the combination method of the inscription, and other key points.
It is a more common inscription pattern.
Among them, how to choose the inscription connection method, how to compound the inscription pattern, the various proportions of the spiritual ink, and the pen drawing method requires the use of spiritual power to cooperate, etc.
It is much more complicated than the original learning to draw inscriptions.
Zhou Ling also had some difficulty understanding it.
This was Zhou Ling's first time to come into contact with an inscription. Although he had been able to draw six inscription patterns at once before, that was only the result of his increasing proficiency.
Compared with the inscription in front of him, the difficulty was completely different.
Moreover, it was also noted in the jade slip that only those who had reached the third level of Qi training could try to draw the inscription.
Fortunately, Zhou Ling had now entered the third level of Qi training.
After an incense stick of time, Zhou Ling felt dizzy and almost threw the jade slip away.
It was too difficult to comprehend this inscription.
How can the inscription patterns be integrated and connected?
[You are practicing the "Five Elements Basic Inscription", more courage after setbacks +1, understanding +3]
[You are practicing the "Five Elements Basic Inscription", natural talent +1, proficiency of the Five Elements Basic Inscription +1]
As the prompts appeared, Zhou Ling seemed to have a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he seemed to understand the connection between the inscriptions.
After pondering for a long time, he had no clue. With the blessing of talent, it was completely different. In just one stick of incense, Zhou Ling roughly mastered several main ways of connecting the inscriptions.
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After his parents came back, they asked him to go out for supper.
The big chicken leg that he deliberately left for Zhou Shan was back in his bowl.
Under his father's insistence, Zhou Ling had no choice but to eat it.
After eating, Zhou Ling returned to his room and continued to study the basic inscriptions of the five elements.
He felt that the difficulty of this inscription was completely different from the inscription pattern.
The reason is not only that it is difficult to learn, but also that the drawing process is complicated and tedious.
Not only must the proportion of spiritual ink be accurate, but also the inscription must be fully mastered, and the process must mobilize the spiritual power in the body to cooperate.
And even if all these are mastered, it may not be successful.
If the connection method is slightly wrong, it will fail!
The inscription patterns are not integrated properly, and it fails!
The spiritual ink is inconsistent with the material, and it fails! ·······
Every stroke must be done with the slightest error.
As long as you are proficient in ordinary inscriptions, the success rate of drawing is generally very high.
But the inscription is completely different. If any mistake is made in any part of the six inscriptions, the work will fail.
However, fortunately, Zhou Ling has a talent. As long as he keeps practicing, he will be able to comprehend and master it sooner or later.
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Time flies.
After half a month of groping and researching, with the help of [More Frustrations and More Courage] and [Genius].
Zhou Ling finally slowly found the trick of inscription drawing.
If he didn't have the talent, even if he was given another year, he wouldn't be able to find the way.
However, next, Zhou Ling tried to draw the basic fire condensation inscription, but it didn't go well.
The fire condensation inscription contains six flame inscriptions, two of which Zhou Ling had never learned.
The connection method is quite complicated, and it is difficult to draw.
Moreover, the six inscriptions are all five lines with considerable difficulty, which have considerable requirements for spiritual power and consciousness.
Drawing an inscription is not easy in itself. Some tricks are difficult to understand without the guidance of a master.
Fortunately, Zhou Ling has the talent of [More Frustration, More Courage]. After drawing a few more times, he gradually understood the tricks.
With the blessing of talent, Zhou Ling gradually improved his proficiency.
However, as he started to draw on the spiritual paper, the spiritual power consumed was too much, which made it easy to make mistakes.
Either the inscription pattern drawn could not be constructed into an inscription; or the connection and compounding methods were wrong, resulting in the inability of the spiritual power to form a closed loop.
Moreover, drawing once consumes almost one-third of the spiritual power in the body.
It also takes a lot of time to recover.
Zhou Ling could only endure the nature and take it step by step.
However, the spiritual paper and spiritual ink consumed every day are worth more than a dozen pieces of broken spirits, which makes him feel distressed.
[You are practicing "Five Elements Basic Inscription", natural talent +1, five elements basic inscription proficiency +1]
Fortunately, the sound of the system prompt made him feel that everything was moving in the right direction.
Only then was he relieved.
Another five days passed. Zhou Ling returned home, ate his meal in a hurry, and then began to draw the Fire Condensation Inscription. He
started to draw smoothly, stroke by stroke, steadily, and finally successfully outlined it.
But it took a long time. It took
him nearly half an hour to draw the six-pattern Fire Condensation Inscription, and nearly half of his spiritual power was consumed.
But when Zhou Ling looked carefully, he found that the spiritual power on the inscription was extremely obscure.
[You are analyzing the Fire Condensation Inscription, primary analysis +1, Fire Condensation Inscription proficiency +1]
Zhou Ling quickly found the problem.
The first inscription was not powerful enough to cover and lead the other five inscriptions behind.
After discovering the problem, Zhou Ling operated the Spirit Flame Art and practiced it for three cycles.
The spiritual power in his body recovered a little, and then he continued to draw.
This time, when he drew the sixth inscription, the entire inscription flickered a few times, and it seemed to be dimming, but as Zhou Ling put away the inscription pen.
A burst of spiritual light gradually emerged on the inscription.
"Finally done!"
Zhou Ling breathed a sigh of relief.
After nearly a month, he finally succeeded in drawing the first inscription.
Zhou Ling was excited. This meant that from today on, he was no longer an apprentice in refining. He
already had the qualifications of a refiner.
Of course, to become a true first-class refiner, he had to refine a first-class top-grade magic weapon and pass the Dao League assessment.
However, he was already very satisfied with the current progress, after all, he was not even eight years old.
(End of this chapter)