Chapter 237: The King’s Single-Mindedness (Ch 237)

“Friend Qu, I hope I am not disturbing you by visiting you.”

The Crown King laughed loudly, glanced at Zhou Xuan’er, and asked in surprise: “Why is my niece here too? Is your father here?”

“Second uncle, my father just left.”

Zhou Xuan’er bowed politely and hid behind Ye Bufan with some fear.

The Crown King has a bad reputation and is moody, so the younger generations like them keep their distance from him.

“I wonder what important matter has brought the King of Crown here?” Ye Bufan narrowed his eyes and motioned the King of Crown to take a seat.

Qu Si had met Guan Wang before, but they were not very familiar with each other.

Prince Guan took a seat generously. He had a higher level of cultivation than Qu Si, so he did not need to be as polite as Prince Chu.

“This king has come here to ask Master Qu Fu to draw a high-level talisman formation. If it succeeds, there will be a generous reward.”

The crown king spoke in secret and got straight to the point.

“Oh? Is the Crown Prince planning a rebellion? If so, I’m afraid I can’t help him, otherwise the old emperor will come after me later.”

Ye Bufan’s eyes flickered slightly. The high-level talisman formation posed a great threat to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

The Crown Prince waved his hands and laughed, “Friend Qu, you are overthinking. I would never dare to rebel. I am just taking precautions. Besides, you and I know about the talisman, but the old emperor doesn’t know.”

Ye Bufan sneered in his heart.

He doesn’t believe a lie.

“No, and besides, Qu’s attainments in talismans are not that high. High-level talisman formations are too difficult to draw.” Ye Bufan shook his head.

“Friend Qu, name your price.”

“For people at your level and mine, the value of low- to medium-quality spirit stones is not that great.”

“Twenty thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, plus a Nascent Soul magic weapon.”

“I am not interested in Nascent Soul magic weapons. Even if I refine others’, their power cannot be fully exerted.”

“Thirty thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, this is the limit.”

“……make a deal!”

Ye Bufan nodded in agreement, with a smile on his face.

He sighed and decided that he still had to confiscate the property. If he killed the Crown King and made some money, who knows how many elixirs he would get?

For hundreds of years, the tributes paid by various states of Yan State were plundered and withheld by the old King Jing, King Guan, and King Zhenbei, either openly or covertly.

No matter how powerful the old emperor is, he can’t take it all for himself.

He added, “However, this matter needs to be kept secret. I don’t want to be in trouble with Emperor Yan.”

“That’s natural.”

The Crown King laughed, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.

He didn’t know what went wrong. The old emperor charged the Prince of Zhenbei with treason and all the people he copied were his cronies.

At least a dozen forces were uprooted and suffered heavy losses.

He did not dare to attack, as the Emperor and the Prince of Zhenbei were united and he could not stop them at all.

If he continues like this, let alone usurping the throne, it will be a problem whether he can even keep himself.

The old emperor must die!

The two chatted about some details of the talisman formation, and Ye Bufan took the opportunity to get some fourth-level talismans and the method of drawing large talisman formations from the Crown King.

We had a very pleasant conversation.

“Fellow Daoist Qu, you’d better stay away from the two great True Lords Zhenyang and Shenyou these days. The fight between the True Demon Sect and the Worry-Free Sect is getting more and more intense. If you get involved, I’m afraid your life will be in danger.”

Before leaving, the Crown King handed the storage bag to Ye Bufan and reminded him, “Just the day before yesterday, the leader of the True Demon Sect found an opportunity to kill the middle-stage Nascent Soul of the Worry-Free Sect.”

Zhenyang and Shenyou were both in Yandu. Several of their Nascent Souls had a conflict outside Yandu, and Old Monster Chen from the Zhenmo Sect was nearly killed.

The Great Yan royal family faced two overbearing forces and did not dare to intervene.

The new leader of the True Demon Sect is even more brutal.

“Thanks for the reminder.”

Ye Bufan took the storage bag, glanced at the thirty thousand-year-old elixirs in it, smiled, and after seeing Crown King off, his smile faded.

“Still want to use my talisman array to kill me?”

Ye Bufan looked at me with mockery, thinking about tinkering with the talisman formation.

Talisman arrays are different from talismans. The former is mixed with the art of formation and is more complicated. Changes in details are difficult for even a Nascent Soul to detect.

This is the same as magic weapons. Most weapon refiners will leave a flaw to prevent others from using the magic weapons they refine against them.

The latter is just a simple talisman, and any problems with it can be easily seen.

“Preparing the talisman array now, could it be for the border negotiations with the Liao Kingdom?” Ye Bufan pondered and had a plan in mind.

He turned and walked towards the study on the second floor, asking Zhou Xuaner to follow him.

“Since your father asked me to teach you how to draw talismans, I will not break my promise. Please watch carefully.”

“This talisman is called ‘Divine Light Talisman’, it is a primary fourth-order talisman, and can harm a True Lord in the early stage of the Nascent Soul.”

Ye Bufan gave a few instructions, took out a piece of fourth-level talisman paper, picked up the talisman pen, concentrated his energy and magic power, and drew the talisman calmly.

The requirements for the fourth-level talisman are very strict. It requires the unity of spiritual consciousness, magic power, and intention, and all of them must be poured into it, and the manipulation of the magic power is even more subtle.

The slightest mistake will result in failure, and it consumes much more energy than a third-level talisman.

If the golden elixir is perfected, even if one has reached the fourth level of attainment, after drawing one, one’s mind will be overly exhausted and it will take more than a month to recover.

“Yes, Master.”

Zhou Xuan’er watched attentively with starry eyes of admiration.

Her family also has a talisman master, who is at the third level. Everyone who sees her has to respectfully call her “Miss”.

Therefore, she had always looked down upon talisman masters, but now seeing her father and second uncle coming to visit her in person, she realized clearly that a fourth-rank talisman master had a much higher status than she had imagined.

After a while.

Ye Bufan put down the last stroke, sweat all over his forehead, and a hint of paleness appeared on his face.

Not using the Secret Art of Sacrificial Talismans would drain too much of my mind.

Fortunately, it lived up to our expectations and succeeded.

The fourth-level talisman on the desk emitted a faint glow, and its pressure was so strong that Zhou Xuaner couldn’t breathe.

“Master, is this a fourth-level talisman?”

She was very surprised because her father had collected several fourth-level talismans but had never let her see them.

I really didn’t expect that a single talisman could have such a terrifying pressure. It felt like I was facing the power of heaven.

“Don’t call me Master. I didn’t agree to take you as my apprentice.”

Ye Bufan glanced at her.

“Yes, Master.”

Zhou Xuan’er said in a delicate voice, blinking her big eyes, her face white, tender and shiny.

Ye Bufan was helpless and didn’t bother to care what she called him.

He casually threw a talisman book to Zhou Xuaner, and gave her a dozen first-level talisman papers, cinnabar, and talisman pens, “Go read it yourself, and then practice.”

“Yes, Master.”

Zhou Xuan’er giggled and ran excitedly to the next room with a bunch of things in her arms.

Wait for her to leave.

Ye Bufan rested for a while and started drawing talismans again.

The “Red Fire Talisman” drawn this time is of advanced level four, and is also a type of “Five Elements Talisman Array”.

The cost of talisman paper and ink for this talisman alone is no less than 300,000 spirit stones. Fortunately, Ye Bufan had the huge treasury of Yan State, otherwise he would not have been able to afford it.

Later on.

During the day, Ye Bufan drew talismans and made puppet clones, and taught Zhou Xuaner at the same time. At night, he practiced with Yu Xuanji and Xiao Luluo.

It’s the tenth day.

Prince Chu and Prince Guan visited successively.

The former took the talisman and looked at his daughter again.

The latter has a total of thirty-eight talismans, which can be used to form two advanced talisman formations: the “Five Elements Talisman Formation” and the “Tianhua Baoguang Talisman Formation”.

As long as the talisman formation is formed, there will be tiny flaws, and only Ye Bufan knows this.

If we don’t deal with him, the power of the talisman formation will have no effect, and it is enough to severely injure a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

But if it is used on him, he can indirectly control the talisman array, and if caught off guard, the Crown King will be skinned alive even if he doesn’t die.

The Crown King took the stack of talismans, checked them carefully, and was overjoyed after confirming that there was nothing wrong with them.

“Hahaha, thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Qu. I’m afraid your attainments in talismans are not inferior to those great masters of the Fu Kingdom.”