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Twenty thousand crystals, was exchanged for twenty pieces of low grade Source Stones by Chen Meng. Otherwise, twenty thousand of them would be too much.

This was a large amount of wealth, but to Li Yi, it was merely two veins.

After returning to the academy, he locked himself in his room. An afternoon passed, and only after exhausting twenty primeval stones did he manage to form the two chakras.

After that, he started drawing talismans.

As he drew more and more talismans, his understanding of the Talisman Dao also began to improve.

Perhaps, this was what ordinary people said, that diligence can make up for incompetence.

However, after several hours had passed, when he grabbed the talisman on the table, he was no longer satisfied.

Perhaps it was due to him being too anxious, but the sword marks on this talisman had only been drawn twenty times, three less than the first time.

After resting for two hours or so, his spiritual sea was once again filled up, and Li Yi started drawing talismans again.

It wasn't until the sun rose did he finally step back from the table and lie down on the wooden bed, gasping for breath.

"Senior Brother, I'm leaving."

"Senior brother, you have to take care of yourself."

"Senior brother, you have to take care of yourself."

A low voice, filled with sadness and reluctance, resounded beside Li Yi's ears. His body abruptly shook, and he woke up from his dream.

"Yu Qing."

Li Yi muttered, feeling suffocated in his chest.

In the next moment, he rushed to the wooden table, grabbed the talisman, and hastily left the room.

There were still two days left. He couldn't afford to delay any longer, not even a moment.

Arriving at Old Chen's shop, Chen Meng had already been waiting for him for a long time.

"Twenty three thousand, I'll give you the combined Origin Stones." Chen Meng looked at him and casually swept a glance. His face was somewhat pale and his eyes were filled with traces of blood.

If a rune cultivator were to let their spiritual force dry up for a long period of time, it would easily harm their foundation, and even cause their Talisman Dao's path to be stopped in its tracks.

Generally speaking, this was a taboo.

Chen Meng could not understand why he was so anxious. A hundred thousand crystals was not a small number.

"Thank you. I have two more." Li Yi received the primeval stones, thanked him, and then took out the other two talismans. "Before afternoon, I could have drawn two."

Two.

Chen Meng did not speak.

Although these talismans were strange, they were extremely rare. If they were big, then the price wouldn't be that high.

Moreover, there was something that Li Yi did not know about. The talisman contained a devil property, if it was spread out, it would definitely cause a huge commotion.

After pondering for a long time, she finally spoke up. "I'll come back in the afternoon." Then, he turned around and walked to the shelves, took out two Rank Two Talisman Paper, and took the talismans from his hands.

Li Yi paused for a moment and did not say anything, only feeling gratitude in his heart.

After returning to the courtyard, he shut himself up.

At the same time, in the meridian courtyard …

Ji Linger could not help but open his mouth: "Senior Sister, you can't continue anymore. If you continue to fail, it will damage your cultivation base." She looked at Wen Yuqing and could not bear to see him.

In these two days, Wen Yuqing had been trying to break through the second meridian. But so far, she had failed five or six times, and fainted two or three times.

Wen Yuqing remained silent, thinking, if I did not level up, with senior brother's cultivation, how could you block Lin Zifeng?

Looking at Wen Yuqing's stubborn eyes, Ji Linger sighed: "You will die." She did not understand why. Even though that youth's performance was somewhat extraordinary, was it really worth it to pay the price of his life for him?

"Do you know anything about my past?" Wen Yuqing laughed, the latter shook her head, then continued, "Three years ago, was the first time I came to the Academy."

She was thirteen at the time, ragged and dirty.

She had been forcibly thrown here by her family. In other words, she had been exiled away. She had been abandoned by her family.

Without any background or foundation, it was as if she had been exiled into hell. She became the target of everyone's bullying, and every day, she would inevitably face the ugly faces of those people.

Until the day he appeared.

He vaguely remembered that his frail figure, full of anger, had stepped in front of her and told everyone that they were not allowed to bully her.

That time, she wasn't bullied anymore, but that thin figure was beaten black and blue.

Ji Linger muttered: "Is this the story of when you met him?"

Wen Yuqing said in a soft voice, "For the past three years, he has always been standing in front of me and I have always been hiding behind him. She could not imagine why he would have such a lonely back at the age of thirteen.

The youth that arrived with a face full of stubbornness.

Without waiting for Ji Linger to speak, Wen Yuqing continued, "You may not know what he has experienced in the past three years."

A thirteen year old sky, a flower bud like age, all of these people enjoyed being doted on under their parents' knees, all of them had their own childhood friends and partners.

However, he did not. The only thing that accompanied him was that simple and crude courtyard.

Ji Linger opened his mouth, "Is he an orphan?"

Wen Yuqing shook his head. "No, he once said that the end of the river was his hometown. He once tried to follow the river, but the distance was too far and he once again returned to the academy."

To many people, these three short years might only be the span of a few breaths, but no one knew that these short years, to Li Yi, was a very long period of time.

Same age, different years.

Ji Linger remained silent, her heart was in turmoil and she was unable to calm down for a long time.

Wen Yuqing laughed, then said with a smile that was not a smile: "I am very afraid, I am afraid that one day, I will never see him again." At that time, would he be very sad, very sad?

Ji Linger could not help but open his mouth: "How could it be? You are still very young! The years of cultivation are very long. "

Wen Yuqing shook his head and did not explain anything.

As time passed, an afternoon passed.

In this short period of time, Li Yi drew another two talismans, and when he drew his last stroke, his consciousness became loose, and all of his fatigue and exhaustion surged together.

He was gasping for breath, his face devoid of blood. His eyes were suffused with traces of scarlet, as if he were a ferocious beast.

Too tired.

However, he had no time left. He grabbed the two talismans on the wooden table and hastily left the room.

"The third one, 18,000 crystals." Chen Meng stared at him, her heart was confused, but she was also suffocating: "The prices of the next few talismans might not be too high, but if you wait for a few days, maybe I will help you sell them for a good price."

"I can't wait any longer. I don't have time, so I can do as much as I want." Li Yi forced a smile and then took out the two talismans he had just drawn: "The last two."

"Six hours later." Chen Meng did not say anything. After handing the spirit stone to him, he turned and walked into the shop.

Li Yi paused for a moment, slightly opening his mouth to say a word of thanks, but he did not say it out loud. He did not return to the Academy, but found a corner in the street instead, and sat down cross-legged.

As dusk fell and the cool wind blew, the people on the streets gradually dwindled and disappeared like sand.

The darkness was like an ancient Giant Beast, engulfing the entire sky and earth, and also swallowing the figure in the corner of the street.