Talisman

"If, and I mean if, something dangerous happens in our village, you must remember to immediately bring the villagers into our sect's defensive range. Of course, you must prioritize yourselves and your own families!"

Qin Jianghe asked in confusion,

"Brother Xiao, saying this... does it mean our village is really going to face some danger soon?"

Lin Xiao looked at him with a serious expression and said,

"Honestly, I don't know either. But I just feel a bit uneasy, so I want to arrange things as properly as possible, just in case."

Hearing this, everyone nodded solemnly, expressing that they would definitely be more careful.

After returning home and having dinner that night, Lin Xiao did not ponder over spells as he had done in the past few days. Instead, he opened the Shop.

The last time he used the system's shop function was when he bought that dagger to cripple Eldest Liu.

Today, he planned to buy some items for his family and the sect members to use.

Because even though he had already instructed everyone, he still felt a faint sense of unease. Perhaps it was because he had read too many novels in the past, but he was very worried that once he left, some danger would strike the village, causing a pain he could not bear.

If it were his family... that was something he could not accept.

With matters weighing on his mind and his emotions agitated, he could not calm down to cultivate, so he decided to spend Spirit Stones to buy peace of mind.

As soon as he opened the Shop, the homepage was still filled with luxurious goods that Lin Xiao could not even afford a fraction of.

Regarding what to buy, he had already figured it out after a moment of thought.

Thus, he closed the Shop and opened it again a breath later. The recommendations on the homepage were completely different.

The items in the recommendation column had impressively changed into two types of talismans.

Teleportation Talisman, priced at one Spirit Stone for ten.

Positioning Talisman, ten Spirit Stones for one mother talisman and one hundred child talismans.

Each Teleportation Talisman could teleport the user a distance of five hundred meters, and it could be used simply by tearing the talisman paper.

However, the Teleportation Talisman needed to be used in conjunction with the Positioning Talisman.

When a person carried a child Positioning Talisman and tore a Teleportation Talisman, each one would teleport them five hundred meters in a straight line toward the mother Positioning Talisman.

Therefore, as long as he placed the mother Positioning Talisman in the sect, everyone could directly enter the sect using the Teleportation Talismans.

With Lin Xiao's current net worth of over a hundred Spirit Stones, it was impossible to equip everyone with some heaven-defying life-saving artifact. The best method he could think of was to equip everyone with Teleportation Talismans so they could quickly return to the sect when they encountered danger.

The maximum straight-line distance from the village to the sect was about two thousand meters. Lin Xiao planned to give each person one child Positioning Talisman and five Teleportation Talismans. A teleportation distance of two thousand five hundred meters should be enough.

Then Lin Xiao began to count the people...

In the sect, besides him and Sun Yigao, there were eight people. Then in his own family, besides Lin Yun and Lin Ying, there were seven people. Adding Landlord Sun and Aunt Sun from the Sun family, that added up to seventeen people.

Then there were Fuzi's family, Tietou's family, and Qin Jianghe's family...

Considering the families of each sect member, after counting this long list of people, Lin Xiao felt that his Spirit Stone inventory was going to suffer a massive hemorrhage.

Fortunately, he did not include all of everyone's family members, just the ones closest to them.

Lin Xiao could not be blamed for being stingy; after all, this was just a preparation he was making just in case.

Calculating like this, there would be over thirty people. Lin Xiao simply rounded it up to forty people. With five Teleportation Talismans per person, that would be two hundred talismans.

Two hundred talismans meant twenty Spirit Stones. Adding the mother and child Positioning Talismans, the total was thirty Spirit Stones.

Moreover, Lin Xiao's recent creation of spells had also cost over twenty Spirit Stones, meaning the fifty Spirit Stones rewarded from the previous sect member recruitment quest were completely spent.

Looking at the slowly growing number of Spirit Stones in his private vault, Lin Xiao sat on his bed, hugged his quilt, and sighed.

If only he could make talismans himself.

Ding - System quest issued.

Sect Construction - Sect Facilities (2): An excellent sect naturally cannot do without various facilities with clear divisions of labor, and various supplies that assist in increasing strength are naturally essential as well. Please build a talisman-making room as soon as possible to provide a place for sect members to learn how to draw talismans.

Lin Xiao scratched his head.

Ah no, System, he was already very busy at this time and did not need quests to increase his stress.

Once a quest is issued, it cannot be retracted. Please work hard to complete the quest, Host. Friendly reminder: The quest has no time limit, so please do not feel burdened.

Lin Xiao sighed.

Alright, the system was still quite considerate.

The next day, Lin Xiao did not distribute the child Positioning Talismans and Teleportation Talismans to everyone first thing in the morning.

Instead, he waited until today's cultivation was over before gathering everyone. He explained the functions and usage methods of the Positioning Talismans and Teleportation Talismans in detail, and then asked everyone to collect them according to the number of people in their families who needed and could be given them.

This "could be given" naturally referred to those who clearly knew of their sect's existence, knew what they were doing every day, and trusted them.

Otherwise, giving them would just be a waste.

Originally, Lin Xiao was still wondering if two hundred talismans would be enough. After all, everyone might want to give more to a few more family members and friends.

However, to Lin Xiao's surprise, the number everyone collected was exactly the same as the specific number he had calculated before.

Thus, in Lin Xiao's hands, aside from the share he needed to give to his own family, he still had several dozen Teleportation Talismans and over sixty child Positioning Talismans left.

Lin Xiao then distributed all these extra Teleportation Talismans to everyone.

With one extra talisman per person, that was an extra five hundred meters of teleportation distance.

After getting this sorted out, it was already late.

And Lin Xiao did not go down the mountain with everyone else. He went to the spirit field where they had previously planted the spirit grain.

Obviously, even with the fertilizer provided by Little Luan every day, these spirit grains still followed the rules of the four seasons and needed to go through the growth process along with the seasons.

The spirit grain in the spirit field was still a patch of emerald green. Every seedling was growing vigorously, and there was not a single weed in the field.

It seemed that Lin Yun took great care of the spirit field every day.

Lin Xiao stroked his bare chin. No wonder his brother's cultivation base was growing so slowly.

Thinking about it now, Lin Yun only had half a day to cultivate every day. For the other half, he had to go to the old house to learn carpentry, and while on the mountain, he also had to find time to tend to the spirit field.

It was his own negligence that allowed his brother's cultivation life to be so busy.

How could this do?

It seemed he would have to arrange for someone else to tend to the spirit field, or talk to their grandfather to see if the time spent learning carpentry could be shortened.

He would bring this up tomorrow when he went to deliver the Teleportation Talismans.

And of course, Lin Xiao coming over to look at this spirit field now was not to check on their growth.

He opened his private vault, took out sixteen portions of Spirit Plant Growth-Accelerating Bone Meal, and sprinkled them over the sixteen spirit grain seedlings in the field.

These spirit plants had been planted for so long, and other than the Mosang he had accelerated before, not a single one had matured.

He had not yet experienced the joy of a harvest!

He couldn't wait any longer!