Meng Zhou had no intention of taking any additional auxiliary elixirs. He just followed the current progress and practiced step by step. There were still more than fifty days before reaching the peak of the ninth level of Qi training.

In addition to daily practice, he also had a lot of free time, and Meng Zhou had no intention of continuing to practice new martial arts and spells.

Because as his cultivation progresses further, these things will soon become useless.

Spending time here is a complete waste.

Meng Zhou's plan is to devote all his time and energy after practicing to exploring and exploring the professional system.

On the one hand, as he has perfected the knotting skills, he can knit a rope into the effect he wants to achieve at will. Looking at the professional system that once seemed like watching flowers from afar, suddenly changed.

It has to be clear and transparent.

In addition, there is another important reason why he is willing to devote a lot of energy and time to this aspect.

When he was in Nuanyun Valley, Chu Zheng once presented him with two jade slips, one of which contained nine kinds of complete or incomplete inheritance of second-level professionals.

One contains the foundation building experience compiled by the association.

In addition to many common sense contents, there are two other points that Meng Zhou paid attention to.

One point is applicable to all practitioners, a method to increase the success rate of foundation building and improve the quality of foundation building.

The primary stage is to deeply understand the characteristics of the basic skills practiced;

The intermediate stage is to fully grasp its essence and true meaning;

The advanced stage is to break out of the existing stereotypes of the basic skills and make new interpretations of its characteristics;

The ultimate stage is to create a brand new skill.

In this regard, Meng Zhou achieved the ultimate pinnacle.

Not only did he create a technique that suited him, but he also built a larger and more complete framework system.

Another point is that it is only for professionals.

The general idea is that if you can complete the first-level to second-level breakthrough in your own professional level when you pass the test and build the foundation, some proficient professional skills may be internalized into a kind of bloodline ability and innate talent.

It is not only more powerful, but also more consistent with the practitioner. It does not require deliberate practice and can progress with the growth of the practitioner.

Meng Zhou was immediately interested in this.

After coming to Qinglinfang, he often went out.

In a short period of time, he became a regular customer in Xiangming Tower. Not only did he go to listen to the "Daily News", but collecting all kinds of information related to foundation building was also a top priority.

His understanding of this point mentioned in the jade slips became more and more profound.

Building the foundation is originally a super promotion of ordinary life, building the foundation of the true avenue and seeking the true starting point on the road.

The entire Qi training stage can only be regarded as a warm-up preparation.

Completing the leap from the first level to the second level of professional level at this time is equivalent to building it into the foundation of the Dao and becoming a part of the foundation of the Dao.

There are many actual cases that confirm this, the most common of which is that of alchemists and weapon refiners who have improved their talent in controlling flames.

And the changes this brings to practitioners are not limited to refining alchemy and refining weapons. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a reshaping of their bones.

Meng Zhou already has special advantages in professional practice. Of course he will not let such a good thing go. If he does not use it to the maximum extent, he will be living up to his own abilities.

He will now focus on the Talisman Master.

If he is not a rope knotter and cannot use the rope knotting method to complete the Talisman Array, according to the growth path of a general Talisman Array Master, even if there is a plug-in that can upgrade his skills after accumulating enough experience, the efficiency will only be the same as that of his previous Talisman Maker.

The growth along the way is considerable.

Moreover, a lot of energy must be expended to find suitable leveling materials.

Because the number of talisman masters is much smaller than that of talisman makers, and most of them cooperate with the weapon refiners to draw talisman formations on the rough embryos of the weapon refiners. If he wants to quickly improve the level of the talisman formations, he has to be as low-key as possible, which is really not easy.

Easy thing.

But now, this has become a very simple thing for him.

All you need is a rope and nothing else needs to be prepared.

With the speed at which he can tie the rope with both hands, and while ensuring the sustainability of his energy and mana, he can complete 15 repetitions per minute, gaining +900 experience per hour.

With all his strength, it only took about half a day for Meng Zhou to master the "Spirit Gathering Talisman Array" and "Earth Power Talisman Array" which were still at the level of Dacheng.

In the remaining time, Meng Zhou also mastered a new "shielding talisman array" and practiced it to perfection.

Then, Meng Zhou spent another two days learning and mastering three practical talisman arrays: "Defense Talisman Array", "Concealment Talisman Array", and "Confinement Talisman Array", and mastered them all to perfection.

His level as a Talisman Master has also reached the pinnacle of the first-level profession.

"First level of Talisman Master 100/100"

Then, Meng Zhou transferred a lot of time and energy after practicing to a new field.

Refining weapons.

For Meng Zhou, more accurately, it should be called "making instruments" or "making instruments".

He first spent a few days studying the inheritance of the second-level weapon refiner recorded in the jade slips.

Among them, most of the content is about how the refiner should control the flame and complete the refining of various materials through the control of the flame.

This is both the threshold and the core.

But for Meng Zhou, these are unnecessary.

He only focuses on the part where after completing the refining and purification of materials, he guides and fuses the different spiritualities of different materials, and finally achieves the effect desired by the refiner.

For Meng Zhou, this was not difficult to understand.

It feels like a senior high school student flipping through an extracurricular reading book for junior high school students who has never been exposed to it. It has the freshness of acquiring a lot of new knowledge, but everything is within the scope of one's own understanding.

After selectively absorbing the essence, Meng Zhou recalled in his memory the rattan utensils he saw in Granny Bai's shop that day, especially the appearance of the two pairs of rattan armors.

What is certain is that my current mastery of the hundreds of rope knotting techniques and my level of understanding of the rope knotting master have far exceeded the level shown by Grandma Bai back then.

She can rely on long-term trial and error to combine knot making with tool making.

Everything she can do will only be easier for me now.

…

The fourth day to start the process of making weapons, the eighth day of February.

Meng Zhou sat cross-legged in silence, staring at a rope in his hand that could change in thickness or length according to his wishes. It was now almost as thick as his little finger.

He reviewed the plan in his mind again, breathed out gently, and slowly moved his hands and fingers.

What he wants to try to weave is a first-class, high-grade wooden defensive weapon called the "Turtle-shell Wood Spirit Shield".

Yes, his first attempt was to reach the first level of high quality, instead of starting step by step from the first level of low quality.

For him, becoming a weapon master is not climbing a mountain. He does not need to start from the bottom of the mountain and climb up.

Soon, with the movements of his hands and fingers, what was originally a thin rope gradually took on a shape, like a tortoise shell that was growing in size, and the spirit within it flowed like water as he weaved and manipulated it.

As he tied the last knot on the handle, the spirituality flowing on the rope-woven tortoise shell formed a closed loop, and a "tortoise shell wood spirit shield" was formed.

Meng Zhou grasped the tortoise-shell wood spirit shield and tried to wave it around casually. There was no air obstruction, as if it was integrated with himself.

The hand holding the turtle-shell wood spirit shield gently sent out a little mana, and the spirituality of the turtle-shell wood spirit shield was stimulated, and a layer of misty green light appeared on the surface of the shield.

He increased the output of mana, and the green light of the armor broke away from the armor and shot in the direction of his mind, like a fast-moving shield wall to block the virtual attack in his mind.

He loosened his grasping hand and tried to command it like a magic weapon. The turtle-shell wood spirit shield was like a chick, walking up and down around his body.

Apart from a slight delay in feedback and a greater consumption of mana, there are no problems.

Finally, he reached out and made a move, and the turtle-shell wood spirit shield returned to his hand again. He swallowed mana, and a huge cyan light shield enveloped his entire body.

Meng Zhou played a perfect flying arrow talisman that could easily break through the defense of a first-level mid-level magic weapon. A flying arrow turned into a stream of light and hit the light shield.

Like an egg hitting a stone, the flowing light flying arrow was smashed into pieces, and the light mask did not move at all.

Meng Zhou pressed his hand against it again, harder and harder, until he exerted his first-order perfect physical strength to the extreme, and the cyan light mask began to deform.

Yes, deformation, rather than being propped up directly until it breaks.

This shows that in addition to sufficient strength, this cyan mask also has a certain degree of toughness, which can use deformation to dissipate part of the external force.

It is not as strong and brittle as ordinary aura light shields. Once the attack it endures exceeds its defense capability, it will shatter like glass.

Finally, Meng Zhou mobilized the power of Qi and blood from his whole body to his fist, and the air around his fist seemed to be distorted for an instant.

Then he punched it violently, and the cyan mask finally made a soft "pop" sound, and a hole as big as a fist was punched out, and then it began to gradually disintegrate.

Meng Zhou judged in his heart: "The characteristics of the turtle-shell wood spirit shield are perfectly reflected. In addition, the quality of the rope spirit itself has surpassed the category of first-class high-grade. This is already a first-class top-grade defensive magic weapon."

Meng Zhou looked at the personal information and there was already new content.

[Skill: Getting Started with Turtle-shell Wood Spirit Shield 10/50]

[Occupation: First level of tool maker 5/100]

Meng Zhou untied the last knot of the tortoise-shell wood spirit shield. With a slight shake, the tortoise-shell wood spirit shield disappeared and turned into a thin rope only a meter long.

He was about to continue weaving to gain experience, but suddenly his heart moved and he took out the five remaining first-grade high-grade wood spiritual materials in the jade volute.
To be continued...