Chapter 60: Flowing Water Symbol (Three)

  However, Zhou Ming Luo did not immediately go to test the "Flowing Water Symbol", but instead continued to browse through the yellow leather book. He wanted to understand a little more, whether this Qinghua Pan was just enough to supplement the "Wen Qi" needed for the "Flowing Water Symbol", or if it could also give birth to new symbol fragments after supplementation.

  One by one, he quickly discovered that except for 【Flowing Water Symbol】, the entire Bagua chapter did not give birth to new chapters.

  "This doesn't count, this talisman is self-generated and doesn't belong to the Eight Trigrams chapter. So my first truly created talisman should be the Vajra Talisman."

  "【Jīn Gāng Fú】The literary energy required for the birth of 【Wén Qì】comes from a Qinghua brick, which was sold to me by Old Bi for 1.7 million yuan at that time. However, if calculated at market price, the value of this brick is only around 1.4-1.5 million yuan. It's actually Old Bi who gave me some extra money. And the literary energy required for the second 【Liú Shuǐ Fú】comes from a Ming Qinghua calabaza, plus the current pot holder. The value of that calabaza is also around 1.3-1.4 million yuan, which can only give birth to one-third of the 【Liú Shuǐ Fú】, while the pot holder is worth about 3 million yuan, completing the remaining two-thirds of the talisman."

  "Three times, the original amount of Wen Qi required to give birth to the next talisman is three times the amount of Wen Qi required to give birth to the previous talisman. This amount of Wen Qi cannot be calculated or measured, but estimated by its modern value, this most basic base number should be a 1.5 million yuan worth ancient artifact."

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  As soon as Zhou Ming closed the yellow leather book, a string of thoughts flashed through his mind. He bought these porcelain pieces today not only to urge the birth of the complete "Flowing Water Symbol" but also to ponder the connection between the symbols and talismans in the Yellow Leather Book.

  It's just a verification of whether there is any connection between the "wenqi" required for each talisman, such as increasing by several times.

  But the result of verification did give him some clues.

  The value of Wenqi is about 1.5 million for the first talisman, Jingangfu, and about 4.5 million for the second talisman, Liushuifu.

  If the facts are as he thought, then the third talisman of Ba Gua Pian would require a "Wen Qi" worth around 1.35 million, the fourth would be around 4.05 million, the fifth talisman would need 12.15 million, and the sixth talisman would need 36.34 million.

  The seventh stroke of the Bagua chapter requires even more terrifying [Wen Qi], which needs to absorb the [Wen Qi] contained in ancient artifacts worth over 100 million RMB. The eighth stroke, also the last stroke of the Bagua chapter, requires the [Wen Qi] contained in ancient artifacts worth over 300 million RMB.

  Such a triple increase, it was astonishing to find that Zhou Ming had to find an antique worth 400-500 million RMB to absorb the eight trigrams chapter's 8 Dao Fu Lu.

  This is just the gossip chapter, the lowest-level talisman system in the entire Huangpi Book, let alone the Four Images Chapter, Yin and Yang Chapter, and the highest-level Taiji Chapter.

  "Four to five hundred million, tsk, tsk, I originally thought that having more than 30 million at once was already considered wealthy and noble. But compared to the literary energy needed to absorb this yellow-skinned book, it's still poor, poor to the point of being penniless."

  Quickly coming to a conclusion, Zhou Ming fell silent all of a sudden.

  But it has to be said that this mood was quickly submerged again, an antique worth around 400-500 million? In reality, such antiques are not rare, for example, the Qinghua vase that was auctioned off for over 200 million, if he could get his hands on it, one vase would be enough to make the gossip section of the Huangpi Book rich and full, or for example, in recent years, some enamel glazes have been auctioned off for hundreds of millions, or some rare Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain, etc.

  If he really wants to collect all eight trigrams and eight talismans, the value of 4-5 billion seems astonishing, but thinking carefully, it doesn't seem like a lot. For top-notch antiques in the world, maybe just one or two pieces would be enough.

  Of course, all of this is just Zhou Mingluo's calculation based on the two talismans "Jin Gang Fu" and "Liu Shui Fu". Whether it is true or not still needs to be tested by him.

  The objects of this experiment were naturally the other three pieces of porcelain he had bought.

  "If my inference is correct, the third talisman in the Eight Trigrams chapter of the Yellow Skin Book should require a 'wenqi' equivalent to an antique worth 1.35 million. With this pair of yellow glaze plates and a flower-and-bird patterned jade vase, spring bottle, and parallel bottle, which add up to 300,000 yuan, it should be able to produce about one-fifth more talismans."

  Looking at the three porcelain pieces that had not yet been absorbed of their spiritual energy, Zhou Ming Luo quickly put the yellow book back up and waited for a moment before absorbing all of the spiritual energy one by one. Only then did he eagerly pick up the book again to continue reading.

  Also while flipping through, a new incomplete talisman diagram appeared in Zhou Ming's eyes in the Bagua chapter, 【Lihuo Talisman】, not beyond his expectation, this 【Lihuo Talisman】 only showed one-fifth to one-quarter of its pattern.

  This immediately made Zhou Ming feel relieved and enlightened, his previous inference was correct!

  This finally allowed him to find some rules hidden between the symbols in the yellow skin book, and Zhou Ming Luo was slightly surprised.

  "By this calculation, next time as long as I find an antique worth around 1 million yuan, I can complete the 'Li Huo Fu' (Fire Separation Symbol). However, there's no rush for this matter. It's better to wait until after understanding the effects of the 'Liu Shui Fu' (Flowing Water Symbol) before searching again."

  He then reopened the book and began studying the pattern of the Flowing Water Symbol.

  After thoroughly understanding the painting method of Fu Lu, Zhou Ming Luo directly unfolded a yellow rice paper and started painting.

  An hour later, he recovered enough energy in his body and finally cut off the first Flowing Water Symbol he had drawn. Without any hesitation, he slapped it into his own body.

  In an instant, a strange and wonderful feeling surged into Zhou Ming's mind.

  It was a strange feeling that didn't require him to watch with his eyes or touch with his limbs, and a world that seemed to be connected together appeared in his heart.

  This world is only about a dozen meters in diameter, and everything within this dozen-meter-diameter sphere exists in strange, vein-like patterns.

  Just like him, he himself became a person composed of a network of intersecting lines, and the table and chairs in front of him, as well as other furniture and ceramics, were all composed of a network of intersecting lines.

  【Flow Water Symbol】, its effect is to sense the existence of every object's meridian, check if it is complete and intact, and then repair.

  Each time the【Flowing Water Symbol】is cast, its effect lasts for five hours. As long as the holder of the symbol does not use it to repair a meridian, it will allow the holder to sense the meridians of any object within 20 meters and determine whether they are in a perfect or damaged state.

  Of course, if during this process, the holder finds that a certain object's meridian is damaged or incomplete, they can let the 【Flowing Water Symbol】enter it to repair it. Once the symbol is released, the mysterious meridian sensation will naturally terminate.