The way to enter and exit the maze formation, Yang Ling only told Alicesia and Sofia, without revealing it to anyone else, including strategist Gud. After all, the maze formation was his last and most reliable guarantee by his side. Otherwise, if a Heavenly Ranking assassin were to sneak up on him during his closed-door meditation, the consequences would be unthinkable.

  Although there are samurai patrolling day and night, Visen Castle is really too big, it's impossible to closely monitor every place. Yang Ling believes that with the current strength of the defense team, let alone a Tianbang assassin, even a great swordmaster or a great magician can easily sneak in.

  In addition, the Anka family has been entrenched in Weisen Castle for many years, who knows if they have dug any secret passages somewhere. Yang Ling certainly doesn't want to sleep until midnight and have someone crawl out from under his bed. But with the maze array, everything is much safer, as long as the enemy enters the range of the array, they will be immediately confused by the illusion array.

  The patrol team's effect on top-notch masters is not great, but the reason they still expanded their patrol range to the entire town of Weisen is that Yang Ling just hopes to create inconvenience for the enemy's spies, compress the enemy's intelligence sources and activity range. He wouldn't be foolish enough to entrust his safety to low-level warriors. In this world where the weak are preyed upon by the strong, rapidly increasing one's own strength is the only way to survive.

  After cultivating to the level of Lingwu, Yang Ling not only had the ability to set up a few simple spell arrays, but also gained the ability to attack and defend through talismans, which was much stronger than the blood witches who could only tame magical beasts with their own blood.

  Talismans, as the name suggests, are various Daoist symbols refined from special materials such as cinnabar, Guanyin soil and essence of blood, requiring a great deal of witch power.

  For the time being, Yang Ling didn't know where to find cinnabar and Guanyin soil in this strange world, so he simply prepared to use all the demon beast essence blood to make it. With the success of the Spirit Gathering Array and the Maze Array, perhaps the talismans refined with pure demon beast essence blood would have an unexpectedly good effect.

  After instructing Alice and Mulberry not to disturb him easily, Yang Ling began to retreat and make talismans. Without cinnabar and Guanyin soil, all use the essence of magic beasts; without good Xuan paper, simply use various beast skins as substitutes, everything is adapted to local conditions.

  Holding a large brush made of wolf hair blown by the wind, Yang Ling gently applied and stirred the evenly mixed beast blood essence, then drew a "Palm Thunder" talisman on a piece of beast skin about half the size of a handkerchief.

  Low-level 'Palm Thunder' is the simplest symbol technique in spells, and it only needs to be activated with a little magical power when used. Throw it out and it can bring a burst of thunder. It's convenient to carry, just like a hand grenade.

  With the blood-stained palm of the Lei Wu symbol still wet, Yang Ling carefully poured a thread of witch power into it. Soon, the beast skin with ghostly paintings emitted a mysterious wave and gradually emitted a faint light.

  After a strange power rapidly condensed in the air, Yang Ling hastily threw it onto a small tree not far away. A dull "boom" sound was quite frightening, but unfortunately, the thumb-thick small tree was completely unscathed. All thunder and no rain, looks can be deceiving.

  Ibiris, isn't this just a tool for deceiving people?

  The talisman was a one-time item, used once and then shattered into fragments, leaving Yang Ling unable to find any physical evidence to analyze. Helpless, he could only redraw another one. The result was disappointing, the previous one had been able to scare people, but this time it just made a faint humming sound like a big girl letting out a tiny fart.

  Under the unorthodox method, Yang Ling drew another one, this time even worse. The first two times were not successful, but at least they would still make a sound, this time however, there was no reaction at all, and pouring more magic power into it had no effect.

  Three trials, three different results, Yang Ling shook his head and smiled wryly, thinking of the chemistry experiment in high school.

  At that time, under the teacher's guidance, as long as you weren't a fool or super low-ability, you could easily complete the formulaic test. How much water and how much alcohol were all in clear proportions. The teacher had already done everything, just letting the students press a button or light a fire, just going through the motions.

  Now it's even better, no teachers, no all-encompassing internet, not even the necessary materials, everything can only be slowly explored by oneself.

  After multiple failures, looking at the large bowl of well-mixed Demon Beast Essence Blood, Yang Ling shook his head again. So much essence blood was enough to condense over a hundred Blood Pearls.

  Mix well?

  Suddenly, looking at the messy mixture of various demon blood essences, Yang Ling's heart moved, feeling as if he had grasped a crucial point. Not delaying any further, he immediately took out a small bottle of Wind Wolf's essence and carefully drew a simple 'Palm Thunder' talisman.

  After repeated confirmation that it was correct, Yang Ling gritted his teeth and poured in a thread of witch power. In the blink of an eye, the beast skin emitted dazzling silver light, and as soon as it was thrown out, it attracted a bolt of lightning, which exploded with a loud "boom" and blasted the small tree into smithereens.

  Overjoyed, Yang Ling continued to work tirelessly, using the Wind Wolf's pure blood to draw out one by one 'Palm Thunder', 'Thunder Cannon' and 'Dolphin Sound' and other talismans. Without exception, all of them achieved perfect success.

  After comparing various demon beast essences one by one, Yang Ling discovered that generally speaking, the higher the level of the demon beast essence, the greater the power of the talisman refined from it; but some demon beast essences used in certain special talismans would have unexpected benefits.

  For example, the "Palm Thunder" refined from Feng Lang's blood can only blast a tree trunk as thick as a water bucket in half; but the "Palm Thunder" refined from the blood of the Double-headed Deer, which is also a low-level demon beast, can completely destroy a tree of the same size.

  Similarly, the "Dolphin Sound" refined with the essence of the Mouse Beast can only make people dizzy after listening to it; but the "Dolphin Sound" refined with the essence of the Bu Gu bird can directly attack a person's soul through intense sound waves, and several barbarians who passed by nearby almost became idiots due to the sudden arrival of the Dolphin Sound.

  After mastering the technique of refining talismans, Yang Ling devoted himself to refining various talismans. Before advancing to Earth Talisman, these talismans were his treasures for attacking and preserving his life. When he was tired, he would meditate and rest, and when his talisman power was insufficient, he would swallow magic beast blood beads or absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the courtyard. After five days of closed cultivation, he refined a total of 500 various talismans, using up all the magic beast essence bought with several thousand purple crystal coins.

  One talisman for ten amethyst coins?

  After roughly calculating, Yang Ling shook his head. If it were an ordinary person, they would not be able to afford the consumption. Fortunately, after finding the treasure room accumulated by the Anka family for generations, he not only obtained a large number of art pieces and magic beast crystal nuclei but also found many crystal coins. Not to mention anything else, even providing himself with tens of thousands of talismans wouldn't be any problem.

  At the same time, through the square monument in Wuta's inner chamber, Yang Ling understood that blood witchcraft was only a foundation for cultivating witchcraft, and spiritual witchcraft was just a threshold to enter the cultivation. Only when one cultivates to the realm of earth witchcraft, condenses the witch core, can they truly step onto the great path of cultivation.

  Palm Thunder and Dolphin Sound are powerful talismans, but compared to the mysterious and profound magic, they are still just low-level talismans. Only when breaking through to the Earth Talisman boundary, condensing the talismanic elixir, can one refine mid-level and high-level talismans, and gradually come into contact with other various mysterious and powerful magics.

  Wudan?

  Yang Ling was full of expectations for the future, with the help of the forest spirits and barbarians, with many hunters and mercenaries swarming to trade, plus his own army of spiders left in the Tras Forest to hunt, he believed that he would be able to obtain a large amount of magical beast blood. As long as he persisted in his practice, one day he would be able to smoothly advance to the Earth Witch realm and condense mysterious and powerful witch pills.