Becoming a Talisman Elixir master is difficult because runes are not easily understood.
Although the Golden talisman is the easiest among all the runes to comprehend, for a teacher like Xie Bing, a First-grade Alchemist, it is still extremely challenging.
Upon receiving the notes from Zhao Gou, she treasured them like a most valuable treasure, and the coldness on her face faded a lot.
"Are you really doing this for Chu Feng’s good?" Teacher Xie Bing, despite her desire to accept the notebook, did not immediately agree. She gazed at Zhao Gou with a scrutinizing look.
"Of course, it’s for his good, I swear to God..." Zhao Gou’s face was a picture of ’honesty,’ he even raised his left hand above his head.
Even the notes of the Golden talisman couldn’t completely tempt Teacher Xie Bing, which shows Chu Feng’s status in her heart. Zhao Gou’s look towards Chu Feng carried a hint of Freezing Yin.
However, this person is highly deceitful, with deep schemes, and he disguised his malicious thoughts very well.
Teacher Xie Bing is very naive, she actually chose to believe Zhao Gou.
While waiting for Master Huang Qingshan’s summons, Xie Bing, like a diligent student, seriously studied Zhao Gou’s notes. She often exhibited a pensive look, and when encountering difficult to comprehend sections, her eyebrows would tightly knit together.
Is it really so hard, just the runes of the First-grade Gold Talisman Pill?
Chu Feng glanced casually at the content of the notebook in her hand, and immediately a smirk appeared on his face. The content of those notes, over a very simple knowledge point, were unnecessarily complicated.
If it were only once or twice, that might be fine, but almost the entire page was filled with this issue.
It’s like a math problem, two multiplied by five is ten.
But they insist on making it five twos, then adding them together. They even break down the two into two ones, to verify if it’s correct.
On the surface, it seems very rigorous, praiseworthy even.
But in the eyes of a master like Chu Feng, it’s just like taking off the pants to fart, an utterly superfluous act.
To put it unpleasantly, it’s simply misleading the young.
This is also why many people wish to apprentice under a highly skilled Pill Master, because a true master produces great students. If it’s just a mediocrity, filled with pretentious gibberish, then one can imagine the kind of disciple they will teach.
They would surely be extremely pedantic, only knowing to rigidly stick to the rules without the slightest understanding of flexibility and adaptability.
The Golden talisman taught by Zhao Gou was passed down by Master Huang Qingshan, which shows that the extremely arrogant Grand Master Huang could not be all that proficient.
Seeing Chu Feng keep glancing at what he considered a treasured notebook, Zhao Gou felt displeased.
He sneered and shoved Chu Feng to the side.
"Chu Feng, you haven’t even reached the level of a First-grade Alchemist. Checking out these profound Golden talisman knowledge will neither be comprehensible to you nor beneficial."
"Have you heard of the story of someone Imitating others? They haven’t even learned to walk yet, but they want to try running. Such an attitude of aiming too high is unacceptable! One must be down-to-earth and advance step by step."
Zhao Gou clearly did not want Chu Feng to see his notes.
He feared Chu Feng would learn the contents and gain benefits from them and made up a bunch of reasons, pompously lecturing Chu Feng.
Teacher Xie Bing was at this moment immersed in Zhao Gou’s complicated rune notes, and she also felt that what Zhao Gou said made sense. So she did not interfere.
"Heh, Zhao Gou, you may be the type to create a stepping stone and climb up, but it doesn’t mean others should do the same as you!"
"I prefer to skyrocket to success in one step!"
Chu Feng retorted with a cold laugh.
As for Zhao Gou, he considers his notes a treasure; offering them to him, he even feels they are toxic. Not to mention learning from its content.
Zhao Gou felt his authority challenged by Chu Feng’s upfront rebuttal.
He immediately adopted a teacher’s authority, with a face full of anger, he said, "You’re not that old, how can you be so unteachable?"
"You, with such arrogance and so little skill, still dreaming of shooting straight to the top? To put it bluntly, do you even know what a Golden talisman is?"
Mr. Zhao chastised Chu Feng with a sense of superiority, drawing the attention of many customers to their confrontation.
He felt secretly pleased with himself, as Chu Feng had just made quite a show.
In front of him, even dragons must coil up, and tigers must lie down. This was just a student he could scold and instruct at will.
Thinking about it made Mr. Zhao even more smug as he hurled harsher insults.
"Humph, knowledge of the Golden talisman is so sophisticated, I bet someone like you who probably can’t even be considered a First-grade Alchemist has never even heard of it!"
Seeing Mr. Zhao ranting endlessly like a shrew, Chu Feng decided it was time to give back as good as he got.
"Heh heh, Mr. Zhao is absolutely right, I am rubbish, indeed I’ve never heard of Golden talisman," Chu Feng began by seeming to show weakness.
Seeing Chu Feng’s reaction, a smile appeared on Mr. Zhao’s face, thinking Chu Feng was finally admitting defeat.
However, Chu Feng suddenly changed his tone, pointing to the knowledge point that had stumped Master Xie Bing.
"While I don’t know about Golden talisman, I can understand a bit about these Ghost Talismans. For example, here, three basic Rune patterns of the same solidity attribute overlaid together, there’s no need for anything like the Three Talents Formation."
"It’s no different from performing fancy but ineffective martial arts."
"If you want to strengthen its hardness effect, just stack them up in a pile!"
Chu Feng’s comments seemed nonchalant, but they were actually very professional.
Master Xie Bing was frowning with concerns, but upon Chu Feng’s point, had an epiphany as if enlightened, and suddenly realized the solution.
Yes, isn’t it enough to just overlay three basic Rune patterns with the same solidity attribute? Why make it so complicated and puzzling?
Mr. Zhao’s notes were based on teachings from Master Huang Qingshan, so he regarded them as highly authoritative.
But now Chu Feng had pointed out the flaws directly overturning his framework.
Mr. Zhao’s face darkened immediately, and he snorted angrily, "What do you know? Critiquing blindly here."
"Heh heh, I don’t know! Then let’s do an experiment!" Chu Feng said, taking the notebook from Master Xie Bing’s hand, "Tssk," he actually tore out a page.
"Chu Feng, what the hell are you doing tearing up my notes? Do you know how valuable these notes are?"
"This is the class notes I took when Master Huang Qingshan taught me the Golden talisman knowledge. You, you actually tore it, even selling you wouldn’t cover the loss!"
Mr. Zhao was livid, shaking all over.
He looked at Chu Feng as if he wanted to devour him.
But Chu Feng spoke dismissively, "Such notes, it’s okay to be without. To use it as toilet paper would still be too stiff!"
"Watch closely, I’ll demonstrate the Rune configuration recorded on there, and let everyone here see the result." Having said that, Chu Feng tore the page in his hand into three equally sized strips of paper.
Then he stacked them up together.
"This is assembled using the Three Talents Formation, and with one breath from me, it’ll collapse!"
As he spoke, Chu Feng casually blew on it, and it indeed collapsed thunderously.
Master Xie Bing’s eyes grew brighter, while Mr. Zhao’s face turned extremely ugly. The spectators who were there for the spectacle all widened their eyes, eager to see Chu Feng’s next move.