Gu Mengyang, upon hearing this, suddenly nodded in realization.
Gu Zhiqi continued to pour water into the cinnabar, stirring it quickly.
Once the cinnabar and water in the bowl were mixed evenly, Gu Zhiqi stopped her movements and glanced at Gu Mengyang, "Where’s Zhou Qingyan?"
Gu Mengyang: "I’ve called her; she’s on her way. She should arrive in twenty to thirty minutes."
As soon as he woke up that morning, the first thing he did was to urge his subordinates to bring Zhou Qingyan over.
Listening to Gu Mengyang’s reply, Gu Zhiqi nodded slightly, then stood up with the bowl of cinnabar and walked out of the kitchen.
Gu Mengyang followed Gu Zhiqi out of the kitchen, "What’s for breakfast? I’ll have Gu Ling buy it."
Saying this, he took out his phone from his pocket to send a message to Gu Ling.
"Just buy anything." Gu Zhiqi said, and sat down on the sofa, placing the large bowl of cinnabar on the coffee table.
Gu Mengyang was sending a message to Gu Ling. When he looked up again, he noticed that two stacks of yellow paper had appeared on the table.
He took a seat next to Gu Zhiqi and glanced at the two stacks of yellow paper on the table, noting that one stack was drawn with strange red patterns while the other was blank.
The yellow paper with patterns somewhat resembled those on the talisman paper he had found in the office, but the patterns on these yellow papers on the coffee table were clearly much more aesthetically pleasing than those found in the office.
Not only were the patterns beautiful, but the composition and brushwork were also appealing, emanating an elegance and dynamism, and they even carried a sense of ancient mystery.
Gu Zhiqi picked up a brush, dipped it into the cinnabar in the bowl, and began Drawing Talismans on the blank yellow paper.
She hadn’t finished drawing last night, so she continued today.
Thus, Gu Mengyang watched as every time Gu Zhiqi finished drawing a pattern, a splendid light would flash across the yellow paper.
Even though Gu Zhiqi had previously drawn a Concealment formation on his palm that glowed and then vanished, the sight of the symbols coming to life and the flickering light as she drew them still left Gu Mengyang feeling complicated inside.
"Zhizhi, you used to not need yellow paper and cinnabar for Drawing Talismans. Why did you specifically buy them this time?" This was Chubby Chiu’s first time seeing Gu Zhiqi use yellow paper and cinnabar for Drawing Talismans, knowing that in the past, she could do it with just any piece of paper and a pen.
"My current strength is not what it was on Aquamarine Star, and every talisman needed for the Array Setup this time must be fourth-order or higher, and I need quite a number of them. Using ordinary paper and pen to draw, my Yuan Force would eventually be exhausted."
"Yellow paper and cinnabar enhance the process of Drawing Talismans and can reduce the consumption of Yuan Force."
If the workload was small and there were no specific level requirements, any paper and pen would suffice to create them.
But this time, it was different; both the quantity and the level were of concern.
The talisman array needed for taking destiny from Zhou Qingyan alone required 99 talismans, and for clearing the malicious energy from Gu Mengyang’s office, another 81 were needed, totaling 180 talismans. She decided to outright buy 200 pieces of yellow paper to draw all of them at once. The extra twenty talismans could also be sold for a good profit.
Chubby Chiu listened to Gu Zhiqi’s explanation, searched in the database, but couldn’t find any information related to the hierarchy of talismans, "Zhizhi, are talismans classified by order too?"
"Of course, they are," Gu Zhiqi answered while she continued to draw on the talisman paper, "Talisman papers are divided into ten orders. The Evil-attracting talisman we found in Gu Mengyang’s office that day was second order; the two I gave Yun Sen before were third order; and what I am drawing now is fourth order."