Limitless Cultivation: I Can Master Every Profession!-Chapter 60: Testing the Talisman

Chapter 60: Testing the Talisman

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Zhu Rong agreed to test the talisman, so he and the examiner moved towards a reserved area used for testing talismans and similar creations in the pavilion.

Seeing them leave, the other examinees, who still had about a minute left to finish their creations, looked at each other, all with gloomy expressions.

’Did they really forget about us?’

Not that it mattered much.

Aside from one of them, the others had all failed, so it wasn’t a big deal.

But seeing how the examiner hadn’t even spared them a glance made them feel even worse than when they’d messed up their talismans.

The only real victim in all this was the examinee who had just finished his talisman and was now standing there, staring gloomily at the spot where the examiner should have been, not knowing what to do next.

In the meantime, the examiner and Zhu Rong reached the testing area.

At first, Zhu Rong had planned to take the Advanced Adept rank and use that to start his business, but then he changed his mind after some considerations.

There was no way he’d be able to handle the flood of customers that would show up once he started selling his first batch of products.

He already had a clear idea of what he wanted to produce, and he could pretty much imagine the kind of reaction it would cause, so he decided to go straight for the Expert rank.

Masters of the various secondary professions were held in high regard by everyone, and the same went for Expert ranks,

who were second only to them in popularity and importance.

Although there were a lot more Experts compared to Masters and Grandmasters, reaching that level basically meant your skills in that profession were high enough to reliably produce items of a certain standard with a very high success rate.

Even more so if you reached the advanced stage of Expert rank.

Those were basically considered future Masters, and the attention they received wasn’t that far off from an actual Master.

Zhu Rong knew that if he sold his products at Adept rank, it’d be a nightmare dealing with the massive demand that would follow.

Sure, he could start with something small and low profile, but the problem with that was the profits would be tiny, and it’d be a very slow process.

For someone like him, starting slow was fine, but even that had its limits.

He had his reasons for not going straight for Master Engraver rank or worse, Grandmaster Craftsman.

He knew that with his current strength, getting those titles would just be a pain and nothing but trouble.

But Expert rank was something he could handle to a certain extent.

It was the perfect rank to launch his plans.

Not only would it give him more credibility when selling his products, but it would also let him get a lot of help from the Master Pavilion in managing the initial stages of sales and profits.

Registering with the pavilion to open a business meant handing over 40% of the profits, which, while a lot, came with benefits too.

One might think it’d be better to open a business on your own, seeing how high that percentage was, but they couldn’t be more wrong.

In an empire where the influence of the pavilion was so huge that being associated with them was basically a seal of reliability for customers,

trying to make it on your own was close to impossible, especially when you considered how long it would take to build a reputation and keep it afloat while competing against everyone else out there.

Joining the pavilion didn’t just give you a bunch of advantages to help your business grow steadily,

it also offered protection for your business, something you’d be much more vulnerable without.

That said, the percentage wouldn’t stay that high forever, and in fact, it went down the higher your rank was.

For Expert rank it was 30%, and for Advanced stage Expert rank, it dropped to 15%.

In other words, he’d only have to hand over 15% to get a huge initial boost, and that was exactly what he needed right now.

As confident as he was in his abilities to pull this off without the pavilion’s help,

why bother struggling so much during this early stage when there were no real benefits to doing so?

He intended to build his own commercial empire across the whole empire, and this was the perfect place to promote his brand.

Later, once he was big enough, he could break away and go independent while still maintaining a good relationship with them.

He’d even been a pavilion elder before, so he didn’t mind doing business with them in the future.

He’d already made all his plans, now he just needed to take each step carefully and see it through.

The item testing area was divided into several sections, each one set up for specific uses depending on what was being tested.

From weapons to talismans, it was fully equipped for evaluating pretty much anything.

Zhu Rong and the elder reached a specific section for talisman testing and went straight for the area used for Spirit rank talismans.

The examiner was sure that the power this talisman would unleash wouldn’t be small, so he wasn’t going to risk using one of the lower evaluation areas.

This was an attack talisman, and as such, it could easily wreck a lower grade testing area meant for Mortal rank talismans. freewebnoveℓ.com

Zhu Rong didn’t say anything and waited for the other party to activate it.

Activating it was simple, you just needed to inject a certain amount of Qi into a few specific points of the talisman and that was it.

Since triggering it was easy, there wasn’t much else to explain about how to use it.

He stepped aside and waited while the examiner, who was clearly itching to test it out, took his position in the activation spot.

He took a deep breath, ready to use it.

’Let’s see if this thing works.’

In theory, the talisman should’ve worked just fine, but he was a Master in this profession.

He’d never rely entirely on theory alone and would personally test every talisman.

He still had his doubts about how it would function because of the regular paper base used for it.

But at the same time, there was a little spark of hope that it might actually work.

Because if it did, it would be a big deal.

The theory behind it was already excellent and something new,

and if it actually functioned, then the mysterious master behind this examinee would have everything it took to be called a Grandmaster Engraver.

He focused his mind on the talisman, and as he did, spiritual Qi flowed from his dantian into the small rectangular piece of paper in his hand.

As it received the flow of Qi, it began to light up, and soon a faint blue glow started to cover it while the lines drawn on its surface lit up in turn, making some hidden runes within the formation stand out more clearly.

Seeing it was active, the elderly examiner wasted no time.

With the precision of a hawk, he hurled it forward toward what looked like a dummy.

It was placed a hundred meters away from them, but despite the distance, the talisman reached it in just under two seconds.

Clearly, the examiner wasn’t just good at making them, but also at using them.

The talisman hit the straw dummy right in the chest.

The examiner’s eyes sharpened as he watched, making sure not to miss a single detail.

And the talisman’s effect didn’t take long to show.

At the exact moment of impact, it flared, and a burst of light erupted, followed immediately by what looked like a blue dome appearing around it.

The dome had a diameter of five meters, but that wasn’t all.

In less than a second, it expanded, and the air itself froze, followed by what could only be described as a scene of horror.

The dummy, which just seconds ago had been perfectly intact, was now pierced through by dozens of ice spikes, each one as thick as the trained arm of a grown man.

They had skewered the poor dummy from head to toe, leaving barely anything intact.

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