Ye Luo’s collapse naturally frightened everyone, but after examination, they only found that Ye Luo had severely overdrawn his spiritual power. After a few days of rest, he would be fine, allowing everyone to breathe a sigh of relief!

Carrying Ye Luo, the remaining fifty or so people returned directly to the camp. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

To be honest, this battle was incredibly terrifying. Five hundred people had set out, but only fifty returned!

This was because Ye Luo couldn’t hold back and intervened, turning the tide, otherwise, it’s feared that everyone might have died there!

These people were the strongest representatives of the Da Yue Empire, but now they realized how significant the disparity in strength was!

It should be noted that the disciples of Tongtian Academy were all academic disciples and very young, while on the Da Yue Empire’s side, many were already long-established strong powers!

At this moment, everyone felt quite helpless, after all, no one had anticipated such a result, but there was nothing they could do. They simply could not win. Even though they were the strong of the Da Yue Empire, wielding vast resources, compared to the people of Tongtian Academy, both the cultivation techniques they received and the resources they used were far inferior!

The dean of Tongtian Academy did indeed keep his promise and ordered a retreat after returning.

As a result, Ye Luo could recuperate in peace, and as for the battles in the Northern Territory, Ye Luo was no longer needed to take action, since with the Fourth Realm having pacified three regions, the Da Yue Empire could gather all its strength to counter the enemies in the Northern Territory!

The Commerce Alliance had stretched its battle lines too far, thus once they failed, they couldn’t even send reinforcements!

Ye Luo woke up the next day but did not go out, because he was really weak, even walking was a bit uncomfortable, so he simply lay in bed!

Of course, this did not mean Ye Luo had nothing to do, because he received the Qiankun Ring from the dean of Tongtian Academy!

The dean of Tongtian Academy had come alone to the Ninth Region to establish an academy, so naturally, the Qiankun Ring contained a complete set of various talisman crafting methods, and some methods for creating talismans, and even some cultivation techniques!

Ye Luo didn’t care much about the cultivation techniques, because he knew well that these techniques were actually brought over for the people in the Ninth Region, so no matter how high their quality was here, they were just ordinary.

But the cultivation of a talisman craftsman was different, as it was a lineage he had obtained from the Seventh Region.

For Ye Luo, he understood that swallowing a big piece at once was impossible; dreaming about directly obtaining one of the top-ranking cultivation techniques in the Martial Realm was fantasy, so Ye Luo became interested in crafting talismans!

A talisman craftsman was a relatively novel profession, at least, in the Ninth Region, it truly did not exist!

The Ninth Region did have talismans, but there were no talisman craftsmen! The circulating talismans were just the most basic, lowest existence!

Since Ye Luo had obtained the inheritance of a talisman craftsman, he naturally would not miss it.

Although Ye Luo was injured, learning talismans did not necessarily rely on manual operation. Besides, this complex data required time to be mastered.

For five days, Ye Luo lay in bed, not because it took him five days to heal, but because he spent those five days mastering the data.

Understanding? Not quite, at most he could only say he had a preliminary understanding of the talisman craftsman profession and had some understanding of creating talismans.

Of course, the higher the quality of materials used to create the talismans, the stronger their power.

Unfortunately, the dean of Tongtian Academy did not leave Ye Luo any materials.

There are three essential items for creating talismans: first, talisman paper, second, a talisman brush, and third, talisman ink!

Of course, this fellow here had it all. Ye Luo didn’t know the grading of the talisman paper, since this fellow’s data did not introduce it, he only knew he now had two types of talisman paper, one called Tri-pattern Paper and another called Five-Absolute Paper!

There were only about three hundred sheets of Tri-pattern Paper, and even fewer of Five-Absolute Paper, just over ten sheets!

If described more illustratively, creating talismans is essentially about writing these runes onto paper, only of course, it’s not that simple, as you also need to engrave spiritual power circuits while writing the runes, essentially creating a mini-formation!

These things aren’t things you can learn just by glancing at them, it requires a lot of practice which unfortunately, Ye Luo couldn’t do right now because he didn’t have that much talisman paper to consume.

Thankfully, in the data left by the dean of Tongtian Academy, there was a record of the Tri-pattern Paper’s crafting method and required materials.

Ye Luo did not hesitate and directly ordered the national collection of these materials!

Originally, Ye Luo thought that relying on the resources of the Da Yue Empire, collecting materials would be an extremely easy task.

Unfortunately, the answers he received were immensely disappointing to Ye Luo.

In the vast Da Yue Empire, out of the materials list given by Ye Luo, three were entirely absent, while of the remaining few, only one was abundant, the rest were exceptionally scarce!

Ye Luo understood why advanced regions looked down upon lower-level regions, because here, they didn’t have what the others needed, no reason to make them move!

Of course, no was no, and Ye Luo didn’t force it. Instead, it was the first time he took out the bracelet he had in the Great Tang Empire!

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Connecting the bracelet, Ye Luo was contacting Lu Yi!

Because having Lu Yi handle some matters was much more favorable!

"Master, you finally contacted your servant!"

Lu Yi appeared very excited, after all, Ye Luo hadn’t been in touch for so long, leading the women to be a bit worried. At first, it was fine, as they could occasionally receive news about Ye Luo, but recently, the entire Ninth Region was in turmoil, and they lost contact with Ye Luo.

Moreover, the Great Tang Empire was currently chaotic as well, the Emperor of the Great Tang had long retreated to Ye Luo’s territory along with the Empress and his harem, while aside from Ye Luo’s side relying on Spirit Sword Island and the Moon God’s Guard and other forces, which were somewhat stable, other places had long been in continuous battles!

Actually, the entire Great Tang Empire was already in total chaos!

And many people were eyeing Ye Luo’s position as Grand Marshal of the Garrison Legion!

After all, the world was in chaos, and although two-thirds of the Garrison Legion had already joined various forces, one-third still announced they would follow the Grand Marshal’s command, forming their own faction, and although scattered throughout the Great Tang Empire, they were still the largest power.

Moreover, some loyal Garrison Legions had already arrived around Ye Luo’s territory.