Chapter 14: Pass time

[Talisman crafter: Peak apprentice (+0.2 exp, 450.25/500)]

Sebastian gained 0.2 exp from the 4 fireball talismans that he had successfully crafted, and 0 exp from the failed fireball talisman.

From the looks of it, only successful crafts would provide Sebastian with exp, and unsuccessful crafts would not provide Sebastian with any exp.

In this session of talisman crafting, Sebastian managed to successfully craft 5 fireball talismans, thus managing to gain a total of 0.25 exp.

“Now, before I can start another session of talisman crafting, I’m going to have to rest until I managed to fully recover my mind and spiritual soul, and that should take about 6 hours.”

“Well, since it has been an hour, it’s time I go and check on the ginseng chicken soup.”

After storing the successful crafted fireball talismans into one of the storage cabinets, Sebastian left the talisman crafting room and went to the kitchen to check on the ginseng chicken soup.

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“Hmm, tastes good… But it needs a bit more salt and pepper…”

Sebastian began adding a bit more salt and pepper into the soup after tasting a sip of the soup.

After Sebastian was done, he decided to head over to the Lisandris Family’s library to borrow a few books.

From Sebastian’s house to the library, it would merely take Sebastian 10 minutes to reach the library by foot.

And while Sebastian was walking toward the library, he began muttering to himself in his own mind.

“I must say, as expected of a 100-year-old-ginseng that costs 1 lower-quality energy stone. Just a sip of the ginseng chicken soup and I can already feel slightly energized.”

“I reckon that if I drank a bowl of the ginseng chicken soup, I will be able to recover all of the energy that I used up during the talisman crafting session.”

“I guess this is why people say that resources are basically the most important factor to cultivating.”

“If I have enough energy stones, I could spend the energy stones on buying 100-year-old-ginsengs every day, and on buying medicinal pills that could help speed up the recovery of my mind and spiritual soul.”

“That way, I would be able to shorten the time needed to obtain 50 exp for my talisman crafting from 84 days into at the least less than 70 days.”

“However, the problem of not having enough energy stones will be solved once I managed to break through and become an official talisman crafter.”

“After all, once I managed to break through and become an official talisman crafter, that is when I will be able to start earning good money.”

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Not long after Sebastian had left his house, Sebastian arrived at the Lisandris Family’s library.

Entering the library, although it was evident that the Lisandris Family’s library was miniscule when compared to Bright Moon Sect’s library, the collection of Lisandris Family’s library was more than enough for a cultivator that was in the energy refining realm.

From cultivation techniques, martial skills, to professions’ guidebooks, all of them were available for viewing within the Lisandris Family’s library.

Of course, common books that could be found easily in the cultivation world, books that were related to energy refining realm, and books that were related to the beginner and apprentice levels of various professions…

All of them were free for the Lisandris Family’s family members to view and borrow.

However, for rare books, books that were related to foundation establishment realm and higher, and books that were related to tier 1 or higher of any certain profession…

They were only available for viewing by either paying an amount of energy stones, or by completing missions that were given out by the Lisandris Family.

Since Sebastian was clear on what books he came to the library to borrow, it didn’t take him too long to find the books that he wanted to borrow.

After signing his name at the checkout booth, Sebastian successfully borrowed 2 books from the library.

One of the books was a book pertaining to talisman crafting, and the other book was a book pertaining to alchemy.

Initially, Sebastian was intending on borrowing a book that had information on special bodies so that he could check whether there were any information that the system had left out regarding the special body that he had obtained from the system.

However, unfortunately for him, he discovered that, the book that had information on special bodies was one of those books that wasn’t free to borrow, and to borrow the book, he had to pay 10 lower-quality energy stones.

Evidently, the book wasn’t something he could afford to borrow right now, and thus, he decided to borrow the book at another time.

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Arriving back home, only 30 minutes had passed since he left the house to head to the library.

After opening the bedroom door and checking to make sure that Julia was sleeping soundly, Sebastian brought the books that he had just borrowed from the library with him and head straight toward the kitchen.

Sitting down at the kitchen table, Sebastian picked up the book with information pertaining to talisman crafting and began reading it.

Just like this, time quickly passed by, and from time to time, Sebastian would pause his reading to go and check on the ginseng chicken soup, making sure that the ginseng chicken soup was fine.

Time passed by quickly when one was immersed in doing a certain thing, and in no time, 4 hours had passed since Sebastian had started cooking the ginseng chicken soup.

Upon hearing the timer that he had set beforehand rang out, Sebastian stood up from the kitchen table, then walked over to the pot of ginseng chicken soup and turned off the fire.

After giving one last taste and confirming that the ginseng chicken soup tasted delicious, Sebastian began plating the ginseng chicken soup.

And once he was done plating the ginseng chicken soup onto the kitchen table, Sebastian headed toward the bedroom to wake up Julia.

Upon arriving at the bedroom, Sebastian walked over to the bedside, then squatted down and looked at Julia’s asleep face.

Seeing how cute Julia looked when she was asleep, Sebastian couldn’t help but poke his right index finger onto Julia’s cheek as he called out to her.

“Julia, it’s time to wake up, breakfast’s ready.”

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