Chapter 11 Technicians recommended by Senior Brother Song Yu
The threshold for becoming a talisman master is low, so those casual cultivators with scarce resources also give priority to practicing talismans.
This has led to an overabundance of talisman masters, difficulties in finding employment for first-level talisman masters, and an oversupply of low-level talismans, which has led to a decline in prices. Only by becoming a second-level talisman master can one make a living.
Li Xiuchang is very clear that he will not be able to practice only one immortal cultivation skill in the future.
The proficiency of a skill is closely related to the length value. Learning more skills can also make it easier for him to increase his length value.
For others, it is "biting off more than you can chew", but for him, it is "more skills are better than less."
Therefore, it is also a good choice to learn a simple, easy-to-use skill with less intense competition in the early stage.
When a certain length value is accumulated, he can choose a popular skill and he will have the capital to compete with others.
Li Xiuchang continued to flip through: puppets, immortal wine, beast control, soul control, medical art, pulse finding...
He soon understood all the immortal cultivation skills. When he turned to a certain page, he suddenly stopped and looked at the title of this page: Spirit Chef!
Li Xiuchang immediately felt that the spiritual chef who cooked spiritual food was a suitable professional match. He had the cooking skills from his predecessor Li Chang, which was equivalent to having a foundation.
However, this skill was also relatively unpopular.
The spiritual food cooked by the spiritual chef often had various magical effects, but these effects could basically be replaced by elixirs.
And elixirs were generally cheaper than spiritual food.
It was just that the deliciousness of spiritual food was something that elixirs could not have.
Therefore, spiritual food was basically consumed by those upper-class cultivators who pursued quality of life, and the market was not large.
Li Xiuchang was quite interested in the spiritual chef, and his only concern was that this skill did not seem to be able to provide convenience with "length".
You can't add some length to the ingredients, right?
Li Xiuchang hesitated for a while. Should he choose the elixir and utensil paths, which had a larger market and more intense competition, or the spiritual chef path, which had a small market but had its own foundation?
He did not forget that he came here to listen to Senior Brother Song Yu's opinions, so he said all his considerations and asked Senior Brother Song Yu for advice.
Senior Brother Song Yu pondered for a few breaths and gave a suggestion:
"If you don't consider external factors and only consider your own situation, among the three ways of alchemy, utensils, and cooking, I would suggest that you practice spiritual cooking.
"But there is an opportunity now. If you can grasp it, you can consider choosing alchemy."
"What opportunity?"
Senior Brother Song Yu replied: "My Xianchen Sect has inherited all the arts of cultivating immortals, but relying on inheritance alone, if there is no guidance from the teacher, relying on oneself to figure it out, progress will definitely be slow.
"If there is a famous teacher to guide, it will be twice the result with half the effort, and you can avoid many detours. But the sect will not assign a master to every outer disciple. Whether you can successfully become a disciple depends entirely on your own luck.
"Recently, a master of alchemy is interested in accepting a disciple. If you can become a disciple of this master, you will have a promising future. "
Li Xiuchang was also moved when he heard this. To be called a master, he must be at least a fourth-level alchemist!
If he could become a disciple of such a person, it would be a great opportunity.
However, Li Xiuchang also had concerns. He was afraid that after becoming a disciple, he would have more masters to supervise him, and it would be inconvenient to practice other skills.
"Brother Song, if I succeed in becoming a disciple by chance, will it be inconvenient for me to switch to or practice other skills in the future?"
"You worry too much. You can ask this question because you don't understand the rules of the outer sect of my Xianchen Sect." Song Yu smiled and said, "Among the outer disciples, there are many who practice multiple skills. As long as you reach the first level in one skill, and then practice other skills, no one can say anything. "
"For example, there is a man named Zhang Wanzhi, who is quite famous. It is said that he has practiced more than ten skills. Among these people who have multiple skills, many have more than one master. "
"Can you have more than one master? "Li Xiuchang was surprised.
Senior Brother Song Yu explained: "In our Xianchen Sect, there are two types of masters. One is the teacher who teaches the cultivation and imparts the Taoism. He is called a 'Tao Master'. There can only be one Taoist Master. Unless you become a master, you cannot worship a new Taoist Master.
"The other is the teacher who teaches the skills of cultivating immortals. This kind of master is called a 'technician'. You can worship multiple masters. There are not many constraints on the relationship between the master and the apprentice. The technician does not need to be responsible for the progress of the apprentice's skills. If the apprentice feels that he can't learn anything, he can worship more technicians at any time and go to other technicians to learn."
Technician... Li Xiuchang was a little confused for a while, and found that he could understand Senior Brother Song Yu's words in a different way.
Back to the topic, Li Xiuchang roughly understood that such a loose master-disciple relationship is also for the outer disciples to have a better learning environment.
If the apprentice and the master don't get along, they can find someone else and don't have to be controlled by the master.
If the master feels that the apprentice is "unteachable", he can also give up the apprentice and don't have to invest more energy.
Now, Li Xiuchang had no worries at all, and was only worried about whether the alchemy master would be able to look up to him.
"Speaking of this alchemy master, you have also seen him, it is Elder Zhao Yuansi of the outer sect." Song Yu said.
Li Xiuchang recalled briefly, and remembered the "literature lover", and suddenly said: "Is it the Elder Zhao who loves Confucian culture?"
At the same time, he was shocked. This person's identity is not ordinary. Not only is he a master of alchemy, but he is also an elder of the outer sect!
Even a fourth-level alchemy master cannot become an elder of the outer sect. Those who can become an elder of the outer sect must have at least a fifth-level skill.
Song Yu nodded and said: "Elder Zhao has long been a fifth-level alchemy master. If he was not limited by his cultivation, he might have become a sixth-level alchemy master. He once refined a sixth-level pill with the assistance of a senior in the refining period."
Li Xiuchang was yearning and said, "Elder Zhao is accepting disciples. I'm afraid all the outer disciples are fighting for this spot. Senior brother, do you think I have a chance?"
Song Yu smiled and said, "You are right. Elder Zhao hasn't accepted disciples for a long time. It's rare for him to accept a disciple. Naturally, the entire outer sect is fighting for it. Therefore, Elder Zhao set a threshold and only selected outer disciples recommended by acquaintances."
Li Xiuchang's eyes lit up. Song Yu said so much, how could he not understand, and whispered, "Senior brother, do you have a way?"
Song Yu nodded and said, "My master is familiar with Elder Zhao. I usually call him Uncle Zhao. It's no problem to recommend someone, but you still have to compete with the outer disciples recommended by others. Whether you can seize this opportunity depends on you."
"Of course, thank you, Brother Song!" Li Xiuchang thanked him sincerely, "I don't know what aspects Elder Zhao pays attention to when choosing disciples, so I can go back and prepare."
"Masters like Elder Zhao don't have any standards for accepting disciples. They just have one requirement, that they like him." Brother Song Yu said.
"Like him?" Li Xiuchang thought about it for a while, and thought of the loose master-disciple relationship between technicians and apprentices, which made him understandable.
"However, based on my understanding of Uncle Zhao, he will probably set a test when accepting disciples."
When Li Xiuchang heard that Brother Song Yu wanted to help him predict the topic, he immediately listened attentively.