"With seven hundred Contribution Points at my disposal, I didn't expect them to still fall short. Had I known, I wouldn't have cared about saving face or fearing their gossip, and I would've pocketed those three hundred points as well."
After browsing through the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion, Lin Chen had actually spent six hundred of his seven hundred Contribution Points.
The materials required to craft a Second Grade Talisman were more than ten times the price of those needed for a First-grade Rune, because they involved not just ordinary talisman paper and spiritual brushes with spiritual ink, but also the fur, bone powder, and even fresh blood of magical beasts, among other things.
Only those special materials could bear the great power of a Second Grade Talisman's Spiritual Formation; otherwise, they would simply collapse under the force.
To put it plainly, talisman inscription was about setting up spiritual formations on special materials in a simplified form.