**Chapter 42: Being Disliked**
Bibi Dong jumped away as if she had encountered a frightening insect.
If she had liked Gu Ziyi's Mantra in the beginning, she gradually started to dislike this ability over time.
Except when she was studying, she didn't want to use his ability at any other time.
Because she realized that everything became boring and lost its fun after applying the Talisman.
Thus, while not studying, Bibi Dong was very resistant to Gu Ziyi's Heart-Cleansing Curse Talisman.
Moreover, she had planned to watch him study just to satisfy her curiosity.
After applying the Talisman, she wouldn't have any interest in anything.
Because after putting it on, she lost all curiosity!
"Then you have to promise not to move..."
Gu Ziyi looked at Bibi Dong speechlessly. His Talisman was truly disliked, and this wasn't the first time it happened.
"Promise!"
Bibi Dong quickly raised her hand and guaranteed with a smile.
'I trust you as much as I trust a ghost...'
Gu Ziyi complained in his heart that he couldn't trust Bibi Dong, who promised him right to his face.
Maybe because of their family relationship, Bibi Dong showed her mischievous nature of a little girl and often teased him.
After all, she was still just a 10-year-old girl!
"Okay..."
After realizing that Bibi Dong couldn't be sent away, Gu Ziyi left her alone.
Buzz—
Since Bibi Dong didn't want to use the Talisman, Gu Ziyi placed it on himself.
In an instant, the small irritability and impatience in his heart disappeared completely.
"It's so boring—"
Seeing Gu Ziyi put a Talisman on himself, Bibi Dong curled her lips in distaste for the action.
Besides studying, she absolutely hated it.
Buzz—
At that moment, Gu Ziyi stopped talking to Bibi Dong. He took out a soul bone with his left hand and summoned a blank talisman with his right.
"Soul Bone Skill – Wind Dash!"
Gu Ziyi, holding the soul bone in his left hand, suddenly activated the soul bone skill above the talisman.
After visiting the Soul Hall's research and development department for soul skills, he found that there were other researchers there who were also using soul bones to develop soul skills.
These researchers had long since developed various methods to activate soul bones and use their skills proficiently.
That is, the soul bone's skill can be activated directly without needing to absorb the soul bone into the body.
Although this method has been studied for a long time, it is not something that can be widely applied.
Since soul bones are very rare, who would dare use their soul bone as an external weapon?
If you dared to use a soul bone as an external weapon, it wouldn't be surprising for others to try and steal your soul bone directly.
This is also why no one in the world of Soul Masters uses soul bones as external weapons.
Not only are soul bones rare, but people are also worried that revealing their wealth could result in theft.
Additionally, if you use the soul bone's skill this way, the number of times you can use it will be severely limited, and you'll have to wait for it to slowly recover. Of course, you can use soul power to replenish and accelerate the recovery, but this also takes a long time. Ultimately, it's better to directly absorb and refine the soul bone into your body.
That's the most convenient!
Buzz—
As Gu Ziyi stimulated the soul bone, a cyan light suddenly bloomed from it, which he then controlled to fall onto the blank talisman in his other hand.
Once the cyan light touched the blank talisman, ripples appeared and then calmed.
At this moment, the blank talisman in Gu Ziyi's hand also changed, and more runes appeared on it.
Self-Created Soul Skill – Wind Talisman!
The blank talisman in Gu Ziyi's hand turned into a Wind Talisman with a self-created soul skill.
After using it, it can increase speed by 30%.
For a soul bone skill of thousand-year quality, a 30% increase is considered quite satisfactory.
As for the third soul skill of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, it's more than 40% and is a group skill. His self-created skill is still very good.
Bibi Dong watched this scene from the side and wasn't surprised at all.
Because if it were just to this point, Gu Ziyi had already achieved this a long time ago.
The current level of research and development wasn't what he was aiming for.
What he just did was merely transferring the soul bone's skill to his blank talisman, which has a time limit. If it isn't used within a certain period, it will naturally dissipate.
If that's the case, Gu Ziyi might as well carry the soul bone with him.
Therefore, this transfer doesn't make much of a difference.
However, this kind of research result had shocked the entire R&D department at the time, even Qian Xunji was amazed.
Because, apart from Gu Ziyi's talisman, they had also tried transferring some other soul bone skills to various auxiliary Martial Soul items, but they had never succeeded in their endeavor.
Gu Ziyi's talisman, however, worked.
It seemed that his talisman was naturally suited to carrying soul skills.
So they found other soul bones for Gu Ziyi to try, but only one other succeeded while the others failed. That one only worked because it was also a thousand-year-quality soul bone.
However, that alone was enough to shock Qian Xunji and the research department.
The only other successful soul bone was also given to Gu Ziyi by Qian Xunji as a reward.
Yet, in the end, everyone also realized that his research results seemed pointless. They merely transferred the soul bone's skill to the blank talisman, which was almost the same as having the soul bone itself.
Without further ado, back to the R&D site.
What Gu Ziyi needed to do next was something he had been studying for a while.
Buzz—
Gu Ziyi summoned another blank talisman.
Then he first placed the Wind Talisman he had made onto his table, and once again held the soul bone in one hand and the blank talisman in the other.
This time, however, Gu Ziyi didn't directly stimulate the soul bone's skill anymore. Instead, he looked at the inscriptions on the Wind Talisman and copied them directly onto the blank talisman.
His tool for painting was the soul bone in his hand.
Gu Ziyi's soul power passed through the soul bone, emerged from its tip, and finally landed on the blank talisman like ink.
He had tried engraving it directly with soul power, but it was useless. No traces appeared on the blank talisman.
Only by transmitting it through the soul bone could traces be inscribed on the talisman.
Gu Ziyi focused on the engraving, and gradually, a rune similar to that of the previous Wind Talisman appeared on the blank talisman, under his careful strokes.
From the outside, it looked like he was moving very quickly.
Since these were the results of Gu Ziyi's many attempts, he remembered clearly which engravings required more soul power and which needed to be carved gradually, and the steps that required subtle handling.
Seeing that he was almost done, the blank talisman in Gu Ziyi's hand suddenly vanished with a bang.
Then a strong wind blew in his face, bringing him into a sorry state.
'Failed again...'
'Just a little more and it would have worked!'
Gu Ziyi calmly accepted the failure of his attempt and prepared to continue.
"Oh~ That was quite close!"
"Little brother, let me try this time!"
Unexpectedly, before he could even start again, the soul bone and blank talisman he had just summoned were snatched away by Bibi Dong, who had been watching from the side.
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(End of chapter)
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