With the completion of the hand seals, a steady, slender flame spewed from Yu Zhibo's mouth, completely covering the materials in the iron pot. The high-temperature flame began to burn the pile of ingredients.
For Yu Zhibo, who possessed intermediate proficiency in the Great Fireball Technique, controlling the size of the flame was no longer difficult. Thus, under that flame, the condensed stone melted into a black viscous liquid, beginning to envelop the other materials and slowly assimilate them.
In his mind, the light cluster of the summoning scroll, resembling a blueprint, transformed into a stream of energy, integrating into his sequence core. It then merged with the spiritual energy and was expelled as flames, covering the materials.
Finally, the black materials were completely melted into liquid by the flames, slowly turning white and emitting a strange odor.
While continuously spewing small flames, Yu Zhibo's internal spiritual energy was being consumed at a rate of one point per second. Finally, after five minutes, a sealed scroll was completely formed in the iron pot.
Yu Zhibo excitedly took out the summoning scroll. He found that although the item had just been scorched by flames, it was cool to the touch and emitted a strange energy fluctuation.
Yu Zhibo eagerly opened the scroll.
The scroll had a black scroll rod inserted at the top, with a black elastic scroll band connecting the ends of the rod. The sides of the scroll, about 2.5 centimeters wide, were rendered in dark red, with a regular oval in the center.
The oval was connected by fourteen lines of mysterious runes, symmetrically distributed in a 4-4-3-3 pattern, extending to the edges.
From the outside, it looked no different from the summoning scrolls in Naruto.
Remembering that a signature was still needed, Yu Zhibo realized he had forgotten to buy a brush. Fortunately, the apartment assigned by the Shenhua Bureau was a two-bedroom, one-living room unit, and besides the bedroom, the other room was a study. Yu Zhibo went to the desk in the study and, after a brief search, quickly found a brush and ink.
Next was the signing, imprinting his name and blood onto the scroll to fulfill the prerequisite for summoning.
Spreading the scroll on the study desk, Yu Zhibo activated his Sharingan.
He could see faint transparent energy permeating the scroll, but observing the scroll was not his objective; his goal was to write his name properly.
Opening his phone, he searched for the specific strokes of his calligraphic name. After recalling them with his eyes closed, Yu Zhibo wielded the brush and wrote his name.
Looking at his imposing Yan-style calligraphic name, Yu Zhibo nodded with satisfaction. Then, he bit his thumb and imprinted his bloody fingerprint at the end of the last stroke of the character "bo."
As the fingerprint was imprinted, the entire name on the scroll flashed with light, and Yu Zhibo immediately felt a faint, almost imperceptible connection between himself and the scroll.
He could feel that as long as he used the summoning jutsu and visualized the summoning scroll in his mind, he could immediately summon this summoning scroll into his hand.
This was considered an improvement to the summoning jutsu by the system in this world.
But the system had mentioned that one could only learn the summoning jutsu after obtaining a summoning beast!
If a clone went to another world to find a summoning beast, and the clone died, wouldn't the summoning scroll be lost?
If he didn't let a clone go, how dangerous would it be for him!
Did he have to form a contract with Moyu first before learning?
As if by a whim, Yu Zhibo opened the mall. He found that the summoning jutsu had already appeared even without obtaining a summoning beast, and its price had dropped from 100 energy points to 50 points.
Seeing that the summoning jutsu was half-price, Yu Zhibo was immediately overjoyed. Just as he was about to use his consciousness to touch and learn it, he suddenly paused. A flash of light struck his mind, and he suddenly realized.
"Hahaha, what the hell am I learning? I can just reverse the hand seals and formula of the Reverse Summoning Jutsu!"
He had truly been dulled by cultivation.
No wonder the damn system even lowered the price; it turned out to be a bug!
"Moyu, my dear, eat the scroll!"
"Meow~ Roar!"
Yu Zhibo rolled up the scroll and happily told Moyu to eat the summoning scroll into its space. He squeezed out a little more blood from his bitten thumb and then reversed the hand seals and formula of the Reverse Summoning Jutsu again, simultaneously visualizing the summoning scroll in his mind.
"Hai-Xu-You-Shen-Wei, Summoning Jutsu!"
As his palm slapped down, dense rune lines spread outwards. After a puff of smoke, a scroll appeared in the center of the rune circle.
"Hahaha!" Yu Zhibo laughed heartily. Fifty energy points were not much, but getting it for free from the system made him happier than earning a hundred energy points.
Afterward, he had Moyu take out three dark energy spirit crystals from its space, refined one on the spot, and offered it to Moyu's mouth.
"Meowヾ(≧▽≦*)o" Moyu happily ate the dark energy spirit crystal and then looked at him expectantly.
So Yu Zhibo refined the remaining two and offered them to Moyu one by one.
"Moyu: ヾ(≧▽≦*)o"
After Moyu finished eating, he said with a smile, "Moyu, let's sign a summoning contract. Then I can summon you to my side anytime."
"Meow?" Moyu meowed in confusion, seemingly not understanding what he meant, but sensing Yu Zhibo's goodwill, it rubbed against his hand.
Yu Zhibo's heart softened: "What incredible trust!"
Taking out a large cleaver, he grabbed Moyu's small paw and said, "It might hurt a little, so bear with it!"
"Meow! (｀oprime;)" Moyu seemed to recall the scene of Yu Zhibo biting his finger earlier and understood what Yu Zhibo meant by signing. A look of determination flashed across its cat face.
So Yu Zhibo carefully used the tip of the cleaver to cut open the fleshy pad of Moyu's paw, and blood immediately spurted out.
Yu Zhibo smeared the blood all over the cat's paw pad and then imprinted a cute cat paw print on the summoning scroll: a large heart-shaped print with four small red oval prints surrounding it.
Although the cat paw print was imprinted, it did not disappear, indicating that Moyu had not focused its spirit on it.
So Yu Zhibo pointed at the cat paw print and said, "Moyu, concentrate your attention and stare here."
"Meow? (=bull;omega;bull;=)" Moyu followed Yu Zhibo's instructions and looked at its paw print.
Soon, the cat paw print flashed with light, then gradually faded, and finally completely merged into the scroll and disappeared.
Yu Zhibo nodded with satisfaction. Looking at Moyu's injured paw pad, he felt a pang of heartache. He immediately had it take out ten more spirit crystals and refined them for it to eat.
Afterward, he experimented again, having Moyu enter its space and using the summoning jutsu himself. As expected, he successfully summoned Moyu.
Patting Moyu's little head, Yu Zhibo's mind became active.
Since he had successfully created a summoning scroll, the next step was naturally to find more summoning beasts to gain more trump cards in battle.
Thinking of this, Yu Zhibo sat down cross-legged, sinking his consciousness into his dantian. His sequence core began to spin madly.
Ten minutes later, his spiritual energy replenished, he stood up again.
Crossing his fingers in front of his chest in a cross shape:
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
*Bang!*
A silver-haired teenager wearing a mask appeared, identical to him. It was a shadow clone.
Yu Zhibo asked, "Do you understand the mission?"
The clone bent down to pick up the summoning scroll, slinging it over its shoulder with one hand, and said with a gentle smile, "Of course!"
Yu Zhibo scratched his head, feeling something was off, but immediately said with renewed vigor, "I've allocated you six hundred points of spiritual energy. This time, you must tame the summoning beast and bring it back."
The clone nodded and began to form the hand seals for the Reverse Summoning Jutsu.
"Wei-Shen-You-Xu-Hai! Reverse Summoning Jutsu!" The clone spread its five fingers and raised its hand.
Yu Zhibo couldn't squeeze out any more blood, so he had to bite his finger again and smear the blood onto the clone's palm.
The clone's palm slapped the ground, and once again, mysterious runes spread outwards from his palm as the center.
*Bang!* The clone disappeared from its original spot.
1The content of the previous chapter has been slightly adjusted, changing the housing from an 80-square-meter one-bedroom, one-living room to a 90-square-meter two-bedroom, one-living room, with one of the rooms being a study.