And this Jujin City is exactly the destination that Ye Li is planning to visit.
During the past three days, while he was on the road, he recalled and digested the basics of casting that he had learned a few days ago. In his spare time, he studied the book on talisman armor casting that Ou Qianxie gave him.
He really wanted to get himself a better piece of defensive armor, after all, this thing could sometimes save lives.
In addition, he also wanted to find someone to refine the roots of the Chandelure Ksitigarbha Flower and the water spirit seeds into pills and then swallow them.
Anyway, no matter how many rune roots he has, it has little effect on the speed at which he comprehends the origin runes. He is different from others, his main means of comprehending the origin runes is through the practice of talismans.
When the talisman reaches the heavenly level, its root will grow a little, and the original rune on it will also have an additional stroke.
The sooner he activates the properties of the talisman root, the sooner he can practice talismans of corresponding properties and increase the purity of the talisman root.
There are many shops in Jujin City with many choices. He had been there last time. Many shops sell things cheaper than those in other cities. This time it was also on his way, so he naturally decided to go there.
After another two days of journey, Ye Li finally arrived at Jujin City in Weitian County.
Before he even reached the city gate, he could already hear the noise coming from the city. This city was basically the largest concentration of shops in the vicinity, attracting a large number of people to buy and sell goods all year round.
Even under the walls outside the city, some scattered peddlers who don't have shops would set up bamboo sheds, spread bamboo mats, and display their goods for sale early in the morning.
Ye Li walked through the streets, hearing hawking sounds everywhere.
After entering Jujin City, it was just like the last time he came here, with crowds of people everywhere and deafening noise.
After thinking about it, Ye Li decided to take a look around to see if there were any cheap materials for sale.
If he really couldn't find anything good, he would go to the butler's shop. After all, he had a golden VIP pass there, which allowed him to get a 30% discount.
When Ye Li arrived at Jujin City, the sun had just risen. He walked around the city for most of the way until almost noon, when a small stall in the square caught his attention.
The small stall was set up by an old man who looked like a traveling merchant. There was a sign next to it with four big characters written on it: "Casting Materials".
On the bamboo mat on the ground, there are many thumb-sized casting materials, which are samples.
What attracted his attention was that a middle-aged man was pointing at a small piece of silver material with colorful starlight on the old man's stall and shouting.
"My dear father-in-law, I see you've kept this piece of Colorful Star Steel for a month and no one has ever asked about it. It's normal for me to lower the price and buy it now.
Why do you insist on the price? Although this thing is rare, it can only be used as the material of talisman armor. It cannot be used for talisman weapons or talisman treasures.
Its value is also very limited. If there is no one who is willing to buy it, you won’t be able to get it at that price.”
The old man glanced at him and said, "This is something my friend asked me to sell before he died. He set the price, so I have to sell it at that price.
It’s only been a month since we found a buyer. Even if we haven’t found a buyer for half a year or a year, the price won’t be reduced by a single spirit stone.”
The middle-aged man seemed a little annoyed and said, "You are really stubborn. Then you just stick to this price and sell it here. I want to see how long it takes you to sell it."
After saying that, the middle-aged man turned around and left the old man’s stall with an unwilling look on his face.
At this time, Ye Li was also looking from afar at the small piece of silver material that could reflect starlight on the stall, and his thoughts began to turn.
After so many days of study and accumulation, he has some understanding of the material called Colorful Star Steel.
This material is pure rune armor material and has no other use except for casting rune armor.
Moreover, the properties of Colorful Star Steel are also very special, that is, it cannot be fused with other materials.
That is to say, when casting the rune armor, this material can only be plated onto the surface of the rune armor using special techniques, and cannot be directly integrated into the rune armor during casting.
This plating technique is very special. Ordinary weapon casters do not have this technology. Ye Li also learned about it from the "Talisman Armor Record" given to him by Ou Qianxie.
However, although the colorful star steel is very troublesome to handle, it has a very powerful characteristic, which is that it is highly repellent to spiritual energy of various attributes.
In other words, after the colorful star steel is plated on the surface of the talisman armor, the effect of resisting talisman attacks will be surprisingly good.
As long as some good materials are used to cast the armor, and a suitable spiritual defense rune array is added to the armor, the defense of the armor will be very strong.
Thinking of this, Ye Li suddenly became interested in the colorful star steel on the old man’s stall.
After walking over slowly, Ye Li stood in front of the old man's stall and took a quick look. He found that most of the materials he was selling were just ordinary materials. The prices seemed to be not much different from the materials he had seen before. They were all popular prices and not very attractive. So his eyes fell directly on the piece of colorful star steel.
This piece of colorful star steel is only the size of a thumb because it is just a sample. However, the unique colorful star patterns on this material are very dazzling. As long as light shines on it, it will reflect blue starlight spots and can be distinguished from a distance.
Ye Li looked at the price tag next to it, which read "Colorful Star Steel, one pound in total, and ten high-quality spirit stones."
After taking a look, Ye Li finally understood why the middle-aged man thought it was too expensive, because this material, which could only be used to cast talisman armor, was actually sold for one or two top-grade spirit stones.
According to his understanding, there is not much colorful star steel in a pound, and all of it is used for plating, which is the amount needed to cast a breastplate.
The use of talisman armor is almost at its limit in the Lingdan stage. After the higher Shennong stage, this kind of talisman armor is no longer used, and defensive talismans are used instead.
Even if there are armor-like talismans, they are different from talisman armor. Most of the defensive talismans also have attributes, and the production process is much more complicated.
The price of most talisman armors is less than one high-grade spirit stone. The talisman armors suitable for use in the Spiritual Pill Stage and above can be sold for more than one high-grade spirit stone. There are even fine products that cost dozens of high-grade spirit stones.
However, generally speaking, there are not many talisman masters in the Lingdan period who are willing to spend ten high-quality spirit stones to buy talisman armor, not to mention that ten high-quality spirit stones are only spent on one of the casting materials of the talisman armor.
After thinking for a while, Ye Li said, "Old man, can you make this colorful star steel a little cheaper?"
The old man looked at Ye Li, shook his head firmly, and said: "Little brother, I can give you a slightly cheaper price for other materials, but I can't give you any less for this piece of colorful star steel."