After agreeing on the gambling arrangement with Zhao Wanyin, Ye Li left the reception room and returned to the treasure hunting attic. Just as he was about to go out, he suddenly remembered something and found another counter.
"Hello, I would like to ask if you have a complete set of tools for making external symbols for sale?"
Ye Li asked.
The guy at the counter smiled and nodded, saying, "My dear customer, we do sell the tools for making external talismans, and we also have various grades of materials for sale."
Ye Li thought for a moment and said, "The level of the external talismans I can make now is not very high, so ordinary making tools should be enough.
I also need materials suitable for making fire talismans. The grade doesn’t need to be too high, just enough to carry a nine-character spell.”
The clerk nodded and said, "The most common production tools are a set of two medium-grade spirit stones, including a talisman pen, an inkstone for fusing materials, and a hundred pieces of talisman paper that we give as a gift.
The fire-related materials below the Nine-Character Spell are one medium-grade spirit stone each, including a pack of Fire Rhinoceros Horn Powder and Red Snake Tooth Powder... enough to draw one hundred outer spells."
Ye Li could accept the price, so he happily took out three middle-grade spirit stones and said, "Give me a set of tools and a set of materials for 100 external talismans."
After the waiter took the spirit stone, he gave Ye Li a set of talisman drawing tools and some materials.
After Ye Li put them into his Qiankun bag, he turned around and left the Treasure Hunting Pavilion and returned to his own courtyard.
Ye Li's idea of making external talismans is not only to earn some spirit stones, but more importantly, he can use the production process to continuously practice drawing talismans.
Since the activation of external talismans mostly relies on the spiritual energy of the user, it does not consume much spiritual energy of the maker. It is more about using the power of spiritual consciousness to draw very accurately.
In this way, Ye Li can practice many more times before the spiritual energy in his body is exhausted, and the speed of practicing the talisman will increase.
He returned to the house, opened his Qiankun bag, and took out the purchased materials and tools. He planned to try to draw the outer talisman while there was still time.
Although Ye Li had never actually made an external talisman, he was a child of aristocratic family after all, and he had learned how to make one when he was a child.
After placing the talisman pen and inkstone on the table, he put the powders and juices of various materials into the inkstone.
This inkstone used for making external talismans is much larger and deeper than the inkstone used for writing. It is like a small square jar that can hold a lot of things.
After putting the materials in, he took out a bottle of special solution and slowly poured it into the inkstone.
The various powders and juices that were originally solidified and unable to merge together began to roll violently.
Under the effect of the last bottle of liquid, all the materials began to fuse together and turned into a small tank of red viscous liquid. This was the talisman ink used to make the outer talisman.
The moment the red liquid was formed, part of the fire spiritual energy in the air was absorbed into it, and the entire talisman ink began to emit a warm red light.
Ye Li picked up a piece of light yellow talisman paper and looked at it. The paper made of special material seemed very strong and felt a bit like sheepskin.
Placing the talisman paper on the table in front of him, Ye Li picked up the talisman pen next to it and examined it.
The talisman pen looks similar to a writing brush, except that the pen shaft and the bristles are made of special materials and are engraved with some runes, which have the function of guiding the transmission of spiritual energy.
After Ye Li dipped the talisman pen into the talisman ink, he injected spiritual energy into the talisman pen in his hand. The pen tip filled with ink became increasingly red and bright.
Recalling the method of making talismans that he had learned, Ye Li mobilized the power of his spiritual consciousness and condensed it into the talisman pen in his hand.
Different from drawing talismans in daily life, the talisman pen is different from fingers after all, it is an external object, so if you want to draw the talisman runes accurately, the control is much more difficult.
He tried to close his eyes, concentrate and calm his mind to eliminate all distracting thoughts, and enter the so-called state of letting go of all thoughts and being free from all dust.
In the state of neither thinking nor not thinking, Ye Li suddenly opened his eyes, and there was no focus in his eyes, as if he had lost his mind.
While his thoughts were still, Ye Li's hands suddenly started to move, and the talisman pen in his hand pointed at the talisman paper without any warning.
This was like a mountain falling down, landing heavily on the talisman paper.
A circle of red ripples spread out from the tip of the talisman pen. This was called the beginning of chaos, and was the starting point for drawing the outer talisman.
After landing this point, Ye Li's wrist shook violently, and a series of runes were drawn quickly.
Normally, he would use five fingers to draw talismans at the same time, but now he only had one talisman pen, and each stroke of the talisman had to be drawn with this pen, so the order of the strokes was very different from usual.
The first thing Ye Li drew was an explosive spell, a spell he mastered extremely well.
Forty-five scarlet talismans appeared one after another on the light yellow talisman paper. It took Ye Li almost three seconds to finish drawing the talisman.
After the last stroke was made, the talisman on the talisman paper began to emit a red light, and the ink that had not yet dried rose into the air and then gathered into a complete talisman.
After the explosive talisman took shape in the air, it fell down at a rapid speed and was imprinted heavily on the talisman paper. The ink dried completely in an instant.
Ye Li also regained consciousness at this time. He looked at the external talisman in front of him and frowned.
"It's only at the Xuan level. It seems that the creation of this external talisman is really not simple. It is difficult to draw the talisman with absolute accuracy using a talisman pen."
Ye Li couldn't help but sigh.
When he was drawing the outer talisman just now, the power of his spiritual consciousness and the spiritual energy in the talisman pen were completely concentrated together, but he still found it difficult to draw each stroke to the precise position.
The talisman that he could originally draw perfectly could now only reach the Xuan level, which was one level lower than the Earth level talismans he usually drew.
After thinking about it, Ye Li felt relieved. After all, this time he was using a talisman pen to complete the movements of the past five fingers. It was inevitable that he would feel a little uncomfortable. But if he got used to this way of drawing, he should be able to achieve perfection soon.
After putting the first external talisman aside, Ye Li began to draw the second external talisman. This time he planned to draw the Extreme Flame Finger.
Originally, the Extreme Flame Finger required that the talisman must be stacked in the blink of an eye. However, when making the outer talisman, this time was extended to five times. As long as it was completed in five blinks of an eye, the talisman could be formed.
The reason is that the material of the talisman ink can greatly enhance the cohesion of the spiritual energy in the talisman, making it less easy for the spiritual energy to dissipate.
Ye Li could use this time to carefully study how to accurately superimpose talismans and try to master the tricks of superimposing talismans as much as possible.
He practiced this for three days, and only stopped when all the 100 talisman papers were used up. His outer talisman, the Extreme Flame Finger, could already stack up five talismans, but its power was only at the yellow level.
During this period, his spiritual power was exhausted several times, and he relied on the Purple Talisman to recover. After continuous exhaustion and replenishment, his spiritual power actually increased a lot without him noticing, which was an unexpected gain.