Planting an immortal tree in the wizarding world

Chapter 31 The Emerald Serpent's Beast Hide Talisman!
After Ronan took the gold coins, he went for a stroll in Diagon Alley.

He walked past each stall, looking for any monster hides for sale.

Monster hides, in the Wizarding World, are used as materials for spell scrolls, leather armor, potions, and other items, and are quite useful.

The stall owners are hawking their goods.

After walking for a while, Ronan found monster materials for sale at a stall.

Among them were monster hides.

He stopped in front of the stall.

"Sir, are you looking to buy monster materials?"

"This is a Tier 1 mid-level magical beast, the 'Emerald Serpent,' from the Sunset Mountains."

"This is the flesh of a demon serpent."

The stall owner, with dark skin and short, curly black hair, pointed to pieces of bloody, pungent meat.

"This is the venom sac of a demonic serpent."

The stall owner pointed to a dark earthenware pot.

The earthenware jar was sealed, and Ronan could not see what was inside.

The stall owner chuckled, "The poison sac emits poisonous gas, and opening it might harm someone. If you don't buy it, Sir, I won't open it."

Then, the stall owner pointed to a large patch of green, hard objects on his stall:
"This is snake skin."

"How much is the snake skin?" Ronan asked.

Ronan secretly scanned the snakeskin with his divine sense.

The snakeskin material is tough, so it's probably not a fake.

“One valant gold coin per pound,” the stall owner said.

“Give me sixty-one pounds,” Ronan said.

He spent almost all the gold coins he had just received, leaving only one gold coin in his pocket.

"Yes, Sir!"

Seeing that he had made a sale so quickly, the stall owner beamed with joy. He hurriedly used a silver knife engraved with elven runes to cut a 1.3-meter-long piece of snakeskin, folded it neatly, put it in a bundle, and handed it to Ronan.

Ronan took the bundle and gave him the gold coins.

……

The book on talisman making states that making talisman skin involves three steps.

The first step is to clean the animal hides.

— Soak the raw hides in water to soften them as much as possible. The soaking time varies depending on the type of hide.

Once the animal hide is softened, scrape off any remaining meat and dirt with a knife, then wash it with a brush in warm wood ash water to completely remove the grease and dirt.

The second step is tanning.

Tanning requires the preparation of a tanning solution. Different types of animal hides require different tanning solutions.

After preparing the medicinal liquid, first soak the animal hide slightly in the liquid, and turn the hide frequently while soaking.

Add more medicine when the liquid is almost dry. Repeat this process.

This step is crucial in making the talisman skin.

Many cultivators have failed at this step.

The third step is to air dry.

—Make racks to hang the animal hides to dry.

After leaving Diagon Alley, Ronan put the bundle containing the animal hides into his storage ring.

Then, following the instructions in the book, I went to the market and bought wooden basins, shelves, and other items.

As for the materials for the tanning liquid, he did not intend to go back to the cultivation world to obtain them.

He has now reached the master level in plant magic and the proficient level in potion making.

The raw materials for the tanning liquid used to tan the skin of the snake mentioned in the book are four kinds of herbs.

Based on the characteristics of these four herbs described in the book, Ronan had already thought of using some magical plants as substitutes.

So, I went to Tom's pharmacy and bought eight kinds of magical plant materials.

After everything was prepared, he returned to the small attic.

……

In the small attic.

Ronan held two tree branches in each hand, working together to turn over the animal hides in the wooden tray.

The animal hide, soaked in the medicinal liquid, shimmered in the candlelight. Of the three steps in making the talisman hide, the first step was the easiest to complete.

As for the second step of making the tanning liquid—Ronan cut off a few small pieces of snake skin, tried several times, and successfully made the tanning liquid.

After three hours of work, two candles had been replaced.

Ronan finally saw the snakeskin in the wooden tray, which had turned into an opaque yellowish-white substance.

‘It’s done! ’

Ronan used two small branches in each hand to pick up the animal hide and put it on the rack to dry.

'Next, we just need to wait for it to air dry.'

After Ronan finished everything and cleaned up the mess left over from making the animal hides, he sat cross-legged on the bed and began his cultivation for the day.

……

Triumph City is located by the sea, and the air is humid.

It took two days for the animal hide to dry completely.

Ronan removed the animal hide, took out his elven dagger, and cut the hide into pieces of rune skin.

He bought the jade serpent beast skin, and after cutting it up, he got sixty-three talisman skins.

The final talisman skin is a deep yellow color.

After storing the talisman in his storage ring, he went out and bought three chickens.

Back in the attic, he took out all the tools for drawing talismans and began to draw them.

……

Ronan quickly drew out thirty-three Grandmaster-level protective charms and thirty Master-level lightness charms.

These talismans are undoubtedly more powerful than before.

The talismans were so precious that Ronan wouldn't even bother trying one.

After storing the sixty-three animal hide talismans into his storage ring, Ronan took out the talisman paper he had bought from the True Immortal Realm and continued drawing talismans using the talisman ink he had just prepared.

These past few days, he has been preoccupied with the flying sword talisman.

'I wonder if the Flying Sword Talisman manual has been bought by someone?'

He has learned how to make animal hide talisman paper. Using animal hide as the talisman paper for flying sword talismans will make the flying sword talismans even more powerful.

If he buys the Flying Sword Talisman manual, he will soon have a powerful ranged attack method.

Currently, he has a total of fifty-one low-grade spirit stones in his storage ring.

In addition, there are the three skilled-level protective talismans sold by the three talisman sellers, totaling about two hundred. After selling them, you can get about twenty spirit stones.

He also plans to write down multiple copies of his secret manuals on amulets and lightness amulets, and sell them at the same time.

Anyway, he is extremely skilled in both types of talismans, so he is not afraid of having another competitor to compete with him.

Even if you buy a talisman manual, you may not be able to learn how to use it.

Therefore, very few people would buy talisman manuals.

However, even though it's a small amount, it's still a source of income.

Ronan quickly drew about three hundred skilled-level talismans.

After storing everything in his storage ring, he changed into the attire of the cultivation world.

With a sudden thought, he vanished from the spot.

……

Ronan killed three fellow sellers of skilled amulets, and then showed his face at the C-class market, which inevitably raised suspicions of murder.

After all, he benefited the most from the deaths of those three.

Although, in the shantytown, killing a cultivator is nothing.

But he still didn't want to attract attention, lest it cause other trouble.

This time, he went to the Yizi Market to sell talismans.

The shantytown he lived in was closest to the Bingzihao market area.

The market town of Yizihao was a little too far for him.

However, he used the Lightness Talisman to travel, and the time he spent at No. B was not long.

Upon arriving at Market B, he found an empty spot, sat down on the ground, spread out a burlap sack, and laid out a protective amulet, a lightness amulet, and two talisman manuals.

This time, he didn't lower the price; instead, he offered a buy-twenty-get-one-free deal.

With this gimmick, and the fact that his stall offered two kinds of talismans, the number of cultivators in front of his stall gradually increased.

(End of this chapter)