After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 244 The Old Shadow Puppet Box
If this were a short film about a paper craftsman, Song Miaozhu would have watched it several times, but it happened to be about a stonemason.

She also tried it, and these short stonemason films, which felt like watching the scene firsthand each time, did indeed give her some experience in stone carving.

When she picked up the chisel and faced the stone, she could almost share the stonemason's state of mind.

But this didn't help much.

She had no basic knowledge of stone carving, and even with experience, she couldn't use it skillfully.

Song Miaozhu wouldn't actually go through the trouble of practicing stone carving for this. She had taken classes from various ghost masters in the underworld for so many years and learned all sorts of skills, but they all revolved around paper crafting, and she learned things that could help improve her paper crafting skills.

This experience in stone carving is a waste for her.

Song Miaozhu still valued the fact that the spirit that emerged after the unclaimed spiritual object was destroyed contained the craftsman's experience and memories.

The reason they are unclaimed spirit objects is because their creators are gone, and no one can control them anymore.

Many of the skills it possessed disappeared into the river of time along with the passing of its master.

She has many ghost masters who possess lost skills. Song Miaozhu can't learn so many on her own, so sometimes she copies some things back and gives them to masters she knows who are skilled in the same field as the ghost masters, so that they can study them.

The masters in the elite group all received some lost techniques and information from her, more or less.

Song Miaozhu went to such great lengths because she felt it was a great pity that those skills were lost.

However, her individual strength was always limited, and she dared not do this in a big way, making her ability to connect with the underworld completely public and attracting more attention.

However, if all unclaimed spiritual objects could be given a spirit and the craftsman's experience and memories could be obtained from them, then some lost skills might have a chance to see the light of day again.

Many skills have been lost, but there are also many surviving handcrafted works, which are much easier to preserve than the former.

However, whether all unclaimed spiritual objects can develop a spirit is still unknown, and there is only the Water-Suppressing Stone Rhinoceros as a sample at present.

The intermittent surges of spiritual energy have been going on for several years, but the spiritual energy is not yet inexhaustible.

Other unclaimed handicrafts, even if they have the potential to transform into spiritual objects, do not yet meet the conditions.

Those items with the potential to become unclaimed spiritual objects are mostly old objects. These things are either in museums or have been carefully collected by people. They have only been tainted with spiritual energy and are far from being able to transform into spiritual objects.

The only spirit-identifying bronze mirror capable of identifying "unclaimed spiritual objects undergoing transformation" is in her possession. Even the spirit-identifying bronze mirror that Master Yang Shuqin, the creator of the spirit-identifying bronze mirror, currently uses is not as powerful as hers.

She estimated that she was probably the only one who had discovered this, so she wanted to find another old object that was about to become an unclaimed spiritual object before others knew its value, and supply it with spiritual energy so that it could accelerate its process of becoming a spiritual object, just like the water-suppressing stone rhinoceros.

If we can obtain a spirit soul this time as well, then it's practically certain that unclaimed spirit objects can give birth to spirit souls.

With the spiritual resources at Song Miaozhu's disposal, it would be easy for her to acquire an old object that would be of little use to others except for its collection and appreciation value, even if it bore traces of spiritual light.

Song Miaozhu wanted to find something related to paper crafting or old objects, in case there was a spirit inside, the craftsman's memories could come in handy. However, finding such old objects was not so easy.

Preserving paper is always much more difficult than other things.

Paper-made antiques are even harder to find.

After all, paper offerings are mostly used for sacrifices and funerals, and no matter how exquisite they are, no one is willing to collect and preserve them. Song Miaozhu not only looked for domestic collectibles, but also foreign ones. The old object closest to paper offerings is shadow puppets.

I saw the item on an auction list from an overseas auction house; it was an old Qing Dynasty shadow puppet box containing at least several hundred shadow puppets.

Song Miaozhu looked at the photos on the website and confirmed that the items were indeed old and exquisitely crafted. She liked them at first sight, but they had not yet been imbued with spiritual energy, so she couldn't tell if they had the potential to transform into unclaimed spiritual objects.

However, she couldn't resist her fondness for it. Even if it didn't have the potential to transform into an unclaimed spirit, buying it and taking a look at it could give her a lot of inspiration for designing paper crafts.

She participated directly in the online auction and bought the old shadow puppet box.

It took her half a month for the items to reach her.

At this point, she had already reached the ninth level of the Yellow Spirit Realm, but she was still unable to condense the spirit crystal for the next level.

This time, Song Miaozhu was more experienced and knew that her bottleneck was due to shortcomings in her paper-crafting skills and new paper-crafting works.

At times like these, one cannot simply focus on cultivating and absorbing spiritual energy. Instead, one must diligently study paper-crafting techniques, research new paper-crafting works, and accumulate experience until a breakthrough is achieved.

There weren't any new paper-crafting techniques suitable for her to learn in "Paper Crafting Secrets" for the time being, so Song Miaozhu pinned her hopes on the old shadow puppet box she was about to acquire. When she saw those beautiful shadow puppets, she was determined to learn those shadow puppet making techniques and make her paper-crafting works more exquisite.

So as soon as the shadow puppet box arrived, Song Miaozhu couldn't wait to open it.

However, upon opening the box, she discovered that the shadow puppets inside were somewhat different from the ones in the pictures she had seen.

The shadow puppets, which originally showed no trace of spiritual light, now exhibit very faint traces of spiritual light.

It probably encountered some free-floating spiritual energy during transport and absorbed some of it.

Looking into the spirit-detecting bronze mirror, it revealed: "An unclaimed spirit in the process of transformation."

These old shadow puppets do indeed have the potential to transform into spiritual beings; they only need sufficient spiritual energy to do so.

There are plenty of spirited girls like Song Miaozhu.

She picked and chose from the shadow puppet box, selecting the one she thought was the simplest.

This is a shadow puppet made of a grand master's chair. Unlike shadow puppets made of human figures or animals, it does not have movable joints.

Among the shadow puppets used to enrich the scene, it is also the simplest-looking one.

Even so, its colors, patterns, and design are exquisite.

It's just a little simpler than other shadow puppets.

It also has the potential to transform into a spiritual being.

Song Miaozhu planned to use it to test whether unclaimed spiritual objects could all give birth to a spirit, since in order to see the spirit, the spiritual object had to be destroyed.

If the spirit is not obtained in the end, the shadow puppet will have been destroyed in vain.

Therefore, we had to choose the most "ordinary" shadow puppet to conduct the experiment, so as not to damage it and feel bad.