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

Chapter 246 Craftsman's Memories
The first piece of leather that Song Miaozhu made by hand already met the requirements for making shadow puppets.

Before this, she had never learned any skills related to selecting and processing leather. At most, she had been making paper offerings for many years, and her skills were quite good. Her hands were also nourished by spiritual energy and were quite flexible.

The artisan's experience and memories were as if they had pulled her into his body and made things with him.

However, while he understood the concept, his hands couldn't quite keep up, and the quality of the leather he made was still quite different from that of the craftsman in the spirit world.

Song Miaozhu practiced for two more days, and the gap between them became smaller and smaller. She could even absorb some spiritual energy during the production process.

Although it is not yet a spirit object, it can already be called spirit skin and can be used to make spirit paper offerings.

The spiritual paper she initially used only had this level of spiritual aura.

If she weren't currently in a bottleneck period, and had nowhere else to go after absorbing spiritual energy to fully restore her spiritual power, she could even increase her spiritual power a little through leatherworking.

However, it was precisely because of this bottleneck period that she couldn't absorb much spiritual energy when it surged, and her spiritual space felt saturated.

In the past, to avoid wasting spiritual energy, she would infuse the spiritual objects around her with spiritual energy while simultaneously absorbing it to recover. Now, she directs the excess spiritual energy into the shadow puppet box to accelerate their transformation into ownerless spiritual objects.

Later, she discovered that the more times she poured spiritual power into the spirit of the craftsman and watched the craftsman's experience and memories, the better she could digest the craftsman's experience and the greater her leather-making skills would improve. So she kept pouring spiritual power into the spirit of the shadow puppet in the armchair in her spiritual space and watching the craftsman's experience and memories again and again.

Until she could no longer infuse any spiritual energy into the puppeteer, and no matter how she tried to manipulate the spirit with spiritual energy, the puppeteer's experience and memories of making the Grand Master's Chair shadow puppets no longer appeared, she discovered that the leather she made was of the same quality as the leather that the puppeteer used to make the Grand Master's Chair shadow puppets.

Song Miaozhu even knew the next steps in making the Grand Master's Chair Shadow Puppet. She took a piece of leather that she had scraped off earlier and skillfully made a brand new Grand Master's Chair Shadow Puppet.

Although it's just a small piece of cowhide and a simple armchair shadow puppet, it's not easy to master the leather-making skills so quickly, make high-quality leather for shadow puppets, and then use it to make high-quality armchair shadow puppets.

This is probably mostly due to the craftsman's memories within the spirit.

Song Miaozhu estimated that if all the shadow puppets in this box were raised to become ownerless spiritual objects, and their spirits were extracted, infused with spiritual power, and the craftsman's memory was brought to its limit, with a little more practice, she could become a true shadow puppet craftsman.

The best quality spirit skin that Song Miaozhu made was used to make a paper offering.

The spirit skin isn't big; it can only be used to make small items.

While looking through the contents of the shadow puppet box, she saw a small rattle drum and thought it was a suitable subject.

Although this rattle drum shadow puppet hasn't become a spirit yet and can't access the craftsman's memories, with her current paper-crafting skills and experience in making armchair shadow puppets, combining the two, using bamboo strips for support, and applying shadow puppet techniques for coloring, designing and making a paper-crafted painted rattle drum shouldn't be a problem.

Indeed, the painted drum has exquisite patterns and vibrant colors, making it impossible to tell that it is just a paper replica.

Although there is no suitable method to imbue this small drum with spiritual power and turn it into a spiritual object immediately, it is a paper craft I designed and made myself. All I need to do is continue to infuse it with spiritual energy to nurture it into a spiritual object.

This was the first paper offering made by Song Miaozhu outside of the "Paper Offering Secrets" technique, so she naturally put extra care into it. After it was made, she couldn't wait to infuse it with spiritual power.

As a result of this infusion of spiritual energy, Song Miaozhu noticed something was wrong. The spirit of the shadow puppet on the grand master's chair in her spiritual space was restless and wanted to rush out.

She managed to intercept it, but then she thought back to the last time the spirit was out of control, when it had settled in the spiritual platform space. That time, she had seen the stonemason's memories of experience. Why not let the shadow puppet spirit go out and see what it wanted to do this time? With that thought, Song Miaozhu opened a small opening in her spiritual power.

The spirit of the shadow puppet on the grand master's chair immediately slipped out through the opening and, following her hand, entered the paper-mache painted rattle drum she was holding.

The paper-made painted rattle drum, which originally only had a faint glow, suddenly became much brighter.

Song Miaozhu's heart stirred, and she took out the Spirit Appraisal Mirror to examine it. The appraisal result on the mirror clearly showed that the paper-cut painted rattle drum had become a spiritual object, and the ability of a spiritual object is to exorcise evil spirits and drive away yin energy and ghosts.

When can something newly made become a spiritual object without being imbued with spirit?
Moreover, the abilities of this spirit are exactly the same as those of the shadow puppet spirit of the Grand Master's Chair, making it hard for her not to have doubts.

"Could it be that a spirit can transform a handcrafted work into a spiritual object and inherit its spiritual power?" Song Miaozhu couldn't help but wonder.

It's not difficult to verify this; there's still the spirit of the Water-Suppressing Stone Rhinoceros in her spiritual space, whose ability is to control water.

Song Miaozhu first summoned a small paper servant, attempting to infuse the spirit of the water-suppressing stone rhinoceros into its body.

However, the spirit could not integrate as smoothly as before.

Song Miaozhu guessed it might be because the little paper servant was already a spiritual being.

Spiritual objects made from spirit essence and those nurtured with spiritual power may conflict, unlike spiritual objects created through spiritual infusion, which can be both created and nurtured with spiritual power.

She casually picked up a piece of white paper and cut it into a small paper figure in a few strokes.

Introducing more spirits still didn't work.

Song Miaozhu recalled the process of making the paper-crafted painted exorcism rattle drum: "Does it have to be a completely new work?"

She just happened to have a lot of paper crafting inspiration now.

He then combined shadow puppetry techniques with a grand master's chair and tried to draw in the spirit, but still failed.

When the idea finally came up to infuse the paper-mache painted rattle with spiritual power, only the spirit from the shadow puppet moved, while the spirit from the water-suppressing stone rhinoceros remained motionless.

"Could the problem lie with the spirit?"

After much thought, the only thing she could recall was the craftsman's memories in the shadow puppet spirit of the Grand Master's Chair, which she had infused with spiritual power to watch many times, until she could no longer watch them and gave up. The memories in the spirit of the Water-Suppressing Stone Rhinoceros were different; she had watched them no more than three times in total.

Following the same method she used to study the shadow puppet spirit of the Grand Master's Chair, she repeatedly studied the craftsman's memories within the spirit of the Water-Suppressing Stone Rhinoceros until she had completely mastered the making of the Water-Suppressing Stone Rhinoceros. No matter how much spiritual power she poured into it, no more craftsman's memories appeared, and that's when she stopped.

At this point, she would pick up the small paper figure or the armchair and pretend to infuse it with spiritual power, and the spirit of the water-suppressing stone rhinoceros would move.

It seems I really need to learn all the craftsmanship experience within the spirit before I can apply it to other works.

Moreover, it doesn't have to be a completely new design; as long as the piece hasn't been nurtured with spiritual energy, it's fine.