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

Chapter 59: Paper-made Spirits
"It's the same price everywhere! Making paper in the underworld is not easy. You have to go outside the city every day to find materials. It's not like the world of the living! If you buy more than one hundred dollars at a time, we can give you half a dollar for free." said the clerk.

"Sorry to bother you." Song Miaozhu turned and left.

Even though she has money now, she is reluctant to spend it recklessly.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a little money in your hand? Why waste this money?

Anyway, the Yin paper-making she is doing now with paper from the Yang world is no different from the Yin paper-making described in "The Secret Art of Paper-making".

Sometimes the quality can even be improved to a higher level because it can integrate spiritual energy and spiritual power.

It’s better to wait until she dies and can no longer buy paper from the world of the living before buying this Yin paper!

Today, Song Miaozhu had plenty of time and was in a good mood. After leaving this shop, he came across other paper-making shops along the street and went in to take a look and see the craftsmanship of other shops.

Yinshui Lane is so big, 40% of it is paper-making shops, 40% is incense and candle shops, and the remaining 20% ​​is shops selling paper-making and incense and candle materials.

Each of these paper-making shops in Yinshui Lane has its own specialties. Although they are all paper-making shops, the things they sell are different.

Some sell money molds, some sell golden lotus flowers, some sell paper clothes, and some sell paper houses...

Even in stores that sell paper-made items for the same purpose, the appearance of the items may be different.

Song Miaozhu looked along and saw several styles of gold ingots.

Although the appearance is different, the effects of the same grade are similar.

Song Miaozhu bought a gold ingot from each family and opened them to take a look. She found that the gold ingot from her family used the smallest amount of paper and seemed to save more paper.

Perhaps it was because they had come all the way from the late period of the previous cultivation era, and had experienced problems such as insufficient spiritual energy and insufficient spiritual paper, so they were very restrained in the use of materials.

After visiting so many shops, Song Miaozhu didn't see any that sold paper servants, or moving paper horses and paper carriages, let alone the lifelike paper figurines like those in Xiangyun Pavilion.

Song Miaozhu thought that the craftsmanship of the shop she visited was not up to par.

I saw a large paper clothing store called Fuyifang and walked in.

The clothes in this store are brightly colored and exquisitely styled, and they include popular clothing from all dynasties.

And there are not only ordinary paper clothes, but also some high-quality paper clothes with the characteristics of being difficult to be damaged.

But even one of the highest-grade items in the store still couldn't deliver the texture of real earthly fabrics.

On the contrary, it does not seem as real as the real cloth shop mentioned above, even though the clothes sold in that cloth shop are not of high quality and their quality is not as good as high-quality paper clothes.

Is this the most a store of this size can do?

It is said that most of the ghost shops in Yinshui Lane are old shops from ancient times. At that time, funeral culture and customs were very strong, and the living environment of paper-making craftsmen was much better than it is now. Shouldn’t there be more talents?
Is this the extent of your craftsmanship?
Song Miaozhu was really disappointed and couldn't help asking a shop assistant who looked a bit old.

"Paper clothes with a fabric texture?" The clerk gave her a strange look.
"The cloth clothes with a fabric texture are available at the cloth shop next door. The paper clothes with a slight paper texture are available in our store's third-grade paper clothes.

If you want paper clothes without the paper texture, you probably can only go to ghosts before the Han Dynasty to buy second-hand clothes.

It is said that at that time, there was a shop in Yinshui Lane that mastered a special spirit-inspiring technique and could make paper-cut items with the effect you described.

But that shop has long been gone.

Now, only the third-grade paper clothes in our store have the best quality.

How about it? Do you want one? " Song Miaozhu shook her head and left Fuyifang thoughtfully.

A touch of spirit? Why did she feel familiar?
As the ghost flowed forward, when she saw the sign of "No. 777 Tiandi Bank", she suddenly remembered where she had seen it.

It’s in “The Secret Art of Paper Folding”!

At the beginning, when "The Secret Art of Paper-folding" was just a paper-folding technique, it was mentioned that "the most important step in paper-folding is to awaken the spirit."

But later, as the spiritual energy declined, the focus of paper-folding art began to shift from "art" to "paper-folding".

The art of paper-folding has evolved from a tradition of handwriting to the "Secret Art of Paper-folding" which is a collection of various paper-folding methods.

The step of "lighting the spirit" has been integrated into the production process of every paper-making project, and gradually this word is rarely mentioned directly.

To the extent that Song Miaozhu almost forgot the original name of this step.

The so-called spirit-enhancing of paper-made objects actually refers to the process of injecting spiritual energy, spiritual power, or yin energy and ghost power into paper-made objects.

This process can endow the paper-making with spirituality, making it truly complete in both form and spirit.

In "The Secret Art of Paper-folding", except for a small number of Yin paper-foldings of low quality, this technique is not needed, and most paper-foldings involve it.

The more lively and the higher the grade of the paper-made item, the more so.

Song Miaozhu used it when cutting little paper figures. Without this step, the little paper figures would not move at all.

But she had never imagined that paper-making to evoke spirits was actually her family's unique technique. In the entire underworld, among so many paper-making shops, no one else knew this.

It seems that the paper figures made by paper craftsmen in the world of the living are just decorations in the underworld!
In this case, it is no wonder that there are so many paper-making shops in Yinshui Lane, and most of them have been around for quite a while, but none of them can make lifelike paper-making!

Not to mention paper servants, paper horses and paper carriages!

Paper servants, paper horses, and paper carts must be infused with spiritual energy or yin energy and ghost power when they are made in order to truly "come alive."

"If I master the Secret Art of Paper-folding, then even if I can't achieve immortality through practice, I can still achieve immortality in the underworld by relying on the paper-folding in the secret book?" Song Miaozhu couldn't help thinking.

She gained a new understanding of the heritage of Anshoutang.

This is a unique monopoly business! It lasts longer than purchasing special products from the living world.

With such a popular skill, how could our ancestors be willing to reincarnate?

No matter what, Song Miaozhu has benefited greatly from the help of her ancestors!
She was also very lucky. She was born before the new era of cultivation was about to come, which gave her a greater advantage than her ancestors.

Unfortunately, I don’t know where the souls of our ancestors are now after several reincarnations, and there is no way to repay them.

The only thing we can do is to carry forward this ancestral book "The Secret Art of Paper-making".

It would be even better if we could take advantage of this revival of spiritual energy to add some new chapters to this book.

Her current paper-folding skills were not even one ten-thousandth of what was described in the Secret Art of Paper-folding. Her desire to wander around suddenly died down. "I'd better finish this early and go back to practice more paper-folding!"

Song Miaozhu cleared his mind of distractions and headed straight towards the Tiandi Bank in front of him.

(End of this chapter)