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

Chapter 91 Yin Paper Clothes

The Japanese ghost leader has the heaviest resentment and the strongest ghost power.

However, the effect of Song Miaozhu's curse was most obvious on him.

With every injection, he would dissipate a large amount of resentment and ghost power.

Originally, he was supposed to be more resistant to curses than other ghosts, but now it seems that he is not much different from other ghosts.

Song Miaozhu guessed that the resentful bullet might really be the ghost leader's weak spot.

Maybe he was killed by this bullet.

It feels great to make paper figures of Japanese ghosts and curse them, but it consumes a lot of spiritual energy.

In total, it would cost almost a medium-grade spirit stone to make more than 3,000 paper figures.

That is ten thousand ghost money.

After spending this mid-grade spirit stone, Song Miaozhu only gained some experience in casting paper figurine spells.

Apart from her, probably no one else would be willing to practice spells like this.

Even for Song Miaozhu, practicing like this every day would be a bit too much.

Although spiritual power is the price of casting spells, frequently casting curses is also a huge burden for her.

Fortunately, the Japanese ghosts on the Ghost Mountain cannot leave the mountains near the Forest Park for the time being, so Song Miaozhu does not need to push herself so hard.

She planned to make a bunch of little paper figures every night to "serve" them slowly.

I just hope they are not too vulnerable to the curse and die too quickly, otherwise she will have no material to practice the curse.

At other times, Song Miaozhu still practiced her paper-making according to the previous arrangements.

After her Golden Lotus stabilized at the third-grade level, she began to learn how to cut Yin paper clothes.

Although Yin Zhiyi can only be regarded as a paper-making method derived from the art of Paper Clothes and Spirit Armor in the Dharma-Ending Age, and can use Yin Qi and ghost power instead of spiritual energy to activate spirits, the requirements for paper-making skills are actually higher.

In the last era of cultivation, no one studied the Yin Paper Clothes, which could only be used by ghosts and were useless to practitioners.

The various drawings for making Yin paper clothes in "The Secret Art of Paper-folding" were all passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors after the decline of spiritual energy.

When our ancestors were alive, they practiced paper-making techniques diligently and used the paper money earned from selling paper-making to transform it into Yin Qi to enlighten spirits.

Paper clothes that have not been enlightened are at most of the third grade, which means that they have a certain protection function against ghosts. The quality is slightly better and more durable, but the degree of paper texture can still be seen.

Only after being enlightened by spirits, the fourth-grade paper clothes will become clothes with the texture of real cloth, and will be sought after by the ghosts of Fengdu.

Song Miaozhu learns to make Yin paper clothes not only to improve her paper-making skills, but also to sell them in the underworld to earn paper money.

When it comes to making money for the dead, spiritual paper-cutting cannot compare to Yin paper-cutting.

Yin paper-making only requires some ordinary paper as material, which is much cheaper than reselling goods from the world of the living, and the profit is more substantial.

The truly amazing Yin paper-made items, like commodities in the world of the living, are in short supply in the underworld.

Rather than products from the living world that are not suitable for the environment of the underworld, Song Miaozhu hopes that one day he can turn all products from the living world into real Yin paper-made items, which are truly unique to the underworld.

The simplest way to make Yin paper clothes is to find some colored paper with patterns printed on it, cut it into the appropriate size, and then cut and paste it into the shape of clothes.

However, the paper clothes made in this way are, at best, of low quality. They are just like those colorful and brightly colored paper clothes that are everywhere in the underworld, but the styles are all the same, and they have an obvious cheap feeling of being made of paper.

Not only does it look fragile, it's also fragile when worn and tears easily.

In order to make Yin paper clothes into high-quality ones, at the very least, you have to treat paper as cloth, paste as thread, and follow the steps of cutting and sewing.

At most, you can use some colored paper, but it is best to draw the embroidery patterns on the paper with a pen.

The more meticulous and careful the work is, the more real the paper clothes will be in the underworld, and the greater the protection they will provide to ghosts.

Song Miaozhu knows nothing about making clothes.

It was no problem for her to cut a few small pieces of paper in the shape of clothes, but it was still a bit difficult for her to make the pattern, cut, and glue them step by step, so that she could really make the Yin paper clothes as a small piece of clothing.

Even with the drawings of Yin paper clothes in "The Secret Art of Paper Folding", the production method is written in great detail, but it is not as easy to learn as the previous ones that only required folding gold ingots and golden lotus flowers.

She tried to make several pieces, but the quality was average.

Even if one uses the ghost life in the ghost money and transforms it into Yin Qi to light the spirit, it still cannot reach the quality.

It doesn't even look as good as the machine-printed ones, but it's just a little more durable than the machine-printed ones.

Even if it is sold in Anshoutang, it will be considered as a damage to the reputation of Guipu.

It wasn't until she read in "The Secret Art of Paper-folding" that she realized that in order to make truly lifelike paper clothes, one must have a certain foundation in sewing and painting.

Song Miaozhu changed her mindset and didn't rush to make paper clothes. Instead, she went to the Lingdiaoju app and looked for basic video courses on sewing, painting and calligraphy by masters.

All those Spirit Adjustment Bureau contribution points I had accumulated before were now useful.

After watching several master video lessons, although she only learned the basics of the techniques in the videos, the professional skills she learned were enough to take her paper clothing making skills to a higher level.

She got some inspiration about Yin Zhiyi from these master classes.

Come to think of it, why can paper money burned by living people carry the promise of longevity in the afterlife? Why is handmade paper money superior to machine-printed paper money? How can a small piece of paper clothing be made to fit perfectly in the afterlife, even looking realistic?
In fact, they are all inseparable from living people. To be precise, the changes are brought about by the thoughts and emotions of living people.

Paper money carries the living people’s longing for their loved ones, and handmade paper money and paper clothes carry the craftsman’s wisdom and emotions.

The more skilled the paper-making craftsman is, the more sophisticated his technique is, the more wisdom his works contain, and the more lifelike the paper-making works will be in the underworld.

In a sense, the changes in paper-making in the underworld, like the current rules of practice, are all related to the level of skill.

In this case, Song Miaozhu felt that her current sewing and painting skills were average. Making those complicated ancient paper costumes in "The Secret Art of Paper-making" actually exposed her flaws, and she looked worse and worse the more she made them.

It would be better to follow the sewing master's basic video course which only includes simple design, cutting and sewing techniques, and perhaps there will be different results.

Song Miaozhu wants to make paper clothes, and the size does not need to be based on the normal body shape. Sewing is replaced by gluing with rice paste, and there is no need to consider the material properties of the fabric, so the operation is much easier.

She used her new sewing skills to make a contrasting vest.

I also used my knowledge of colors. Half of the vest was made of rose-red colored paper, and one side was made of fluorescent green colored paper.

The buttons were dotted black with an ink pen.

The buttonhole was an opening she had cut with scissors.

(End of this chapter)