Volume 1: Stepping into the Fairy Chapter 9, Rune Paper Workshop
"The newly recruited disciples in the past few years, it's really not as good as a stubble, and I don't know what the pavilion master thinks...... Ahem, what am I talking to you little hairy children about!" Ge Chuan was talking to himself alone, and Yi Xuan and a few other teenagers didn't dare to answer, and looked at the old man quietly.
When Ge Chuan reacted, he took out a number of items from the room and distributed them to the seven people.
"This is the entry jade talisman, you must read it carefully, otherwise you will violate the door rules, but you will be punished; this is the identity nameplate, you must hang it on your body all the time, many places in the academy are prohibited, you can't go to the place, the identity nameplate will remind you, otherwise, hehe, I don't know how to die...... By the way, there is this, this is the academy's introductory exercise "Sixteen Characters Wonderful Law", you must practice hard, anyway, idle is idle, there must always be a thought!"
After the old man Ge Chuan explained clearly to Yi Xuan and the others slowly, he pointed to two of the young men and said, "You two, look at the good face, just stay here and listen to my errand, this hall is busy with affairs, and my old man can't be busy alone! The remaining five come with me!"
Taking Yi Xuan and the other five teenagers out of the main hall, they stopped in front of several houses with yellow mud and green tiles, and Ge Chuan summoned a young man in his twenties with broad shoulders and tall shoulders from the house.
"Xiao Liao, these five are new miscellaneous disciples, so I'll hand them over to you to carry, but you have to be careful with me, don't make any mistakes!"
"Old Ge, why do you still run in person, such a little thing, you call me over! Don't worry, these new junior disciples, I will definitely do my best to ensure that nothing goes wrong!" The young man surnamed Liao was busy assuring the old man.
Waiting for the old man to leave, the young man surnamed Liao warmly greeted Yi Xuan and the five people: "Everyone is a disciple of Fu Ge, don't be restrained, I just came a few years earlier! My name is Liao Feihu, I am the steward here, how old are you, you can call me Brother Feihu!"
Liao Feihu brought the five people into one of the houses, "This is the usual place to sleep and rest, there are dozens of beds, there are few of us, you can just pick an empty bed! ”
Yi Xuan followed Liao Feihu into the largest house and saw that there were more than twenty gray-robed miscellaneous disciples busy......
"Our talisman pavilion is responsible for the production of spirit talismans for the entire academy. Do you know the spirit rune? This is to use a specific rune to seal the Dao method on the rune paper and stimulate it at a critical time! And the key to making the spirit rune is the quality of the rune paper, that is, the errand of our people. ”
"The requirements for the production of rune paper in the academy are very harsh, and they are divided into five procedures, namely chopping grass, cooking, curtain, pressing paper and drying, all of which are indispensable, and you must learn and master them one by one. After you get acquainted with it, you will have to undertake the production task from next month, and each person will have to hand in 200 pieces of fine rune paper every month!"
"Monkey, Fat Tiger, Blackface, Xiao An, you guys come here!"
After Liao Feihu explained, he waved his hand to beckon the four miscellaneous disciples who were busy, pointed at Yi Xuan and said, "These are new miscellaneous disciples, didn't you say earlier that there are not enough people? A few of them will be handed over to you, you must teach them clearly, go to work quickly!"
A few old disciples divided the newcomers at will, and Yi Xuan was selected by the fat tiger and followed him to the operation table of the workshop.
"The first grass is to take back and wash the yellow bell grass planted by the academy itself, and then grind it into straw pulp; after that, the boiling material should be put in a cauldron to boil it, during which it must be constantly stirred, which is the most arduous; then the curtain should wait for the straw pulp to cool down, and then use the bamboo curtain to scoop up the straw pulp, filter the water, and become a paper film; then the paper film should be folded one by one, pressed with a wooden board, and a heavy stone should be placed on it to squeeze out the excess water, which is called "pressing paper"; the last link is "drying" , that is, the paper film pressed to semi-dry is pasted on the edge of the stove to dry, and the finished rune paper is removed from it. ”
Fat Tiger paused for a moment and continued: "It seems a little complicated, but it is not difficult after getting acquainted with it! Or you can start with the simplest, there are still a few baskets of freshly cut yellow bell grass outside the door that have not had time to be cleaned, you go and get some water, carefully wash and dry it for later use!"
Yi Xuan first arrived, wanted to earn a performance, quickly asked the location of the well, found a bucket, a flat shoulder to carry water back, first shook off the soil on the rhizome of the yellow bell grass, and then soaked it in water one by one to clean it, and then found a clean bamboo sieve to control the water to dry, and was busy until the fat tiger came to shout to eat.
Leaning next to Fat Tiger, Yi Xuan asked with a smile: "Brother Fat Tiger, can you tell me about cultivating the truth?" Junior Brother just arrived at the academy and didn't understand anything, so I want to ask you for more advice!"
"Don't follow Lao Liao and call me Fat Tiger, my name is Pang Hu, it's okay to call me Brother Pang, it's okay to call Brother Tiger, you just can't call me Brother Fat Tiger, you know?" Fat Tiger said dissatisfiedly with the fat all over his body.
"Okay, Brother Hu, first tell me about the "Sixteen-Character Wonderful Law" issued by the academy?
"Haha, it seems that you are also here for the exercises of the academy! Let me ask you first, what kind of spiritual root are you?"
"I remember when I took the test, it seemed that the examiner said that it was the Nine Rank Spiritual Root!"
"Hahaha, come and take a look, this kid is actually a white nine-rank spiritual root, and he still wants to cultivate, wow...... Haha, it's ridiculous!" Hearing that Yi Xuan is a nine-rank spiritual root, Pang Hu suddenly laughed and his face trembled, and the old disciple next to him also coaxed.
"I thought the gray spiritual root was bad enough, but there are really worse spiritual roots than me, hehehe......"
After a burst of laughter, Yi Xuan figured out that this spiritual root was divided into nine grades, and when tested with a spirit measuring stone, it would emit a nine-color spiritual light of "purple, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown, gray, and white". Purple is a first-grade spiritual root, also called the heavenly spiritual root, which is rare in a hundred years, and is a mutated spiritual root of "wind", "thunder" and "ice"; red spiritual root is a second-grade spiritual root, also called the earth spiritual root, which is a single attribute spiritual root of "gold", "wood", "water", "fire" and "earth", and the following are the remaining seven spiritual roots, which are related to the monk's ability to refine spiritual power and comprehend the way of heaven. And Yi Xuan's nine-grade white spirit root can be said to be extremely poor, and there is basically no possibility of advancement.
In addition, Pang Hu told Yi Xuan that the "Sixteen Characters Wonderful Law" is an extremely simple exercise, only a few hundred words, which is basically a simple description of the method of perceiving spiritual power, which requires cultivators to perceive the aura between heaven and earth by themselves, and it is extremely difficult to get started. Over the past few decades, there have been thousands and hundreds of miscellaneous disciples, but there are very few who can enter the spirit period with the introductory exercises.