Chapter 57 Amazing Instructor Su
Ah Chen thought the main course of the talisman-making department should be learning how to draw various talismans, but he didn't expect that the teacher who came to class the next day would be Instructor Su, who taught how to make talisman paper.
"Ahem! As everyone knows, in addition to the degree of control over the runes, there is an even more important factor in the successful creation of a talisman: the quality of the talisman paper that carries the runes."
A high-quality talisman paper must be tough enough and absorb the spiritual ink, spirit beast blood, and cinnabar used to draw the runes evenly.
This is to prevent the runes from breaking or snapping during the drawing process, or from exploding and destroying themselves due to uneven spiritual energy when activating the runes.
So I would like to ask all of you students here, does anyone know which materials can be used to make talismans? And which are superior?
Instructor Su's voice was gentle, and her expression was very mild, which made the students, who were used to being tortured by Instructor Dong Ying who taught them basic talismans, feel flattered for a moment.
The course on making talisman paper is a new addition to the talisman-making department this academic year, and the reason for that is rather complicated.
The main reason is that in recent years, the expenses of talisman making have been too high, and the price of talisman paper outside has more than doubled for some reason.
Although the tuition at Shifang Academy is not cheap, with each student paying 10,000 mid-grade spirit stones per academic year, the academy provides all the students' food, clothing, and accommodation.
If the tuition fees were only used to cover food, clothing, and lodging, they would be sufficient. However, the items used by the students for practical training were not cheap.
Especially in the talisman-making system, the talisman paper, spirit ink, spirit beast blood, and other materials consumed by students when learning talisman-making are all extremely expensive.
In their pursuit of continuous innovation, they may fail hundreds or even thousands of times during the experiment, wasting an incalculable amount of materials.
For this reason, the head of the talisman-making department, Instructor Chang, decided to invite an instructor to teach them how to make talisman paper.
If students learn to make their own talismans, they can save costs and reduce waste.
Of course, an even more important point is that in the process of learning to make talisman paper, they will gain a deeper understanding of the materials used in making the paper, which will help them better control the pressure and speed of their strokes when drawing talismans.
In short, it's a win-win situation.
As for taking up a little of the students' time? Hehe! The little guys are all full of energy, and they've been busy running around since the start of the semester.
Some are chasing girls, some are drinking too much, some are fighting—it would be too lenient of them not to give them something to do.
Ah Chen had no idea that he, a model student who buried himself in his studies as soon as school was over, had been implicated by everyone else.
However, he was originally very interested in handicrafts and did not feel that he was inferior in making talismans by hand.
“Instructor Su, I know that the materials for making talismans include spirit bamboo, spirit wood, and spirit beast hides!” The impatient Leng Qiuchan stood up and answered.
"Hmm, this student's answer is correct, but incomplete. Does anyone else have anything to add?" Instructor Su asked.
This time, no one spoke up. They had bought talisman paper from the shop before and often heard the shop assistants boast that their talisman paper was made of spirit bamboo.
Most people don't even know that spirit wood and spirit beast hides can be used to make talismans, let alone anything else.
Seeing that no one knew, Ah Chen stood up and said, "There are also reeds, wheat straw, rice straw, cotton, and flax."
Hearing him say so much in one breath, Professor Su was a little surprised. In fact, of all the things A-Chen mentioned, she only knew about reeds and flax; she didn't know about the other kinds.
It wasn't that she was ignorant, but rather that the people of the Misty Heaven Realm didn't know that those things could also be used as talismans.
"How did you learn all this?" Professor Su asked calmly.
"I only heard my mother mention it. I have a good memory, so I remembered it," Achen said, completely unaware that he had already exceeded the scope of the subject.
Instructor Su was shocked: He never imagined that wheat straw, rice straw, and cotton could be used to make talisman paper!
The wheat straw and rice straw were used by ordinary people for cooking and were practically worthless.
She had to quickly inform the department head and, without anyone else knowing, secretly purchase a batch at a low price, so that they would have an inexhaustible supply of raw materials for making talismans.
Ah Chen was unaware that he had inadvertently answered a question that saved their talisman-making department tens of thousands of mid-grade spirit stones.
After the teacher-student interaction time ended, Instructor Su began to explain the process of making talisman paper to them.
Ah Chen listened carefully and it really was quite complicated:
First, the raw materials are chopped, pulped, and the residue is filtered out. Then, they are repeatedly washed with clean water and exposed to sunlight to complete the bleaching process. Finally, the water is removed by sedimentation and pressing, and the mixture is dried on a filter screen to form the shape.
These are the main processes, but there are many small details to pay attention to, especially during the pulping and bleaching process. You need to continuously inject spiritual energy into it so that the final product is not ordinary white paper, but talisman paper containing spiritual energy.
Overall, this process is quite troublesome.
As the students listened to Instructor Su's gentle explanation, most of them began to doze off, while a few stared blankly, completely unaware of what she was saying.
In the end, Professor Su had no choice but to take them to the laboratory so that they could see the whole process before trying it out themselves.
Achen listened attentively in class, and watched Su's demonstrations even more closely, so when it came to practice, he made almost no mistakes in the steps.
Especially when it came to the step of repeatedly washing and bleaching with clean water, he directly used his own innovative laundry technique.
When Professor Su watched him envelop the filtered pulp in a cloud of water mist, he had no idea what he was trying to do.
Then he was seen using his mind to condense a fine net, allowing the water to swirl and continuously pass through the pulp within the net.
As the water flowed repeatedly, the clean water turned into yellowish-brown sewage. Ah Chen poured the sewage into the sewage pool next to him, and then used the clean water to repeatedly wash the pulp in the fine mesh.
After repeating this process many times, the pulp will turn completely pure white, and then it can proceed to the next step.
Actually, the laundry technique Ah Chen used today has an added innovation: the addition of a filter.
However, this filter was formed from his spiritual power, which is what this world calls divine consciousness.
Instructor Su was dumbfounded. Of course, she could tell that the spell used by A-Chen was actually an innovative spell that combined the Nourishing Spell and the Whirlwind Spell.
Putting aside the fact that this child is able to create his own spells at such a young age, the fact that he can use his divine sense to condense into a fine net is something that a child with the cultivation of the Spirit Fusion Realm could never do.
While cultivators in the Misty Heaven Realm can project their divine sense when they reach the Spirit Fusion Realm, they are limited to using their divine sense to see things that are invisible to the naked eye.
Only by breaking through to the Spirit Realm can one condense their divine sense into a sharp blade or spike to attack the opponent's divine sense.
He could so easily condense a fine net with his divine sense and use it with such ease, as if the net were a real physical object.
From this, we can infer that this child's spiritual sense far surpasses that of cultivators at the same level. If he focuses on spiritual sense attacks, he will definitely be able to kill enemies of higher levels.
Professor Su had heard that Department Head Professor Chang had recruited a promising student to their Talisman Making Department, but he initially thought it was just hearsay and an exaggeration.
I never imagined that this child was truly a rough gem that had never been polished!
If given enough time to grow, he will likely make their talisman-making department shine, and even bring glory to the entire Ten Directions Academy.
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