Chapter 62 Exchange of refueling
The story takes place shortly after New Year's Eve ends.
All the staff of Yong'an Museum went home after the Spring Festival Food Festival ended in the morning.
Jia Wenyan also took this opportunity to go back to the museum to check on the status of the spirit objects.
After the soul-returning ceremony on New Year's Eve, the spirits of the weapons that she and Jingyun Zhong had called back from foreign countries were all seriously injured due to the burden of being separated from their bodies and the long-distance space jump.
Although the spirit objects in the museum had already been in place, they had already transferred some spiritual power to the replicas when they were settled.
But even so they still have to take some time to recover.
The purpose of Jia Wenyan's trip was to pretend to be with the "Shuangyangzun" spirit, the first one to awaken among the spirits.
As a wine vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Double Sheep Zun has a very unique shape. It consists of two sheep connected at the back, each with its head tilted to one side, its horns bent, and its back holding up the wine vessel.
The two sheep share four legs. Although the design is strange in shape, it is extremely harmonious and is an extremely advanced representative of the romantic aesthetic of that era.
With its long history and the setting of a wine jar, Jia Wenyan originally thought that the spirit of the Shuangyangzun would be a respected elder. However, when it returned to its homeland and expressed gratitude to her on behalf of all spirits, what she saw was actually a spirit that looked like a two-dimensional big-headed doll, just like the "Hongyu" (Hongyu porcelain brocade box).
This was completely different from what she had previously learned from Grandma Lin.
So when she learned from the spirit in the museum that the other party had awakened, Jia Wenyan returned to the museum alone.
She thought there was something wrong with the replica she made, or with the ritual to call back the spirit of the weapon.
You should know that the growth of spirit objects is not affected by age. What enables them to grow is always the cultural power transformed from human attention.
It's like Hongyu is clearly a cultural relic from the Tang Dynasty, but it is still just a "little loli" until now.
However, what she did not expect was that this was the result of Shuangyangzun's voluntary sacrifice.
Due to the limitation of telekinesis, even though Jia Wenyan and Xu Yonghe have sought help from many spirits, they have no way to conduct any experiments on this plan.
This is a big gamble for everyone.
Its original intention was to sacrifice its own spiritual power in exchange for the safe passage of more spirit objects. However, what it did not expect was that the mental power gathered by the Jingyun Bell was far beyond its imagination.
It originally thought that the number of humans that the Jingyun Bell could gather would at most be similar to the grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven during the ancient dynasties.
Little did people know that at this moment, people across the country and even the world can already witness it all through live broadcast on the Internet.
The telekinesis contained in it is something that these cultural relics, which have been "imprisoned" in a foreign country since they were swept away, cannot understand.
It didn't expect that the Jingyun Bell could build such a stable space channel, so when it realized the abundance of its mental power, it immediately thought about more things.
Just like their true selves.
At that moment, the spirits who chose to enter the space channel at the first opportunity had already made the mental preparation to abandon their true bodies and even fight to the death because of their longing for their homeland.
As a spirit, if it weren't for the longing for their homeland after being "imprisoned" for many years, they would certainly not be willing to give up their true bodies. So when it learned that the space channel was stable enough and that its mental power was still quite abundant.
It immediately performed a very crazy move.
It wanted to try to use its spiritual power to replace the "real ones" in the British Museum on both sides of the passage, that is, the imitations made by Jia Wenyan.
This was a very crazy move, because at that time they were crossing the space in the form of spirits, and if they were not careful, they would most likely face the consequence of being reduced to ashes.
But it finally did it, not only because of the emotional connection between the spirit of the weapon and its real body, but also because of its own uniqueness.
The Twin Sheep Statue has two hearts and one body. This characteristic is also embodied in it.
As the spirit of Shuangyangzun, Yangyang possesses the characteristics of two souls in one body.
It possesses two completely independent consciousnesses, and therefore at that moment it was confident that it could rely on this characteristic to stabilize the transmission process while attempting to exchange the cultural relics on both sides.
Later it succeeded, although the price was the complete attenuation of all its vital signs, and even one of its consciousnesses fell into a deep sleep, but it did not regret it, because it truly achieved a feat that no one else had ever imagined.
It really returned to this homeland with its true body.
And based on this experience, it, together with Jia Wenyan who later learned about this, optimized their recalling ritual.
Through the formation left by Grandpa Zhong Jingyun (Jingyun Zhong), they repeatedly summoned the spirits of the artifacts or "cultural relics".
And from that day on, every artifact made by Jia Wenyan was no longer obsessed with the "past", but imitated its existing image.
Because only such a nearly identical existence can more simply and effectively complete the replacement while transferring the spirit of the instrument.
However, the consumption caused by space teleportation has always been a problem they cannot explain.
Although Jia Wenyan, with the cooperation of Shuangyangzun, and other artifact spirits, completed the "replacement" of the artifacts, those artifacts without artifact spirits had no way to withstand the transfer of the space tunnel for a long time.
According to the original plan, the body of the weapon spirit should have aged and broken down little by little over time after being bullied and abandoned. But this sudden spatial displacement directly accelerated the process.
Therefore, soon after those replicas were moved to the western territory, they began to show various damages such as "collapse and weathering" prematurely due to the damage caused by space replacement.
It even directly caused a wave of abuse from Chinese people around the world about "poor storage".
But Jia Wenyan did not have any psychological burden about this, because these were originally things that were stolen from their Donghuang.
Even the damaged parts were replicas that she had worked so hard to recreate one by one. Not to mention the spirits that had to fall into a deep sleep during the space replacement process because they wanted to return to their hometown.
Compared with those irrelevant or even "descendant of sinners" thoughts, Jia Wenyan cares more about how much time she will spend to recall those scattered cultural relics back to their homeland one by one.
She knew that her reproduction speed was very fast. The Golden Eyes of Time was like an X-ray in the field of cultural relics, allowing her to easily reproduce every detail on the cultural relics.
But there are too many Donghuang cultural relics lost abroad.
Among them, fired cultural relics such as ceramic tripods are fine, but what she is most worried about are those textile manufacturing cultural relics.
Although she has not yet been exposed to the study of such cultural relics, from the fact that she uses the Golden Eyes of Time to reproduce ceramics and bronzes, it can be seen that compared to ceramics and bronzes, which mainly rely on the production of "molds", the Golden Eyes of Time will take longer in the fields of textiles and embroidery.
Because she had no way to enjoy in real life the kind of production method that ignored the flow of time like when she was learning in the spirit space.
Even though the embroidery craftsmanship is relatively intact, it is difficult for her to replicate so many textile works in a limited time.
This was also the reason why she was extremely grateful that Grandma Xu proposed the "Yong'an College" plan.
Although she didn't know whether ordinary people without the blessing of the Golden Eyes of Time could create artifacts like her that could be possessed by spirits of artifacts or even complete space replacement.
But if one doesn't work, then try ten. If ten don't work, then try a hundred. As long as everyone continues to improve their skills, it will be possible to create a work that can carry the cultural power of the spirit of the instrument without relying on the Golden Eyes of Time.
In her eyes, as long as the academy can train enough "skilled craftsmen", she will have the opportunity to "recall at a low price" the weapon spirits belonging to their Donghuang from abroad.
When she thought of this, it was really hard for her not to be happy about the beauty she imagined.
In the last second before her space channel was closed that day, she swore to all the spirits still waiting in foreign countries that she would complete the replication as soon as possible using the "secret book" carried by the first batch of cultural relics, and call back the thousands of spirits trapped in foreign countries to Donghuang.
This was the first time in her life that she wanted to stick to something from the bottom of her heart. But at the same time, this made her think of another problem that she had chosen to ignore from the beginning.
That is, whether it is the current tourists or netizens, most people do not seem to really pay attention to the cultural relics reproduced in the Yong'an Museum.
They visit museums mostly as part of their "sightseeing" trip.
Even those regular visitors who frequently visit the Yong'an Museum because of its convenient transportation are "old customers" who are attracted by the various peripherals of the Yong'an Museum.
The public does not pay much attention to historical relics, and this is a problem that Jia Wenyan has been deceiving herself about.
Most of the tourists who visit the Yong'an Museum are attracted by its popularity on the Internet and the various exquisite peripherals.
In their eyes, the museum is probably the most boring "side benefit". So soon after the museum became popular, a lot of "black material" about the Yong'an Museum appeared on the Internet.
Jia Wenyan knew the possibility of this problem from the beginning, but the material basis is absolutely superstructure.
Only a culture that can survive in the market can become a universally recognized existence in the minds of the public.
Jia Wenyan had previously been selectively blindly trying to evade the issue by saying that the Yong'an Museum needed to make money.
She knew that this was not right, but she had to do it for the Yong'an Museum. However, now that Yong'an College and Yong'an Paradise have officially been settled, she should start thinking about how to make the public accept and even really like the traditional culture behind the historical relics.
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