I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 133 - 2: A Different Paper-Making Skill (2/3)

Ever since the bamboo forest was destroyed due to the arrival of Xiao Yue.

Li Boyang's plan to cultivate the "Artificial Tusked Porpoise" could basically be declared bankrupt.

At least in Xiluo's eyes, this plan was unreliable from the start, and it was essentially a waste of time.

However, Li Boyang clearly didn't think so.

He first dug a giant pond beside this bamboo forest and specifically got a lot of green bricks from the brick factory in Li Family Village to reinforce it.

Then he dumped all the destroyed bamboo into this pond, along with plant ash and slaked lime for soaking.

This process lasted for a whole month.

The stench emitted during the period made the keen-smelling Xiluo eager to avoid it.

When Li Boyang finally managed to retrieve the decomposed bamboo fibers and put them into a pre-prepared "steamer" for boiling.

The accompanying stench even made the Sleep Bugs, who usually had no demands for living conditions, collectively flee this area.

It wasn't until Li Boyang took out the boiled bamboo fibers, used running water to remove the remaining lime and impurities, that Xiluo faintly saw what Li Boyang was doing.

First, using a hydraulic pulper to beat the cooked bamboo fibers into pulp.

Then he added stream water and mixed it to a milky white.

After that, there was a complete series of scooping, spreading, drainage, demolding, pasting, and drying processes.

What finally appeared in front of Xiluo were these sheets of white, smooth paper.

"You're making paper!?"

Never having imagined that paper was made in such a way, Xiluo widened her eyes in shock.

Because Xiluo keenly noticed that the paper Li Boyang made was whiter, smoother, more flexible, and more extensible than the books brought by Er Tu.

"After all, I plan to teach the children in the village to read, so I have to prepare some textbooks in advance!"

Casually tossing out the Celestial Destiny Bone Armor, Li Boyang said with a smile.

"No, something's not right. There's definitely something off with you..."

Having been with Li Boyang for so long, Xiluo instantly saw the trick in his smile.

"If it was just for making paper..."

"I can understand these processes too. You could just have handed it to the people in the village to do." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"You must have some other purpose, stop keeping me in suspense!"

Curiosity piqued, Xiluo jumped down from the bamboo chair and began seriously scrutinizing the paper that had been dried.

After examining, Xiluo indeed saw some crucial differences.

These papers seemed similar but were slightly different in each batch.

These differences included but were not limited to smoothness, flexibility, extensibility, and specific color.

"Did you add something else when making these papers?"

With undisguised curiosity, Xiluo turned to look at Li Boyang, who was still smiling.

"When did you add it? What's the difference with these papers?"

No longer keeping secrets, Li Boyang began to explain.

"It's starch, alum, pigments, slag, and my essence blood..."

"In the final process of forming these papers, I mixed different herb and stone formulas in certain ratios."

"Apart from strengthening the quality of the paper, these formulas can also bear and enhance the power of proverbs to some extent."

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In fact, when planting the bamboo forest, Li Boyang already knew through the Celestial Destiny Bone Armor that he wouldn't be able to instantly get the "Artificial Tusked Porpoise" he wanted.

But some things can't be known without doing them personally, it's impossible to know where you went wrong just through divination deduction.

Moreover, the result of the divination told Li Boyang that he might gain unexpected rewards in this process.

Thus, when those crushed bamboos appeared before Li Boyang, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of the papermaking technique from his previous life.

However, simply the papermaking technique clearly didn't align with the divination's result.

Because the "unexpected reward" predicted by the divination was supposed to greatly benefit Li Boyang himself.

Understanding this, Li Boyang began experimentally modifying the papermaking technique and ultimately obtained these different batches of paper.

"The bamboos I planted are not ordinary bamboos, but ones that inherently carried proverbs..."

"Even if these bamboos are made into paper, it doesn't change this essence—it's the best material to bear Proverb Talisman."

Explaining calmly to Xiluo, Li Boyang randomly picked up a piece of paper specially cut into a square shape next to him.

"Theoretically, by just adding some special materials during the manufacturing process, this trait can be maximized..."

As Li Boyang spoke, he bit his finger.

Then he drew a Proverb Talisman on this piece of paper that Xiluo had never seen before.

"Are you drawing an array?"

With widened eyes, Xiluo tried hard to comprehend what Li Boyang was doing.

In Xiluo's understanding, "array" was a unique use of Proverb Talisman by Li Boyang.

Ordinary Proverb Talismans can exert the effect of exorcising gods and demons only when written in a specific way on specific materials.

And these so-called "specific materials" are mostly truly Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, which are hard for ordinary people to obtain.

But Li Boyang, by a stroke of luck, used Evil Qi to refine Five-Colored Glaze.

These Five-Colored Glazes themselves contain Earth Evil Qi.

Just by simulating the mountain and river topography in a specific manner, one can naturally invoke the power of the Earth Vein.

When these Earth Vein powers flow according to specific Proverb Talismans, a complete array is formed.

Because it doesn't require the Gods' power.

This kind of array is more convenient than the usual altar and is also more freely used.

Subsequently, Li Boyang found ways to invoke other Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi through a series of experiments.

Despite this, the conditions for setting up arrays remained very strict, and the materials used must be pre-matched and prepared.

But now, Li Boyang seemed to skip these tedious steps and is drawing proverbs on a piece of white paper?

Xiluo could clearly feel that as the proverb was continuously perfected, there really was Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi responding to this crude "array"?

This means that the paper Li Boyang made is, in itself, a kind of artificial treasure similar to Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, Five-Colored Glaze.

However, having witnessed the whole process of making these papers.

Xiluo really couldn't regard these mass-producible papers as precious, rare treasures.

"You kid, truly a freak..."

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