บท 17: Double Xuan Paper!
Shrouding himself in complete silence, Zhang Wu Ji spent all his effort in improving the content of the Fist of Destruction Qi into a much better version. With the speed of having 42 words completed each time before he slept for four hours, it was estimated that he will need about two rest to complete a single page. That's equal to a total of eight hours every page he completed.
In one day, he estimates that three pages can be completed without a problem. The eleven pages of cultivating methods were all upgraded and were simplified compared to the one before. Using a similar Middle-Quality Xuan Paper as the material to transfer the content from one to another, Zhang Wu Ji finally completed one manual for the first time.
It was something worth to be celebrated when he inspected the quality of the completed manual he meticulously spends three of his precious time to complete it.
Fist of Destruction Qi Manual (Refined Version)
Usage 1: Increase the physical strength by 0.02 each time it was used in training or a fight
Usage 2: Allow the user to use Fist of Destruction Qi to attack his opponent, (Low-3), (Middle-7)
Durability: 2/2
"One additional usage were included after it was upgraded in the term of contents! I will need to give this manual to Tang Yuan so he can practice the skill. We shall see how strong he becomes after he learns this skill." he rushes out from his room and went to the farm in order to search for the subordinate.
Staying in the farm busy handling the irrigation, plants and removing the weeds, Tang Yuan were completely blank from what Zhang Wu Ji has prepared to him. Calling him from not too far away, Tang Yuan cleaned his both arm and legs before he put on a proper shoe and went to where Zhang Wu Ji stands.
"This manual is deciphered and improvise. Try to learn it, when you come back to me two days later, let me see the changes." Zhang Wu Ji simply placed the manual in his hand, and return to do his own work once again.
At the same time, he returned to his courtyard again, only to noticed that the two jars he requested Tang Yuan to collect the materials are completed. Furthermore, he collected another half jar full of materials, just enough for Zhang Wu Ji to craft how own higher quality paper.
It was easy to begin but started to get tougher as their procedures go along the way. Using the memories of what he has read before he transmigrating into this world, the Xuan Paper made from his former realm was far better in the term of quality, and durability.
Over here, the quality of their Xuan Paper was differentiated into three kinds. Low-Quality that were used by peasants for bigger words, or treated as a cheaper material to be used for the child or learner to study. It was only after one was qualified in both brush and paper can he begin to use the Middle-Quality Xuan Paper, a much more expensive and proper made paper that does not smear the ink too much during their writing.
As for the High-Quality Xuan Paper, they were only used on items and treasures, such as the Rumor of Four Phases given by Zhang Wu Ji's fourth senior brother, the Golden Body Manual,, and the Inner Reversal Manual. There was an even higher quality, known as Superior Xuan Paper, which came in a golden hue when the paper was dried and ready to be used. It was the one and only material that only the imperial family are qualified to use.
Without an example from the Superior-Quality for him to look, Zhang Wu Ji estimates that when his product was completed, it should be at least in the same grade as a Superior-Quality. This wasn't an absurd way of thinking, because if even the High-Quality Xuan Paper were only as good as recycled paper in his former world, then the best the Superior-Quality can be is only as good as virgin pulp A4 Paper for office use.
As a librarian, he was well educated in the science of paper, and their made, quality, and class.
To begin with the making of his own version of Xuan Paper, Zhang Wu Ji first soaks the two materials in cold spring water that came from the irrigation channel. The soaking procedure took six hours to complete before it was cooked under the water of boiling temperature for another six-hour again.
When Tang Yuan was done with his daily duties, he was surprised by Zhang Wu Ji's personal effort in making something from the material he collected three days back. It wasn't difficult to collect the materials, but in between, there were some obstacles caused because of a large amount of Yuanning's Mulberry Bark inside the order.
Only after he presented the nameplate of the Master Senior Ninth the guards of the Sect Entrance allowed him to enter without further questions. Looking at how concentrated is his master in producing his own products, Tang Yuan's heart burst with an approval towards this person.
"Even as a Master Senior, he did not carries the attitude of a proud being. This action alone worth my loyalty!" he said in his hear, and return to his room to learn the Fist of Destruction Qi given by Zhang Wu Ji to him earlier while he was still busy with the task inside the farm.
As every disciple does, Tang Yuan himself does possess a copy of the Fist of Destruction Qi manual as well. But only after he went through the new copy of Zhang Wu Ji he noticed the differences between the two copies. If it was to be compared, the original version is more to a traditional way to launch a fist, while the new version copy is more of how to strike.
A strike and a fist were two different matters. One was an infant-feasible record that teaches one on how to swing a fist, but the other one is related to how to kill, defend, and fight. The small differences in only a few words in every page are sufficient enough to change a learning manual into one that thought people how to kill.
What's more, the word used in the manual is much more direct, without any hint of twisting the word around for one to guess. If it was practiced properly, this First of Destruction Qi might be stronger than any none cultivator's manual by one fold.
As for Zhang Wu Ji, his cooking process is finally completed as well. With the first two initial liquid sources is kept aside, Zhang Wu Ji took the now soft pulps of bamboo and tree barks into a wooden mold to form them into a biscuit thick layer and placed them at the plain patch of land that was slanted to a side located behind his courtyard.
This ten biscuits of fibrous pulps were estimated to be dried and bleached naturally until they turned white before it was taken back to be made into a pot of slurry water. While waiting for the biscuits of pulps to be bleached naturally, he returned to his room for the sake to decipher the Bone Strengthening Art again.
Through the use of the High-Quality Xuan Paper this time, he begins again with its first page. With the speed of 2 page every day now, it took him sixteen days to completes the process of upgrading the manual! With the second successful attempt at upgrading the Martial Art Manual, he can confidently say;
"Knowledge Unlocking Upgrade, Success!!!"
It was a delightful moment that should be celebrated. Knowing that he should take this copy of the manual for his master to have a look, a knock came to the courtyard's door in an unhurried pattern. Assuming that Tang Yuan can answer the call on behalf of him, Zhang Wu Ji took his own time to change to a newer set of clothing before he went out of his room.
"Master Senior Ninth, headmaster requested you to be present in the Reflecting Pagoda now, all other Master Seniors has already reported themselves there." the elder disciple came to deliver the instruction the moment he saw Zhang Wu Ji. Since he already dressed, he decides to make his way with haste and drops a Qi Sensing Pill to the Elder Disciple when he excuses himself.
Going out in a hurry, he did not notice that Tang Yuan happened to have a noticeable change in his physical body, and also strength. Relying on the effect of Qi Sensing Pill and the new version of Fist of Destruction Qi, Tang Yuan successfully entered the cultivation strength of 1st Stage of Inner Qi Fighter. His fighting strength improved, with the Fist of Destruction Qi now reaching the peak of his Lower tier.
It did not take too long for him to reach the Reflecting Pagoda, and when he entered and went to the highest floor, Zhang Wu Ji greets all his senior brother and sisters before he went to the side of his master to request for his forgiveness to be late again for the lesson.
But when his master noticed a manual in his hand, his worried heart turned into happiness.
"Did you successfully deciphering the Bone Strengthening Art?" Liang Tian was looking at his youngest disciple and smiled as he asks the question.
"Yes! Master! Wu Ji successfully decipher the Manual and hope master can take a look to make sure there weren't any mistakes at all?" Zhang Wu Ji lifts the book up before his master's chest, awaiting the master to grab the manual to have a look.
"Good, Good. Since all of us are here now, shall we let the youngest to read the manual out to us to listen?" Liang Tian passed the book back to Zhang Wu Ji and proceeds to take a seat waiting for his student to starts.
With the manual in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji begins to read the content of his own version of manual. The content he brought out amazed all his senior brother and sisters, even his master was shocked by the possibility of the revised version of Bone Strengthening Art can bring to the sect.
"This... Give me the manual, I will tell the people from Knowledge Pagoda to learn on their mistake! How dare they say I am daring enough to challenge the Seventh Floor Pagoda Elder for the sake of a new disciple! This will shut their lips for a long time! Hahaha!"
"I won't dare to think about it at all! My disciple actually gave me the opportunity to slap the seven elders in their brains!" Liang Tian was so happy when he heard the complete reading of the revised manual, and demand that the manual should be given to him for a short while.
This ends the class prematurely, but none of the senior brother and sisters did get angry for a very quick and short class. Instead, they gathered around the youngest junior because of his little effort managed to make their gloomy face master laughed so hard for the first time it sound funny to them!
"You should follow us to the Wen Wu City tomorrow, I heard from those people that just came back from the city said that a small auction is going to be held, and one of their treasure is actually a Converging Qi Fruit! The eight of us has discussed that we should participate in the auction to purchase the fruit because if it works, ninth brother you can have a burst of 5 Strands of Inner Qi created after consumption." his eldest senior brother said.
It seems that their plan to visit the city is set, the only additional thing is to call Zhang Wu Ji to tag along. But when he heard about the auction, Zhang Wu Ji become speechless.
"Damn I did not earn a single coin when I'm inside the sect for such a long time!" he calculates the amount of cash he has. Except for the 100 Qi Sensing Pills his master gave him, Zhang Wu Ji has just handed 30 Qi Sensing Pills to Tang Yuan for the salary of the second month. Deducting another Qi Sensing Pill to the elder disciple just now, he was left with 19 Qi Sensing Pill with him, another 30,000 Gold Coins from the previous profit before he left Li Jiang Town.
In total, he only got about 149,000 Gold Coins worth of wealth, which is barely enough for him to purchase too much thing in the auction. If it got heated because of the special usage the fruit contained, the fight over the bid will become even higher.
"I guess I can only make something to be sold then." Zhang Wu Ji agreed with his senior's invitation and decides to meet at the sect entrance tomorrow morning. Without too long, all of them split and return to their respective courtyard, while Zhang Wu Ji went over to the back of his courtyard to look at the pulp biscuits. It seems all of them has gone through a few washes, leaving them with beautiful plaster white color on them.
Since it was dried, the moving process is simple. Through the strength of himself, Zhang Wu Ji took the ten biscuits back to the courtyard and begin to create his own Xuan Paper. First of all, he prepared the container used for bathing purposes to create a pool of slurry water mixed with the dried pulp, before he summoned Tang Yuan out to help him.
With all the papermaking material is completed, Zhang Wu Ji upgraded the screen that was used to collect the paper, and also the stacker for him to place the formed Xuan Paper on it. Although the process of creation only varies slightly from how the people in this realm does, the differences it made are more significant.
Xuan Paper Specialized Screen +5
Usage: collects and form the Xuan Paper faster than normal screen
Durability: 9/9
Special: Formed wet Xuan Paper is more durable
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Xuan Paper Stacker +5
Usage 1: stabilized the form and crease of wet Xuan Paper
Usage 2: increase their drying rate before hanged on drying panel
Durability: 8/8
Special: Stacked paper are less likely to stick with each other even if contact with water.
"Good job, this is how we need to do. Although the process is slightly slower, the quality of the paper is better than any Xuan Paper you've seen before in your life." Zhang Wu Ji praised Tang Yuan for his assistance and also swift movement in preparing the Xuan Paper. In fact, after a few time of gathering the mashed pulp in the slurry water, he was qualified enough to handle the process on himself.
It did not take too long but two hours is all it needs to complete everything. Under his next instruction, Zhang Wu Ji ordered that Tang Yuan should prepare another batch of the Southern Silk Bamboo and Yuanning's Mulberry Bark so they can start making another batch of Xuan Paper.
The procedures next after the stacking process is drying, where the two of them was busy hanging and brushing the paper to remove the existence of water inside every single sheet of paper. They were busy from the evening until it passed midnight before the paper was good enough for him to properly trim them and roll each of them into a roll of three meters long and one meters wide paper, and stack them all together into twenty different rolls of Xuan Papers.
Double Superior Xuan Paper Roll
Usage: Premium-quality paper worthy of being used in writing and drawing. Written records inside the paper are durable against fire, water, and rot.
Durability: 22/22
"That's amazing!" Zhang Wu Ji was impressed with the paper he created all by himself. Would the price of his premium-quality paper will be low? He decides to took ten rolls to be taken into the auction and quickly went out to meet with his other senior brother and sisters waiting at the sect entrance.
When he reaches the entrance of the sect, Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the carriage his master provides to the nine of them. It was a damn huge decorated carriage as a Hummer H1 pulled by six horses!
"What is happening here?" Zhang Wu Ji still cannot believe his eyes when the door into the carriage is opened and inviting him to get in. Although it was just a random similarity, it was still something bearing a little lookalike impression, almost stating that the design of the carriage originated from the hummer.
"This is our master's Thousands Li Carriage, with six of his most beloved horses. the last one still in the back of his pagoda though... his sixth sister who was also a beast tamer stated, and invites the junior to enter the carriage.
Without wasting more time, they departed under the escort of another hundred elder disciples by their side, following from all four sides. Meanwhile, inside the carriage, the eldest brother begin to explain their intention into this auction, and how much capital did they brought.
after it was added up together, the nine of them possess an amount of 1.44 Million Gold Coins, but after he took the ten Premium-Quality Double Xuan Paper Roll out, the eight of his senior brother and sister were impressed until their jaw cannot be close together.
"This is the Superior-Quality Xuan Paper, something only the people from Imperial Families can use!" the fourth and eighth brother stated when they touch and inspect the paper. As the only two among the nine of them well versed and educated, it wasn't wrong to call the two most knowledgeable among the nine of them.
"Junior brother, did you only have ten rolls with you?" his fourth brother, also the most avid collector among the nine of them quickly asked.
"Yes, I only brought 10 with me out to the Wen Wu City," he replied without suspecting anything up in his fourth brother's mind.
"Plop!" his fourth brother suddenly kneeled on the ground.
"Ninth, be kind and give one of this to your forth brother! It will be my most stunning collection ever!" unexpected to him, the fourth brother's eyes are completely into the Double Xuan Paper Roll, where he can even let go the identity of his senior brother for it.
"What the hell! I can make thousands of them easily!"
"Fourth senior brother, please stand up!"
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