Yi Qingqing looked troubled: “Well, it’s hard to buy materials for making paper offerings these days, and it’s even more impossible to open a shop. I’d better make more in my spare time and burn them for others myself!”
“Whatever, as long as you can survive with only expenses and no income.” Bai Luohuai waved her hand.
She was only responsible for teaching properly; how her apprentice fared depended on her own fate.
“What about incense making?” Yi Qingqing asked again.
“It’s similar in incense making. You can choose to study some incomplete incense recipes and try to restore them to improve your understanding of spices and prepare for creating your own incense later. The incense recipes with incomplete preparation methods at the end of the incense manual will be your practice targets.”
“Some of these I have already restored, but I erased some records from your copy of the incense manual. When you have restored some incense recipes and reached Level 4 with 99% completion, ready to try for Level 5, I will give you the incense recipes restored by predecessors. You can then use them as a reference and start creating your own incense completely. When you are able to create a new incense of a sufficiently high level, you will be able to reach Level 5. After that, there will be less I can teach you.” Bai Luohuai said.
Yi Qingqing nodded, understanding what to do next. Although Master Bai couldn’t teach her step by step like before Level 4, and she needed to do more independent research, at least she knew the direction to take.
In the next stage, incense-making is actually easier than paper-folding because, for incense-making, she can still be practiced in the skill teaching mode. Whatever materials she wants, no matter how rare or difficult they are, she can conjure them up virtually at will, which can greatly increase her practice efficiency.
However, paper-folding is different. She can no longer practice with virtual materials; she needs real materials, and the finished product must be burned.
The paper-folding materials in the New Year’s gift package are definitely not enough for practice. Cellophane can’t replace everything, at least not gold paper.
But Yi Qingqing really didn’t know where to get these materials.
Making them herself wasn’t really an option either. She could make some things like yellow paper, but gold paper required tin foil, which she couldn’t obtain.
Making them herself wasn’t an option, and buying them wasn’t possible either, so now there was only one way to think of: daily sign in.
Previously, she had signed up for paper-folding materials from a scrap station that had been thoroughly exploited; this could be a backup option.
However, even if the scrap station had it, getting so few items for 1 sign-in point was still not cost-effective.
Therefore, this was not a long-term solution.
Furthermore, even if she could rummage through scrap stations to see if there were any paper-folding materials that were being thrown away as waste, this was not stable either. Even if there were corresponding materials, they would have been sitting in the scrap stations for quite some time, and by then, they might have been rotten and unusable.
After much thought, she needed to find a stable and affordable solution.
She still focused her attention on sign-in locations, not at scrap stations, but at sign-in locations related to funerals and ancestral rites.
For example, the Temple of Heaven, the Temple of Earth, the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Moon, the Temple of Agriculture, and also the Hall of Ancestral Worship and the Imperial Ancestral Temple in the Forbidden City.
The Hall of Ancestral Worship and the Imperial Ancestral Temple are relatively normal, each having only one location requiring 1 sign-in point.
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