The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 422: This magic weapon was repaired, and it released ghosts!
Alchemy, talismans, weapons and formations, the four arts of cultivation.

Shen Le often saw this sentence... Well, Shen Le often saw this sentence in the online fairy tale novels. It talked about the four mainstream skills that cultivators used to make money and support themselves:
Alchemy, talisman making, weapon refining, and formation of battle array.

Of course, there are many other skills, such as growing spiritual rice and spiritual medicine, raising spiritual beasts and spiritual fish, opening a restaurant and making spiritual food, and doing business...

However, the reason why these four crafts are called mainstream is because they have a large demand and a broad market. From low-end to high-end, there is abundant output and sales, and the profits are relatively good.

Among these, talisman making is said to have the lowest entry cost and is the easiest to get started. You can get started with just a little learning, and it is easy to reach the break-even point and start to support yourself.

However, Shen Le worked hard on making talismans for half a month but made no progress.

He could just about carve the runes given to him by the copper sheet into the surface of the wood;
He would fail seven or eight times out of ten when he tried to carve the rune given to him by the copper into the wood;

Draw the runes from the "Fuzhuan Daquan" given by the Special Affairs Bureau on talisman paper, or carve them on wood...

He tried many times with a brush, a special talisman pen and ink, and a special carving knife, but never succeeded.

"Fortunately, I didn't travel to the world of cultivation." Shen Le sighed sincerely:
"If I really get through, I'm afraid I won't even be able to support myself..."

[You are working in the wrong direction.] In the corner of the factory, Lan Zhuang said faintly:

[Is there a possibility that your ability is not compatible with this talisman? ]

For example, to summon a god, people burn incense and pray in front of the statue every day to gain enough favorability. If you have never done this before and suddenly draw a talisman, there is no way the god will pay attention to you! "

Shen Le: “…”

Lan Zhuang, can you please be a little more relaxed when you taunt me?
Oh, hold it in, hold it in, don’t quarrel with your little one…

[Forget it, put it aside and don't learn it. I'll learn it and teach you when I learn it!]

Shen Le: “…”

It's over. I've been despised by my own little one...

"Okay, now that you've learned it, teach me... Do you need someone to help you turn the pages of a book? Do you need someone to help you draw talismans? Or, do you need someone to help you turn on the computer and type on the keyboard?"

[Oh, I can handle all of this! Xiaoling, Qingdeng and the others can help me! Just go and do your thing!]

...The little one at home is too capable, which is not a good thing. As a master, I always doubt my life...

"Then you should learn first! By the way, if it's convenient for you, you can study how to complete the talismans on the hull, or communicate with the team outside..."

After all, everyone communicates through computers. As long as you can type, send messages, and send emails, people don’t know whether the person sitting opposite them is a person... or a dog.

The same goes for weapon spirits. If Lan Zhuang wants to go online by herself, the Special Affairs Bureau has already registered accounts for them all; if Lan Zhuang wants to use Shen Le's account, that's no problem either!
[Got it! Just go about your business! ]

Shen Le looked up to the sky and sighed deeply. Not to mention, Lan Zhuang was actually better than him in this aspect.

At the very least, when he was still unable to finish the talisman, Lan Zhuang was already able to use light and shadow to outline the integrity of the existing talisman on the hull...

He put down the work in his hands and simply changed the direction of his efforts:
Since I can't figure out the talisman for now, I'll try something else to change my mood.

For example, the decorations, flags, lanterns, dolls, and furniture unloaded from the ship also need to be repaired!
Shen Le rubbed his hands and started to work. First, the flags. From the bow to the stern, on both sides of the ship, a triangular flag was inserted every one meter;

Then on the second floor of the deck, there was a square flag every three meters.

The triangular flags are divided into five colors: blue, red, yellow, white, and black. Each color of the flag is painted with dragon patterns and inlaid with wolf teeth according to the law of the five elements:
For example, green represents wood, and wood produces fire. A red dragon is drawn inside, and a row of wolf-tooth-shaped red edges are placed outside.
Yellow represents earth, and earth produces gold. A white dragon is drawn inside, and a white border is placed outside...

The square flag on the third deck was covered with words. Shen Le took a look and saw that they were all gods he didn't recognize:
The Great Emperor Shenxiao Zhenwang...

The Great Lord of the Cavernous Samadhi…

The Supreme Saint Master of the Dharma Palace...

The Six Gods of Incense and Fire…

Who are you all?
In short, thanks to this wooden boat, there is no need for flag signals for external communication, and Shen Le’s workload of repairing flags is only seventy or eighty colorful flags.

From the time the ship was built to the time it became dilapidated and then turned into a magical instrument and collected, no one knows how many years have passed, nor what the preservation environment was like.

In short, the flags that now fell into Shen Le's hands were all rotten, broken, stiff, covered with dust and covered with cobwebs.

Shen Le muttered, "If I repair the fabric again, I will be a dog... If I repair the fabric again, I will be a dog..." He dragged a small cart, brought all the colorful flags back to the studio, and spread them out one by one:

"Cleaning technique! Cleaning technique! Cleaning technique..." He threw the cleaning technique on each one, rolling out all the dirt visible to the naked eye, including the dirt that had seeped into the gaps between the warp and weft threads of the silk fabric.

Then follow the operation method of repairing silk fabrics, put a layer of electric spinning in the cleaning tank, put the colorful flags on it, and then put another layer of electric spinning on top, fix the four corners, and slowly pour water.

Let the water containing detergent flow over the surface of the fabric to remove the dirt, and slowly dry it in the shade. Soak it in silk protein solution to slightly restore its softness and luster, and then fill the holes:

Grow!

Grow!

Grow!

The spiritual power guides the growth of the longitude and latitude threads, so that the silk that is cut to fill the hole grows together with the original fabric!
Shen Le had already mastered this set of procedures, which was completely mechanical and repetitive. As he was doing it, he found something wrong:
"The power on this flag is very strange! It feels like there is a layer of something very cold and strange, always attached to it! - Can't my cleaning technique remove it?"

He concentrated his mind to sense the thing, stared at a red flag with a yellow dragon, and cast another cleaning spell on it.

The flag moved slightly, and Shen Le seemed to hear a cry. Something invisible and intangible flew out and rolled back and forth in the studio:

"Hey, don't run! Stop for a moment! - You, don't die!!!"

It was too late. The mass of things popped like a bubble and disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the red-bottomed yellow dragon flag in front of Shen Le visibly turned gray, brittle, and dim, and it looked like it was just a little bit away from turning into ashes...

Shen Le: “…”

So, the power attached to this flag also has the effect of protecting the flag itself?
Just like a painting or a skirt, if the spiritual power on them did not exist, they would have disappeared long ago and decayed in history.

In other words, only with spiritual power can the current material be maintained until the day when Shen Le comes to repair them.

"Okay... I won't touch this kind of power for now... I have to repair this flag all over again. Oh, I'm exhausted..."

Shen Le grumbled, but had to roll up his sleeves and work hard. Re-soak, re-pour the silk protein solution, re-cast the healing spell, and re-dry in the shade.

After going back and forth three times, the Yellow Dragon Flag was finally restored to a state where it could be presented to the public.

After all pennants are repaired, deal with square flags:

Square flags are much more difficult to repair than pennants. First, they are larger in area, and when they are exposed to the sun and wind, they are subject to greater pulling force, resulting in more tearing.
Second, there are many embroidery on the flag, which are worn off, decayed and cracked, and need more repair;
Third, many names of gods were written on it, but because there were holes in the flag, many words were missing and they had to be filled in.

Shen Le didn't recognize any of these names and had to look up information from scratch!

"What on earth is this broken boat used for? What kind of ritual is the spirit on this boat used for?"

"Oh, forget it, I'll just write it down and give it to the classmate next to me to check... It should be safe if it's just for checking information?"

Shen Le typed, took photos, packed all the documents and threw them into the laboratory next door.

Another group of new students occupied the laboratory and began to prepare for writing their papers.

Shen Le directly offered a project bonus of 100,000 yuan, intending to throw the task of "looking up information and restoring the font on the flag" to them. After thinking about it, he changed it to 10,000 yuan:

Back then, when he was a graduate student, the project bonus was not that high.

If you need to travel, look up information, or do experiments, you can propose a plan and apply for a budget. Project bonuses and the like are pure remuneration and don't have to be too high!

Shen Le's fellow junior students quickly took on this kind of work, which could be completed simply by looking up information.

Shen Le spent three days repairing the materials of the six square flags, and a long document was sent over:
According to the structure of the paper, title, abstract, keywords, main text, conclusion, and references, none of them are missing.

If there is any laziness, it is that the abstract and keywords are not translated into English...

In short, the junior brother who took over the project said that the names of gods on these flags all appeared in "Rongcheng Chronicles", "Illustrated Collection of Gods from Three Religions", "Daoist Canon", and "Taishang Dongyuan Shenzhou Jing".

According to the contents of these books, the missing part may be the two characters "Sansheng" in Thunder Three Provinces True Lord;

The two characters "Dao Zhen" in San Yuan De Dao Zhen Jun;
There are also the two words "Fu" and "Zhuan" in "The Three Caves and Four Auxiliary Sutras and the Immortal Master".

This junior fellow not only researched the name of the god, but also found the corresponding picture and attached it to the paper for Shen Le's reference:
Just draw the missing parts accordingly!
That's... simple. Shen Le ground the ink and wrote with it. The ink he used was also scanned with an X-ray spectrometer to confirm the composition. He found the ink that was closest to the original and wrote the words one by one.

All the missing parts on the flags were completed and filled in with words, and suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew up from the spot!

Shen Le: It’s really troublesome to repair this magic weapon!
(End of this chapter)