Does seal script possess great power? My poetry is invincible!

Chapter 78 Life still needs a certain sense of ritual

After Qin Bilian went upstairs, Wang Yan followed his senior brother Qiu, who was leading the way, and turned to the specially set-up bathing room in the back hall.

"Wow, it's huge!"

The separate shower rooms here are all large enough to seat more than twenty people, and the jade bathtubs with anti-slip patterns alone can hold more than ten people.

On the wooden table next to it, there were fragrant putty and bath beans, as well as various dried flower petals.

This isn't just a bath; it's big enough to invite friends over for a soak.

"Senior Brother Qiu, everyone should have a bathing room in their inner sect cave, right? We don't need to use it here, do we?"

Qiu Xuankuang smiled meaningfully: "Look at your grandmasters, every time they wrote a new divine script, they were covered in dust and grime."

"Sometimes, when people are tired, they don't need to 'purify' their minds anymore. They come here to bathe, soak, and clear their heads, and perhaps new inspiration will come."

Wang Yan slapped his forehead, both amused and exasperated: "So, Master Qin was indirectly urging me to hurry up and write the divine script!"

Qiu Xuankuang laughed loudly: "Grandmaster can be quite reserved at times."

He showed Wang Yan a screw-on switch made of fine steel on a dragon head protruding from the edge of the jade pool.

Hot water immediately flowed from the tap, filling the pool. The rising steam quickly relaxed Wang Yan's tense nerves.

Wang Yan was stunned. This design was very similar to the electronic self-heating water heaters that had been popular for a period of time in his previous life.

"Does this tap also have inscriptions indicating hot water?"

Qiu Xuankuang smiled smugly: "Fire Refining Peak is the closest to here, and there's a third-tier fire-type profound vein underground, so the geothermal heat from the nearby area was drawn over by the founder of Fire Refining Peak, providing a constant supply of hot water. Of course, you still need to add some cold water yourself. You should know how to condense cold water using the Divine Character, right?"

Wang Yan was taken aback. So this is an otherworldly version of hot spring water?

"Senior brother, our ancestor really knew how to enjoy life! Did Fire Refining Peak also have a similar bathhouse?"

"Yes, and only Fire Refining Peak, Sect Master Peak, and our Divine Inscription Hall have them. Divine Inscription Peak is too far away to have them."

Qiu Xuankuang's expression was one of extreme pride!

In fact, Wang Yan also felt quite proud.

"I'm increasingly impressed with Shenwenfeng!"

"It's perfectly fine!" Qiu Xuankuang chuckled. "Alright, you take your time washing, I'm going out!"

Qiu Xuankuang thoughtfully closed the door.

Wang Yan quickly locked the door again, then took off his clothes. Once the jade pool was half full, he calmly walked in and sat down.

Being in the warm water, the pressure that had been building up all day gradually eased in the gentle, rippling steam.

The breath I had been holding in finally dissipated.

The tense muscles in my body unconsciously relaxed.

Wang Yan leaned lazily against the edge of the pool, activating the word "purification" in his mind. Streams of energy cleansing impurities surrounded him, constantly washing away the grime from his body and head.

He slowly lay down, immersing his body from the neck down in the warm water.

It's very comfortable, no worse than the imported ergonomic ceramic bathtub he spent tens of thousands of yuan to install in modern homes.

After nearly 15 minutes, Wang Yan had washed up and cleared his mind to begin pondering.

"Which poems should be used to make the Mystic Gold Paper?"

He tried combining them one by one in his mind.

"One Sword, Frosty Cold Fourteen... Alright, this can't be combined yet, not enough Xuan Qi, give up!"

"Sword energy crisscrosses three times... but my profound energy is insufficient. I must give up again!"

"If only I could obtain the Heaven-Slaying Sword, I could... but I don't have enough profound energy, so I give up!"

Wang Yan tried several famous quotes, but had to give up halfway through each one, so he had to think of something less domineering.

"Forget it, how could a mere Xuanpo like me possibly be domineering?"

"Kill one man in ten steps, leave no trace for a thousand miles... Oh yeah, this one's perfect! This is it!"

Having made up his mind and in a great mood, Wang Yan soaked in the hot water for a few more minutes, feeling refreshed, before getting up and leaving the pool.

First, she changed into the inner disciple's robe, using her profound energy to activate the array on it to adapt to her body shape. Then, somewhat awkwardly, she conjured a mirror and combed her disheveled long hair, clumsily tying it up with a hairpin.

Looking at himself in the mirror, what a handsome young scholar he was! In his previous life, he would have been a top male lead in an ancient costume drama!

"Grandmaster Qin sometimes places great importance on rituals. This bath and change of clothes signifies bidding farewell to his outer sect service and officially transitioning to inner sect status!"

This was his simple farewell ceremony for himself—to get rid of the old and welcome the new!

After draining the sewage, a servant was summoned to clean the bathroom. Wang Yan, now freshly washed, came out and deliberately showed off to Qiu Xuankuang first: "Senior Brother Qiu, I'm done washing!"

"Congratulations, Junior Brother Wang! You look very handsome, with the elegance of an inner disciple like myself!" Qiu Xuankuang, who was still writing the character "God" in front of the stone table, put down the stone nail in his hand, stood up knowingly, and bowed to Wang Yan: "You can wear this more often in the future."

"Thank you for the compliment, senior brother. I think I look even more handsome now!" Wang Yan smiled pleasingly and returned the greeting. "You're busy, I'll go upstairs now!"

"Go ahead!" Qiu Xuankuang waved with a smile.

The ceremony was temporarily over, and Wang Yan, in high spirits, went up to his room on the second floor and spread out smooth, dark gold paper that reflected a faint golden light on his desk.

Ordinary first-tier blank talisman paper can only hold a small amount of profound energy, which can be used by cultivators in the Profound Movement Realm.

"Senior Brother Lu once said that the paper scraps condensed from the new divine script have increased the success rate of making first-tier talisman paper by at least 20%. Now the entire paper drying yard is using the new divine script, and I don't know if these are made with the new divine script or the old divine script."

Xuanqi Gold Paper is made by forging a metal with excellent Xuan properties into a first-order blank talisman paper using a unique forging technique. On the surface, it looks somewhat similar to the coated paper used in modern printing to make posters.

Wang Yan had seen the original paper at the drying yard, but the cost was even higher.

"I do have the production process for modern coated paper, but it's not appropriate to share it now."

As a PhD in ancient culture, Wang Yan had conducted in-depth research on the historical development of ancient papermaking techniques, and thus naturally remembered the production process of copperplate paper and some special types of paper in ancient times.

But this is not a feudal, low-martial-arts world, but a fantasy world with profound power and strange arts. Let's put papermaking and the like aside for now!

Concentrating his mind, he activated the divine script "Writing Brush Controlling Wood Spirit" in his sea of ​​consciousness.

The full, second-tier writing brush tip was gradually infused with wisps of cyan wood-elemental profound energy, expanding outwards into the shape of a peach.

"My cultivation is too weak. I need to trap them first, then unleash my powerful sword techniques. Trapping and killing in one move—a perfect combination!"

Wang Yan picked up his brush again, and with the Xuan Qi Jin seeping in, he wrote the four divine characters "Heavenly Net and Earthly Net".

Strands of wood-elemental spiritual energy quickly seeped from the tip of the full-bodied pen, following his will, into the thin layer of Xuan Qi gold paper, forming four shallow raised characters that shone with a pleasing blue light, with crisscrossing wood vines flashing by.

Subsequently, the raised text gradually extended into the paper until the entire Xuanqi Gold Paper thickened slightly, and no raised text could be seen on the surface.