Chapter 75
Under the blessing of dual supernatural powers, the combat power of an ordinary paper soldier looked quite good.
"Being able to directly cut off such a thick tree, just this strength already has the level of a first-class expert."
"Paper figures, ink, still missing a skeleton; let's try using wood to make a skeleton first!"
Following the previous train of thought, Lin Feng continued to try; what he wanted was to make the most practical things through the cheapest method.
Ordinary mulberry paper, ink from the Tanshi Gui, and ordinary wood; now Lin Feng wanted to combine all these together to see how strong the paper soldiers made in the end were.
Lin Feng did not need to take action himself; the paper soldier in front began to swing its knife to carve the wood into a corresponding puppet skeleton.
Unlike ordinary wooden figures, this wooden skeleton was more exquisite, and each joint part looked more flexible.
The whole wooden skeleton was a bit like the simplest human body model, lacking the distinct edges of a wooden figure, and having some rounded chamfers.
After completion, Lin Feng summoned the Tou Gui and the Puppet Ghost to turn this wooden skeleton into a puppet.
"Clatter"
Then he used the Thousand-Faced Paper Ghost's ability to fold an ordinary sheet of mulberry paper into a paper figure again.
It was just that this time he specifically let this paper figure attach to the outside of the wooden skeleton bit by bit until the two were closely attached.
"Hmm, it looks like it's stronger than before, but I always feel there are still some problems."
After completion, Lin Feng was not in a hurry to let the ink soak the paper figure, but touched his chin and stared at the paper figure, starting to ponder.
"Move first and see!"
"Click click"
Following Lin Feng's order, the paper figure began to move, but as it began to move, the problem became more and more obvious.
The whole paper figure's movements were abnormally uncoordinated, and it even swayed on the mountain road as if it would fall at any time.
"The paper figure and the internal skeleton don't feel like one body at all; the paper figure's power and the wooden figure's power still conflict!"
These two powers, which came from the Thousand-Faced Paper Ghost and the Puppet Ghost respectively, clearly did not have as good an affinity as the ink on the Tanshi Gui.
"Can I only use the Tou Gui to forcibly sew them together?"
Letting this paper figure come back by itself, Lin Feng thought for a while and then continued to try.
The Tou Gui's blood-colored fine lines directly wound toward the paper figure, and then began to forcibly connect the inside and outside of the paper figure together.
After completion, moving again clearly became much more coordinated; seeing this, Lin Feng controlled the ink to spread toward the paper figure again to complete the dyeing.
Soon, a tall and sturdy paper soldier wearing black armor and an evil ghost mask appeared in front of Lin Feng.
The whole paper figure looked much fiercer and more powerful than the one beside it, so Lin Feng was not polite and directly let them start fighting.
"Swish!"
As the two paper soldiers raised their battle knives and collided with each other, the winner was instantly decided.
The paper soldier with a skeleton had stronger power and faster speed; just at the moment of collision, that soldier without a skeleton was directly slashed and flew out.
"Good!"
Seeing this scene, Lin Feng could not help but shout good; such strength had already surpassed ordinary wooden figures!
This meant that this kind of paper figure could be comparable to master-level experts.
And the price paid was only some ordinary materials, which could be fully realized for large-scale production!
Of course, Lin Feng knew that the potential of this kind of paper figure could continue to be excavated, so he directly summoned the Xi Gui as well.
Sheets of paper money printed with black little ghosts drifted down from the Xi Gui and slowly stuck to the paper figure's body.
Because there had been an experiment before that the number of paper money that an ordinary wooden figure could withstand could not exceed thirty, so this time, for the sake of safety, he only stuck twenty sheets.
Once twenty sheets of paper money were stuck, the whole paper figure looked a bit ghostly, but then these paper money began to change by themselves, becoming armor parts like black iron.
A layer of thick armor engraved with evil ghosts appeared on parts like the head, arms, chest, back, thighs, calves, feet, etc.
As the armor took shape, this paper figure looked different from ordinary paper soldiers, but was a heavier-armored paper soldier that was fiercer and more powerful.
"Continue!"
This time, Lin Feng still let the paper soldier that was slashed and flew out before fight against this heavy-armored paper soldier.
"Rip~"
However, with just one strike, that paper figure was completely torn apart, not even having the chance to be slashed and fly out.
"Sure enough, after the strengthening of paper money, the strength instantly surpassed the master level and directly reached the level of a Grandmaster expert!"
Lin Feng looked at the torn paper figure and felt somewhat tongue-tied; the paper figure strengthened by twenty sheets of paper money clearly improved another grade in strength again.
Such an effect had already made Lin Feng's heart start to beat wildly, because these all used ordinary materials!
If special materials were used, such as the paper figures controlled by the Thousand-Faced Paper Ghost, the coffin wood from the ghost-gathering ground, then there was no doubt that the paper figure's strength would improve by another big chunk.
Because the things made from these two materials were actually not far from ghosts.
However, it was clear that due to the limited number of materials, it was impossible to produce on a large scale, and for Lin Feng, it was not necessary.
Being able to make heavy-armored paper figures comparable to Grandmasters, Lin Feng was already quite satisfied.
Next, he simply controlled the wooden figures and the Thousand-Faced Paper Ghost hidden in the mountain forest to start mass production.
The production of wooden skeletons was completed by the wooden figures; they only needed to make the parts Lin Feng needed.
After completion, the more flexible paper figures controlled by the Thousand-Faced Paper Ghost completed the splicing and assembly, and the Puppet Ghost turned the skeletons into puppets.
Then he used mulberry paper to cover the outside to make paper soldiers, then let the Tanshi Gui dye them with ink, the Xi Gui stick paper money on the paper figures, and the Tou Gui forcibly sew various supernatural powers and paper figure skeletons together.
Ordinary crafts, after layer upon layer of superposition, became sturdy, powerful, and strong heavy-armored paper figures.
More than three hundred sheets of mulberry paper were consumed by Lin Feng in less than two hours, replaced by rows of heavy-armored paper figures that looked cold, hard, and powerful.
Lin Feng counted them; there were exactly three hundred and forty-two, standing together, actually having a fierce momentum of a military formation.
"Hehe, didn't expect to harvest so many at once!"
Although what Lin Feng expected was a true army of thousands, the paper figure army that the Paper Folder brought out at the beginning could not be compared with the heavy-armored paper figures in front of him at all.
"Tomorrow I should go and buy another batch of mulberry paper; since I want to make an army of paper figures, the quantity should naturally be the more the better!"
According to Lin Feng's idea, once he takes action, he must achieve a true crushing posture; not only must the strength be powerful, but the quantity must also be so large that the opponent feels despair!
Waving his hand, a shadow fluctuated, and these heavy-armored paper figures were received into the shadow world; when Lin Feng needed them, they would surge out directly from the shadow Ghost Domain.
Solving a worry, Lin Feng also became more relaxed.
However, he did not forget tonight's task, which was to continue to attract wild ghosts through Soul-Attracting Incense for capture.
After all, he now had five ghosts to raise; as a graveyard keeper, his pressure could be said to be as big as a mountain.
"Whoosh~"
Still offering three sticks of Ghost-Nurturing Incense to each ghost, only the Tanshi Gui and the Thousand-Faced Paper Ghost could only absorb them directly.
The remaining limbs in the Xi Gui's Underworld Earthen Bowl were still more than half; clearly, absorbing the power of a Fierce Ghost was much more time-consuming than absorbing a Great Ghost.
End of Chapter
