I Married a Commander and Became a Galaxy Star

Chapter 230: Chapter 152: Plastic Paper Cannot Be Used for Talisman Making

At this thought, Lin Zhenxiang’s mood improved. She turned, went to the refrigerator to get some ice cubes, and applied them to her swollen eyes.

Tomorrow, she would go and find Song Xiaoxing at her absolute best!

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「Fourth Star Zone, Shu Residence.」

Since returning from Imperial Hospital, Shu Xin hadn’t rested for a moment. After preparing rooms for Ling Yunyun and Ke Dancheng, she bought several new items, spending the entire afternoon shopping and unboxing packages.

After receiving so many packages, one finally arrived that wasn’t for her. Shu Xin called over Ke Dancheng, who was helping her move the parcels, to sign for it.

Ke Dancheng checked the sender’s information via the tracking number.

The package was from Bai Meng.

After signing, he tried to pull the package out of the delivery robot’s locker. Even using both hands, he couldn’t manage to budge it.

It was incredibly heavy.

It took a great deal of effort for him and Shu Xin to lift the package out together.

Ke Dancheng checked the shipping information again and saw a number in the weight field.

100kg!!!

He’d only mentioned it offhandedly to Bai Meng, not expecting her to be so earnest!

Sending so much all at once!

From this, Ke Dancheng could get a sense of her devotion to Mrs. Bao.

However, this weighty gesture felt as light as a lettuce leaf in Shu Yao’s hands.

The package was taken to the study. A card was inside.

It was a handwritten thank-you note from Bai Meng to Mrs. Bao.

The moment she saw the card, the smile on Shu Yao’s face froze.

Noticing her strange reaction, Ke Dancheng thought Bai Meng might have written something inappropriate. He leaned in for a look, but after reading the card several times, he couldn’t find anything that would offend Mrs. Bao.

”Sister Yao.” He adjusted his glasses. ”What’s wrong?”

”It’s over, it’s over, it’s all over!”

After repeatedly checking the card’s material, Shu Yao immediately tore open the outermost layer of the package’s plastic wrapping.

Just as she’d thought!

Seeing Shu Yao’s devastated expression, Ke Dancheng guessed it in one go. ”It’s not the kind you were hoping for.”

Shu Yao gave a couple of listless nods.

The moment she saw the thank-you card, she’d had a bad feeling.

And it turned out she was right. The materials Bai Meng had sent were made of the same thing as the card: plastic paper. There was black, white, red, yellow, purple, green, blue, gray—all sorts of colors.

”This is the same stuff I bought a ton of for my son!”

Xiao Juzi used this exact kind of plastic paper for his drawings.

So Bai Meng used this kind of plastic paper for her hand-drawn recipes.

Ke Dancheng couldn’t help but ask, ”So... plastic paper can’t be used?”

”If this stuff worked, don’t you think I’d have struck it rich by now?!” With her hopes dashed, Shu Yao sighed, but quickly let it go.

In the Interstellar Federation, everything was digitized; very few people still used things like plastic paper.

Ke Dancheng asked, ”Then, Sister Yao, what kind of paper are you actually looking for?”

”Haven’t you studied the Space Talisman I gave you?” Shu Yao asked. ”That’s paper made from herbaceous plants. It has life, a soul. This stuff is just a plastic sheet—utter junk. The Space Talisman I gave you, for instance, was made on paper from a roughly ten-year-old peach wood branch. If you used talisman paper made from a hundred-year-old peach wood branch, you could draw a Space Talisman as large as the entire Imperial High School.”

Ke Dancheng’s eyes lit up.

However, the light that had just ignited in his eyes quickly faded.

”But the Federation has no environment suitable for growing herbaceous plants.” Ke Dancheng suddenly perked up. ”Except for the Agricultural College!”

”Exactly. And if we’re going to an agricultural college, we might as well go to the best one.” This was why Shu Yao was so set on the Imperial University Agricultural College.

Ke Dancheng looked at the 100kg of plastic paper from Bai Meng with a regretful expression and couldn’t help but voice his question:

”Sister Yao, why can’t plastic paper be used for drawing talismans?”

”The most fundamental skill in talismanic magic is Spirit Pointing, and every step of talisman making involves it. Plastic paper has no Spiritual Energy, so it can’t bear the power of the runes.”

Shu Yao smoothed out a sheet of plastic paper, casually picked a brush from the holder, and began a demonstration for Ke Dancheng right then and there.

She made a couple of casual strokes on the plastic paper with the brush.

Two red lines appeared on the white plastic paper.

”Drawing like this works just fine, right? Now, watch this—”

Shu Yao’s brush flew across the page, her movements as smooth as flowing water, completing the design in one go.

From the path of her brushstrokes, Ke Dancheng could tell she was drawing the runes for a Space Talisman.

But the rune she drew only partially materialized—not even half of it appeared.

”A failure.” She knew it would end this way without even needing to see it. Shu Yao tossed the brush aside. ”This brush is no good, either. Anyway, talisman making wastes a lot of materials. Even if you gather the right stuff, the success rate isn’t a hundred percent. Unless you’re an insanely skilled Talisman Maker. Like me, for instance.”