"Foolish disciple, the Nest Ancestor's Dao lineage is a practical school of magic. Artifact-making is extremely important. If you don't do it yourself, how could merely looking at it be useful? The book has already explained it clearly: you need to make something. As for what, you should know. But I'm warning you—under no circumstances are you to create anything malicious. If I find out, I'll beat you with a ruler!" After Qiu Cunzhi finished speaking, he smoothed the book flat before handing it back to me.
The book had rolled itself up and whacked me, yet he still remembered to smooth it out when returning it. My master's moral character was lofty, so I didn't dare offer the slightest argument. I pulled a long face and said, "Master, making this thing can really increase my level? Isn't that a little too far-fetched? I don't believe it."
"Heh heh, there's also a second volume. Why don't you bring it out so the two of us can study it?" Qiu Cunzhi gave me a sidelong glance, looking as though he had seen straight through my intentions.
Only then did I suddenly remember that the first volume of the Nest Ancestor's Borrowed Arts taught people to build houses, while the second taught ghosts to make coffins. I ran to the cave abode, fetched the first volume, and brought it to Qiu Cunzhi for him to inspect.
After flipping through it, Qiu Cunzhi opened the most important chapters and went over them with me word by word. "Look here. The general principles say that once these things are made, they must be refined through rituals. Take a house for people: you have to arrange things inside it and set up its feng shui properly. Only then can the people living there prosper. As