"A Chu, how is this paper supposed to be used?"
After obtaining a stack of Xuan Paper, Little Moon Spirit asked Wu Chu.
"Paper! This is a treasure! Let's put things away first. Later, I'll show you what the charm of writing truly is."
Looking thoroughly pleased with himself, Wu Chu put the papermaking tools back into the little wooden cabin, then had Little Moon Spirit take him back to the Main Hall atop the tree.
Once they arrived at the study, Wu Chu realized that something still seemed to be missing.
He had brushes, and he had paper... but what about ink? What about an inkstone?
An inkstone was easy enough to deal with. He could simply find a stone and carve it a little.
Of course, in a world like the Primordial World, there were more fine stones than one could count. If he casually had Little Moon Spirit bring one back, it would be a treasure that countless people in later generations would fight desperately over. She could even carve some designs into it to make it more pleasing to the eye.
But ink was a troublesome thing to make.
Forget it. For now, he would just use charcoal mixed with water as a substitute.
Although he had forgotten how ink was made, he remembered watching videos about it before. They had included methods for making ink, and Yibao could help reconstruct them.
However, he remembered that making ink took a very long time. The main delays were air-drying the soot paste and then air-drying the finished ink, both of which required considerable time.
With a Celestial Immortal-level little water mage like Little Moon Spirit around, the air-drying step could practically be ignored. But there were still quite a few materials to prepare, and he did not