Combined wooden tablets, Ghost Pattern Scorpions, and Ironblood Eight Extremes: Killing version

Chapter 215: Combined wooden tablets, Ghost Pattern Scorpions, and Ironblood Eight Extremes: Killing version (double chapter)

Chen Miao copied the Soul-Calming Scripture onto a sheet of paper, took out the book, and checked the diameter of the century-old cypress wood available for exchange.

"Only fifteen centimeters?"

Chen Miao thought of the century-old peach wood as well.

Logically, neither a hundred-year-old peach tree nor a hundred-year-old cypress should have had such a small diameter, yet all the timber offered by the book was rather narrow.

But none of that mattered now.

Fifteen centimeters would work!

Chen Miao took out a ruler and began measuring the Soul-Calming Scripture, then wrote out several more copies in slightly larger characters.

After half an hour of fiddling, Chen Miao finally divided the scripture into three sections.

Thanks to his revised layout, the characters were slightly larger than those he had previously written on the Memorial Tablet.

Written on wood, each section would need twenty centimeters of vertical space, totaling sixty centimeters for all three.

That would leave forty centimeters of a length of century-old cypress wood unused.

However, the century-old cypress wood he exchanged for was cylindrical, and he could only use the roughly one-centimeter-thick board cut from its very center.

That meant Chen Miao would have very little room for error when actually making it.

He had to join the boards together first and finish writing the entire scripture as one continuous piece before separating them.

So if he made a mistake while writing on either of the first two boards, Chen Miao would have one or two chances to replace a board.

If he made a mistake on the third board, however, he would have to exchange for more cypress wood.

One length of century-old cypress wood cost two qian of yin virtue,