From that day on, Chen Miao lived and ate at Fang Zheng's home.
For three full days, Fang Zheng taught Chen Miao the finer points of building paper effigy frames, one on one.
Chen Miao was no fool to begin with. With the bonuses from his various states, he understood almost everything after a single explanation, and once he understood, he never made the same mistake again.
This let Fang Zheng experience the pleasure of teaching, too.
At first, Fang Zheng thought his teaching skills had improved. So when he passed Liu Hao's place, inspiration struck, and he spent a little longer teaching him.
But he could not stand it for even ten minutes.
That made Fang Zheng realize that he had not improved-Chen Miao was simply "very" talented.
In three days, Chen Miao's ability to assess bamboo splints and build frames had improved beyond recognition.
Although he was still nowhere near Fang Zheng's level, in Fang Zheng's words, at least his frame-building skills were now good enough to make a Paper Effigy.
His rapid progress also had something to do with a discovery he had made.
He could switch his Aperture to the Right-Hand Ghost Meridian.
Once the Ghost Meridian Aperture was activated, Chen Miao could sense subtle differences when he picked up bamboo splints.
Combined with his eyesight, this naturally improved the accuracy of his assessments.
Over time, Chen Miao gradually became able to assess the bamboo splints by sight alone.
After that, Chen Miao decided to set aside his study of frames for the moment.
Improving this fundamental skill was not something he could accomplish overnight, and his current goal was to make a Paper Effigy that met the requirements.
So he began learning the paper-covering process for Paper Effigies.
That took another three days.
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