As thoughts raced through his mind, a shocked expression appeared on Chen Miao's face.
"Ma, Ma Jie!"
"Aren't you dead?"
As he spoke, Chen Miao took several steps back.
"I'm not Ma Jie. I'm your Bone Binding instructor from now on. For the next seven days, come here every afternoon for two hours of lessons."
"For the next month, if there's anything you still don't understand, you can come here at the same time and wait for me."
"After that month, you'll have to pay if you want my help."
As he spoke, Ma Jie had already taken his place beside the pile of bamboo strips.
"Come over here! What are you waiting for?"
"If you actually step back through that gate, go straight back to the C-grade courtyard."
Chen Miao stopped.
As though he had made up his mind, Chen Miao lowered his head and walked over to Ma Jie.
Ma Jie paid no attention to Chen Miao's reaction and began teaching him directly.
This Ma Jie looked no different from a human, but he was actually a paper effigy. His movements were even smoother than those of the Second-Grade Apprentices Chen Miao had seen in the Grade-B Courtyard that day.
A strange glint flashed through Chen Miao's eyes as he watched the paper-effigy Ma Jie.
Chen Miao had seen something like this in the Spirit Effigy Sutra, and he had also seen it in reality.
The male and female paper effigies that had once accompanied Elder Bamboo!
But compared with those two effigies beside Elder Bamboo, this one seemed more... lively?
What was the difference?
So the legacy the owner of this Paper Effigy Shop possesses is somewhat different from the Spirit Effigy Sutra.
Chen Miao found himself growing increasingly curious.
Two hours later, Ma Jie left.
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