Chapter 685

Those handmade scrolls, on the other hand, were made of top-graded golden scroll handles and the finest papers. The papers used were the most ancient paper available in the world, made with the most basic method used when it was first invented. The method of making these papers was very complex and mysterious. They had to use a specific tree skin, then boil it with other ingredients for 70 to 80 hours. After cooling it off, they had to mold it with all kinds of techniques. Every batch could only withstand five kilograms of tree skins, and the trees needed were not less than 1000. They needed to burn 200 kilograms of wood, with the time spent as long as three months. Since this method of making the paper was incredibly rare, this kind of paper was naturally expensive. A long scroll of paper like this would cost as much as 300,000 per piece. Eight pieces of paper would cost 2.4 million! In addition, there were golden scroll handles and white jade shafts, and all these would cos