The successful weaving of four bolts of fabric did not stop Ding Yun from continuing her experiments.
Next, she successively tried weaving sunlight into different materials like silk, satin, brocade, gauze, and plain cloth using various weaving techniques.
She even attempted mixed weaving.
This involved mixing sunlight with candlelight, or even combining sunlight, candlelight, water vapor, and white clouds. The resulting fabrics not only had a wider range of colors but also diverse patterns and designs.
Furthermore, by using sunlight as thread to embroider arrays and talismans onto already woven fabrics, she could imbue the cloth with new functions.
These functions were derived from the arrays and talismans.
In short, the Weaver Maiden's skill in weaving was unmatched. Any embroidery or weaving technique, upon a glance from Ding Yun, would be instantly learned.
Thus, before long, even techniques like Kesi silk weaving and double-sided unique embroidery were mastered by Ding Yun after observing some of her original body's collected items.
She then directly wove dozens of bolts of exquisite Kesi silk fabric and over ten large-scale double-sided unique embroidery pieces using her Weaver Maiden skill. For example, one piece depicted a panoramic landscape on the front and the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" scroll on the back. Another featured a scene of the Jade Pool in full bloom on the front and a gathering of immortals in a blessed land on the back. Yet another displayed a thousand Buddhas appearing simultaneously in the virtuous kalpa on one side, and ten thousand demons rampant in the age of the dharma's decline on the other.
In less than two hours, Ding Yun's bed was covered with fabrics of various colors and double-sided unique embroidery artworks.
Some of the items with more pronounced special effects, and particularly exquisite and large ones, were stored in her soul space. She only kept a few bolts of fabric and a double-sided unique embroidery piece depicting a vast landscape on the front and the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" on the back, intending to give them away.
Asking for titles and official positions from the emperor without offering anything felt somewhat inappropriate.
Giving something would surely provide more peace of mind.
Despite this, Ding Yun did not stop weaving, as over the next few hours, more gray clouds appeared in the sky, along with twilight hues. Some clouds were bathed in the sunset glow, turning them golden, red, or a rich blend of gold and red.
Most importantly, during the evening, the sunset colors in the sky changed instantaneously. A moment's distraction could lead to missing colors significantly different from before.
Ding Yun worked with all her might and main, barely managing to preserve seventy to eighty percent of the sunset colors.
However, looking at the over a hundred additional bolts of fabric of various colors, Ding Yun felt no fatigue, but rather a sense of happiness, akin to the joy of a child with a new toy. She intended to play with it for a while until she grew tired of it or it lost its novelty.
Once the sunlight completely vanished,
Ding Yun rang the bell and began her nightly ablutions before sleeping.
As for dinner, the household typically ate around four o'clock. Ding Yun had already finished her meal. She had asked her attendants to leave after she finished dinner,
so she could weave fabrics from the twilight clouds in her room.
In the following days, Ding Yun continued to experiment with weaving fabrics from soil, grease, rainbows, pure dark clouds, and even the occasional lightning bolts mixed within the dark clouds.
She was largely successful.
Weaving with lightning was slightly electrifying. After weaving one bolt of fabric, Ding Yun felt a tingling sensation all over her body. Furthermore, the resulting fabric, known as "Thunderbolt Purple Firmament Cloth,"
was essentially fatal to ordinary people upon touch.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it carried a hundred thousand volts.
However, Ding Yun, having fused with the Weaver Maiden card, was immune to harm from the Thunderbolt Purple Firmament Cloth. At most, she felt a mild electric sensation when touching it. Even so, Ding Yun personally made a set of undergarments from the Thunderbolt Purple Firmament Cloth. This wasn't due to masochistic tendencies,
but rather because the Thunderbolt Purple Firmament Cloth was incredibly effective.
The special effect of the Thunderbolt Purple Firmament Cloth was its ability to promote life, extend longevity, and regenerate the body.
In essence, wearing clothes made from this fabric could gradually promote the complete regeneration of all cells in the body, from bone marrow to muscle tissue, restoring youth from the inside out.
Within a few years, it could grant a person a new lease on life,
extending their lifespan by a century.
However, ordinary people would be unable to withstand it. It was estimated that only those at the Great Perfection realm of the Indestructible Divine Skill or higher could touch this fabric without being electrocuted to death.
Ding Yun could only be considered an exception.
With undergarments tailored from the Purple Firmament Cloth, the issue of extending her lifespan was effectively resolved.
The only remaining concern was how to prevent its effects from rejuvenating her facial appearance.
Meanwhile, among her young great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, apart from a few who were truly indifferent to their future or content with their current modest prosperity, the rest almost universally began cramming for knowledge upon receiving news of their ancestor's impending internal assessment.
However, Ding Yun had only given them three days.
Therefore, even with last-minute efforts, the increase in knowledge was quite limited, unless someone was incredibly lucky and happened to review the exact material Ding Yun planned to test.
But the probability of such an occurrence was extremely low.
Three days passed in a flash, and it was soon the day of the internal family assessment that Ding Yun had announced. Ultimately, ten of Ding Yun's great-grandchildren and nineteen of her great-great-grandchildren participated in the assessment.
All of them were eighteen years of age or older.
On the morning of the assessment, Ding Yun drafted the specific questions and distributed them one by one. Each participant was given their own room, and the assessment duration was one hour. The invigilators were all experienced nannies who answered solely to Ding Yun.
Furthermore, the rooms were thoroughly cleared.
Everyone was also searched.
Therefore, this assessment was largely fair.
After the papers were collected an hour later, they were given a short break of fifteen minutes, some refreshments, and a trip to the restroom. Then, the second assessment began. Two more assessments followed, and the process continued until evening.
Ding Yun received a total of one hundred and sixteen test papers.
As elderly people tend to sleep little, Ding Yun did not postpone grading until the next day or the day after. Instead, that very evening, she began grading the papers by candlelight. The more she read, the more disappointed she became. What garbage were these!
"So many typos, the characters are written like a dog's crawl, and the content of the essays is utter nonsense. Out of twenty-nine poems, only two doggerel verses can be considered coherent.
What kind of descendants are these, hailing from a hellish era!
No, I must also blame the original body and her deceased husband. They never urged their descendants to improve, allowing them to learn if they wished and not caring if they didn't. Coupled with the fact that they never lacked for food, clothing, or daily necessities in the household, this resulted in the current situation.
Fine, I can only pick the least bad among the bad!"
After complaining, with no other options available, Ding Yun could only sift through this pile of refuse, trying to find a few pieces that were slightly less garbage.