Since discovering the mysterious master that night, Tang Ning has been to the Ice and Snow World several times later, but he has never met the master again.

He was anxious to find out who this man really was. If you weren't particularly familiar with your aunt, you wouldn't know her appearance when she was young, and her temperament characteristics were so accurate. In the case of my aunt and mother-in-law, there must have been prototypes for the other statues. Who are they?

Tang Ning had a guess in his heart, these people may be the people of the Strange Dao Alliance in the early years, and they were the ones who roamed the rivers and lakes side by side with their aunt and mother-in-law. This is the only way to explain why they are all dressed in the same era. However, he had to find someone to confirm these doubts, and the premise was to find the old master.

I asked the other ice carvers around me and they all said that this old man had been here for many years, but the work was the same every year. Because of his exquisite skills and self-contained carving techniques, many people have asked him for advice, but the answers they get are the same, which is a little unacceptable.

You can't learn my tricks, so you'd better find someone else.

It doesn't matter if he is coaxed or arrogant, but his works do have the style of a master, and every statue is lifelike, as if a living person is in the world.

The head of the Provincial Ice Sculpture Association had invited him to join, but he refused.

This is a very strange old man, who is not good at words and is very withdrawn.

So for so many years, every season in this season, you can see him in the ice and snow world, but no one knows what his surname is, and everyone calls him a master behind his back.

Today, Downing has once again come to the Ice and Snow World. Except for the time when he came with Xu Da and the squad leader that day, he spent money to buy a ticket, and he didn't pay for a ticket a few times after that, including today. A little trick can easily blend through the entrance.

Pure visiting and playing, spending money is normal. But I've been here so many times, and I'm not playing, I'm here to find someone, and I'm spending money every time, it's too dirty.

Tang Ning was also a scoundrel, and he sneaked into the ice and snow world.

Again, come to the spot where those statues are.

The old man wasn't there. Although he had long expected this result, Tang Ning was still a little disappointed in his heart.

Secretly slandered, what are you doing, the work attitude is not serious, and some statues are obviously not finished yet. The details are not cleaned, which affects the quality of the work.

Disappointed to go back, he stopped just a few steps, looked back at the statues, and suddenly felt a little itchy. There was no one nearby, and Tang Ning couldn't suppress the idea of doing it, and was a little eager to try.

Tampering with someone's work without permission is rude and disrespectful to the original author. But at this time, Tang Ning had the psychology of a child messing around in his heart, and he also had a kind of venting in it. Whoever tells you not to come, if you don't come, I will move your things.

And he can also play with things like ice sculptures, although it can't reach the height of the master, but there is no problem in dealing with some small places. Anyway, after today, it won't come again. Just leave a little trace, I believe that the old man will definitely be able to see it when he comes over again, as for what he thinks in his heart, it doesn't matter, Tang Ning's move is purely to block others.

All the statues have a pedestal about one meter high underneath, with different shapes, some are flowers, some are stones, and some are standing on the top of the steps, and the statues are also in different postures, some are standing and some are sitting, and the shortest statue plus the pedestal is more than two meters above the ground. These are carved from a huge block of ice, and the whole body is crystal clear, with no flaws and no traces of joints. You can't get such a large volume of ice wood in the Songhua River. Only a special mold is filled with water and left outside to freeze.

Turning a large block of ice of three or four cubic meters into a lifelike statue, and relying on a dagger that is finger wide, that old man is really extraordinary. Tang Ning couldn't help but praise in his heart again. When I came to a statue and looked up, it was a standing statue of a man in a top hat and a cane.

He had to deal with the position of the pocket watch on the statue's chest. Because the pocket watch hanging from the button is only carved with an outline, and the bracelet is not carved out. He estimated that the place that was too high to reach, and there was no shelf to step on, so he could only deal with this place.

Tang Ning spread out his palm, and a wide blade flat chisel more than twenty centimeters long appeared in his hand, which looked like it was made of stainless steel. Anthropomorphism is a common technique used by almost all Qimen monks. But not all monks can do what he did.

A person's spiritual power attribute is innate, like Zhou Yu's water attribute, even if he masters the simulacrum in the future, he can only simulate and conjure things related to water, and Tang Ning is extremely rare without attributes, so he can simulate whatever he wants, and he is not limited by spiritual power attributes at all.

He made a chisel, for he couldn't carve anything he wanted with just a dagger, as the old master did.

Looking left and right again, no one was coming, and he suddenly felt like a thief now, as if he hadn't been so relaxed for a long time, and couldn't help grinning, and jumped onto the pedestal under the statue, a carved stone.

As soon as his hand touched the statue, he suddenly let out a startled sigh before he could wait for the chisel.

There's something wrong with this ice!

This discovery surprised him, and the chisel in his hand suddenly turned into spiritual power and disappeared. He didn't dare to do it.

Place your hands on the statue at the same time, close your eyes and feel carefully.

Sure enough, it felt right. There's something wrong with this ice!

I actually felt a faint breath of energy from above, and it was not static, it was flowing.

Downing's eyes widened, he jumped off the pedestal, walked up to another statue nearby, reached out and touched it for a while, and felt the same. I touched six or seven statues one after another, and the results were all the same, there were spiritual power fluctuations in them!

There is only one explanation for this phenomenon, and that is that the ice materials used for these statues are definitely not ice in the ordinary sense, but all the ice condensed by the power of the cultivators who have cultivated to the highest level gather the cold air around them. This kind of ice looks like ordinary ice, but it is cooler, stored for a longer time, does not melt easily, and can withstand the wind. If it was all condensed by spiritual power, it wouldn't be able to stay for so long. Because spiritual power itself is a kind of energy, it is impossible to appear in a concrete image, unless there is an uninterrupted supply of spiritual power like an anthropomorphic form.

Tang Ning was even more curious about the old man. With such ability, he is definitely not an ordinary monk, and he is at the same level as his aunt and grandmother Jedi. How can there be such a powerful person in a place like a provincial town?

Ordinary monks have their own retreats and rarely appear in front of the world. What they seek is also incomprehensible and untouchable to the world. Could this be a kind of so-called great concealment hidden in the red dust?

At the same time, his heart suddenly moved. Taking a few steps back, his gaze swept quickly, and there were a total of twelve statues of different shapes, just enough to form a plum blossom array. In the general sense, the plum blossom array only needs nine base points for the array, but the plum blossom scattered door is different, and it needs twelve base points.

Nine is the extreme, and under human control, it can produce the power to destroy or rebirth.

Nine points are used as petals, and the embedded small three become the heart of the flower.

Plum blossom three changes, one change and one heavy sky, according to the will of the people who set up the array, the outside can be defended or attacked, and the inside can be calmed and cleared.

Ordinary ice certainly can't, but these twelve statues definitely can.

Originally, I chose the land of ice and snow to borrow the natural cold of ice and snow, but I didn't expect to make an unexpected discovery. This kind of ice is much stronger than ordinary ice in terms of effect alone.

However, the position of these statues is fixed and does not move?

If it moves, it will destroy the overall layout, and it will be a pity not to move.

After thinking about it for a long time, Tang Ning still decided to make a move. It's a big deal to move them back to their original locations when they're done.

I didn't find anyone, but today's discovery was not in vain.

Next, just wait for the moment when the catastrophe comes.

Shortly after Downing left, an old man appeared where he had just stood. The way it appears is mysterious, as if it came out of space.

Looking at the direction in which Tang Ning disappeared, after looking at it for a while, he suddenly shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This kid, who is not small, dares to touch my statue." At a young age, his cultivation is so deep that he has reached the realm of decline and calamity, so let's help him, what he owed his parents back then, and then make up for it on his body one by one. ”

With a wave of his hand, twelve invisible spiritual power waves poured into the statue, and the statue lit up slightly at the same time, and then fell silent.

After doing this, the old man stood in front of the statues for a while, his gaze was full of memories of the past, he browsed them separately, and then let out a long sigh, and turned away, his back was extremely lonely, and he was depressed.

When Tang Ning returned to Xu's house, it was already dark.

The Xu family's old house by the river is a manor, many years ago, it was originally the house of a famous large landowner in the northeast, and later the home of the big landlord was targeted by the beards, and the family was ruined. During the Anti-Japanese War, there were fighters from the Anti-Japanese Federation living here. Year after year, the old mansion of the landlord's family has long ceased to be as grand as it used to be, and many places have long been dilapidated. After the grandfather of Xu Daban changed jobs, because he lived here in his early years, he used all his savings to buy the whole piece of this place and renovate it, so that he has the current Xu family mansion, which has lived for decades.

Now, their old house is worth a lot of money. The value is even more expensive than those villas of several hundred square meters. It's not a villa.

Before Mr. Xu retired, he was a senior cadre in the province. Therefore, there are armed police officers on duty at the gate all year round. Not only their families, but also the families of many senior cadres of the provincial party committee who have retired or are on duty have armed police soldiers standing guard on duty.

The little armed police soldier at the door had seen Tang Ning and had an impression of him, so he was let go without interrogation, but as soon as he entered the gate, he was stopped by someone, and the other party's tone was very unkind.