Chapter 34: Portraits of the Twelve Lives (Part 1)

"Master Luo, I think you can try this sketch you made. [Reading Network] (Niu Wen Novel ~ Net Reading Novel)"

Since cooperating with Luo Ding's Shanyuanju, Zhang Gong no longer has a store in the urban village, and now the magic weapons he makes every day are directly traded with Shanyuanju, and the price that Shanyuanju gives him is also quite authentic, so during this time, Zhang Gong has also made a lot of money, and he has even rented a house on the outskirts of the city and recruited a few apprentices to work for him.

I haven't seen Luo Ding for a while, because Luo Ding doesn't need Luo Ding to come forward for weekday transactions, and the people below have already dealt with it. So now that he saw Luo Ding coming to find him, Zhang Gong immediately knew that there must be something else.

However, when he saw the sketch of the design that Luo Ding took out, he understood, and he also quite agreed with Luo Ding's idea, thinking that it could be tried.

"Master Zhang, do you think there is anything else that needs to be improved in this sketch?" Zhang Gong has spent a lifetime of effort on the production of magic weapons, and his understanding in this area is naturally much stronger than that of ordinary people, so Luo Ding wants to hear his opinion.

After meeting Ma Tiancheng at the wine party before, after a verbal battle, Luo Ding told everyone that he was making a magic weapon, and this magic weapon was used to deal with the feng shui array laid by Ma Tiancheng. At the same time, Luo Ding also said that in two days, he would use the magic weapon he designed to break the Feng Shui Array of Ma Tiancheng, and also said that he hoped that everyone could see it on the spot.

Such an invitation naturally made all the people excited, most of them had never seen the competition of feng shui masters before, and now when they heard that there was an opportunity, where would they let it go, they all said that they would definitely go to see it when they said it.

After saying this, Luo Ding naturally had to hurry up and prepare the magic weapon he wanted, so he immediately came to Zhang Gong, and he wanted to borrow Zhang Gong's carving knife to complete the magic weapon he designed

Hearing Luo Ding's words, Zhang Gong thought about it carefully, although he didn't know why Luo Ding had such a deep attainment in magic weapons at such a young age, but Zhang Gong had completely treated Luo Ding as a real magic weapon master. Now that Luo Ding has raised such a question, it means that Luo Ding is still not satisfied with the composition of the pattern on this magic weapon.

"In general, I think this design is almost the same, and the aura formed should be enough to deal with the more powerful evil qi, but if there is anything else to add, my feeling is indeed that it can be considered, but at present, I haven't come up with any good solutions."

Zhang Gong thought about it for nearly twenty minutes before he said such a sentence. In the sketch that Luo Ding handed to him, he used the beast's head to "eat" the evil qi; He also uses the Bagua mirror to reflect the evil qi, and uses the symbol of the Bagua to increase the strength of the aura of the beast's head and the Bagua mirror. Based on Zhang Gong's understanding of ritual weapons, this is indeed a good combination.

Zhang Gong has been making ritual vessels for many years, but he has never tried to design his own ritual utensils - for so many years, he has always made ritual vessels according to the patterns of the ritual vessels that have been decided, and this is the first time he has seen such a practice as Luo Ding. Therefore, once Luo Ding's attempt can be successful, the significance will be quite huge, because it means that from now on, Luo Ding can choose to design different magic weapons according to the strength or type of evil qi in Feng Shui, which will make the magic weapons more targeted, and the effect will naturally be better. Instead of grabbing the eyebrows and mustaches like the current magic weapons.

Thinking of this, Zhang Gong's mood couldn't help but get excited, and he even couldn't wait to see if the magic weapon designed by Luo Ding was useful or how useful it was.

"Hmm~ My opinion is that in general, the design of this magic weapon is already okay, but I feel a little dissatisfied with the problem......"

Luo Ding said, his eyes began to unconsciously sweep in Zhang Gong's room, Zhang Gong is a place to make magic weapons, and naturally there will be all kinds of finished or semi-finished magic weapons, which can be said to be everywhere.

He was still thinking about how to perfect the magic weapon he had designed, and Luo Ding's eyes naturally looked over the magic weapons placed one after another.

"Huh"

Suddenly, Luo Ding's eyes fell on a cow-shaped magic weapon, and he was stunned for a moment before immediately walking towards the magic weapon. What Luo Ding saw just now is not wrong, it is indeed a cow-shaped magic weapon, and it is a pendant, the horns of a cow are enlarged and engraved on a piece of peach wood, vivid, this is clearly a pendant of the zodiac to ward off evil.

Seeing Luo Ding pick up this pendant, Zhang Gong was also stunned for a moment, he didn't know why Luo Ding was suddenly so interested in this magic weapon. This magic weapon is made by himself, although it is also valuable, but it also depends on who it is for - for Luo Ding, such a magic weapon is no longer in his eyes, and the level is not enough.

"Master Luo, what's wrong?" Zhang Gong walked to Luo Ding's side and found that Luo Ding was still carefully looking at the magic weapon of the ox zodiac in his hand, and couldn't help but feel even more strange. He remembered that in his busyness, Luo Ding's identification of magic weapons was fast and accurate, even if he was interested in this magic weapon, he would not still be looking at it for a long time.

After a few minutes, Luo Ding raised the Ox Zodiac magic weapon in his hand, and said to Zhang Gong with a smile: "Master Zhang, I suddenly have an idea, I don't know if it will work." ”

As soon as Zhang Gong heard this, he realized that Luo Ding was still talking about the design of the magic weapon he said before, and it seemed that Luo Ding had now thought of a solution to the problem. Zhang Gong's spirits perked up and said, "Master Luo, you come and listen." ”

"I think we can add the cow's."

"Huh? Isn't that good? There is already a tiger head on this magic weapon, plus a bull's head, which is not a good thing for the aura of the whole magic weapon, I think this will cause a conflict in the aura. ”

Zhang Gong immediately rejected Luo Ding's idea without thinking about it, he had made magic weapons for so many years, and his understanding of magic weapons was much higher than that of ordinary people, so when he heard that Luo Ding wanted to do this, he immediately refused.

Luo Ding was stunned for a moment, and immediately figured out why Zhang Gong would oppose his opinion, he smiled and said, "Master Zhang, in fact, I don't want to put this bull's head in the center of the whole artifact, and I don't just want to put the bull's head on it. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Gong made Luo Ding's words so winding that he couldn't understand what this meant, he looked at Luo Ding with wide eyes, obviously wanting to hear how he explained next.

"Master Zhang, it's like this, this magic weapon of ours is mirrored, and this mirror is gossip-shaped, so I want to put all the twelve zodiac signs on this magic weapon. In this way, we will feel that the tiger's head is in the center of the Bagua mirror, and then there are the Bagua symbols, and then the outside is the zodiac, and it is arranged according to the direction of the twelve hours. ”

The 12 zodiac signs are all beasts, if they are handled normally, it will naturally have an impact on the beast head that already exists in the center, but now it is only the animal head in the center, the zodiac is in the outermost circle, and the tiger is the king of beasts, with the tiger head as the center, that is, the "king" road, so not only will it not affect the aura produced by the beast head in the center, on the contrary, it will also strengthen this aura.

Zhang Gong thought about it for a while, and also figured out Luo Ding's idea, such an idea may be a little bold, but in fact, if you really want to talk about it, there is really something reasonable. So, it should work.

"I think it's okay to give it a try, it should be doable. If that's the case, I don't think we're going to be able to start now. Zhang Gong nodded in agreement with Luo Ding's point of view, and seeing that the entire plan had been decided, Zhang Gong wanted to start making it immediately.

"Okay, then it's going to trouble Master Zhang."

Luo Ding nodded, the next thing is to look at Zhang Gong, and Luo Ding can't help. The magic weapon designed by Luo Ding is not too complicated, and here in Zhang Gong, everything is ready-made, in fact, one of the things that Zhang Gong has to do now is to combine the things that Luo Ding wants in the sketch, so that a completed magic weapon can be formed.

For the gossip mirror, Zhang Gong chose not the glass mirror, but the gossip mirror made of brass polishing, although it is copper, but under the modern technology, the brass mirror is polished and polished, and the figure can still be reflected. The mirror surface is mainly used to reflect the evil qi, and the general glass silver-plated mirror of course also has the effect of reflection, because it reflects the evil qi rather than the light, so on the magic weapon, the mirror surface of brass is far better than that of glass.

For a veteran of magic weapons like Zhang Gong, of course he understands this matter.

Tiger head, Zhang Gong also chose to be made of brass, but seeing Zhang Gong take out this tiger head from a tightly locked box, Luo Ding knew that it would definitely not be an ordinary thing, because Zhang Gong himself was a master of making magic weapons, and the things he could see would definitely not be bad.

There was no drilling, and Luo Ding didn't know what kind of method Zhang Gong used to "stick" the tiger's head onto the gossip bronze mirror.

When the tiger head appeared on the gossip bronze mirror, Luo Ding's heart was shocked, because just now when Zhang Gong "pasted" the tiger head on the gossip bronze mirror, a powerful aura had been generated out of thin air, that is to say, now this semi-finished product already has a powerful aura

This made Luo Ding quite surprised, if he hadn't seen such a thing with his own eyes, he wouldn't have dared to believe it at all, and it could also be seen from this that it was reasonable for a person like Zhang Gong to have been in the magic weapon for decades and have such a reputation in the magic weapon.

"What a craft"

Luo Ding couldn't help but admire. If ordinary people want to inlay things in copper, they have to punch holes or use special glue, but if they use these two methods, it will have a certain impact on the aura of the whole magic weapon: if you drill holes in the Bagua mirror, the aura of the Bagua mirror will be greatly affected because of the holes; If glue is used, the gossip mirror cannot be integrated well because of the glue barrier between it and the beast's head. But under Luo Ding's gaze, Zhang Gong only knocked left and right; Knock on the front and knock on the back, and the head of the beast has been set

It all looks a little bit tricky.

"Heh, I am familiar with many hands, and after so many years, I have also figured out something." Zhang Gong said with a smile.

After putting the beast's head on it, Luo Ding saw Zhang Gong pick up the carving knife and began to carve the images of the twelve zodiac signs on the outside of the gossip mirror according to the direction of the twelve hours. Because the zodiac is only to play an auxiliary and enhancing role, so you can no longer use the way to inlay the animal head of the zodiac, if so, it will definitely dominate. This is because in the zodiac, there are legendary mythical beasts such as dragons, and in such a magic weapon now, the tiger head biting the sword in the center is the real protagonist.

Zhang Gong was making magic weapons, and Luo Ding naturally didn't make a sound, so the whole room was very quiet, and a very slight "rustle" sound sounded, which was quite clear in such a quiet environment.

Slowly, the expression on Luo Ding's face became more and more serious, because he found a problem, that is, when Zhang Gong went down the knife to carve a zodiac, as long as the knife was lowered, he never raised it again, and at the same time, the sound continued, and it kept scratching on the bronze mirror at a constant speed

This can only illustrate one problem, that is, every zodiac sign of Zhang Gong is carved with a knife, and there is no break in this process

After discovering this problem, Luo Ding couldn't help but nod secretly, as the so-called fame is not a void person, Zhang Gong is already terrible with this hand

If a magic weapon wants to produce an aura, especially if it wants to produce a powerful aura, the pattern must be quite accurate and exquisite, among them, the lines that make up the pattern are continuous and continuous, which is a very important condition, and in this regard, Zhang Gong is undoubtedly quite outstanding. A vivid zodiac picture is not a stick figure, but Zhang Gong has achieved a knife formation

It's amazing

And such a magic weapon, undoubtedly the greatest degree of possible production of a powerful aura Luo Ding's idea is not wrong, with the ability of the right hand, Luo Ding even sensed that when Zhang Gong went down the knife to engrave those zodiac signs, each zodiac will begin to form an aura at the moment of the knife, and this aura is slowly becoming complete with the operation of Zhang Gong's carving knife, and when the last knife of a zodiac is carved, a complete aura will also be formed

"Masters"

Luo Ding thought to himself. He had never seen people make magic weapons on the spot, and now seeing the performance of a human magic weapon master like Zhang Gong really opened his eyes, and at the same time, his understanding of magic weapons was even deeper.