Chapter 8: Wizards of the World
In order to practice carving well, for a long time, Tang Feng went to the woodware shop in the city to watch some masters do wood carving.
Almost all of the eighteen masters in Jiayuan City were his masters.
What's more, his mother can also carve wood, which is still an ancestral craft.
After the foundation was solidified, his mother asked him to go to the mountains outside the city to observe some low-level demon beasts from afar.
Tang Feng has a very high level of understanding, coupled with an extremely amazing talent in this area, after fourteen years of hard training, his skills have reached the point of perfection.
After he took the carving knife, ......he carried the knife like a fly, one knife in the east and one knife in the west, and there was a chapter hidden in the chaos.
But Lu Qingyao couldn't see these at all.
She has always believed that carving is a delicate and delicate thing, and it is necessary to use all her mind and mind to carve meticulously one by one, so as to carve a perfect work.
But what is this doing in front of you, how is it like the chef of the noodle restaurant on Front Street who is sharpening knives and noodles, and it feels like child's play.
This selection of fine wood is ruined.
Lu Qingyao turned her head, she was afraid that if she continued to watch, she couldn't help but kick Tang Feng away.
After about ten minutes, Tang Feng said, "Okay!"
It takes two days for Lu Qingyao to carve a horse.
"It's good if you carved for ten minutes, you can tease me. Lu Qingyao thought so in his heart, and decided to glance at it casually, and let Tang Feng hurry up to practice footwork, talking about carving with this kind of grandstanding guy is simply the biggest disrespect for carving.
But when she turned her head, she almost jumped in shock.
"Oh my God, this ......" Lu Qingyao had goosebumps all over her body, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and stand up, staring at the wooden carved horse in front of her without blinking.
This is a carved wooden horse, this is clearly a live horse, and she has even felt its joy through its eyes.
Generally, martial arts practitioners learn wood carving in order to become a puppet master.
The puppeteer divides the level of wood carving into four layers: the observation of things and the form, the form and the spirit, the subtlety of the exquisite, and the ingenuity.
The observation of the shape of the object refers to the carved work, the shape of the extreme likeness.
The combination of form and spirit means that the work seems to have a soul, as if it is alive.
Lu Qingyao is in the middle stage of the first layer, and Tang Feng has reached the second layer of perfection.
At this moment, Lu Qingyao felt that in carving, she was like an ant, and Tang Feng was like a giant as tall as a mountain, looking down at her.
"You...... Are you also a puppeteer?" Lu Qingyao said busily.
In ancient times, Mu Shenglu felt that the monsters between heaven and earth were wild and untamable, and could not be used by humans, so he created a puppet.
This way takes various materials, carves it into the shape of a demon beast, and then carves a puppet inscription on the demon core, and puts it into the puppet body to activate the puppet.
Puppet beasts can walk, fight, and assist in cultivation, with many types and infinite uses.
"No, puppet inscriptions are too rare for me to learn. Tang Feng shook his head and said.
Lu Kuo created more than 3,000 puppet inscriptions in his lifetime, which is the basis for various puppet inscriptions.
With the continuous development of puppets, there are now more than 9,000 puppet characters included in the "Puppet Dictionary".
Lu Qingyao said: "Then have you ever learned the puppet pattern?"
Only by learning the puppet inscription can you understand the true meaning of the puppet inscription, depict and even create the puppet inscription.
It's like learning Chinese characters to understand an article.
"I memorized the Puppet Dictionary. "Tang Feng was idle and bored before the fifteen years ago, and he learned a lot of things.
"Wait a minute!" Lu Qingyao dropped this sentence, stepped on the surface of the lake and left in a hurry, and after a while, he came with an animal skin.
Lu Qingyao said: "This animal skin is painted with a flaming horse inscription, which belongs to the bronze-level third-grade puppet inscription, and the fiery horse puppet made with this inscription can travel thousands of miles a day. ”
The puppeteers are divided into bronze, darkiron, silver, gold, diamond, star, and celestial from low to high.
The strength of the Fierce Horse Puppet is comparable to that of the Third Rank Xuantu.
Tang Feng looked at the puppet inscription on the animal skin.
Lu Qingyao said: "You take it back and study slowly, and now continue to cultivate Fang Inch by Step." ”
Tang Feng said: "I have learned this puppet inscription. ”
"This can't be!" Lu Qingyao said subconsciously.
I think at the beginning, she comprehended the flame horse inscription, and the first thing she saw was a bunch of garbled codes, and when she finally saw it clearly, she always forgot the inscription she had just written down.
After thoroughly memorizing the inscriptions, the inscriptions drawn are not true enough, so they can only be practiced over and over again.
It took her a full three months to master the Flame Horse Inscription.
This is no different from learning a Xuantu method of the same level.
But Tang Feng, after watching it for less than half a minute, he was ashamed to say that he had learned, how could this be possible.
"This inscription is very simple, only nine puppet patterns are used in total......" Tang Feng saw that there was a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the stone table on the side, picked up the pen casually, and drew a complete flame horse inscription on the paper.
"Ten...... Ten percent of the true meaning, it is really completely mastered!" Lu Qingyao's eyes widened in shock, and her breathing became short.
If Tang Feng really saw the Flame Horse Inscription for the first time, it could only mean that this guy was an extremely demonic puppet genius.
Lu Qingyao settled down, and took out a yellowed white cloth from the lotus purse on his waist, and there was a puppet inscription on the cloth.
"This is a bronze-level six-grade cloud crane inscription!" Lu Qingyao introduced.
Tang Feng looked at this inscription quietly, and after about three minutes, he picked up the pen and drew it, and the pen walked the dragon and snake, and it was completed in an instant.
"Hey, failed," Tang Feng shook his head, "Give me three days, and I will draw this inscription." ”
Lu Qingyao was speechless, and there was already a strong look of admiration in her eyes.
Tang Feng spent a minute drawing the cloud crane inscription into a true meaning.
It took her nine months to get to that point.
If this is called failure, what is she called?
Lu Qingyao ran away again, and when she came again, she was followed by a large group of people, in addition to Lu Baichuan, there were three middle-aged men, two middle-aged women, and five teenagers, and it seemed that the entire Lu family had come.
After looking at the wooden horse carved by Tang Feng and the puppet inscription that they had just drawn, they looked at Tang Feng like a monster.
"Okay, okay......" Lu Baichuan smiled excitedly, but when he laughed, he suddenly coughed violently, coughing out a mouthful of blood.
The Lu family hugged Lu Baichuan and hurriedly left.
"Master, is he okay?" Tang Feng said with concern.
"It's okay, grandpa, that's an old injury, you don't have to worry!" Lu Qingyao's gaze at Tang Feng softened.
Tang Feng was a little relieved, and entered the lake to continue his cultivation.
By the end of the day's cultivation, he was walking on the surface of the lake, and he had rarely fallen into the lake, and his steps were about to become smaller.
"In this bag are thirty third-stage Xuantu-level demon cores, you take them to practice carving the fiery horse puppet inscription. Lu Qingyao took out another gray box and opened it gently.
Inside the box is a cyan carving knife, about 20 centimeters long, with an ancient style, which has obviously been used by someone before.
"My ancestor of the Lu family is an amazing and glamorous puppeteer, but unfortunately the qualification of the puppet is too important, and our ancestors are not filial, which breaks the inheritance of the ancestor.
This galaxy knife was used by my Lu family ancestor in the past, and today my grandfather asked me to give it to you, hoping that you can inherit the inheritance of my Lu family ancestor and regain the glory of the Lu family in the past. Lu Qingyao's voice has always been soft and glutinous, but at this moment, it has become sharp, and her expression is extremely solemn.
Tang Feng took the Xinghe knife, the knife was very light, and it was very comfortable to hold, as if it was connected with his arm, like an arm, this knife was not simple, and immediately said solemnly: "Please tell the master on my behalf that one day, the reputation of the Xinghe knife will surely resound throughout the Panwu universe!"