Chapter 26: Facing Yourself
At seven o'clock in the afternoon, eleven people came to Jin Lao's courtyard, waiting for the release of the training task.
After a while, Jin Lao appeared with today's training task.
"Uh...... From today...... Your task was changed to make a statue out of stone, and the statue was set to be your own appearance for a period of one year. It's in a clearing near your dormitory, and there's no one to supervise it. I'm sure you're not lazy......"
"Jin Lao, there doesn't seem to be any vacant space near our dormitory......"
Zhou Tong voiced his doubts.
"I'll have a ...... in a moment"
Jin Lao gave an answer that was not an answer.
"As for the Moon Shadow...... Why did you fall asleep again...... There are few effective ways for us to deal with this ethereal body...... So it's mainly up to you, and a few of us will intervene at a critical moment. ”
For the ethereal body, Jin Lao really has no good way. All they can do is provide a good environment for them to grow up in, and ensure that Moon Shadow is less affected by some bad influences.
And the guidance of Moon Shadow depends on what the people she trusts will do, and such people, among several people, naturally only Moon Glass meets.
"Yueli, judging from the current situation, among the few of us, you will have the greatest influence on Moon Shadow, so you must pay attention to your words and deeds in the future. It doesn't matter if what you've done in the past is right or wrong, but now at least everything has a reason to do it. Don't give Moon Shadow a false example. ”
Yueli nodded, she knew how heavy her task was.
"A few of you too, although not the main influencing figures, once the impact is caused, it will be irreversible. Therefore, their respective faults are hidden first. ”
The others nodded.
"Then there's the problem of our Dao Sect. Taoism has never paid much attention to those red tapes, so they treat those issues differently than others. I don't ask you to change this, after all, it's not easy to change how many years have passed. All you need to do is make Moon Shadow know that the Daoist Sect doesn't pay attention to these issues, it's just that you don't like those red tape...... Okay, that's all. ”
After that, everyone walked in the direction of the dormitory.
Jin Lao waved his hand, and the scene next to the dormitory changed.
What was originally a small piece of jungle has now become a small open meadow.
"Okay, that's where you train in the future. You can find the stone yourself, we don't provide this thing. ”
A few people didn't complain, because this thing is too common.
After Jin Lao left, the training mission of several people officially began.
Feng Yan and the other eight male disciples began to collect the Xuanshi without saying a word. Although this thing is very common, they definitely need a lot of dark stones to complete the statue.
Among the three female disciples, Moon Shadow was sleeping, and the other two were a little stunned.
Yueli stopped the wind and died.
"Is it so difficult to ask Dao Feng's training?"
Feng Yan said earnestly:
"It's good to get used to it. ”
Hearing this answer, the two were still a little stunned.
What kind of life does the disciple of Dao Feng live every day!
The reason why the two of them were a little stunned was because the training task itself was difficult, and it was even a bit anti-human.
The first is the quest itself, making statues, which is fine, but to complete it, you must have a certain amount of talent. A person who does not know how to sculpt at all will have to work several times as hard as anyone else to accomplish this task.
The second is the limitation of the mandate - no one supervises it, and the deadline is one year. This seemingly loose condition has a big problem.
No one is supervising it means that everything is done by one's own will, and many people are prone to relaxation by their own will. Once relaxed, the short year may pass extremely quickly, and by then, it is not impossible that the task will not be completed.
Finally, the choice of materials is the most unreasonable.
Xuanshi, the most common stone in the Tianxuan Realm, is no different from ordinary stones in terms of hardness. But because it is nourished by the aura, it has a strange trait, and once it is exposed to more than the upper limit of the power it can bear, it will perform what it means to be "broken and neat".
Because of this characteristic, Xuanshi is not considered a building material. It is more acceptable that a building will be broken into two parts after being impacted, rather than being completely shattered by an impact.
In the Ancient Continent, only the Dao Sect used this thing to build many buildings.
It is even more difficult to make a statue out of stone. Not to mention that because the power is not well controlled, the stone is broken into small pieces and cannot be made. It is only said that after the finished product is almost done, once you accidentally use too much force during carving, it is a two-piece statue.
The blow of two finished products is worse than not being made.
The two of them were surprised by the difficulty of the task for a moment, and then accepted. After all, this is Dao Dao Peak, and even some elders will retreat from Dao Dao Peak in the face of training here, and the difficulty of such training is normal.
The training ground is next to the dormitory, so after sending Moon Shadow into the dormitory, the two of them also join the army of collecting dark stones.
After a while, the ten people had already collected a large number of Xuanshi and were ready to start training.
But when they were about to do it, they were all stunned.
If you say you want to carve your own statue, what is your own self like, and what kind of posture is the most appropriate?
Usually they have seen what they are like in the mirror, but now, they can't sketch what they look like in their minds.
"If only I could have a big enough mirror. ”
Zhou Tong felt that if there was a huge mirror at this time, several people would be able to know what they were like.
At this moment, Yueli took out a large rectangular mirror from the ring and held it with one hand. It is very different from the usual copper mirrors, and the overall color tone is silvery-white.
"Use this. ”
Looking at the mirror, which was almost as big as the wall, several people were a little surprised.
"This thing is a mirror?"
"Can't you try it?"
In fact, there is no need to try it at all, their appearance has already been reflected in the mirror, and it is much clearer than the bronze mirror.
"What is this made of, can you see it so clearly?"
"Glass. As for what glass is, I don't think you understand it when I explain it to you. ”
This sentence directly stopped Zhou Tong's curiosity.
Several people thought that Yueli's master was the "Tianyan Zhenren", and they didn't think it was strange that such a thing appeared. That one, but he made a lot of strange things, including the "airship".
They still have a problem, though.
"Yueli, what is such a big mirror for?"
Death asked a common question.
"This one...... Mounted on the wall, the place to live looks spacious. ”
Windfall nodded, in understanding. For Yueli, a more spacious space is a more free place.
"But...... came to Dao Dao and asked the peak, and found that this house was quite spacious, which was of little use. ”
After knowing the reason, everyone didn't bother with what the mirror was originally used for. They propped up the large mirror, then stood in front of it and looked at themselves carefully.
They found that there seemed to be a big difference between the person in the mirror and the person in their own mind.
Several people were a little touched.
It's been so long since you took a closer look at what you look like?
Even a few people, including Bai Yu, who often looked in the mirror, found some things that they hadn't paid attention to before.
Like what......
"Yu'er, are you a little fat?"
"It seems like it's really, this face is round. ”
"yes, it seems like I did lose a little weight five years ago. ”
"Go, go, see yourselves, don't point a finger at me!"
After taking a closer look at themselves, the group began to prepare for making their own statues.
Everyone's choice is the same, first find a big block and make it into a long strip.
With the blessing of the "neat and tidy" characteristics of the Xuanshi, it is not difficult at all. As long as you find the right direction to apply pressure, the absolute break will be smooth.
Then start to determine the proportions, which part is the head, which part is the body, and which part is the lower body.
After choosing, several people will have surgery on their necks.
Above the neck, it was broken, and the whole stone was broken in two.
There was a lot of embarrassment.
Then they chose the upper and lower body lines, ready to touch up a little.
Then, it broke again, and the whole stone was broken into three pieces.
Well, just act as if it didn't happen.
Everyone chose one of them without doing anything, and it was better to learn to control the power first to ensure that the Xuanshi would not break.
A quarter of an hour later, everyone was in a state of depression.
The few small pieces of Xuanshi that practiced turned into a pile of small boxy pieces around him.
Among them, the depression of the moon and thunderstorm was the most obvious.
Yueli mechanically chopped the stone with her hands, and cut off a piece, and the incision was very smooth. She was prepared for the hard part of training, but she didn't expect it to be so hard.
Thunderstorm hammered a piece of stone with his right hand, and the more he hammered, the more depressed he became. In the face of the thunderstorm's brutal power, the Xuanshi couldn't hold on at all, and it was directly disconnected. But it just turned into smaller blocks, and none of them were shattered. A few of what appeared to be powdered were just more and smaller pieces of stone.
There was no way to do it at the beginning, and for several people, it was the first time.
"This thing can really ......"
"It's okay for others to deceive themselves, but our Dao Sect has built so many buildings with this stone......"
At this moment, they really hoped that they didn't know about the Dao Sect's Xuanshi buildings, so that they could say that this thing was impossible and make them feel better.
At that moment, Moon Shadow approached and asked a few people what they were going to do. Knowing what to do, she sat down next to Yueli, picked one up and started to do it.
The result is naturally the same as several people.
A quarter of an hour later, when several people had no motivation to continue, Moon Shadow dozed off a few times, and then his breath changed, and he became very energetic again.
A few people know that this is another character coming out.
Then, instead of shutting herself off like the others, Moon Shadow continued to pick up the stone and try her hand.
This move touched several people a little and made them realize their mistakes.
Didn't you already know that this was going to be difficult, and why did you give up in the first place?
So, several people calmed down and adjusted their state.
From this time to the fourth quarter of the hour, several people endured depression and tinkered with the Xuanshi. Whenever they feel like giving up, they feel a little motivated as soon as they see that Moon Shadow continues.
Yes, Moon Shadow is the only one of them who doesn't show frustration, and if one piece doesn't work, then move on to the next one. And the two personalities switched continuously, and only once this afternoon did I rest for a quarter of an hour because my body couldn't hold on.
And this has become the motivation of these people.
They felt that there was really some trickery, they were supposed to be the guide of the Moon Shadow, but now the Moon Shadow was their guide.
At four o'clock, today's training is over. The result of the crowd was a pile of rubble, but they were not discouraged.
If you don't succeed today, there will be tomorrow!