Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Chapter 37: Root carving

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For the new home, the little things are very curious. To her, many things in the human world are so new, so you have to touch everything.

An inkstone attracted her attention. She walked over and climbed onto the inkstone to look left and right. She accidentally fell into the ink pond, and when she came out, she was completely dark.

Tang Jie laughed as he watched it, the little thing was a little angry, and shook his head. The next moment the whole room was filled with ink.

"... Okay, count you cruel!" Tang Jie, who looked at the room full of black dots, took the little guy out of the inkstone, and was about to fetch her water for a bath, but saw that the little guy just waved his hands and covered everything. The ink has dissipated automatically, leaving only the white|tender and cute little face, laughing and watching Tang Jie.

"Although the combat effectiveness is a little worse, there are quite a few tricks." Tang Jie touched her face and smiled: "Look at you babbling, I will call you Yiyi from now on, okay?"

Hearing that he had a name, the little thing turned his head in excitement, and then nodded again and again.

"Well, just stay here." Tang Jie said and went out.

"Eh!" Seeing Tang Jie about to leave, Yi Yi yelled anxiously.

Tang Jie smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm not leaving, I'm just going to make a nest for you. I guess you don't like living in a flowerpot honestly."

After a while, Tang Jie entered the house holding a large piece of wood.

He hollowed out the wood, stuffed it with cotton, sewed a small pillow and a quilt with cloth, and hung a curtain at the entrance of the hole, so that it became a small wooden house.

Patting the quilt, Tang Jie said, "Well, from now on, this will be your den. You can sleep here when there is nothing to do. You can play in the house when I'm away, but you can't go out casually. If someone comes, you can It has to become a flower and stay in a flowerpot so that no one can find you, you know?"

The little guy nodded and turned into a small white flower, standing quietly in the basin.

"That's it!" Tang Jie said with a smile.

The next moment the little thing turned back into a human form, and threw himself into Tang Jie's arms, and became intimate with him.

After playing around for a while, the little guy seemed a little tired, and fell asleep directly in Tang Jie's hands. Tang Jie carefully put Lüe into the hut and covered her with a quilt.

Then Tang Jie sat alone by the bed and began to reflect on what had happened.

When he first met Lu E, Tang Jieguang thought about coaxing her into his hands. When he finally got his hands, Tang Jie realized that with the appearance of this little thing, there might be a lot of trouble in the future.

After carefully sorting out the possible problems, Tang Jie thought in his heart, and gradually got an idea. Seeing how early it was, Tang Jie looked at the little guy who was sleeping peacefully, said softly "good night", and then went to sleep as well.

The next morning, Tang Jie woke up early. After doing the work in the garden, Tang Jie found some old tree roots, took a small knife and started cutting on the tree roots. After removing the extra branches and leaves, Tang Jie began to make a single cut. Portrayed on the roots.

When a young man saw that he was curious and asked Tang Jie what he was doing, Tang Jie answered Gen Diao.

The days of attracting eyeballs by gardening are long, and Wei Tianchong's interest in gardening is not as high as before. Now Tang Jie intends to regain Wei Tianchong's attention by relying on this sculpture.

But the most important thing is that with this famous carved hall, Tang Jie can move a large amount of wood into his house in the future. This way, he can cover up the nest made for small things and make it less obtrusive. Up. Although it is said that there are few guests from Tang Jie's cabin, he must be careful of accidents, and it will also help Tang Jie to enter school in the future.

After going to the academy, Tang Jie could no longer be a gardener, which meant that he would lose the position he was good at, so Tang Jie had to find a way out for himself again.

Root carving is a good choice. This thing can be used wherever you go. Digging a few pieces of wood is the material.

If you do it well, you can sell some money to supplement your household, and you can also give it as a gift if you do it well—people who have a good skill are always more likely to be popular.

In addition, root carvings are also useful for cultivating immortals. There is a miscellaneous knowledge in cultivating immortals called puppet art. Through the cooperation of puppet production and formation, the ability to fight organs is formed. Among them, carving is used.

In fact, art has always had practical value in the cultivation of immortals. Whether it is characters, paintings, sounds, and carvings, they can find their own value in the world of immortality.

Ru Xu Muyang drew a horse in a few strokes, and then cast a spell to make it alive, which embodies his superb painting skills.

If it’s not even good at painting, the horse drawn looks like a donkey, even if it survives, it’s just a joke.

As for the characters, they are also the basic need for drawing characters. If you write a letter of law, the characters on it will be crooked and appear out of thin air. A grinning "kill" character, even if the effect has not yet been exerted, the big teeth will be laughed out first.

Therefore, in addition to basic immortal arts, the content of piano, chess, calligraphy and calligraphy also exists in the colleges under the major immortal schools, and has practical significance-there are all kinds of goods in the world of immortality, but there are no illiterate ones.

Tang Jie has been in the Weifu for more than a year. Apart from Zhendao, he practiced handwriting and drawing when he was fine. It is said that some students in the college are unable to graduate after entering the immortal gate because the liberal arts are so bad.

Tang Jie didn't want to be unable to graduate because of his ugly writing.

As for the current root carving, Tang Jie is thinking about learning puppet art in the future, and also to integrate his knowledge of formations into it.

Formation Dao is actually a wide-ranging knowledge. In addition to military formations, guarding mountain formations, alchemy, craftsmanship, and puppet organs, almost all need to use formations, but the direction and characteristics are different.

Xu Muyang is mainly good at the Great Formation of Heaven and Earth, not very good at other types, but the truth is the same, Tang Jie can learn and research on his own.

Tang Jie is not interested in puppet art, but the basic carving ability he needs is currently the only thing that has something to do with gardening. Others such as calligraphy and painting have nothing to do with gardening. I want to do this when he is at work. Wei Jia would never praise his self-motivated spirit.

In addition, puppetry and later generations of science and technology systems are also relatively similar in form. For Tang Jie, this means that he may have more development possibilities in this regard.

Although he doesn't know how to sculpt his roots now, there are still two years left before enrollment. Two years are enough time for him to master this craft.

The new pattern really attracted Wei Tianchong's attention again-there are stone carvings in Qixiajie, but root carvings are rare.

Watching Tang Jie's hand fiddle with the trunk full of roots, creating shapes one by one, Wei Tianchong felt fresh, and even picked up a piece of old tree root to learn it.

Tang Jie taught him how to deal with these tree roots.

Unlike stone carvings, root carvings have higher requirements on the selection of materials. The sculptor needs to make clever use of the natural form of the material itself. In addition, the real root carving pursues weird shapes. Generally, tree roots that grow on the plains have sufficient nutrients, fast growth, and loose wood fibers, which makes it difficult to form peculiar shapes. Only the roots that grow in harsh environments, such as the roots that grow in the sun or in the crevices of cliffs and rocks, and survived by lightning, fire, ant erosion, stone pressure, human stepping, and knife cutting, are due to insufficient light. Lack of soil, water and nutrient, will gradually change shape over a long period of time. In addition, before carving, various treatments are needed on the material.

But what Tang Jie pursues is not art but practicality, so he doesn't need to care about all of these. In his eyes, the root carving is "seven percent artificial and three percent natural."

Art pays attention to weird shapes and rich imagination, while puppets pay attention to simulation and realism, and they have to reserve space for refining formations. The two are similar in shape but different in quality.

But no matter which one, it is not easy to do.

Sculpture itself is a very comprehensive art. It not only requires the artist to have a strong carving skills and artistic appreciation ability, but also a certain painting background.

Tang Jie's artistic cell is obviously very limited. He can't meet any of the above conditions. He held a piece of wood for a long time, but he didn't see anything famous. In the end, he finally dug out a small wooden man with his head. Occupying more than one-third, the two short legs composed of roots are ugly. If this thing is activated with a refining array so that it can walk freely, it is probably a deformity, and it is estimated that it will fall to the ground within two steps.

Regarding this, Tang Jie could only sigh helplessly, comforting himself that at any rate he still has a predilection for him. You can't expect the world to love him, but this plan seems to be bankrupt. Sure enough, some plans are well formulated and lack effective means of execution. Can not do it.

Looking back at the side, I saw that the young master Wei Tianchong was cutting his sword like flying, holding a disk-shaped protruding tree root flying block and cutting it. Not long after, a little tortoise appeared in the palm of his hand, although this The little tortoise has many flaws, but at least the structure is complete and it doesn't look too distorted.

Tang Jie stared blankly: "Have you studied before?"

In his surprise, even the young master stopped shouting.

"No, this is the first time. It's very interesting." Wei Tianchong looked at his work and admired it.

"Genius..." Tang Jie moaned weakly|groaning.

Never dreamed that Wei Tianchong would have this talent.

From this day on, Wei Tianchong followed Tang Jie to play root carving every day.

Unlike Tang Jie's "favored by the formation", this young master really loved carving, which completely accorded with Xu Muyang's saying that there is talent with love.

At first, Wei Tianchong was a little worried that his mother would teach him plaything and lose his ambitions after learning about it. Later, after hearing Tang Jie said that this was also one of the foundations of cultivating immortals, he became addicted to the root carving every day without fear.

Sure enough, after hearing about the incident, the wife deliberately consulted the spiritual master Lu. After confirming that she was correct, she just said, "Don't miss other lessons," and she never took care of her son again.

For her, it didn't matter which way her son Xiuxian took. The important thing was that he finally had his own pursuit and worked hard for it, so he also appreciated Tang Jie more and more.

Good people can make progress for their children!

Tang Jie's mood during this time was getting more and more depressed.

With the increase of the carving time, Wei Tianchong's level of root carving has improved by leaps and bounds. At first he could only carve some small wooden gadgets, but only a few months, Wei Tianchong has already begun to take the entire section. The trunk is carved out of the tall guy.

A few months later, Wei Tianchong's first large-scale wood carving was completed. It was a giant tiger with hanging eyes, and the carving was vivid.

Tang Jie has no doubt that if it is paired with a suitable refining formation, it will become a real man-eating tiger.

Watching Wei Tianchong put his first large-scale work in a flowerbed decorated with petals and watched triumphantly, Tang Jie quietly crushed the small doll-like puppet in his hand.

My heart is broken.