A few days later, Ernst College.
In the morning, lei had breakfast and set off for the back mountain to prepare for training.
Walking on the road in the academy, the little shadow mouse stood on Linley's shoulder and looked around in all directions. There were many people in Ernst Academy who owned monsters, so Linley had a shadow mouse and others wouldn't care at all. At this moment —
"That's Linley, the true first-year magician of our first year." A crisp voice came from not far ahead.
Linley couldn't help but look towards the source of the sound, only to see two cute little girls whispering to each other and looking at Linley from time to time, and when Linley looked over, the two little girls covered each other's mouths and laughed. .
"I've also become a celebrity." Linley laughed at himself.
In the past few days, when I meet some people, I often hear others talking about themselves. Being able to beat Rand, who was number one in the grade game, Linley was already vaguely regarded as the No. 1 player in the current grade.
"Ah, who's in front?" Linley's eyes suddenly locked on a thin figure in the distance.
He has short blond hair and is as thin and small as Renault. He is cold and walks on the road so indifferently.
"Dixie?" Linley's pupils could not help shrinking.
Dixie is also nine years old now, and in terms of months, he is even a month younger than Linley. But this nine-year-old child is now a third-level magician. Although it is said that the higher the level of a magician, the more difficult it is to cultivate, but it is still amazing to be a third-level magician at the age of nine.
"It's Dixie. I heard yesterday's end-of-year test results that Dixie has reached the fourth-level magician." Some 17- or 18-year-old girls next to each other said to each other.
In the third grade, most of them are over sixteen years old, only Dixie is a super genius.
"Fourth-level magician!"
Linley only felt his heart twitch violently. He was also nine years old, and Dixie was a month younger than him, but he was already a fourth-level magician, but he was only a second-level magician.
That Dixie had a cold face as he walked past Linley.
A peerless genius 'Dixie', there is simply no one in his age who can match him.
A stream of light flew out from the Ring of Coiling Dragon, and Delink Cowart smiled beside Lin Lei: "Lin Lei, the gap between the two of you is not that big. When this Dixie entered school, his mental strength was 68 times that of his peers. It means that he has not practiced yet, and his spiritual power has entered the level of a third-level magician. Therefore, in his first year at Ernst Academy, he only accumulated enough magic power to reach a third-level magician. Now He has been in school for almost two years, and it is normal for him to reach the fourth-level magician."
Linley also understood in his heart.
The opponent's talent is too high, and the spiritual power is so strong from birth, and the element affinity is also super, and the accumulation of magic power must be very fast.
"Now he cultivates fast, but from a fourth-level magician to a fifth-level magician, I estimate that it will take him three or four years, and a fifth-level magician to reach a sixth-level magician, it is estimated that it will take four or five years."
"You are a second-level magician now, and he is a fourth-level magician, but I am confident that you will catch up with him within ten years." Dering Cowart said confidently.
Linley didn't quite believe it.
"Grandpa Delin, the higher the talent, the faster the training speed. His talent is much higher than mine, and now he is two levels higher than me. How can I catch up with him in just ten years?" Linley is not a fool, and his studies at Ernst College made him understand the difficulty of every level of a magician.
In the past, Delink Cowart had said that Linda would become a sixth-level magician within ten years, but Linley had some doubts in his heart. After all, this is where the speed of my progress is now.
While speaking, Linley had already walked out of the back door of Ernst College and entered the back mountain directly. Quickly walking through the mountains and forests, Delink Cowart suddenly said, "Lin Lei, go to a place against a mountain wall."
"by the mountain wall?" lei was a little puzzled.
"Don't ask so many questions, I'll tell you when I get there." Dering Cowart laughed.
Most of the back hills were covered with vegetation and weeds, and there were all kinds of towering trees, but Linley searched for a while and found a place that complied with Dering Cowart's request. There was a raised peak of several hundred meters. Standing at the foot of the mountain peak.
"Grandpa Delin, why did you ask me to come here?" Linley asked in confusion.
Dering Cowart smiled and said, "Lin Lei, don't you believe that I can let you catch up with him in just ten years? Haha... Lin Lei, as a sanctuary magister, I actually have a A set of methods to improve mental strength."
"The way to improve mental strength? Isn't it okay to meditate?" Linley looked at Dering Cowart in confusion.
Dering Cowart said with a light smile, "Lin Lei, I admit that the effect of meditation exercise is very good, but after meditation exercise, the whole person will be very tired."
"Of course I'm exhausted. Meditation exercise is to constantly use mental power, exhaust it to the limit, and then let the mental power recover on its own. It's no wonder that I'm not tired." Linley frowned.
Dering Cowart said proudly: "My approach is different. It is not a consumption of mental power at all, but an entertainment activity."
"Entertainment activities?" Linley was a little confused.
"Yes, this kind of entertainment is—sculpture!" A proud look appeared on Dering Cowart's face.
"Carving?" Linley asked in surprise, "Is that the kind of stone carving in the Proxima Hall?"
Dering Cowart said with a smile: "Yes, others may need to spend energy to sculpt and sweat profusely, but my sculpting method may be tiring at first, but in the middle and late stages, the effect is very good."
"true or false?" lei was somewhat disbelieving.
Dering Cowart stared: "Lin Lei, don't you believe me? Think of my dignified sanctuary magician of the Puang Empire. Many nobles bid millions of gold coins to buy the few stone sculptures. But I am a sanctuary magician. How can you give others a few works that your mentor is proud of?"
"It's so powerful, how come I've never heard of your name, Grandpa Delin, among the master carvers?" Linley asked in confusion.
Dering Cowart said embarrassedly: "This, my works are all hidden in the underground secret room by me. No one knows. More than five thousand years have passed, and no one knows where my original underground secret room is." Five thousand Over the years, the vicissitudes of life, the former imperial capital of the Puang Empire has been razed, who knows where his underground secret room is
"oh, no one knows." lei said with a smile.
"You don't believe it?" Dering Cowart glared, "that rookie boy from Procks came to me, begging me to let him see my work, and after studying my work, Prock It was only this kid who made a breakthrough and eventually became a generation of masters. Speaking of which, he should be regarded as my disciple."
Linley was stunned.
"Proux?" Linley was really frightened.
Throughout the ages, the first person in the stone carving world, 'Prux', can be regarded as a disciple of Dering Cowart.
"Of course, if Prux's work is about perfection, mine is about an extreme. My stone carving skills, which I call the 'flat knife' genre. The flat knife school, and any other stone carving skill. The genre is completely different, and it goes to the other extreme. This carving method will be very tiring and troublesome at first, but in the later stage, you will taste the real sweetness." There is absolute confidence on Dering Cowart's face.
Glancing at Linley, Delink Cowart smiled: "Of course, I used to be the only one in the flat sword school. From today, there will be you in the flat sword school."
Linley trusted Grandpa Delin very much in his heart, so he naturally decided to learn carving.
not to mention…
If it can really be as Delink Cowart said, not only can his strength grow rapidly, but he can also become a master of stone carving. Relying on stone carving alone is enough to support his younger brother's tuition.
"There are only tens of thousands of years of history that can be verified by written records, and in the long years before this, the writing has not really been formed, but the stone carvings have already existed." Dering Cowart said with a sigh, "It can be traced back to dozens of years. Ten thousand years ago, millions of years ago, our ancestors would carve what they saw and thought, and this is the oldest way of inheriting civilization."
lei also nodded.
No matter what kind of art work, it can't keep up with the ancient stone carving.
"From ancient times to the present, among the countless art forms, none of them can be older than stone sculpture, and there is no one that can express what people have seen, heard, and expressed their joys, sorrows and joys more than stone sculpture. This also makes The art of stone carving has been prosperous for countless years!"
"The stone is hard and difficult to carve. It is even more difficult to form a unique charm. The more difficult it is, the more valuable a successful work is." Dering Cowart sighed.
Linley agreed in his heart.
For example, in painting, you can easily draw a natural stroke, but if you want to carve a very natural stroke, it is very difficult. Because the stone is too hard.
"The shape, texture, texture and color of the stone contain not only the specific image, but also the beauty itself. Use a carving knife to cut off the excess part of the stubborn stone, so that the beautiful image in it is naturally exposed and revealed. This is stone carving. ."
"The method of carving is actually a method of dealing with image and space. When carving, from the outside to the inside, subtract the waste step by step, and draw the 'shape' step by step, and subtract it again and again. In the process of scrap, the 'shape' will become clearer and clearer, which will allow the creator to naturally experience the wonderful feeling of 'out of the shell' of the work."
…
When Drin Cowart spoke of stone carvings, he went on and on.
However, Linley also felt that Dering Cowart respected stone carvings.
"General carving methods require many tools, such as round knives, flat knives, oblique knives, triangular knives, jade bowl knives, axes, saws, etc. The reason why there are so many tools is that the stone itself is relatively hard. The reason they would use round knives for alignment, flat knives for cutting, triangular knives for…”
Listening to the narrative, Linley also had some understanding of the general principles of stone carving.
Dering Cowart suddenly laughed: "However, my carving method is different from everyone else's, because my carving method only uses one tool - a flat knife, so I call my carving method a 'flat knife' flow'!"
"How is it possible, how can you carve with a single flat knife?" Linley immediately retorted, "What you said just now, such as the scales of fish scales, how do you carve with a flat knife? Is it impossible?"
"No, it's impossible for others, but our Earth Magician can."
Dering Cowart said confidently, "Earth-type magicians can completely feel the stone itself. As long as you have enough arm strength, you can carve with a flat knife alone. Of course, this flat knife school is not so simple, you Today's task is to buy a sharp enough flat knife, and from tomorrow, I will spend three hours a day teaching you about stone carving."