Emerald Forest Sea, in the workshop of the Purple Heart Tree House.
Fenoa and Bernd are carefully appreciating a long sword. This sword was forged by Chen Rui just now. It didn't take too much time. The shape looks very simple, and it seems that any ordinary blacksmith can make it. However, the expressions of the two master craftsmen were very serious.
"This sword is quite good. It looks clumsy but it hides ingenious truths. It has won the essentials of making weapons. Although its grade is only excellent, its production level has surpassed the level of a master." Fenoa's eyes flowed With undisguised admiration, "It turns out that His Excellency Richard is a quasi-master of both magic circles and instrument making techniques, which is really amazing."
"It's a shame in front of the two masters." What Chen Rui hoped to hear was not this kind of praise, but really useful opinions or even criticism, "Please give me some pointers."
Bernd took a sip of his drink: "Don't worry, young man, this fellow Fenoa has a bad habit of saying nice things first to make you lighthearted, and then kicking you off the cliff with merciless criticism."
Chen Rui nodded with a smile: "This is exactly what I expected."
Sure enough, Fenoa's face turned serious: "As far as the crafting technique is concerned, your technique and application are excellent in all aspects, and you even have a certain understanding of the artistic conception. You have reached the quasi-master level of forging quasi-divine weapons. But , In the eyes of the Grandmaster, you made a basic mistake, so this sword is quite unqualified, just like a dead body, worthless."
corpse? Chen Rui finally understood Bernd's previous metaphor. This elf master was really harsh and mean when he criticized him, and he didn't give any face. However, he was not depressed at all, and his eyes lit up instead: "I would like to hear more about it."
Fenoa nodded secretly, and said: "When we were learning the art of making weapons, there was a sentence that was mentioned repeatedly, 'making a device is to create life'. But in fact, if we can really understand this sentence and apply it There are not many people who go to the tool maker. Countless tool makers and even master tool makers regard artifacts as the only criterion for becoming a master, but they are all wrong. In fact, this sentence that is heard the most but is ignored is The true meaning of artefact making! Take the quasi-sacred weapon as an example. Maybe your manufacturing technology and details have reached a near-perfect state, but no matter how high the manufacturing attribute is, it is just a dead thing after all, and cannot achieve qualitative change. This is why I say you The sword in his hand is a corpse."
life? This seemingly familiar word made Chen Rui think deeply, and Bernd said: "I don't have the eloquence of Fenoa, he said the dwarf proverb 'the hammer can tell the truth' before, I will show you Bar."
Bernd came to the forging table, picked up the hammer, weighed it, took out a piece of red-hot iron with the pliers, and began to beat it. Under the beating, a sword gradually took shape, and it was also an unremarkable sword. The old dwarf's technique was not special, but it revealed a kind of spirituality that Chen Rui's sword did not possess.
"Any piece of equipment is unique, whether it's a divine weapon or a non-sacred weapon." Fenoa's voice rang in Chen Rui's ear: "It's like life."
Chen Rui was startled, and suddenly thought of the quasi-sacred artifacts produced by exchanging blueprints in the super system, Leiyin, Beiming, Judgment... These equipments are produced by the system, the refining purity of the materials has reached 100%, and the production process is perfect, even if it is a grandmaster None can achieve that level of perfection. It stands to reason that every detail has reached a flawless state, but it has never been able to create a real artifact. It seems that something is missing. Now it seems that what is missing is "spirituality" or what should be called "soul" !
Only then did Chen Rui realize that he had unknowingly walked into a dead end before, pursuing various perfections and extremes, but ignoring the most fundamental and important things. Just like a painter, after years of hard work, he has brought his skills to the peak, and can copy the works of various famous masters, even confusing the real ones, but he has never been able to become a real master of famous masters. The difference between cloud and mud.
To interpret it in terms of another world, it is the difference between "shu" and "dao".
Chen Rui fell into deep thought, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and the old dwarf who had been busy for a long time came over with the sword he just made, and found that this guy didn't even look at the sword, so he couldn't help blowing his beard and staring.
On the contrary, the Elf Grandmaster showed surprise, and after Chen Rui came back to his senses, he asked, "Do you understand?"
Chen Rui nodded. The old dwarf, who was a little bit upset at first, was taken aback. This human kid was so quick to understand something that he had only understood for hundreds of years...
"However, it is one thing to understand the truth, and another thing to be able to use it. I think I have found a new starting point. Maybe I need to comprehend not only the art of making tools, but also more things." Chen Rui said The truth is, although he understands the key point, if he wants to truly comprehend and achieve a qualitative breakthrough, he will definitely not be able to achieve it in a short period of time. In any case, this will be the most important thing on his path of device making. turning point.
"You... really understand?" Bernd felt frustrated, "It seems that I am really old... Fenoa, what are you laughing at, in terms of age, I am younger than you!"
"Your Excellency Fenoa, I will stay in the Emerald Forest for a while, can I come to ask for advice again in the next few days?"
Seeing the Elf Grandmaster nodding, Chen Rui was overjoyed, and said to the old dwarf, "Your Excellency Bernd, can you give me this sword?"
"Finally thought of this sword? Huh, don't think about it! Cunning human beings," the old dwarf pressed on the sword, "unless you can get something good in exchange, preferably wine, this guy's orchid wine The taste is not bad, but not strong enough, dwarves like to drink... "
Before he finished speaking, Bernd's eyes were straightened by the strong aroma of wine: "It smells so good!"
Even Fenoya couldn't help but look at the bottle of wine in Chen Rui's hand. The old dwarf took a stride and stepped in front of Chen Rui with a step length that was seriously inconsistent with his height, and stuffed the sword into his hand , and then grabbed the wine bottle. At this moment, a red shadow hit the hand of the old dwarf, it was Miss Dodo who had been soothed and obedient before.
Miss Dodo has always been bored, but now seeing someone daring to steal her father's things, she immediately launched an offensive.
The old dwarf seemed to be taken aback, but Miss Dodo's ejection missed by a tiny bit, and the wine bottle had already fallen into the old dwarf's hands: "Hey, let me tell you, your bird is so vicious, it will soon be a bird." A bottle of wine, you can learn from Fenoa for other things, but don't learn that kind of pettiness!"
Miss Dodo was about to continue launching, but Chen Rui gently held it in her hand and comforted her.
"Father, what is that, Dodo wants it too!"
Chen Rui didn't want his adopted daughter to develop a bad habit of drinking since she was a child, so she quickly said, "That Duo Duo can't eat it, so when I go out later, Daddy will give you fire crystals, okay?"
"Not good! Dodo wants that bottle!"
"Fire spar with grilled fish!"
"Another pudding!"
Chen Rui didn't expect his adopted daughter to learn to bargain without a teacher. Just as he was blushing, the old dwarf over there couldn't wait to take a sip of wine, and after guessing it, he showed an extremely intoxicated appearance, full of praise: "It tastes so mellow!" The taste is excellent, especially the lingering aftertaste. What kind of wine is this? I have been drinking wine for hundreds of years, and this is the first time I have drunk this kind of wine! Compared with Lanxiang wine, it is simply boiled water!"
Chen Rui gave another bottle to Fenoya, and replied, "This is rice wine, it's... left by my grandfather, brewed from a secret recipe."
These top-quality rice wines are naturally produced by the Demon Realm. When Chen Rui took out the rice wine, he felt the emotion of looking at things and thinking about people. In a few days, the crystallization of faith will be changed to almost one million. At that time, he can return to the Demon Realm to be with his relatives and friends reunion. Before that, he had to seize the time to learn more from the two masters, not only for his own device-making skills, but also to gain more vitality for his teacher Tetnis.
"It's settled like this!" The old dwarf slapped the table vigorously, "I also stay in the Purple Heart Tree House these days, and I will guide you with Fenoa, but every time I come, I must have a bottle of rice wine like this !"
"No, two bottles." Fenoya added, and the three looked at each other and smiled.
A few hours later, the students who were undergoing trials in the purple forest all felt the fluctuations of the mysterious force field around them, and under a tremendous force, the students were involuntarily sent back to the entrance.
The students shouted out in surprise: "Didn't it mean that the trial time was before dark? Why did it end early?"
A calm voice sounded: "It's very simple, because the magic circle of the trial was destroyed by people other than the students, so for the sake of fairness, it ends early, and the current results shall prevail."
"Whatever you say will prevail? Master Ta Lanna, who is this guy?" It was the second-rate youth who had clashed with Chen Rui in the restaurant who spoke.
"Melodan! Shut up!" It turned out to be Feili who spoke, and the elf princess stepped forward and bowed to "this guy" respectfully, "Lord Fenoa."
It turns out that this is the master craftsman of the elves! All the three teachers including the Starlight Academy were taken aback and saluted quickly. When Lan Bisi saw Chen Rui beside Elf Grandmaster, she thought of the sentence "break the six magic circles" just now, and her heart shook.
"Teacher! Li Cha!" Michelle, who was bored waiting, was playing by the lake with Blanche who arrived later, when she saw Fenoa and Chen Rui coming out, she hurried over.
"Michelle, don't be rude, and call Richard 'Your Excellency'. Talanna, from now on, His Excellency Richard can enter and exit the purple forest at will without notification. He will stay in Xiandu for a while. If you have the opportunity, you If you ask him for advice, I believe you will benefit a lot.”
When Talanna heard the teacher's address for this human youth, he knew that the level of the other party had surpassed the master level, at least the quasi-grandmaster level. His eyes showed disbelief, and he solemnly bowed to Chen Rui.
Chen Rui returned a salute to Talanna, and said: "Your Majesty Fenoa is serious. If there is a chance, I will communicate with Master Talanna. As for His Royal Highness Michelle and that Miss Blanche... I can When we came to Yinyue Xiandu, thanks to them, we are friends, so there is no need to be polite."
When Blanche heard the word "friend", her eyes trembled slightly, and she bowed her head in silence. Fenoya nodded to Chen Rui, but didn't talk to everyone, turned around and walked into the woods, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Before Chen Rui mentioned the betting, Lan Bisi had already walked over: "Your Excellency Richard, our students were rude before, and now I apologize to Your Excellency and His Highness Michelle on their behalf."