Chapter 20 Chapter 20
"Master?" Gu Xuanyou's voice came from behind the curtain.
Ling Suye lay down again: "Nothing."
First, he did not know whether the things engraved on the board were true or false;
Secondly, he is now blind, and Master Wen pointed out last night that he is no longer suitable for learning the art of forging. However, the wooden board says that one must "be a craftsman, and cultivate oneself, so that one can achieve the same as cultivating oneself."
What Ling Suye understood was that he had to become a craftsman and forge his body as if it were a giant weapon, so that he could look no different from a person with cultivation.
——It is not about regaining one’s cultivation.
Instead, it is an internal force that can only be used by people who practice cultivation, and it can give them the power to protect themselves and fight back.
That's enough!
That's enough!
Ling Suye never dared to hope that he could go back to the past, back to three years ago when nothing had happened and he was still the carefree young master of the Ling family who was devoted to cultivation.
As long as he can recover a little strength, he can go to the capital alone!
Perhaps because he felt that there would be some disappointments in the future, Ling Su's ambitions relaxed, and he actually fell asleep in a daze at this early morning.
When I woke up, it was already noon.
Gu Xuanyou brought tea and pancakes: "Master, please eat first. The food will be served after it is heated up."
After he finished speaking, he did not sit down to eat as usual. Ling Suye heard his footsteps and found that he went to the window.
The scent of ink wafts over, it seems Gu Xuanyou is writing?
Ling Suye ate half a pancake. Originally, he had no curiosity about what Gu Xuanyou did, but at this moment, he suddenly felt something inexplicably moving and asked, "What to write?"
Gu Xuanyou had just been concentrating on drawing a talisman—this was exactly what Master Wen had taught him last night. The reason the Wen and Shi families were revered as "masters" was precisely because they could imbue their forged objects with spirits.
This "spiritual attachment" is simple to explain. It is to use specific patterns to gather the original spiritual energy in the equipment and extend it in a specific direction.
The bow and arrow made of black stone from outer space in Ling Suye's hand can spontaneously condense into arrows when he draws the bow. This is the result of "spirit attachment".
Of course, the patterns of "Spirit Attachment" vary, and the effects of "Spirit Attachment" are also different.
The basis of all this "spiritual possession" lies, firstly, in the patterns on the talismans, and secondly, in the material itself.
First of all, it needs a piece of spiritual jade or spiritual stone, which can create some unexpected effects.
Gu Xuanyou recalled what Master Wen had said last night: "So-called talismans aren't as complicated as you imagine. They're just like those traveling sorcerers and charlatans. They use cinnabar to draw talismans on yellow paper, while we draw them on a forged spirit stone. First, you must sense the spiritual energy within the spirit stone. Close your eyes, sense its form and movement, and communicate with it, telling it what you wish to create. Now, let your pen follow your heart, and write without regret. The stronger your intention, the more likely it is to come true. Everything hinges on fate. Success depends on your sincerity."
He leaned over to collect his brush and said, "Master, I'm practicing drawing talismans."
The kind that is very sincere.
——The spirit stone that Ling Suye gave to Master Wen yesterday was also placed on the table. Gu Xuanyou sensed the spiritual energy according to the method taught by Master Wen, while sketching on paper the talisman that he wanted to guide the spiritual energy to condense.
Ling Suye suddenly thought of his black stone bow and arrow, which had mysterious patterns on it that only he could touch.
Could this be a talisman?
Ling Suye thought so in his heart, but did not ask.
After all, Gu Xuanyou had just come into contact with the craftsman lineage, so if he had any questions, he could go and ask Master Wen at night.
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After brunch, Gu Xuanyou stayed in the inn to continue drawing talismans, while Ling Suye went to Yunniang's Treasure Pavilion.
To Ling Suye's surprise, the place was closed.
When I asked around, the answers I got were all, "The lady who owns this shop is a weirdo, a peculiar person. She doesn't compete for business, and often closes the shop for a month or so. If other people did business like this, they would have gone bankrupt long ago! But this lady is different. She does business that no one else can do, and it requires real skills. Anyway, if you have any problems, you can always go to her! But since she's closed now, there's nothing we can do, right?"
Ling Suye hadn't seen Yunniang, so naturally he couldn't ask about the brocade bag wood carving.
On the way back, he thought again of Yunniang's words from yesterday. He felt that Yunniang's voice... no, it should be said that her voice seemed familiar. This familiarity came from deep in his subconscious mind, and it was not just the side of Yunniang he had seen in Jubao Pavilion three years ago when he came here with his father.
"Could it be that I have seen Yunniang before besides the time three years ago?" Ling Suye pondered.
——He had the same idea three years ago.
But he turned his memory of the past ten years upside down and couldn't remember any details.
Soon the sun was setting, and the orange sunset glow turned into a pitch-black dome in an instant.
This time, Ling Suye and Gu Xuanyou did not tie red ropes on their wrists, but simply dripped blood from their fingertips into the cup, and the bright red blood spread out.
Just as midnight arrived, blood silently spread out in the water cup, forming ripples. Then Gu Xuanyou's eyes went dark, and when he opened his eyes again, he was back in Master Wen's shop.
Ling Suye couldn't see anything, and his perception wasn't as strong as Gu Xuanyou's, but the smell of flint in the air and the eerily quiet atmosphere told him that the place he was in was no longer the inn he had been in before.
Master Wen has been waiting for a long time.
He waited here for a hundred years, and finally waited for the descendants of the Shi family to appear before disappearing. He wanted to teach Gu Xuanyou all the inheritance of the craftsman lineage immediately.
At this moment, he pulled Gu Xuanyou straight to the backyard, not wanting to delay for a moment.
Ling Suye called out to him at this moment: "Master Craftsman."
Master Wen stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ling Suye half-closed his eyes, his long eyelashes covering his dull pupils, yet giving people the illusion that he was speaking seriously.
"Master, I would like to ask you, how do you 'craft yourself'?"
——If what was said in the treasure bag was true, then he would use his body as a furnace to forge himself into a weapon.
After all, the enemy is likely to be the princes and nobles of Shangjing City, so he needs to prepare an extra layer of backup for himself.
Master Wen released his grip on Gu Xuanyou's hand and turned around.
Ling Suye didn't see the horror in his eyes, but he heard Master Wen's heavy breathing.
"Why are you asking this?"
Ling Suye was stunned: "Anyone else asking?"
Only then did Master Wen carefully look at Ling Suye again, and finally his eyes fell on his right cuff, where was the treasure bag given by Yunniang.
Master Wen murmured, "No wonder, no wonder you know this—well, the fact that my remnant soul has survived to this day is a huge favor I owe that girl. Since you asked, I'll tell you the method of 'crafting yourself.' But I must warn you in advance: this journey is extremely difficult. If you're not careful, you'll lose your mind and completely fall apart. At best, you'll become a puppet controlled by others. Are you still willing to 'craft yourself'?"
Ling Suye's eyes closed completely, he lowered his jaw slightly, and said, "I have reasons why I must do this, Master."
Master Craftsman Wen suddenly thought of what he said yesterday - this kid was a rare talent three years ago, and his cultivation was unmatched among the younger generation. His parents were also devoted to him and came to me to forge a magical weapon for him.
But as expected, the magic weapon had been made long ago, and I even changed the bowstring from cow tendon to small dragon tendon after several changes, but no one came to their house again.
Three years later, this boy's cultivation was wasted, his body was covered in tatters, and his eyes, which contained the stars, were blind...
It goes without saying what happened.
Master Wen agreed slowly and solemnly, "Okay."
He turned to Gu Xuanyou and said, "Wait here for a moment. I'll come over to teach you after I finish explaining 'Jiang Ji' to him. 'Jian Ji' is not difficult to explain, but the hardest part is to be ruthless to yourself little by little... Hey, you kid..."
Master Wen spoke as he walked. Thinking of the tragic scene that was about to happen and the countless tragic endings that had been recorded in ancient books, he really wanted to persuade this young man, who was only nineteen years old, to give up.
But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.
After all, isn't he the same?
He should have been dead a hundred years ago, but now he is still willingly trapped in this small ancient city. Isn't it just to wait for a result?
Although, he himself didn't know what result he wanted to wait for.
Gu Xuanyou listened to their conversation, his heart in a mess.
He was clear about his identity; he was just a slave to his master, a knife that he could use well.
——And has no right to influence the master’s choice.
An hour later, Master Wen came out and was surprised to find that Gu Xuanyou was still standing in the same posture, and even his arm had not moved at all.
"What's wrong with you, kid? Why don't you come and practice the talismans?"
What the master was going to do next weighed heavily on Gu Xuanyou's heart. When he was practicing brushstrokes with Master Wen, his mind was not very clear and he just copied Master Wen's strokes.
Master Wen didn't say much when he saw this, but he was quite satisfied in his heart.
He trusted the Ling family, so he wanted to accept Ling Suye as his disciple.
The reason why he accepted Gu Xuanyou as his apprentice was purely because of the Shi family blood in him. In addition, he might not live for many years, so he just wanted to pass on the ancestral skills.
Now that he saw that Gu Xuanyou had a pure heart and a righteous mind, he began to feel a bit of admiration for his talent.
So for the next two months, Ling Suye was learning how to "craft himself", while Gu Xuanyou was forging the magical jade obtained from the Chuzhou City God Temple.
Gu Xuanyou was determined to create something that his master could use, and he had been studying very seriously these days.
In addition, he was naturally intelligent and made rapid progress, which made Master Wen praise him endlessly.
——As a master, of course you cannot praise your apprentice in person, you can only praise him in your heart.
"You cut such a big piece of jade into so many small pieces. What on earth are you going to do with it?"
Master Craftsman Wen has been making weapons all his life, and he has never seen Gu Xuanyou treat a piece of fine material like this.
He picked up a thin slice of jade, about the thickness of a fingernail. "Even light can shine through this."
Gu Xuanyou, who was sitting there cutting jade, smiled when he heard his master's words: "It's to let light through."
For the past three years, Gu Xuanyou has been traveling around the country with Ling Suye. It is rare for them to stay in one place for two months. He also had in-depth exchanges with a "native" here.
His tense mood relaxed, his aura became much softer, and he even acquired a bit of the unrestrained temperament of a young man because he studied blacksmithing all day.
Gu Xuanyou said, "Master, just wait and see. The master will definitely like what I made."
The author has something to say:
Xiao Gu: Very confident.
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