Chapter 46: Jingyun Bell is about to be opened
The popularity of "The Stubborn Stone" continued to rise. After its counterattack, the box office exceeded 1 billion in three days and 2 billion in ten days, directly winning the box office championship in the same period, refreshing everyone's stereotype of Donghuang movies.
And as the attention continues to soar, people have gradually begun to discover some little easter eggs hidden by Zhenxin Animation in the movie through repeated review.
For example, after Niangniang Shiji transformed, the long skirt and headband that the women in the village sewed for her were the Bagua Yunguang Handkerchief and Bagua Longxu Handkerchief of Niangniang Shiji in the novel Investiture of the Gods.
Although they were just ordinary cloth at first, they were refined into her life-saving magic weapon through Shiji's day-to-day care.
In the film, the audience can clearly see how the long skirt and headband change as Shiji grows and changes.
And finally, when Shiji chose to transform into mountains, the two personal magical instruments also became dim.
There are also stoves, wine glasses, and large incense burners used by the villagers in the movie. The pattern on each object is a QR code introducing the background of the cultural relic.
The webpage not only introduces the reference prototypes of the corresponding cultural relics, but also previews a cultural relic reproduction event called the Shang and Zhou Dynasty Journey.
By then, all the prototypes of the cultural relics in "The Story of the Stubborn Stone" will appear in the form of replicas in the future Shang and Zhou themed exhibition hall of the Yong'an Museum.
This can be considered as Zhen Shuwang's small gift in return for Jia Wenyan's help.
Jia Wenyan originally just wanted Zhenxin Animation to help make a promotional homepage, but she never expected that the other party would actually make the promotional column into an Easter egg and bury it in the movie.
By the time she learned about what had happened online, the number of likes and comments on the voting page had already piled up like a tower.
Moreover, it is not just the prototypes of the cultural relics that appear in the movie. Many netizens also took the initiative to recommend their favorite cultural relics. However, at this moment, Jia Wenyan did not pay attention to the so-called "Shang and Zhou Theme Exhibition Hall" at all.
The so-called Shang and Zhou themed exhibition hall is just a cover. Her real purpose is to use this theme hall to reproduce and recall those artifacts that have been lost overseas.
According to her and Grandma Xu's estimation, she needed to create carriers that could carry the artifact spirits, and then use the power of the Three Kings Pot as a medium to summon back the lost artifact spirits.
This is a result calculated by Xu Yonghe and many other ancient spirit artifacts, led by the Three Kings Pot.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any problems with this process that has been repeatedly verified.
But no matter how clear the process is, there is always an unavoidable problem for Jia Wenyan's executors, that is, the reproduction of the cultural relics carrier.
Because only a carrier that perfectly matches the original cultural relic can truly carry the spirit of the artifact.
This can be said to be a kind of replica work that Jia Wenyan has become accustomed to after taking over the Yong'an Museum, but the problem is that this time, due to the possible damage caused by long-distance out-of-body summoning, Jia Wenyan has no way to get guidance from the weapon spirit space like the previous few weapon spirits.
She could only try and replicate it bit by bit based on the information about the spirit weapon recorded in the notes brought back by Grandma Xu.
This is definitely not an easy task, not to mention that the weapon spirits in the Sun Never Sets Museum that are capable of challenging long-distance summoning without experience are mostly old goblins from the Shang and Zhou dynasties that have existed for thousands of years.
The cultural relics left over from the Shang and Zhou dynasties were mostly bronze artifacts, which undoubtedly hit Jia Wenyan's biggest blind spot.
Even if she had the blessing of the Golden Eyes of Time, it would be difficult for her to perfectly replicate those bronze artifacts without the guidance of the corresponding spirits of the artifacts.
So Jia Wenyan decided to change her thinking.
That day, she brought Bai Huahua to the Forest of Steles Museum again, where she had returned empty-handed before.
As soon as she entered the museum's courtyard, she immediately found her old acquaintance.
"Huang Dongdong..."
[No need to say more, Grandpa Zhong Jingyun has already told me the purpose of your visit.]
【Come with me. 】
After Huang Dongdong finished speaking, he turned around and motioned for Jia Wenyan to follow.
"So Senior Jingyun Zhong didn't hibernate today?"
Upon hearing this, Jia Wenyan hurriedly followed.
Unlike his usual casual and unruly appearance, Huang Dongdong the cat looked terrifyingly serious today.
The change in temperament was like that from a Teddy Bear to a Border Collie, which made Jia Wenyan dazed.
At this moment, it is like an office clerk when the leader comes to inspect, with a serious look all over its body.
She wanted to ask more about Zhong Jingyun, the spirit of the Jingyun Bell, but before she could catch up with Huang Dongdong, she was teleported to a terrace covered by a starry sky as she stepped into the central area of the Beilin Museum.
"Is this... the spirit space of the Jingyun Bell?"
【Welcome, the child chosen by time. 】
\"Chosen by Time...Does this mean the Golden Eyes of Time?"
After hearing the sound, Jia Wenyan quickly came back to her senses from her dizziness and fixed her eyes on the old man who was fishing at the edge of the open air in the distance.
\"Are you... Senior Zhong Jingyun?"
Jia Wenyan walked forward and looked around.
The space she was in was a terrace enveloped by the starry sky.
The entire terrace adopts a corona-like design.
But unlike the corona that stands still in one place all year round, its lower corona is now rotating around and around like the hands of a clock.
At the same time, as this space
"Senior Zhong Jingyun, I am here..."
[I want to use my spirit space to improve my skills in the bronze field. ]
"Yes, you..."
[Don't forget that I am a spirit with the ability to tell time. Although I cannot tell others everything I see, I can see through the past or foresee a person's future.]
"So you brought me into the Spirit Dimension to agree to teach me?"
[After all, I am a spirit of a cultural relic born from the Donghuang culture. It won't do me any harm to teach you. What's more, what you are going to do now is to make up for the regrets of our spirits. But compared to your plan, I have a better choice.]
"Senior, you mean..."
[Although the little girl Shi Fengdan's method is effective, such a desperate approach is just a desperate way for them to fight for the freedom to return to their homeland.]
"But the problem is, if we don't do this, what else can we do..."
[Have you forgotten what I just said? We weapon spirits are spirits born from Donghuang culture, so as long as you can make all of us weapon spirits participating in the recall ceremony enveloped in a very rich Donghuang cultural atmosphere, you can reduce or even offset the consumption of weapon spirits by the recall ceremony.]
"But what kind of activity can allow us to collect so much cultural spiritual power at one time?"
Jia Wenyan was also a little troubled for a moment.
Having been with the weapon spirits for such a long time and understanding their survival and cultivation mechanisms, she had naturally thought about making weapon spirits such as the Three Kings Pot possess more powerful powers to make up for the consumption caused by the ritual.
But the problem is that the cultural spiritual power that each spirit can accumulate and absorb at the same time is limited.
Even a top-level spirit weapon like the Shi Feng Dan (Three Kings Pot) is no less capable in this respect.
What's more, even if we don't consider the absorption and conversion of energy, how can they collect so much energy in a short period of time?
Just relying on the cultural knowledge that tourists bring with them every day? As an old-fashioned spirit, Senior Zhong Jingyun must understand the tricks here.
Wait... Senior Zhong Jingyun... Jingyun Zhong...
"The bells of New Year's Eve!"
"Senior, do you want to..."
Jia Wenyan's eyes instantly brightened when she heard this.
[Just as you thought, my old bones have been sleeping for so long, it's time to stretch them out. ]
[After you finish replicating the Jingyun Bell, please help me hold a grand New Year's Eve ceremony on New Year's Eve.]
[But girl, I have already told you that you can let me take action, but your grandpa Zhong has to be more dignified when he comes back to the world at such an old age.]
"Of course, Grandpa Zhong, don't worry, as long as you are willing, I will definitely make this grand ceremony for you."
Yes, she is too obsessed with the museum's positioning.
Although it is true that most cultural relics rely on the attention of museum visitors to gather cultural spiritual power, there are also cultural relics that gather cultural spiritual power through other means, such as the red jade porcelain brocade box that sells cosmetics and the Jiaoweiqin performance.
The most representative feature of the Jingyun Bell, a top-tier national treasure, is its ringing sound that resounds throughout thousands of households on New Year's Eve.
Jingyun Bell is known as the best bell in the world and is the source of the New Year's Eve bells in Donghuang for nearly a hundred years. However, due to the deterioration of the bell itself in recent years, people no longer ring the Jingyun Bell to announce the arrival of the New Year as they did in the past.
So if Zhong Jingyun (Jingyun Zhong) was willing to help, they could easily collect enough energy, but the problem was that if she remembered correctly, the reason why Senior Zhong Jingyun fell into a deep sleep from time to time was because the spiritual power brought by the bell on New Year's Eve was too huge.
Moreover, if this tactic is used, it means that the Jingyun Bell must absorb a large amount of spiritual power in a short period of time and then release it in a short period of time.
This and that are just like those so-called big eater bloggers who induce vomiting after overeating every day, which is a behavior that is extremely harmful to the spirit.
Besides, the bell on New Year's Eve was not the original function of Jingyun Bell. This huge amount of energy made it necessary for it to sleep for a long time to digest the spiritual power in its body.
This is the result of all aspects of the weakening after humans changed the bell ringing to recording. And not to mention that this time Zhong Jingyun had to output the gathered spiritual power in a short time.
At that moment, Jia Wenyan came to her senses and couldn't imagine what kind of harm such an action would bring to the spirit of the Jingyun Bell.
However, Zhong Jingyun, the person involved, smiled and said:
[Don’t think too much. It’s true that the bells on New Year’s Eve will put me into a long sleep, but in the more than a thousand years since I was born, my happiest days were in the 1950s when the Donghuang people used my voice as a signal to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new year.]
[I am very happy that I can be valued like this after a thousand years, but due to my thousands of years of wear and tear, people today no longer let me ring out on New Year's Eve like they did in the past.]
[I know this is a compromise people made to protect me, but compared to hearing past recordings, I still hope that my current voice can continue to resound.]
[As for the cost of the ritual, although this practice may cause me to fall into a deep sleep, if I can use it to bring back my fellow tribesmen who are stranded outside, my deep sleep is better than the loss of others.]
[Besides, even if this didn't happen, I still hope that you can help me regain the happiness I had back then by reproducing it.]
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