"Please do as you please, please do as you please..." Wang Yao chuckled with Master Lu, but his eyes were fixed on Master Lu reopening the jade box. He carefully held the jade box, sat cross-legged on the ground, and then brought the jade box close to his face and nose.
Immediately afterwards, Master Lu took a deep breath through his nose, and all the green powder in the jade box was inhaled into his nose. Then, Master Lu gently put the jade box down, put his hands together in a gesture similar to the mudra of the Red God of Wealth in Buddhism, and closed his eyes without moving.
Wang Yao stared at Master Lu for a long time. He could vaguely feel that Master Lu's divine power was surging rapidly throughout his body, but apart from the occasional bulges around his body, which looked like a fish swimming rapidly under his skin, it had no effect on the outside world.
The aura of a true god was concealed so well that no one could detect anything unusual without careful observation.
After looking at it for a while without figuring it out, Wang Yao sat down again and took out Master Lu's scroll, intending to read it quickly. He didn't plan to switch to puppetry, so he wasn't very interested in Master Lu's training room. He just wanted to kill time and wait for Master Lu to use the effects of the Kan Jing San.
Unexpectedly, when he opened Master Lu's scroll, he was immediately captivated by its contents.
First of all, Master Lu's scroll was made in a very magical way. It was like an animation drawn on silk, with all the text and images in it moving. Wang Yao immediately guessed why Master Lu wanted to make his insights into the form of a scroll.
There's no need to turn pages, so the smooth flow of the entire experience isn't interrupted. All the viewer has to do is slowly unfold the scroll as the experience progresses. If they encounter something they don't understand, they can simply stop the scroll from unfolding and it will continuously replay the content that has already been opened, making it very easy to understand.
Secondly, this scroll is indeed Master Lu's research on puppetry, not a so-called method for practicing puppetry. Obviously, Master Lu understands Wang Yao's thoughts and knows that he has no interest in practicing puppetry. Therefore, Master Lu simply shared his thoughts from his own practice.
This is exactly what Wang Yao needs now. It will not only help him to further understand puppetry, but also be of great value to his understanding of his own unique skill as the Matchmaker, and even to learn from the essence of some puppetry techniques, just as Master Lu said when he gave his insights to Wang Yao.
Wang Yao thought that Master Lu originally intended to pass on this insight to his descendants. After all, none of Master Lu's descendants were willing to inherit his mantle. And how could Master Lu, who had painstakingly studied puppetry for many years, be willing to let his many insights during his cultivation be buried so easily?
Even if it can only help the younger generation, it would be good. So Master Lu specially created this thing so that it would not affect the younger generation from taking other cultivation paths, but could also provide them with some help and demonstrate the wonders of puppetry. It can be said that he had a lot of good intentions.
It is unclear whether it was because Master Lu's descendants simply didn't value it, or because Master Lu didn't have time to give it to them, which allowed Wang Yao to reap a free advantage.
The opening of the article immediately captivated Wang Yao: "What is a puppet?" The article explained that a puppet has two typical characteristics: one is that the purpose of a puppet's existence is to fulfill the will of its master, and the second characteristic is that a puppet must have one and only one exclusive master.
In his reflections, Master Lu provided a detailed analysis of the second point, believing that a person can only be considered to have truly entered the realm of puppetry when the puppets they create can only be driven by a single master.
Conversely, if any object can be used by anyone, it can only be called a toy or tool, not a puppet. Furthermore, the maker can only be called a craftsman, not a practitioner of puppetry.
Wang Yao finally understood when he read this that Tongxuan's paper figures and paper donkeys, as well as his own "Immortal's Sorrow," were just playthings and not real puppets. A real puppet can only have one master, but... wouldn't a puppet that can only have one master be easier to make?
If something can be made that anyone can use, wouldn't that place higher demands on the maker?
However, Xin Di immediately refuted Wang Yao's assumptions. In fact, this matter is quite easy to understand if you think about it carefully. Making something that anyone can use is extremely simple. Just like making a pair of chopsticks, anyone can use them to eat. What difficulty is there?
However, if you want to make a pair of chopsticks that can only be used by one person, and no one else can use them even if they pick them up, then it becomes very difficult.
For example, his "Immortal's Sorrow" can be ridden by any immortal, but if he wanted to limit it to only Wang Yao, the difficulty of making it would increase exponentially. Without knowing puppetry, he really couldn't think of any way to make such an "Immortal's Sorrow".
This made him think of shadow puppets, and the reasoning became even clearer. If anyone could be the master of a shadow puppet, it could no longer be called a puppet; it would only be a fickle and treacherous person. Only a shadow puppet that is loyal to a single master is truly terrifying.
Having explained what a puppet is, Xin De then discussed mechanisms, expanding the scope of mechanisms from hunters' traps to military strategies, believing that anything that helps a puppet achieve its goals is a mechanism.
This puzzled Wang Yao greatly. If the scope of the mechanism was so large, wouldn't the mechanical puppet be covered in mechanisms all over its body? What about the core?
Immediately afterwards, the experience began to categorize the organs, just like a battle. What is the objective of the battle? There must be a core organ to accomplish it. And in order to help the core organ achieve its objective, there must be other organs to assist it.
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