Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 37: Root carving

The little thing is very curious about his new home. For her, many things in the human world are so new, so she has to touch everything.

An inkstone attracted her attention. She walked over, climbed onto the inkstone and looked left and right. She accidentally fell into the ink pool, and when she came out again, she was completely black.

Tang Jie laughed out loud. The little guy was a little angry and shook his head. The next moment, the whole room was filled with ink.

"...Okay, you're cruel!" Tang Jie, who was speechless looking at the room full of black spots, took the little one out of the inkstone and was about to fetch water for her to take a bath, but saw that the little one just waved With a wave of his hand, all the ink on his body had automatically dissipated, leaving only a white, tender and cute little face, looking at Tang Jie with a smile.

"Although her combat effectiveness is a bit low, she still has a lot of tricks." Tang Jie touched her face and said with a smile, "I see how babbling you are, I will call you Yiyi from now on, okay?"

The little thing turned somersaults excitedly when he heard that he had a name, and then nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, just stay here." Tang Jie said and went out.

"Bah bah bah!" Seeing Tang Jie about to leave, Yiyi screamed anxiously.

Tang Jie smiled and said: "Don't worry, I'm not leaving, I'm just going to make a nest for you. I guess you don't like living in a flower pot either."

After a while, Tang Jie entered the house holding a large piece of wood.

He hollowed out the wood, stuffed cotton inside, sewed a small pillow and quilt with the cloth, and hung a curtain at the entrance of the hole, thus forming a small wooden house.

Patting the quilt, Tang Jie said: "Okay, from now on this will be your nest. You can sleep here if you have nothing to do in the future. You can play in the house when I'm not around, but you can't go out casually. If someone comes , you have to turn into a flower and stay in the flowerpot, and no one can find you, you know?"

The little guy nodded and turned into a small white flower, standing quietly in the basin.

"That's it!" Tang Jie smiled.

The next moment, the little thing had transformed back into human form, jumped into Tang Jie's arms, and became intimate with him.

After playing around for a while, the little guy seemed a little tired and fell asleep directly in Tang Jie's hand. Tang Jie carefully put Lu'e into the hut and covered her with a quilt.

Then Tang Jie sat alone by the bed and began to reflect on what happened.

When he first met Lu'e, Tang Jieguang thought he had coaxed her into his hands. When he actually got her, Tang Jie realized that with the appearance of this little thing, there might be a lot of trouble later.

After carefully sorting out the possible problems, Tang Jie thought about it in his mind and gradually came up with an idea. Seeing that it was getting late, Tang Jie looked at the little guy who was sleeping peacefully, said "good night" softly, and then fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Tang Jie got up early. After doing things in the garden, Tang Jie found some old tree roots, took a knife and started cutting on the roots. After removing the excess branches and leaves, Tang Jie began Carving on the roots of the tree one by one.

One of the boys was curious when he saw it and asked Tang Jie what he was doing. Tang Jie answered Gen Diao.

We have been relying on gardening to attract attention for a long time, and Wei Tianchong's interest in gardening is no longer as high as before. Now Tang Jie plans to use this sculpture to attract Wei Tianchong's attention again.

But the most important thing is that with the fame of this carving, Tang Jie can move a lot of wood into his house in the future. In this way, he can well cover up the nest made for small things and make it Less obtrusive. Although Tang Jie's cabin rarely had guests, he had to be careful of surprises, and this would also help Tang Jie to enroll in school in the future.

After going to the academy, Tang Jie will no longer be able to work as a gardener, which means that he will lose the position he is good at, so Tang Jie must find a way out for himself again.

Root carving is a good choice. This thing can be used wherever you go. Just dig a few pieces of wood to use it.

If you do well, you can sell it to make some money to support your family. If you do well, you can give it as a gift. People with special skills are always more likely to be popular.

In addition, root carvings are also useful for cultivating immortals. In cultivating immortals, there is a miscellaneous subject called puppetry. Through the combination of puppet making and formation formation, a machine man with combat capabilities is formed, in which carving is used.

In fact, art has always had practical value in cultivating immortals. Whether it is calligraphy, painting, music, or sculpture, they can all find a place to exert their value in the world of cultivating immortals.

Ruxu Muyang originally drew a horse with just a few strokes, and then used magic to bring it to life, which reflects his superb painting skills.

If you can't even draw well and the horses you draw look like donkeys, even if you come back to life, it's just a joke.

As for characters, they are the basic need for drawing symbols. If you write a character for a law, the characters on it will be crooked and appear out of thin air. A grinning word "kill" may make people laugh before the effect is exerted.

Therefore, in the academies under the major immortal sects, in addition to basic immortal arts, content about music, chess, calligraphy and painting also exists, and has practical significance-all kinds of things are available in the world of immortality, except for illiteracy.

Tang Jie has been in the Wei Mansion for more than a year. Apart from formations, he also practices writing and painting when he has nothing to do. He does not have to be amazing, but at least he must be neat and presentable. It is said that some students in the college are so poor in liberal arts that they cannot graduate even after entering the Immortal Sect.

Tang Jie didn't want to be unable to graduate because of his ugly handwriting.

As for the current root carving, Tang Jie is considering learning the puppet technique in the future, and also wants to integrate his knowledge of formations into it.

Array formation is actually a very wide-ranging knowledge. In addition to military formations and mountain guarding formations, formations are almost all required for alchemy, weapon making and puppet mechanisms, but the directions and characteristics are different.

Xu Muyang is mainly good at the Heaven and Earth Formation, and is not very good at other types. However, for the same reason, Tang Jie can learn and research on his own.

Tang Jie is not interested in puppetry, but the basic sculpting ability it requires is currently the only thing that has something to do with gardening. Others, such as practicing calligraphy and painting, have nothing to do with gardening. He wants to do it at work. In this matter, the Wei family would never praise him for his ambition.

In addition, puppetry and the technological systems of later generations are also relatively similar in form. For Tang Jie, this means that he may have more development possibilities in this area.

Although he doesn't know how to root carve now, there are still two years left until he enters school. Two years is enough time for him to roughly master this craft.

The new pattern indeed attracted Wei Tianchong's attention again - there are stone carvings in Qixia Realm, but root carvings are extremely rare.

Watching Tang Jie turning the tree trunk full of roots over and over in his hands to create shapes, Wei Tianchong felt so new that he actually picked up an old tree root and started learning from it.

Tang Jie taught him how to deal with these tree roots.

Different from stone carvings, root carvings have higher requirements in material selection. The carver needs to skillfully utilize the natural form of the material itself to make it. The emphasis is on "one-third of the workmanship, seventy-ones of nature". In addition, real root carvings pursue strange and eccentric shapes. Tree roots that generally grow on plains have sufficient nutrients, grow quickly, and have loose wood fibers, making it difficult to form strange shapes. Only roots that grow in harsh environments, such as those that grow in the back of the sun or in the crevices of cliffs and cliffs, and have survived through lightning strikes, fires, ant erosion, stone pressure, people stepping on them, and knife chops, will suffer from insufficient light due to insufficient light. Lack of soil, water, and nutrients will lead to deformation over time. In addition, the materials also need to be processed in various ways before engraving.

But what Tang Jie pursues is not art but practicality, so he doesn't need to care about any of this. In his eyes, root carving is "70% artificial, 30% natural."

Art focuses on weird shapes and rich imagination, but puppets focus on simulation and realism, and space must be reserved for the formation and carving. The two are similar in shape but different in quality.

But no matter which one, it is not easy to do.

Sculpture itself is a very comprehensive art, which not only requires the artist to have strong carving skills and art appreciation ability, but also requires a certain amount of painting knowledge.

Tang Jie's artistic skills were obviously very limited. He couldn't meet any of the above conditions. He looked at a piece of wood for a long time, but couldn't see anything interesting. Finally, he cut out a small wooden man after a long time. , the head occupies more than one-third, and the two slender legs composed of roots look ugly no matter how you look at them. If this thing was activated with a refining formation so that it could walk freely, it would probably be a deformed child, and it would probably fall to the ground within two steps.

At this point, Tang Jie could only sigh helplessly, comforting himself that at least he still had a preference for the formation. He could not expect everyone in the world to love him, but this plan seemed to be going bankrupt. Sure enough, some plans, no matter how well they were formulated, lacked strong support. None of the execution methods work.

Looking back to the side, I saw the young master Wei Tianchong cutting a piece of tree root with a disc-shaped protrusion. Not long after, a small turtle appeared in the palm of his hand. , although this little turtle has a lot of flaws, at least the structure is complete and it doesn't look too out of shape.

Tang Jie was stunned: "Have you learned it before?"

He was so surprised that he stopped even calling him Master. ~IndoMTL.com~ No, this is the first time, it’s quite interesting. "Wei Tianchong looked at his work and admired it endlessly.

"Genius..." Tang Jie groaned feebly.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that Wei Tianchong would be talented in this area.

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From that day on, Wei Tianchong followed Tang Jie to play root carving every day.

Different from Tang Jie who was "preferred by the formation", this young master really loves carving, which is completely in line with Xu Muyang's saying that if you have love, you will have talent.

At first, Wei Tianchong was a little worried that his mother would teach him to play with things and lose his ambition after knowing this. Later, after hearing from Tang Jie that this was one of the foundations of cultivating immortals, he indulged in root carving every day without any scruples.

Sure enough, after hearing about this, Mrs. Lu went to consult Master Lu specifically. After confirming that it was correct, she just said, "Don't miss other classes," and never took care of her son again.

For her, it didn't matter which path her son took to cultivate immortality. What was important was that he finally had his own pursuit and worked hard for it, so she also appreciated Tang Jie more and more.

Those who can make their children improve are good people!

Tang Jie's mood became increasingly depressed during this period.

As the time spent carving together increased, Wei Tianchong's skill in root carving improved by leaps and bounds. At first he could only carve some small wooden gadgets, but within a few months, Wei Tianchong had begun to carve The entire tree trunk is carved into a tall guy.

A few months later, Wei Tianchong's first large-scale wood carving was completed. It was a striking white-fronted giant tiger, which was carved lifelike.

Tang Jie has no doubt that if it is paired with a suitable training formation, it will turn into a real man-eating tiger.

Seeing Wei Tianchong place his first large-scale work in the flower garden and decorate it with petals, letting everyone watch it proudly, Tang Jie quietly crushed the big-headed puppet in his hand.

My heart is broken.