Volume 1 The Empire of the Morning Chapter 186 One, two, three, talisman!
Volume 1: Empire in the Morning Chapter 186 One, two, three, Talisman Arrow!
The boulders at the bottom of the shallow stream trembled slightly, as if they were about to move but never moved. They only struggled in vain to create some small whirlpools beside them, and then rose up, passing through the dense water plants, carrying air bubbles attached to the bottom of the grass blades.
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"This proves that this talisman is effective, but the effect is too weak, so it must rely on the buoyancy of the stream to show it at all." The fourth senior brother looked at the string of pearl-like bubbles in the stream and asked calmly: "Little junior brother, what are you doing?
I appreciate the idea of being willing to apply what I have learned about talismans into practical things instead of just talking about it. But I don’t quite understand why you require this wind talisman to be so small. Where are you going to use it?
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Ning Que was silent for a moment and then said: "I plan to carve this talisman on the arrow branch, so it must be small."
The fourth senior brother turned back and looked at him quietly and said, "What a good idea."
Ning Que laughed, and before his smile could fully spread, he listened to the fourth senior brother's next words.
"...It's a pity that it's still wishful thinking."
He was surprised and asked: "Why?"
The fourth brother said: "The armor is engraved with talismans to increase defense, and the swords are engraved with talismans to increase damage. Has anyone ever thought of engraving talismans on arrows? Since ancient times, countless people have had this idea, but they have all failed."
Ning Que frowned and asked, "Why did it fail?"
"There are thousands of reasons, but there is only one real explanation, because all attempts to engrave talismans on arrows have not been successful, so at least as of today, this is a good idea that is destined to fail."
"Failure is the mother of success."
"Junior brother, what you say makes sense, but don't forget that there are many children born to mothers who also fail."
"It doesn't matter if you try again, right?"
"Then you must redesign the talisman. Now your talisman can only be carved on the beams of the Daming Palace. Even if you have the ability to turn the beams of the Daming Palace into an arrow, where can you find such a thick bow string?
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"Fourth Senior Brother..."
"Um?"
"I just realized today that you speak very meanly."
"For a technical Talisman master like me, what matters is engraving on extremely thin areas."
"Good answer."
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Carving talismans on feather arrows to increase their power and range is not an idea that Ning Que only has now. In fact, he had had this idea as early as last year when he heard the old man Lu Qingchen talk about the secrets of cultivation during his trip to the grassland.
Years of training in Minshan and the border fortress have given him excellent archery skills. Whenever he thinks about how to fight against strong practitioners, he will naturally think of bows and arrows. If the Talisman can act on feather arrows
, then in the battle with strong practitioners, a safe distance and sudden attack can be guaranteed.
During the trip last year, when the old man Lu Qingchen heard his idea, he said on the spot that it was not possible - the feather arrow was too light to be engraved with talismans, and the attached vitality dissipated too quickly. Unless these two thorny problems could be solved, the feather arrow would
It cannot become the weapon of choice for practitioners.
At that time, Ning Que had never come into contact with the Tao of Talisman, so he didn't think much about it. However, as the descendant of the Talisman Master Yan Se, looking at so many idiots and masters in the back of the academy, he always felt that he was using the thin arrows.
It is not completely impossible to carve talismans on it. If it can be successful, wouldn't all problems be solved?
Although he was severely beaten by the Fourth Senior Brother at the river bank, Ning Que did not lose all his confidence. After returning to Chang'an City, he broke into the south gate of Haotian Dao to look for his master, pestering him for three days and two nights, and got some
After giving instructions, I returned to the old pen studio and thought for a long time with my pen and ink ruler, and finally reduced the wind charm to be engraved on the front to the minimum.
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Late at night, the lights flickered.
Sangsang, who was wrapped in white cloth, slowly floated up from the bed.
The white cloth is densely covered with long and thin strips of paper.
Some weird lines can be vaguely seen on the paper.
A low whimper came from the closed window.
The pale Ning Que stood beside the bed, looking at her with faint eyes.
The picture looks extremely weird and terrifying.
Because he had drawn more than forty wind talismans in a row, Ning Que's mental power in his consciousness was almost exhausted, and his face was extremely pale. But when he looked at the slowly floating little maid and the paper talismans stuck to her body, his eyes were filled with emotion.
It's full of joy.
As Sang Sang's thin body floated in the air, he moved his hands up and down and said with emotion: "What is a trapeze? This is called a trapeze. If you are going to do magic, how do I know who Liu Qian is?"
Sangsang, who was suspended in mid-air, frowned and said, "Master, I don't know who Liu Qian is either."
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The next day when he arrived at the back hill of the academy, Ning Que took out the slender piece of talisman paper, handed it to the sixth senior brother with great solemnity, and said, "Senior brother, whether this can be done or not depends on your skills."
Brother Six took the talisman and looked at it doubtfully for a long time. Then he picked up an arrow from the corner of the room that Ning Que had thrown here a few days ago. He gathered the talisman into a cylinder and attached it tightly to the thin arrow shaft. He found that
Just close.
"Although the size is suitable, I still feel that it will fail if I stay for a while."
Brother Six took out the fine carving knife, sat in a bright place by the window, and began to carve according to the lines of the talisman paper covered on the arrow shaft. His fingers were very steady, not shaking at all. The knife movement seemed slow, but in fact it was precise.
To the extreme, we don’t expect to be elegant and unrestrained but only seek practical results. The hair-like blade tip perfectly replicates the lines on the talisman paper.
After the talisman was carved, Ning Que picked up the arrow and faced the skylight outside the window. Looking at the delicate and beautiful lines on the thin arrow shaft, he couldn't help being shocked and sincerely praised: "Sixth Brother, your craftsmanship is so good.
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Sixth Brother put the fine carving knife into the leather box and said with a simple smile: "I am a craftsman."
The two walked out of the room and came to the shore of Jinghu Lake.
Ning Que took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and placed the feathered arrow on the boxwood bow. He loosened and tightened the five fingers of his left hand slightly, and released his mind power from the sea of consciousness to the talisman lines on the arrow branches. For ordinary talisman masters,
His telekinesis is the key, and the runes he writes are locks. Only his telekinesis can inspire the power of the runes.
With a buzzing sound, the tight boxwood bowstring bounced back.
Almost at the same time, telekinesis inspired the runes on the arrow shaft.
A gust of breeze came out between the hard bow and then quickly dispersed, but the arrow... flew away to no one knows where.
There were no traces of arrows flying on the calm, mirror-like lake.
There are no traces of arrows flying in the mountains and forests across the lake.
Under the clear blue sky, there was no trace of arrows flying by.
Wherever you walk, climb, or fly, there must be traces, so where did this arrow engraved with the wind talisman disappear in an instant?
Ning Que put down the hardwood bow in a daze and turned around to cast a questioning look at his sixth senior brother.
The Sixth Senior Brother spread out his hands, his honest face full of bewilderment.
At this moment, the Seventh Senior Sister walked out of the square pavilion in the center of Jinghu Lake. Her eyebrows were erect and she was furious. Her head and body were covered with tiny sawdust, as if she had just crawled out of a lumberyard warehouse.
Ning Que couldn't help laughing when he saw Seventh Senior Sister looking so embarrassed, thinking that Senior Sister looked like a silly girl.
The Sixth Senior Brother has been making weapons and carving talismans for many years, and he has a simple and honest temperament but a sharp vision. He has already seen the Seventh Junior Sister's tightly clenched right hand trembling with anger, holding a cold arrow cluster made of metal in his palm, and his body suddenly stiffened slightly.
Feeling slightly cold, he turned around and left without saying a word. He entered his blacksmith's room and closed the door tightly.
Ning Que still didn't know what was going on. He glanced back at the closed blacksmith room in confusion, then turned back and shouted to the Seventh Senior Sister in the pavilion: "Senior Sister, have you seen an arrow?"
Seventh Senior Sister suppressed her anger, forced a smile and said, "What arrow?"
"It's just an arrow...with a fancy shaft."
The Seventh Senior Sister smiled, stretched out the arrow cluster she was holding tightly in her right hand, and asked, "Is it this?"
Ning Que was surprised and said: "That's it... Hey, why is there only one arrow cluster left? Where did the pole go?"
The Seventh Senior Sister gently brushed the hair on her cheek, brushed away the sawdust mixed in her hair, and said with a charming smile: "Here."
Ning Que finally came to his senses, turned around without hesitation and ran towards the blacksmith's house, shouting loudly: "Sixth Brother! Help! Open the door quickly!"
Before he reached the blacksmith's room, Ning Que grunted and stopped running.
He turned his head with difficulty and looked behind him, his face turned pale and he almost cried.
There were more than a dozen embroidery needles on his buttocks, and the needles penetrated his flesh.
In the pavilion, the Seventh Senior Sister lightly picked up the embroidery frame and said with a sneer: "Swords and needles, now it's the arrow's turn! If I don't teach you a lesson, I don't know if you will use firearms in the future!"
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After a small interlude, the innovative work of developing talisman arrows still has to continue, and because of the commotion by the lake, there are two more onlookers watching the excitement. Chen Pipi has just finished delivering food to the Matsushita chess fanatic, and there is nothing to do for the time being.
, Seventh Senior Sister, because in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, she had to always be prepared for another rain of sawdust above her head, and it was really difficult for her to concentrate on embroidery, so she simply put down her embroidery frame and came over to watch.
"Even if the arrow shaft can be engraved with talismans, the power of the wind talisman plus the string force is simply not a force that the arrow shaft itself can withstand."
The Seventh Senior Sister held a pot lid and patted the remaining sawdust off her shoulders. She looked at Ning Que and the Sixth Senior Brother who were concentrating on preparing for the experiment and said, "If we don't solve this problem, no matter what we try, it will be useless."
"Has anyone tried this before? Yes. Did they succeed? No. Are those former talisman masters more talented than you, Ning Que? Yes. Have they succeeded? No. So I don't know why you still insist on this idea.
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Chen Pipi was holding the fine iron pot for serving food, shook his head and said, "You are just wasting your time and life."
The two onlookers seemed to be talking about ideas all at once, but in fact they never gave up any opportunity to undermine Ning Que's self-confidence. Ning Que didn't care, he just drew his bow and arrow and said: "Ready."
"The fourth experiment of an unprecedented new type of talisman arrow, the countdown begins, three, two, one, launch!"
Chen Pipi shouted loudly. When he shouted the word "launch", he immediately raised the stainless steel pot in his hand to cover his face. It was just because his face was too fat and round. Although the stainless steel pot was already huge, it was still exposed.
With a ring of meat on the outside, it looks extremely funny.
The Seventh Senior Sister was faster than him. When he shouted "three words", she had already raised the pot lid with both hands and tried her best to protect her beautiful face.
Even Ning Que, after shooting the talisman arrow, jumped behind his sixth senior brother immediately, using his senior brother's body as strong as a mountain to block any possible accidents.
The previous three tests of talisman arrows had extremely tragic consequences. The white-bellied fish on the lake and the bloody blackbird in the forest were direct evidence of this tragedy.
The sixth brother did not cover his face and carefully searched for traces of the talisman arrow in the sky. As a weapons developer and manufacturer, he has never lacked this adventurous spirit. After looking at it for a while, he shook his head and said: "Okay."
Seventh Senior Sister carefully poked half of her face out from behind the pot lid and asked, "Senior Brother, where is the arrow?"
Brother Six pointed to the dense forest in the distance on the other side of the lake and said, "It seems to have gone there."
Chen Pipi put down the stainless steel pot, laughed and said, "That's where the two senior brothers play the piano and flute."
The Seventh Senior Sister waved her hands and said, "It's okay. Once these two junior brothers start playing the harp and flute, they won't remember anything. Let alone being covered in sawdust, even if their butts are pierced by arrows, they won't have any reaction."
After hearing this, Ning Que trembled slightly and said to the sixth senior brother: "It seems that the material of the arrow shaft is indeed not good."
The sixth brother took out the last talisman arrow from the quiver and asked, "Do you want to try again?"
Chen Pipi shook his head and said: "It makes no sense. If Ning Que can successfully develop the Talisman Arrow, then he can definitely start a sect. There is no need to learn the true meaning of Talisman Dao."
"I can tell you are scolding me." Ning Que shrugged and said, "But I still want to give it a try."
Seeing Chen Pipi and Seventh Senior Sister nervously lifting the pot and lid again, he smiled and shook his head and said, "This time I will try it right where I am without covering my face."
After removing the arrow cluster from the talisman arrow, Ning Que released the power of his mind in the sea of consciousness, directly activating the runes on the arrow shaft.
I saw those beautiful and delicate lines on the arrow shaft suddenly light up, the surrounding heaven and earth energy quickly gathered, and a breeze emerged out of nowhere, twisting and turning around the slender arrow shaft.
Ning Que stared at the arrow shaft and used his mind to carefully sense the direction and pattern of the wind flow.
Suddenly, everyone could see with their naked eyes that the talisman on the slender arrow shaft sank deeply into the arrow shaft for some reason. The wood that made up the arrow shaft tensed instantly, and then tore apart into extremely fine strands.
Wood fiber!
There was a pop, smoke and dust rose from the lakeside, and sawdust flew into the sky.
It caused a lot of coughing.
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Ning Que dusted off the sawdust on his body and said: "Ordinary materials cannot be used to make talisman arrows, so they must be replaced."
"What to change?"
"Use fine steel."
Chen Pipi shook his head and said: "The fine steel material can naturally withstand the tearing force of the wind, but the problem is, how to shoot an arrow made of fine steel? How can there be such a bow in the world?"
"The bow can be solved by using an iron bow and string... but the problem is that the fine steel arrow is so heavy that even with my ability, I can't shoot it."
Senior Sister Seven asked: "Will the fine steel arrows engraved with talismans be lighter?"
Ning Que shook his head and said: "Fourth Senior Brother and I tried it a few days ago, and even if it is light, it is limited."
Sixth Brother suddenly said: "I can use fine steel to make hollow tubes."
Chen Pipi said: "In order to enhance your perception of the arrow runes, I suggest you add some silver into it."
Sixth Senior Brother nodded and said: "This is not difficult."
Ning Que's eyes gradually brightened.
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