Yinglongzhai.
Shang Shuliang was crouching in front of the case, carefully carving a shadow puppet.
jingle--
Wind chimes echoed in front of the door.
The two maids standing in front of the altar spoke at the same time.
"Welcome, sir."
Huhu——
The fragrant wind suddenly rose, and a man and two women stepped out of the boat.
The two maids were stunned when they saw the appearance of the three people.
When they recalled it again, they could not remember what the three of them looked like at all.
"Nice puppet."
The Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor looked at the two maids. Although they are wearing ordinary people's clothes, you can tell from their skin color and joints that they are two leather puppets.
Dongfang Yunqi glanced at her but said nothing.
After making a pact with the Demon Emperor, the two of them wanted to see off their guests.
But the Scarlet Ling Devil Emperor seemed not to understand and had no intention of leaving. He just sat on the boat and fought for their tea and snacks.
Although Henghua verbally expelled him three times, it showed that she was thick-skinned and didn't say anything more.
"Eh, human skin?" Fu Henghua also discovered the mystery of the two maids.
After taking a closer look, he smiled at the two women and said: "The person who saved you has good skills. Unfortunately, your bodies are severely damaged, and the spliced cortex is not as good as the original skin - doesn't he know how to 'human skin transplantation'? "
With a few words, the second maid was so frightened that she stepped back.
Knowing that they were shadow puppets, there were many monks nearby. But no one knows the material of their shadow puppets or even the appearance of their deaths.
Is the enemy coming?
But the bastard who raped and killed the two of us back then has been killed by the Lord!
Huhu——
A gust of wind blew past the two girls. When they came to their senses, Fu Henghua had already entered the room.
"Mr. Shang, business is coming, can you come out and see me?"
Looking at the interior decoration, there are exquisite shadow puppets hanging everywhere. In addition to beasts, sacred birds and other animal figures, there are also human-shaped shadow puppets such as men, women, old and young.
"These puppets are good, with the power of the third to fifth levels of foundation building. With the special venue blessing of 'Yinglong Zhai', fighting with the owner here is no less than fighting with a golden elixir monk - Mr. Shang has already Have you understood the field?"
The two girls followed in, and Dongfang Yunqi scolded: "Don't use your talent as a mage casually. In this strange world, it will only arouse the vigilance and suspicion of others."
The Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor walked beside him with a smile and said nothing.
The seeds of disaster in people's hearts have fallen, and the steps to create trouble have begun.
She didn't care about what happened next.
You can succeed or you can fail.
She values the bet between herself and Fu Henghua fifteen hundred years later. Another significance of this bet is that it is her life-saving talisman. With this bet, even if Xuanyuan City and Immortal Dao were victorious, he could still survive. And if the devil wins, doesn't that mean he wins?
The Great Demon Lord Yuanshan knows how to jump ship when he is at a disadvantage, and she, the Demon Emperor, naturally knows this better.
Alerted by the movement outside, Shang Shuliang hurriedly came out of the workroom.
Seeing the handsome men and beauties standing in the lobby, he was completely out of the usual mood of admiring the beautiful things, and quickly activated the hanging shadow puppets one after another.
"Roar--"
"Ouch——"
"Bold monster, please die quickly!"
Divine beasts and strange beasts surrounded the three of them, and dozens of monk puppets activated their Taoist spells.
Dongfang Yunqi was about to raise her hand, but was caught by the Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor: "Sister, please be patient. Let's see how he responds."
But the girl looked indifferent: "Let go of your hand."
Looking at her hand that was still subconsciously squeezing Dongfang Yunqi, she explained with a smile: "I'm used to it, I'm used to it."
Dongfang Yunqi's eyes were expressionless, and she was very eager to practice the Taiyin Immortal Technique. She will do what Grandma Taiyin did in the past.
Resisting the urge to release "Moon Lotus", Dongfang Yunqi went to see Fu Henghua.
He didn't even see him reciting any incantations. With just a snap of his fingers, the surrounding shadow puppets turned around and surrounded Shang Shuliang.
"It's indeed rude that we came without saying hello." Henghua Shiran walked over. A general puppet silently brought a chair and asked him to sit opposite Shang Shuliang.
Shang Shuliang stared at Fu Henghua, still unable to believe that the shadow puppet he had spent hundreds of years preparing had turned against him.
Golden elixir?
You can't take control of the Golden elixir realm?
At this moment, Shang Shuliang could feel it.
Within these puppets of their own, their own spiritual consciousness is still sealed. But for some reason, I couldn't control its actions.
Holding back his anger and panic, he asked in a deep voice.
"Why are you here, Your Excellency?"
"For a business deal, I need the owner to quickly make a set of puppets and perform a play the day after tomorrow."
In addition to making puppets for people, Shang Shuliang also has another obvious business line - going to major families to perform "performances". His shadow puppet skills are lifelike, and he rehearses them according to his own script, which is quite popular with some small families nearby. When an old lady of a family celebrates her birthday or a deceased person is buried, Shang Shuliang will be invited to perform.
Therefore, he had the money to open a shadow puppet studio and was quite able to live in this area. But he himself also knew that in the eyes of those family monks, he was nothing more than a "vaudeville artist".
"the day after tomorrow?"
Shang Shuliang frowned.
"I'm a bit pressed for time."
"That's why I hurriedly rushed to place the order," the young man said lazily, resting his hand on his cheek, "I believe in your master's craftsmanship, and if you work without sleep for two days, you will definitely be able to make it in time."
Shang Shuliang's face darkened.
Sleepless?
You can summon people!
But power is stronger than people.
He swallowed his anger and said: "Is it a red or white matter? I need to make special modifications and arrangements to the stage, screens, etc. Also, do I want to collect the stage when I return? Those shadow puppets belong to them."
"I want to collect it and keep it. You are only responsible for the workmanship and interpretation. In addition, it is neither a white matter nor a red matter. Normally, a scene is not so particular."
Ordinary drama.
Shang Shuliang breathed a sigh of relief, this is easier.
"The script and character design are all provided by me. You will be responsible for processing and performing."
"Okay, I'll take this order."
Henghua nodded with satisfaction and continued: "In terms of remuneration, you don't have to worry."
"Those things can be avoided." Shang Shuliang looked at the puppets around him and felt a little heartbroken. This was all his own hard work.
"You just give me back these puppets."
Henghua waved his hand, and the puppets returned to hang up on the surrounding walls.
"I didn't seize your sovereignty, I just used magic to suppress it and force it."
Fu Henghua hooked his fingers, and dense silver threads appeared around Shang Shuliang.
"This is the 'Suspended Puppet Thread', one of my self-created puppet techniques. I will pass it on to you as part of the reward."
"The second reward is that I will forget your private dealings with the devil - Chiyuan, I have helped you."
Shang Shuliang's expression really changed, and he subconsciously summoned the puppet to attack again.
"Huh?"
The Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor became energetic.
"Are you connected to the devil?"
Looking at Shang Shuliang carefully, the Demon Emperor slowly shook his head.
"I haven't heard of it. I haven't seen the corresponding list in the Demonic Way. Who cultivated the secret agent?"
There are many factions within the Demonic Path, and each of them acts independently to develop secrets in the Immortal Path. In order to prevent accidental injury to one of their own, the higher-ups of the Demonic Path have a relatively public list. But each family has its own private plan, and it is impossible to share all informants and secret moves. Therefore, the Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor suspected that he was a secret child cultivated by others.
The Demon Emperor looked at Henghua: No wonder he changed his polite attitude. It turned out that he already knew that this man had an affair with the devil.
"The involvement is not that deep. It's just a little deal with the Great Demon Lord Yuanshan. Regarding your wife's matter, I can solve it."
"What?"
"Can you save Madam?"
The two maids at the door exclaimed, and Shang Shuliang couldn't hide his shock.
Does this person even know this?
Henghua smiled proudly: "Yuanshan is just a little trick. His method is nothing more than teaching you to improve the puppet and attach it to the living soul in the form of a soul puppet. But this kind of existence cannot last long. The living soul is comatose and sleeps all year round, and when it wakes up it is very dangerous. Not much. But I can give your wife a brand new body."
Dongfang and the Demon Emperor listened on one side and silently pointed at the deduction.
Soon, I understood the cause and effect of the whole thing.
When Shang Shuliang was a child, he did learn the shadow puppetry inherited from his ancestors from Donglai, but he didn't pay much attention to it. It wasn't until his wife died unexpectedly that only a remnant soul remained, that he thought of using puppetry to preserve the remnant soul. With the advancement of puppetry, new puppets have been created by combining them with ancestral shadow puppets.
Dongfang Yunqi couldn't figure out the Great Demon Lord of Yuanshan, but the Scarlet Ling Devil Emperor could figure it out clearly.
Shang Shuliang communicated with the Great Demon King of Yuanshan and further derived the shadow puppets into "human skin puppets". By peeling off a person's skin, the person's soul can be sealed in the skin. After being carved into a shadow puppet, the person can continue to exist in another way. The two maids who greeted guests at the door were the experimental subjects of the "human skin puppet". Because he was grateful for Shang Shuliang's life-saving and revengeful kindness, he has been working in Yinglongzhai.
"Not only Madam, you two maids and other human skin puppets in the room can also have real bodies."
Fu Henghua immediately recited the formula and passed on the next "Shadow Puppet Immortal Technique".
This guy - it's starting again!
Monk Donglai knew very well Fu Henghua's temperament of being a teacher and improving cultivation techniques. Simply, Dongfang Yunqi wandered around the house, looking at the shadow puppet craftsmanship.
Although the Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor had heard about Fu Henghua's deeds for a long time, he was still shocked after seeing it with his own eyes. There is no such selfless and generous genius in Nanzhou who is willing to teach everything he has studied and understood.
She sat aside and studied Henghua's teaching.
The shadow puppet magic is simpler than the Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor imagined, but——
Riko felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if she had seen it somewhere before.
"Your shadow puppets are very close to a mature system, but you have not summarized and organized them. You see, we perform shadow puppets. Through the different levels of shadow puppets, stages, and music, we can rehearse shadow puppets with different realms."
Henghua moved his fingers, and each silk thread controlled the two humanoid shadow puppets to carry out tools and cowhide in the workshop.
He controls two shadow puppets and directly carves them.
The first group was a tiger hunter and a tiger.
After the carving was completed, Henghua practiced with his fingers, taking the energy of the five elements from the sky and the earth and turning it into five colors, and then used the five tones and dozens of colors to paint the shadow puppets. Afterwards, they were dehydrated and knotted using the art of refining weapons. The colorful parts are connected together to form a complete puppet.
Shang Shuliang's face was full of doubts: "You can directly control the shadow puppets and make them by yourself, so why do you need to look for me?"
"Of course I have my own intentions."
Heng Hua continues to perform shadow puppetry.
After the tiger hunter and tiger shadow puppets were completed, he made a simple stage set on the spot and drove five monk puppets to play music on one side.
Dangdang——dang————
Together with the sound, the shadows of the tiger hunter and the tiger appeared on the screen.
Driven indirectly, Henghua performed a "tiger fighting show".
Later, he made two more shadow puppets.
Still fighting tigers and tigers, but this time, the shadow puppets contain more spiritual power. The monk is about to build the foundation, and the tiger is also a spirited tiger. and
The scenery, stage and music have also been upgraded. Traces of the "Spiritual Building Technique" can be seen in the scenery, and the music is from "Juntian Guangle". This time the tiger fighting scene obviously had more traces of mysticism and Taoism, and as he acted, Shang Shuliang clearly felt a trace of wonderful rhythm reverberating throughout the stage.
It’s as if the stage is integrated into one, creating an independent world.
He seemed to be immersed in the scene, feeling the difficult battle between the ferocious tiger spirit and the monk.
His blood boiled, and as he performed and played music, he felt that his bottleneck was loosened.
"The practice of shadow puppetry is to perform it. Incorporate Taoism into the performance to improve yourself."
Fu Henghua once again engraved the third pair of tiger killers and tigers.
This time, it was the monks who established the Dzogchen Foundation and the descendants of the white tiger.
The tiger-fighting scene was even more intense, and there was even a red vortex floating in the air above the stage.
"Daoyun appears?"
Dongfang Yunqi had already come back and sat in the audience.
Looking at the stage, she nodded and smiled: "The stage is a microscopic blessed place, and the music played is Juntian Guangle. It seems that if you want to perfectly perform a high-end shadow play, you cannot do without the help of the spiritual architect and the music monk?"
"Those are secondary. The stage can be purchased from the spiritual builder in advance, and the music can be recorded and replayed by the spiritual musician. The most important thing is the technique of operating the puppets and the means of making the puppets."
Heng Hua waved his hand, and the red vortex flew towards Shang Shuliang.
The bottleneck that has been troubled for many years is directly broken, and the next level of foundation building is entered.
Shang Shuliang's expression changed.
He calls himself a genius and combines shadow puppetry with immortal puppetry to create a special kind of shadow puppet. This method can even be used to solidify the soul of the deceased into a shadow puppet to achieve "pseudo-resurrection".
But in front of Fu Henghua's puppet skills, he seemed to see a brand new world.
Shadow puppetry has a proven path from mortals to golden elixirs!
Even above the golden elixir, there is a higher level of potential.
This man deserves to be the founder of the shadow puppetry!
Feeling the increase in mana in his body, he put aside the initial bad feeling and bowed respectfully to Fu Henghua.
"Thank you sir."
"With little effort - how much did you learn? Write it down quickly so you can teach it to others later."
others?
Shang Shuliang shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Although Sir, you have opened a way forward for me, but the Shadow Puppet Immortal Technique is only a minor technique, just a branch of the Puppet Technique."
"Humph - stupid. To make shadow puppets, you need to select materials, proofing, and making shadows. What do you think this is?"
"Is it a weapon refining technique?"
When choosing materials, ordinary cowhide cannot be used directly. The leather is first selected and then specially processed before it can be used to make shadow puppets.
For proofing, shadow puppets need to draw sketches and make "samples". Then we have to deconstruct each component based on the sample spectrum.
Finally, there is the actual hand-making such as engraving and dyeing.
"It is a weapon refining, but not just a weapon. The sample recipe for proofing can be regarded as a magic weapon prohibition for refining the weapon and can be passed down from generation to generation." Henghua hooked his fingers and directly created the sample recipe for the "Defying Tiger Shadow Puppet" he just made. .
"This set of sample recipes is divided into five levels, which is analogous to the forbidden levels of magic weapons. You can make white tiger shadow puppets and grandmaster shadow puppets according to the sample recipes I teach you."
A master-level shadow puppet?
Shang Shuliang suddenly realized how precious the spectrum in his hands was.
"And the engraving technique that follows is not just a refining technique for making magic weapons."
Henghua moved his fingers, and a gust of wind rolled the carving knife into his hand.
"Yin carving and yang carving, this is the fighting technique of shadow puppet magic."
Henghua turned the carving knife at will, and the cold light flickered, like cold blade flowers.
Shang Shuliang seems to have realized something.
"Yin carvings and yang carvings combine hardness and softness, and yin and yang rotate in each other. It can indeed be used as a means of self-protection."
He followed Henghua's instructions and regarded the Scarlet Ling Demon Emperor in front of him as a piece of "cowhide". Using his usual carving habit, he waved the carving knife in the air and injected some mana into it.
Indeed, the streaks of blade light shot out were comparable to those of cultivating swordsmanship.
The Demon Emperor was quite speechless. He swept away the blade light with a flick of his sleeves, and his eyes became three points colder.
Fu Henghua interrupted in time and continued to talk about "applying color".
As one of the steps in shadow puppet production, coloring shadow puppets naturally requires corresponding materials.
A new way to apply Lingyuan Yancai!
Dongfang Yunqi's heart moved. She seemed to understand the purpose of Fu Henghua's creation of the "Shadow Puppet Immortal Technique".
The "color researcher" who is well protected by Fu Henghua has a new sales channel.
"This guy still can't forget the color researcher, and he can't forget to train more workers for his family."
What’s the point of having too many color researchers?
Naturally, the raw materials of the Ten Thousand Gods Diagram are more stable, which will help Fu Henghua refine the Taoist treasure.
"As for the dehydration and knotting at the back. One requires Samadhi Fire, and the other requires puppet silk skills. A monk who can make shadow puppets must be both offensive and defensive. He can assist in refining weapons, can carve people with knives, control enemies with puppets, and exorcise fire. A versatile person who can burn things. Ordinary monks are not qualified to do this job."
And this is just an ordinary monk of the shadow puppetry method.
If you go one step further, you have to rehearse the "Shadow Puppet Fairy Show" on your own, be promoted to master or grandmaster, and may also be involved in various aspects such as spiritual construction and fairy music.
As Henghua's explanation became more exciting, he simply explained the "Spirit Building Method" and "Xianle Method" to Shang Shuliang. Shang Shuliang's head exploded when he heard it, and he couldn't understand many of the advanced magical applications that followed.
But he knew the importance of this part of knowledge and worked hard to memorize all Henghua's words so that he could understand them later.
Bang bang bang——
"What a wonderful Mr. Xuanyuan, I am quite familiar with your preaching methods."
The Demon Emperor nodded and said softly: "It's interesting."
In her eyes, these methods are just gadgets, just for fun.
She kindly said to Shang Shuliang: "You have a shallow nature, and you will rarely find the magic of alchemy in this life. But this man has a great background and a noble status. If you practice beside him, you may have great fortunes in the future."
Immediately, Shang Shu was so happy that he worshiped under Fu Henghua's seat and called him "Teacher".
"Forgive me, I'm not here to take any disciples, so you might as well call me 'Sir'."
After Henghua gave some more instructions, he urged him to make a shadow puppet for him, and handed him a script by the way.
Before he could take it, Dongfang Yunqi and the Demon Emperor took action at the same time.
The two girls looked at each other, and then the Demon Emperor took the initiative to come over and said, "Sister, do you want to watch too? Come on, let's go together?"
Ah--
Patiently, Dongfang Yunqi did not fall out. But silently keep some distance from her.
The two of them flipped through the script written by Fu Henghua. Just after reading the beginning, the two women fell silent.
After flipping through a few pages, Dongfang Yunqi decisively handed the script to Fu Henghua.
"Are you planning to perform this scene in Nanzhou?"
"If they can do it, I can naturally act."
"That's right." The Demon Emperor clapped his hands and laughed, "They can do it, so what can't be rehearsed? Brother, if your script is not enough, I can also give you some past events from the Six Sects era as material."
"Then thank you sister."
Henghua handed the script to Shang Shuliang again.
When he opened it and took a look, his face suddenly turned pale.
"First...sir, the content above is...true?"
In the first scene of the script, Sanzhou seeks justice and subdues demons, while Nanxiu poisons his benefactor.
This is a script based on events from 40,000 years ago. I plan to go to Chiyue the day after tomorrow and perform a shadow puppet show in front of the Nanzhou monks!
The magic of lamp shadow is the secret of Nanzhou. Because it was passed down by "Yinglong Zhai", it is also called Yinglong Immortal Method.
However, Nanzhou is now extinct, only Donglai Guang is revitalizing it.
It is said that when Fu Sheng entered Nanzhou, he saw the hunting spirit and turned into an apprentice to steal his master, so it was spread in Donglai.
The following is the author’s guess:
Yinglong method involves spiritual construction, immortal music, seal cutting and other spiritual practices. The so-called Fu Sheng was proficient in all kinds of arts and most of his apprenticeships were in Nanzhou. The way of Nanzhou's immortal music should not be inferior to that passed down by Donglai's art ancestors.
——"Views of Donglai in Nanshan·Yinglong Chapter, Excerpt Three"
(End of chapter)
