Shi Xiaohan's sudden appearance caused Gu Xu's lecture to pause for a moment, and almost all the students present turned their attention to her.
Shi Xiaohan felt that this must be the most embarrassing moment in his life.
She lowered her head and looked at her toes. Her earlobes were slightly red, and she wished she could dig a hole and get in there.
At the same time, Gu Xu saw her standing there blankly, so he said to her with a smile: "Miss, why are you still outside?"
His tone was gentle.
But it didn't sound like a communication between peers, but more like a teacher's comfort to the students.
Shi Xiaohan thought angrily: This bastard actually pretends not to know me! And he even put on a show of teaching in front of me!
However, in full view of the public, she did not dare to quarrel with Gu Xu. She could only blush and explain hesitantly: "Sorry, I... I overslept today, Gu... first... first... first... please give me a try." Come in now..."
Saying the word "sir" almost exhausted all the energy in Shi Xiaohan's body.
Her voice became quieter and quieter, like a mosquito's chirp, and the last few words were so vague that they couldn't be heard at all.
Seeing Shi Xiaohan's expression, Tao Xi, who was sitting in the front row of the lecture hall, was quite surprised.
She didn't expect that Shi Xiaohan, who was always lively, cheerful and carefree, would actually show such a shy side in public.
"Then move quickly and don't dawdle."
Gu Xu was also amused by Shi Xiaohan's performance. However, he deliberately restrained his smile and urged with a straight face.
Shi Xiaohan suddenly acted like a little rabbit, using his body skills to "swish" and sneak to the back of the lecture hall - without using his mental perception, it was almost impossible to find her figure in the crowd.
She secretly made up her mind: If Gu Xu bullies me like this today, I will definitely punish him severely in the future...I will find an excuse to fight with him, then beat him into a pig's head and leave him paralyzed in bed for three days. Can't get up.
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In this eye-catching Talisman lesson, Shi Xiaohan's sudden appearance was just an insignificant episode.
Gu Xu quickly continued to teach the course in the expectant eyes of the students:
"As Talisman Masters, you must all be well aware of the history of the birth of Talisman and Seal Art.
"According to the book, Talisman and Seal Script are the language of gods and the medium that communicates the great ways of heaven and earth. Like the method of cultivation, it is taught to us by the gods above the nine heavens.
"But in fact, the earliest talisman seals in the Great Wilderness were extremely crude, and their functions were extremely single. Apart from setting fire to kill ghosts, they had no more uses...
“With the passage of time and the continuous improvement and expansion of Talisman Masters of the past generations, it has the various functions and quite complete theoretical system it has today.
"The books written by the predecessors have greatly reduced the difficulty of drawing talismans - beginners do not need to understand the 'Tao' in the talisman seals. They only need to strictly copy the patterns and strictly follow the process to draw talisman with special functions. seal.
"However, sometimes, it is this kind of 'convenience' that does not require thinking or delving into, which to some extent constrains our thinking and suppresses our desire to think deeper.
"...
"Let me give you a simple example.
"Suppose you are a literati who makes a living by creating stories.
"One day, a scene suddenly pops up in your mind - a poor scholar and the daughter of an official family fell in love at first sight in the temple.
"This picture gives you a strong creative passion. You start to use it as the core to enrich the identity and background of the couple, to improve their encounter, and to try to construct the entire world in the story.
"When you are conceiving a story, what comes to your mind is probably not words, but some video clips, some pictures, some dialogues, and even some emotional fluctuations that make your heart surge but are difficult to describe in words.
“They’re fragmented, they’re networked, they’re chaotic, they’re things that only you understand.
“However, the way readers receive information is always linear and sequential. You cannot give them all the inspiration in your head.
“You have to sort through the mess of information in your mind and put it into a coherent line.
"For example, first introduce the background of the world, the identity of the male protagonist, the identity of the female protagonist, and then introduce why the two of them want to go to that temple...
"Even in the same scene, all kinds of information need to be arranged effectively - for example, first describe the weather, then describe the temple environment, and then describe the appearance, clothing, and demeanor of the two people...
"But writing is not, after all, the jade pendant used by the Exorcist Division to record images. It is impossible for it to completely record all the details conceived in the mind of the creator.
“After readers see the text, they will spontaneously restore the pictures, scenes and even emotional fluctuations in their minds.
“But since the process of text transmission is inevitably accompanied by information loss, what readers finally imagine must be very different from the original inspiration in the creator’s mind.
“For example, a thousand readers can imagine a thousand different appearances of the heroine.
"...
"Since the definition of 'talisman' in the book is 'word', there must be a problem of information loss.
"Take the 'Fire Flame True Talisman' as an example.
"The monk who first created the 'Fire Flame Talisman' was like the creator of the story. One day, he felt the existence of the 'Way of Fire' and entered a state of enlightenment.
“He had a strong impulse in his mind to record the Tao.
"But as we all know, 'Tao' is very abstract and difficult to fully describe in words.
“It’s like an ‘inspiration’ for the creator.
"Therefore, the talisman seal he finally draws will be very different from the original enlightenment given to him by the 'Way of Fire', and a lot of information will be missed.
"This also means that the talismans and seals drawn on our books are inherently flawed. There is still a lot of distance between them and the real avenue of heaven and earth.
"And our process of improving the talismans is to continuously improve them to make them closer to the 'Tao' and miss less information."
Having said this, Gu Xu temporarily stopped teaching, took out a kettle from "Xianyunju", and moistened his dry throat with water.
There was silence in the lecture hall.
Some students stared at him intently, trying to digest the content.
Some students lowered their heads and quickly took notes with charcoal pens, hoping to write down his words verbatim and then take them back to think about them again and again.
Jia Xiuguang, who was sitting in the first row, frowned more and more.
Tao Xi, not far away, blinked his eyes, thoughtfully.
Only Shi Xiaohan, who was hiding in the corner of the lecture hall, was thinking about completely different issues than everyone else.
She silently thought to herself: "A poor scholar and a wealthy official... did Gu Xu give this example because he thought of my experience with him?"
"But the problem is that we didn't meet in a temple..."
PS: I wasn’t very satisfied with the first draft of today’s chapter, so I deleted it and rewrote it. Sorry for the short word count. I will write more tomorrow to make up for it.
