Chapter 173 (2/2)
Ning Que regrettably said, ”I know, the reader's surname is Heaven, his given name is Earth, and he is illiterate.”
And then Ning Que asked, ”If it's useless to plagiarize, what is the meaning of learning previous Fu lines?”
”Just like sensing Fu lines of Heaven and Earth, these Fu lines are for your reference. Do not let these things bind your imagination. You should observe these lines, understand their spirit, and then forget them. At last you'll write Fu lines which belong to you.”
”Forget their trace and understand spirit? Isn't it mean to forget characters' figure and remember their meaning?”
Ning Que suddenly recalled the reading process in old Library and was shocked into speechless. It turned out that the method of Eight Strokes Calligraphy of Yong should be used at this time!
Noticing his shocked expression, master Yan Se frowned and asked the reason. After a moment of silence, Ning Que told Master Yan Se his reading method at the old Library, and also mentioned the origin of Chicken Soup Calligraphy.
”One day I found that using the method of Eight Strokes Calligraphy of Yong can barely understand the Fu lines left by Talisman Masters. Because of excitement, I went to the House of Red Sleeves to cheer up and got drunk, so I wrote that Chicken Soup Calligraphy. Maybe I thought nothing when I got drunk, and then I wrote all my understandings into that calligraphy which was admired by your master.”
Finis.h.i.+ng this sentence, Ning Que looked at the sky out of the pavilion without realization, wondering whether this was a fate?
Master Yan Se said with a smile,”Haotian didn't choose you, you have abilities and talents to win his choice.”
”Master, earlier time you casually drew some lines, and then I felt some water on my face. I know this is Fu, but I am not sure that people can also draw Fu in the air? If each Talisman Master's Fu is unique, and then each Fu is absolutely different, you may control it by a writing brush and inks, but how can you control it in the air?”
”Even writing brushes and inks can not guarantee each Fu is completely the same, for different papers and different speed when you are writing. Fu follows Talisman Masters' heart. Subtle differences are not that important, instead only if these subtle differences are not disobey Talisman Masters' thought, and then they often can in line with Talisman Masters' feelings at that time, so the effect will be better.”
Mater Yan Se continued to say, ”Speaking of writing Fu in the air, it is more unstable compared with writing with brushes and inks. But Talisman Masters who can write Fu without brushes and inks have already controlled his Psyche Power. In other words, the first stroke is different from the next one, and then the final writing is totally different.”
Ning Que asked,”What kind of Talisman Master can control his Psyche Power to draw Fu without writing brushes and inks?”
Master Yan Se pointed at himself, answered with a smile, ”A Divine Talisman Master.”
Ning Que suffered a great deal of mental shock and felt frustrated.
”I divided Fu into two categories, one is certain and the other is infinitive. A certain Fu depends on external things. No matter it depends on writing brushes and inks or carves or a statue, this kind of Fu takes a long time to finish, but it has greater power. An infinitive Fu depends on nothing. This kind of Fu can be finished in a minute, yet it is less powerful.”
Hearing these two words, certain and infinitive, Ning Que felt excited and remembered familiar characteristics of verbs, stuffs like adding ”to” after an infinitive verb. But next second he cleared his head and realizd that he was learning Talisman Taoism here, not learning English at a special cla.s.s. He rubbed his cheeks angrily, and then asked, ”If so, why we have to learn infinitive, it... seems so hard.”
Master Yan Se stared at him as Ning Que was an idiot and replied, ”Although the power of Talisman Taoism is great, cultivators in the same state, even a Psyche Master, can not beat a Talisman Master, but that is all talking. What if a Talisman Master really fights against other cultivators? If Liu Bai shoots a flying sword, is it possible that I find writing brushes and inks everywhere to write Fu?”
”When I sense that d.a.m.n flying sword which was coming from cloud, all I would do is taking Psyche Power as ink and drawing my spirit in the air. So I can stop it for a while and earn some time for me to think about how to draw a Fu to fight back. At this time, what is the use of writing brushes?”
The more Ning Que listened to master Yan Se's proud explanation, the more he felt something was wrong. He hesitated for a while before asking, ”Master, did you really fight against Liu Bai, the best sage of sword in the world?”
”Hypothesis! It's a hypothesis!”
Master Yan Se angrily yelled, thinking ”That year my arm was hurt by Liu Bai's flying sword, yet I also destroyed his half eyebrow. I won't tell these brilliant achievements to you.”
”If you don't want an arrow shooting through your chest in the future, infinitive is something you must learn.”
”But... you earlier said that only a Divine Talisman Master can know how to write an infinitive Fu.”
”You are very talented in Talisman Taoism, and now you meet a marvelous Talisman Taoism Master like me. Will it be difficult to be a Divine Talisman Master? When you go back home, you need to recite these brochures first, after this, you need to carefully feel the Qi of Heaven and Earth... ”
Ning Que faintly stared at those thick books that piled up like a small mountain, wondering
”Are these brochures?”
Master Yan Se frowned and regrettably said, ”You are still in a No Doubts State and can only understand a little rules of Qi of Heaven and Earth.” ”But if you are in a Seethrough State, you can involve yourself in Heaven and Earth. Or if you step in a Knowing Destiny State, you will know the essence of Qi of Heaven and Earth, plus your talent, it will be easier to cross the first stage.”
Ning Que was wordless, thinking ”If I am in a Knowing Destiny State, why I bothered myself to study Talisman Taoism?”
”Master, in your opinion, as my ability right now, after how many years I can become a Divine Talisman Master like you?”
”If you can concentrate on Talisman Taoism and leave the Academy for mountain to conduct penance with me, may be... after ten years.”
Ning Que regrettably sighed and said, ”Ten years.”
Master Yan Se angrily yelled, ”Ten years later you are under thirty years old. If you really become a Divine Talisman Master at that time, you are at least in top three during the thousand years cultivation history, won't you be satisfied?”
Ning Que lowered his head, not because he was ashamed, but because he felt a little proud. He was thinking
”With my talent, I can in the top three, if Chen Pipi knows this, will he be shameful?”
Looking at his lowered head, master Yan se gradually calmed down. He silently said to himself ”It's pity that I couldn't teach you for ten years.”
An extremely important thing occurred Ning Que. He lifted up his head to look at master Yan Se, and said seriously, ”Since I have made up my mind to learn with you, shall I change my appellation and call you teacher?”
Pondering for a while, master Yan Se shook his head and said, ”Since you have entered the second floor of Academy, Headmaster of Academy is your teacher, and then there will be no second person is qualified to be your teacher in the world... you just call me master, which also sounds great.”
Ning Que felt his respect to the Headmaster of Academy, so Ning Que said with a smile after thinking, ”How about s.h.i.+fu?”
Master Yan Se smiled, thinking he was such a smart kid.
Of course Ning Que was smart.
He had proofed himself before, and so he did now. Yet addressing master Yan Se as s.h.i.+fu had nothing to do with smart, it is a ability of reading some one's face and toadying him. That was a ability he learned through tough life.
According to master Yan Se, there was no one could compete with the Headmaster of Academy who was his teacher right now, so others naturally felt unqualified to be his teacher. But after hearing for such a long time, Ning Que deeply felt that master Yan Se attached great importance to Talisman Taoism heritage and his successor. Under this situation, Ning Que surely wanted to have an official teacher-student relations.h.i.+p with him.
”When I started to call master Yan Se s.h.i.+fu, well, well, a cordial and friendly atmosphere was full of that pavilion, we got along very well, we talked and laughed. s.h.i.+fu gave me a first-meeting present in the end, why do you think he didn't give it to me at the very first beginning?”
In the Old Brush Pen Shop at Lin 47th Street, Ning Que sat in his arm-chair, talking like a talking show player and splas.h.i.+ng his spittle everywhere.
Sangsang, who was holding a hammer to fix their shop door destroyed the day before yesterday, directly ignored him.
Failing to get a response, Ning Que felt a little bored. He scolded, ”Can you concentrate on listening to me?”
Sangsang was measuring the size of a plate that she asked from a carpenter shop, so she replied, ”I'm busy.”
Ning Que angrily said, ”Your young master will be a Divine Talisman Master in ten years, why are you not excited?”
Sangsang turned back to look at him, and answered, ”Young master, that thing happens ten years later, but we have to fix this door today.”
Putting his teapot on a desk, Ning Que said, ”Stop fixing it. Go out to buy something for me first.”
Feeling puzzled, Sangsang asked, ”Why so hurry? The door is not fixed yet.”
”Buy me writing brushes, inks and something stuff like these.”
Ning Que wrote a note, handing it to her, and said, ”It will take me ten years to be a Divine Talisman Master. It is too slow.”
”So I am going to study Talisman Taoism right now!”
”Size the day! Size the hour!”
Sangsang saw him with her bright eyes and looked at Ning Que who was waving with his arms, she hesitated for a while before asking, ”Young master... ”
”Yep, what's up?”
”Aren't you too smug right now?”
”... Maybe kind of.”
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