Chapter 850 - A Dragon In The Clouds Turned Into Nine Dragons (2/2)

Speaking of Yang Shuxin’s sculpture, the bodies of the nine Chinese dragons had all appeared in the eyes of the onlookers. And the sculpting work of the dragon scales had also been finished on four of the nine Chinese dragons. The progress was really gratifying.

“Shuxin has really exerted himself to sculpt today.” Old Gu couldn’t help sighing.

Old Yan nodded his head, “Flying Dragon, Ascending Dragon, In-Cloud Dragon, Coiling Dragon, Curling Dragon, Crouching Dragon, Combating Dragon, Soaring Dragon and finally, the River-Stirring Dragon. None of them is identical. Such a Nine Dragon Sculpture is really of true value.”

From the perspective of the dragon shapes sculpted by Yang Shuxin, the sculpture was simply a dazzling light in most people’s eyes, just as mentioned before. Fundamentally speaking, there were only five basic dragon shapes and others were all derived from them.

Just like the River-Stirring Dragon. On the bottom of the sculpture was a river. The dragon hid its tail in the river and flew up with its head exposed to the air. It was actually the combination of both the Ascending Dragon and Soaring Dragon.

Most people could understand the difficulties even just by thinking about it. The Nine Dragon Sculpture originally wasn’t easy to sculpt, let alone nine dragons in different forms. On Yang Shuxin’s Nine Dragon Sculpture, the bottom part was the river while the upper part was the sky and Longpan Mountain. The contents were abundant but not messy.

“Little Boss Yuan’s sculpture is a little difficult to understand,” said Old Yan, “But I have to say the head of the Chinese dragon is really nice. It really requires genuine capabilities to be able to sculpt such a complicated and vivid head of Chinese dragon.”

As an inexperienced sculptor, Yuan Zhou started to sculpt the dragon head after he finished the dragon body halfway.

There were many varieties of dragons in the Chinese legend, like Ying Dragon, Wang Dragon or even Pan Dragon. But actually, the dragons in the Nine Dragon Sculpture were all Xing Dragons. Like the old saying, “The snake evolves into Jiao 1 after it lives for one thousand years; Jiao evolves into Dragons after one thousand years; and Dragons evolves into Xing Dragons after another one thousand years.

Neither Yang Shuxin or Yuan Zhou spent time and energy on the varieties of the Chinese dragons. So it was also a difficult job to sculpt out the differences between the nine dragons.

Yang Shuxin used a very ordinary method, which had been used in almost all multi-dragon sculptures. The dragons were differentiated by the eyes, dragon horns and, sizes. For example, the double dragons on the ornamental pillars in the Imperial Palace. They were different in their eyes and sizes.

When Yuan Zhou thought about this matter yesterday, he felt people seemed to be unable to tell the differences if they didn’t observe it carefully. Therefore, Yuan Zhou decided to change another way.

That was through emotions, including happiness, anger, sorrow, delight, anxiety, longing, sadness, terror, and astonishment.

Nine emotions. That was right. Of the nine Chinese dragons sculpted by Yuan Zhou, their eyes, dragon horns or sizes were all the same. The only difference was the emotions of the dragons.

The most common emotion evoked by Chinese dragons was majestic. Nothing else. But Yuan Zhou just wanted to add emotions in the eyes of the dragons.

So Yuan Zhou’s Nine Dragon Sculpture could be considered as Nine Cloud Dragon Lines, or more specifically, A Dragon In The Clouds That Turned Into Nine Dragons.

Just because they were far from the sculpture and couldn’t see it clearly, Old Gu, Old Yan, and other onlookers found it hard to understand. If they stayed closer, they could nevertheless see the emotions in the eyes of the three dragons that were being sculpted.

For example, one of the dragons had extraordinarily protruding brow ridges; the eyes were big and vigorous; the teeth were slightly open; and the dragon’s whiskers moving by itself. That was anger.

And for the next one, the mouth was a little more curved. That was happiness.

It had to be admitted that all the nine emotions of the dragons were very hard to tell if they were true or not. The Chinese dragon itself was a fiction, no one had ever seen any. Nor could they imagine what it looked like when it smiled.

The only disadvantage was that he must imagine all of them alone without any reference. However, everything had two sides.

If nobody had ever imagined that, Yuan Zhou could do whatever he wanted to create one.

Nine forms of dragons. Anyhow, Yuan Zhou stayed up all night yesterday once in a blue moon and did nothing but watch Animal World.

All in all, Yuan Zhou did his utmost today in order to defeat Yang Shuxin.