Chapter 30 Qianshen Zhaiyin
Chapter 30 "Qian Shen Zhai" Seal
To decline three times is the emperor's courtesy. Yunqi felt that he had already declined twice, so there was no need to refuse.
He reached out and took the bracelet with the Taixu Cave Stone, saying, "This alone is enough. I dare not take the gold seal anymore."
Jiang Nanjing was anxious, "Could it be that my benefactor thinks that my gold seal is not as valuable as the cave stone?"
Yunqi waved his hands repeatedly. He didn't have such an idea, but he did think the gift was too much. It was a pleasant surprise to get a cave stone. Or was it because he was playing tricks on himself? How could he be greedy?
Jiang Nanjing added: "The cave stone was given by my elders, and the gold seal is a token of my love. It is not a valuable thing, so please do not refuse it!"
He took out the gold seal. It was small but very delicate. The seal body was golden, but the seal button on the top was white. Even with Yunqi's eyesight, he couldn't tell whether it was a single-color two-color gold or two kinds of gold refined into one. But judging from the color alone, it was neither jade nor stone, but some kind of refined gold.
The seal surface is only six centimeters square, and the seal edge is one and a half inches high. This is a new seal, and there is no border or bottom inscription.
The button on the seal is an animal button, which looks like a dragon lying on the seal body, with its front paws resting on the edge of the seal, its head raised and stretched forward beyond the seal body, its hind paws pressed on the seal, its back arched and abdomen contracted as if it is flying in the air, and its thin and extremely long tail hanging down from the top of the seal body, wrapping around most of the seal body.
The dragon was covered in white scales, but its eyes and horns were inlaid with scarlet gold.
White scales, red eyes, long tail and flaming horns, this is the appearance of Dragon Son Fu Xi.
The dragon's belly was floating in the air, with a white silk threading through it, like white clouds following a dragon. This was the ribbon.
The young man held the dragon seal upside down in his left hand, flipped his right hand, and took out a knife pen out of thin air. It seemed that he must have a cave stone on him.
He looked at the clouds and said, "Yesterday I heard you say that you have not yet been included in the fate register, so you may not have a Taoist name yet. I dare not carve your name. Please tell me your nickname or studio, and I will carve the signature right away."
Yunqi smiled and shook his head, "I am a countryman who was lucky enough to be admitted to the mountain sect. I don't have any nickname or temple."
Jiang Nanjing's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Why don't you take it now, my benefactor? Wouldn't it be a good thing to see the seal and take the number?"
Yunqi looked into Jiang Nanjing's eyes and couldn't help but give up. He thought that this should be just a beautiful seal with a peculiar shape and it shouldn't be some precious treasure, so he should just accept it!
He thought about it for a long time before saying, "Let's give it a name, let's call it 'Qian Shen Zhai'."
Yunqi felt that he had been doing quite well since his practice, and it was easy for him to become arrogant. Or perhaps he had already become arrogant at some point without realizing it, so he chose the word "humble" as a warning.
Jiang Nanjing was stunned when he heard this, and then said, "My benefactor is not an ordinary person. He has chosen "Qian Shen" as his studio name when he was still a dancer. This is really rare."
Yunqi smiled and said, "Pride brings harm, humility brings benefit. It is always right to be more vigilant. Jiangnan, please make a seal based on this."
Jiangnan Scenic Spot nodded, looked at the seal, thought about it, and smiled, "Fuxi likes to climb high and look far. The inscription "Qian Shen Zhai" on the bottom of this Fuxi seal is just right, which just confirms the principle of being confident when walking and humble when sitting.
"Since it is meant to serve as a warning, then the inscription on the bottom should be inscribed with the ancient Chinese Shanyue Li script. What do you think, benefactor?"
Yunqi nodded happily, saying this was very thoughtful.
He sat back in the chair, and Yunqi sat next to him. Seeing that he was not able to make a draft, he took the carving knife and began to write on the bottom of the seal, one horizontal and one vertical, slowly and steadily.
He seemed to like seal carving very much and was completely immersed in it.
Gold flakes fell down, and Yunqi took this opportunity to put the bracelet on his right hand. He used his left hand to stroke the beads - Taixu Cave Stone.
This cave stone is about the size of a date pit and is crystal clear, like a drop of water or frost.
He squeezed it and found that the travertine was very hard.
The travertine is wrapped with a silver net, which holds the travertine and ties a knot at the top of the travertine. A white braided string is passed through the knot to form a bracelet.
The clouds looked over and wanted to take a look.
"what?"
The thought slipped away and did not enter the cave stone virtual world. Jiang Nanjing, who was carving a seal nearby, heard his voice and roughly guessed what Yunqi was doing.
"My benefactor, attach your thoughts to the outer silver net. The key is the outer circle of the silver net nodes. Just use your thoughts to go through a full circle. Then, my benefactor, refine the silver net and set a new key. If someone forcibly breaks the silver net restriction, the cave stone will shatter, and the virtual world inside will be integrated into the universe again, and the things in the virtual world will randomly appear in any corner of the universe."
Yunqi nodded to show that he accepted the lesson. He felt a little embarrassed, as if he was a little too anxious, but he was really curious.
Seeing that Jiang Nanjing hadn't even carved the first character "谦" (humble), he decided to try again.
This time the thought was attached to the silver net, as if it had fallen on a spider web, with light flashing on every node of the web.
It was not much different from the key commonly used on the jade slips. Yunqi moved the light spots on the outermost circle of the spider web with his thoughts. After one circle, all the light spots on the silver web went out. At this time, Yunqi was no longer in a hurry to refine the silver web, and directly probed into the cave stone -
This is a clean, white and bright space, like coming to a sunny alley in winter. This alley must be very clean, thickly painted with white paint, the ground is spotless, and it completely reflects the winter sun. It must be the winter sun, giving people the feeling that the white is soft, and it seems to refract many colorful spots of light. It is definitely not as blazing white as in summer, or as white as gold, which makes people unable to open their eyes.
This is what it feels like when you see Yunqi.
This space seems to have no boundaries, and it is bright everywhere.
But when he used his mind to explore it, he encountered obstacles everywhere. After several attempts, Yunqi finally determined that this was a space of about three meters square.
Not too small.
Yunqi thought about it and felt very happy. From now on, he would not have to carry a big package anymore. He could put all the good and big things in it.
There is another good thing about this Taixu Cave Stone. The virtual world in the cave stone is attached to the great heaven and earth and at the same time isolated from the great heaven and earth. When one's thoughts go in and out, one is actually crossing two worlds that are so close yet so far away. This is of great benefit to one's realization of the Taixu Dharma and to one's understanding of the "Guangcheng Chixu Suixin Mantra".
Just from that one time in and out, Yunqi had a vague understanding of something.
At this time, the engraving of Jiangnan Jing was also completed. After cleaning the seal surface, he took out a wooden box from his own cave stone.
The wooden box was placed on the table, almost as big as half the table. After opening the box, dozens of small jars were neatly arranged inside, in red, orange, yellow and green, dazzling.
He took out a small red persimmon-shaped porcelain jar, with the persimmon stalk as the lid. He opened the lid, revealing a red ink with a hint of warm yellow. After opening the lid, the ink was filled with fragrance. I wonder what kind of precious material this ink was made of, and what complicated craftsmanship it took to make it.
Jiangnan Jing held the persimmon jar in one hand and the seal in the other, and gently touched the seal surface to the round light on the top of the ink pad, and then lifted it off, then turned the seal surface, and repeated this process, first dipping the four sides in red, and then filling the middle. At the same time, he said:
"My benefactor, I don't want to apply the cinnabar quickly. I'd rather apply it several times. When the seal has absorbed all the ink, the cinnabar will naturally form on the seal. You won't need to use ink for future seals. You don't need to worry about it on weekdays. The ink won't settle and won't dry."
Jiangnan Jing applied the ink for the first time and handed the gold seal and the ink persimmon jar to Yunqi at the same time.
Yunqi thanked him sincerely.
Jiang Nanjing put away the carving knife and the wooden box filled with various inks, then took out a booklet.
"Please leave this first seal to me as a souvenir!"
Jiangnan Jing opened the title page of the booklet and asked Yunqi to seal it.
Yunqi readily agreed and put down his seal.
It is the white characters on a red background, in the Han Dynasty’s Shanyue Li script:
"Qian Shen Zhai".
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