Chapter 227 Please Teach Me
Chapter 227 Please Teach Me
The time spent talking with the empress is always short.
Soon, the royal carriage stopped in front of the Tianshi Mansion.
Today's visit had been announced in advance, and at the entrance of the imposing Taoist main altar, several old priests wearing robes embroidered with fine red threads were already waiting with their heads bowed.
Zhao Duan followed the empress out of the car and followed in the team behind Xu Zhenguan as an "attendant guard."
Suddenly it seemed inconspicuous.
"Congratulations to His Majesty the Great Heavenly Saint Emperor for coming..."
The square-faced Taoist in the lead held a whisk and bowed respectfully, with many priests following behind him.
Xu Zhenguan smiled and nodded.
In the past, as a princess, she also stayed in the Tianshi Mansion to ask Zhang Tianshi for advice on cultivation.
Therefore, although he is an emperor, he is dressed as a Kundao today.
After a brief greeting, the group entered through the main gate.
It is worth mentioning that the last time Zhao Duan came here, he was led in through the side door by the Taoist boy guarding the gate, and did not walk through the main entrance of the Tianshi Mansion.
Today, thanks to the Empress, I have the opportunity to witness the true appearance of this Taoist temple that has been passed down for thousands of years.
As you enter the main gate, you will see a very spacious square. The ground is paved with white stones, inlaid with a huge Tai Chi Bagua diagram.
As the group walked on the Tai Chi diagram, they felt awe.
At this moment, on both sides of the square, there were many low-level priests standing far away. Because they were too far away, they could not be seen clearly, but they all carried swords on their backs, and from a distance, the sword tassels looked like the tide.
After passing through the main gate, a second gate that looks like an archway rises up in front of you.
The banners on the left and right... Xu Zhenguan looked up and couldn't help but exclaimed, reading:
"As Heaven moves in a vigorous manner, a gentleman should constantly strive to improve himself...As Earth's condition is gentle, a gentleman should be virtuous and support all things..."
She raised her eyes and saw four huge characters on the horizontal scroll:
Taoism Nature
"I remember it wasn't this the last time I came here."
Xu Zhenguan stopped to appreciate it, slightly surprised.
The old priest who led the way smiled and said:
"Indeed, it was changed not long ago to encourage young priests to study."
Xu Zhenguan nodded slightly, her eyebrows relaxed:
"Compared to the old couplet, it has a different atmosphere. I wonder who made it?"
The old priest shook his head and said, "It's not clear, but it must be approved by the Heavenly Master."
Xu Zhenguan nodded, and then looked carefully at the words on the archway for a few more times.
It is amazing at first glance, and after careful observation... the upper and lower couplets are okay, but the four key characters in the horizontal scroll seem a bit mismatched with the other two couplets, as if they were stiffly pieced together.
But... there is some hidden meaning in it.
But no one noticed that Zhao Duan, who was standing behind the empress, looked constipated and was complaining madly in his heart:
"Old Wang, Old Wang, you are really a piece of shit. You never paid me and I thought I copied my sentences but didn't use them. But the archway has already been replaced, but you dragged it until I brought the Thousand Faces God to replace it..."
"Hey, come to think of it, the Empress is here, but why can't I see Lao Wang among the priests who are here to receive her? Well, is it because his status is not high enough, or is it because he is a 'casual official' and doesn't want to join in the fun?"
Muttering to himself, the group walked through the second gate, and in front of them was a ancestral hall with flying eaves and brackets.
The last time Zhao Duan walked by it from a distance, he took a look from afar and knew that the portraits of the "Heavenly Masters" of all generations in the Tianshi Mansion were enshrined inside.
After the Patriarch Hall, rising from the ground is a huge bell tower as majestic as a giant.
The bell tower is gray, and there is a sundial embedded in the front wall above it.
When the sun shines on the sundial, it casts a huge "pointer" on the ground.
Going further up is the "Yellow Bell" fixed on the top of the bell tower. Unfortunately, it is too high and it is not clear when you look up.
Zhao Duan looked at the clock tower with its mottled walls and weathered by wind and rain.
Suddenly I remembered the day I traveled through time and heard the city bells from afar in the heavy rain.
It came from this bell tower.
"You all stop here. I'm going to Zhang Tianshi's residence." Xu Zhenguan instructed the people behind him.
The bell tower serves as a boundary, dividing the Tianshi Mansion into inside and outside.
Zhao Duan noticed that the senior priests who were leading the way also stopped.
It seems that I can't follow the Empress in directly... No wonder the Empress said that whether I can see the Heavenly Master depends on luck... Does she mean I have to wait for a summons?
Zhao Duan was a little disappointed and felt that the hope was hopeless, while the old priest smiled and led them, the attendants, to a nearby hall to wait.
"Envoy Zhao, please stay." Suddenly, one of the middle-aged priests stopped him and said with a smile:
"Priest Gongshu learned of your arrival and asked me to invite you over for a chat."
The Priest Gongshu? Jin Jian's fifth senior brother?
That fat man who cultivates the God of Craftsmen... Zhao Duan was somewhat tempted, but he looked hesitant.
The priest smiled and said:
"Your Excellency, do not worry. Every time His Majesty comes, he will talk with the Heavenly Master for at least an hour. Moreover, if there is any change, he will naturally look for you without delay."
So... Zhao Duan nodded happily:
"Thank you for leading the way, Priest."
Zhenbao said that it would be beneficial to establish a good relationship with them, and Zhao Duan listened to her.
When you are in the government, you have many connections and many paths to take.
……
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"Haha, Envoy Zhao is finally here. He said yesterday that he would come over when he was free. I didn't expect to meet him again today."
Zhao Duan was led to a yard.
Then he saw Gongshu Tianyuan, who was wearing a wrinkled dark gold priest robe, with a slightly funny fat face and squinting eyes, coming out with a smile to greet him.
However, Zhao Duan was shocked.
Because the young fat priest looked haggard, with huge dark circles under his eyes like a panda, his smile was a little crazy, and there was a hint of heat in the look he gave him.
"Why bother the priest Gongshu to come and greet me personally?"
Zhao Duan took a step back without leaving any trace, but was still forcibly shaken by the former. His hand felt greasy, so he wiped it behind his back without leaving any trace, and said with concern:
"The priest looks a little tired."
Gongshu Tianyuan's fat face froze, and he forced a smile:
"It's okay, I just didn't sleep enough. Please come in... Hehe, my humble room is shabby... I just learned that the envoy came with His Majesty, so I took the liberty to ask someone to invite you."
It's more than just lack of sleep?
I didn’t sleep at all last night!
Originally, with his level of cultivation, not sleeping for several days in a row would not be a big problem, but the prerequisite was that he did not consume too much energy.
If you stay up late and crazily squeeze your brain power and spirit, and work your mind at high load, thinking and experimenting... no matter how high your level is, you can't bear it.
As for the "originator", it was undoubtedly the few strokes of the lens principle left by Zhao Duan on the glasses drawing.
This is also the reason why Gongshu Tianyuan was eager to invite him over.
Zhao Duan followed curiously and entered the workshop-style courtyard.
Different from the courtyards of literati and scholars, several large rooms in the courtyard are filled with all kinds of messy objects.
The room they entered was quite spacious, but there was only a small bed placed in the corner. Apart from that, there were only a few large tables with various tools on them.
Next to the wall.
There is a row of shelves filled with all kinds of weird things, like a simple version of an industrial museum.
"Hehe, this place is a bit messy."
When Gongshu Tianyuan saw Zhao Duan looking at him curiously, he puffed out his chest slightly and a hint of pride appeared on his fat, haggard face.
In his previous life, Zhao Duan had met some technical experts with his leaders and knew the tempers of these people well.
Without greeting, he took the initiative to reveal his ignorance and curiosity:
"I heard that the high-priced recording scrolls on the black market were made by the priests? Is this the place where the magic tools are made?"
Gongshu Tianyuan smiled slightly. What he liked most was to show his works to others.
Of course, the prerequisite is that the person is someone he respects.
Seeing Zhao Duan asking questions, he cleared his throat, pulled him towards the shelf, and introduced:
"That's right. My lineage of cultivation requires constant creation of artifacts. These are some of my works. For example, this one."
He casually took out a palm-sized plate from the shelf.
He tapped it twice and suddenly flames appeared in the plate. He turned the plate over and over and the fire did not go out.
Gongshu Tianyuan smiled and said:
"This thing is called 'Wood Fire Channel'. I often need to use fire when refining magic tools, so I made this thing. It does not need to be ignited, and it will not spread. It will only run out of power when the magic power inside is burned out, just like a candle."
Knock twice more to extinguish it.
Lighter... Zhao Duan nodded, finding it quite interesting.
Turning around, I saw a wooden man dressed as a Western Hu person, holding a pot of wine in his hand, and asked curiously:
"This is?"
Gongshu Tianyuan said "Oh" and laughed:
"This is a toasting Hu man. Ahem, I like to study and practice, and I am not good at socializing. Whenever I get together with fellow disciples, I am frequently toasted. I am very annoyed, so I created this villain.
As long as it is placed on the banquet table, it will toast everyone one by one, and anyone who is toasted by it, as long as the realm is not higher than the Divine Chapter, will be controlled no matter what they are doing, and forced to drink a glass of wine before they can break free..."
Well, what he didn’t say was that when it was first developed, there was an operational failure, which resulted in a group of warlocks being controlled for a whole night, and no one could escape.
I was so drunk that I slept for three days before I woke up...
“……” Zhao Duan took a deep breath.
Next to the little man, there was another wooden monk as tall as a wine barrel, holding a broken bowl and a Zen staff:
"What is this?"
Gongshu Tianyuan rolled up his sleeves, looking reminiscing:
"This is one of my early works. At that time, I didn't like the monks in Shenlong Temple, so I pretended to be a 'begging monk' and threw it into the temple. Anyone who saw it, if they took out money and filled the bowl, would be greeted with a 'thank you for the donation'."
What a weird thing... Zhao Duan said cautiously:
"What if you don't give me money?"
Gongshu Tianyuan pondered for a moment, patted the monk's bald head, and said calmly:
"If you don't give it, it will raise its Zen staff and teach the other party a lesson until it succeeds in collecting alms and returns to report."
Zhao Duan: “…”
Gongshu Tianyuan looked regretful:
"Unfortunately, the bald donkey from the Shenlong Temple came over very quickly, and my master scolded me."
Zhao Duan calmed down and looked at the yellow paper skirt hesitantly:
"This one won't attack anyone, right?"
"Oh, this is a good thing," Gongshu Tianyuan's eyes lit up and he said proudly:
"When female monks are out and about, they are often most afraid of their menstruation... Because of the constant bleeding, the Great Mother Goddess will cause the female monks' mana to decline, and they will enter a period of weakness that lasts for several days. However, as long as they calculate the date, put on this paper skirt in advance, and then take it off, they can get rid of the weakness caused by menstruation...
Unfortunately, this item is difficult to make and expensive, and even the noble ladies in the capital are rarely willing to buy it.
Only female monks are willing to do so. I once went to Jizhao Temple and tried to sell it to those female Buddhist Bodhisattvas, but they didn’t know what I was talking about. ”
As he spoke later, this descendant of the god of craftsmanship with unique ideas looked lonely.
Seems frustrated that his work is not recognized.
...No, how big of a grudge do you have against Buddhism? Although this thing sounds powerful, will it really not be regarded as a provocation or harassment...
Also, this is completely different from what I imagined, the weapon-smith master who can forge magical weapons, or the Taoist priest who can only refine a furnace of elixir in sixty years... Zhao Duan has a complicated expression.
"Haha, I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Lord Envoy. You also think these things are flashy and useless, right?"
Gongshu Tianyuan laughed at himself and suddenly sat down.
In the corner, a round stool with long legs came over and grabbed his butt.
No… this is not a question of being flashy… Zhao Duan is not good at commenting.
The look of loneliness on Gongshu Tianyuan's face became more and more intense.
Suddenly, he went from being excited to being depressed, muttering:
“It’s not that I have to create these weird things. I am a craftsman. If I want to make a breakthrough, I must create something groundbreaking.
Swords, armor, and whisks have all been brought to a very high level by the warlocks of the past few thousand years... Even if I could copy a thousand of them, I still wouldn't be able to break through, so I can only find another way..."
Zhao Duan was moved. He didn't expect that it would be so difficult for a sorcerer to practice.
"Didn't you ask the Heavenly Master for advice?"
Gongshu Tianyuan lowered his head lower and lower:
“Master also said that I was going in the wrong direction, saying that the God of Craftsmanship was created by mortals’ belief, so the God of Craftsmanship was originally created for the common people, while the magic tools I created have extremely narrow uses…
But I couldn't think of anything new that the people needed... until I saw your blueprint!"
Gongshu Tianyuan, with dark circles under his eyes and a dirty robe, suddenly raised his head with an excited look:
"Although the ice-making method benefits the people, it is not really a craftsman's tool. However, the brief mention of glasses in the blueprint you gave to Sixth Junior Sister has given me a new possibility!"
He jumped up, grabbed Zhao Duan's hand, looked excited, and spoke earnestly:
"I have invited you here to understand the principle of light refraction that you wrote about. Could you explain it in detail?"
Zhao Duan was stunned.
His expression slowly turned strange.
It was not until this time that he finally understood why Zhang Tianshi's fifth disciple came to him.
"This... Could it be that the priest is overthinking? They are just some mundane things..." Zhao Duan tried to pull his hand back, but failed to move it.
Gongshu Tianyuan shook his head with a firm expression. He had a strong premonition that if he could figure out the so-called principle, he might be able to create a miraculous artifact that did not require any magic power to support it.
As Master said, this is the correct way to practice, and it is also an opportunity for me to make further progress.
"Please teach me!" Gongshu Tianyuan spoke earnestly, with tears in his eyes.
Zhao Duan sighed softly and said:
"Then I'll briefly explain it, but I can't guarantee whether it will be helpful to you."
Gongshu Tianyuan was overjoyed and hurriedly took out the drawing and pulled out a whiteboard for easy use.
Zhao Duan cleared his throat, turned around, wrote a few words on the whiteboard, and said:
"If you want to explain light clearly, first of all, you need to understand two words."
It was as if I was back in Xiuwen Hall again.
Zhao Duan wrote two big words on the whiteboard:
"physics"
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