Volume 3: Star Tower Chapter 50: Yuhua's Appointment
The annual academy martial arts competition will last throughout the winter.
The final battle of the academy's martial arts competition will be held on the last day of the old year. When the new year comes, the academy that wins first place will be announced to the world, and the scene can almost be described as a universal celebration.
However, in previous years' martial arts competitions, Yisuli Academy only fought four matches at most and was able to return after that.
The bustle of the top aristocratic academies would always be somewhat reduced when it reached border academies like theirs.
Dadada, dadada…
Six days later, the Yisu Academy's convoy arrived at their first stop in the northern district - Qinling Academy.
Because it takes too long to go all the way south, the territory is divided into north and south. There are forty noble families in the north and forty-one noble families in the south. The south and north regions each select fifty academies before reaching the second stop.
They will decide the top ten academies in the second stop and go to the third stop, which is the final battle site!
"Is this the capital of the Tianqin family?" Although Tang Xiaotang and the others were all considered subjects of the Tianqin family, they were closer to the Changyuan Leng family after all.
It was their first time to come to the capitals of the seven top families in Xingyao Continent!
The main color of the Qinling Academy is grayish white, with swaying shadows of trees and dense vines climbing on the two-story buildings, making the entire academy look a little old.
Qinling Academy is large and quiet.
As soon as you enter, you can hear the sound of reading aloud. If someone who doesn’t know walks in by mistake, they might think they have come to some kind of private school.
After the carriages from Yisuli Academy entered, all the coachmen subconsciously slowed down.
The Qinling Academy's martial arts arena was like the large gymnasium that Tang Zheng was familiar with in his previous life, where many events could be competed at the same time.
Behind the academy's martial arts arena are the dormitories.
Although there were more than fifty academies before the Yisu Academy, with nearly six hundred people living there, the entire dormitory area still seemed relatively quiet.
You can tell at first glance that this is a tree that has been growing for hundreds of years, and the fallen leaves cover the ground in golden yellow.
The rustling sound of leaves makes the Qinling Academy seem even quieter. It is like a beautiful woman who captivated everyone in her youth, but now in her twilight years, she has an indescribable temperament.
Each academy was led by a deacon, an instructor, and two or three assistants. The Yisu Academy had two assistants, a team of eleven people, who were arranged at the easternmost end of a two-story building.
Each room is not big, but clean and tidy.
Tang Zheng had just finished tidying up his room when he saw a not-so-familiar figure walk in.
"Qin Miao?" Tang Zheng took out the casting notebook from his backpack and put it back. "What's the matter?"
"Oh, someone asked me to do it for you." Qin Miao closed the door with a smile, took out a vermilion bag from his sleeve and handed it to Tang Zheng.
"This is..." Tang Zheng took it, opened it and took a look, and was immediately stunned.
Lying quietly in the bag was the engraved accessory, the Rain Flower Seal, which he had asked Lu Huang to repair after a long time.
Looking back, I picked up this Yuhua Seal from Lan Shaoze during the battle. If I don't mind it too much, it still has some commemorative significance.
Of course, the more important thing about the Yuhua Seal is that it plays an auxiliary role in the cultivation of star power for warriors above three stars.
"It seems that you have a very good relationship with Bailianfang..." Tang Zheng was not polite. He took the Yuhua Seal and said with a smile.
"Nothing, I'm just helping out with some errands." Qin Miao replied.
"Speaking of which, this is an ancient artifact left over from your Tianqin family... a lost secret engraving technique." Tang Zheng took the Yuhua Seal out of the bag, and suddenly he felt his eyes and ears clear.
Tang Zheng still remembered that Ban Yiluo said that the Yuhua Seal was made of the wasteland Yuhua stone stained with at least twelve different kinds of blood as the base, and the star veins of the demon clan with three stars or above were extracted to carve the formation. It was once a graduation gift for the top ten graduates of the Qinling Academy of the Tianqin family every year.
This kind of engraving technique has been lost for a long time.
"If there is nothing else, I will take my leave first." Qin Miao smiled and said to Tang Zheng, "I hope I can have a chance to fight with you at the academy's martial arts conference."
"Yeah. No problem." Although Tang Zheng knew that he had to fight with Qinling Academy, at least until the second round, he was not too modest.
Qin Miao didn't stay long and left soon.
Tang Zheng looked at the rain flower seal for a long time, and suddenly looked in the direction of the door, and thought of a question: "Wait, how did he know... it was me?"
As soon as Qin Miao entered the door, what he said was not "Nice to meet you" but "Long time no see"!
The only time they met was at the Star-Seeking Tower.
Moreover, at that time they couldn't see each other's faces clearly!
"Come to think of it, Qin Miao and I should be the last two people left in the Su Shi Wen Xing Tower?" Tang Zheng thought about it carefully. It should not be difficult for Qin Miao to find the last person he saw in the Su Shi Wen Xing Tower based on the many details he knew.
But, besides him, is there anyone else who knows?
Tang Zheng completed fourteen star-asking questions in one breath in the Star-asking Tower. He didn't know how many people wanted to know who he was, and how many people wanted to take advantage of him, both good and bad.
Whether it's good or bad, it's always trouble, and Tang Zheng doesn't like trouble.
"However, I've been here for such a long time, and Qin Miao is the only one who came to see me, so it shouldn't be a big problem." Tang Zheng immediately understood and didn't worry about it anymore. He found a chair and sat down, holding the Yuhua Seal in one hand and flipping through the casting notes of Huangfu Xuanluo that he brought out from the Sushiwenxing Tower with the other hand.
The casting notes of the first generation Sun Star Lord are much more normal than her Mary Sue girl's diary.
Tang Zheng first skimmed through it and quickly picked out the part about engraving formations .
The only thing he had not yet touched upon in the art of casting was carving arrays.
Fortunately, Huangfu Xuan wrote the most detailed part in this section.
"It started with the design of the array pattern..." Tang Zheng had only wanted to flip through it casually, but he was fascinated by it. "Designing the array pattern is to design the star power circuit. Different star powers are introduced into different places through different methods to produce different effects... Wait, designing the star power circuit?"
Tang Zheng's breathing suddenly tightened.
In addition to casting, there is actually another thing that requires designing a star power circuit.
That is, the secret martial arts!
Maybe the specific operating methods are slightly different, but if you understand one method, you will understand all methods. When you have no clue, this is not a bad idea.
"Take another look..." Tang Zheng looked at it more carefully when he thought that learning how to design the purple-gold array pattern might be of great help to him in designing the star power circuit of his own constellation .
…
Before they knew it, it was dark and dinner was delivered to their respective rooms. Except for the servant who brought the food, no one came to disturb them.
Over the course of two or three days, carriages from different academies arrived here one after another.
However, the dormitory area, which accommodated nearly two thousand people, was still as quiet as when Tang Zheng and his team arrived.
The sound of the night wind and the sound of raindrops can be heard clearly.
After finishing his dinner, Tang Zheng stood up, opened the door and walked out.
The sun had already set, and all that remained in the sky were clouds shining through the moonlight.
"Ban Yiluo said that the purple gold array pattern was engraved into the middle of the jade, and the jade itself was not damaged at all. However, Huangfu Xuanluo mentioned the problem of the base material in the most basic array pattern design..." After all, Tang Zheng had no foundation in casting. After reading many pages in one breath, he had a lot of things in his mind that needed to be sorted out.
He went downstairs and walked out slowly, thinking as he walked.
As the night grew darker, there were fewer and fewer people outside.
The Qinling Academy does not prohibit visitors, but not many people go to visit the academy. Most people stay in their rooms, quietly preparing for the academy's martial arts competition, or go to the martial arts training ground to seize the time to improve themselves.
Tang Zheng was walking on the slightly empty flat road, thinking about his own things: "Take the Rain Flower Seal for example, there really is no visible damage. How exactly is this Star Power Circuit designed?"
If he could understand the mystery of dark engraving, then it would be easy for him to design his own secret martial arts.
After all, his horoscope is not as difficult to deal with as a piece of stone.
If there was a casting master here and heard Tang Zheng's mumbling, he would definitely give him a slap on the face.
A foundry worker who hasn't even learned the basics of relief engraving actually wants to study the problem of dark engraving. Isn't this like wanting to learn to run before learning to walk?
Tang Zheng walked along the road to somewhere unknown, but he still had no reliable ideas.
He suddenly realized that he seemed to have gone far away, and when he looked back, he could not remember how to get back.
"This is so embarrassing that a farmer who came from a gold mining family can get lost... This is simply throwing away my rice bowl." Tang Zheng laughed dryly at himself, but because he was too engrossed in his thoughts just now, he could not remember how to get back.
He tried walking for a while and had a hunch that he was getting further and further away.
I am indeed lost.
Just at this moment, he saw a flying insect accidentally fly onto a tree, and the sap flowing from the tree just instantly wrapped up the small fly.
Silently, the sap that wrapped the small flying insects quickly solidified under the blowing of the autumn wind, and an irregular oval-shaped translucent crystal fell to the ground...
"Amber?" Although Tang Zheng knew that this was a common tree in the north and that the crystals from the sap were of little value, he suddenly thought of what he knew in his previous life, the formation of amber...
It was as if a window had been flung open in his mind.
He immediately lowered his head and opened his palm, looking at the rain flower mark that he had been holding tightly.
Dark...
The so-called engraving, every little detail, seemed to have life, and was quickly organized into shape in his mind.
“No wonder Huangfu Xuanluo said that she didn’t know An Ke… But what she left in the underground garden for Xiaotang was indeed An Ke…” Tang Zheng felt that the wind around him seemed to have become lighter, and sighed in a low voice: “Haha… This is really funny.”
