Volume 3: Star Tower Chapter 51: If you understand one law, you will understand all laws
Tang Zheng walked over on the rustling leaves, picked up the insect wrapped in tree sap, and looked at it carefully with the fan.
In nature, billions of changes are taking place every moment...
Something like this is not even a base material, and there is nothing worth studying. However, Tang Zheng's eyes were on it and on his own Yuhua Seal, and he looked at them over and over again several times.
The deep and shallow array patterns are like dancing snakes.
The biggest difference between dark engraving and other castings is that the array patterns vary in depth. Some pen tips penetrate deep into the center of the substrate, while others are almost close to the surface. Therefore, it is more three-dimensional than relief engraving and clear engraving, and the effect of the array patterns is of course stronger.
"Ban Yiluo is wrong, and all the foundries in the entire Xingyao Continent are wrong..." Tang Zheng became more and more certain as he looked at it, "The reason why the Anke was lost is not the loss of craftsmanship, but... the loss of material selection methods and processing technology!"
In fact, the principles and craftsmanship of carving arrays have not been lost for tens of millions of years.
However, no one has ever thought about whether all materials can be used for engraving?
The answer is no!
"Hidden engraving is not what they said, the method of engraving purple gold array patterns into the interior of the material. On the contrary, the array patterns inside the material are... natural! I took these hidden engraving techniques speculated by the foundry masters and ran to ask Huangfu Xuanluo. No wonder she was stunned by my questions." Tang Zheng smiled and shook his head a few times.
His whole body was immersed in the wonders of nature.
In his previous life, he lived in an ordinary world without any star power, but even that world had countless gems and jades.
Let’s not talk about other things, just talk about the completely naturally formed crystals, there are gray smoke crystals that look like smoke, golden hair crystals with shining gold threads inside, green ghost crystals that are full of green...
Smoky quartz, hair quartz, ghost crystal, these are the very common crystals on the market. If we talk about the various strange crystals that have formed water plants, whirlpools and even pyramids inside, the list will be endless.
It's just a very ordinary world!
The environment of Xingyao Continent is far more complicated than that world, and the energy structure is even more bizarre. Is it possible that materials with purple-gold array patterns already formed on them might be produced?
So, just like a top chef using top-quality fresh ingredients to prepare dishes, a top caster only needs a few finishing touches, and a piece of natural material can bloom with amazing brilliance!
If Huangfu Xuanluo knew that what should have been the simplest technique, dark engraving, has now become the most difficult unsolved mystery in the casting industry, he would definitely be even more confused.
"But that kind of material should not be rare." Tang Zheng looked at the Yuhua Seal in his hand again.
Even the Tianqin family would not be able to provide ten every year as rewards to graduates of the Qinling Academy.
Tang Zheng smiled when he thought of this.
It’s connected!
Now everything goes smoothly.
"I wonder how much of art comes from... forgery?" The more Tang Zheng looked at the Yuhua Seal on his hand, the more certain he became of his thoughts.
There should be jade stones with natural purple-gold array patterns, but the number is definitely not too many.
However, engraving is a method that can preserve the effect of accessories for thousands of years without degrading!
The scarcity of natural substrates and the huge demand will almost inevitably give rise to an industry - artificial jade!
In his previous life, in the world where Tang Zheng lived, even diamonds, which were originally the most precious natural gemstones, had already developed into a complete artificial manufacturing industry, and no matter in terms of strength, hardness or glossiness, they were no worse than natural diamonds.
Such an industry must have existed in Xingyao Continent.
However, due to some reasons that cannot be verified, this industry disappeared, and the disappearance of this industry also led to the disappearance of the dark carving technique...
"Well, the correct order should be like this - materials are king, materials come first, then secret carvings!" Tang Zheng threw away the small bead formed by the insect wrapped in tree sap in his hand and stood up.
In Huangfu Xuanluo's era, foundries probably selected materials, processed the base material, and then carved the array into shape by themselves. There was no clear division of labor.
However, Xingyao Continent now has a very clear division of labor between Bailianfang and Yaoshan Tribe. Perhaps Yaoshan Tribe is not clear about how each type of jade it provides will be used, and Bailianfang is not clear about the possible consequences of a shortage of a certain type of jade.
Therefore, as long as a certain special event occurs, it is enough to suddenly sever the relationship between the two in terms of dark engraving, resulting in the sudden loss of the dark engraving craft, which has never been revived.
"If you look closely, the purple-gold array pattern on the artificial stone is a bit random... There are breakpoints on the edges, and the array pattern is also slightly complicated, with a lot of random strokes." Tang Zheng looked at the Yuhua Seal in his hand and said to himself, "I have never noticed it before."
Due to some reasons, the star power circuit formed by natural purple gold jade is often relatively complete.
However, because artificial stone is made by forcibly mixing two materials together and simulating a certain environment to accelerate its generation process, it is not an engraved array after all. Therefore, the purple and gold lines in the artificial stone must be messy and it is impossible to form a star power circuit!
There is no natural star power circuit!
Then the foundry master will have to spend more time on it.
"They are really wrong. What An Ke really wants to figure out is not how to inexplicably carve the purple-gold array pattern into the base material, but rather how to organize the chaotic purple-gold lines in the base material into a complete star power circuit."
If we compare the ordinary purple gold engraved array to the structure of an ordinary martial arts circuit.
Then, the dark engraving must be equivalent to calling upon the star power circuit structure of the astrology!
Because for ordinary engraving arrays, the base material is like a blank sheet of paper and can be used as it pleases. The same is true for ordinary martial arts circuits. You only need to consider your own attacks and your own goals, and no other considerations.
With dark engraving, there are already a few drops of ink, a few cat's paws, or even a mess of thread on a piece of paper. How to make a perfect painting on such a paper is definitely more difficult than painting on a blank piece of paper.
The same is true for calling on the stars. The two-party star power circuit becomes a three-party star power circuit, and building the star power circuit is of course more difficult.
"Okay, let's start from the beginning..." Tang Zheng was thinking. The first step of the secret engraving was to deal with the artificial stone, and then design the star power circuit according to the messy lines that already existed in the artificial stone. As for the construction of the martial arts circuit that calls on the astrology, it is also necessary to start with a deeper understanding of one's own astrology.
He touched his nose.
Because he felt as if he needed a mirror.
But it is absolutely terrible for a grown man to pose in front of the mirror all day long.
"Let's not think about the mirror for now. The question now is, where on earth have I ended up?" Tang Zheng looked left and right. The night was getting darker and the Qinling Academy was getting quieter. However, he was still lost and had not found the way back to the dormitory.
