Starting from the sculpture of Buddha statues in Lanruo Temple

Chapter 65 The Statue of Daodetian, Sculpted
In the early morning of the next day, a servant from Xu's mansion came to deliver a letter to Li Fengning, saying that all the rich and wealthy men in the city would come to Xu's mansion today, and Xu Yuanwai also invited him to Xu's mansion.

After hearing this, Li Fengning went to Wang Bo's new house, called Wang Bo, and went to Xu's residence together.

They waited for a while with Xu Maochun in the lobby of the Xu Mansion, and saw more than a dozen middle-aged people in bright and gorgeous clothes coming one after another.

Li Fengning thought, this should be the wealthy businessman of the Jinhua Chamber of Commerce that Xu Maochun mentioned.

Under the auspices of Xu Maochun, Li Fengning and Wang Bo discussed the business of carvings with these merchants.

After about an hour, they initially discussed the matter of profit sharing, and agreed to each pay for the raw materials for high-end sculptures, and then transport them to Li Fengning's residence.

As for the ordinary wood carvings, if necessary, those wealthy businessmen would find someone to go to the woods to cut wood and send it to the place designated by Li Fengning.

Li Fengning carved those ordinary small wood carvings directly in the woods, using local materials, so he thanked him and said no.

……

After everything was negotiated, Li Fengning left the Xu Mansion, separated from Wang Bo, and went to Lanruo Temple.

He wanted to talk to the fake Guanyin about the business of carving Guanyin Bodhisattva.

After walking for about two minutes, he finally arrived at Lanruo Temple.

Since he left Lanruo Temple, this was the first time he came back.

Today, Lanruo Temple also has many believers. There are pilgrims going back and forth in the temple hall, and incense is curled up in front of the Buddha statue.

At this time, Lanruo Temple is like a big Buddhist temple, and it has long lost its former desolate ancient temple appearance.

Li Fengning explained his intention to the Zhike monk, and the Zhike monk went to report the fake Guanyin.

After hearing this, the fake Guanyin couldn't help being angry.

This mortal obviously told her about the carving business the day before, but he didn't expect to come to her a day later.

How disrespectful to her!

Thinking of this, the fake Guanyin's revenge mentality towards Li Fengning has increased a lot.

Under the order of the fake Guanyin, the supervisor of Lanruo Temple discussed many business matters with Li Fengning.

After negotiating the price, Li Fengning took the deposit and left Lanruo Temple.

……

Li Fengning ran to Xu Mansion and Lanruo Temple, discussed two big business deals, and then went to Qingfeng Temple.

When he arrived at Qingfengguan, he had tea with Changchun Taoist before he started to carve the statue of Taiqing Daodetian.

When drinking tea with Taoist Changchun, he didn't talk about the progress of his imperial object art, but asked how to cast other spells.

Taoist Changchun told Li Fengning many methods of practicing magic as if they were just chatting.

Among them are the most basic five-element spells, imperial swordsmanship, as well as his special spells such as swallowing clouds and fog, paper-cutting adults, golden cicada shelling, replacement, etc.

Li Fengning wrote it down one by one, and decided to think about it after going back.

After chatting for a while, Li Fengning felt that it had been four days and he still hadn't finished carving a statue, which was a bit unreasonable.

So, he told Changchun Taoist that he was going to the statue.

Seventy percent of the Taiqing Daodetian statue has been carved by him, and he expects to be able to completely complete the statue today.

Generally speaking, on the divine case of the Sanqing Hall in Taoist temples, the Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun is located in the center, the left side is the Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, and the right side is the Taiqing Daotian Tianzun.

Among these three folk beliefs, the gods with the highest level of Taoism hold different things in their hands, which shows the three stages of the formation of the world in Taoist legends.

The Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun in the center holds a round bead in his hand, which symbolizes the state of chaos before the formation of the world.
At that time, the heaven and the earth had not yet been formed, everything had not yet been born, the clear and turbid had not been judged, and the yin and yang had not been separated.

This is the initial stage of the formation of the world. The state of the world at this time is called "Yuanshi", "Wuji" or "Hongyuan" by Taoists.

The Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun on the left is holding a "Kanli Kuangkuang Tutu" in his hand, which symbolizes the state of the world after chaos.

At that time, chaos was first distinguished, clear and turbid were dissected, and yin and yang were first separated.The light and clear air rises to form the sky, and the heavy and turbid air sinks to form the earth. The heaven and the earth have been formed, but there are no people.

This is the second stage of the formation of the world. The state of the world at this time is called "Hunyuan" by Taoists.

On the right is Taiqing Daode Tianzun, holding a Tai Chi divine fan, which symbolizes the opening up of heaven and earth, and the state of all things multiplying after the division of yin and yang.

At that time, all things transformed, and the vitality between heaven and earth began to flourish.

This is the final state of the formation of the world, and the state of the world at this time is called "the beginning of time" by Taoists.

In the evening, Li Fengning finally carved the statue of Daode Tianzun.

This is the first Taoist statue he carved.

Unlike when the Buddha statue was carved, after the Taoist statue was carved, no sound was heard.

Instead, he directly felt that the Lingtai was cold, and a stream of information suddenly rushed into his mind.

——【Tai Chi Fortune】

Taiqing Daode Tianzun represents the metamorphosis of all things between heaven and earth.

After Li Fengning carved this Taiqing Daodetian statue, he obtained the ability of [Tai Chi good fortune].

"Good fortune" is divided into "made" and "hua".

"Creation" is the process of the growth and improvement of all things.

"Hua" refers to the process of aging and deterioration of all things.

After Li Fengning obtained the ability of [Tai Chi Good Fortune], he wanted to try it all, so he bid farewell to Changchun Taoist and others, and left Qingfeng Temple.

I found a corner where no one was around, manifested [Garuda Faxiang], and flew towards a forest in the wilderness.

Facing a tree, he pinched a formula and used the ability of "creation" in [Tai Chi Good Fortune].

A small Tai Chi figure flashed on the tree, just encircling the trunk.

The next moment, the tree grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and green buds sprouted from the branches.

After Li Fengning used the ability of "creation", he then used the ability of "transformation" in [Tai Chi Good Fortune].

The next moment, the tree dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the leaves on the branches withered and turned yellow.

Immediately afterwards, Li Fengning once again used the "creation" ability in [Tai Chi Good Fortune] on this tree.

In the next moment, the dry trunk of the tree showed life again, and the branches began to spit out buds again.

Li Fengning felt that among the three casts, the third one consumed the most mana.

Perhaps it is because the first casting of the spell makes the trees grow; the second casting of the spell makes the trees grow old, which is the natural process of creation of all things in the world.

And the third time he cast the spell, he made a tree that was already old and damaged become full of life again. This is the reverse process of the creation of all things in the world.

It can be said that his third spellcasting was an act against the sky, so he consumed a lot of mana.

Suddenly, he heard a sound in the bushes.

It was a hare.

I don't know how the energy of [Tai Chi Good Fortune] will affect living things...

Li Fengning used the imperial object technique to capture the hare.

(End of this chapter)