Dragon's Origin

Chapter 144: Old Lord's Colossus (Part 1)

Using a thousand-pound hammer and a thousand-pound chisel, Wang Sheng, with the help of the fighting consciousness little man, barely managed to adapt in just over a month, making them usable for carving.

However, barely adapting wasn't Wang Sheng's goal. After spending another half a month completely mastering the thousand-pound hammer, Wang Sheng switched to a heavier, two-thousand-pound hammer.

Amidst the almost non-stop clanging of the hammer, save for sleeping, Wang Sheng began to slowly adapt to the one-ton hammer. During the process, Wang Sheng discovered a phenomenon he had almost never noticed before.

With no less than ten thousand hammer strikes a day, each requiring Wang Sheng's full strength to control the hammer, control the chisel, and control his spiritual Qi, Wang Sheng also had to endure the recoil from the heavy hammer and chisel. All of these forces, coupled with the crisp clanging sound of the hammer and chisel colliding, caused Wang Sheng's entire body to vibrate with each strike, as if giving Wang Sheng a massage.

Each vibration spread throughout Wang Sheng's body, from bones to muscles to internal organs, without missing a single spot. And in this vibration, the medicinal power of the Creation Pill, which was contained within Wang Sheng's body but not completely digested, was fully stimulated and seeped into the deepest parts of Wang Sheng's body, bit by bit.

At the same time, Wang Sheng's spiritual Qi, in this regular vibration, increasingly nourished Wang Sheng's body and stimulated the strengthening of various parts. It could be said that the rhythmic and orderly hammering sound mobilized all of Wang Sheng's potential and filled his body.

Muscle strength slowly increased, internal organs continued to strengthen, bones continued to strengthen, and Wang Sheng's spiritual Qi, in constant consumption, underwent countless refinements, becoming increasingly pure.

After a period of hammering, Wang Sheng would sit down and quietly write. The Eight Principles of Yong was a good thing, allowing Wang Sheng to fully understand the mental techniques of using the brush, moving the brush, applying force, vigor, and using ink.

Especially when Wang Sheng practiced calligraphy, he combined the Tai Chi Hunyuan Stance and the Tai Chi Qi circulation concept with calligraphy practice, learning to experience how to send the body's power to the tip of the brush in a relaxed state, and fully understand the use of finger techniques and brush techniques.

Relying on Tai Chi principles, Wang Sheng could freely adjust writing fatigue, maintain a good learning state, and make calligraphy learning more effective while also effectively resting and relieving the physical fatigue caused by carving with the hammer and chisel.

Calligraphy itself could cultivate tranquility and improve concentration. In the process of practicing calligraphy, not only could the body and mind gain peaceful joy, but also personal cultivation, temperament, and learning could be improved.

Carving was considered movement, while calligraphy was considered stillness. But in carving, the movement range of the chisel was small, while the hammer was large and expansive, which was considered movement within stillness and stillness within movement. In calligraphy, sitting upright for practice was stillness, but Wang Sheng's use of different weights of brushes to create lively strokes was movement, which was also movement within stillness and stillness within movement.

When practicing carving, each hammer strike was used for carving, but for Wang Sheng, it was like forging and tempering. And when practicing calligraphy, it was more like allowing Wang Sheng to cultivate his mind and relax his over-strained nerves and body.

A combination of relaxation and tension, with moderation, although Wang Sheng was still exhausted at the end of each day, Wang Sheng could feel the progress of his cultivation every day, could perceive that his body was becoming stronger, and even his spirit was much more invigorated. This could be seen from the increasingly shorter deep sleep time.

The progress of carving was also much faster than at the beginning. Not to mention anything else, just the boat that Wang Sheng hired to transport the stones, initially only needed one trip a day, but now it needed at least two trips a day, and five trips every two days to keep up with the speed at which Wang Sheng produced the stones.

The boatmen didn't think much about it. Wang Sheng gave them gold coins, and they earned this hard-earned money, and they didn't ask what Wang Sheng was doing. What could be done in this bare place?

As for the passing passenger ships and merchant ships, no one paid any attention. Who would stop to see what was being done on top of the big mountain in Jiangxin? Not to mention not having the time and interest, even if they did, ordinary travelers and merchants wouldn't think of taking the initiative to inquire, it wasn't worth it.

As for the cultivation experts, it was even more impossible for them to be free enough to watch a stonemason carve things. They didn't have enough time for their own cultivation every day, so where would they have the leisure to watch these things?

From the time Wang Sheng left the capital, especially after Wang Sheng killed the young man and the old formation master and left the small village, no one knew Wang Sheng's whereabouts. Whether it was the major families or various organizations, after chasing for a period of time without any news of Wang Sheng, everyone gave up. Which family didn't have things to be busy with? How could they just stare at one person and waste time?

The only few people who still paid attention to Wang Sheng, besides the female owner of Baoqing Yutang and Lu Wenhou of Yu Baozhai, were the few in Worry-Free City, but they wouldn't search the world for Wang Sheng. At most, they would talk about Wang Sheng during idle chats after tea and dinner, nothing more.

However, the task of Wang Sheng's reward for Creation Pills in the killer hall of Worry-Free City was still hanging there. Anyway, as long as Wang Sheng didn't personally cancel it, it would continue to hang there.

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, autumn passed and winter came, and then quickly entered spring again. Wang Sheng had been on the mountain for a full eight months.

Now, the hammer in Wang Sheng's hand had been replaced with the fourth one, which was the one with the most ordinary weight. Using a light hammer and a heavy chisel, Wang Sheng didn't look awkward at all. Holding the normal weight hammer, it was as if he was holding a thousand-pound hammer. With one hammer strike, the stone would crack where it should crack and pierce where it should pierce, completely unaffected.

Looking at this, Wang Sheng had already mastered the fourth hammer, and he would soon be able to use the fifth hammer, which was as light as a feather.

After eight months of tempering, the most obvious difference between the current Wang Sheng and the Wang Sheng eight months ago was that he had a more solid feeling. Although his appearance hadn't changed much, he could show a kind of taste that he was now more solid and fierce than before.

In addition, Wang Sheng's temperament had a bit more steadiness and scholarly air. Wang Sheng was originally stable enough, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to be a trump card sniper, but scholarly air was always something that Wang Sheng had no connection with. Unexpectedly, after practicing calligraphy for eight months, there was such an unexpected change.

No matter which of the three brushes Wang Sheng took, he could write the character '永' (Yong) neatly. The brushstrokes, force application, and even the spiritual Qi flow of each character were almost identical. Wang Sheng was also thinking that after practicing the Eight Principles of Yong for eight months, it was time to write other characters.

What he had promised to Lingxu Old Taoist could not be fully accomplished with just a statue of the Old Lord. Other assistance was needed. It was time to practice the relevant characters, so as not to be embarrassed at that time.