A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

Bamboo shreds are more time-consuming than bamboo strips.

From after lunch to the next night, Li Yi spent a whole day and night making bamboo silk in the eight-faced stele space.

For 480 hours, Li Yicai chopped all the golden bamboo strands out.

After splitting all the bamboo threads, even though Li Yi's body had been strengthened, he couldn't stand it anymore.

After eight hours of sleeping on the tarpaulin with his clothes on, he regained his energy.

After being woken up by Zhang Haozhe who came to deliver the food, Li Yi swept away the breakfast he brought, and then returned to the eight-faced monument space full of energy.

Originally, he planned to split as much bamboo thread as possible during these three days, then put the bamboo thread into the space and bring it back, and slowly weave it.

But after extreme fatigue and a deep rest, Li Yi felt that his physical strength had recovered.

After eating and taking in energy, the sleepy spirit seems to gradually wake up and return to its best state.

Li Yi felt that he was full of energy and in excellent condition at the moment.

Therefore, he decided to take a challenge and strive to compile the single god statue within one day.

In the space of the eight-faced stele, the bundled bamboo threads have been piled up like a mountain, forming a mountain of bamboo threads.

In front of Zhusi Mountain, Li Yi sat cross-legged in front of them, his eyes fell on them, but his mind was full of thoughts.

Flickering figures emerged one after another, but Li Yi remained uncertain.

Li Yi has already completed the structure of the whole work, and he has already drafted the layout of all the statues in his heart.

But as the saying goes, it is difficult for Wansi to start, where to start, and which god and Buddha to start with, but Li Yi has encountered difficulties.

According to Li Yi's design, he planned to start from Monkey King.

The main character of this work is the Monkey King.

In the scene where this work takes place, Monkey King is also the only protagonist, the core C.

So starting from him, and then spreading out the whole scene around him, is the most direct and clear.

But when he was about to make a move, he found that he couldn't determine the image of Monkey King in his mind at all.

In his mind, this image is vague.

Although he could gather materials from various places and piece together an image of Monkey King, it was just a dead thing, absolutely soulless.

Therefore, after thinking hard for a long time, Li Yi finally decided to completely reverse the plan set at the beginning.

He wants to make up the gods and Buddhas in the sky first, and he wants to make up the Monkey King at the end.

After deciding on his idea, Li Yi started to do it.

The first thing he wove was the Jade Emperor, which he originally planned to knit last.

He is the most exalted existence in the entire scene, and even the entire background story.

He is the ruler of the heavens, the emperor who rules the heavens, and will never be destroyed.

In the original story, although the Monkey King made a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, he did not hit the Jade Emperor, but only outside the Lingxiao Palace, which alarmed him.

Afterwards, the Jade Emperor just passed an edict to the west, and invited the Tathagata to the heavenly court to refine the demons and rescue him.

Among various interpretations, he is the most mysterious and powerful existence in the entire Journey to the West.

Even the Monkey King, in front of him, seemed like a chicken and a dog.

Therefore, in Li Yi's plan, the Jade Emperor is also the largest of all the statues.

In his mind, he recalled all the paintings, statues, and text descriptions related to the Jade Emperor from ancient times to the present, and Li Yi kept holding them.

First weave the skeleton structure with broken yellow bamboo strips, and then weave it with bamboo silk.

The slender bamboo strands seemed to glow with life under his hands, and they were weaving, spreading, and growing as he weaved.

First, the dragon chair as the base gradually took shape, and the nine-story dragon platform below has a dragon pattern hovering, and the auspicious clouds on both sides flow and glow.

On the dragon chair, a divine body gradually took shape.

The crown cloak embroidered with a nine-clawed golden dragon is wide, and the knees below are covered thickly, blocking the auspicious cloud boots.

Kuilong twirled his sleeves for a circle, then they fell down naturally, with his palms resting on his knees.

So far, the height of the statue has surpassed Li Yi.

Li Yi also had to bring in several boxes and a scaffolding from the outside to continue weaving.

The knitting of the upper body is more difficult because of the distance required.

However, under Li Yi's weaving, soon, the figure of the Jade Emperor with broad shoulders appeared.

At the head of the six suns, Li Yi's weaving speed slowed down completely.

No matter what kind of statue, the face is the most important and the most difficult.

The image of gods is the most intuitive belief of believers, and it is often directly related to the incense in temples.

Therefore, many famous temples and temples do not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to make gold makeup for the statues, all for the sake of more incense.

When sculpting the body, the craftsmen will make the statues show compassion and compassion to give the believers enough comfort, thus increasing the incense.

But the statue that Li Yi weaved was not to deceive people, but to show the connotation and spirit of the characters in the theme scene.

Following Li Yi's weaving, a statue of the Jade Emperor with a graceful expression, slender eyes, raised corners of the eyes, and a faint smile on the corner of his mouth gradually appeared.

After braiding the crown hair and twelve rows of beads with bamboo silk, Li Yi hung down the strings one by one.

Also hanging down were five locks of long beard, hanging on the golden-scale coiled dragon square heart-curved collar on the chest.

As he put down the last skewer, Li Yi finally let out a long sigh of relief.

After getting down from the scaffolding, Li Yi took two steps back and looked up at the three-meter-high statue of the Jade Emperor. Li Yi was in a daze for a moment.

Maybe it's because his craftsmanship is so good, standing in front of this statue of the Jade Emperor, even Li Yi himself felt a little depressed.

He seemed to have an illusion that the eyes of the Jade Emperor hidden behind the string were staring at him.

And below the string, the smile on the corner of Jade Emperor's mouth seemed to have become a little sarcastic, as if he was laughing at the monkey who was overwhelmed.

Li Yi sat on the ground a little tired, propped his back on the ground, and admired the statue of the Jade Emperor.

The Zhusi mountain, which was originally piled up like a mountain, has been consumed.

The equivalent of one million golden bamboo threads were all used to weave this statue of the Jade Emperor.

Before starting to weave the head, Li Yi was still a little unsure, and was ready to take it apart and re-weave it several times.

But the final result was far beyond his expectation, and the effect he wanted was perfectly compiled.

The facial expression of this statue of the Jade Emperor was extremely vivid, within seconds, even Li Yi himself was in a daze, as if he was about to stand up from the dragon chair in the next moment.

In particular, the ironic smile on the corner of his mouth showed Li Yi's thoughts to the fullest.

Looking at this statue of the Jade Emperor, Li Yi felt an unprecedented satisfaction in his heart.

Although it has not been verified, he can already be sure.

This [Golden Silk Jade Emperor Statue] is definitely enough to be classified as a [Handed down Work]!

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