Chapter Sixteen: Tattooing Techniques

  Cheng Rong's companions showed a hint of retreat, while Li Le's face became even more arrogant, with a mixture of complacency, mockery, and contempt forming an extremely detestable expression. At the same time, he stretched out his dry hand and slapped Cheng Rong's face several times with a provocative gesture, completely without restraint.

  "Remember, be more considerate in the future and don't annoy Master Hong."

  With that, Li Le slightly tilted his head, walked in a swaggering gait, and left with his younger brothers, looking no different from a big brother of society.

  Cheng Rong, who had been humiliated even more, looked at Li Le's nonchalant expression and his stomach was about to burst with anger. However, this anger seemed to be baseless, as soon as he thought of the pharmacist backing Li Le, Cheng Rong's heart felt a little empty.

  As Li Le led his companions further and further away, this was the perfect opportunity for Cheng Rong and others to rush in and fix Xiao Hong's mistake, but who dared?

  Although Mingzhi Xiao Hong has a low probability of having aggressive means, what if he does?

  Looking again at the tightly closed curtains and doors, made Cheng Rong feel a sense of mystery and unpredictability, not daring to make any sudden moves.

  Cheng Rong stood at the entrance of Xiao Hong's door for a while, and finally chose to retreat, leaving with his companions in dejection.

  As for Xiao Hong at home, he did not know about the things between Li Le and Cheng Rong, in other words, he didn't care either.

  At this moment, Xiao Hong was sitting in front of the desk, carefully studying the books about the War Demon Pattern. Although the demon patterns have commonalities, there are differences between the War Demon Pattern and the Medicine Demon Pattern. The Medicine Demon Pattern emphasizes function or healing, while the War Demon Pattern emphasizes attack power, which is killing people.

  The attack power of an ordinary three-level warrior is probably between 300 to 400 points, but Xiao Hong's goal is not just that. He wants to create a more powerful warrior.

  After reading for two hours, finishing the last fruit, Xiao Hong slowly got up and pulled open the curtains.

  At this moment, the time has already arrived in the afternoon. The warm and gentle sunlight, with the opening of the curtains, spilled onto Xiao Hong's face and the desk.

  He opened the window, took a deep breath of the outside air, and slowly closed his eyes. His mind was filled with thoughts about the War Demon, while the sweet singing voice of Muci still lingered in his ears.

  After a few minutes of relaxation, Xiao Hong sat back in front of the desk and habitually took out two mysterious magic beads from his pocket, starting to study them carefully, trying to learn something from them.

  Nowadays, that cyan-black magic bead, Xiao Hong has already understood it relatively well, and it recovers every 24 hours.

  The bright sunlight outside shines on the magic bead, making the golden pattern on the surface of the magic bead look dazzling.

  "Huh?"

  Suddenly, Xiao Hong's expression changed drastically, and he slightly raised his head. The golden patterns on the magic bead reflected off the sunlight, forming a golden light line on the wall opposite him.

  Because the magic bead is "convex", the reflected light and shadow are also magnified, and in this magnified light and shadow, Xiao Hong suddenly discovered that the golden lines of the magic bead reflect a strip of golden light and shadow with fine, dense texture.

  "Are there patterns within patterns?" Xiao Hong's eyes widened in surprise and incredulity, his face filled with astonishment. Up until now, Xiao Hong had read many books, but he had never heard of any introduction to "patterns within patterns".

  What shocked Xiao Hong even more was that, within the intricate patterns of the magic bead, there were even denser and more delicate patterns carved into it. What kind of craftsmanship was this!

  "My goodness." Xiao Hong couldn't help but let out such an exclamation again, as he observed that the patterns inside were becoming more and more mysterious and complex. Similarly, after a rough thought, Xiao Hong himself was also very clear that the patterns contained within them could greatly enhance the power of the magic seals, making them even more precise when activated.

  For a moment, Xiao Hong stared at the light and shadow in front of him, somewhat entranced, his mind instinctively began to think about how to incorporate these patterns into his own magical tattoos.

  However, Xiao Hong himself was also very aware that this was not easy to do. Even in his own tattoos, the lines were extremely narrow, and it was very difficult to carve out another tattoo inside them. But relying on Xiao Hong's consistent personality, he discovered a new structure of the magic bead and would not give up research, and applied it to his own tattoos.

  For four hours, Xiao Hong was like a statue, his eyes fixed on the light and shadow on the wall in front of him, until the sun slowly set, the room became dark, and the light and shadow disappeared. Only then did Xiao Hong cough lightly twice.

  Through these four hours of observation, Xiao Hong only vaguely understood one stroke in the texture, and this stroke was initially determined by Xiao Hong to have a reinforcing and guiding effect, nothing more.

  Once again, Xiao Hong put the magic bead into the small pocket of his underwear, then leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes slightly, and the fine lines on the magic bead were deeply imprinted in his mind.

  "How can I apply him to my magic?" Xiao Hong muttered to himself.

  It wasn't until seven in the evening, when his stomach growled with hunger, that Xiao Hong was pulled back to reality from his deep thoughts.

  He got up, put on his coat and hurried to the cafeteria. Since it was already past mealtime, there were very few people in the old cafeteria, only three or five elderly miners holding poor-quality high-alcohol liquor, pushing cups and changing cups, killing time.

  As for the meal, Xiao Hong had never been too picky, ordered a bowl of vegetable soup and two large steamed buns, then hid in the dim corner, eating to his heart's content.

  While eating, Xiao Hong's mind was still constantly thinking about the related things of "wen zhong wen" and thinking about how to apply it to magic tattoos, the steamed bun in his hand just suspended in mid-air.

  "Strengthen... Guide..."

  These are the two most repeated words in Xiaohong's speech.

  The chopsticks in the other hand stood upright in the soup, drawing a simple magic pattern on the slightly moldy dining table.

  "But how can we perfectly combine the two patterns?" This is also a problem that Xiao Hong has been thinking about, which not only requires extremely strong knife skills but also requires extremely strong control over the force of the knife, that is, the precision of the force, neither can be missing.

  Like this, two mantou can be settled in just a few minutes, but Xiao Hong ate for half an hour, most of the time was spent thinking, thinking and thinking again.

  "This won't do, I'd better go back and try it out." Xiao Hong muttered to himself, erasing the pattern he had drawn on the table with the soup spoon, then got up and rushed wildly back home.

  Locking the door, Xiao Hong once again started bustling about, making magic ink, cutting and polishing the original stone. Everything was busy for an hour.

  He picked up the carving knife again, this time Xiao Hong intended to create a third-level medicine rune that could reduce inflammation and kill bacteria. He didn't choose to make a battle rune because he still didn't have the materials to make one.

  The first time Xiao Hong did not plan to directly use the tattoo technique, but instead planned to first manufacture a common anti-inflammatory drug tattoo, mainly in order to familiarize himself with it and give himself a general idea, then proceed step by step.

  Making ordinary medicine patterns was already very familiar to Xiao Hong, so making them wasn't difficult at all. However, every time he carved out a section of the pattern, his mind would involuntarily think about the related matters of "patterns within patterns".

  In just over 20 minutes, a very simple anti-inflammatory magic rune was created by Xiao Hong. Due to its simple structure, this kind of magic rune can only be used three times before it completely breaks down.

  However, as an experimental product, Xiao Hong didn't pay much attention to it. He mainly used it for practice, with a very simple purpose.

  Next, Xiao Hong had to try to use the "texture in texture" technique to merge it into his own magic texture, but he didn't have a clue.

  Although the technique of inscribing patterns within patterns had never appeared before, Xiao Hong could sense it through his extensive knowledge of magical tomes. This was absolutely an extremely mysterious technique.

  Once again picking up the carving knife, with the previous practice, Xiao Hong quickly carved out the pattern of the anti-inflammatory medicine magic rune.

  With a light blow from his mouth, the debris on top of the stone was blown away, and Xiao Hong quickly found the two nodes of this simple medicine magic pattern. The accidental node is where the power is converted into other forms of energy, often at the largest turning point in a line.

  The stroke with reinforcing and guiding functions that Xiao Hong found on the magic pearl earlier appeared at the node.

  Xiao Hong was also very self-aware, specially carving the texture at the node a bit larger, leaving enough space for himself to carve even smaller textures in this texture without affecting the magic pattern.

  Taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down as much as possible, Xiao Hong carefully put the slanted knife aside and took out the needlehead knife from the carved pattern knife case. The knife head was like a needle head, used for carving fine patterns, and would never be used for making Mo patterns of the Yu Tu level. But now, perhaps it was an exception.

  Gently grasping the needle knife, Xiao Hong adjusted the brightness of the Guang magic pattern to its maximum and began to carve even smaller magic patterns in the already carved paths.

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