Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Clay, the Creator of All Things

Two or three of them are even master-level figures who have received the highest artistic rating in a certain area of ​​the association.

Although Soul Masters are the mainstream in this world, art is also popular among nobles and wealthy merchants.

Furthermore, the identities of a Soul Master and an artist are not contradictory.

Many of them are even Soul Masters at the Soul Venerable level or above, and some even have noble status.

This is a unique cultural heritage belonging to the Heaven Dou Empire, which is far beyond the reach of the barbarians of the Star Luo Empire.

Attendants stood respectfully on both sides, ready to give any instructions to those present.

And sitting in the main seat of this conference room was a young man who looked to be under twenty years old.

Even those present could sense a youthful aura beneath the young man's deliberately mature makeup.

However, no one present underestimated him because of his apparent age.

The reason is nothing more than private exchanges between the other party and the association over the past two months.

And with their exquisite sculptures, everyone had already acknowledged their artistic talent.

In fact, just a month ago, many of them had helped him.

This allowed the young person to obtain one of the association's highest ratings, "Master Sculptor."

This young man named Lu Li is undoubtedly a genius in the arts!

In addition to sculpture, the other party also has remarkable insights into many fields such as painting and color, landscape architecture, jewelry, and clothing design.

Perhaps, this young man himself is also a meticulously crafted work of art.

Everyone looked at Lu Li's extremely refined and handsome face, and their gazes swept over his simple yet artistic clothing.

Many people sighed inwardly.

At this moment, another man, who looked to be around twenty years old, also dressed elegantly but not fussily, exuding art and beauty, walked in.

He smiled apologetically at everyone and then took his seat.

At this moment, a waiter walked up to Lu Li and whispered, "Master Lu, all the participants for this exchange meeting have arrived."

Immediately, the waiter saw Lu Li nod to signal him to leave.

"Now that everyone is here, let's begin." Lu Li smiled calmly at everyone, his deep eyes sweeping over them before he spoke with composure.

“We’re all old acquaintances, and we’ve had quite a few exchanges in private.”

"But as this is my first exchange and sharing session since I received the association's highest rating, I feel it is still necessary to systematically share my personal understanding of art, or visual arts."

"The topic of this exchange, 'What is beauty? Where does beauty come from?' stems from this very question."

The Heaven Dou Empire has a certain artistic foundation.

However, after a period of contact and understanding, Lu Li discovered that...

This cultural foundation is still somewhat shallow, relying more on "talent" than on a systematic study of the underlying principles.

This is understandable, since art is merely a "toy" among nobles, while the strength of a Soul Master is the mainstream.

How many people are truly willing to devote themselves wholeheartedly to art research?

Given the social climate, economic conditions, and insufficient number of employed people.

It is still very difficult to form a complete system of art theory.

Thus, Lu Li had the topic for today's exchange and sharing.

Let's talk about some basic urban systems.

Lu Li paused for a moment, glanced at everyone's expressions, and then gestured for the last man to enter to come in.

"Brother Ning seems to have some doubts?"

Ning Fengya didn't stand on ceremony and asked directly, "What's there to talk about? Beauty is a spiritual feeling, a feeling that comes from the heart."

Then, Ning Fengya glanced at everyone present and continued, "This is common sense, and it's a consensus among everyone here."

Upon hearing this, many people nodded in agreement, acknowledging that this was indeed common sense.

Some people looked at Lu Li with thoughtful expressions, clearly indicating that this master had a different opinion.

"That's certainly a good point, but perhaps we could explore it in more depth."

Lu Li then stopped in suspense and continued to explain his point of view.

"I believe that satisfaction is 'beauty,' and beauty comes from rhythm."

"Please take a look, everyone." Next, Lu Li used his martial soul clay to demonstrate different shapes, sizes, and densities of various arrangements, allowing everyone to observe and experience them.

Afterwards, Lu Li asked everyone to share their visual experiences and discuss the issue of visual order.

Soon, everyone noticed something: in Lu Li's presentation, at least 80% of the people's visual perception was consistent with the visual sequence.

From another perspective, Lu Li manipulated their visual focus.

"How did you do that? How did you do it?" Realizing this, everyone couldn't help but ask Lu Li with great curiosity.

"It's the rhythmic contrast between position, size, density, curvature, simplicity, and so on." Lu Li then manipulated the clay to form three small balls, one large and two small.

"Did your eyes immediately fall on the small ball in the middle?"

"This is actually a way of guiding human instinctive vision. Even if the ball isn't in the center, your eyes will still fall on the ball first, right?"

As he spoke, Lu Li moved the ball slightly.

Everyone nodded.

"This is a basic human instinct, including density, complexity, simplicity, curvature, and so on."

"Human vision likes to 'find differences'; when vision discovers differences among a large number of 'same' things."

"For example, in a densely packed arrangement, a loosely arranged single individual was found; in a group of large spheres, a small sphere was found."

As Lu Li spoke, he demonstrated and explained using clay modeling, "When this desire to 'find the differences' is satisfied, humans will experience a slight sensation."

"And this feeling, along with the continuous satisfaction, gives birth to the feeling of 'beauty'."

After speaking, Lu Li took a sip of tea, giving everyone time to digest the information.

Next, Lu Li continued to explain various rhythms to everyone, such as big-small-big, small-small-big, sparse-dense-sparse, dense-sparse-dense, and so on.

Tell everyone that by combining and integrating different rhythms, countless different visual rhythms can be created, giving the audience different aesthetic experiences.

Lu Li even used music as an example, using songs with different melodies to metaphorically represent different scenes.

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on and immediately started clapping.

So, everyone began to discuss more in-depth and specific details with Lu Li.

Lu Li calmly and patiently answered everyone's questions in a clear and concise manner.

The internal exchange meeting of the association suddenly became extremely lively.

Two hours later, although everyone still wanted to discuss, Lu Li decided to end the exchange.

"Alright, that's about time. Let's end today's exchange meeting here."

"Actually, what I'm saying is just a little insight of my own, and I believe that everyone had already noticed it before I made it clear."

"It's just that I systematically organized it."

After Lu Li finished speaking, he paused and gestured to the waiter to bring over the small stone slab that had been prepared in advance, and to place it upright on the shelf.

"As is customary, I also need to demonstrate the effectiveness of what I shared today."

After speaking, Lu Li's spirit rings flickered, and his first spirit skill lit up.

"If someone can master the rhythm and achieve a certain level of perfection, it will be like this."

As soon as he finished speaking, a lump of clay was pasted onto a stone slab the size of a book page.

In a short while, Lu Li retrieved the clay, and a beautiful stone carving scroll appeared on the stone slab.

After doing all this, Lu Li bowed and turned to leave.

All that remained were people watching and discussing his impromptu works, their eyes filled with a variety of emotions, including admiration, respect, and sudden realization.

However, there was one exception among them.

"Brother Lu, wait a moment, let's go together." It was Ning Fengya who spoke.

Chapter 53 A "Roommate" from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School

Lu Li, naturally, is Lu Yan who has come to Tian Dou City.

When you're out in the world, you give yourself your own identity.

Of course, Lu Yan would be very happy if someone could help him perfect his identity.

For example, Lu Yan's current identity as Lu Li was obtained through Ning Fengya's connections within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Even if a powerful force were willing to investigate, Lu Li's disguise would definitely be lost.

However, the reason why Lu Yan needed the identity of Lu Li was simply because his age of 8 caused him many inconveniences.

That's why he used this as an excuse to get Ning Fengya to help him create a fake identity.

Whether his identity is revealed or not is no big deal now, after all, he's already famous.

The revelation that he is only eight years old will only make him seem even more of a genius.

Then, even if it's just out of curiosity, I'll look it up.

Oh, it has the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School background, so what?

After all, he's just a sculptor, not a martial arts master.

Being a genius in art is not the same as being a genius in the realm of Soul Masters.

In the Douluo Continent, where strength reigns supreme, the status of so-called artists is just so-so.

Perhaps due to the prevailing atmosphere in the Heavenly Dou Empire, people outwardly seem to place a little more importance on artists.

But only slightly, making it a little stronger than an ordinary association, such as the Blacksmiths' Association in the original work.

Otherwise, the eldest prince, Xue Qinghe, who is nominally the president of the Royal Art Exchange Association of Tiandou City, would not have never come.