Chapter 16 Enlightenment by Forging Swords
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In the foundry room, the furnace was blazing with fire, as if it could burn everything to ashes.
"The four key points of ironwork are the foundation. You have mastered them all. In this regard, I have nothing to teach you."
"But if you want to cast a sword, it's not enough to rely on the four key points of ironing. Now, I will teach you a better casting technique - four transformations and five hammers."
After explaining the steps of casting a sword to Chen Zong, Elder Lie began to teach the four-transformation and five-hammer technique.
The so-called four-transformation and five-hammer technique is a more advanced forging technique that has evolved from the four key points of ironmaking. Hammer skills.
Light, heavy, urgent and slow are the four changes.
Positive, virtual, pressing, pressing and grinding are the five hammers.
Combining the Four Transformations and the Five Hammers is the Four Transformations Five Hammers technique.
As soon as Elder Lie taught him, Chen Zong learned very quickly. In fact, in the past two or three months, in addition to teaching Chen Zong the four key points of iron strike, Elder Lie also unknowingly taught five hammers to him. Chen Zong.
"Okay, now that I have mastered the four-transformation five-hammer technique, I will immediately forge a sword and show it to Lao Tzu." Elder Lie said unceremoniously.
Chen Zong has long been accustomed to Elder Lie's way of speaking and doesn't care.
Casting a sword is different from forging iron blocks. Forging iron blocks is to burn the thick iron with fire until it becomes red and soft, and then beat it repeatedly. For sword casting, iron blocks are calcined and melted into molten iron, which is injected into the model to solidify into a preliminary embryo, and then passed through Repeated beatings gradually formed, and finally quenched and then opened up, a sword became.
The iron block had already been melted into molten iron. Under the operation of Chen Zong, the molten iron was injected into the model of the long sword.
His eyes stared at the molten iron in the sword mold, watching it cool down a little bit and solidify a little bit. When it was almost time, Chen Zong took it out and put it on the anvil, grabbed the 100-pound hammer with his right hand, and raised it high. Hammer down again.
The right of the five hammers is that the hand is holding the hammer, which is the most commonly used method of holding the hammer.
Xu, is to hold it a little, not too hard, lift the hammer and fall, it looks fierce, but in fact it is slight, and it will vibrate slightly.
Press, after the hammer falls, the hammer is not allowed to bounce, but a second force is exerted to press the hammer on the sword embryo.
Press, this is the strengthening of pressing.
Grinding means pressing the hammer on the sword embryo and rubbing it up and down for a short distance.
Elder Lie watched and nodded secretly. This is the first time for Chen Zong to cast a sword. Although he is a little unfamiliar, his overall performance is quite good, especially his basic skills are very solid, and his mastery and application of power is unique. .
Under repeated beatings, the sword embryo is formed and completely solidified, and it is useless to be beaten again, and it is quenched.
Quenching uses water from cold springs. To grasp the timing and angle, it requires superb eyesight, keen sense and rich experience.
In terms of eyesight, Chen Zong is not bad, and in terms of feeling, Chen Zong is not bad. What he lacks is experience. Therefore, the quenching this time is very ordinary in the eyes of Elder Lie.
"Is this the sword I made with my own hands?" Chen Zong took the sword out of the cold spring water and looked at it carefully. The body of the sword was uneven and not straight enough. It looked crooked, like a burning stick.
"It's too far, and we need to keep working hard." Elder Lie glanced at it and scolded it directly. He dared to say that the sword he forged for the first time was not even as good as a fire stick?
After that, Chen Zong no longer forged fine iron blocks, but instead cast swords.
The task that Elder Lie gave him was to forge at least ten mortal iron swords this month, and then he could get 200 contribution points.
Leaving the foundry, Chen Zong recalled every detail of the sword casting.
"By casting a sword to understand a sword, how to understand?"
Obviously, sword making and sword training are two different things, so what is the relationship between the two?
Chen Zong doesn't know yet, but he will look for answers.
In a blink of an eye, ten days passed, and Chen Zong forged a mortal iron sword every day.
Unsatisfactory every time.
The molten iron is injected into the sword mold, taken out, and beaten, and the sword embryo is formed and quenched.
Chi Chi's voice sounded, and the water vaporized into white mist. After the quenching was completed, Chen Zong took out the sword and looked at it carefully.
The blade is straight, even, and smooth, a little better than the first mortal iron sword he used.
"Finally successful." Chen Zong wiped the sweat from his face and smiled sincerely.
After the sword was cast successfully, Chen Zong suddenly had a deeper understanding of the sword, because every step of the sword's formation was under his control.
"The next step is to open the front."
Kaifeng is to sharpen the blade and make it sharp. That is a real sword, not an ornament.
Kaifeng also pays attention to skills, and random polishing will only destroy a sword.
After the opening, Chen Zong's fingers touched the sword's edge lightly, feeling the sharpness of it, and smiled again. Suddenly, he swung the sword like a consonant, the power of qi and blood surged, and it exploded in a unique way.
The sword light slashed out, and the four sword lights were extremely clear, and next to them, there were four very vague sword lights.
"Okay." Chen Zong hurriedly put down the ordinary iron sword. Before he could sort it out, he picked up the treasured iron sword and quickly left the foundry.
The success of casting the sword gave him a more intuitive understanding of the sword, and through this, his understanding of swordsmanship was also improved invisibly. Although he was still a little confused, it did not prevent the breakthrough.
The foundry is not a place to practice swords, and with that feeling, Chen Zong, like a galloping horse, is extremely fast, rushes to the corner of the martial arts field, draws his sword, seizes the feeling, and immediately starts to practice.
Over and over again, the four blurred sword lights gradually became clear.
After fifteen times, all the energy and blood were exhausted, and Chen Zong had to recover. After recovery, he continued to practice swords.
Repeatedly, as if I didn't know I was tired, until the sun went down and night fell, and the bright moon rose quietly into the sky.
"Splitting Lights!"
Once again, a sword slashed out, and eight clear sword lights slashed forward, and carefully distinguished, four of them were extremely clear and bright, and the other four were relatively dim.
"Finally, I have finally cultivated to the realm of Dacheng." Chen Zong exhaled, sweating and his stomach growling with hunger. He quickly took out an energy pill and took it before heading to the dining hall.
"The light and shadow of the Dacheng realm will consume one-fifth of my qi and blood power. If I reach the peak of Dacheng, I am afraid it will be more."
Although the consumption of qi and blood power has increased, the power of the light and shadow of the Dacheng realm is indeed much stronger than that of the peak of Xiaocheng.
Practicing swords, casting swords, practicing exercises.
Chen Zong can feel his progress every day.
However, there is still no clue in the realm of true secrets, and the eight types of true swords are still at the peak of perfection and have never broken through.
December 28, 395, Zhenwu calendar.
At the end of the year, Fengwu City is located in the eastern part of Donglu, and the changes of the seasons are not so strong, but such a cold winter, the cold wind is blowing, and it is still cold.
In one corner of the martial arts field, Chen Zong unleashed his sword. The sharp sword light was dazzling, tearing through the cold wind, dividing it into eight, and dashing away.
With another sword, the eight sword lights lined up in front of each other, beheading the same place one after another, as if the space was cut open, leaving a clear sword mark, which disappeared after a few breaths.
After exhausting all his qi and blood, Chen Zong practiced the Tiger Art.
Qi and blood were like tigers, and they slammed violently between operations. A powerful and fearless aura gathered in the body, and the power of Qi and blood also accelerated.
When the power of qi and blood was completely restored, Chen Zong also felt the vibration inside his body, as if a tiger roar resounded through the mountains and forests, roaring shocking the world, and the power of qi and blood vibrated violently.
"This is..." After the power of qi and blood calmed down, Chen Zong felt it carefully, and suddenly his face was full of joy: "Have you completed the first training of the fierce tiger art?"
Liehu Gong is a human-level middle-grade exercise method. It is divided into three levels. If you practice the first level, you can practice all the way to the seventh level of Qi and Blood, and when you practice the second level, you can practice all the way to the eighth level of Qi and Blood. The third level, you can cultivate all the way to the ninth level of Qi and blood.
It's just that the practice of the martial arts is often more difficult than the martial arts of the same level. Many children in the family hall have not yet mastered the first level, let alone the second level. Those who have completed all three levels are only a few.
The higher the cultivation level of the exercises, not only the higher the upper limit of the cultivation base that can be achieved, but also the improvement of the cultivation speed and the improvement of the recovery speed of the power of qi and blood.
"The second-level redemption of Liehu Gong requires 500 contribution points, and now I have exceeded it."
With a secret voice, Chen Zong immediately set off and went to Zangwu Tower.
"The martial arts and martial arts on the second and third floors of the Cangwu Building only have names and profiles, but no detailed content. If you choose well, let me know." The administrator of the Cangwu Building said to Chen Zong.
This approach is to prevent someone from entering the second and third floors of the Tibetan Martial Arts Building and using some means to record more martial arts.
"I choose the second level of the fierce tiger art." Chen Zong said.
Since this is so stipulated, at this time, there is no need to enter the second floor.
"Chen Zong, deduct 500 contribution points." Then, the administrator took out a silk book and handed it to Chen Zong: "This is the second most important part of the Fierce Tiger Art. It must be returned within ten days."
The second stage of Liehu Gong is much more profound than the first stage, but it is based on the first stage, but some additions and changes have been made in the operation of qi and blood to make it more efficient.
But if you directly practice the second level, it will be even more difficult, because the first level is lacking as a foundation.
Chen Zong quickly replaced the second-level operation method for the first-level operation, and immediately felt that the recovery rate of qi and blood after consumption was faster, almost 50%. Compared with the first stage, the cultivation speed of the second stage has also increased by 50%.
That is to say, the second level of human-level middle-rank fierce tiger art is comparable to the first level of human-level high-level exercises in terms of cultivation speed and recovery speed.
Furthermore, Chen Zong could also feel that the second stage of the Fierce Tiger Art stimulates the power of qi and blood, and the qi and blood are like tigers, and its momentum is a bit better than the first stage.
"My cultivation is not far from the fifth level of Qi and Blood. With the second level, the speed of cultivation will be accelerated. Perhaps, within two months, I will be able to reach the fifth level." Chen Zong secretly said, more motivated.