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Ten young men with sallow faces and thin muscles followed timidly behind Su Wu and Ji Liang.
Turned into Su Wu who wanted to go in to check before.
But he was shouted out by the craftsman inside and went out of the room.
The smell of charcoal fire is even stronger here.
Ji Liang divided the eleven people including Su Wu into two groups, each occupying two calcining furnaces, and ordered them to line up on the spot to forge the knife embryos.
Su Wu deliberately hid behind people,
In the end, he ranked third among the six people in the second team.
When someone else, Suyan, was forging the blade,
He stood nearby and watched.
In the 'Past Life of a Disciple of the Kitchen God', Su Wu was exposed to some techniques and techniques for forging weapons. Although he was not very good at it, he was at least much better than the blacksmith in the Kitchen God's simulated world.
The tempered swords are also quite practical and durable.
However, compared with the current methods of these apprentices, they pale into insignificance.
This is not to say that their skills are very good.
Rather, they do every step extremely carefully, which can be called excellence.
——Dongliu Island has always had poor iron ore resources, but at this time, the samurai family is gradually rising, and the samurai's demand for swords is increasing year by year, which requires swordsmiths to make the most of every mineral resource.
This has created their current set of sophisticated knife-making processes.
The apprentice wrapped some jade steel in yellow mud and put it into the furnace for calcination, so that the scattered jade steel combined into one piece.
Then it is continuously forged and folded repeatedly to remove impurities.
In this process,
After the apprentices try folding and forging for a while, they have to stop and observe the shape of the knife base, feel the strength and solidity of the knife base, and whether the contrast and coordination of the two different attributes on the knife base are high?
If the knife blank is too hard or too soft, the entire process will fail.
Only toughness and tenacity can be brought into full play,
After that, the surface of the core iron is wrapped with 'Paoding iron', and the two are forged and combined. Only the knife embryo that has both soft and hard parts and can complement each other can be judged as a 'good quality'.
A whole morning,
A total of seven people from the two teams forged the knife embryo.
Only Su Wu forged a 'top-grade' knife embryo.
It's even better than a 'good product'.
"Abu, you are indeed very talented - your talent is not even inferior to that of your father!" Kira held the blade that had just taken shape, flicked it slightly with his fingers, and listened to the sound the blade made.
He closed his eyes intoxicated, and after a long time, he opened his eyes and looked at Su Wu, praising Su Wu full of praise: "I originally thought that you were exhausted after being inked, so the blade you forged this time would definitely need to be remade. of mediocrity,
I didn't expect you to forge a high-quality knife embryo directly!
This knife embryo will be sent to the 'Craftsman's Department', where the craftsmen will forge it into a sharp weapon.
In the future, some samurai may become famous all over the world because of it!
After lunch today, you can follow me to learn the skills of ‘Heart Forging’, and officially come into contact with all the sword-making processes after ‘Suyan’! "
"yes,
I will continue to work hard! "Su Wu nodded, finally learning the lesson this time.
He has experience,
Coupled with the blessing of "Yi", I can strictly control the size and frequency of the meat shell's power output.
After refining everything,
It is not difficult to cast a 'top quality' knife embryo.
Above the ‘top grade’,
There are also two levels of ‘extreme’ and ‘supreme’.
It is said that
Only during the forging process,
Only by grasping that ray of inspiration that is in harmony with heaven and earth can it be possible to forge swords at the two levels of "extreme" and "supreme".
Through conversations with other apprentices,
Su Wu finally understood that "the inspiration of harmonizing with heaven and earth" and "reception between heaven and man" were not terms created by Ji Liang, nor was he exaggerating his sword-making skills, but such a response did exist.
In Heian-kyo, the famous sword 'Onikiri' used by 'Watanabe Tsuna' to cut off an arm of 'Rashomon Gui',
It is a supremely famous sword forged by a master craftsman who is ink-making under the influence of heaven and man.
And if you want to get the ‘inspiration to be in harmony with heaven and earth’,
Entering the state of 'celestial induction',
Only through continuous training of the 'Forging of the Heart' and 'Forging of Ghosts and Gods' skills that all ink masters must practice, during unlimited training, there may be a sudden flash of inspiration and forge a world-famous sword!
noon,
Su Wu went to get a meal.
Because he went with Kira to the canteen next door to the ordinary apprentices, the meals he received were also quite generous.
In addition to a plate of rice,
There were two pieces of fish - one more than yesterday, some salted fish offal, and a bowl of miso soup with fish heads and kelp stewed that smelled like pot water.
He ate the fish and rice,
Finally, he gritted his teeth and drank all the miso soup.
After all, there is some fish in the soup.
In the afternoon, Su Wu officially began to learn the technique of 'Heart Forging'.
“There is no superior or inferior quality between the Heart Forging and the Ghost and God Forging.
However, the training of the heart is easy to learn but difficult to master.
You can really start to learn the ghost and god training method only after you have carved more than half of the tattoos on your 'Taishan Hundred Demons and Ogres' Banquet'.
So now I will teach you the ‘Heart Training’ first.
Wait until one day, your "Taishan Hundred Demons and Cannibal Banquet" is more than half completed,
The ink master will teach you the ‘Ghost and God Forging Technique’! "
Kira is shirtless, revealing the inked pattern that spreads from her back to her chest.
He has not completed more than half of the 'Taishan Hundred Demons and Cannibals Banquet', so even if he wants to teach Su Wu the 'Ghost and God Forging Technique', it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
At the moment,
Su Wu and Ji Liang stayed in a house that was extremely narrow compared to other sword-making rooms.
Although this house is small,
Calcining furnaces, charcoal fires, bellows, knife blanks and other items are all available.
Kira stood in front of the calcining furnace, placed a knife embryo on the iron plate, observed the texture of the knife embryo, and then said to Su Wu: "The so-called forging of the heart requires the swordsmith to devote himself wholeheartedly to a forging activity. Go!
The consciousness of the swordsmith will turn into the red fire in the calcining furnace,
It turns into hammers falling on the blade!
Even turned into the blade itself,
As the knife embryo is hammered and burned by the fire, you can feel the same and feel all its changes! "
This ‘heart forging’ just sounds like it,
This gave Su Wu an extremely metaphysical feeling.
If we just feel the knife embryo with our ‘heart’, how can we prescribe various steps?
Make sure you really feel the knife embryo with your ‘heart’,
Are you on the right path every time you practice?
Ji Liang glanced at Su Wu, who was thinking deeply.
He waited for Su Wu to collect his thoughts and look at him again before he continued: "I want to allow myself to enter the practice of 'Heart Training' anytime and anywhere, and ensure that I am in the state of 'Heart Training'. It is an extremely difficult—even impossible—thing to accomplish.
Only a few master craftsmen can maintain the state of ‘Heart Forging’ for a long time.
Most people only enter this state occasionally.
I even practiced this state and learned how to enter it - but I could never truly enter this state! "
When Ji Liang said this, Su Wu understood.
It seems that whether one can achieve the 'Forging of the Heart' depends entirely on one's own understanding.
The method is before you,
As long as you study, you can learn.
But after learning it, can it really be used?
Even whether you can truly check that you have 'learned' it depends on your personal understanding and 'chance'.
This is the reason why ‘Heart Training’ is easy to learn but difficult to master.
Kira walked to the wall directly opposite the two people and opened the two window panels on the wall.
After the window panel is opened,
But it didn’t show the sunlight coming in from outside,
Instead, an ink painting appeared.
There are large areas of blank space in the framed ink painting.
Only in the middle part, a scarecrow was drawn with thick ink.
A scarecrow cut in half.
The scarecrow's upper body, which had been sliced open, was in a flying state, while his lower body fell backwards.
at the incision,
There were even some scattered straws formed by some ink splashing down.
"Looking at this painting,
Then think about it, what kind of knife can make the straw man split into two pieces?
Then through the way and posture of the sword,
But thinking about the sharpness of that knife,
Then think about the ratio of flexibility and hardness of that knife?
Finally, I was thinking hard about how to forge such a knife? This is how to learn Heart Training! "Jiliang spoke in Su Wu's ear, while Su Wu stared at the ink painting, his thoughts deeply penetrating into the incision.
He thought it was just an ordinary knife.
Anyone with some strength and a sharper sword,
You can easily cut through the straw man.
Think so,
There is absolutely no way to think deeper and deeper.
So after he thought about it for a while,
Just throw away all your own prejudices.
Give up all the powers you have, regard yourself as an unarmed civilian, and assume the identity of the scarecrow who was cut open to think about this knife.
This time,
He saw a vague black shadow,
The black shadow lunged forward, and the 'beating knife' in both hands slashed down diagonally from the left -
The sword light turned into bright and blurry light and shadow,
Su Wu's mind was as silent as ice. The ice surface reflected the light and shadow, deconstructing the light and shadow, causing its cutting speed to change from fast to slow to completely stagnant. This allowed him to clearly see the undulating gray-black color on the blade. pattern,
Seeing the curve of the blade,
Even based on the arc, he could deduce how the knifemaker fired it and gave it such an arc...
After a long time,
Su Wu withdrew his thoughts, and the light in his eyes lit up and then became silent.
Kira, who had been waiting in the corner, saw his slight movement and stood up, asking him, "How are you doing? Have you learned the 'Heart Training'?"
"I learned it." Su Wu replied.
Kira smiled slightly but did not comment.
Everyone who learns the ‘Heart Training’ thinks that he has learned it.
But whether you really learn it or not,
The swords they forged are the best proof.
Ji Liang didn't say much, walked towards the door, and said to Su Wu at the same time: "Let's go back, learn the entire sword-making process with others - after you finish learning, you can practice the 'Forging of the Heart' by yourself.
The day after tomorrow,
Forge a finished knife blade for me! "