431, Miao Dao (2/2)
White light dissolves.
Su Wu's mind returned to reality,
At this time, he looked at the ink mark on the scroll. The ink mark was not just an ink mark, nor was it the 'dragon shape' that An Gang saw. The ink mark was a chain.
As his thoughts moved slightly,
It seems that I can 'pick up' the chain from the painting.
And as my own thoughts disappear,
You can also gently ‘let go’ of that chain.
This ink chain, which is a mixture of many fierce shapes, has a certain charm that Su Wu can't describe. When his mind is connected with this chain, he seems to be able to continue to sense that charm, and has a chance to enter. A state of communion between heaven and man.
and,
Within the current vein of killing stone,
The ‘Dashang Baby Stone’ is the key necessary to open the mineral vein.
If you want to take away the ore from this vein without triggering the unknown murderous law of Li Wei entrenched here, you must use this chain to imprison Li Wei hidden in the vein.
Jianzhen was indeed a monk with amazing talents.
The 'Guide Binding Rope' he created can already bind Li Gui below the ferocious level.
The current chain only has a certain "charm" described by the authenticity, and it can bind the unknown evil in the mine!
That strange thing is probably the unknown strange thing around the abandoned village that makes the soil turn into quicksand silently and attracts people deeply.
It drags living people into the soil, moves them through the earth and rocks, and transports them to the current mineral vein, where they gradually turn into "human stones".
even,
It won't let go of the animals around it.
Their internal organs must also be hollowed out and brought into the veins to turn them into 'five internal organs stones'!
This extremely terrifying level may be at the ‘ferocious level’!
A charm left on an ink mark,
But it can cover up the strange murder pattern - what level has Jianzhen reached?
I heard Ah Xiong say that Jianzhen had never contained Li Jui in his body, let alone covered with something like 'human armor', so how did he manage to suppress Li Jui with only his flesh and blood body?
Or is it that Jianzhen actually accommodated Li Gui later on?
So he has this incredible ability?
All kinds of questions swirled in Su Wu's heart.
Su Wu always had a feeling that next, he would have a chance and might even meet 'Jian Zhen'.
He 'picked up' the chain on the drawing paper,
The ink marks on the drawing paper still remain,
But there is no longer the charm that makes people linger and reluctant to take their eyes away.
Roll up the scroll,
Su Wu raised his eyes and looked around at the human stones - using the chain as an extension of his mind, he easily found the best quality killing stones in the current mine.
"Give me a pickaxe."
He greeted An Gang.
An Gang also felt a bit of charm from the scroll. Although the feeling was not strong, it still gave him a feeling of 'something gained'.
Hearing Su Wu's words, An Gang quickly handed the killing stone iron pick he had picked up into Su Wu's hands.
Taking the pickaxe, Su Wu walked around the mine.
He walked to a corner,
He pried a piece of 'heart stone' out of the stone wall.
This heart stone is huge in size. It should not be a human heart, but maybe a cow's heart or the heart of some large beast.
Putting the heart stone in the corner, Su Wu continued to hit the stone with an iron pickaxe, pulling out some irregularly shaped killing stones from the excavated cave, and then pulled out the entire stone that was the size of a human head, with hands clasped together, and a delicate and lifelike face. The 'human stone' was carved out of the stone wall.
After two human stones, a man and a woman,
He unearthed a 'baby stone'.
This dark red baby stone does not have the lines of the 'Dragon of One Hundred Thoughts Entering Ink' pattern all over it like the 'Dashang Baby Stone'.
Maybe there is only one ‘big baby stone’ in this vein.
Perhaps it was originally just a baby stone, but it was infected by the charm of Monk Jianzhen's "Ink Blot Drawing", so it had its own veins intertwined, and finally became the "Dashang Baby Stone".
Su Wu placed the baby stone on the iron felt.
Then he dug around and unearthed several baby stones one after another.
The total number of these baby stones is more than enough to forge a large sword, not to mention training a sword.
"Jun Zhuzhao, do you want to smelt all these killing stones?
Nowadays, these baby-like killing stones seem to be more precious than human stones.
Want to use them all up at once?
In fact, the sword forged by mixing human stones and these baby stones will definitely not be any worse! "Zhuzhao looked at the many baby stones piled on the felt table with a somewhat distressed look in his eyes.
Even if so many killing stones suddenly appeared,
An Gang has not become lavish.
I always think of using one pound of steel as two pounds.
While Su Wu was cutting out the baby stone, An Gang had already lit the charcoal in the calcining furnace and smelting furnace. The red charcoal fire reflected the surrounding stone walls inexplicably with the five internal organs, limbs, and lifelike people.
Su Wu stood in front of the iron felt and said to An Gang: "Since we are forging a famous sword that is unparalleled in the world, we should use our best every time we train!
No matter from the selection of materials,
Still based on skills.
Mr. An Gang, don't feel bad about this waste. "
"With so many stones, it is enough to cast one sword." An Gang nodded, looked at the baby stones and said, "Are we going to cast two or three swords this time?"
"No."
Su Wu shook his head and smiled, looking at An Gang's surprised eyes, and said: "This time we will still forge a knife.
An Tsuna-kun, have you ever tried to cast a sword that is longer than five feet? "
"More than five feet?" An Gangjun asked with interest.
Dongliu Island in this era,
Odachi and Nodachi that are longer than one and a half meters are still very rare.
An Gang has never forged such a sword.
"How can a sword that is over five feet long be wielded for a long time with human power?
Can such a sword be used so skillfully? "An Gang thought for a while and felt that there were not many occasions where such a sword could be used. It was almost a cumbersome weapon.
"What if this knife is not for human use?" Su Wu smiled.
Ghost hands came out from under his clothes,
Ten dark fingers tapped on the felt table.
Looking at Su Wu's ghost hands, An Gang was frightened.
He knew that Su Wu was a 'ghost warrior', but this was the first time he saw Su Wu's strange appearance.
The ghost hand suddenly swelled and became more than one foot long, with its palm spread like a millstone——
Su Wu said to An Gang: "This arm of mine should be able to wield a sword over five feet with great ease, right? Mr. An Gang, these killing stones should be enough for us to cast a sword that is about seven feet long." A tachi?"
Five feet is not Su Wu's goal.
He wants to forge a seven-foot sword!
"That's enough." An Gang nodded in agreement, looking at Su Wu's ghost hand that had shrunk to the size of a normal arm, his eyes filled with eagerness to try.
after,
Su Wu found a piece of white cloth and slightly outlined the shape of a sword about seven feet long on it.
The blade of this knife is straight, with less curvature, and the handle is extremely long, which can be held with both hands.
An Gang took the white cloth, looked at the shape of the sword outlined by Su Wu on it, and mentally thought about how to forge the sword, and then said: "The shape of this sword is quite different from that of Tai Sword.
There are no examples of this sword in the countries of Dongliu Island.
If we forge this sword,
He is the first person with this kind of knife shape!
Is this kind of sword called an Odachi? "
An Gang put down the white cloth and looked at Su Wu.
Su Wu shook his head in denial.
Saying 'Odachi' is just to facilitate Anzuna's understanding.
The sword he sketched actually had its prototype already.
"This kind of knife shape should be called a Miao knife!" Su Wu made the final decision.
"Miao Dao?" An Gang clicked these two words, "The blade is as slender as a seedling. The name of Miao Dao is worthy of its name!"
After the two discussed it,
An Gang put all the baby stones piled on the iron felt into the smelting furnace to melt them into "iron".
Su Wu looked around and confirmed that there was no lack of tools required for making knives.
Even the quenching liquid is ready here.
——It is the black liquid that exudes a strong fishy smell in the large pool on the ground.
Su Wu had seen this kind of liquid before.
In the 'Secret Ritual of the Dragon of One Hundred Thoughts Entering Ink', there is a small pot of 'strange blood'.
That is to say, it has the same origin as the black liquid in the large pond.
However, the 'strange blood' used in the secret ritual of entering the ink is more pure, as if it was taken from the body of a person who is about to be transformed - this kind of 'strange blood' should be obtained by Toshio Inoue and Axiong from the entrance of the cave in the Yuse Mountain Mine. , collected from those 'humanoid stones' that have not yet completely transformed into killing stones.
After being dragged into the soil by the Li Gui dormant in the mineral veins,
These people died of anger.
After that, they turned into moving stones and were embedded in the veins. They seemed to be 'alive'.
In fact, it is already about to become one with Li Gui.
It's about to become a part of Li Wei,
It hasn't completely turned into Li Wei yet.
In the process of their evolution into Liwei, the blood taken from them should be "weird blood".
And they never turned into a part of the evil dormant here,
In fact, it is because at a certain link in the transformation process, the 'Truth Appraisal' may have been cut off, resulting in the fact that although Li Jui still has the ability to drag people into the soil, he can no longer turn the people he transformed into himself. part of it to strengthen itself.
These dead people gradually merged with the iron ore in the mountains,
The killing stone was formed.
This is Su Wu's speculation on the cause of the formation of the killing stone veins in Yuse Mountain.
As for whether the nine major mineral veins on the island have the same principle, he has not seen it in person and does not know.
——However, judging from the fact that the human stones produced every year by the nine major mines on Dongliu Island are extremely rare, the Ligui in those veins may have been 'sleeping' and are no longer like the Ligui in the Yuseshan mine. In general, the law of killing is still resurrecting from time to time, affecting the surrounding creatures.
In the stone room,
The two of them were silent, but they cooperated with each other in a tacit understanding.
Advancing every step of forging the knife.
At the time of Su Yan, Su Wu guided the charm of 'Moji' to connect with his own mind, and combined the two forging methods of 'Ghost and God Forging' and 'Heart Forging' to forge the shape of the blade embryo.
An Gang was supplementing.
——If Su Wu is alone this time, although he can still forge the sword, but there is no one around to discuss and confirm with him, he may make many unnecessary mistakes in the process.
Ima Yasuna, the experienced master craftsman, is here.
Many mistakes can be avoided.
Moreover, An Gang was extremely meticulous in his work and mastered the entire knife forging process very well. Invisibly, he also shortened a lot of time for forging this seven-foot Miao knife!
In terms of finely controlling the knife forging process, Su Wu is far inferior to An Gang.
This is also one of the reasons why he took An Gang to the mine.