my weird life

Chapter 380 Ink Painting (22)

Ten sallow-faced and emaciated young men timidly followed Su Wu and Ji Liang,
Turned into Su Wu and wanted to go in to check,
In the room where he was loudly scolded by the craftsman inside.

The smell of charcoal fire is more intense here.

Ji Liang divided the eleven people including Su Wu into two groups, each occupying two calcination furnaces, and ordered them to line up on the spot to forge knife embryos.
Su Wu deliberately hid behind others,
In the end, among the six members of the second team, they ranked No.3.

When someone else 'Suyan' forged the knife embryo,
He stood by and watched.

In "The Past Life of the Kitchen God's Disciple", Su Wu has also been exposed to some techniques and crafts of forging weapons. Although he can't master it well, at least he is much better than the blacksmith in the Kitchen God's simulation world.

The tempered sword is also quite useful and durable.

However, compared with the current methods of these apprentices, it is "insignificant".

This is not to say that their skills are so high,
Rather, they make every step extremely fine, which can be called excellence.

——Dongliu Island has always been poor in iron ore resources, but in this period, samurai are gradually rising, and the demand for swords is increasing year by year. Therefore, swordsmiths are required to make the best use of every ore resource.

It also created a whole set of fine knife casting process at present.

The apprentice wrapped some jade steel with yellow mud and put it into the furnace for calcination, so that these scattered jade steel could be combined into one piece.
Then it is continuously forged and folded repeatedly to remove impurities.

In this process,

The apprentices tried folding and forging for a while, then stopped to observe the shape of the knife blank, feel the strength and firmness of the knife blank, and whether the comparison and coordination of the two different attributes on the knife blank are high?
If the knife embryo is too hard or too soft, the whole process will fall short.

Only toughness and toughness can be well exerted,

Afterwards, 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 softness and hardness, and the two can complement each other, can be judged as a "good product".

all morning,
A total of seven people from the two teams forged the knife embryo.

Only Su Wu forged a 'top-grade' knife embryo by himself.

Even better than 'good'.

"Abu, you are really talented—your talent is not even inferior to that of your father!" Ji Liang held the newly formed knife blade, flicked it slightly with his fingers, and listened to the sound of the blade,

He closed his eyes intoxicated, and after a long time, he opened his eyes and looked at Su Wu, and he was full of praise for Su Wu: "I originally thought that after you received ink, you were exhausted, and the knife embryos you forged this time would definitely need to be reworked." mediocrity,

I didn't expect you to directly forge a top-grade knife embryo!
This knife embryo will be sent to the 'craftsman department', where the craftsmen will forge it into a sharp weapon.

Which warrior may become famous all over the world because of it in the future!
After lunch today, follow me to learn the art of 'Forging of the Heart', and formally contact all the sword-casting processes after 'Suyan'! "

"Yes,

I will continue to work hard! "Su Wu nodded, this time he finally behaved.

He had experience,
Coupled with the blessing of 'intelligence', 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 grade' knife embryo.

On top of 'top grade',
There are also two levels of 'Extreme' and 'Supreme'.

It is said that

Only during the forging process,

Only by grasping the ray of "inspiration that harmonizes with heaven and earth" can it be possible to forge swords with two levels of "extreme" and "supreme".

Through conversations with other apprentices,

Su Wu finally understood that - "inspiration in harmony with heaven and earth" and "response between heaven and man" were not terms created by Kira himself, nor were he exaggerating the skill of casting swords, but such a feeling did exist.

In Heian-kyo, the famous sword 'Onikiri' used by 'Watanabe Tsuna' to cut off an arm of 'Rashomon',
It is a supremely famous sword forged by a master craftsman who entered ink under the influence of heaven and man.

And want to get 'inspiration to be in harmony with heaven and earth',
Enter the state of 'induction between heaven and man',
Only by continuously exercising the skills of "forging of the heart" and "forging of ghosts and gods" that all ink craftsmen must practice, in the infinite training, there may be occasional flashes of inspiration, forging the world's famous sword!

noon,

Su Wu went to pick up a meal.

Because he was in the cafeteria next door to the ordinary apprentice who went with Kira, the meals he received were also quite rich.

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 stewed with fish heads and kelp that tasted like cooking water.

He ate the fish and rice,
Finally, he gritted his teeth and drank the whole miso soup.

After all, there is still some fish in the soup.

In the afternoon, Su Wu officially began to learn the skill of 'Heart Forging'.

"There is no difference between the training of the heart and the training of ghosts and gods.

However, the forging of the heart is easy to learn but difficult to master.

Ghosts and gods training method needs to be carved more than half of your 'Taishan Hundred Devils Cannibal Banquet' before you can really start to learn it.
So I will teach you 'Forging of the Heart' first.

Wait until the day when your 'Taishan Baimo Cannibal Banquet' is more than half completed,
Inksmith will teach you the 'Ghost and God Forging Method'! "

Kira was shirtless, revealing the ink painting that spread from his back to his chest.

The 'Mount Tai Hundred Devils Cannibal Banquet' on his body has not been completed more than half, so even if he wanted to teach Su Wu the 'Ghost and God Forging Method', it would be difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Now,

Su Wu and Ji Liang stayed in a room that was extremely narrow compared to other sword casting rooms,
Although the house is small,
Calciner, charcoal fire, bellows, knife embryos and other things are all available.

Ji Liang stood in front of the calcination furnace, placed a knife blank on the iron plate, observed the texture of the knife blank, and then said to Su Wu: "The so-called forging of the heart means that the knife craftsman is required to devote himself to a forging activity. go!
The consciousness of the swordsmith will turn into a red fire in the calciner,
It turned into a hammer that fell on the knife embryo!

Even turned into the knife embryo itself,
As the knife embryo is hammered and calcined by the fire, you can empathize with it and feel all its changes! "

This 'heart forging' just sounds,
This gave Su Wu an extremely metaphysical feeling.

If you just use the "heart" to feel the knife embryo, then how to stipulate various steps,
Make sure that you really feel the knife embryo with your 'heart',
Are you on the right path every time you practice?

Ji Liang glanced at the pensive Su Wu,
He waited for Su Wu's thoughts to gather and look at him again, before continuing: "I want to let myself be able to enter the practice of 'heart training' anytime and anywhere, to ensure that I am in the state of 'heart training', It is extremely difficult—or even impossible.

Only a few master craftsmen can maintain the state of "heart forging" for a long time,

Most people only get into this state occasionally.

Even practiced this state, learned how to enter this state - but can never really enter this state! "

When Ji Liang said this, Su Wu understood.

It seems that whether one can cultivate the 'Forging of the Heart' depends entirely on one's understanding.

The method lies ahead,

As long as you learn, you can learn.

But after learning, whether it can be really used,
Even whether you can really examine the matter of "learning" depends on one's understanding and "chance".

This is the reason why "Forging of the Heart" is easy to learn but difficult to master.

Kira walked to the wall directly opposite the two of them, and opened the two window panels on the wall.

After the shutter is opened,

but did not show the sunlight that casts in from outside,
Instead, it showed an ink painting.

In the framed ink painting, there are large blank spaces.

Only the middle part, with thick ink, draws a scarecrow.

Scarecrow cut in half.

The cut upper body of the scarecrow was in a flying state, while the lower body fell backwards.

incision,
Even some ink splashed down, so some scattered straws were formed.

"Looking at this painting,
Then think, what kind of knife can cut the straw man into two parts?
Then through the way of exerting force and posture of the knife,
But thinking about the sharpness of that knife,

Then think about the ratio of the flexibility and hardness of the knife?
Finally, I thought hard about how to forge such a knife?This is the learning method of the forging of the heart! " Ji Liang was talking next to Su Wu's ear, and Su Wu was staring at the dripping ink painting, thinking deeply into the incision.

He thought it was an ordinary knife,

Whoever has strength and holds a sharper sword,
It can be easily cut open that straw man.

think so,
There is absolutely no way to think deeper and deeper.

So after thinking about it a little bit,
Just let go of all your preconceived notions.

Give up all the powers you have mastered, regard yourself as an unarmed civilian, and substitute yourself into the identity of the scarecrow who has been cut open, and think about this knife.

This time,
He saw a vague shadow,

The black shadow lunges forward, and the 'knife' in both hands cuts down diagonally from the upper left in an instant——

The light of the knife turned into a bright and blurred light and shadow,

Su Wu's mind was as silent as ice, the ice reflected the light and shadow, deconstructed the light and shadow, let it cut from fast to slow, and then to a complete standstill - he could clearly see the undulating gray and black on the blade patterns,

Seeing the curved arc of the blade,

Even based on that arc, he can deduce how the swordsmith fired it and gave it such a arc...

after a long time,

Su Wu withdrew his thoughts, the light in his eyes was bright and calm.

Ji Liang, who had been guarding the corner all the time, saw him move slightly, stood up and asked him, "How are you doing, have you learned the 'Forging of the Heart'?"

"Understood." Su Wu replied.

Kira smiled, without comment.

Everyone who learns the 'Forging of the Heart' thinks they have learned it,

But really learned or not,
The swords they forged are the best proof.

Without saying anything, Ji Liang walked towards the door, and at the same time said to Su Wu: "Let's go, go back, and learn the entire sword-making process with others—after you finish learning, you can practice the 'Forging of the Heart' by yourself.

When the day after tomorrow,
Forge a finished blade for me yourself! "

(End of this chapter)