my weird life

Chapter 384 "Headstone, Heartstone" (22)

"Most of the time, the killing stone is asleep.

Awakening may occur once or twice in forging ten swords. "

After all, Kira is the master craftsman of the swordsmith,
He knew much more about the conditions of casting swords than Su Wu.

Su Wu recalled the scene where the Killing Stone woke up in the sword casting room just now, and remembered two rumors about the Killing Stone - one said that the Killing Stone was formed by the fusion of Li Gui's faded leather shell and iron ore,
Another theory is that the killing of the stone is the death of Li Gui.

When the "killing stone was awakened" earlier, Su Wu didn't feel a trace of strange rhyme flowing from the blood-dripping blade, but the various situations at that time were very similar to the scene when Li Gui recovered.

He couldn't determine where the killing stone came from,
Of the two rumors about the killing stone circulating in Dongliu Island, he prefers the first one.

Perhaps the killing stone is formed by the fusion of the leather shell that Li Gui has shed with iron ore.

Husks are dead after all,
As a result, the life-killing stone formed in this way has some characteristics of cunning, but it can never exude a quirky charm.

As for the second rumor,
Fundamentally, Su Wu questioned the statement that 'Li Gui will die'.

"Is there any difference between the sword forged from the awakened killing stone and the sword forged from the unawakened killing stone?" Su Wu asked Master Jiliang again.

Master Ji Liang witnessed the change of Su Wu's status with his own eyes.

Knowing that it is now favored by two master craftsmen, An Gang and Hu Che,
Regarding Su Wu's question, he naturally knew everything: "The sword forged from the awakened killing stone is rumored to have some characteristics related to cunning. If it meets a master that suits it, it may gradually become cunning. , became unpredictable.

But most of the time,
In practice, there is actually no big difference between the sword forged by the awakened killing stone and the sword forged by the unawakened killing stone in the hands of ordinary warriors.

——The two kinds of swords are held by people for a long time, and both of them are very likely to bring all kinds of bloody disasters for their masters! "

According to Kira,

Swords cast from life-killing stones can be described as 'ominous blades'.

But today there are still countless warriors rushing to get this kind of weapon.

This is undoubtedly a fancy to the weapon forged from the killing stone. If the quality is high, there is a very high probability that it can be "cut and cut"!
Second,

Perhaps there are also people wishing to get a killing stone sword that suits them, and then exert some of its characteristics related to slyness!
These two points alone are enough to make the samurai extremely sought after it.

after all,

The vast majority of samurai are desperadoes, who do the work of licking blood with knives,
They have to face the disaster of blood and light almost every day, so the disadvantage of "the killing stone will bring disaster of blood and light to their master" can be ignored instead!
As for people like Su Wu, they don't take the 'blood disaster' seriously.

Su Wu sorted out her thoughts,

Watching the master craftsman An Gang who quickly cut the straw mats and bamboo bundles in the field, he asked Jiliang again: "Can you try out all the performances of that knife by trying to cut like this?
Does that knife have the ability to cut sharply?
—— After all, it is a knife that is close to the quality of "extremely high". "

Jiliang shook his head, and said: "The purpose of the trial cut is to allow the swordsmith to judge the performance of a knife, and to speculate on its full performance according to the situation of the trial cut, instead of just cutting a knife during the trial cut. The full performance of the knife is brought out.

——Every time the full performance of the sword is used, the life of the sword will be consumed.

As for whether it can cut through,
Only when it returns to its real owner, let the owner test it himself!
In our sword casting workshop, there is no way to bring Li Gui here as a material for a trial cut! "

"I see."

Su Wu nodded,
No more words.

At this time, An Gang also tested the knife in his hand. He was very satisfied with the performance of the knife, put it back into the sheath, and handed it to Hu Che next to him: "Brother Huche, please take this knife Send it back to its owner!
The quality of this knife is close to "extreme", and it may have the ability to cut some "little tricks".

Its owner can try it a little bit, and be sure to ask him to inform me of the result of the experiment.

At the same time, please also pay attention to him, never try to use this knife to fight against 'Da Gui', 'Evil Gui', or even Li Gui at the level of the King of Sui!
There's no chance of winning that way! "

Hu Che took the knife, put it in a long wooden box, hugged it in his arms, and said to An Gang in surprise: "Is this knife close to the 'extreme' level?

Brother An Gang, it seems that your skills have improved a lot! "

Hearing this, An Gang smiled, but did not comment.

He looked over the crowd, looked at Su Wu who was standing with Ji Liang, and said in a vibrating voice: "Young friend Zhuzhao, the trial cut is over, and you can start preparing to forge your first knife!"

"Yes!"

Su Wu nodded immediately.

The two previous ink craftsmen, Ji Liang and Su Wu walked to An Gang's dedicated sword casting room first.

Seeing that An Gang treated Su Wu so gracefully, Hu Che curiously asked why.
He also followed An Gang to the sword casting room.

"Bring that box over here." An Gang entered the sword casting room, and instructed Ji Liang to move a half-meter-high box onto the iron table.

Under the eyes of everyone, he picked up a key and opened the big lock on the box.

open the box,

A rancid smell, accompanied by the smell of sulfur, rushed out.

Everyone seemed to have never heard of this smell, and their eyes were focused on the opened box.

After Su Wu frowned, he also looked at the wooden box.

Seeing that the wooden box was covered with a layer of leather of an unknown animal,

On that layer of leather,

From large to small, there are pieces of stones with a dark background, some vein-like lines, and slightly shiny stones.

Each stone has a unique shape,

Some stones are like a heart, while others are like pig livers,
There are also stones that simply look like a baby's head, or a placenta.

"This time, a sword of near-extreme quality was forged and sent to the close ministers of the Kondo family, and the Kondo family will definitely be rewarded.

They are close branches of the Fujiwara family,
The Fujiwara family owns a vein of killing stone!

In this way, they should report to us more and better quality killing stones this time! "An Gang fingered the ores that seemed to be softer in appearance, like human flesh and internal organs, then turned to look at Su Wu, and said with a smile, "Little friend Zhuzhao, you have made a great contribution this time!"
In addition to what Hu Che and I promised you before, this time, you can choose ten catties of killing stones from the box.

I will prepare a 'head stone' for you,
Three 'heart stones' and one 'placenta stone'.

These stones add up to less than ten catties.

The missing part is supplemented with 'meat stone'. "

talking room,
An Gang took the killing stones out of the wooden box and lined them up on the table.

The next inksmith weighed the stone,
Exactly ten catties,

Enough to forge a Dao or Tai Dao.

Su Wu looked at the killing stones of different shapes, and guessed that the different shapes and names of these stones explained their quality.

Among them, 'head stone' and 'placenta stone' should be the most precious,

'Heartstone' comes next.

'Meat stone' more times.

I don't know if there are more rare life-killing stones above the 'head stone' and 'placenta stone'?

Burying the question in his heart, Su Wu thanked An Gang.

According to the process of casting knives, throw those life-killing stones into the fire and melt them into '鉧铁',
Then smash the iron into small pieces,
Separation of Yugang and Pao Ding Tie.

——After the ten catties of life-killing stones are melted into a ball, almost every stone has a use value, unlike ordinary iron ore, which may only get [-]% of a piece of iron ore, or even less usable iron ore.

With the cooperation of two ink masters and Ji Liang, Su Wu,
Start 'Suyeon',
'fire made',
'Covering the soil and burning the blade'.

A series of processes were going on like flowing clouds and flowing water. Watching Su Wu's busy figure in front of the calciner gave An Gang and Hu Che a pleasing feeling.

Even the three craftsmen who cooperated with him were brought into his rhythm unconsciously,

As if under the invisible control of his consciousness,
He can always appear in the key working position just right at the critical time.

"Heart Forging!"

Hu Che said in a low voice: "He has entered the state of heart forging."

The master craftsman paused slightly,

The expression was very confused, and he murmured: "Why is it a coincidence that Dayong, Gangmu, and Kira entered the state of 'Heart Forging' with him at the same time?"

"It's not a coincidence." An Gang's eyes lit up, "I heard that there are some strong-willed swordsmiths who can control all assistants invisibly, keep them in coordination with themselves, and strive to make every step of swordcasting perfect !

Even, at some point,
Their will can affect the temperature of the flame in the furnace!
Now these three people are invisibly dominated by candlelight.

Zhu Zhao is a more talented swordsmith than his father!

A born swordsmith! "

"When he made the knife embryo just now, we didn't have a chance to check it--I really should have a look at the quality of the knife embryo earlier, I really want to know..." Hu Che looked surprised, not only looking forward to Su Wu's three With the continuous cooperation of the craftsman, what kind of sword will be cast,
I even regret that I didn't have the opportunity to check the quality of the knife embryo before.

Su Wu also did not check the quality of the knife embryo,
The subsequent forging process started directly.

"If the 'heart training' continues like this, is it possible to enter the state of induction between heaven and man?" Hu Che then asked in a low voice.

An Gang frowned, but did not answer Hu Che's question.

The completion of the ink drawing on 'Zhuzhao' is too low,
With such a low degree of completion, there is no way to communicate with the power of 'ghosts and gods'.
unable to sympathize,

How could it be possible to enter the 'induction between heaven and man'?
Pity,
If the level of ink penetration of 'Zhuzhao' is higher than the third grade, it will be fine...

The steps of 'fire making' are perfectly completed,

When Su Wu and the two master inksmiths worked together to forge the blade embryo, Ji Liang quickly walked to the corner, prepared the 'blade soil', and covered it on the forged blade.

Su Wu wore thick cloth gloves,

Holding the iron bar connected to the knife embryo in his hand, he pestered the knife embryo into the fire.

this moment,

The fire suddenly jumped!
Those fires that surged up one after another turned into raging red lotus blooms!
The lotus petals are blooming layer by layer,
The woman's stern laughter followed: "Hahahaha——"

killing stone,

Woke up again!
An Gang and Hu Che looked at each other, and the ink marks on both of them burned and turned into raging black flames!

at the same time,

They replaced the two ink masters who had already used the power of the 'Ink Ink Map' once before, and stood beside Su Wu, throwing the raging black fire into the furnace, and began to infect those fiery red lotus petals!

After all, the two artisans who have entered ink painting are not as good as master artisans like An Gang and Hu Che.

It can support the power of using the ink drawing twice or even three times a day!
(End of this chapter)