Chapter 105: Blacksmith Meng
This time the water spray seemed to make the flying knife lose its strength, unable to stay in the air, like an ordinary flying knife, falling straight down. Kong Zhao really wanted to take a look at Lu Chaoran and Kongzhu's surprised appearance immediately, but he felt even more sorry for his flying knife, so he immediately turned into an afterimage and rushed towards the place where the flying knife fell. He wanted to catch the knife before it hit the ground, but it was still a step too late. He had no choice but to pick up the flying knife from the ground and run back while carefully wiping the dirt from the knife.
"If he had been better at forging swords, he could have had the knife fly back into my hand on its own, so I wouldn't have to pick it up. Kong Zhaoren was still far away, so he couldn't wait to explain loudly.
"It's useless to spray a cloud of water mist like this?" Lu Chaoran said.
Kong Zhao returned to him, a little panting, he had just rushed too fast, using all his strength, but he didn't wait for himself to breathe, he explained while panting: "The flying knife has a special structure inside, which can hold a lot of water, this time I only filled one bucket of water, if it is full, it can hold ten buckets of water, but the weight is only a little increased." It's good to put out the fire. And before the big battle, I'll fill my throwing knives with venom!
Thinking of this, Lu Chaoran and Kong Zhu both stuck out their tongues and said, "This trick is ruthless enough!"
Lu Chaoran took the flying knife again and looked at it carefully. He used the third layer of the imitation purple night demon pupil, and his insight was so meticulous that he couldn't even see where the spout was. He couldn't help but sigh: "What a clever workmanship, such a small flying knife can hold so much water in it, and there is nothing unusual on the outside, and you can't find the water spout." We must meet this swordsmith. β
Kong Zhao was very satisfied with Lu Chaoran's reaction, he said: "His surname is Meng, he is just a Wild Road Sword Forge with average skills, and the flying knives he makes are so exquisite, which shows how powerful a Great Sword Forge should be!"
"Alright, don't waste time, let's go find him!"
Kong Zhao then led them all the way back along the main road, fifty miles away from Chiming Peak, turned into a small road, and soon came to a small mountain village. As the only blacksmith in the village, without Kong Zhao's guidance, Lu Chaoran recognized Blacksmith Meng's home at a glance, because the furnace fire and chimney of the blacksmith's house were very conspicuous.
Blacksmith Meng was obviously very familiar with Kong Zhao, and when he saw them coming, his eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile: "Master Kong, what do you need this time?
Kong Zhao said with a smile: "I still need hidden weapons, I need all kinds of hidden weapons, but firstly, I don't have much money now, and secondly, you can't do some of my requests for a while." β
Blacksmith Meng smiled innocently and said, "You want the hidden weapon to fly out for a while, and it can emit a dazzling light like the sun after flying out, and then you want the hidden weapon to be as you like, stop and fly if you want to, these are all strange requirements." The last time I was spraying water, I thought about it for three months before I figured out how to forge it. These two are your friends, aren't they? Do you want to forge some strange blades too?"
Lu Chaoran said: "I want to forge a sword for myself, it is the kind of sword soul sword that can be injected into my own true yuan for cultivation. β
Blacksmith Meng said, "Isn't it too early?" But before Lu Chaoran could say anything, Blacksmith Meng said to himself: "Of course, it's not early, and it's not absolute. It's just, I'm honest, I don't have that level. Forging the Sword of Sword Soul is not something that a blacksmith of my caliber can do. β
Lu Chaoran's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "Senior Meng, you said that it is not early, it is not absolute, I don't understand what this means?"
Blacksmith Meng smiled slightly and said, "Normally, it must be when you go to the Lingfei Realm to forge a sword, but there is also a sword-casting method in the world, called the Domineering Soul Snatching Method, which can break this rule." A hundred years ago, there was a person at the beginning of Qi refining, who used the domineering Soul Snatching Method to forge a sword, and in only eight years, he broke through the Soul Transformation Realm and ascended to the Divine Domain. β
"Is the swordsmith who forged the sword for him your ancestor?"
"That's right," the proud look in Blacksmith Meng's eyes flashed for a moment, and then reverted to a calm and breezy expression, "My ancestor Meng Haigong, once and now... It's quite powerful, but it's a pity that he left here, and I didn't learn one-ten-thousandth of his sword-forging skills, and of course I won't be able to use this domineering soul-stealing sword-casting technique. β
"Is he still alive now, can you tell us where he went?" Lu Chaoran asked reluctantly.
Blacksmith Meng let out a long sigh and said, "It's been more than eighty years since he ran away, and if we hadn't heard from him ten years ago, we would have thought he was no longer alive. Ten years ago, he sent me a message through a flying pigeon and told me how he was doing. Since then, however, there has been no contact. He told me his location in the letter, but, as you can see, now that the Meng family has declined to the point of opening a small blacksmith shop in a small mountain village, I don't have the money to go to him. The place where he is tens of thousands of miles away, even if he is rich, the demons and monsters along the way are countless difficulties and dangers, and it is not something that an ordinary person like me can go. β
"Tell us, let's go find him!"
Blacksmith Meng hesitated for a while, then turned around and returned to the house, took out a small and thin piece of animal skin paper and handed it to Lu Chaoran, saying, "This is the letter he wrote to me back then, you can use this to find him." β
Lu Chaoran took the animal skin paper and quickly browsed it. The content of the letter is nothing more than that he is living well in the distance alone, although he misses his hometown, but the road is blocked, and it is inconvenient to come back, and then asks about the current situation of the descendants of the Meng family, and also mentions the Fan family in Longmen, and the tone seems to be full of hatred for the Fan family, and I hope that their whole family will be unlucky. However, it seems that the actual situation is probably going to disappoint Meng Haigong, the Longmen Fan family is now the leading sword-forging family in the Xingchen Mountain Range, and it is still thriving. Meng Haigong said that he now lives in the mountains next to Kukasawa. A small map was drawn below the letter, depicting his position relative to Kugasazawa.
Lu Chaoran asked, "Where is Kukaze, how far is it?"
Blacksmith Meng said: "In the southwest, more than 20,000 miles away from the Xingchen Mountain Range, the road is very difficult to walk, you know, there are countless swamps and forests in the southwest, and 20,000 miles away, almost no one goes to the place. Alas, I don't know how my ancestor ran so far, and I'm not afraid of being eaten by monsters. I know that even for you cultivators, this journey has been very difficult, and if you change your mind, it doesn't matter..."
Lu Chaoran interrupted him categorically: "No, we have made up our minds, we will definitely go!"
However, when Kong Zhao and Kongzhu heard this, sweat broke out on their foreheads, and they asked weakly in a low voice: "One... Do you have to go?"
Lu Chaoran looked back at the two of them and said, "Of course you go, why don't you go?" If you don't go, I'll go by myself!"
Kongzhu hurriedly said: "We must investigate clearly! In that kind of place, it would be strange if there were no big monsters." With our current ability, going there casually is no different from sending you to death!"
"Then why can Meng Haigong go there, and live a good life? The swordsmith has no ability to kill demons. Lu Chaoran said.
"It's... That's right, it's justβ" Kongzhu scratched his head, feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't say why.
Blacksmith Meng nodded and said, "You should think about it carefully, this is not child's play." β