Chapter 22: Forging
The three people around the bonfire feasted, Jiang Yao ate the last bite of crispy meat in his hand, touched the round belly and couldn't help burping, added some dry wood to the fire, and looked at the fire without speaking.
But the two people around him couldn't bear it anymore, and they hurriedly said in unison, "Lord" and "Monarch"
"Don't worry, I'll talk about it after eating" Jiang Yao continued to penetrate the fire, making the fire more vigorous.
The two hurriedly devoured the meat on their hands, and before they could speak, Jiang Yao beside them gently reminded them, "Say them one by one, don't be in a hurry"
Miyazawa, who was originally gentle and taciturn, actually preemptively said, "Sovereign, you can figure out whether the Demon God Nine Heavens is cultivating or not."
After the words fell, he didn't forget to glance at Su Dingfang beside him, and Su Dingfang also frowned, looking at Jiang Yao, who had stopped fiddling with firewood, only to see that he had no expression on his face and said, "You can say all your thoughts, after all, you are old."
The sentence "Uh......" suddenly suffocated the two of them, what the hell, although the age is a little older, but do you want to do this, we don't have to save face, there was a sudden silence in the air.
"What's the matter, say" Jiang Yao stared at the two of them and didn't feel anything wrong.
"Ahem, that... Lord, after careful consideration, we have decided, you can practice this exercise, after all, you are young, you have to play with your life" After Su Dingfang finished speaking, he and Miyazawa looked at Jiang Yao, who was already stunned.
"What the hell, seriously" Jiang Yao was a little frantic when he heard this slightly familiar line.
General Su laughed evilly, and then said solemnly, "After our fight, we have come to the conclusion that this exercise is a top exercise, and it is very suitable for practicing the body and cultivating the body, although it is a demonic way, but it does not lose the body and mind, and it is also an important level to test your own mind, if you do something that will bring disaster to the country and the people, you have to believe that even if we dissipate the world, we will not follow you again if we do not reincarnate."
"Yes, although you can practice this exercise, you can't delay the cultivation of the spirit realm, we decided to let you double cultivate the demon path, spirit and qi, complement each other, if you want to learn knives and guns, we can also hand it over to you, everything depends on your decision" Miyazawa stared at Jiang Yao's eyes and said meticulously, all this shows that they want to cultivate a generation of Tianjiao, and all this started the moment Jiang Yao nodded.
But in the expectant eyes of the two, Jiang Yao did not nod immediately, but took out a small note and a silver-gray necklace without ornaments from his arms, and unfolded the note, on which were written the words "Those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid", and there are three small words on the reverse side "Save your life".
Jiang Yao picked up the extremely simple and ordinary necklace and thought about it in front of the bonfire. This is the grandmother who raised me for many years personally brought for me, and it is also my first accessory, and the only one, when she said that if I am not around, you have to protect yourself, treat the people who love you and the people you love, ignorant I nodded without hesitation, but when I grew up I found that the people who loved me had long since left, the people I loved had not yet appeared, but I loved my hometown, but that day, the sky appeared densely packed with fierce beasts to slaughter the county full of childhood memories into a ruin, at that time, my heart was dripping blood, but I was incompetent, but I saw a group of parents who did not care about their lives for the sake of their children, The children who wept in the ruins but didn't make noise, I have only one thought in my heart, that is, even if the sacrifice becomes a demon, as long as it is stronger to protect them, I am willing"
Jiang Yao's voice gradually choked a little, and he held this extremely ordinary bracelet tightly in the palm of his hand, "The note was written by the old man who was originally blind, hey, hey, I'm stupid, how can the old man who once kicked and killed a wild boar be a mortal, and I don't know how many old hens I stole from him since I was a child, and here I actually told me to save my life, hahaha, a good clean person is self-purifying, a good turbid person is self-turbid, even if he becomes a demon, what's the matter, looking at the sea of thousands of people, can there still be a lack of an ordinary demon who received me? I have learned this exercise!"
Slips of paper flew through the cracks of their fingers into the fire and burned to ashes.
Su Dingfang and Miyazawa looked at each other deeply, nodded, and said nothing all night.
It was too overcast, the golden crow was dawning, and a ray of sunlight poured on Jiang Yao's face through the branches and leaves, and he woke up in an instant and ran into the village to find the old man known as the patriarch.
The old man was a little surprised when he saw the young man running in a hurry, "What are you looking for me?"
I saw Jiang Yao's body bow heavily, and shouted loudly: "I hope you can teach me these three months"
The old man smiled when he heard it, "Okay, go to the blacksmith shop in the south of the village and ask for a heavy armor to wear on your body, carry this bluestone pillar in the center of the village and run around the back mountain for three hundred laps, I will teach you, and this is also the criterion for me to accept apprentices, see those little children in the village who are running with bronze tripods, they have been running for more than ten years" Then the old man stroked his beard and walked slowly.
Jiang Yao was puzzled, obviously those children looked like they were only five or six years old, how could they have been running for more than ten years, maybe they were not the same kind of people as he said.
Watching the old man walk, the young man ran to the "Shiji Blacksmith Shop" in the south of the village, only to see a young little fat man squatting at the door, as if waiting for something, suddenly saw a figure standing in front of him, and immediately stood up, hehe smiled and said, "Do you want Xuan Chongjia to be an apprentice for seven days!"
Jiang Yao was stunned, why are they too coherent one by one, and then agreed without any hesitation, "What should I do?"
I saw the little fat man smile maliciously, "Simple, simple, in the first three days, all the rare dark iron metals in the north of the village will be moved here, if you don't move it or the quantity is not enough, the deadline will be extended, and the next few days will follow me to forge iron." ”
Looking at Jiang Yao, who was running away with a puff of smoke, the little fat man couldn't help but shout at him, "Remember, it's Liu's Xuankuang!"
Looking at the figure that had long disappeared, I don't know if he heard it, he shook his head helplessly, and said in an old-fashioned manner, "Too young!"
Jiang Yao heard the little fat man's shouting from afar, found the Liu's Xuan Mine, and followed a rough man into it, only to see that he pointed to the two piles of metal ore like a hill, and couldn't help but have a big brain, but when he wanted to use the cart, he was rejected by the rough man and said, "I don't recommend that you use any means, these metal ores are extremely rare, and you can't touch any spiritual power and qi when they have not been forged into iron tools, including means such as carts, which are forbidden in the Shiji blacksmith shop, if you use it illegally, I am afraid that you will postpone it longer." ”
Jiang Yao had no choice but to move the heavy piece of metal from the northernmost part of the village to the village is the most difficult, time flies, and the food is still the pheasant that has not been eaten last night, and after swallowing a few mouthfuls quickly, it was moved again, until late at night, Jiang Yao stopped, and suddenly the feeling of sore muscles swelling came to his face, Jiang Yao fell asleep by the lake, and when the golden crow broke on another day, he quickly got up and continued to move from north to south, according to this situation, as long as there is no accident in three days, it can be successfully completed.
As expected, three days later, they were all moved perfectly, and Jiang Yao seemed to be used to this, there was no sense of fatigue at the moment, but there was an indescribable transparency and comfort.
Under the leadership of the little fat man, the natural forging furnace formed by the ancient stone, the fire is blazing, a cross stream flows from top to bottom, the black gold forging platform on the shore, the surrounding size has a total of 21 hammers, 36 tools of different shapes, a small thatched hut, the door plaque is written with the word "ingenuity", and the couplet is on the sentence: the eternal decay is only immortal,
The next sentence of the couplet: The displacement of mountains and rivers is only ingenuity.
The high bamboo is all over the ground, the mountains are endless, and the sound of knocking on the wrought iron is gradually approaching, Jiang Yao followed the little fat man to the middle-aged man who kept knocking on the metal, only to see that the man's hair was scattered, but his eyes were extremely bright, and the slag that had not been shaved for many days was full of mature vicissitudes, and he was a typical mature and sloppy and handsome uncle type in the outside world.
But the middle-aged man just glanced at Jiang Yao and continued to wield the big hammer in his hand, the little fat man left slowly, leaving Jiang Yao here alone, without saying a word, staring at the man's every move, the rhythm and skill of the hammer, and finally everything was completed in the clouds and flowing water, Jiang Yao exhaled a mouthful of turbid air as he finished it, and then looked at the forged sword blade, only to see a bamboo leaf floating down to the blade, two halves in an instant, falling into the stream, flowing downstream, seeing this Jiang Yao couldn't help but gasp heavily.
After finishing it, I saw the middle-aged man making a cup of good tea and lying on the rocking chair with squinting his eyes and drowsy, ignoring Jiang Yao standing beside him as if he didn't exist.
And Jiang Yao didn't bother him, just stood beside him and waited quietly, the wind blew the bamboo sea with the stream, the fire forging furnace burned red, the sword blade was still facing the sky, quietly waiting for the arrival of the master, and took it away, just like that, the golden crow fell, the moonlight poured, and the stars filled the sky above the bamboo sea.
At this time, the middle-aged man suddenly opened his eyes full of the vicissitudes of the world, sitting, standing, rushing, and arrived at the stove with a series of habitual movements, and the thick vise clamped out the iron that had already been burned into Baixia in the fire, and a rapid small hammer sound continued to sound, and then the sledgehammer slammed, Jiang Yao listened carefully and saw clearly, the sledgehammer and the small hammer were no more than nine hundred and eighty-one, and the impurities were all refined and then folded and tempered thirty-two times, and thousands of hammers were refined to achieve a fine-grained snail gold arrow, such as tiny fish scales all over the body.
"Can you see it," the loud and magnetic voice woke Jiang Yao up from his dream.
"I can see it really, but I don't understand Shen Yun," Jiang Yao replied truthfully.
The middle-aged man's face was like an ancient well, and his eyes stared at Jiang Yao tightly, "You look at it again, remember, this is the last time"
Immediately after that, the middle-aged man struck the forging like a flowing cloud, sweat overflowed and wet his body, pieces of strong muscles were revealed like carvings, and the blood vessels in his arms burst out like a static green dragon.
Jiang Yao was fascinated, the original four days were dragged to forty days, looking at the arrow in his palm that was almost perfect, Jiang Yao showed a satisfied smile, of course, these forty days are not just as simple as having arrows.
The middle-aged man, a very strict man, couldn't help but nodded: "Xuan Chongjia, I have asked Zhuang'er to prepare it for you, you can go and get it." ”
Hu took out a yellowed book with the word "Ingenuity" written on it, and handed it to Jiang Yao, "You keep this book, if there is anything obscure, you can ask me" After that, he squinted on the recliner.
Jiang Yao knew that if this man was sleeping, he must not disturb him, otherwise he was afraid that a hammer would hit him, Jiang Yao looked at the book in his hand, and made a note - Shi Lucang, Gui Lan.
This is exactly the name of the middle-aged man on the chaise longue, with his wife. Jiang Yao bowed slightly to thank him, and then left.
Seeing him leave, Shi Lucang, who had his eyes slightly closed, opened his eyes and looked at him deeply, his eyes were complicated.