Chapter 366: Xuanming Ancient Sword
After opening the white cloth wrapped in this ancient sword, a dark green long sword was revealed, and the moment he saw this ancient sword, Chen Ziyang was stunned, this sword is really exquisite!
Even Chen Ziyang felt that the way he lifted the white cloth just now was too rough, and for this sword, his rough action just now was simply a kind of desecration of this sword. I knew that this sword was so exquisite, I should have bathed and changed my clothes just now, and then burned incense three times and bowed nine times before touching this sword with my hand.
Although Chen Ziyang doesn't know much about these antiquities, he has heard that there is one of the easiest ways to distinguish the real from the fake, that is, whether the thing looks beautiful or not, will it make you feel like you want to possess it.
This is a bronze ancient sword, but unlike the bronze ancient sword that Chen Ziyang knew, the sword body of this bronze ancient sword was actually more than 80 centimeters long. Although the sword that is more than 80 centimeters long is now a short sword, it can really be regarded as a long sword in the bronze sword.
The Warring States period was a period when a large number of bronze swords were cast, because of the restrictions of the smelting process in that era, there were more impurities contained in the bronze, so most of the sword bodies of bronze swords were not very long, generally fifty or sixty centimeters were relatively long, and if the sword was long, it was very easy to break.
It is said that when the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang were excavated later, several bronze ancient swords were dug out, and most of the bronze swords in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang were relatively long, and some could even reach more than 90 centimeters. According to expert analysis, it is very likely that the reason why the Qin Dynasty was able to unify the six countries was because of the weapons forged by this unique smelting process.
This dark green bronze ancient sword has a dense structure, the sword body is bright and smooth, the grinding of the blade is very delicate, there are many yellow textures intertwined into a grid on the sword body, the whole sword is as bright as new, and there is no flaw at all, if it weren't for Pan Huayu saying that this sword is an ancient sword before, it is very likely that Chen Ziyang would think that this sword was just cast yesterday.
Chen Ziyang did not immediately play with this bronze ancient sword, but carefully placed the sword and white cloth on the table, and he sat on the stool next to the table, looking at the sword quietly, as if admiring the most wonderful objects in the world.
The blade of this bronze ancient sword is very thin, when Chen Ziyang gently put this sword on the table just now, he seemed to see that the tip of the sword that first touched the table bent under the action of the gravity of the sword body, and then the whole sword returned to straightness, it seems that this sword is very tough, and it is not as brittle as he imagined that the bronze sword is very easy to break.
There are three edges on each side of the sword body, and these three edges run through the entire sword body, and the part in the middle of the three edges is the slightly raised sword body, and the two sides are very sharp blades, because the blade has been polished, and the color of the blade is different from the sword body. The color of the entire sword changes from the dark green of the sword body to the gray of the blade, showing a natural color transition without any abruptness.
The shape of the hilt is also very unique, and the part that connects the tip of the hilt to the sword body is the shape of a beast's head, and the monster has a large open mouth and holds the sword inside, as if the sword body of the sword is spit out of the mouth of the monster.
The back of the beast's head is a pagoda-shaped sword hilt, the pagoda has a total of five sections, the last section of the pagoda suddenly widens, becoming the bottom of the hilt, and the remaining four sections of the pagoda are angular. Chen Ziyang compared it with his fingers, these edges and corners of the pagoda can be grasped by four fingers in his hand, the tower body of the pagoda fits perfectly with the gaps between the fingers, and it seems that the design of the sword body is also very humane.
The whole sword is very exquisitely made, every detail on the sword body and hilt has been perfected, Chen Ziyang saw that whether it is the yellow intertwined grid texture on the sword body, or the casting of the beast head and pagoda on the sword handle, all have reached a perfect symmetry, and the size and shape of each grid on the sword body are exactly the same.
On each floor of the pagoda there are three small recesses representing windows, which decorate the hilt of the sword and increase the friction between the fingers and the handle, allowing the sword to be held more firmly in the hand. The last section of the pagoda has a circular ball on the tip that looks like the spire of the pagoda.
While looking at this sword, Chen Ziyang felt his heart beat faster, he couldn't believe that such a beautiful treasure actually belonged to him, and even he had a feeling that he was not worthy of this sword at all.
In front of the table, Chen Ziyang sat for two hours, and during these two hours, his body remained motionless, except for his two eyes, which turned left and right, carefully looking at every detail of this sword over and over again.
It wasn't until Chen Ziyang felt that his eyes were sour and astringent, that he stopped doing this. Then Chen Ziyang walked to the bathroom, washed his face, and carefully washed his hands before returning to the side of the table and gently holding the bronze ancient sword in his hand.
At the moment when Chen Ziyang grabbed the hilt of the sword, he felt a kind of domineering spirit of a king and the righteousness that dominated the world came from the sword body of this sword.
Thinking about it, although Chen Ziyang did not know the specific age of this sword, he estimated that this sword should have been cast during the Qin Dynasty. In those days, the person who could use such a sword must have been a great minister, either a great general who had made many military exploits or a feudal prince.
It took a long time for Chen Ziyang to recover from the shock, and then he thought of a question, where did this sword come from? If this sword was really forged during the Qin Dynasty, as I believe, then how has this sword survived to the present day?
Chen Ziyang has also seen a lot of photos of bronze swords, and even when he was in the museum, he also saw the real objects excavated from the tomb, but those bronze swords are rarely preserved relatively well, even if there are, there will be more or less some flaws on the top of the fitness, those are the traces of corrosion by the years in the tomb, but this trace can not be seen on this sword at all, this sword is flawless, no damage at all.
Holding this sword, Chen Ziyang carefully stroked the sword body with his fingers. As his fingers ran over the grid-like textures and edges on the sword's body, Chen Ziyang vaguely heard a buzzing sound. He knew it was because his fingers rubbed against the fitness, causing the resonance of the fitness to make a sound. This is enough to prove that the blade of this sword does not contain a trace of impurities.
Just when Chen Ziyang was playing with this sword and couldn't put it down, his fingers stroked the blade. Chen Ziyang suddenly felt a tingling pain coming from his fingers, and when he gently stroked the blade of the sword, his finger was cut by the blade, which showed the sharpness of this sword. And at this time, something happened that surprised Chen Ziyang even more.
When his finger was cut, a drop of blood remained on the blade, but the blood slid down the blade little by little, until it slid near the tip of the sword, and then dripped from the blade onto the white cloth spread on the table.
And when this drop of blood slid across the blade of the sword, there was not a trace of blood left on the sword. If it weren't for a very conspicuous red dot on the white cloth reminding Chen Ziyang, it was very likely that he would have felt that what he had just seen was an illusion, and his fingers had not been cut by the blade at all.
The scene just now reminded Chen Ziyang of the scene where the green-faced beast Yang Zhi was selling knives, and when the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi was selling knives, he said that his treasure knife was very sharp, and there were three points that could be reflected. The first point is to sharpen the mud like iron, and the knife edge is not rolled, the second point is that the hair will be broken when blown, and the third point is to kill people without blood. The scene I just saw should be killing people without blood.
The so-called killing without blood means that the material of the sword body is very tight, and the sword body has been tempered thousands of times, and the surface is very smooth, so the blood will slip off the sword body, and there is no trace of contamination on the sword body.
The blue-faced beast Yang Zhi said that the hair will be broken, what he said was to take a hair and put it on the blade of the knife, and then gently blow a breath towards the hair, and with the power of blowing, this hair will be cut into two pieces by the blade.
At this time, Chen Ziyang remembered another word, called hair loss must be broken, although this word is only one word different from blowing hair, but it can better describe the sharpness of the sword blade.
Blowing hair must also blow towards the hair, and hair loss must be broken refers to hanging a hair above the blade, and then gently release the finger pinching the hair, the hair will fall gently downward under the action of gravity, when the hair crosses the blade, it will be cut in two by the blade, then the sharpness of the blade of the sword is much sharper than the blow dryer.
Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang was full of childlike hearts, and he suddenly wanted to give it a try himself. With the attitude of giving it a try, Chen Ziyang plucked a hair from his head, he held the sword in one hand, and hung the hair above the blade with the other, and then he gently released his fingers.
This hair slowly fell down under the action of gravity, and Chen Ziyang didn't dare to come out, for fear that his breath would blow away this hair, but when he saw this hair slashing at the blade of the sword and turning into two sections, Chen Ziyang's eyes were as big as a cow's eyes.
Where is this ancient sword, this is simply a national treasure! It is even much more precious than the national treasure-level bronze ancient sword that he knows. Chen Ziyang calmed down his excitement for a moment, and then carefully placed the sword on the table.
Chen Ziyang recalled that he once read a news that after the ancient bronze sword excavated in the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang, an ancient bronze sword was found on the surface of the sword body, and a discovery that shocked the world, because this substance was refined by oxidation in modern times.
Now this chromium salt compound casting process is used on military daggers, and each military dagger containing this substance is extremely sharp, but in the Qin Dynasty thousands of years ago, this substance has appeared. Chen Ziyang felt that it was very likely that the reason why this sword was so sharp was also related to the fact that the sword contained this substance.
The more he touched, the more Chen Ziyang felt that this sword was extraordinary, and then he carefully observed this sword again, and when he looked at the hilt again, Chen Ziyang suddenly found that the hilt of this sword was different from when he looked at it just now.
Now on the last layer of the sword hilt pagoda, there are two more words in the originally smooth place. Then Chen Ziyang understood, this was when he took the sword and put it back just now, he turned the sword body 180 degrees, and the side he was looking at was the side he hadn't seen before, these two words should not have appeared out of thin air, but were engraved there before, could it be that these two words are the name of this sword?
Looking at the two words on the hilt of the sword, Chen Ziyang scratched his head, he didn't know these two words at all, and he didn't know what the body was, these two words were horizontal or vertical, vertical was not vertical, the font was round and square, I don't know if the words of the era when the sword was cast were originally written like this, or they were beautified by the swordsmith.
But these two characters seem to be very similar to the two characters of the Chinese character Xuan Ming, although Chen Ziyang knew that these two words were definitely not the two characters Xuan Ming, but he decided that from this moment on, he would call this sword the Xuan Ming Ancient Sword.
It wasn't until a series of gurgling sounds sounded in his stomach that Chen Ziyang realized that the sky outside was already a little dark, and he had been looking at this sword for an afternoon, and he didn't realize it at all, he didn't notice that time passed so quickly.
Now Chen Ziyang finally realized the meaning of the words written by Pan Huayu in the letter, if he stood in Pan Huayu's point of view, he would be very reluctant to give this sword to others. Not to mention letting yourself give it away, if someone comes to grab this sword, you may fight with them.
Originally, Chen Ziyang didn't want to keep this sword, after all, he was ashamed of it, and at the same time, he felt that this sword was a little buried in his hands, but firstly, he really needed such a treasure to be refined into his natal weapon, and secondly, he didn't know Xiao Na's address, and he couldn't mail this sword back to Xiao Na, after all, the handwriting on the courier list was very blurry.
Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang himself smiled, he knew that this was his own excuse, if he really wanted to return the sword, he only needed to go to the courier company to check, he just wanted to leave this sword under this excuse.
Anyway, it's given for free, don't give it for nothing. Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang stretched out his hand suddenly, grabbed the sword in his hand, and then used the mana of his Maoshan Land Master to pour this sword into it.
With the infusion of his mana, Chen Ziyang felt that the body of this sword trembled slightly, and he was very sure that his hand holding this sword was steady, and there was no trembling phenomenon at all, so that is to say, the body of this sword itself was trembling.
As the sword body trembled, a slight buzzing sound emanated from the sword body, as if it was an echo of Chen Ziyang's mana infusion. At the same time, Chen Ziyang also felt a powerful yang qi emanating from the sword body of this sword, and now Chen Ziyang, who was holding this sword, had greatly increased his confidence.
Whether it is the corpse demon in the shallow water fish dragon, or the blood corpse group of the Eastern Dynasty, or the black general in the Inner Mongolia Absolute Yin Land, the current Chen Ziyang dares to fight them alone with this sword. One person and one sword echoed each other like this, and it lasted for a long time.
"Good! Tomorrow, I will begin to refine the Natal Weapon Xuanming Ancient Sword. Chen Ziyang, who was holding the ancient sword, said proudly.
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