Newly admitted students in Edgehouse are called Swordsmen, and after about ten years of study and passing the final assessment, they will be awarded the title of Swordsman.

During this period, it was divided into three levels, which were called: "striking iron", "quenching", and "forging swords".

Generally, within three years of enrollment, it is the stage of striking iron, and this period is mainly used to exercise and enhance physical fitness. In order to build yourself into a good sword, make preliminary preparations.

Four to eight years is the quenching stage, during which time the main thing is to learn basic swordsmanship and master the essence of swordsmanship: fast, accurate, and ruthless. Swordsmanship does not have too many moves than boxing, and swords are born to kill, so swordsmanship only pays attention to quickly and accurately cutting the enemy's vital points, so that the move is deadly, and the enemy is dead as long as he shows a flaw. To do this, students need to practice repeatedly, day and night, with the sword as their companion, until the sword melts into a part of their body, so that the sword is what they want. If you swing a sword like raising your hand, you can scratch it when you reach out and scratch it, and if you want to cut seven inches with the sword, there is no difference. By the end of this stage, the student will be enough to become a qualified swordsman.

The last two years of sword forging are the advanced stage. In these two years, students will begin to get in touch with the knowledge of sword qi, and according to their personal talent and understanding, they can understand how much and how much, and they are not required. Once a student leaves the mountain after graduation and wants to practice alone in the future, based on the knowledge he has learned in the past two years, he will know the direction of swordsmanship.

I heard that there was a new student in his twenties, and some of the swordsmen who liked to watch the excitement in the Edgehouse Ridge came over.

Kendaiba is usually a place where swordsmen teach swordsmanship and swordsmen practice swordsmanship. It was still early in the morning, and the sun had just climbed over the horizon, so Nano was called here. And there were some onlookers all around.

"Do you know why you were called here?" said a man in the prime of life who looked a few years older than his name, a handsome but unsmiling man.

"Know, entrance test. ”

Yesterday, Murakami had already informed Nano in advance that he would let a swordsman test his strength so that he could arrange future studies. I didn't expect it to be such a young swordsman.

"Very good!" the swordsman paused and continued, "My name is Hua Ying, and I will be your guide swordsman in the future. ”

"Nameless. ”

"Then let's get started. ”

"Hmm. ”

Hua Ying handed Ming no a big knife, the big knife didn't look too sharp, but it was very heavy, and ordinary people were afraid that it would be very difficult to pick it up. But Nano picked up a big knife with one hand, just like holding a kitchen knife, with ease.

"Then you use this knife to chop this piece of wood. Depending on how deep you cut, I can know your strength. ”

Nano looked at the stake, which was a piece of ironwood, the hardest wood in the world. The piece of ironwood, which is two meters thick, is firmly fixed to the ground and is tightly surrounded by rocks to ensure that the ironwood does not move when it is cut. There are quite a few notches on it, but the depth is only just up to the epidermis.

"Why do you have to use ironwood to test when you come up? Isn't that what swordsmen only use before they graduate?"

"I heard that when I graduated, I could only cut a few centimeters deep. ”

The crowd around was talking.

Cutting hard objects is a dangerous thing, and if you use too much force to cut hard objects, then the shock will cause great damage to the palm. This requires the swordsman to have a skillful skill, not only not to use force blindly, but also to flexibly defuse the force of the shock.

Hua Ying handed a pair of thick fleece gloves to Nano, "Put it on and cut it again." ”

"No!"

I saw Nano holding a big knife in one hand, and waving the knife seemed to be a little casual.

Hearing the explosion of "boom", everyone opened their eyes wide, only to see that the big knife in Na Wu's hand was broken from the middle, and half of the blade was deeply left in the iron wood.

"This!" the crowd was taken aback. "I actually cut off the knife!"

In the crowd, a young man of about eighteen years old was carefully staring at Nano's actions. "Oh! It stands to reason that the moment the knife touches the ironwood is the time when the force is greatest. If the knife is going to break, it should be broken before it can be cut in. But now the knife is broken inside, which means that the guy named Na Wu did not use the momentum of the knife to cut into the ironwood. It was only after the knife entered the ironwood that it began to really exert force, and the force became stronger and stronger. It seems that there is another terrible guy in Edgeworth. ”

Hua Ying's eyes also slightly revealed some surprise when she looked at Ming Wu.

"Iron stage, qualified. Hua Ying announced.

Then, Hua Ying takes Nano to another venue and gives him a rapier.

Hua Ying motioned for Na Wu to look at one of the bellows on the ground, "Later, there will be a lot of pieces of paper blowing out of this bellows, most of them are white, but there will be ten pieces of other colors, you need to use the thin sword in your hand to string those other colors of paper." ”

"Understood. ”

"The paper blows out very quickly, so you have to be prepared. ”

"Hmm!"

"I've heard that no one can ever string all the pieces of paper of different colors. "After all, the randomness is too high. Sometimes the angle at which the discolored paper flies out is too low and it quickly falls to the ground. "Sometimes the two are too far apart to string them together at the same time. The crowd chattered.

"Three, two, one, go!"

Hua Ying opened the bellows, only to see countless white round pieces of paper flying out together, heading towards the shop of Mingwu, whose figure was obscured by the pieces of paper.

After a while, the pieces of paper fell to the ground one after another, and the figure of Nameno appeared, and everyone looked at the thin sword in his hand and counted them.

“...... Seven, eight, nine, ten! No way, there are ten!"

The young man just now looked at Ming Wu and smiled excitedly, "Haha, it's really not an ordinary person." ”

Hua Ying announced again: "Quenching stage, qualified." ”

"Is there anything else to test?" asked Nano.

"No, just ask you a few more questions. ”

"Questions?"

"How much do you know about sword qi?"

"Didn't understand. ”

"Really?"

"I've only seen Murakami use it once, and I don't know anything else. ”

"Well, starting tomorrow, you can study with the graduating class. ”

"Graduating class?"

"Year 10, the last class. With that, Hua Ying left.

The crowd dispersed, and Nano was about to leave, when suddenly a figure rushed towards Nano, the speed was so fast, Nano couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly dodged. At this time, Nano found that the long knife on his body was missing.

Looking at the figure not far away, he saw that the man was about eighteen years old, with a baby face, and some milky smell, holding a long knife in his hand, looking carefully, and laughing a little naughty.

"Give!" the young man threw Nameless to Nameless, and Nameless took it.

"My name is Ziyuan, a student in the graduating class. ”

"Graduating class?"

"Don't get me wrong. My goal is to become a swordsman, and I don't want to think of myself with the rest of my graduating class. ”

"Do you have anything to do with me?"

"No, nothing, just trying your hand at it. You should know that the average sword master only produces one in three years, although there are times when there are several times a year, but most of them are only the strongest ones who are qualified to become a quasi-sword master. ”

"I'm not interested in becoming a swordsman. ”

"Oh, though, I'm interested in your prowess. Tomorrow I will introduce you to an interesting guy, just came here, and it is not good to know people. ”

There is no accompaniment to the name.

"Ziyuan, what are you still doing here?" In the distance, at some point, Hua Ying appeared and shouted to Ziyuan.

"Hey, hey, go right away. Ziyuan immediately replied, and then whispered to Ming Wu, "I forgot to tell you that Hua Ying is also my guiding swordsman, and I hope to take care of me in the future." By the way, tomorrow evening, Mochizuki Bridge, see you or leave. ”

Looking at Ziyuan's distant figure, Na Wu yawned, "Let's go back and rest first, I really got up too early today, and I can't use any strength." ”