Gan Shiyi had never thought about what kind of sword he needed.

Neither in the previous life nor in this life, he had never touched a sword.

He just remembered those chivalrous swordsmen, as well as the sword fairies in white clothes, and thought they were very handsome, so he wanted to learn swords.

Now that he suddenly had to come up with the sword he wanted, he didn't even think of it after searching for a long time in his mind.

It's just that he suddenly remembered what the patriarch said just now: the sword is the medium for the user to comprehend the Tao.

How do you use the sword to comprehend the Tao?

From the sword moves? From swordsmanship?

Wrong!

"Kendo is originally a sword in the way."

Suddenly, the voice of the patriarch suddenly echoed in his head.

Kendo is originally a sword in the way?

Kendo is the sword of the way!!

In a trance, Gan Shiyi remembered what he had just said: The road is simple, and the different paths are the same.

There is also the feeling of that night in the mountain road: the Tao is all things in the world.

So......

Gan Shiyi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he swung his hammer violently, smashing it into the burning iron ingots on the iron frame.

"Ding! Bite! Bite! ......”

After a while, the iron ingot slowly changed, from an irregularly shaped iron ingot to a thick, short, and ugly 'iron rod'.

"Whew..."

Gan Shiyi was panting and sweating like rain, but his eyes were extraordinarily bright.

He stretched out his trembling right hand and slowly reached for the iron rod that was red and radiated with hot heat.

Without feeling any heat, Gan Shiyi directly held the iron rod with his hand.

Just like the old Taoist before, I can't feel the hot heat at all.

Gan Shiyi slowly raised his hand, raised the iron rod in his hand, and watched firmly.

"Unlock Talent: Kendo Beginner (Perception +10, Kendo Qualification +20, Sword Mastery Speed +20%)"

Hearing the sound of the system's ascension, Gan Shiyi was slightly stunned, and then replaced the talent of the original intention of the sword.

In an instant, Gan Shiyi felt that the Dao between heaven and earth felt clearer, and not only that, but some understanding of the Dao of the Sword also rose in his heart.

He held the iron rod in his hand, thinking about the way the patriarch was holding the wooden stick before, thinking about the burning stove in the house, and slowly handed it forward.

Suddenly, the mana in the body quickly flowed to the iron rod, and the iron rod also instantly erupted with a more fiery heat.

This heat made the fire in the furnace suddenly stop for a while.

"Boom!"

A swift wave of heat erupted from the iron bar, but quickly dissipated.

The iron rods also turned a cold black-gray color.

"You really have a relationship with the Tao!"

Gan Shiyi turned his head, and saw that the patriarch Dao had a complicated expression on his face, both envious and happy.

"What are you going to name this sword?"

"Name?"

Gan Shiyi carefully looked at the 'sword' in his hand for a while, and said slowly: "Let's see Chengdao." ”

Although this 'sword' does not seem to have the form of a sword, it carries the Tao of Gan Shiyi.

Because in the beating again and again, Gan Shiyi has integrated all the understanding of the Tao in his heart into this 'sword'.

It is the sword in Gan Shiyi's hand, and it is also the Tao in Gan Shiyi's heart.

This is the use of the "sword" as a medium to comprehend the Tao.

Use your own way to gradually deepen and comprehend the way of the world.

"Chengdao? Enlightenment! Well, that's good!

It seems that you have a deeper understanding of the Tao, and in that case, then the rest of the matter will be simpler. ”

After the patriarch said with praise, he turned around and took the lead and walked out.

The two of them came to a library room, where a large number of books in the world were piled up, covering everything in the world.

On a desk in the middle of the room, there are a few pens, some drawn runes and some rune papers that have not yet been written.

The painted talismans on the table are all common talismans in ordinary households, such as: asking for wealth, good luck, going to disasters, warding off evil spirits, and meditating.

Gan Shiyi looked at the talismans in front of the table, thinking about what the old man's intentions were.

I saw that the patriarch said with a smile: "What to do, you should change it to know!" ”

With that, he turned and left.

Gan Shiyi was slightly stunned at first, and then realized the intention of the patriarch.

The patriarch Dao mentioned to him many times that the Tao is not only cultivated by monks, but also by mortals.

And just now, Gan Shiyi also verified it personally.

With an ordinary iron ingot and an ordinary iron hammer, you can knock out a sword that carries the meaning of the Tao in your heart.

That ordinary rune paper, ordinary brush, what kind of rune seal can be drawn with the Tao?

This time, without the mention of the patriarch, Gan Shiyi could only grope alone.

He first looked at the talismans that had already been drawn, and then tried to draw them like a scoop of reeds, and the result was as miserable as a 'ghost drawing'.

"Hahaha..."

Gan Shiyi looked at the talisman he had drawn, didn't care, and laughed out loud with a natural expression.

After laughing, he dropped his pen and began to look around the study.

Soon, he found a secular book on drawing talismans from a pile of books.

When I opened the Taoist book, the first sentence at the beginning was: A little spiritual light is a talisman that draws all the ghosts and gods in the world.

After that, when talking about drawing talismans, we should meditate our body, mind, and mouth, only in this way can we be pious and draw the desired talisman.

At the end of the book, there is a simple poem: If you know the book charm, it will make the ghosts jump. I don't know the book runes, which makes the ghosts laugh.

After Gan Shiyi finished reading it, he smiled without saying a word, turned around and continued to walk around the study.

In the study, in addition to a large collection of books, there are also many calligraphy written by the patriarch on weekdays.

These calligraphy, just looking at it, Gan Shiyi can't take his eyes off it.

It seems to be a simple calligraphy, but it made Gan Shiyi see the shadow of the Tao, that is, the Tao Yun.

Just like Gan Shiyi's 'Chengdao' sword, it carries his own way.

Every word on this blank paper also carries the patriarch's own way.

Gan Shiyi stopped and looked at it for a while, trying to see from it what the old Dao understood about the Dao.

But after looking at it for a while, I couldn't see it.

In the end, Gan Shiyi did not try to draw the talisman again, but began to practice calligraphy on the desk.

The reason why this is the case is that the patriarch didn't teach him any sword moves before.

What Gan Shiyi wanted to learn was the swordsmanship and talisman making in the immortal cultivation world, not the swordsmanship and talisman making in the mortal world.

But the road is simple, and the different paths are the same.

The Tao is the same between the two.

Therefore, since you can't learn the swordsmanship and talisman making in the immortal realm, you can directly learn the way.

As long as you comprehend the Tao in it, it will be much easier to learn the swordsmanship and talisman making in the immortal world in the future.

Practicing characters is the same as practicing characters.

Gan Shiyi's practice of characters is not to practice various fonts, not to practice various symbols.

It's about practicing how to write and draw your own way on paper.

Just like before, he hammered his Tao into an iron ingot.

It's just that he just fused the Tao in his heart into the iron ingot, causing the 'sword' he created to not take shape.

Unlike the old Dao, it is a sword shape.

This is because his Tao is still too large and complex, too general, and not enough to sort out and integrate.

Now, Gan Shiyi plans to slowly sort out and integrate his own Tao through practicing calligraphy, and then write it on the characters.

When he can do the words like those words written by the patriarch, his 'sword' will gradually take shape.