"Oh, you've killed a lot of people with this knife."

While chewing the meat bun that was still a little warm, the middle-aged man took out a long knife and cut off the horse, and observed carefully.

"This ...... You're killing all the steppe people? Jibei came over? ”

"Where did you see that?"

Du Chengfeng couldn't help but be curious.

Although he could feel that the middle-aged man had deduced it by looking at the marks on the knife, he could tell who the knife had killed with just his eyesight...... That's a bit too outrageous.

You know, even if he wants to know something else, he still has to sharpen his knife.

How did the strange middle-aged man in front of him know?

"Traces."

The middle-aged man pointed to some of the scratches on the blade.

"There is a shortage of craftsmen in the grasslands, and armor is expensive, so most soldiers like to wear cheaper hard leather armor or thick leather jackets to withstand damage...... If it's iron armor, it will leave a metal scratch, which is easy to be confused with the mark of a blade, but in the case of leather armor, because most of it is thicker, the marks will be wider. ”

“…… Good eyesight. ”

Du Chengfeng couldn't help arching his hand.

Master, this is meeting a master. Unlike his kind of direct collusion with the sword and the evil aura of the blade, sensing the past of the blade, this person can actually do it to such a point just by observing it with the naked eye.

Different from the way he knew to sharpen knives with writing, or sharpen knives with moonshine, the middle-aged man in front of him may be the most reliable grinder he has ever seen.

"So, do you really know how to fix this knife?"

At this moment, Du Chengfeng suddenly felt that if it was this man, he might really be able to do it.

Then the bun he gave out just now is worth it?

"I know, I know, but I need to know where your process is going."

After eating half a bun, the middle-aged man raised his head.

"Since you're a student here, you should have shown this knife to the mountain chief here, right? What did he say? ”

"This ......"

Du Chengfeng scratched his head, and roughly told the story that Ruan Shantao had said.

This is not something that needs to be kept secret, after all, looking at the appearance of the old man Ruan, although this story is not a household name, it is also known by many people - of course, there are also Liu Bolun and Du Chengfeng who do not know, in the eyes of the old man Ruan, this is a symbol of not learning and not knowing.

"So, if you want this knife to be resurrected, you can't sacrifice a friend...... But I don't want to. ”

"You're right in this idea, brave and strategic, affectionate and righteous, this is the true nature of a man."

The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly.

"What a seedling...... Boy, do you want to come and learn from me? ”

“…… Learn from you? ”

Du Chengfeng frowned slightly.

Although he also admitted that this middle-aged man may have some ability, he opened his mouth to say that he wanted to learn from him...... What can I learn?

"yes, follow me."

The middle-aged man smiled.

"You can learn a lot here, but the teaching here is still a bit ...... Superficial. Just like you just said, the story that the mountain chief told you, haven't you ever wondered how the young man who wants revenge met the king of Chu? ”

“…… Belch? ”

Du Chengfeng was stunned when he heard it.

Didn't this go straight to the palace? Is there any other way to say this?

Yes.

There really can be other ways to say this.

Under the narration of the middle-aged man, Du Chengfeng gradually understood that the story had another face.

The initial process is still about the same, the murderous king of Chu after getting the sword, killed the clever swordsmith, the orphan and widow can only hide in the mountains for refuge, more than ten years later, the orphan's mother threw the furnace to sacrifice the sword, and the orphan also went to the Yingdu of Chu in order to avenge his parents.

And the story, too, diverges here.

Unlike what Old Man Ruan said, the orphan fought directly against the King of Chu, in the mouth of this middle-aged man, the orphan couldn't even see the face of the King of Chu - this is the capital of the Chu State, and it is the most heavily guarded place in the entire Chu land.

An orphan, with a sword, fears that he will not even be able to get close to the city walls, and will be beaten into a sieve by the spears and arrows thrown by the sharps.

Even if he is good at martial arts and can face difficulties, he will be cut off by the hundred fierce generals who rushed to the scene after hearing about it.

is still the same sentence, how can the king of Chu be a fool if he can hold a rare blade and fight for more than ten years?

"It was at this time that a man in black found this orphan."

took the wine gourd handed over by Du Chengfeng, poured a sip to moisten his throat, and the middle-aged man continued.

The man in black approached the orphan and claimed to help him get revenge, so in a fit of hatred, the orphan obeyed the man in black's arrangement - the orphan used the sword forged by his mother to cut off his own head with his own hands, and then handed the sword to the man in black along with the head.

Even if the head is lost, the headless corpse is still carrying out the process of revenge, which is the embodiment of hatred to the extreme.

And the head itself, naturally, has also turned into a terrifying monster under this extreme ferocity.

The man in black nailed the orphan's sword to the monster's head, and then took the monster to the palace of the king of Chu, and declared to the king of Chu that he had found the remnants of the year, but the other party would rather be catalyzed into a monster by the ferocity to avenge this blood revenge. At present, although this monster has been restrained by him, if he wants to completely destroy this monster, he has to find a bite of Dading and cook this monster thoroughly.

Just said this, but the king of Chu didn't believe it, but when he saw the sword nailed to the monster's head, the king of Chu shook again.

As for the reason, it is naturally because the mighty sword of the King of Chu in the past has long been unusable at this moment.

Like people, swords also have a lifespan, although as long as they are well maintained, the life of the blade can far exceed the human body, but no matter how high the level of maintenance, no matter how good the sword is, it can't withstand more than ten years of uninterrupted crusade and west.

Even speaking, under the violent use of King Chu, the sword of King Chu can last for more than ten years, which is enough to see how superb the swordsmith is.

So after seeing this other sword, the king of Chu naturally won't let it go, he will continue to fight, and he wants to plant the phoenix flag of Chu all over the world.

So, even if he had doubts, the king of Chu still sent someone to cast the big tripod and threw the monster head with a sharp blade on his head into it.

Ding under the fire, this cooking is three days and three nights, seeing that there is no movement in Dading, no matter how good the patience is, the king of Chu is a little anxious.

At this time, the man in black spoke again.

"King, this Ding should be almost there, do you want to take a look for yourself?"

Three days and three nights without rest, the spirit and physical strength of the king of Chu have been boiled out, at this moment the man in black spoke, but the king of Chu did not doubt him, walked directly to the front of the ding, and looked down.

Then the head of the king of Chu also fell into the ding.

It turned out that when the king of Chu looked at Dingzhong, the man in black pulled out the sword of the king of Chu, raised the sword in his hand, and cut off the head of the king of Chu.

"Wait."

Hearing this, Du Chengfeng suddenly had some doubts.

"Then the sword of the King of Chu should have killed a lot of people, right? This sword goes down ......"

"That's right, the King of Chu himself has also become a monster."

The middle-aged man laughed.

But said that although the two heads lost their bodies, they were still desperately biting each other under the influence of evil energy, and at this time, the man in black threw the body of the king of Chu into the ding, with the help of the headless corpse, but the head of the king of Chu was like a tiger with wings, and after a while, the orphan was killed, and even tore it to pieces.

However, at the moment when the King of Chu, who had turned into a monster, finally won, a sharp blade pierced its head.

It was the sword of the King of Chu that was already in tatters.

Nailed the king of Chu to the ding, and the man in black also closed the lid of the big ding and continued to increase the firepower.

The fire burned for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and the black-clothed man lifted the lid and pulled out a vicious halberd like a twisted spine.

Then, the new king of Chu held this terrifying divination halberd made of two sharp blades, charged into battle, invincible.

And after that, it has experienced the inheritance of three generations of Chu kings, and this terrifying divination halberd finally led the former Chu State to conquer the world and became the later Great Chu Dynasty.

“…… Will you wait a minute? ”

Hearing this, Du Chengfeng came back to his senses.

"The man in black is actually the prince of Chu? He just pushed his own father into the pot? ”

"This is also a matter of little way, after all, the king of Chu at that time was indeed too brutal, and he mobilized troops for more than ten years in a row, not giving the Chu people a chance to recuperate at all, not to mention that there is no prince in this world for forty years......"

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his head.

"Well, this statement is indeed a bit unpleasant, so it is generally not spread outside."

"This ......"

Du Chengfeng was speechless.

It's different, it's too different, if the story told by Old Man Ruan may still make him feel a little high-spirited blood, then the other version told by the middle-aged man in front of him can only make him feel cold.

Originally, he thought that it was outrageous enough to use human sacrifice blades, but this is good, first turn people into monsters, and then use monsters to forge blades...... If you think about it, is this really a viable path?

"So as long as I find the monster and pull out its vertebrae, I can bring this knife back to life?"

"Huh? You don't reject this approach? ”

The middle-aged man was stunned, but the smile on his face was even worse.

"But it's not as simple as you say, after all, your knife is dead. If you want to bring the dead blade back to life, enough evil energy is essential, but fortunately, your knife is just ordinary in terms of materials, and it is almost the same as killing hundreds of people at will, at this time you go to find someone who has entered the body, and when he becomes a monster, you will crucify him with a knife, and then throw the corpse and the knife into the furnace......"

The middle-aged man spoke seriously, and Du Chengfeng also listened attentively, one taught and one learned for a while, but it was a scene of preaching and teaching.

It's just that the good times don't last long.

"Don't teach the old man's students that things that mislead people's children."

Under the heavy pressure, even the breeze blowing the grass and trees stagnated.

"Old man's student, it's not your turn to take care of it."

"Brother Ruan, I'm also a classmate in the past, there's no need to be so strict, right?"

Returning the long knife of the broken horse to Du Chengfeng, the middle-aged man stood up and showed a warm smile to the burly old man who came towards him.

"You and I are both from Taixue, what difference does it make if you teach it or I teach it?"

Hearing this, Du Chengfeng on the side realized why he and this middle-aged man obviously didn't know each other, but the other party always gave him a subtle sense of familiarity.

It turned out that this person was in the memory of the square sword, the former best friend of the soft old man Ruan Shantao.

The student named Xiang Rong.