() The double hammer is lifted and clamped powerfully, and the gold and iron are sonorous.

Deng Xianjue, who was in the soundproof magic array, pricked up his ears and listened carefully to every hammer while performing the Ximen family's peerless "Flying Rain Body Method".

The elders of the Nangong family seemed to have forgotten their anger at his previous violent destruction of the heavens in Deng Xianjue's dazzling movements.

"Listening, discerning, and dropping the hammer are the skills that every knife caster should master, but they are precisely the most difficult skills to master. Since Deng Xianjue used the 'Flying Fire Casting Knife Method' in front of us, he was not afraid that he would be stolen by others. In the way of forging knives, some things do not rely on experience, but on talent. Patriarch Nangong Yan showed admiration on his face.

Immediately echoed in the quiet lobby.

Nangong Yan quietly glanced at several of the winners of the Demon Treasure Conference: Nangong Wei nodded in admiration, Nangong Xi stood up in shock, Nangong Xue stared silently, but Xiao Tianhe lowered his head, supported his chin with his hand, and was thoughtful.

"Heh, Deng Xianjue displayed the 'Flying Fire Casting Knife' in Nangong Mansion, this is the first time, and I'm afraid it will be the last. Xiao Tianhe, Xiao Tianhe, I hope you can give me a surprise, and it will not be in vain for my Nangong family to treat you well......" Nangong Yanxin said.

In fact, what Xiao Tianhe was thinking about was not the feeling of observing the casting of the knife.

When Deng Xianjue first began to hammer around the knife embryo, he suddenly remembered the situation when his mother, Ye Congyun, handed over the Heavenly Enemy Knife to him. He carefully recalled every detail before and after his mother's departure and return when he forged the knife, and he could be sure that his mother's body did not have any scars, and even her clothes were not damaged in the slightest. On the other hand, Deng Xianjue, who was in the field, had already been burned by sparks and covered in blood, and his pants were also covered with scorched black holes.

Xiao Tianhe couldn't help but wonder what he had just said to Nangong Xue: "In order to forge a high-quality magic knife, of course, every detail must be meticulous. ”

Could it be that the mother didn't pay attention to the two knives of "heavenly hatred" and "heavenly killing"?

"No, it can't be. Xiao Tianhe immediately denied this suspicion in his heart. As a master of knife casting, he must have his own dignity, and Ye Congyun didn't even bother to name the magic knife that was forced by conditions before casting "Heavenly Hatred" and "Heavenly Killing". After understanding the hatred in his mother's heart, Xiao Tianhe also understood the meaning of the two names of "Heavenly Hatred" and "Heavenly Killing". With such a painful magic knife, how could my mother not cast it with her heart?

There is only one possibility, and the mother has a more superb and ingenious knife casting skill. In other words, Deng Xianjue's forging knife level was still far from Ye Congyun. And the reason for the gap, Xiao Tianhe feels that it should not be a matter of realm.

"Master Deng is really powerful, if I had turned so many times quickly, I am afraid I would have fainted a long time ago. Nangong Xue's words beside him interrupted Xiao Tianhe's thoughts.

"It looks gorgeous. "Xiao Tian Dao. In fact, he didn't particularly appreciate Deng Xianjue's fancy "Flying Fire Casting Knife Method". In his opinion, this method is indeed very wonderful, and it is impossible to create it unless it is a gifted person who has been immersed in this way for a long time, but whether its effect is obvious and necessary is open to debate.

No matter how light Deng Xianjue's steps are, the rapid movement of the whirlwind will inevitably bring up some tiny impurities in the air and on the ground, but people can't see it. Zhang Dongzheng's "stepping on the soil without traces" only means that there are no visible dust particles. Besides, if the sand and dust brought up by the swordsmith was so large that it could be clearly seen, the quality of the magic knife would definitely not be much better.

In addition, Deng Xianjue must have failed many times before mastering this knife casting method. If you can't master the art of refining the blade, you will be wasting valuable materials. You must know that the texture and weight of any material are different, and it is impossible to use other materials as practice, and the "Spitfire Knife Casting Method" requires the knife caster to be familiar with the weight of the knife embryo, otherwise once it lands, the knife embryo that is still in the state of scorching and soft will not only change its shape, but also be stained with countless dust, which is equivalent to ruin.

As for the benefits brought by this method of tempering in the air, Xiao Tianhe thought about it carefully, except for being able to forge both sides of the knife embryo at the same time, making the knife shape more perfect, he really couldn't think of anything else.

The use of the "Flying Rain Body Method" for a long time is very consuming of Xuan power, and it is difficult to support it for too long with the realm of Deng Xianjue's middle Mahayana stage, so he stopped hammering after taking a superb elixir Nayan Dan that restores Xuan power. Whether it was because Deng Xianjue's Xuan power was limited or the knife embryo had reached the extreme and could no longer be purified by the method of forging, the others did not know.

Deng Xianjue put aside the two heavy hammers and grabbed the falling knife embryo in one hand.

Nangong Xue was so frightened that she snorted softly, because the knife embryo had not yet been quenched, Deng Xianjue dared to hold it with his hands!

After taking a closer look, it turned out that Deng Xianjue's hands had been put on a pair of shallow and almost transparent gloves at some point, and the heat of the knife embryo had no effect on him.

"Heavenly silk. Xiao Tianhe whispered. Since he came to the Sky Flame Continent, he had dealt with this strange material several times, and he was all too familiar with it.

Zhang Dongzheng twisted his beard and commented: "The knife embryo has finally been cast, and it has taken sixty-three days so far. Presumably, the best casting time of the material has long passed, but after more than two days of forging by the 'Flying Fire Casting Method', the quality of the knife embryo is already a valuable product. ”

The blade embryo is cast, followed by the second quenching step.

This is the simplest, least time-consuming, and most skillful step in the casting process, but it is a very important step. If you want to improve the quality of the final casting magic knife, you can only start with the quenching accessories.

The Wuji water that Deng Xianjue took from the Beitang family was undoubtedly the best quenching auxiliary material on the Heavenly Flame Continent. Under the action of the molten core stone, the ice of Wuji water has long been melted, and the magma of the molten core stone has also been coldly formed

The crushed sand sank to the bottom of the pool.

Deng Xianjue flipped the knife embryo, the back of the knife was down, the blade was on the top, and he gently put it into the pool, and a burst of mist suddenly rose on the water surface.

The water vapor evaporated by the infinite water is very strange, it does not float or disperse, but goes straight up, straight to the top of the temple.

After a while, Deng Xianjue took out the knife embryo from the water again, and the embryo body had changed from orange-red to blue-blue, only on the blade. Then, Deng Xianjue picked up the knife that cut the molten core stone, and carved something on the knife body.

Xiao Tianhe was a little puzzled, and after watching it for a while, he finally understood what Deng Xianjue was doing. "Why did he carve patterns on the knife?" he asked Nangong Xue softly.

"Brother Xiao, don't you know? This is the general quenching step. At the level of Master Deng, the blade had already been opened when forging the blade embryo, so he only quenched it twice. Nangong Xue explained.

Xiao Tianhe shook his head slightly. In his opinion, wouldn't it be better to quench it in one go? The carving is purely for aesthetics, and it does not help to improve the quality of the magic knife. The intaglio of the grain will inevitably affect the thickness of the knife body, making the thickness of the knife body uneven. Thinking about the "Sky Splitting Knife" passed on to him by the Black Knife Ancestor, it was black and not eye-catching, Xiao Tianhe couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

The knife embryo is hardened after quenching, which is suitable for carving. The knife in Deng Xianjue's hand seems to be a paintbrush, and the pen on the knife body is like a dragon and snake, if it is wiped, if it is scratched, if it is stopped, if it is pointed, there is no pause and hesitation from beginning to end. It seems that he has already sketched all the patterns in his mind.

After a while, the carving was completed. Although the audience can't get a glimpse of the truth, judging from Deng Xianjue's expression, he seems to be very satisfied. The blade body is once again immersed in infinite water.

The knife embryo is hardened after the second quenching. Since there is no need to cut the edge, there is no need to polish after the second quenching, and the second quenching and three quenching are combined into one. When Deng Xianjue took out the knife embryo from the water, the knife was preliminarily cast.

At this time, the knife is already a high-quality ordinary knife, which can be described as the "knife embryo" of the "magic knife", and it is still the last critical step to enlighten the soul from the goal of the "magic knife". This step can be called the most difficult of the three steps of knife casting, and the difference in quality between magic knives often depends on the result of this step.

Qiling, as the name suggests, means "to open the mind". The caster needs to infuse the power into the blade body to make it extraordinary. There are two reasons why this is the most difficult step:

First, the requirements for founders are extremely high. It is not easy to infuse Xuan Li, not only must you have a proper balance between strength and weakness, but you also need to have quite superb talent and skills. The so-called "spiritual wisdom" of the knife does not refer to the wisdom of the magic knife, but to its ability to echo with the endless mystical energy that fills the heavens and the earth.

The high-quality magic knife echoes closely and smoothly with the Xuan Qi, and for the user, its benefit lies in being able to channel the Xuan Qi more, better, and more effectively, so as to transform it into Xuan Li. The trinity of man, sword, and qi is the realm of "the unity of heaven and man" mentioned in many sword canons. The knife is not only a weapon, but also an essential tool for cultivating demons.

In other words, the magic knife can be likened to a "channel" that connects the demon cultivator with the Xuanqi of heaven and earth, and the factor that determines the "width and narrowness of the channel" is the Xuanli instilled into it by the forger. Once the magic knife is cast, the mystical power contained in it will be fixed, and it will neither increase nor decrease. Therefore, the more Xuan Li is infused, the higher its quality will naturally be. But it is not easy to infuse more mystical power. It depends on the caster's talent in this area.

Some people are born to be casting craftsmen, such as Jia Wanjun, who is said to have tried casting knives at the beginning and found that he could pour more mystical power into the body of the knife than others. The Xuan Power was immeasurable, but based on the ability of a sword casting master in the world at that time who was equivalent to Jia Wanjun's realm, the master was able to infuse one-eighth of his Xuan Power into the knife, and Jia Wanjun reached the level of one-sixth of his Xuan Power. Don't underestimate this seemingly small gap, there are many differences in the quality of the magic knife.

This talent seems to be innate, and it is hard to come by. Even a person like Deng Xianjue who finally achieved it after hard work is not acquired to become a master. His talent was already there, but he wouldn't have used it before. What is honed after that is not talent, but skill.

There have also been people who have searched for the way of forging knives, in vain trying to make up for the lack of talent with unremitting efforts and endurance to practice their magical skills, but in the end, they will waste their time and finally sigh. The reason for its failure is that the talent of forging the sword is like the flowing water of the mountains, and the skill of enlightening the soul is like the flow of rivers. A stream is a stream, and no matter how wide the channel is, it cannot become a river. Once the origin is surging, even if the river channel is narrow, as long as it is washed persistently, it will definitely form a surging current that urges wind and waves.

But then again, if you don't have talent, you can't practice excellent skills. This is also where the gap between Zhang Dongzheng and Deng Xianjue lies. As for what Deng Xianjue said to Zhang Dongzheng before: "Maybe if you persist like me, maybe the person sitting here today to enjoy is you." "It's just a half-joke, half-proud lie. No talent is no talent, Zhang Dongzheng's limit is like this, and it will be in vain to spend any more effort. Of course, Zhang Dongzheng understood the truth, so he had no regrets after hearing that sentence.

The second reason is that Qiling also has high requirements for the material of the knife body. The magic knife is like a "container" that holds the caster's mystical power, and the lower the magic knife made of inferior materials, the worse its ability to hold the mystical power becomes, even if the caster's talent and skill are high. To use an inappropriate analogy, as in "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice", sometimes the low quality of the magic knife is not due to the reason of the forger.

The criterion for distinguishing the grade of a material is its ability to accommodate the mystical force. If you want to forge a high-grade magic knife, you must have strong financial and material resources as the backing, how can this be

It is not easy to cast a high-grade magic knife, and in order to cultivate a sword-casting master, it is even more necessary to invest a lot of high-grade materials, you know, some materials are not as simple as spending more money to buy.

Therefore, when Deng Xianjue was born, the Nangong clan was very puzzled by the fact that the Nangong Yan patriarch did not keep him but let the Ximen family poach him. It wasn't until Lan Yuanshi's original story was revealed to the world that everyone understood that Nangong Yan was not retained, but that the conditions given by the Ximen family were too high, so high that people couldn't refuse. Ask what else in the world can compare to the value of the blue yuanshi, and can compare to the longing for success of the tribulation represented by the blue yuanshi?

Fortunately, Deng Xianjue is not an ungrateful person, although he became proud and arrogant after becoming a sword casting master, he has not forgotten everything that the Nangong family has paid to cultivate him. Therefore, he cast the best magic knife for the Nangong family several times, and all of them were free of charge.

Since Deng Xianjue's quenching, Xiao Tianhe fell into contemplation again. The key to quenching is the excipients, i.e. water. "When I think my mother forged the knife, there was no water source around the island except for the ocean. No, it is impossible, the seawater is salty and astringent, and there are many impurities, which is by no means a good thing for quenching. Or did the mother leave the island when she was quenching? It seems unlikely, halfway through the casting of the knife, how can there be any effort to find water with the uncooled knife embryo? Strange, really strange......" Xiao Tianhe was puzzled.

When Deng Xianjue began to enlighten his spirit, Xiao Tianhe immediately retracted his thoughts, staring with wide eyes and holding his breath. To say that the two steps of casting embryos and quenching, Xiao Tianhe still has a concept. But when he said the word "enlightenment", he didn't know what was going on.

Deng Xianjue first placed the knives in a wide and flat place on the casting platform, took out a few more things from the wooden box, and scattered them near the casting platform.

"He's setting up. Nangong Xue said softly.

After the formation was completed, Deng Xianjue stepped into the formation, picked up the knife with both palms, raised it to his eyebrows, closed his eyes and lowered his head, and began to enter the Xuan Force. I saw that his hair towel was washed away by the qi wave stimulated by his body, and the roots of his hair fluttered upward, and a faint red light wave appeared around his body, especially in his palms. The knives were also completely submerged in a blue light, and they were constantly shaking slightly.

The color of the cast magic knife is only related to the material. However, Xiao Tianhe still found a wonderful place, the light on Deng Xianjue's body and the light of the knife seemed to show a state of eliminating and disappearing, the red light was bright and the blue light was light, and the blue light was red and dark, and this chiaroscuro was continuous and alternating with each other. In other words, the speed at which Deng Xianjue entered the Xuan Force was slow and urgent, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and it was uneven. "I guess this also has a lot to do with the material of the casting knife. Xiao Tianhe guessed in his heart.

The time taken to initiate a spirit also varies depending on the material. This knife, after absorbing the power of the Five Days, finally transformed into a magic knife. Deng Xianjue had already roughly estimated the Xuan Force needed to enlighten the spirit when forging the knife embryo, so he reserved some of the Xuan Power. At the moment when the casting was completed, he almost collapsed to the ground, and the two apprentices hurriedly stepped forward to help. Deng Xianjue staggered around the field, collected the soundproof formation, and said angrily: "The magic knife has been completed, it will be superb, and it will be superb...... Although the sound was not loud, people stood on the spot like thunder.

Must be superb?

Deng Xianjue didn't take a good look at the quality of the magic knife at all after finishing it, and he actually dared to say that it must be a super-grade magic knife, what a confidence this is!

As we all know, the scope of "superb" is too broad, and its upper limit does not have a clear boundary, and the collective name between the superlative magic knife and the peerless magic knife is "super-super". Since Deng Xianjue dared to call this magic knife more than the best, its quality must be better than other top-grade magic knives.

Nangong Yan jumped into the arena from the audience, came to the casting platform, picked up the magic knife and flipped it over to look at both sides, looking surprised and happy. It seems that Deng Xianjue did not speak wildly.

Nangong Yan raised the magic knife high so that everyone could take a closer look at it.

The blue-blue blade curved in a satisfying arc, and the light blue blade was carved with a dark red pattern. If you look closely, the color of the pattern is not the back, but has been set at the time of casting, and the dark red is the color of a certain casting material. To see this clearly, no one can help but sigh Deng Xianjue's superb skills, can be used before casting to calculate the color of a certain material after the knife, and when casting, the skill is used to control the material in a specific position to form the expected texture, so as to carve according to the pattern, which is really ingenious!

"Master Deng, if you really live up to your name, I am full of admiration. Nangong Yan held the magic knife in both hands, and his voice trembled with excitement, "I implore Master Deng to give this super magic knife a name." ”

There was silence in the hall, and everyone was looking forward to Deng Xianjue, who seemed to be seriously ill, to speak.

"The blade is sharp and can cut the sky and the earth, and the accessories are taken from the treasures of the four corners of the world, so I think it is called 'Tianbao'. Deng Xianjue suddenly smiled and said, "Patriarch Yan, I have poured my energy into forging this sword, and the final result is also very satisfactory, and I have not wasted those hard-won accessories. I know you must have a lot of grievances about the way I use excipients. ”

Nangong Yan said: "Don't hide it from the master, it is indeed a little complaining." However, looking at the final quality of this knife, such a waste is harmless. ”

"Waste?" Deng Xianjue raised his voice, shook off the hands of the two apprentices, and with a hint of disdain, said unceremoniously to the seats where the elders of the Nangong family were located, "As the saying goes: 'Insiders look at the doorway, and laymen look at the excitement. 'If it's Du Huairou and Tu Lingchun...... No, neither of them necessarily. If Ruan Yuandi and Jia Wanjun were here, they would probably agree with my way. You people don't know anything about knife casting, so who are you qualified to evaluate my sword-forging method?"

The elders' faces suddenly darkened.