Chapter 2: The Battle of Immortals and Demons
Since that day, He Yundui has spent a total of four hours in the early morning and evening every day, strictly and carefully teaching the two children how to exercise. As a martial arts master, He Yundui naturally has a mature routine for this: first train his legs, then his waist, and then exercise his upper body strength and arm strength after the lower plate is stable.
The two children began to follow He Yundui crookedly. Tianxiao is naughty, always lazy when He Yundui is not paying attention. But Tianyao has extraordinary perseverance and is very able to endure hardships.
Whenever he saw his brother being lazy, Tianyao would complain loudly, so He Yunwan often blew his beard and glared at Tianxiao, and sometimes slapped his ass twice. Tianxiao always sticks out his tongue, and one moment he admits his mistake and says, "Daddy, I don't dare!" The next moment, when He Yundui turned his back, he frowned and glared at the younger brother next to him, and shook his fist to scare. But Tianyao didn't see it and turned his head to ignore it. Tianxiao had no choice but to practice as seriously as his younger brother.
Although the younger brother often complained, the relationship between the brothers remained very good. Five-year-old children are originally the age of fighting. He Yunwan and his wife taught the two of them since they were children to do their own things. Seeing that the two children often do their own work while you push and shove, He Yundui and his wife are always very happy. A family of four, happy and happy.
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In the blink of an eye, another five years have passed.
Both brothers are ten years old. Tianxiao's complexion is slightly darker than Tianyao, but his height is average. Although the two are not particularly similar, they both have thick eyebrows and big eyes, and they look smart at first glance. Due to daily exercise, the two of them are not short, they are more than six feet long, with well-proportioned bodies, wide chests and broad backs, thin waists and long legs, and they look like tigers. The servants and maids in the manor also loved these two lovely little ones. As for Tianxiao's proposal to go to play outside the manor, He Yundui agreed as early as three years ago, but every time there were a few sturdy families with weapons to protect them from being injured by wild beasts. As for the mountain bandits and the like, they don't dare to hurt the people of Yundusk Villa even if they have a hundred guts.
On this day, He Yundui suddenly called the two children into the study and said seriously: "Xiao'er, Yao'er." You're not too small. I think you have heard from your mother about following your grandfather to cultivate immortals in the future. Our immortal cultivation sect in the Qinglong Continent is all cultivating swords. After cultivating successfully, you can live longer. There are even more virtuous people, soaring through the clouds and fog, coming and going without a trace, only traveling all over the Qinglong Divine Prefecture in a few days, what a magical power is that......" Speaking of this, He Yundui paused, withdrew his envious gaze looking out of the window in the distance, condensed on the two cute children with wide eyes in front of him, and said: "Daddy asks you, are you willing to cultivate immortals? If you don't like the hard life of cultivating immortals, my grandfather and I will naturally not force it." ”
Tianxiao replied: "Daddy, the immortals are so powerful." Then why don't you go to cultivate immortals?" Tianyao next to him also nodded when he heard this, and looked at his father suspiciously.
He Yunwan smiled bitterly: "Your grandfather and grandmother passed away too early, and your father was young and ignorant, just practicing martial arts, and he didn't like to communicate with people very much. By the time you know your grandfather and know that there is a minimum number of years for cultivating immortals and building foundations, it will be too late...... Moreover, cultivating immortals is not for everyone. Cultivating immortals has quite high requirements for the conditions of the root bones, and there are very few people who can be qualified among the thousands of people. But the two of you are lucky, when you were 100 days old, your grandfather had already tested for you, and your roots and bones met the requirements for entering the sect and cultivating immortals, so my father has trained you so strictly in the past few years. Okay, have you thought about it and want to cultivate immortals?"
Tianxiao immediately replied: "Daddy, I am willing." If you become an immortal, you will be able to play everywhere. ”
"Cultivating to become an immortal requires extraordinary perseverance. He Yunwan smiled and nodded, looking at Tianyao, who had been silent, "Yao'er, what about you?"
Tianyao thought for a while and asked, "Daddy, you just said that the immortal cultivation sects in the Qinglong Continent are all sword cultivation, is there any other way to cultivate immortals?"
He Yundui replied: "I don't know the specific details of cultivating immortals, and I heard about this matter from your grandfather at the beginning. Legend has it that thousands of years ago, our continent was not called the Qinglong Continent, but the Pangu Continent. At that time, people believed in an immortal called the 'White Sword Patriarch'. The 'White Sword Ancestor' always carries a sword on his back, and the cultivation methods he has passed down are also related to the sword. Therefore, the current immortal cultivation sect in our Qinglong Continent can be said to be the descendants of the 'White Sword Patriarch'. Although the immortal cultivation classics of each sect are not the same nowadays, it is certain that all the disciples of the sect practice sword cultivation like the 'White Sword Patriarch'. There used to be immortal cultivators who liked other weapons who wanted to create new cultivation methods, but none of them succeeded for thousands of years, so the descendants gave up this idea. The sword is the soldier of the king. Kill the enemy with a sword, fly with a sword, and for a long time, I don't know how many sword masters have emerged. But one day, hundreds of mysterious figures descended from the sky, and they could fly, but their weapons were not swords, but swords......"
When He Yunwan said this, he was interrupted by Tianxiao: "Knife, doesn't it mean that no one uses other weapons to cultivate into immortals?"
He Yunwan shook his head: "I didn't say they were 'immortals'. Their purpose is to seize our continent. They used magic knives as weapons, their moves were very domineering, and their attack power was very high, and for a while, the immortal cultivation masters in our continent were difficult to resist, and they were defeated one after another. At that time, the battle was really earth-shattering, covering mountains and seas, and the mainland was in dire straits, and the people were in dire straits. At the most critical moment, eighteen peerless immortal swords suddenly appeared on the mainland, each of which had the power of the world. At that time, the eighteen most advanced sword immortals on the continent took these peerless immortal swords and led the rest of the immortal cultivators to kill the enemy all the way until they were wiped out. The sword immortals of that year broke through the void one after another and rode away with the wind, and the eighteen peerless immortal swords were handed down. At that time, people ranked the peerless fairy swords according to their power, and recorded the name and appearance of each fairy sword in detail into a book, and named it "Fairy Sword Spectrum". However, later, because of the temptation of the power of these peerless immortal swords, the immortal cultivators on the mainland fought for their heads. After hundreds of years of competition and inheritance, only a few of the famous swords on the "Immortal Sword Spectrum" are in the hands of major sects, and most of the rest are missing and can not be found. ”
Tianyao asked again: "Daddy, those mysterious characters are not immortals, and they use knives." So who are they, and where did they come from?"
He Yunwan touched his head dotingly, and said, "Your question Daddy can't answer either." I only know that those mysterious people call themselves 'Sword Demons', and their unknown cultivation methods are called 'Demon Cultivation'. As for where they came from, there were many immortal cultivators who explored them back then. The ice fields to the north were too cold for them to stay for long with their advanced cultivation. In the depths of the vast East China Sea, there was a mysterious misty sea area, and once they entered that sea area, the immortal cultivators felt dizzy and could no longer fly with their swords, and fell into the sea one after another. And the Sea of Starwind, which surrounds the west and south of the continent, is so vast that there is no boundary. There was once an immortal cultivator who flew for several years without seeing any other land, so he returned in vain. So since then, no one has explored the origin of the 'Sword Demon'. Fortunately, the 'Sword Demon' never appeared again. People renamed the devastated Pangu Continent as the Qinglong Continent and divided it into seven counties until now. ”
He Yundui said so much that he felt his mouth dry. He walked to the desk, took a sip of hot tea, and said to the two children: "Don't think too much about it now, Daddy is not an immortal cultivator after all." You can ask your grandfather about cultivating immortals after you meet him. Yao'er, have you thought about it carefully, do you want to cultivate immortals?"
Tianyao nodded firmly: "Yes, listen to Daddy's description, those sword immortals are really powerful, and I want to be so powerful!"
After hearing this, He Yundui stroked his beard and laughed loudly: "Okay, good! It seems that my two sons of He Yundui will become the pinnacle of characters in the future, hahaha!"
After laughing, He Yundui shouted outside the door: "Come on! Get Deng Qiulin for me!"
Deng Qiulin is the captain of the guard of Yundui Villa, and he is about the same age as He Yundui. When He Yunwan led people to clear a gang in Dongshishan, he found Deng Qiulin dying in the prison and rescued him to the villa. After Deng Qiulin woke up, he told He Yunwan that he was a businessman, and when he returned to his hometown with his newly married wife Wang to visit relatives, he was kidnapped by bandits from Dongshishan. The leader of the bandits, seeing that his wife was quite attractive, insulted her in public. Wang's chastity was not there, and he directly hit the wall and died. Deng Qiulin practiced a little trick in his early years, and after learning that his wife had been humiliated and died tragically, he jumped like thunder, struggled to break the rope on his body, snatched the spear of the bandit next to him, and took advantage of the bandits' surprise to quickly overturn a few, but after all, he was still outnumbered and subdued by the bandits. The leader of the bandits was furious because Deng Qiulin injured his subordinates, beat him with more than 50 lashes and threw him into the dungeon, preparing to cut out his heart at night to worship the souls of the dead.
Deng Qiulin missed his deceased wife and vowed not to marry again for the rest of his life, and then sold his family property and stayed in Yundui Villa to follow He Yundui to practice martial arts. The two had a good relationship and became brothers with different surnames. Deng Qiulin also had a slight success in the way of martial arts, so He Yundui made him the captain of the guard of the villa to protect his relatives and family.
After a while, a middle-aged man with a sturdy body and a red face walked into the study: "Big brother, what are you looking for me?" He suddenly caught a glimpse of the two children beside the table, and his face showed joy: "It turns out that you two little guys are also there." "The two brothers are smart, mischievous and cute, and there is no one in the villa who doesn't like or love the two of them.
He Yundui ordered: "Brother Deng, Xiao'er and Yao'er are now ten years old, and they have been forging for five years, so I think it's time to teach them to use swords." You take them to the weapons room of the lodge and help them choose a good sword. Let them learn how to use a sword with you in the future. ”
Deng Qiulin said: "What the eldest brother said is true. Although my swordsmanship is not as good as that of an immortal cultivator, it is enough to teach these two little guys. Big brother, you can leave them to me with confidence. With that, he walked up to Tianxiao and Tianyao, holding one in one hand.
Before going out, Tianxiao suddenly turned his head and asked, "Daddy, do we have the book of "Fairy Sword Spectrum" you mentioned just now? ”
He Yundui laughed when he heard this: "The Immortal Sword Spectrum is not a precious thing, it is just a book that records the information of the peerless Immortal Sword, which can be bought everywhere in the city, and of course we have it in the villa." But you don't even know how to use a sword now, and it's not too late to wait until you succeed in cultivation in the future. ”
The power of the peerless fairy sword is amazing, and until now, there is no fairy sword to compete with. Even immortal cultivators with a high realm don't have many opportunities to see those legendary immortal swords, after all, most peerless immortal swords don't know where they are. Besides, even if someone finds a peerless immortal sword, if they don't have extremely strong strength, they won't dare to use it. Although it is easy to forge a sword, it is not easy to cast a fairy sword. Therefore, sometimes even ordinary immortal swords are fought by immortal cultivators. "The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty", everyone understands this truth.
Speaking of weapon rooms, most manors have them, which are places to store weapons for family members, guards, or those in the family who practice martial arts. He Yundui is a master of martial arts, and the weapon room is much more generous than elsewhere.
Caused by folk customs, sword training is respected. In almost all weapon rooms or weapon shops, there are the most swords.
The weapon room of Cloud Twilight Villa was so large that there were more than a dozen rooms, connected in a row. The plaque on the door of each house indicates the type of weapon stored in the room.
Tianxiao and Tianyao followed Deng Qiulin to the front of the weapon room, they had already come to play in this place, but at that time, He Yunwan was worried that the children would be injured by the weapon by mistake, so they were strictly forbidden to enter the room to play, and later locked each room.
The plaques of a row of houses are vigorous and powerful at a glance, which was written by He Yunwan himself, "swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, sticks, sticks, boring lances, whips and hammers, and ...... of them" The largest room is naturally the "sword room".
Deng Qiulin opened the door of the sword room, and the two children walked in curiously, looking at the rows of swords neatly placed on the weapon racks in surprise.
On the shelf below each sword is a small wooden plaque with the name of the sword and the material on it.
"Wan Yan, it was originally cast by Xu Xunyan, a swordsmith in Jingzhou, Qianlong County. The sword body is forged from Xingluo steel and cold tear iron, about five feet three inches long, and weighs eleven catties. ”
"Zhao Guts, at the beginning, it was cast by Wu Dingshi, a swordsmith in Yuzhou, Kanglong County. The sword body is made of Jinlong steel, four feet five inches long, and weighs nine catties. ”
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The information on each sword is detailed.
After reading the introduction of a few swords, Tianyao asked Deng Qiulin in wonder: "Uncle Deng, what does it mean when it says in the introduction, 'Chu was cast by so-and-so'? Who made it, who made it, and why did you add the word 'Chu Wei'?"
Deng Qiulin replied: "These swords are just ordinary sword weapons, and they belong to the category of ordinary swords. Depending on the type and proportion of materials used in forging swords, the swords made will naturally be different. Other factors, such as the size of the heat and the length of forging time, or some special habits of the caster, the season, temperature, humidity, and hour of casting, the preset thickness, size, hardness of the sword, etc., all of these will cause differences in the performance between swords. As for the introductions you see, they are just the most basic information.
Foundries cast countless swords, if the performance of the sword is good, will be recorded in detail to prevent the loss of the casting method, so as long as there is a recipe and detailed records of the sword, you can make it, others can also make it, although the finished product due to the objective conditions are slightly different resulting in a slight difference in the performance of the sword, but the quality is basically the same. Therefore, it is not difficult to imitate casting. However, out of respect for the original caster, the name of the sword is named by the swordsmith himself, and others are not allowed to change it even if they imitate it. This is the conventional rule of the forging industry. ”
Tianyao nodded as if he didn't understand. Tianxiao, who was looking intently at the description of the sword plaque, turned his head and asked, "Uncle Deng, then who forged the fairy sword?
Deng Qiulin shook his head: "The immortal sword is not an ordinary product. In addition to the high requirements for sword forging technology, the caster must also integrate his own spiritual power. To put it bluntly, this spiritual power is a trait that naturally arises in the body after the immortal cultivator has a perception of the aura of heaven and earth and absorbs it into the body, which is different with the different perceptions of each immortal cultivator and the difference in physical condition. The spiritual power and the character of the sword casting material are not necessarily compatible, so the success rate of forging the fairy sword is not high. In addition, the casting materials used in some fairy swords are extremely rare, which can be encountered but not sought, and the energy and time spent on casting fairy swords are also different from ordinary products, and their quality determines that it is impossible for sword casters to cast this kind of immortal weapons in large quantities. Speaking of such precious things, swordsmiths are often reluctant to share the method of casting with others. Therefore, it is definitely impossible to imitate the immortal sword. There will always be only one boutique. Got it?"
Tianxiao replied, "Understood." Uncle Deng, according to what you mean, those who can refine immortal swords must be immortal cultivators, right?"
Deng Qiulin smiled: "Of course, only those who have cultivated to a high level of immortal cultivation can refine the immortal sword." Okay, you pick the sword you like, these are all ordinary products, and the quality is not much different in general, as long as you feel that you can take advantage of it. ”
The two children turned their attention back to the rows of swords and carefully selected them. After an hour, the two of them had already looked at all the swords in the huge sword room, and sometimes they took the sword off the shelf and swung it twice. Although the swords in this sword room are all mortal, they are all good swords of the highest quality among ordinary products, and in He Yundui's eyes, ordinary quality swords cannot enter his eyes at all.
The sword is good, but it is not light, and the length is about five feet, which is a little too long for the height of Tianxiao and Tianyao who are more than six feet. However, the boy jumps quickly, and it is not a big problem to get familiar with the long sword first. As for the weight of the sword, it is not particularly heavy for the two children who have been exercising for a long time.
"Okay, I've picked it, this is it!" Tianyao shouted happily.
The sword in his hand is bright silver throughout, and it is very beautiful. Looking at the wooden sign on the weapon rack, it reads: "Sword name Pei Min." At the beginning, it was cast by Su Peimin, a swordsman in Wenzhou, Tenglong County. Master Su Peimin only cast this sword in his life, so he named the sword after himself. The sword-forging recipe was only announced by Master Su Peimin's grandson after his death. The sword is made of silver steel, drifting iron, and broken sand gold, and the sword is five feet five inches long and weighs fifteen catties. ”
Deng Qiulin's eyes lit up, and he admired in his heart: "Good eyesight! In terms of quality, Pei Min Sword can rank in the top three among these hundreds of swords." Then, he turned his gaze to Tianxiao on the other side. Tianxiao was frowning, looking at the sword frame in a daze.
"Have you chosen?" Deng Qiulin walked over.
I didn't want Tianxiao to raise his head and say something that made Deng Qiulin dumbfounded.