Chapter 12: The Forging Hall
Leading Changning was an outer disciple of the Sword Shrine, who was very young. Changning followed the disciple who was now going to be called Senior Brother and first received a waist plate engraved with his name, and then with the waist card, he received a uniform shirt in the door, two thin booklets, one booklet recorded the door rules and the memorabilia of the sword mound to the present, and the other is the introductory heart formula, focusing on meditation and qi cultivation to sense the power of heaven and earth, which is the foundation of various other exercises.
Changning can be regarded as having a little foundation for pranayama, plus the ghost elder has already made arrangements, received things, rested for one night, and the next day, a senior brother from the forging hall came to take him to familiarize himself with the environment.
There are six branches in the outer hall of the sword mound and three branches in the inner mound, each with its own specialty, and the iron striking that the ghost elder talked about is the forging hall in the outer hall, and the blades in the hands of all the disciples are made by the disciples here.
Although the name of the sect is a sword mound, it does not give each disciple a sword at the beginning of the entry. The introductory disciples lay the foundation first, and then they can decide which one to practice according to the evaluation according to the custom, and then the master will customize the blade according to each person's habits.
The sword intent of the sword mound was born from the big river in front of the door, and if you move forward, you will meet an enemy who is one step higher, and you will never be afraid, but you will only cut out with a sword. Under the hard encounter, it is inevitable that there will be damage or even collapse. Therefore, there is the previous complaint of the ghost elder - four steps ago, the sword could not be warmed by the Qi Sea, and once it was damaged, it could only be returned to the forging hall for manual repair.
Even if the sword that takes off the shell after four steps, if it is seriously damaged, and it may not take so much effort to repair the terrazzo, it will have to recondense the sword shape and hand it over to the disciples of the forging hall to repair.
The main hall of the forging hall was some distance away from where the disciples in the door lived, and the senior brother took Changning away, while introducing Changning to some interesting anecdotes hidden between the various sword peaks and peaks along the way. Changning was still a little nervous, but after listening to the story told by the senior brother, he gradually relaxed.
"Well, that's the Forging Hall. The senior brother stopped and stretched out a finger forward.
The so-called main hall is not a huge building with a magnificent atmosphere as conceived by Changning.
A huge peak is near the river, and the inside of the mountain is completely hollowed out. In the direction of where Changning came from, half of the cliff was neatly cut, revealing the cavity in the mountain. The cross-section is as smooth as a mirror, and it is split by a sword of a great supernatural person.
In the cavity of the mountain, the red stream flows like a pulse, which runs through the entire mountain and extends down to the earth's veins, leading the earth fire to the furnace core. The furnace core is then divided into different fire holes and sent into the forges scattered throughout the mountain.
On the other side, the water of the great river is introduced into the mountain through an equally smooth water channel, and collects in a cistern at the bottom of the mountain, and then a magic circle condenses the Xuanshui Cold Essence from it and sends it into the quenching pool next to each fire eye.
Just looking at it from a distance outside the mountain, Changning's eyes were stung so painfully that he closed unconsciously.
One is extremely cold and the other is extremely hot, in this mountain peak that covers the clouds and the sun, I don't know how many sharp swords have been born, and the sword intent that escapes has accumulated over the years, unabashedly exuding a compelling edge in all directions, and even from a long distance, Changning's skin faintly feels like it is going to be cut!
"Concentrate and keep your heart, the sword intent will not hurt you. After that, he didn't look back to pick up the senior brother, and took a step towards the mountain. Changning took a few deep breaths and mustered up the courage to follow.
Sure enough, when he took the first step, the sword intent that was raging at the beginning as if it was about to tear his body apart suddenly separated like flowing water, and what hit him was no longer a violent and domineering sword, but a spring breeze that turned into rain.
"Yes, that's it. The last thing that the Sword Shrine disciples are afraid of is the sword intent, let alone the forging hall. Get along with these sword intents, it will be of great benefit to you. The voice of the senior brother came from the front.
After entering the mountain, Changning noticed that the fire hole closest to the furnace core was burning vigorously, and the heat was spilling out, and there was a scorching smell in the air. A man on the edge of the fire eye was shirtless, picking up a sledgehammer and pounding it on the red-hot forging.
Senior Brother Lu motioned for Changning to silence and carefully watched the man's movements.
Changning had also hammered things in the blacksmith shop before, but he had never seen anyone hammer with such a mysterious beauty. The blow matched the pulse of the ground fire, the hammer was raised, and the scattered sword intent around it was excitedly gathered, and when the hammer fell, these gathered sword intent was tempered into the forging.
A sword blank gradually took shape, and the unbridled iron-blooded intent flowed freely throughout the mountain, but did not damage any of the furnishings, which was really wonderful.
The last hammer fell, the waves outside the mountain roared, the veins inside the mountain shook, and the outermost layer of the sword blank with a mottled shell shattered, revealing the red sword body inside. The man stabbed the sword body into the quenching pool in front of him, and there was no sound of stabbing familiar to Changning, but in a burst of fog, the sound of the intersection of soldiers and soldiers was clear and pleasant.
The man waved his hand, blew away the smoke with the palm wind, and slowly drew his sword. I saw that the sharpness was natural, the sword shape was simple, and the flamboyant aura of Fang Cai was all gathered into the sword body, which looked no different from a mortal sword.
Changning knew that this was a sharp and introverted appearance. The blacksmith in the village once mentioned that in the vast rivers and lakes, those miraculous craftsmen have the existence of extremely sharp blades that can forge Shenhua without showing it, and seeing it in front of him at this moment, Changning only felt really shocked.
As soon as he threw it away, the sword was thrown by the man to a high platform not far away. There were also many swords of different shapes hanging in the air on the high platform, some of them looked ordinary like the sword just now, and some of them released an obscure but fierce battle intent, as if they could kill the enemy under the sword at any time.
The senior brother next to him was only the first time Changning saw such a scene, and he was shocked and fascinated. And the man who had just finished forging the sharp blade next to the fire eye, looking at Changning's appearance at the moment, his eyes lit up slightly.
The man took a black robe from the shelf on the side and put it on, jumped over, and fell directly in front of Changning from the forging platform. The senior brother next to him saluted first: "I've seen Uncle Zhanlu." After receiving permission, he turned to leave, and looked at Changning with an encouraging smile.
The man who was called Uncle Zhan Lu looked at Changning up and down, and the more Changning was looked at, the more uncomfortable he became. After a long time, Zhan Lu grinned: "With such a thin body and bones, you can also learn to strike iron, and you are not afraid that you can't move this hundred-pound forging hammer?"
Changning has grown up since he was a child, and he has actually grown extremely fast, far surpassing his peers. It's just that in front of Zhan Lu's figure, he is indeed reluctant to even describe the thin two words. But before he could answer, Zhan Lu threw the forging hammer in his hand, followed by a sentence: "The farthest eye of fire, the blank above, before sunset, a thousand hammers." If you can get out of the form, you will stay, and if you can't get out or can't hold on, you will go back and forth. ”