Chapter 1 The ancestral tablet has magical powers
The sun hangs on the moon, and the candles shine on the windowsill.
The farmer reaps the plough and the wine shop welcomes the guests.
In a dilapidated house in the east of Hanxiao City, there is a big stove in the middle of the house, and the bellows are set up by the hearth, and when the bellows is pulled, the wind enters the stove, and the flames in the hearth jump straight up, and the roof is red. Xu You's seemingly thin body was drenched in sweat by the fire, and at this moment, he was struggling to take out a piece of burnt red iron embryo from the stove, ready to put it on the side of the anvil for forging.
The ancestors of the Xu family are blacksmiths, farm tools, kitchen knives, weapons, all fine, it is said that there have been thirteen generations to Xu You here, Xu You's father Xu Tiecheng is a well-known craftsman, but at this moment the craftsman has been sick for several days, the doctor said that it was infected with wind and cold, supplemented by medicinal stones, and it can be recovered after a few days of rest. But Xu Tiecheng had just taken over an important job the day before he became ill, repairing a sword for others.
Now he has been bedridden for days, and he can still use a hammer.
It's nothing if it's just an ordinary person delaying for a few days, but this time the guest is obviously not an ordinary person. It was a woman, when she came, the other party was dressed in black, holding a long sword, her appearance was as beautiful as a fairy but as cold as frost, and she said little, but every word revealed a chilling power that was terrifying.
The woman in black was very generous, gave enough deposit, and agreed to send the repaired sword to the broken temple outside the city in the evening after three days, and then left the remnant sword in her hand and the materials used to repair the sword and floated away, only a few words before and after.
Here's the problem, Xu You heard his father say that the remnant sword was not an ordinary weapon, but a magic weapon used by monks, and the woman in black was not an ordinary person, but a monk.
The monks are all otherworldly, and there are many rumors about monks in the world, most of them are immortal, supernatural, happy, and murderous without blinking, even the officials dare not provoke them. Therefore, this business must not only be done well, but also the repaired weapons must be sent over on time. If the weapon is not repaired, or it is sent late, the monk is angry, and the father and son of the Xu family are afraid that they will have to worry about their lives.
Originally, with Xu Tiecheng's ancestral craftsmanship, even if it was a monk's magic weapon, he had a unique secret method to repair it, but by coincidence, he contracted a cold that night and couldn't afford to get sick.
Although he was lying on the sickbed, Xu Tiecheng was still thinking about this important business, but unfortunately he was powerless. Although Xu You is young, he also knows how to share worries for his father, but although he has been learning and passing on his skills since he was a child, he is still much worse than Xu Tiecheng.
In the end, Xu You really had no strength, so he could only put down the hammer, walked to the backyard and fetched a scoop of water from the water tank, pouring it from the head, but he was happy, but his heart became more and more anxious.
"It's all because I'm greedy for fun on weekdays and not good at learning, otherwise I should be able to repair that magic sword. Xu You muttered to himself, reaching out to wipe the water on his face.
He also heard his father Xu Tiecheng say that it is not difficult to build ordinary weapons, but to build magic weapons, even he himself is absolutely impossible to do, even if it is just repair, it is not something that mortal blacksmiths can do, and it is also the Xu family's craftsmanship that has been passed down for more than ten generations, and his ancestors were fortunate to get the guidance of a sect refiner, so he will be able to repair the magic weapon, Xu Tiecheng learned this craft, it took at least twenty years to see results, Xu You learned the art at the age of six for only seven or eight years, so naturally he couldn't do it.
I went to see my father on the hospital bed, but he was already asleep, and the doctor in the hospital said that after drinking the medicine, he had to sleep to recuperate, so that he could get better.
Xu You entered the house, straightened the quilt for the father and son, and closed the windows again, and then withdrew. looked at the time, it's time to go to the back hall to kowtow to the ancestors and ancestors, on weekdays, the father and son go together, and now the father is in bed, but the rules Xu You dare not abolish it.
At this time, he walked to a small room in the backyard dedicated to the tablets of the ancestors of the Xu family and knelt on the ground. There are more than a dozen tablets on the table in front of them, and the one on the top is the ancestral tablet that the Xu family can trace back to, because it is special, so the other tablets are wooden, only the tablet of this ancestor is cast in metal, placed on the top of the wooden frame, such as the stars holding the moon.
Xu You came to kowtow every day, and today he knelt down as usual, first incense, and then kowtowed three times, but at this moment, a black shadow suddenly came out of the corner, and instantly escaped from the house, Xu You was startled, his body was crooked, and he accidentally hit the table of the enshrinement rank, and the iron plate of the ancestor of the Xu family on the top fell down, and it happened to fall on Xu You's head.
The iron card couldn't weigh it, and Xu You was immediately smashed on the head and bleeding, and he fell to the ground and fainted.
At this time, no one noticed that a streamer actually flashed on the blood-stained iron card, and it was actually slowly floating, like the magic of ghosts and gods, and then looked, a complex pattern appeared out of thin air on the iron card, and then the pattern changed, and thousands of patterns changed in a row, the light and shadow changed, and then all the patterns fused into a streamer into Xu You's eyebrows.
With a bang, the iron card seemed to lose its aura, lost its halo, fell to the ground, and then did not move.
At most, half an hour, Xu You's eyelids moved, and he woke up from his daze, only feeling as if he had a big dream, but he couldn't remember what he dreamed of.
After getting up for a long time, he remembered what had happened before, and immediately reached out and touched his head, feeling a hand of blood.
This startled him, and after a careful inspection, the blood was no longer flowing, except that the wound was still a little painful, it was not a big deal, Xu You was relieved.
After that, he hurriedly picked up the ancestral tablet with both hands and put it back on it.
"It was I who accidentally knocked down the ancestral tablet for a while, and please don't blame the ancestors. Xu Yousheng was afraid of disturbing the ancestors, so he knelt down and bowed again, secretly glad that his father was not there, if his father saw it, he would have to preach.
Xu You lost his mother since he was a child, and grew up with his father, although Xu Tiecheng is just a blacksmith, but the Xu family's family education is very strict, especially in the place where the ancestors' tablets are enshrined.
On weekdays, it must be disrespectful to accidentally knock down the ancestral tablet, but fortunately, Xu You will not say it himself. It's just that Xu You remembered the black shadow that suddenly appeared just now, if it wasn't for the black shadow that scared him, he wouldn't have crashed on the table.
It was also because the room was dim, and the black shadow was too fast, Xu You didn't see what it was at all.
"Maybe it's a wild cat!" Xu You secretly thought to himself, there were many wild cats around where they lived, and one of them was secretly hiding here, and when he came in, he scared him away, and scared himself.
After wiping the blood stains on the ground and giving incense to the ancestors, Xu You returned to the stove again, looking at the remnant sword on the table, with a sad face, and didn't know what to do.
The agreement with the black-clothed monk was tomorrow night, and there was less than a day left, how could this magic sword be repaired?
If this made the black-clothed friar angry, the consequences were unpredictable.
At this moment, a picture suddenly appeared in Xu You's mind.
This picture is a six-sided inner circle, and there are many line patterns in it, like a picture array, the strange thing is that Xu You remembers that he has never seen this kind of picture array before, but at this moment, he is actually very familiar with this picture array, as if he has been figuring it out day and night, and even Xu You knows what this picture array does.
Because at this time, a melodious voice sounded in Xu You's mind, explaining.
"The way of refining the weapon lies in the transformation and fusion, the fire attack is tempered, and the power of heaven and earth is used as the top, this array is called the Gathering Star Cultivation Array, seeing the sun is not spiritual, and it is open when it meets the stars, even if the magic weapon under the yellow silver collapses, but the remains can be repaired without defects, and the peak can be reached in three days, supplemented by the Xuantie Spirit Crystal, the Spirit Blood Ghost, and the peak can be reached overnight, and then if the luck is at the head, the instrument is born, the divine power rises, and the product is upgraded to ......"
Although the voice was only said once, every word was imprinted in Xu You's mind like an imprint, and he couldn't forget it.
Xu You stood in place for a long time before he came back to his senses.
The array in his mind called the 'Gathering Star Cultivation Array' was still very clear, and even Xu You could vaguely see that there were many phantoms of the array in the back, not to mention dozens, all of them were shrouded in a fog, and they couldn't really be seen, and the only thing that could be seen clearly was this first array.
"Even if the magic weapon under the yellow silver collapses, but the remains can be repaired without defects?" At this moment, Xu You muttered to himself, secretly saying Isn't this exactly what he needs at the moment, the remnant sword magic weapon sent by the black-clothed monk Father once mentioned that it seems to be only a brass lower grade, under the yellow silver, in this way, this 'Gathering Star Cultivation Weapon Array' can repair this magic sword.
At the moment, Xu You was extremely excited, although he was very curious about the array and sound that suddenly appeared in his mind, but after exploring to no avail, he simply followed the information in his mind, ground the powder with vermilion stone, poured ink, and found an open space to draw an array according to the appearance of the 'Gathering Star Cultivation Array' in his mind, because the array was extremely clear in his mind, so he quickly drew it.
At this moment, it is the night when the moon is thick, and the stars are dense in the bright moon overhead, which is really a good time to enjoy the moon and the scenery, but it is a pity that Xu You does not have this idle time.
With apprehension, he placed the remnant sword magic weapon in the center of the array, and also put the materials such as the Xuantie Spirit Crystal left by the black-clothed monk into it, and then Xu You flashed to the side and observed quietly.
After waiting for a long time without any movement, Xu You's hope slowly turned into disappointment, and suddenly remembered that he had forgotten one of the most important steps.
The array is just drawn, it is a dead array, and in order to make the array alive, it needs to be enlightened.
So Xu You pressed the 'start' of the array with one hand according to the extra information in his mind, and said: "Array!"
The next moment, a starlight actually fell above his head, converging in the array, Xu You looked up, and at some point, there was actually a floating Dao starlight in the air, which was like flowing water and rolled into the array. Looking at the formation diagram again, a Dao halo has emerged, like a dream, Xu You stared at it, and the remnant sword magic weapon and those materials in the formation were actually fused together.
After a while, the halo gradually dimmed, but on the remnant sword in the center of the formation, there was still a streamer flashing, Xu You was stunned, just stared at it for two hours, and then his eyelids were sleepy, and the formation didn't seem to need to be maintained by him anymore, so he sat on the ground, Xu You hadn't rested for a few days in order to take care of his father in the past few days, and he couldn't bear it for a long time, and at this moment he saw that this mysterious formation was really useful, but it seemed to be quite time-consuming, so fatigue hit, and he actually fell asleep against the wall.