Chapter 10: The Divine Sword
Yongan Island is located in the eastern sea of the Xurui Dynasty, with an area of about 8,000 square kilometers and a population of nearly 100,000.
The people on the island are all Mimiao, they do not have their own written books, and their culture is all inherited by the songs of the leader of the clan. The master is hereditary, which ensures that the previous generation of master can pass on the songs they have mastered to the next generation without reservation. It is said that there are five groups of ballads sung by the Great Ballad Master, each group of ballads has several songs, totaling more than 4,000 lines, while the ballads he taught his people to sing in daily life festival gatherings and sacrificial activities are only about 300 lines, and a large number of songs about the historical secrets and cultural heritage of the Miu people will not be sung. If the clansmen have doubts, they will go to the great ballad master to ask, and if there is a disaster exorcism and evil spirit-ward off activities, they must ask the big ballad master to come to the house to complete it. The Great Ballad Master has held the historical and cultural lifeline of the Miu people for more than 1,000 years, and has naturally become the most important, authoritative and respected person in the clan.
The ancestors of the Miu people lived in the delta near a large river in the central plains of the mainland, and lived a stable and prosperous agricultural life. The materially poor nomads of the north often came here to rob, but each time they were defeated and fled by the well-armed and bold Miu people. Later, another farming people in the Central Plains united with the nomads and waged war against the Mimiao. The war lasted for decades, culminating in defeat as the Miu people left their homeland to fight in the north. A small number of Miu people retreated to the east, including a team of more than 2,000 people and a large group of more than 2,000 people were separated, fled to the sea in a hurry, robbed the fishing boat and settled on a desert island, which was later Yongan Island.
All these things are sung in the ballad of the great ballad of the great ballad and the party.
On the island, in addition to the Great Ballad Master Coalition Party, there is also a person who is deeply admired by all the clans - the Great Sorcerer Cangdewa.
The Miu people have always been a people who advocate force, and the tribe commanded by their ancestors was once the most powerful group on the mainland, and produced many of the most sophisticated weapons at that time.
The great magicians of the Miu clan have all mastered both superb fighting skills and cutting-edge weapon-forging techniques.
The current great magician on the island, Cangdewa, is the father of Shi Dewa, who studied at the Kyoshi Imperial Martial Academy of the Xurui Dynasty.
For more than 1,000 years, the Miu people on the island, under the comfort of the spiritual leader Da Zhu Shi, have followed the master to practice martial arts in their spare time, and lived a free and unchanging life.
Before Shi Dewa was invited by the royal family of the Xurui Dynasty to study at the Jingshi Imperial Martial Academy, the Miu people had never had official dealings with any dynasty on the mainland.
Speaking of events that break this thousand-year-old routine, we must first start with the Cangqi Divine Sword secretly forged by the great magician Cangdewa.
In the tenth year after he succeeded his father as the new Grand Sorcerer, a group of people who had gone out fishing on the island took back a small piece of dark green ore from a small stone island and gave it to Cangdewa.
As soon as he picked up this unusually heavy dark green ore, he was keenly aware that it was a magical ore that he had never touched. Sure enough, Kudwa had several furnace masters barely refine the ore using the extreme heat of the extra-large furnace with the largest air exhaust power. The small amount of new metal that had been separated fused with the best bladed alloy steel on the island was fused to forge a palm-length knife. Cangdewa fixed the knife made of new metal, and then slashed it three times with his knife, which he claimed to be the sharpest on the island, and the new metal knife was unscathed, and three small inconspicuous marks appeared on the blade of the island's sharpest broadsword. This was enough to prove that the hardness of the alloy steel to which the new metal was added exceeded the hardness of the best alloy steel on the island, a fact that shocked Cangdewa.
That night, Kudwa lost sleep playing with the new palm-length metal knife.
Just after the ugly hour of the next morning, Kudwa went out of the room, found the tribesmen who gave him the dark green ore, and then took the fifty warriors, sailors, and the people who delivered the ore with the fifty warriors, sailors, and the people who delivered the ore, on the largest three-story fishing boat on the island, to look for the small stone island with the dark green ore while the people were still asleep.
Xiaoshidao is nearly 100 kilometers away from Yongan Island, which is located at the confluence of warm and cold currents in the ocean, and is rich in fish resources, and people on the island rarely go far from the island to fish.
Little Rock Island was discovered because it was a group of young men who were fishing in a gang that day, and on a whim, they sailed their boat to a long distance from the island, when a strong wind arose in the sea, and their boat was blown to this small stone island.
The small stone islands are mostly dark yellow rocks, mixed with some dark green and dark blue ores.
There is no grass on the small stone island, there are no birds, and there are no traces of marine animals.
As soon as Cangdewa landed on the small stone island, he ordered everyone to chisel the dark green and dark blue ore with steel drills, and then carry it to the ship. It took more than 50 people three full days to carry all the non-ferrous ores on Xiaoshidao to the ship.
When returning to Yong'an Island, Cangdewa deliberately asked the helmsman to make a detour, and it was dark before the ship docked. The people on the ship quietly transported the ore to Cangdewa's house. Kudwa immediately dismissed everyone and carried a large pile of ore from the stone yard to the underground storage room alone.
The people who went to Xiaoshidao to mine stones this time, except for the young man who led the way, the rest of the people, including the sailors, were descendants of the Deva family. In order to ensure that the news was not leaked, Cang Dewa gave the young man a large sum of money and transferred him to his side as an officer, assisting in the management of training during the day and assisting the Deva family in guarding the military weapons room at night. The young man is reused, but he is also constantly under the watchful eye of the Deva family.
The Grand Sorcerer Cangdewa is the supreme head of the island's army, and the chief of the island's weapons manufacturing. The hundreds of craftsmen who made weapons on the island were at the disposal of Cangdewa, who himself was the first craftsman to forge weapons on the island.
Since getting the non-ferrous ore, Cangdewa brought some food every day and repeatedly calcined and hammered it in his forge room alone. After continuously purifying and refining a certain amount of new metal, it will be fused with his original best blade alloy steel and knife back alloy steel. After repeated beating and purification, the blade alloy steel and knife back alloy steel containing new metals are refined after quenching. Then the proportion of new metal is constantly adjusted, and again and again calcined, hammered, purified and quenched, and finally the sharpest blade alloy steel and the hardest knife back alloy steel are refined.
It took two years for him to complete the project, during which he lived alone in the forge and often worked all night by the furnace, his face and hands were burned by the fire, and his color became shiny and dark.
After refining the perfect new metal alloy steel, Cangdewa spent three months in the forging room casting new metal alloy steel knives.
The moment he finished casting the knife, Cangdewa looked at the two new metal alloy steel knives with a faint green glow that he had spent nearly two and a half years casting, and his heart was rolling, and after a long, long time, two tears quietly climbed down his cheeks.
The next day, Kudwa called the Great Rumor Master to try out the knife in his forge room.
Although the Great Rumor Master Hedang was the first literati on the island, he was also a samurai - the men of the Miu tribe had a tradition of martial arts.
The Great Rumor Master took the steel knife from Shi Dewa's hand, looked at it, and said, "Dewa, isn't this the knife that your father handed you down?"
Cang Dewa nodded, a solemn look appeared on his dark face, and he was silent for a while and said: "Brother Dang, my father has been obsessed with the way of refining soldiers all his life, and this knife was forged by him after secretly learning casting in the Xurui Dynasty for several years, and then it took him two full years to return to the island. I've been at the helm of my father's forge for almost ten years, and none of the best steel knives ever forged can surpass my father's. Come, brother party, you use your father's steel knife to chop the knife in my hand. ”
The big rumor master was not asking questions, and slashed with his knife, and struck two slashes twice.
Two deep gaps appeared on the steel knife in the hand of the Grand Sorcerer.
The Great Rumor looked at Cangdewa in astonishment and said, "How is this possible?"
Cang Dewa picked up another dark green new metal alloy steel knife, and after two slashes, the knife in the hand of the Great Rumor Master Hedang had two more deep gaps.
Cangdewa sighed and said, "When these two knives were cast, I knew that there would be such a result. This is the knife I forged from alloy steel made from new metal obtained from Little Rock Island. ”
The eagle-like eyes of the Great Rumor Master flashed with surprise and said, "A year ago, you secretly went to sea and found such a magical thing!"
Cangdewa said: "Brother Party, give this steel knife a name that transcends the times!"
After thinking for a while, the Great Rumor Master Hedang said: "This is the divine weapon of the Miu Miao clan that you cast, so it's called the Cang Mi Divine Sword!"
Cangdewa said: "Brother Dang! This knife is so precious. The limited amount of new metal ore is very low, and I am not ready to refine the remaining ore. You and I should each treasure these two divine swords!"