Chapter Ninety-Nine: Forging Swords and Quenching Iron
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The firelight reflected on Lin You's face, which looked blood-red.
After the heat continued to rise, the ore obtained from the old woman had been smelted.
After a simple treatment, Lin You tempered it into a long strip of steel.
"Meteorite. ”
"But I just don't know if it's cold quenched iron or something else. ”
Lin You looked at the steel bars under the hammer and thought in his heart.
The amount of ore the size of a basketball can be smelted to make a sword.
However, there are still a lot of impurities in the preliminary materials, and if you continue to hammer it, the volume of meteorite will continue to shrink.
However, it is not only about meteorite that is used to create a sword, but also other materials.
If the two are canceled out, it should be just enough to create a sword.
Before Lin You built the sword, he was already familiar with the key points to the point that he could no longer be familiar with it.
After the material was refined step by step, the steps went very smoothly.
It was as if he was a master swordsmith himself.
Ever since Lin You admired Dao Tu, he had paid much attention to related things.
And the so-called martial arts and sword soldiers, he naturally made a lot of hard work to get in touch.
It is a pity that he did not get the seed of enlightenment from it, but only learned some secrets, whether true or false.
In fact, what he can know is not a secret, but ordinary people don't have the heart to pay attention to it, so they don't know.
After thousands of years in the empire, there are still a number of strange people in society who are good at forging swords and making swords, and the inheritance of this generation is different from that of some sects, and they have never fallen into a desperate situation.
Although the development of modern science and technology has brought the flow of martial arts into decline, the ancient style of the empire is quite prosperous, and although there are not many people who admire martial arts, there are also many people.
Compared to the situation of the monks, it is simply a cloud of mud.
Moreover, after combining modern scientific knowledge such as materials science and metallurgical industry, the sword-casting process is even more extreme. Anyone who practices modern swords will buy a good sword.
It's just that this aspect is also because of the circle, but it is only circulated in a small area.
For example, the sword weapon that Lin You wanted to give to Tao Tao before.
Although it is only a craft, because of modern technology, it can also be used by Lin You to slaughter enemies, and it only began to crumble after more than a month.
Of course, the most common longsword on the market is still made in modern industrial batches and simply.
It's often just for ordinary people to enjoy.
A long sword, if it is handmade by a craftsman, costs at least tens of thousands.
However, if it is the work of some modern swordsmiths and masters, its time is long and the price is high, which is often beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Modern sword-casting, except for some famous artists and demanders who have special requirements for swords, generally speaking, swords are made by imitating templates.
Although the sword created in this way may not be exactly the same as the template, it can be seen at a glance that it is a replica.
However, imitation does not mean that the quality of the sword is inferior.
There are some craftsmen who specialize in how to imitate historical swords, hoping to learn from them.
Second, I hope to truly restore the style of the historical sword.
Some of these imitations of better swords are often sought after by many collectors.
After all, there are only a few truly famous swords, and only a few have proved to have survived so far.
The figures of other famous swords have all been buried in the dust of history.
Its true appearance can often only be imagined through the records of the classics.
Therefore, the craftsmen use the famous sword as a template to forge, and at the same time, they are also forging what the historical sword looks like in their hearts.
Although the same type of sword forged by different craftsmen is the same in some characteristic points, it is still different in general.
As far as Lin You knew, the most imitated among them was the Ancient Xuanyuan Sword.
This sword has a lot of significance. The body of the sword is engraved with the sun, moon and stars on one side, and the mountains, rivers and plants on the other. On the hilt of the sword, the art of farming and animal husbandry is written, and the policy of unification of the four seas is written on the other.
It is the sword of the royal road.
However, Lin You was devoted to cultivation and was not very interested in it.
After thinking about it for a long time, he chose to forge his long sword according to the style of Tai'a and Zhanlu.
Tai'a, the sword of might, the king of Chu and the emperor of Qin have served. "Historical Records: The Biography of Li Silie" records that "Your Majesty has sent the jade of Kunshan, the treasure of easy-goingness, the pearl of the bright moon, and the sword of Tai'a." "This sword of the king too!
Zhan Lu, Zhan Zhan but black also, the sword of benevolence. This sword symbolizes the deep, perceptive black eyes of the heavens, watching the every move of kings and princes. The king has a way, the sword is on the side, and the country is prosperous. There is no way, the sword is abandoned, and the country is ruined.
Tai'a and Zhan Lu, the two have a mixed meaning, and they fit in with what Lin You thinks in his heart, so he chose so.
It is worth mentioning what Tai'a and Zhanlu really looked like in history.
The world does not know.
However, the swordsmiths and historians of the past dynasties, through the study of the classics, have determined one or two characteristics of them.
But even so, there are many styles of Tai'a Sword and Zhan Lu Sword on the market.
And Lin You naturally chose the most popular and commendable sword weapons among them, and then selected the sword weapon that suited his heart the most.
After selecting the template, Lin You also made some modifications to it according to his habits.
After thinking about it several times, Lin You designed the sword weapon he wanted to forge in his heart.
The sword, thin and double-edged, the king of a hundred soldiers.
Lin You looked at the sword embryo that was gradually forming on the stove table, and his heart was slightly excited.
He was armed with a sledgehammer and smashed it on the steel bars.
The steel bars forged from meteoric iron, even at high temperatures, still show strange properties.
It is different from ordinary steel.
This piece of meteorite iron was scorched by the fire, even though it was all red.
There are still shadows on its inside, as if it can't be melted.
And this shadow is not an impurity.
Whenever the hammer in Lin You's hand fell, the meteorite suffered a violent impact, and those little shadows would burst out with a faint blue color.
It flickered like a ghostly fire.
And the inside of the meteorite slowly melted and dissolved, slowly turning into a silk-like existence, embedded in the inside of the meteoric iron.
When Lin You saw this scene, although he felt surprised in his heart, he was more joyful.
"It does seem to be cold quenched iron. ”
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(To be continued.) )