The night is thick, the moon is melting, the evening breeze blows the clouds, and the wisps of clouds ripple out in the night sky, the shadows of the trees sway, and the few remaining leaves on the branches also quietly fall and rise with the wind.

In the guest room of Qinglong Hall, Lin Xingyu got dressed, checked his bags, tiptoed to the door, leaned on the door and listened carefully for a while, silent. The people who wanted to come to Qinglong Hall all fell asleep.

In the past few days, Lin Xingyu has been running back and forth in the courtyard of Qinglong Hall every day, in addition to pulling bellows, striking iron, and observing sword casting, he is familiar with the terrain, and no one has stopped him. Qin Shuyu has not shown up, and he doesn't know if he is in the Qinglong Hall. After a few days of memorizing the terrain, he began to plan the escape route, and even when the gate of Qinglong Hall was closed, when the subordinates rested, and when the guards on duty rotated were all clearly studied.

Lin Xingyu gently pushed open the door, the moonlight shone softly on his body, in late autumn, the weather was already cold, he was dressed in thin clothes, he didn't feel cold at all, only inexplicably excited and couldn't hide his excitement, took out the simple map he had drawn, Qin Shuyu's room was in the north, about two hundred meters away, as long as you go to the left, out of the courtyard, all the way to the south, three hundred steps to the left, and then out of the pavilion, bypass the two guards, turn out of the south wall, go outside to find a hidden place to hide for a night, after dawn disguise yourself, out of the city, when the sky is high and the sea is wide and you can do it。

Holding the map and taking a step cautiously, tiptoe to the ground, silent, ecstatic in his heart, a few small steps backwards with two feet, perfect, turned to the left.

"Where are you going? A cold voice sounded behind him.

Lin Xingyu turned around and saw Qin Shuyu dressed in a snow-white robe, leaning against the wall, holding his arms with both hands, his long hair swaying in the wind, his eyes slightly closed, his lips and teeth, Qin Shuyu was beautiful in the moonlight.

"Shh Go to the hut and don't disturb other people. Lin Xingyu stretched out his finger and put it to his lips and whispered.

"Go, I'll be waiting for you here. ”

"You frivolous woman!

The slender jade hand raised the lilac aura, and Lin Xingyu lay in the courtyard all night with a blue nose and swollen face.

After several failed attempts to escape late at night, Lin Xingyu profoundly understood that Qin Shuyu was a psychopath, he didn't sleep in the middle of the night, and would be on trees, rooftops, doorways, pavilions, and various places in the courtyard, and when he appeared, it would be a violent beating like a storm, so he had to give up the idea of escaping for the time being.

Not to mention that the young body is good, at night to study the escape, to be beaten, and to continue to run around the yard during the day, these many days, in addition to not meeting the hall master and a few elders, the big and small swordsmiths and handymen in the branch of the Giant Sword Hall are quite familiar, and from time to time make cameo appearances in the shop, and they can also sell a few swords.

Standing on the sidelines and watching people forge swords for a long time, I couldn't help but want to try it myself, and then I thought that Wu Yixiu's short knife was cut off, and the desire to cast a sword became more urgent. So he found the man in charge and showed that he wanted to try to cast a sword, and the man immediately pointed to a vacant seat, and called a handyman to help pull the bellows, and let Lin Xingyu operate it himself. I thought I would be rejected or asked for something, but if I prepared a stomach, it was useless.

The first time you forge a sword, you must try the effect first. Picked up a few handfuls of remnants to be returned to the furnace from the waste area, and burned them on the fire, the fire was well controlled, the flames were not big or small, just wrapped around the sword body, and the fire light was reflected in Lin Xingyu's eyes, beating slightly.

After a while, the body of the sword was red, and Lin Xingyu picked it up with iron tongs and put it on the stone desk on the side. The desk was full of marks of beating, but it was still intact and flat, and it was clearly of fine stone.

Lin Xingyu pinched the iron tongs in his left hand, raised the sledgehammer in his hand with his right hand, and slammed it into the middle of the sword body with all his strength.

"Buzz ——!"

There is no crisp sound of metal pounding, but a muffled sound.

"Buzz ——!"

Lin Xingyu used the greatest strength for each hammer, and I heard that the swordsmiths said that a hundred tempers are made into steel, and using the greatest strength to repeatedly fold and hammer can make ordinary metal more tough.

"Buzz ......"

With a "click", the stone desk shattered from the middle and fell to both sides, Lin Xingyu held the iron tongs with a blank face, and didn't know what to do for a while.

"I'll go, with so much strength, the desk will be smashed. ”

"You can't rely on this little brother, you look at his thin appearance, the desk should be no longer good!"

"Brother, stay and forge the sword, otherwise it will waste your strength!"

"Niu, you're the second person to smash the desk with your strength. ”

"Go, go, don't look, do your job. The man in charge dispersed the crowd, led Lin Xingyu to the independent sword-casting room, looked at him meaningfully, and said in his heart: 'No wonder you want to arrest this kid, this strength, with a little practice, is a good sword caster.' ’

"The tools here are a little better, you can forge a sword here. The steward walked out.

The handyman who helped Lin Xingyu pull the bellows was very happy, this independent sword-casting room was usually used by elders or senior swordsmiths when they occasionally refined some special weapons, he was not even qualified to help pull the bellows, today he was stained with Lin Xingyu's light, and he had the opportunity to feel the difference between these good equipment.

The space of the sword-casting room is not large, but it is enough, a large furnace, with four furnace eyes, four bellows, the design is very peculiar, it is enough to use one furnace eye when building a sword, and two furnace eyes are used to build a spear and spear, as for why there are four furnace eyes in front of him, Lin Xingyu didn't understand for a while, and asked the handyman, and the handyman also came in for the first time, so he couldn't say why.

Under the east wall, black and brown burning materials are neatly placed, and under the west wall, some metals that have been refined are placed in different shapes, and the color is extraordinary.

Lin Xingyu picked up the black and brown material and was about to throw it into the furnace, when someone pushed open the door and sent in a lot of charcoal, broken swords and some ordinary metals, it seems that the materials in the sword casting room are not allowed to be used casually.

The handyman skillfully lit a fire with charcoal blocks, pulled the bellows whirring, and his face was full of excitement: I didn't expect that one day I would be able to enter the independent sword-casting room, if this kid could take a shit luck and practice a peerless sword, then he would also be famous all over the world!

The sword-forging process is complicated, but fortunately, Lin Xingyu doesn't need to learn the whole process, he just needs to temper the metal that has been blended repeatedly, refine it to the extent that he is satisfied, and then make it into a short knife.

I have to say that the desk in the sword casting room is different from the outside, it is a huge piece of metal, and the hardness is very high. Lin Xingyu thrashed it with all his might, without any damage.

After Lin Xingyu burned a long sword red, he folded it in half, hammered it again to the length of the long sword, folded it in half again, hammered it again, folded it in half again, and repeated it again and again, without thinking about how many times he had to repeat it.

The impurities of the sword body that were red all over were knocked out again and again, and the red glow emitted became brighter and brighter, and the length was shortened a lot.

For a whole day, he kept repeating the tempering, not a drop of water entered, the housekeeper came to see twice, helped some small favors, and there was a joy in his eyes, he wanted to find someone to replace the handyman who pulled the bellows, but he didn't want to be rejected by the handyman.

Lin Xingyu didn't sleep for a day and a night, and the handyman also accompanied him for a day and a night, the two of them didn't get a drop of water, staring at the glow of the sword body, their eyes were blazing.

Ten minutes of dawn, the three-foot long sword was less than a foot, and the sword body was a lot thicker, I don't know if Lin Xingyu was tired, or if it was a material problem, no matter how Lin Xingyu beat it, the thickness couldn't go down, so he began to hammer it a little bit.

"What kind of is this! To create such a rough armor, and let me do it myself?!Who is using it in the swordsmithing room?"

"Great Elder, the price offered by the guests is very high, and the requirements for armor are also quite special, and it is designated by the hall master for you to make, you can dissipate your anger! ”

"Alright, you go down. ”

"What apprentice is qualified to use the swordsmithing room?" the man said to himself, and there was a knock on the door.

"Come in. Lin Xingyu stopped, wiping his sweat and his arms were numb. The handyman's arms have long since lost feeling, and they are completely mechanical at the moment, and it is estimated that he will have to rest for many days after stopping.

The door was pushed open, and a tall, gray-bearded old man entered.

"Great Elder!" the handyman shouted respectfully and cordially.

"Great Elder. Lin Xingyu shouted.

The Great Elder first looked at Lin Xingyu and the handyman, and then saw that the short knife on the stove was nearly half completed, and nodded.

"The strength is okay, but the technique is too poor, the thickness of the blade is different, the tenon length is insufficient, the blade is uneven, and the arc of the tip is not enough, come, let me help you change it." ”

"No!" Lin Xingyu decisively refused, this was what he was going to build and give to Wu Yixiu with his own hands, after a hard day and a night, he had just achieved something, and he had changed it, so it would not be built by him.

"Huh?" The Great Elder was a little surprised, how many people usually spend a lot of money to let him build a weapon, he didn't pay much attention to it, today I saw a junior with a little talent, and he wanted to show a hand, but he was actually refused, so how can he do it!

"Take it and go away!"

The Great Elder stuffed the drawings into Lin Xingyu's arms, squeezed Lin Xingyu away, picked up the hammer and pounded it.

Lin Xingyu stared at the Great Elder with a resentful expression and pouted. Qin Lan is perverted He knows in his heart, in other people's territory, Qin Lan is the third elder, this old man must be even more difficult to mess with, he cursed sadly in his heart, and at the same time stared at how the great elder forged the sword.

The great elder has been casting swords for decades, and this kind of small knife has come to capture, just over an hour, a short knife with exquisite shape accompanied by the "stabbing" sound after entering the water is baked, the blade is shiny, the curved blade is like a hook, and the blade is polished again, and then a beautiful handle, it is a good product.

"How's it going?" asked the Great Elder with a smug look on his face.

"It's not good, it's not the same short knife I want to fight!"

"Hey, I won't give you this knife yet!"

"Why, this is my knife!" Lin Xingyu said dissatisfied.

"With everything here is from the Giant Sword Hall, if you want a knife, give me the armor on the drawing, and you can use the materials on the ground as you like, otherwise you don't want to forge a knife again." ”

After the Great Elder finished speaking, he went out and left.