Ten young men with sallow faces and thin muscles followed timidly behind Su Wu and Ji Liang.
Turned into Su Wu who wanted to go in to check earlier,
But he was shouted out by the craftsman inside and left the room.
The smell of charcoal fire is more intense here.
Ji Liang divided the eleven people including Su Wu into two groups, each occupying two calcining furnaces, and ordered them to line up on the spot to forge the knife embryos.
Su Wu deliberately hid behind people,
In the end, he ranked third among the six people in the second team.
When someone else, Suyan, was forging the blade,
He stood nearby and watched.
In 'The Past Life of a Disciple of the Kitchen God', Su Wu was exposed to some techniques and techniques for forging weapons. Although he was not very good at it, he was at least much better than the blacksmith in the Kitchen God's simulated world.
The swords produced through training are also quite practical and durable.
However, compared with the techniques used by these apprentices today, they pale into insignificance.
This is not to say that their skills are very good,
Rather, they do every step extremely carefully, which can be called excellence.
——Dongliu Island has always had poor iron ore resources, but at this time, the samurai family is gradually rising, and the samurai's demand for swords is increasing year by year, which requires swordsmiths to make the most of every ore resource.
This has created their current set of sophisticated knife-making processes.
The apprentice wrapped some jade steel in yellow mud and put it into the furnace for calcination, so that the scattered jade steel combined into one piece.
Then it is continuously forged and folded repeatedly to remove impurities.
In this process,
After the apprentices try folding and forging for a while, they have to stop and observe the shape of the knife base, feel the strength and solidity of the knife base, and the contrast between the two different attributes on the knife base. Is the degree of coordination high?
If the knife blank is too hard or too soft, the entire process will fail.
Only toughness and tenacity can be put into full play,
After that, the surface of the core iron is wrapped with 'Pao Ding Iron', and the two are forged and combined. Only the knife blank that has both soft and hard parts and can complement each other can be judged as a 'good quality'.
a whole morning,
A total of seven people from the two teams forged the knife embryo.
Only Su Wu forged a 'top grade' knife embryo.
Even better than 'good'.
"Abu, you are indeed very talented - your talent is not even inferior to that of your father!" Kira held the blade that had just taken shape, flicked it slightly with his fingers, and listened to the sound the blade made.
He closed his eyes intoxicated, and after a long time, he opened his eyes and looked at Su Wu, praising Su Wu: "I originally thought that after you were inked, you were exhausted, and the blade you forged this time would definitely need to be remade. of mediocrity,
I didn’t expect you to forge a high-grade knife blank directly!
This knife embryo will be sent to the 'Craftsman's Department', where the craftsmen will forge it into a sharp weapon.
In the future, some samurai may become famous all over the world because of it!
After lunch today, you can follow me to learn the skills of ‘Heart Forging’, and officially come into contact with all the sword-making processes after ‘Suyan’!”
"yes,
I will continue to work hard!" Su Wu nodded, finally learning the lesson this time.
He has experience,
Coupled with the blessing of "Yi", I can strictly control the size and frequency of the meat shell's power output.
After refining everything,
It is not difficult to cast a 'top quality' knife blank.
Above the ‘top grade’,
There are also two levels: 'extreme' and 'supreme'.
It is said that
Only during the forging process,
Only by grasping that ray of inspiration that is in harmony with heaven and earth can it be possible to forge swords at the two levels of "extreme" and "supreme".
Through conversations with other apprentices,
Su Wu finally understood that - 'the inspiration to harmonize with the heaven and earth' and 'the connection between heaven and man' were not terms created by Ji Liang, nor was he exaggerating his sword-making skills, but such a connection did exist.
In Heian-kyo, the famous sword 'Onikiri' used by 'Watanabe Tsuna' to cut off an arm of 'Rashomon Gui',
It is a supremely famous sword forged by a master craftsman who is inspired by heaven and man.
And if you want to get the ‘inspiration to be in harmony with heaven and earth’,
Entering the state of ‘celestial induction’,
Only through continuous training of the 'Forging of the Heart' and 'Forging of Ghosts and Gods' skills that all ink masters must practice, during unlimited training, there may be an occasional flash of inspiration, and a world-famous sword may be forged!
noon,
Su Wu went to get a meal.
Because he went with Kira to the canteen next door to the ordinary apprentices, the food he received was also quite rich.
In addition to a plate of rice,
There were two pieces of fish - one more than yesterday, some salted fish offal, and a bowl of stewed fish head and kelp, with a miso soup that smelled like pot water.
He ate the fish and rice,
Finally, he gritted his teeth and drank all the miso soup.
After all, there is some fish in the soup.
In the afternoon, Su Wu officially began to learn the technique of 'Heart Forging'.
“There is no superiority or inferiority between Heart Forging and Ghost Forging.
However, the training of the heart is easy to learn but difficult to master.
The ghost and god forging method can only be truly started to be learned after you have carved more than half of the tattoos on your ‘Taishan Hundred Demons and Ogres’ Banquet’.
So now I will teach you the ‘Heart Training’ first.
Wait until one day, your "Taishan Hundred Demons and Cannibals Banquet" is more than half completed,
The ink master will teach you the ‘Ghost and God Forging Technique’!”
Kira went shirtless, revealing the inked pattern that spread from her back to her chest.
He has not completed more than half of the 'Taishan Hundred Demons and Cannibals' Banquet', so even if he wanted to teach Su Wu the 'Ghost and God Forging Technique', it would be difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
present,
Su Wu and Ji Liang stayed in a house that was extremely narrow compared to other sword-making rooms.
Although this house is small,
Calcining furnaces, charcoal fires, bellows, knife blanks and other items are all available.
Kira stood in front of the calcining furnace, placed a knife embryo on the iron plate, observed the texture of the knife embryo, and then said to Su Wu: "The so-called forging of the heart requires the swordsmith to devote himself wholeheartedly to a forging activity.
Go!
The consciousness of the swordsmith will turn into the red fire in the calcining furnace,
Turned into hammers falling on the blade!
Even turned into the blade itself,
As the knife embryo is hammered and burned by the fire, you can feel it and feel all its changes!"
This ‘forging of the heart’ is just what it sounds like,
It gave Su Wu an extremely metaphysical feeling.
If you just feel the knife embryo with your "heart", how can you prescribe various steps?
Make sure that you really feel the knife embryo with your ‘heart’,
Are you on the right path every time you practice?
Ji Liang glanced at Su Wu, who was thinking deeply.
He waited for Su Wu to collect his thoughts and look at him again before he continued: "I want to allow myself to enter the practice of 'Heart Training' anytime and anywhere, and ensure that I am in the state of 'Heart Training'.
It is an extremely difficult—even impossible—thing to accomplish.
Only a few master craftsmen can maintain the state of ‘Heart Forging’ for a long time.
Most people only enter this state occasionally.
Even if you practice this state and learn how to enter this state - you can never truly enter this state!"
When Ji Liang said this, Su Wu understood.
It seems that whether one can achieve the 'Heart Training' depends entirely on one's own understanding.
The method is before you,
As long as you study, you can learn.
But after learning it, can it really be used?
Even whether you can truly check that you have "learned" it depends on your personal understanding and "chance".
This is the reason why ‘Heart Training’ is easy to learn but difficult to master.
Kira walked to the wall directly opposite the two people and opened the two window panels on the wall.
After the window panel is opened,
But it didn’t show the sunlight coming in from outside,
Instead, an ink painting appeared.
There are large areas of blank space in the framed ink painting.
Only in the middle part, a scarecrow was drawn with thick ink.
A scarecrow cut in half.
The scarecrow's upper body, which had been sliced open, was in a flying state, while his lower body fell backwards.
incision,
There was even some ink splashing down, resulting in some scattered straw.
"Looking at this painting,
Then think about it, what kind of knife can make the straw man split into two pieces?
Then through the way and posture of the sword,
But thinking about the sharpness of that knife,
Then think about the ratio of flexibility and hardness of that knife?
Finally, I was thinking hard about how to forge such a knife? This is the learning method of heart forging!" Ji Liang spoke in Su Wu's ear, while Su Wu stared at the ink-drenched ink painting, and his thoughts had gone deep into the incision.
Hit...??m
He thought it was an ordinary knife,
Anyone with some strength and a sharper sword,
You can easily cut open the straw man.
Think so,
There is absolutely no way to think deeper and deeper.
So after he thought about it for a while,
I let go of all my own prejudices.
Give up all the powers you have, regard yourself as an unarmed civilian, assume the identity of a chopped-up scarecrow, and think about this knife.
this time,
He saw a vague black shadow,
The black shadow lunged forward, and the 'beating knife' in both hands slashed diagonally from the upper left -
The sword light turned into bright and blurry light and shadow,
Su Wu's mind was as silent as ice. The ice reflected the light and shadow, deconstructing the light and shadow, causing its cutting speed to change from fast to slow to completely stagnant. This allowed him to clearly see the undulating gray-black color on the blade.
pattern,
I saw the curve of the blade,
Even based on the arc, he could deduce how the knifemaker fired it and gave it such an arc...
After a long time,
Su Wu withdrew his thoughts, and the light in his eyes lit up and then became silent.
Kira, who had been waiting in the corner, saw his slight movement and stood up, asking him: "How are you doing? Have you learned the 'Heart Training'?"
"I learned it," Su Wu replied.
Ji Liang smiled slightly but did not comment.
Everyone who learns the ‘Heart Training’ thinks that they have learned it.
But whether we have truly learned it or not,
The swords they forged are the best proof.
Without saying anything else, Ji Liang walked towards the door and said to Su Wu: "Let's go back and learn the entire sword-making process with the others - after you finish learning, you can practice the 'Forging of the Heart' by yourself.
By the day after tomorrow,
Forge a finished blade yourself and give it to me!"
