In the Blade

At three o'clock in the morning, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse.

Du Chengfeng got up from bed and always felt that his work and rest routine had been a bit strange recently. This kind of living habit of sleeping around the clock and being out at night seemed not very healthy - but he always felt that it was better to do the work of sharpening the knife at night, especially under the moonlight. When it is brighter, sitting in the yard and sharpening the knife quietly will make him feel better and make it easier for him to immerse himself in it.

It was at this time when he was at his best that Du Chengfeng once again took out the long knife named Broken Horse.

With the long sword in hand, Du Chengfeng first practiced the sword technique in his memory called "Dragon and Tiger Two Positions".

Although Liu Qingyun, the original owner of this long sword, gave the name of the sword technique quite awe-inspiring, the underlying reason is not too complicated - the so-called dragon and tiger refer to the posture of the spine, and the tiger is the posture of the spine. During the bunching and stretching period, the entire torso will be like a spring, fully converting the weight of the feet on the ground into the power of swinging the sword forward.

Although the basic principle is simple, the practical application of the dragon and tiger movements is not just that. Although Liu Qingyun is best at drawing the sword extremely quickly, when Du Chengfeng sharpened the sword, he also realized that Liu Qingyun once practiced other sword techniques using the bunching method.

Take Tiger Leap, for example, which is a way to quickly pounce on the enemy. For those who have achieved great mastery, only one ups and downs is required for a distance of five steps. Or the Flying Dragon Sword. This is a way to extend the cutting distance by lifting the sword. After you practice it successfully, you can even cut a full foot further than your opponent in a short period of time.

However, there were also some of Shu Zhan's applied moves that Liu Qingyun couldn't use himself.

"...Dragon-shaped big slash?"

Recalling the sword technique in his mind and looking at the horse-breaking sword in his hand, Du Chengfeng quickly understood the reason.

The sword technique called Dragon Shape Great Slash is a slash in which all the strength is poured into the blade. The spine is stretched out like a soaring dragon, and the slash with both hands turns into a tiger descending from the mountain. It can be said that this dragon-tiger The pinnacle sword of the two potentials was also the most powerful slash in Liu Qingyun's imagination - but this was the most domineering sword extended from the principle of Shu Zhan, but Liu Qingyun himself was unable to use it.

The root cause is that this broken horse cannot withstand such a move.

The overly long blade gave the Broken Horse a great cutting distance, but the overly long blade also destined that the front edge of the knife would most likely shatter on the spot when it made a powerful and heavy chop. Liu Qingyun once used a five-foot wooden sword that was similar to the length of a broken horse to try this move. All the wooden swords broke without exception.

There were only two options left in front of Liu Qingyun, either to change the knife to a relatively shorter but stronger one, or to give up and continue to study other techniques.

After much thought and weighing the pros and cons, Liu Qingyun finally chose to give up.

The attack distance advantage that a five-foot-long sword can bring is really too great. After solving the problem of the speed of drawing the sword, this attack distance advantage can allow Liu Qingyun to absolutely crush him in most battles. pressure.

Therefore, even though he had seen a longer way, Liu Qingyun finally chose to find another way.

And this choice, in a sense, also destined Liu Qingyun's defeat in that duel.

"Why……"

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng couldn't help but sigh.

In his opinion, Liu Qingyun was able to rise from a poor swordsman with only a small amount of money to such a big name. He had no shortage of abilities and skills, but it was only his indecisiveness and foresight that made him so famous. But it continued.

Indeed, in ordinary times, this may be regarded as making a decision before taking action, a mature and prudent attitude, but in the moment of life and death, if there is no way to make a judgment in an instant, the ending will be blood-stained loess. Tears spilled into the sky.

And this is also the biggest gap between Liu Qingyun and the swordsman Cui Yuan.

Although the swordsman Cui Yuan was somewhat mentally ill, he used his extremely strong perseverance to suppress the Chengfeng Sword in his hand that had killed more than two hundred people. That is to say, when a life and death duel was needed, he would do it for Stay in top shape and come out here and sharpen your knives.

But Liu Qingyun was different.

Liu Qingyun, who was accustomed to looking forward and backward, could not suppress the evil spirit of this broken horse. Therefore, he could only spend a lot of money to find a grinder to help him sharpen his sword like an ordinary swordsman.

And this was another reason why Du Chengfeng took out the knife.

"It's interesting..."

Looking at the brand-new horse-breaking sword in his hand, Du Chengfeng narrowed his eyes.

When he was sharpening the knife during the day, and in the process of understanding the long knife, he did feel everything the knife had experienced, but the killing process and the scenes of taking lives always seemed a bit blurry - like It was the blurred ink dye in the ink painting. He could feel that something, or some way, diluted the terrifying aspects.

Even more than just the terrifying side.

Logically speaking, when he felt the experience of this knife, he should also feel the sharpening process at that time, but the only thing that interested Du Chengfeng the most was blank, and it seemed that he never Never happened in general.

"You can't talk about this knife. It has amnesia, right?"

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

Can a knife cause amnesia? This sounds somewhat unlikely. After all, he had already tried it before going to bed during the day. Even if the sharpened swords in his hands were polished again, he could still see the memories attached to them.

In other words, at least his own sharpening will definitely not cause the weapon to lose its memory.

"That is to say, it is not a problem with the sharpening itself."

Du Chengfeng quickly made a judgment.

Then, since there is no problem with the sharpening process itself, the only difference between the two sides is the difference in technique.

Obviously, the technique used by the grinding craftsman that Liu Qingyun is looking for is completely different from that of Du Chengfeng himself, which directly leads to the fact that the weapons polished by both sides show completely different situations.

"How did this happen?"

Du Chengfeng became more and more puzzled.

So, he put the broken horse under the moonlight.

Indeed, the broken horse did lose its memory of the grinding, but every grinding will eventually leave marks on the blade.

And now, what Du Chengfeng has to do is to reversely feel the technique used by the grinder through the grinding marks left on this long sword.

This feeling is extremely subtle, even undetectable, and can only be figured out in this quiet midnight.

While his palm was stroking the blade, a picture vaguely appeared in Du Chengfeng's mind.

It was a bowl of ink and an inkstone.

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