My Weird Life

   Chapter 380 Ink Painting (22)

  Ten young men with yellow faces and thin skin followed Su Wu and Ji Liang timidly,

   turned into Su Wu and wanted to go in to check,

   was yelled at by the craftsman inside and went out of 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 calciners, so that they began to line up on the spot to forge knife embryos,

  Su Wu deliberately hid behind people,

   In the end, he ranked third among the six players in the second team.

  When someone else 'Suyan' was forging a knife embryo,

   He stood by and watched.

   In "The Past Life of a Disciple of Kitchen God", Su Wu was also exposed to some techniques and craftsmanship of forging weapons. Although he did not master it well, he was at least much better than the blacksmith in the simulated world of Kitchen God.

   The swords that have been tempered are also quite useful and durable.

   However, compared with the current methods of these apprentices, they are 'insignificant'.

   This is not to say how skilled they are,

   But they made every step extremely meticulous, which is called excellence.

  —Dongliu Island has always been barren in iron ore resources, and in this period, the martial arts are gradually rising, and the demand for swords by samurai is increasing year by year, so it is required that the swordsmiths must use every ore resource to the extreme.

   also created a whole set of fine knife casting process.

  The apprentice wrapped some jade steel in yellow mud and put it into the furnace for calcination, so that the scattered jade steel was combined into one piece,

   Then keep forging and folding repeatedly to remove impurities.

   In this process,

  The apprentices tried folding and forging for a while, and then they stopped to observe the shape of the blade, feel the strength and firmness of the blade, as well as the comparison and coordination of the two different attributes on the blade?

  If the blade is too hard or too soft, the whole process will fall short.

  Only toughness and toughness can be well exerted,

   After that, the surface of the core iron is wrapped with the 'Bao Ding iron', and the two are forged and combined. Only the blade embryo that has both soft and hard, and the two can complement each other, can be judged as a 'good product'.

   a whole morning,

   A total of seven people from the two teams forged the blade.

   Only Su Wu forged a 'top grade' blade embryo.

   is better than 'good product'.

   "Abu, you really are very talented - your talent is not even inferior to your father's!" Ji Liang squeezed the blade that had just taken shape, and flicked his finger on it, listening to the sound of the blade,

He closed his eyes intoxicated, and after a long time, he opened his eyes to look at Su Wu and praised Su Wu: "I originally thought that after you got the ink, your energy was exhausted, and the blade forged this time would definitely need to be reworked. 's mediocre,

  I didn't expect you to directly forge a high-quality knife embryo!

  This blade embryo will be sent to the 'Craftsman's Department', where the craftsman will forge it into a sharp weapon.

   There may be a samurai who is famous for it in the future!

  After having lunch today, you can follow me to learn the skills of 'Heart Forging', and officially get in touch with all the sword-making processes after 'Suyeon'! "

"Yes,

I will continue to work hard! "Su Wu nodded, this time he finally learned to behave.

   He had experience,

   With the blessing of ‘Yi’, he can strictly control the size and frequency of the power output of the meat shell,

   After refining everything,

   It is not difficult to cast a 'top grade' blade blank.

   above the 'top grade',

   There are also two levels of '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 with two levels of 'extreme' and 'supreme'.

   By talking with other apprentices,

  Su Wu finally understood that 'inspiration to harmonize with heaven and earth' and 'sensation between heaven and man' were not terms created by Kira, nor was he exaggerating his sword casting skills, but there was indeed such a feeling.

  In Heiankyo, the famous sword 'Onikiri' used by 'Watanabe Tsuna' to cut off an arm of 'Rashomon'

   is a supremely famous sword that was cast by a master craftsman who entered the ink under the induction of heaven and man.

   and want to get 'inspiration to be in harmony with heaven and earth',

   Enter the state of ‘Heaven and Human Induction’,

  Only through continuous training of the skills of 'Heart Forging' and 'Ghost Forging' that all ink craftsmen must practice, in the infinite training, there may be a sudden flash of inspiration, forging the world's famous swords!

noon,

  Su Wu went to pick up a meal.

  Because he was the canteen next door to the ordinary apprentice who went with Kira, the meals he received were 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, and a bowl of miso soup that tasted like water.

   He ate fish and rice,

   Finally, I gritted my teeth and drank all the miso soup.

   After all, there is still some fish in the soup.

   In the afternoon, Su Wu officially began to learn the skill of "Forging of the Heart".

   "There is no difference between the forging of the heart and the forging of ghosts and spirits.

   However, the forging of the heart is easy to learn but difficult to master.

   Forging of ghosts and gods needs to be more than half of your 'Taishan Hundred Demons Cannibal Banquet' before you can really start learning.

   So now I will first teach you 'Heart Forging'.

   Wait for one day, your 'Taishan Hundred Demons Cannibal Banquet' is more than half completed,

   The Ink Maker will teach you the 'Ghost Forging Method'! "

   Kira was shirtless, revealing the ink drawing that spread from the back to the front of the chest.

   The 'Taishan Hundred Devils Cannibal Banquet' on him is not more than half completed, so even if he wants to teach Su Wu's 'ghost and **** forging method', it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

   Now,

  Su Wu and Ji Liang stayed in a room that was extremely narrow compared to other sword casting rooms.

   Although this house is small,

  The calciner, charcoal fire, bellows, knife blank and other items are readily available.

Ji Liang stood in front of the calcining furnace, placed a knife blank on the iron plate, observed the texture of the blade blank, and then said to Su Wu: "The so-called forging of the heart means that the knife maker is required to devote himself to a forging activity. Go in!

  The consciousness of the swordsmith will turn into a red fire in the calciner,

   turned into a hammer that fell on the blade!

   even turned into the blade itself,

   As the blade embryo is hammered and calcined by fire, I can empathize with it and feel all its changes! "

  This 'forge of the heart' just sounds,

   gave Su Wu an extremely metaphysical feeling.

  If you only feel the blade embryo with the 'heart', then how to specify various steps,

   Make sure that you really feel the blade embryo with 'heart',

   Are you walking on the right path every time you practice?

  Jiliang glanced at Su Wu, who was brooding,

He waited for Su Wu's thoughts to gather and looked at him again before he continued: "I want to allow myself to enter the practice of 'Mind Forging' anytime, anywhere, and to ensure that I am in the state of 'Heart forging', 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 practiced this state, learned how to get into it—but never actually got there! "

   Ji Liang said this, Su Wu understood.

   It seems that whether or not one can cultivate into the "Forging of the Heart" depends entirely on one's understanding.

The    method is in front of us,

   As long as you learn, you can learn.

   But after learning, can you really use it?

   Even whether you can really check that you have ‘learned’ depends on your own understanding and ‘opportunity’.

   This is the reason why ‘Forging of the Heart’ is easy to learn but difficult to master.

   Kira walked to the wall directly opposite the two and opened the two window panels on the wall.

   After the window panel is opened,

   but did not show the sun shining in from outside,

   instead showed an ink painting.

   In the framed ink painting, there are large blanks.

  Only the middle part, with heavy ink, drew a scarecrow.

   A scarecrow cut in two.

  The scarecrow's upper body, which was cut open, was in a state of flying, and the lower body fell backward.

   at the incision,

   Even some ink splattered down, so some scattered straws were formed.

   "Looking at this painting,

   Then I thought, what kind of knife can make the grass man be divided into two into this state?

   And then through the force method and posture of the knife,

   But thinking about the sharpness of the knife,

   Then think about the ratio of flexibility and hardness of the knife?

   Finally, how to forge such a knife? This is the way to learn the forge of the heart! Ji Liang was talking in Su Wu's ear, while Su Wu stared at the ink painting, thinking deeply into the incision.

   He felt that this was an ordinary knife,

  Anyone who has some strength and a sharper sword,

   can easily cut the straw man.

   think so,

   There is absolutely no way to think deeper and deeper.

   So after he thought a little bit,

   cast aside all his own prejudices.

   Abandoned all the powers at his disposal, regarded himself as an unarmed civilian, and assumed the identity of the scarecrow that was cut open, to save this knife.

   This time,

   He saw a faint shadow,

   Black Shadow lunges forward, and the 'Knife' in both hands is cut off from the diagonally upper left side in an instant—

  The knife light turned into a bright and fuzzy light and shadow,

Su Wu's mind was as quiet as ice, the ice surface reflected the light and shadow, deconstructed the light and shadow, and made the cutting speed from fast to slow, and then completely stagnant-he used this to see the undulating gray-black pattern on the blade. ,

   saw the curvature of the blade,

   Even based on that arc, he can deduce how the knifemaker burned it and gave it such an arc...

   After a long time,

  Su Wu retracted his thoughts, the light in his eyes lit up and became still.

   Ji Liang, who had been standing in the corner, saw his slight movement, stood up, and asked him, "How is it, have you learned the 'Forging of the Heart'?"

   "I learned." Su Wu replied.

   Ji Liang smiled slightly, not making a decision.

  Everyone who learns the "Forging of the Heart" thinks that he has learned it.

   But whether you really learn it or not,

   The swords they forged are the best proof.

   Ji Liang didn't say anything, he walked to the door and said to Su Wu at the same time: "Let's go, go back, and learn the whole sword-making process with others - after you finish learning, you can practice 'Mind Forging' by yourself.

  The day after tomorrow,

   Forge a finished blade for me! "

   (end of this chapter)