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"More promising? How do you say it?" Ou Chuyang asked to the end.

"Because although the sword-casting master also needs to cross the Heavenly Pass of the Sword Gate, there is only this level. Whether it is a sword-casting craftsman, a sword-casting master, a sword-casting master, or even a sword-casting master, it is enough to open a sword gate."

"If this is the case, then why are sword-casting masters so rare?" Ou Chuyang was very puzzled. "The status and reputation of the sword-casting master are not lower than that of the sword master..."

"Uh...this..." Mei Aoxue smiled a little embarrassedly and explained: "Although the sword-making method does not have high requirements for the sword sect, there is another key factor that determines the height that the sword-making masters can reach."

"Strange Fire? Secret Technique?" Ou Chuyang immediately remembered that Master Duan had taught him the three treasures of the smelter. Since the smelter was separated from the sword-casting master, the sword-casting master may also have several key magic weapons.

"Strange fire, secret techniques are indeed the key, but they are all included." Mei Aoxue did not let Ou Chuyang continue to guess randomly, and directly said the answer: "That crucial key factor is one word: money!"

"Money...Money is not omnipotent, but without money is absolutely impossible..." Is the same the values ​​of this world?

"You are right. I dare not guarantee others, but as a swordsman, you must not be without money." Mei Aoxue said: "Every swordsman is beaten with hammers and hammers. Every hammer that the swordsman smashes is money! I don't know how many swords to break to make a good sword, and I don't know how many swords to break to make a higher quality sword..."

"So that's it... I thought that the reason why those who only opened one sword gate chose to practice swords was to show off..." Ou Chuyang's long sword was unsheathed and pointed directly at the sky, which was really handsome...

Mei Aoxue couldn't help but jump in her heart when she looked at Ou Chuyang, who was tall and handsome.

"As long sword is said,..." Ou Chuyang returned to the sheath of the long sword, and then said: "As long as you have money, it is not difficult to become a master of sword making, such as sword making?"

"That's right. As long as you have money, you can buy Qihuo and secret books. But the premise is: enough money...haha." Mei Aoxue turned his head slightly and said, "My father has practiced the sword-making path for sixty years and has been in charge of the Qianyuan Sect's sword-making Pavilion for thirty years. He has almost consumed half of the entire Qianyuan Sect's financial and material resources... What level do you think he is now?"

"I think it should be almost the master of sword casting..."

"Sword Master? Haha. It seems that there is no sword master in Ningzhou yet." Mei Aoxue looked at Mei Xintang, "My father has just touched the threshold of the sword master..."

"This..." Ou Chuyang was completely stunned, his mind became more and more confused.

"After saying so much, do you understand what I want to say to you?"

Ou Chuyang guessed with a confused look on his face: "Senior sister wants to persuade me to concentrate on practicing the way of making swords?"

"Idiot!" Mei Aoxue praised Ou Chuyang for a broken head, "Making steel and making swords all day long, beat and beat them, aren't you feeling bored?"

"Uh..." Ou Chuyang guessed again: "Senior sister wants me to give up the way of making swords and focus on learning swords?"

"You are getting more and more stupid!" Mei Aoxue knocked again, "You only have a mere sword gate, and you will be like that until you die. You're still just practicing!"

This is not true, that is not true. Ou Chuyang was also anxious, "Senior sister, what are you going to make trouble?"

"Oh, why are you so unconscious?" Mei Aoxue said angrily, "Look at me! When you have nothing to do, you knock a few hammers to cast a sword. When you are so bored, you go down the mountain to purchase and have a fun trip. How free and easy? You are both a swordsman and a smelter. You can learn the way of making swords casually. You have learned all three things, and you can do whatever you want. Why do you have to be loyal to the principle of destiny?"

"Oh, senior sister means, anyway, you will learn whatever you want, and it will be like that in the end. It's better to do it casually and be free and easy." Ou Chuyang thought seriously, "It seems to make sense..."

"What does it seem like? That's the reason." Mei Aoxue put her hands on her hips and helped Ou Chuyang to give advice on her future. "If you get tired of playing with all three things, you'll marry a wife and have a few children, which will be enough for you to play for half your life."

"Sister Sister, do you want to have a baby with me..."

Ou Chuyang blurted out a word. No matter how careless Mei Aoxue was, her face was flushed with shame and turned around and ran away.

...

In the end, Ou Chuyang decided to continue to learn the way of making swords with Mei Qixin. Since it is difficult to choose, let’s pack together and learn everything.

"A sword is divided into nine parts: sword pier, sword hilt, sword eye, sword grid, sword thigh, sword spine, sword blade, sword edge, sword edge, etc. Among them, sword thigh, sword spine, sword edge, sword edge, sword edge, sword edge, sword edge are collectively called sword body, which is the top priority."

"The first step in casting a sword body is: forging. The sword edge is hard and sharp, but it is hard and easy to fold, so the sword spine should be flexible and elastic. Basically, there is no material that can meet these two requirements at the same time, so the sword body is generally used to forge it with two different materials forging."

Mei Qixin began to teach Ou Chuyang to make a sword step by step, "This is the cloud steel you melted the day before yesterday. It has a hard texture and is suitable for the material of sharp blades; this is black iron, delicate and flexible, as a sword spine, and it complements the cloud steel with light and dark."

"Next, weave the rebar and black iron together in a pre-designed style. There are several ways to fit together here: wrapping the black iron with rebar, which is called rolling; two pieces of black iron sandwiched on both sides of rebar, which is called three pieces; stacking with multiple layers of black iron and rebar, which is called five pieces, seven pieces, nine pieces, etc. There are also some methods of fitting together, such as four-sided, wedge-shaped, and this three-way. In the future, you can explore and try it slowly according to different materials."

"Yes, Master." Ou Chuyang thought for a while and chose the simplest way to practice with the three-pin combination.

Two pieces of black iron sandwiched a large circle of cloud steel in the middle and fixed it into a sandwich like a sandwich. The process is completed by fitting this process.

Next, forging was officially started. First, put the chimeric sword material into the ground fire furnace and burned red, then took it out and placed it on the anvil and kept forging it with a blacksmith hammer. This process seemed very simple, it was just a jingle and a jingle. But in fact it was the most particular process.

First of all, the anvil and the blacksmith hammer cannot be randomly arranged. It must be made of the same material as the sword material. Otherwise, during the forging process, the anvil and the blacksmith hammer will constantly collide and squeeze with the sword material in high temperature, which will easily be mixed with impurities and destroy the quality of the entire sword body.

Then there is forging. Each swordsman has his own unique forging techniques, angle, strength and speed. The same material, using different forging techniques, the effects of the hammer are completely different. Mei Qixin's forging technique is called "Steping on the Snow and Finding Plum". To put it simply, it is "five shallows and one deep, five light and one heavy." Each six hammers form a pattern like a plum blossom.

After forging, the black iron and the rebar are completely integrated. The dark metallic luster is filled with shallow cloud patterns, and only the sword blades and edges outside are pure rebars, with silver light shining.

However, this first forging was just the beginning. Then, the sword material was put into the ground fire furnace and burned red, then rushing and folding it over, and then pounding it into the shape of a sword body.

Once folded and forged, the sword material will become two layers, and once folded and forged, the sword material will become four layers. The so-called thousand-layer steel means folding ten times repeatedly to make the number of layers of the sword material reach the power of 2 to the 10th power, and 1024 layers!

This is a real hard work... Ou Chuyang sighed while carefully pounding the sword material according to the technique of "five shallows and one deep, five lights and one heavy."

In early spring, it was chilly in spring, but Ou Chu was still sweating profusely and wet the ground.
Chapter completed!