Lin Yi picked up the brocade box with both hands and weighed it in his hands.
The weight is not heavy, weighing about seven or eight kilograms in total.
Hold it under the candlelight and observe carefully.
The outside of the box was covered with a layer of black and gold brocade, which turned into ashes when touched with the passage of time.
On the contrary, the box body exudes a faint fragrance. It should be that sandalwood is used as the main body of the box to prevent insects.
The brocade box is not locked, nor does it have any mysterious mechanisms.
Lin Yi opened it after looking up and down.
There is also a cover underneath, and there is a letter written on sheepskin on the board.
When I opened it, I saw that the text was written in Tang regular script, and the content was related to the "Zhang Dao":
According to legend, Ou Yezi, a master swordsmith in the Spring and Autumn Period, stopped making swords in his later years.
Later generations asked about the reason, and Ou Yezi replied: I have made too many swords in my life and killed too many people, so I closed the furnace.
During Ou Yezi's life, except for Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, he had no other disciples. Everyone thought that his sword-making skills were lost.
Unexpectedly, until the Tang Dynasty, there was a swordsmith named Zhang Yajiu, who had some experience in swordmaking.
But he has a weird temper and doesn't want to make friends with powerful people. He lives in the mountains and fields all day long, making farm tools and ironware.
One day, a fisherman came and said that when he was fishing in the river, he fished up a rusty iron rod and asked Zhang Yajiu to exchange for some farm tools.
When Zhang Yajiu accepted the iron rod and prepared to recast it, he summoned the "Sword Spirit" that Ou Yezi had given to it.
It turns out that although Ou Yezi sealed the furnace in his later years, his skills were wasted, which was a pity.
During his lifetime, he forged seven famous swords: Tai'a, Longyuan, Gongbu, Zhanlu, Juque, Yuchang, and Chunjun. However, he could not make up the full ten, and he still had a lot of regrets in his heart.
So he took his favorite piece of material, turned his sword-making experience into a "sword spirit" and sealed it in it, and threw it into the Weishui River, so that future generations could know his intentions.
After Zhang Yajiu forged the raw material, he cut it into three sections as preparation materials.
The first thing that started the furnace was the broken sword of Duke Zhou that Li Chunfeng brought.
As for what conditions Li Gong used in exchange, there is no mention in the parchment.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the swords worn by scholar-bureaucrats were mostly decorative and sharp weapons, with a sense of ritual rather than practicality.
The same goes for Duke Zhou's sword, which was nearly two meters long. After being taken out by the group of monks, it was cut into several pieces and thrown together with the bronzes in the deep valley.
All that was recovered was the hilt and part of the blade.
Zhang Yajiu used the piece of raw material left by Ou Yezi to recast and forge the sword, turning it into a "barrier sword".
In the Tang Dynasty, there were four types of sabers:
The ceremonial knife is luxuriously decorated, beautiful and elegant, and is a ceremonial knife exclusive to the nobles.
The horizontal knife is simple, practical and easy to carry. It is an essential self-defense weapon for battles, official duties and travel.
The Mo Dao is designed to defeat cavalry and is extremely powerful. It is a practical combat knife that has been baptized by war.
These three types of knives require too many raw materials, and only the "barrier knife" is suitable.
Barrier knives are the least surviving Tang Dynasty knives, and there is no precise standard for their shape.
The archaeological community defines it as the "richa" of the Japanese state - that is, the ancestor of the shorter of the two swords worn by the Japanese warriors.
After it was cast, Li Chunfeng put the "Barrier Sword" and the "Yunzhuan Tianshu" into the stone box and brought them into the sarcophagus.
Lin Yi read the words on the parchment, folded it and put it aside.
Then carefully open the cover of the sandalwood box.
A "barrier knife" lay quietly inside.
The length is less than fifty centimeters, and the hilt at the ring is exactly the same as the sword of the Western Zhou Dynasty and even the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This should be the hilt of Zhou Gongdan's sword.
The grip is wrapped in layers of cowhide lines, and the tandem is made of the same material as the handle.
The outer shell is made of rosewood and wrapped with copper skin and pearl rain skin.
Although it is the product of splicing two eras, there is no contradiction at all.
Lin Yi held the barrier knife in the tiger's mouth with both hands, and suddenly felt as if he had traveled through a thousand years of time and was having a face-to-face conversation with the old man from a thousand years ago.
"Cang Cang" sounded like a dragon's roar, and Lin Yi pulled out the sword.
After thousands of years, the blade is still as good as new, and a cold light comes directly from the door.
There is a blood groove on each side, and the blade has a wavy pattern. The overall width is about two fingers, consistent from front to back.
The head of the knife is obviously Tang Dao style, with a sharp and tough line, which can be used for stabbing and cutting.
"Good knife!"
Lin Yi has not come into contact with many knives, but his eldest brother Abudu gave him two daggers produced in southern Xinjiang - Yingisha.
It is the product that best represents the hand-forged craftsmanship now.
It was really easy to use. Lin Yi cherished it very much and was reluctant to take it out this time.
However, compared with the "barrier knife" in his hand, those two Yingisha can only be said to be inferior.
Facing the candlelight, Lin Yi gently stroked the edge of the blade with his fingers.
Suddenly, I felt a cold sensation on my fingertips, and a few bean-sized blood beads flowed down the edge of the blade, rolled along the blood groove a few times, and disappeared in an instant.
"Does this count as recognizing the master?"
Legend has it that all the magical weapons in this world have their own personalities and cannot be used by people who are not of right and temperament.
If it is controlled by force, it will be suspected of eating the master.
As for how to recognize the Lord, the simplest way is to shed blood.
If the master's blood is absorbed by the sword, it proves that the recognition of the master is successful. Not only will this magical weapon not devour the master, but it will also accompany the master throughout his life and become a weapon for him to overcome obstacles.
By the time the blood drops dissipated, the wound on Lin Yi's hand had healed.
Only a thin white mark was left.
At this moment, at the connection between the blade and the blade, two engraved seal characters were vaguely visible:
"Kill the enemy!"
Killer, kill!
"禾" is a word specially made up by Wu Zetian to name herself.
It means "the sun and the moon are in the sky, shining on the earth", and there are rumors that "Mingkong" is Wu Zetian's dharma title in Shimen.
The name of this "barrier knife" is "Slaying He", and the meaning should not be too obvious.
It seems that Li Chunfeng did regret that he had told Wu Zetian about this piece of feng shui auspicious soil out of his own motivation, which had led to the destruction of Li Tang's country and the country.
It's a pity that Wu Zhao's luck was overwhelming and unstoppable, so Li Chunfeng could only leave various clues in this auspicious soil, waiting for future generations to come and reveal the secrets here.
As for Wu Zhao's fate, Yuan and Li had already reached a conclusion when they deduced it. After their disciples sorted it out, they named it "Tuibei Diagram".
As for why Wu Zetian did not choose to be buried here after her death, but chose to be buried in Qianling as the daughter-in-law of the Li family, it is unknown.
In the last few lines of the tortoise-shell "Yunzhuan Tianshu", Li Chunfeng wrote down the method of cracking the "Three Poison Hidden" and pointed out a way to escape from here.
(End of chapter)
