"Xie Xuan should have told you that the lower sword kills, the middle sword gathers Qi, the upper sword condenses the mind, and the upper sword is the heart." Tao Hongjing said, "Why, do you want to see what the sword's mind is like?"
"Think!" Bai Ze stood up. During the battle with Yin Wending that day, the young demon king of the demon tribe disdained his sword realm, saying that he had not yet reached the sword realm, and Bai Ze was not worthy to fight with him.
Therefore, Bai Ze has always been worried about this matter, and wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of sword mind state existed, which could make Yin Wending so unruly, and did not take his sword mind state into consideration at all.
"If you want to see it, you can." Tao Hongjing smiled and casually took out his flying sword.
This was the first time Bai Ze saw Tao Hongjing's natal flying sword.
The sword was as thin as a cicada's wing, and the body of the sword was engraved with profound seal characters, full of Taoist charm.
Only after a long time did Bai Ze realize that the runes engraved on Tao Hongjing's natal flying sword were truly heaven-defying.
"This sword is called Zhen Gao, and it is my only flying sword." Tao Hongjing said, holding the sword in his right hand, using his left hand as a sword finger, stroking the sword lightly, and looked at Bai Ze, "I have not escaped into the sword mind state for many years. It has been so long that I have almost forgotten what the sword heart of my natal flying sword looks like. Today I will give you a look at what the sword heart is!"
After saying that, the old man's whole body was like a dragon ascending to the sky. He held a sword in one hand, and the sword energy soared into the sky. The strong wind blew up and Bai Ze could hardly stand.
This is the sword mind state!
"Boy, watch it!" Tao Hongjing shouted, and saw the sky and the earth change color. Bai Ze saw the vast wasteland, and the characters of birth and destiny were rising and falling on the wasteland. Every word carried the rhyme of Hongmeng, and contained the meaning of the beginning of the creation of the world. Powerful!
The old man stood with his sword in hand, swung the sword casually, and the Divine Seal went straight towards Baize.
The boy in white on the top of the mountain felt creepy!
"boom!!--"
The divine seal passed through Bai Ze's body.
Bai Ze only felt that a powerful force directly separated his soul from his body. The sea of souls shook. His "vision" directly exceeded the limitations of the physical body. He saw his body standing in front of Tao Hongjing from an overlooking perspective, but That body seemed to be no longer his, motionless and as stiff as a puppet!
Bai Ze's consciousness was directly blasted out of the soul sea by that seal.
Now Bai Ze's cultivation has not reached the fourth realm, and he has not yet condensed his soul body. His consciousness is still a mass of nothingness. After leaving the body, there is no image at all, just like a cloud of mist.
Bai Ze was shocked.
With just one word of power, his soul was directly separated from his body. What kind of terrifying method was this? !
If this method was used against an enemy, wouldn't it directly cause that person to lose control of his body?
"The soul is back!" Tao Hongjing shouted, and Bai Ze felt a huge attraction pulling his soul back to the soul sea. Then he suddenly came back to his senses, regained the power to control his body, and immediately took two hard breaths. The tone was shocking.
Tao Hongjing sheathed his sword, and the terrifying vision of heaven and earth disappeared.
"Do you see clearly?" the old man said with a smile, as if nothing had happened just now and everything seemed to be Bai Ze's illusion.
Just having experienced that horrific scene personally, how could Bai Ze pretend that nothing had happened?
"Is this the sword mind state?" Bai Ze asked.
"The heart of the sword, the heart of the sword." Tao Hongjing said with a smile, "Every sword has a heart of the sword, but what is the heart of the sword? Most of them are born when the swordsmith opens the furnace to make the sword, and are formed in the sword. All experiences. When I was young, I also met some geniuses with a sword mind. Some of them had the flying sword in their hands, and the sword center in their hands was an ancient dragon, some people had a flying sword in their hands, and the sword center in their hands was a black sun, and some people The heart of the natal flying sword in my hand is the Tomb of Ten Thousand Swords. There are too many to mention."
"Master, I seem to understand." Bai Ze said with great energy, "The sword mind state is the ultimate sword state that surpasses the four extremes of the sword state. I think this state may be the unity of man and sword that sword cultivators dream of. The human sword merges into one, so the sword master can sense the sword heart of the natal flying sword, thus releasing the true sword power of the natal flying sword!"
"You are right to say that." Tao Hongjing said with a smile, "Just like you and my master and apprentice, how I teach you is just like how you use a sword. But after all, you and I are not the same person, and it is inevitable that our minds will be different. Sword Master It's the same with the sword. Only when the person and the sword become one can one reach the state of the sword. If you experience the difficulties carefully, you will naturally understand them."
The difficulty of the sword mind state is not only that it is extremely difficult to achieve the state of unity between man and sword. Also, the person holding the sword must have the heart of the sword, and the sword in the hand of the sword holder must fit with him.
Otherwise, the dumplings are boiled in the kettle, with no way out.
If it doesn’t fit, everything is in vain.
The best sword is the heart, the best sword is the heart.
Bai Ze recited these four words silently twice in his heart and savored them carefully.
"Do you still have doubts in your mind?" Tao Hongjing saw the young man thinking deeply, waited for a moment, and said with a smile.
"No more." Bai Ze also smiled, "I feel suddenly enlightened, and I seem to have a new understanding of the sword realm."
"Then just follow me and open the sword furnace." Tao Hongjing said with a smile.
An old man and a young man rode down the mountain in the light of the morning sun.
The sword stove was opened in the other courtyard where Tao Hongjing lived.
Zuowang Peak is no better than other peaks. There are only eleven people on the mountain including Xiaoman, Qinglin and Chen Qing. This also includes the senior brother Zhao Xin, whom Bai Ze has never met, the second senior brother Lin Xiao who is not on the mountain, and the third senior sister Zhuang Yan.
When Tao Hongjing took Bai Ze into the other courtyard, he sent a message to the disciples on the mountain, telling them not to disturb him during this period, and that he would recast Bai Ze's sword. When the old man saw Bai Ze closing the courtyard door casually, he immediately arranged a magic circle to isolate the place from the outside world.
"Let's go." Tao Hongjing said with a smile, "I just want my master to see if your sword-making skills have improved in the past two years."
"Yes." Bai Ze nodded in agreement.
Burning a sword furnace is a craft.
Bai Ze's black jade sword is somewhat special. It was the last work of Meng Chong, a fairly famous swordsmith in the north. Mo Yu and Qing Shuang were originally a couple, and Mu Chen mentioned this to Bai Ze when he gave Qing Shuang to Bai Ze.
After the battle of Hulao Pass, Bai Ze returned the sword but was rejected by Mu Chen. The two exchanged swords and agreed to make the Northern Demon Sect pay the price. Mo Yu was always taken by Bai Ze, and Qingshuang also It was left in Mu Chen's hands.
Black jade has a special meaning to Bai Ze.
Moreover, the grade of the Xuanzi Spirit Sword is already considered to be pretty good. Therefore, if ordinary carbon fire is used in the sword furnace fire, this sword cannot be melted at all.
Therefore, if you want to burn the sword furnace enough to recast the black jade, you must first burn the charcoal fire with blue light. When the temperature is enough, then use the Taoist true fire supplemented by the charcoal fire to ignite the fire attribute spirit stone that is enough to melt the sword.
Only in this way can the sword furnace be truly successfully ignited.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to even talk about recasting black jade, or even smelting black jade.
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