The chaotic textures on the sword are not carved, but formed naturally when the sword was forged. They are like delicate clouds, twisting and struggling messily.
This sword has no sharp edge and cannot hurt anyone, but it makes people dizzy. It took a long time to calm down and saw a small word engraved on the hilt: "Crazy".
This sword was not included in the moving box. Retired Bu Shuai couldn't put it down and took it with him everywhere.
He hired several large boats to transport all his luggage and family members home. Only halfway through the trip, he was attacked by a group of robbers in the middle of the night. The entire family was killed and all their belongings were moved away.
Except for a sword.
The bandit leader didn't want to take the sword away.
Not because it's not pretty enough, or that it can't kill people.
It was because he had been wreaking havoc in the world for a long time, so he could tell at a glance that it was an ominous sword.
The government is panicking about the case of bandits massacring retired military attachés, but this has nothing to do with this story.
The important thing is that the sword finally returned to Yang Tou Tie Li's hands.
He checked the route for the military attache to return home, and walked along the river calmly. Within a few days, he saw dead bodies pushed to the river by the tide, piled up among the water and plants, rotting and smelly.
He took out "Longwen" and walked along the river bank.
Long Wen trembled in his hand, as if he was afraid of something.
So, he found "Kuai" who looked like scrap metal in the mud on the shore.
In fact, he had thrown this sword into other people's houses more than once.
He knew exactly why his father died.
He hated these rich and powerful people. It was the greed of these people that forced his father to embark on the road of madness!
It was the instigation of these people that drove my father to destruction step by step!
It was these people who ruined his family!
His father died of "madness."
He will use the murderous intent of this "crazy" sword to destroy them!
When he was immersed in the grief of revenge, he realized that someone was watching him on the shore.
The man was wearing a Taoist robe, but his head was bare, and he was holding a long bamboo pole in his hand.
This Taoist priest looks very scary. His thick eyelids almost cover his entire eyes. His entire head is like a thin piece of skin covering his skull. Not only is there no hair on his head, he also has no eyebrows or eyelashes.
The Taoist priest had a copper bell tied to his wrist and stared at him with eyes like dead fish.
Apparently this strange Taoist priest was following him, and followed him a long way, all the way to the desolate river bank.
There was a murderous aura emanating from the Taoist priest, but Yang Yan Tieli was not afraid, because the murderous aura he emitted was even stronger, and the Zhizhi Taoist couldn't help but shudder.
The Taoist priest broke the silence: "Are you Tie Langgong?"
Yang Tonli didn't answer, just looked at him.
"My name is Chi Chengzi, and my master is Master Longbi," the Taoist said.
Yang Yan Tieli still looked at him.
"I have a set of martial arts, which is a mixture of spear skills and stick skills," Chi Chengzi said, "I want to have a suitable weapon."
"Show me something."
"You agreed?"
Yang Tou Tie Li shook his head: "I just asked you to show me something."
Chi Chengzi then used the bamboo pole in his hand to perform his martial arts.
Chichengzi's master, Master Longbi, was originally a martial arts master who became a Taoist priest on the way. His disciples inevitably learned some martial arts.
Chichengzi learned sword, spear and stick skills. It was not easy for him to combine the three into one, because the sword is a short weapon and the spear and stick are long weapons. The principles of the two are different, so it will be difficult to use them by hand. , unless the knife is placed at the end of the stick, just like Guan Yunchang's Qinglong Yanyue Knife.
But when the two are combined into one, the essence of each will be damaged. Chichengzi has a very high understanding and solves this problem.
After Chi Chengzi finished speaking, Yang Yan Tieli stood up and said, "Farewell."
"Wait a minute! I know that Mr. Tie Lang is not an ordinary person, so I brought some rare things."
Yang Tou Tie Li turned around and said, "What are you going to trade for?"
"I have two bottles of poison, obtained from far away in Persia, one is the 'Guantian Pill' and the other is the 'Turtle Tomb Pill'. If you put it on a weapon and don't use it for three years, as long as you kill someone and see blood, the person who is hit will die immediately."
Yang Yan Tieli shook his head: "Not enough."
"There is also a letter of instructions from the divine fortune teller Zhang."
"Whose destiny book?"
"your."
Yang Yan Tie Li hesitated.
Chi Chengzi hurriedly continued: "As we all know, Zhang Tieqiao is the world's best fortune-telling master." He paused and said frankly: "Besides, I have some friendship with him."
Of course Yang Tou Tie Li knew about Zhang Tie Qiao's calculations.
Zhang Tieqiao is a well-known weirdo. If he doesn't want to approve your orders, he won't approve it. No matter how he begs or threatens you, he won't approve it. Such a weirdo, some good people later listed him among the "Four Odd People".
It is indeed difficult to get his destiny book.
There is no standard for him to give orders for others. He will give orders when he is happy, even the third-rate traffickers and lackeys. When he is unhappy, the emperor will not invite him.
Now he can easily get his destiny book!
So Yang Tieli said: "Okay." And before leaving, he said: "See you outside the East Water Gate in Tokyo in thirty days."
A few days later, Yang Yan Tieli returned to the market and walked into a blacksmith shop.
As soon as he stepped into the blacksmith's shop, he said to the blacksmith who was forging blacksmith: "Close the shop and let me use it for ten days."
The blacksmith was busy making scissors. When he saw a scholar in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned. He stopped what he was doing unhappily: "Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am, but others call me Tie Langgong."
What people in the market saw was that the blacksmith shop closed its door and posted a piece of paper that read: "Closed for ten days, all orders are delayed, please forgive me."
Word has spread that Tielang Gong's iron smelting skills are unparalleled in the world. If there is an opportunity to smelt iron in person, which blacksmith would not seize the opportunity?
On the appointed day, Yang Yan Tieli handed a strange weapon to Chi Chengzi.
The long body of the stick has a hand made of fine iron at the front end. Only the index finger and tail finger extend out of the hand, and the other fingers are pointed inwards in the shape of a claw.
"I named it 'Heart-picking Finger'." Yang Tonli said.
Chi Chengzi kept playing with the "Heart Picking Finger", he couldn't help but admire it, and he was extremely happy in his heart. After calming down a little, he handed two bottles of poison "Guantian Pill" and "Guizhong Pill" to Yang Tieli.
Chi Chengzi said with satisfaction: "Tie Langgong is indeed worthy of his reputation!"
"I don't want this," Yang Tieli handed back the two vials, "Just take me to Zhang Tieqiao."
Chi Chengzi snorted: "People say that Tie Langgong likes rare things. I think the most rare thing in the world is your destiny, right?" He cupped his hands to Yangtou Tieli and said, "I will take you to find him personally. But you also know that others have to walk a long way to the south."
“There is no difference in the length of a journey,” Yang Yan Tieli said, “it only matters whether it’s worth it.”
Yang Yan Tieli suddenly thought of the distance he had traveled.
When he recalled the days after his father's death, he deeply felt that the power of fate was so arrogant and irresistible.
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Yang Sheshe left behind several ancient books on sword making.
Before that day, Yang Yan Tieli had never heard his father mention these books.
Famous sword-smiths in ancient times always taught their sword-making skills in person rather than writing about them in books.
But these ancient books contain the secrets of making swords, and the "Sword Appearance", which evaluates swords, is obviously written by a famous teacher or expert, because the secrets contained in them have been tried by Yang Yanshe.
And it’s very effective.
He killed his son according to the book.
The eldest son, Yang Tu, was not talented enough in smelting and could not even make a good sword by killing people. Yang Tu She failed and could only make an ordinary common sword.
But when he killed his second son Yang Tongue Long Wen, he succeeded in causing his son to die in great fear, and his heart was full of resentment.
Therefore, "Longwen" constantly exudes an air of grievance.
Yang Sheshe also made himself a sword.
An ominous, frenzied, and bloodthirsty "crazy" sword.
Yang Yan Tieli was hit too hard and left home with "Long Wen" and "Kuai" without saying a word. No one knew what happened.
Except the sheep tongue is iron separated.
Of course he also carried those ancient books and studied them.
The more he watched, the more curious and excited he became, and he soon understood the reason that drove his father into madness and confusion.
Because after reading the book, he almost went crazy.
Yang Yan Tieli stopped in time to calm down.
After all, he was only nineteen at the time.
He began to learn how to make swords, and of course he first learned how to smelt metal.
Although there have been swords that can cut iron like clay since ancient times, most swords from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were made of bronze, and it was impossible to cut iron that was harder than it. Perhaps Ou Zhizi or Ganjiang had actually mastered the iron-making technology at that time, so their swords could have enough hardness.
