At three o'clock in the morning, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse.
Du Chengfeng got up from bed and felt that his work and rest routine had been a bit strange recently. This kind of living habit of sleeping around the clock and going out at night seemed not very healthy. However, he always felt that it was better to do the work of sharpening the knife at night, especially under the moonlight. When it is brighter, sitting in the yard and sharpening the knife quietly will make him feel better and make it easier for him to immerse himself in it.
It was at this time when he was at his best that Du Chengfeng once again took out the long knife named Broken Horse.
With the long sword in hand, Du Chengfeng first practiced the sword technique in his memory called "Dragon and Tiger Two Positions".
Although Liu Qingyun, the original owner of this long sword, gave the name of the sword technique quite awe-inspiring, the underlying reason is not too complicated - the so-called dragon and tiger refer to the posture of the spine, and the tiger is the posture of the spine. During the bunching and stretching period, the entire torso will be like a spring, fully converting the weight of the feet on the ground into the power of swinging the sword forward.
Although the basic principle is simple, the practical application of the dragon and tiger movements is not just that. Although Liu Qingyun is best at drawing the sword extremely quickly, when Du Chengfeng was sharpening the sword, he also realized that Liu Qingyun once practiced other sword techniques using the bunching method.
Take Tiger Leap, for example, which is a way to quickly pounce on the enemy. For those who have achieved great mastery, only one ups and downs is required for a distance of five steps. Or the Flying Dragon Sword. This move of the sword is a means of extending the cutting distance. After successful practice, you can even cut a full foot further than your opponent in a short period of time.
However, there were also some of Shu Zhan's applied moves that Liu Qingyun couldn't use himself.
"...Dragon-shaped big slash?"
Recalling the sword technique in his mind and looking at the horse-breaking sword in his hand, Du Chengfeng quickly understood the reason.
The sword technique called Dragon Shape Great Slash is a slash in which all the strength is poured into the blade. The spine is stretched out like a soaring dragon, and the two hands slash down like a tiger descending from the mountain. It can be said that this dragon-tiger The pinnacle sword of the two potentials was also the most powerful slash in Liu Qingyun's imagination - but this was the most domineering sword extended from the principle of Shu Zhan, but Liu Qingyun himself was unable to use it.
The root cause is that this broken horse cannot withstand such a move.
The overly long blade gave the Broken Horse a great cutting distance, but the overly long blade also destined that the front edge of the knife would most likely shatter on the spot when it made a powerful and heavy chop. Liu Qingyun once used a five-foot wooden sword that was similar to the length of a broken horse to try this move. All the wooden swords broke without exception.
There were only two options left in front of Liu Qingyun, either to change the knife to a relatively shorter but stronger one, or to give up and continue to study other techniques.
After much thought and weighing the pros and cons, Liu Qingyun finally chose to give up.
The attack distance advantage that a five-foot-long sword can bring is really too great. After solving the problem of the speed of drawing the sword, this attack distance advantage can allow Liu Qingyun to absolutely crush him in most battles. pressure.
Therefore, even though he had seen a longer way, Liu Qingyun finally chose to find another way.
And this choice, in a sense, also destined Liu Qingyun's defeat in that duel.
"Why……"
Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng couldn't help but sigh.
In his opinion, Liu Qingyun was able to rise from a poor swordsman with only a small amount of money to such a big name. He had a lot of abilities and skills, but only this problem of looking forward and backward, and being hesitant, made him famous. But it continued.
Indeed, in ordinary times, this may be regarded as making a decision before taking action, a mature and prudent attitude, but in the moment of life and death, if there is no way to make a judgment in an instant, the ending will be blood-stained loess. Tears spilled into the sky.
And this is also the biggest gap between Liu Qingyun and the swordsman Cui Yuan.
Although the swordsman Cui Yuan was somewhat mentally ill, he used his extremely strong perseverance to suppress the Chengfeng Sword in his hand, which had killed more than two hundred people. That is, when a life-and-death duel was needed, he would Stay in top shape and come out here and sharpen your knives.
But Liu Qingyun was different.
Liu Qingyun, who was accustomed to looking forward and backward, could not suppress the evil spirit of this broken horse. Therefore, he could only spend a lot of money to find a grinder to help him sharpen his sword like an ordinary swordsman.
And this was another reason why Du Chengfeng took out the knife.
"interesting……"
Looking at the brand-new horse-breaking sword in his hand, Du Chengfeng narrowed his eyes.
When he was sharpening the knife during the day, and in the process of understanding the long knife, he did feel everything the knife had experienced, but the killing process and the scenes of taking lives always seemed a bit blurry - like It was the blurred ink dye in the ink painting. He could feel that something, or some way, diluted the terrifying aspects.
Even more than just the terrifying side.
Logically speaking, when he felt the experience of this knife, he should also feel the sharpening process at that time, but the thing that interested Du Chengfeng the most was blank, and it seemed that he had never seen it before. Never happened in general.
"You can't talk about this knife. It has amnesia, right?"
Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.
Can a knife cause amnesia? This sounds somewhat unlikely. After all, he had tried it before going to bed during the day. Even if the sharpened swords in his hands were polished again, he could still see the memories attached to them.
In other words, at least his own sharpening will definitely not cause the weapon to lose its memory.
"In other words, it's not the problem of sharpening the knife itself."
Du Chengfeng made a quick judgment.
So, since there is nothing wrong with the process of sharpening the knife, the only difference between the two sides is the difference in technique.
It was obvious that the method used by the polisher Liu Qingyun was looking for was completely different from that of Du Chengfeng himself, which directly resulted in the weapons polished by both sides showing completely different conditions.
"How on earth is this done?"
Du Chengfeng became increasingly puzzled.
So, he placed the broken horse under the moonlight.
Indeed, this broken horse has indeed lost its memory regarding the memory of being ground, but every time it is ground, it will eventually leave traces on the blade.
Now, what Du Chengfeng has to do is to reversely feel the technique used by the grinder through the grinding marks left on this long knife.
This feeling is extremely subtle, even undetectable, and can only be understood in this silent midnight.
While stroking the blade with his palm, a vague image appeared in Du Chengfeng's mind.
It was a bowl of ink and an inkstone.
