Li Xiuyuan took out the integrated arrow embryo and began to forge it. While waving the hammer in his hand, he asked: "Teacher, why did those talisman masters fail before?"
Guiguzi thought for a while and replied: "Countless people in the Great Wall have tried to engrave talismans on arrows. Countless people have tried it more than once, but they have all failed."
Li Xiuyuan frowned and asked, "Why?"
"There are thousands of reasons. In my opinion, it is either because the arrow body is too hard or too soft. It was difficult to cast a good arrow, and because the talisman master did not control the strength well, it ultimately failed, and there was no success. "
"That's because they didn't learn from their failures." Li Xiuyuan said calmly.
"I'm very happy that you think so. Although I have tried before, I am still willing to succeed with you. Don't be impatient. It doesn't matter if you fail many times."
Guiguzi was afraid that Li Xiuyuan's confidence would be damaged, so he encouraged him again and again.
"I won't be as blind as them. I already have a plan and I won't try it lightly."
Li Xiuyuan wanted to tell his teacher that he had tried many times in his mind in order to cast an iron arrow suitable for inscriptions with runes before his eyes.
"Xiu Yuan, you have to think about how this small arrow body can be engraved with such complicated runes. The material of this arrow body is already very hard. Where can you find such a sharp inscription knife?"
Looking at Li Xiuyuan who had stopped sweating, Guiguzi asked worriedly.
"I asked General Chen for the materials so that I could make an engraving knife myself." Li Xiuyuan never thought of using an engraving knife made by others, for fear that it would not work as he intended.
"You do it yourself? I forgot that you are still a foundry master..."
After Gui Guzi finished speaking, he turned and walked into the room. After a while, he came out with a piece of purple metal, handed it to Li Xiuyuan and said, "Try this material. I got it accidentally many years ago."
Li Xiuyuan took it and weighed it in his hand. He looked at Gui Guzi and asked in surprise: "Teacher, this material is rare. I estimate that the inscription knife made from it will be very hard and sharp."
"Then you give me a few more shots and keep them as souvenirs for me."
Touching his gray beard, Guiguzi replied with a smile. He was becoming more and more satisfied with the disciple in front of him. It was like digging out a piece of gold on the ground. It was a surprise at first, but after cleaning it, I discovered that it turned out to be a gem.
"For example, I used to make small scissors and give them to the teachers in the academy. My scissors are also very good. I will also make some and give them to others someday. The guy who went outside the Great Wall... I will give them to him when he comes back. ."
Li Xiuyuan thought of Zhao Pingan and Chen Shanshan, two friends who rushed into the wilderness with passion.
"Interesting, I'll wait." Guiguzi laughed.
There is a disciple who practices talisman and knows the art of casting. This is a unique existence. I am afraid that in the entire Great Wall battlefield, there is not another weirdo like Li Xiuyuan.
When he thought of this, Guiguzi was in a good mood and walked into the house with his hands behind his back.
Li Xiuyuan no longer needs to prove himself to him, because the rune he wrote last night can no longer be used to make fire and boil water. Such runes are probably not sold in Tiannan City.
In ten years, at most, the little guy in front of him has the hope of becoming a legendary Talisman Master. And this legendary Talisman Master is his apprentice, Gui Guzi.
Guiguzi felt that he should thank Chen Guangming properly. After Li Xiuyuan finished crafting the talisman arrow, he had to tell his superiors about Chen Guangming's situation. If nothing else, he had to at least be promoted to the rank of captain of ten thousand men.
Years of training in the mountains behind the academy allowed him to hone his archery skills in the wild. However, he never thought of engraving runes on the arrows.
Because he was in the mountains behind the academy, he felt that he was gradually becoming stronger and he did not need to rely on external forces to defeat the monsters in the mountains. He had to rely on himself.
Until he came to the unknown place of the Great Wall, under this unknown starry sky, he saw how terrifying his opponent was, and how terrifying every tree and plant in the wild was.
He would definitely not be able to defeat that tree that eats people.
Those man-eating ants that can eat people have no choice but to take a detour when they encounter them.
The deserted man who was repelled with the help of Chen Guangming and finally self-destructed would probably have a headache as long as a drop of blood splashed on him.
This was not a peaceful academy, and what he encountered was no longer the bandits at the foot of Luoxia Mountain.
This is the Great Wall, this is the Great Wall in a foreign land where monks are dying every minute. His opponent is an unknown enemy in the wilderness.
At this point, he could only let out a long sigh, thinking that he could only use water to grind it, and continued to swing the hammer in his hand, once and twice, to forge the arrow embryo as quickly as possible.
I kept going like this all day long. Finally, ten rough arrow embryos were cast, and the embryos of two inscription knives were made using the materials Guiguzi gave him, thinking that by the time these talisman arrows were released, the inscription knives would also be completed.
In the end, he was tired, so he simply dragged a chair out of the house and sat under the eaves, lit a lamp, and started reading with a book on Talismans. .
Later, I got tired of reading and studying various runes. After recovering his physical strength, he continued to use the Samadhi True Fire to forge ten talisman arrows and inscribed knives.
If the Master were here at this time, I am afraid he would say: When you are tired, you stay up to read a book, when you wake up, you swing a hammer and make arrows!
Even though he was already in the middle stage of distraction, he could only stay by the blazing true fire of Samadhi for two hours.
If you persist, you will really feel like life is worse than death.
His whole body was sore, so he ran to the sky tower before dawn the next day to replenish the energy of yin and yang in his body. Then he came back and ate some dried meat, then started the stove and started swinging the hammer.
After resting for a night, I felt that I had recovered a lot, so I continued the hard training from yesterday.
Swinging the hammer ten thousand times, forging the knife a thousand times, he crafted a small talisman arrow thousands of times.
He persisted like this for four days. On the fifth day, he came back from the Sky Tower. When he started casting arrows, he looked down and saw ten arrows with a hint of blue light placed quietly beside the arrow-casting platform. Talisman arrow.
Feeling happy, he quickly went on to make the inscription knife. It would be impossible to have talisman arrows without the inscription knife.
After another two days of suffering, he finally crafted two inscribed knives that shone with dark purple light. The ten talisman arrows behind him were also returned to the furnace for a second time of tempering.
After completing the last process, Li Xiuyuan took a deep breath. I went to the kitchen to get water, washed myself, returned to the house, and fell asleep.
It took three days to learn the talisman and five days to make the arrow. Half of the time he agreed with Chen Guangming had passed!
In the past five days, Guiguzi only came to see him occasionally and basically didn't disturb him.
He wanted to give Li Xiuyuan more freedom and never affect his free expression. Because all the rune masters and casters in the Great Wall, including himself, had failed successively, he had no way to give Li Xiuyuan more opinions on the casting of rune arrows.
After standing in front of Li Xiuyuan's door for a long time, the master didn't knock on the door. He decided to let this guy have a good rest for a day.
Li Xiuyuan has been going crazy day and night these days. From the time the stars set to the time they rise, the sound of forging in the courtyard basically never stops.
Even Li Xiuyuan, who was in the distraction state, sometimes couldn't stand it.
At this moment, he just wanted to let go and have a good sleep, and wait until I wake up to talk about anything else.
...
The moon sets and the stars sink. This is the ninth day agreed by Li Xiuyuan and Chen Guangming.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel proud, thinking that it only took him less than ten days to build the body of this talisman arrow.
I also made two famous knives, which really served multiple purposes.
After being tired for several days, Li Xiuyuan pushed open the door and breathed in the fresh air in the yard. He went into the kitchen, lit a fire and cooked. He spent half an hour cooking a pot of meat porridge and brought it to Guiguzi's living room.
When he walked into the living room, his teacher was holding a book and reading it, but there was a look of concern in his eyes.
"How about it? Do you want to rest for another day? Don't torture yourself too hard. The practice of Fu Dao is not something that happens overnight."
Looking at Li Xiuyuan, Guiguzi said softly.
After serving meat porridge to the two of them, Li Xiuyuanjiao said nothing. He was exhausted and hungry these days. He had to fill his stomach first and then argue with his teacher.
The master and apprentice held their own bowls and looked at the pot of meat porridge until Li Xiuyuan touched his belly and smiled with satisfaction, then he put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands.
After clearing everything on the table, Guiguzi made a pot of tea. Then he looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "How is it? Is it good news or bad news?
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, took out a purple inscription knife and placed it on the table. He looked at him and replied with a smile: "I haven't started engraving yet, and I don't know whether it is good or bad."
Guiguzi picked up the gleaming engraved knife, carefully felt the sharp edge and hard blade, and finally couldn't help but admire in his heart: "I am afraid that not many casting masters can make such an engraved knife. "
Li Xiuyuan chuckled and said: "There is no way. When you use a knife made by someone else, you are always afraid that the next stroke will suddenly give out, causing the entire rune to fail?"
Guiguzi nodded and smiled: "That's the truth. It doesn't matter whether the sword is fast or not. What is important is to move forward smoothly and be able to fluently engrave a complete rune on the arrow body."
Li Xiuyuan frowned and said, "That's why I have to do it myself. Only by making the knife myself can I better understand its performance."
"There are still a lot of days, don't be impatient. You have completed all the previous preparations, and now you are just missing the last step, which is also the most important step."
Afraid that Li Xiuyuan would fail in imprinting in a hurry, Gui Guzi had to remind him.
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and replied seriously: "I also know this truth, so I had a good sleep. Only when I regained my energy and spirit, could I have the strength to carve the first rune on it.
"A journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single step. In this case, start the first step of your journey of ten thousand miles. The teacher can only teach you the knowledge of Fu Dao, but Fu Jian, you have become the teacher of all of us."
Guiguzi looked at the disciple in front of him and said excitedly.
Li Xiuyuan nodded, stood up and said, "Teacher, please wait for my good news."
...
Li Xiuyuan returned to the room, took out the purple inscription knife, sat at the table, and took out an iron arrow.
Opening his eyes, he carved the rune imprinted in his mind on the blue arrow.
His fingers are very stable. The fifth level of distraction training and the blessing of the immortal spirit's true energy have made him not tremble at all, and he can use the knife as freely as he does... Just like the stone wall in Tianshan that year Scripture is engraved on it.
Each stroke has its own faint sword energy, and the hair-thin blade, with the blessing of the Eye of Deception, inscribes the first rune on the round arrow body.
This is a scripture and a rune.
He has been practicing for decades, from Tianshan Mountain to the back mountain of the academy in Shura Heaven Domain, and then to the Great Wall in front of him.
After laying the foundation for decades, he finally began to inscribe the first rune in his legendary life.
Gui Guzi, who was in the living room, released his consciousness and looked at Li Xiuyuan, who was lowering his head to remember, and murmured to himself: "Li Xiuyuan, Li Xiuyuan, what kind of surprise do you want to give me?"
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