Chapter 550: Hearing is 30% imitative, witnessing is 70% distracted
The next competition is between the Dongting Sword Sect and the Chiyang Sword Sect.
Because of Bai Li, Lu Feng did not stay to watch the battle.
He left the Qingling Sword Sect venue with Bai Li and followed the latter to a weapon refining room.
"How's your recovery?"
On the way, Lu Feng asked Bai Li concernedly. Although he saw that the latter's face had returned to a rosy color, he was still a little worried.
"I'm feeling better," Baili's voice was very soft, without his usual heroic spirit, "Thank you, Master, for the medicine."
"Grandpa Gui is inside," Bai Li pointed to the refining room not far away, "I made an agreement with Grandpa Gui in the morning, and he agreed to meet you."
The refining room arranged temporarily by the Qingling Sword Sect for visitors is a bit crude. It only has a stove and some simple infrastructure. Most of the forging tools are not provided and do not need to be provided.
A craftsman who is in a different place and still has the time to make tools, naturally has his own customary casting tools.
From Bai Li's mouth, I learned that 'Grandpa Ghost' was a weapon refining master. He was also an idiot and spent most of his time in the weapon refining room.
Bai Li was guarding the refining room, leaving Lu Feng alone to go in, saying it was Grandpa Ghost's order.
When Lu Feng saw this, he couldn't help but yell and follow him.
When he walked into the refining room, he was greeted by a blazing warm wind, which made Lu Feng cough twice.
Looking up, there was only one old figure in the whole room. The old man looked to be sixty or seventy years old. Although his hair was gray, his body bones looked very strong. You could even vaguely see his condensed muscles through his outer shirt. line.
There was a leather bib hanging in front of the old man, and he was holding a waist-length sledgehammer in his hand, which he was beating around the stove. Under the firelight, there was a pair of piercing eyes that were completely inconsistent with his age. .
Perhaps, the old man would only appear like this when he was concentrating on refining weapons.
Because the moment Lu Feng walked into the room, the old man's demeanor changed suddenly. His sharp and focused eyes instantly dimmed a lot, and he looked a little confused and boring.
The old man coughed and waved his hand without looking back, signaling Lu Feng to sit on a bench far away and wait.
After a while, the old man took out a piece of fine iron burning with blazing fire from the stove, placed it on the stone shelf aside, and then stopped what he was doing.
Putting down the hammer and taking off his bib, the old man walked towards Lu Feng.
"Are you the new Ye Yu Hall leader that Bai Li mentioned?"
As he spoke, a vague light suddenly emitted from the old man's dull eyes, and he looked Lu Feng up and down.
Lu Feng nodded, looking at the coarse linen clothes the old man was wearing under his bib, he thought he was a street vendor. He never expected that he was a master of weapon refining.
"The Ghost Queen mentioned you to me," Grandpa Ghost's voice was a bit vicissitudes of life, with a hint of hoarseness.
Lu Feng felt a sense of surprise in his heart. He was once again curious about the identity of the Ghost Queen. He was just a small hall master, so he shouldn't have such extra care.
"I don't know the identity of the senior?" Lu Feng opened his mouth and tried to find out. Judging from the aura emanating from the old man, Lu Feng could conclude that the opponent was not weaker than the Heavenly Soul Realm. Coupled with the exquisite imitation treasures in Bai Li's hands, he could possess A person with such skill and strength would definitely not be an unknown person.
"Ghost Craftsman." The old man's expression showed a rare seriousness.
"Ghost craftsman?" Lu Feng was surprised when he heard the familiar name from the old man's mouth. He originally thought that the old man would respond by calling him 'Grandpa Ghost', but he didn't expect that 'Ghost Craftsman' would suddenly appear. With the name "Jiang" being taboo, he had never heard Baili mention such an identity.
Lu Feng did not doubt the old man's words at all. If the latter was a lie, it would be totally unnecessary. He could just respond to 'Ghost Grandpa' directly.
"Ghost Craftsman...Ghost Craftsman..."
Lu Feng murmured several times in his mind, going through the influential figures on the mainland in recent years one by one, and then pushed forward a few decades after finding no results.
Suddenly his expression was shaken.
"Three percent of what you hear is imitating, and what you see is seven percent of what you're seeing, and you can master the art of heaven with your hands!"
"You...are you a senior ghost craftsman?"
"The one who was in the top ten on the 'Heaven Ranking' more than 20 years ago?"
The old man nodded, with a hint of disdain in his cold and arrogant expression, as if he was very dissatisfied with such a title.
Lu Feng was suddenly shocked. He never expected that the old man in front of him had such a powerful identity.
Among the top ten on the Heavenly Ranking, that is a more powerful and legendary existence than Soul Holder Xiaogu.
If the person in front of me hadn't suddenly disappeared more than 20 years ago, I'm afraid he would still have a place on the list of 'ghost craftsmen'!
Lu Feng couldn't help but become more curious as he recalled many legendary deeds about the 'Ghost Craftsman' in his mind.
The old man in front of him who calls himself the 'Ghost Craftsman' is clearly only as strong as the Heavenly Soul Realm's Front Breath, far from reaching the Back Breath level. However, according to records, the Ghost Craftsman has at least a cultivation level above the Sixth Breath of the Heavenly Soul Realm.
"Is the decline of the ghost craftsman's strength related to what happened more than 20 years ago?"
Lu Feng was suspicious, and then he bowed deeply to the old man, "Senior, please tell me the reason why many powerful people on the Heavenly Ranking suddenly disappeared at the same time more than 20 years ago."
The ghost craftsman's expression became a little more vicissitudes when he heard this, and his brows were full of melancholy.
"What do you know?"
Ghost Craftsman did not respond, but asked Lu Feng.
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Lu Feng secretly frowned and had doubts in his heart. He was very puzzled and surprised by the ghost craftsman's question. The ghost craftsman's reaction made him feel like he was using a routine to bargain before buying and selling goods.
Those who know the goods sell truthfully.
If you don’t know the goods, you will raise the price.
Lu Feng knew that he was on the passive side, but due to the eagerness to discover in his heart, he ignored the ghost craftsman's intention and truthfully stated the little information he had collected over the years.
"More than twenty years ago, many seniors on the Heavenly Ranking disappeared at the same time. Not even the Jun family could find out why."
"This junior's exploration over the years has only found out what happened back then. Maybe it is related to a certain force in the ghost realm."
"Whether it was secretly targeted by this force, or some kind of coercion or some kind of interest relationship was reached, it is unknown."
The ghost craftsman's tightened brows relaxed a little subconsciously, he sighed deeply and said, "Since it's about the Heavenly Ranking, I'd better wait until you are ranked on the Heavenly Ranking before contacting me."
Seeing that the ghost craftsman was unwilling to reveal anything, Lu Feng felt anxious and eager to know, so he knelt down immediately.
The ghost craftsman's expression changed drastically, and a strong wind swept through him as his spiritual energy circulated, straightening Lu Feng's half-kneeling body.
"Why are you kneeling! If I see you kneeling down for others again in the future, my legs will be chopped off!"
The ghost craftsman's stern scolding was like thunder, making Lu Feng's eardrums hurt.
"Senior~" Lu Feng pleaded frankly: "To be honest, my father seemed to have been on the Heavenly Ranking list before, and like seniors and others, he suddenly disappeared more than 20 years ago..."
This is why Lu Feng is so worried about this. This was an unintentional remark made by the sect leader after he was drunk when he was in Qinghe Sect. It is also the only clue that he currently has that is related to his life experience.
The ghost craftsman said coldly: "When your strength breaks through to the Heavenly Soul Realm, you will naturally come into contact with things at that level."
Seeing that the ghost craftsman was resolute and didn't want to say anything more, Lu Feng had no choice but to do so.
After regaining his composure, Lu Feng took into account the ghost craftsman's current anonymous identity and began to inquire from the side: "Senior, I wonder if the Soul Sect... is a force in the ghost realm?"
All Lu Feng could think of was this. As long as it was confirmed that the soul gate came from the ghost realm, he could deduce that the reason why the ghost queen took such care of him was probably related to his life experience. In addition, the ghost craftsman had twenty It has been dormant here for many years, which further explains the difference of the soul gate.
If so, he can start from the power of Soul Gate and find out the mystery of his life experience step by step.
Under Lu Feng's expectant gaze, Ghost Craftsman shook his head without hesitation.
"The soul gate does not come from the ghost realm."
"The Soul Gate is just an ordinary force established step by step by the Ghost Queen."
"The reason why the old man hid his name in the Hundred Refining Spring of the Soul Sect was just because he happened to be rescued by someone from the Soul Sect."
Ghost Craftsman's plain words were like a basin of cold water that completely extinguished the flame of hope in Lu Feng's heart.
"I heard from Bai Li that you want to come to me to forge some weapons?" The ghost craftsman said to guide Lu Feng's thoughts, as if he intentionally did not want him to ask about the Tianbang anymore.
Lu Feng nodded.
The ghost craftsman further said: "Do you know the rules? For everything that passes through my hands, I need to take 30% of the materials, and if it is made of earth quality or above, I need to take 50%."
"Just a lot more," Lu Feng took out a lot of casting materials that had been stored in the container during this period.
It is more appropriate to say that they are all finished products rather than materials. Except for the ones he scraped from other people's possessions along the way, they were obtained from the Jianchi Secret Realm. The handle was soaked in Mingxu Liquid. The long swords are of extraordinary quality, there are nearly a thousand of them.
Lu Feng had already calculated the required amount, and it was enough to take out more than twenty handles.
"Please ask senior for help in forging a spear and some bat-wing darts."
A flash of light flashed in the ghost craftsman's eyes, he took a long sword with interest, and nodded secretly, "Yes, I didn't expect that I would be lucky enough to see the existence of Mingxu Liquid in this life."
"How many long swords are there like this?" The ghost craftsman said with a somewhat moved expression: "If you can take out a hundred swords, I will make your spears and darts into heaven-grade ones!"
Lu Feng hesitated for a while, pretending to endure the pain, "Junior, I only got some of these long swords by chance. They are not many in number, only about seventy."
"That's okay," the ghost craftsman said happily, "Give them all to me."
"That's sloppy!"
Lu Feng couldn't help feeling regretful. If he had known that the ghost craftsman could be satisfied so easily, he would have said less.
He took out more than fifty long swords again and handed them to the ghost craftsman along with the characteristics and shapes of the bat-wing darts.
"Tell us in detail the strength of the spear and dart users, as well as the skills and talents they have practiced."
When it came to casting, the ghost craftsman's expression became very serious, and his eyes regained their brightness.
Lu Feng hesitated for a moment and then explained in detail the skills, strength, and talents that Shao Yang and Zhao Yan had practiced, including the set of 'Assassination Techniques' and the set of 'Four Unique Spears of Providence' in the Xuan Kong Treasure Book. None reserved.
Refining and forging weapons and customizing them is just like a pharmacist asking for a diagnosis and treating a disease. Only by knowing the root cause can one prescribe the right medicine. Only by understanding the user's details can one create the most suitable weapon.
The ghost craftsman listened with a calm expression, but when it came to the techniques contained in the Xuan Kong Treasure Mirror, he became moved, and then he was surprised and shocked.
"How could you teach so many rare skills to your students at such a young age?" The ghost craftsman's eyes were pure, with only the curiosity of a weapon refiner and no greed or evil thoughts.
Lu Feng had already thought of his words and responded calmly: "It's the technique that we got together in the secret realm where we got these long swords."
The ghost craftsman glanced at Lu Feng with a half-smile, "On the day the sword fighting competition ends, come and find me to take away the spear and darts."
"Thank you, senior," Lu Feng said, taking out a small piece of wood and taking the opportunity to investigate.
"Senior, do you know what kind of material this is?"
