Painter

Chapter 25: Chapter 25
The picture flashed by, just a moment in the past.

"How?" Cheng Lian on the elm bed asked suspiciously.

"No rush." ​​Li Chan shook her head, holding the hilt of the sword with her left hand and the tip of the sword with two fingers of her right hand.

The dagger only weighed half a catty, and the blade was extremely sharp, and the weight of the blade alone could almost cut the skin.Blue eyes see clear, Dan eyes see muddy, and the sword shadow evolves again in his eyes.

……

There are many Jedi in Western Shu, especially Jiange.The strong wind howled, and the clouds and mist rolled in, causing the already precarious plank road in the mountain to sway from side to side.

The mountain mist moistens the surface of the iron chain until it is black and shiny like oil, and when you grab it with your hands, it is like holding a restless big black loach. When the loach slips away, you will fall into the bottomless fog deep.

"Cheng...Cheng Shuling...going forward...I can't go..." The guide's legs trembled, and the words squeezed out of his throat were interrupted by the mountain wind.

Cheng Lian's copper-colored face was covered with sweat or mist. His clothes were rattling in the wind. He thrust his wooden staff into the crevice of the cliff, and the stone chips flew. He stabilized his figure and turned back to shout : "Why can't I go?"

The sound drowned out the wind.

The guide hid in a recess on the cliff to avoid the wind, sat down, and sighed: "Cheng Shuling, Cheng Shuling! It's just to make a good sword. Why do you have to go to this ghostly place? Xuandu can buy the pattern of Wuzi Kingdom Steel, forged into a sword can cut iron like mud, and the red copper of Mount Shengwu..."

"You know what a fart." Cheng Lian sat down next to the guide, untied the water bag and poured it vigorously, and wiped his mouth with his cuff, "Iron is good iron, and springs are good springs. I have traveled around the world for six years, and most of the good things outside have been taken away by others." It's all over, and treasures can only be found in places off the beaten track."

"Why do you..."

Cheng Lian interrupted with a wave of his hand, "Among the three great master craftsmen, Wu Sheng killed three hundred sword servants to make Shenjun; , how could it be possible to catch up and surpass it?"

The guide sighed and said: "Jiange is called the Baiguyuan at the foot of the mountain, and the cliff of the dead on the mountain. If you go further in, you may not be able to come back."

Cheng Lian lifted him up and laughed loudly: "Go, go, take me for a while, and you can go back yourself!"

Suddenly there was a loud noise in the sky, the sound was like thunder, Cheng Lian raised his head, and a flame trailed from the sky, falling from the sky, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, while the edge of the cliff was suddenly bright as day.

Before he could react, the mountain shook violently. At this moment, there was a burst of explosion in his ears, followed by a bang!
The cliff collapsed, and the guide screamed and fell into the abyss. Cheng Lian's five fingers forcibly dug into the rock, and his body dangled in mid-air.The mountain vibrated for more than ten breaths, and finally stopped. He climbed up the rock and looked down into the abyss, his face turning pale.

Snakes, insects and beasts were frightened and fled from the abyss one after another. Cheng Lian gritted his teeth, but climbed down the cliff little by little. Halfway through the climb, he realized that the sky was already dark, and he could barely make out the surroundings by the faint moonlight. , almost fell off the cliff several times, and finally reached the bottom of the cliff exhausted after spending most of the night.

When he got down to the bottom of the cliff, his mind was in a trance, Cheng Lian lit a torch with a moxa scythe, and found the guide who was buried in the rubble and fell badly.The smell of blood filled the air, and one could smell burning.

Cheng Lian stood in front of the corpse for a moment, and finally only sighed.He braced himself, searched along the bottom of the cliff, stepped on the fallen leaves and stagnant water at the bottom of the cliff, the yellow light of the pine torch spread, and soon, a dark red embers appeared in the darkness.From a distance of at least a hundred steps, you can feel the heat blowing towards your face.

Cheng Lian stumbled over and saw a hole the size of a baby's head on the ground.He lay down shivering, with his hands on the hot ground, and looked into the hole, trying to see what happened, but his eyelids were as heavy as lead.

A voice came faintly from the cave.

"What are you looking for me for?"

"Divine Soldier..."

Cheng Lian only uttered a dream.

It was already dawn when he woke up, Cheng Lian's chest was itchy, and he stretched out his hand to brush it, a crow was startled and flew away.He was stunned for a while, and after seeing the scene around him clearly, he took out half a piece of mustache from his bag and took a few bites, then dug up with a pickaxe.

After digging for two full days, I finally saw the bottom of the cave, but it was empty.Reluctant to dig a foot deeper, there was still no trace of the meteorite.

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Half a month later, one person and one rider returned to Xuandu in a daze.

In the following months, Cheng Lian did not personally forge weapons.

As the official order in charge of forging swords in the Military Weapons Supervision, Cheng Lian has already been regarded as a famous craftsman. In the past, the swords and knives forged were named "Danfu" and "Shangxue", which were dedicated to saints by the Shang Fang Order and stored in the Shang Fang Pavilion. .

His depression drew a reprimand from the military inspector, but he was disheartened and ignored it, only using all his strength on the woman.

In the past years, I went out to travel and search for materials, and I seldom returned home. There was never any movement in the stomach of the wife at home. Maybe it was the result of the strength I had used in the past few months. There was no light in the east and light in the west. To a surprise, she was pregnant.

(End of this chapter)