in the edge

Chapter 87

"Hey, you have killed many people with this knife."

While chewing on the still warm meat bun, the middle-aged man drew out his long knife and cut off the horse, observing carefully.

"This... all you killed were grassland people? Did you come from Jibei?"

"Where did you see that?"

Du Chengfeng couldn't help becoming curious.

Although he could feel that the middle-aged man had deduced it by looking at the marks on the knife, he could tell who the knife killed with just his eyesight... This is really a bit outrageous.

You must know that even if he wants to know something else, he still has to sharpen his knife.

How did this strange middle-aged man in front of him know?
"trace."

The middle-aged man pointed to some scratches on the blade.

"The grassland lacks craftsmen, and armor is expensive, so most soldiers like to wear cheaper hard leather armor, or thick leather jackets to resist damage... If it is iron armor, it will leave scratches on the metal, that It is easy to confuse it with the traces of the collision of weapons, but for leather armor, since most of them are relatively thick, the traces will be wider."

"……good eyesight."

Du Chengfeng couldn't help but cupped his hands.

Master, this is meeting a master.Unlike his kind of directly hooking up the evil spirit of the sword and sensing the past of the sword, this person can actually do this by observing with the naked eye.

Different from the way he learned to sharpen knives by writing or using moonshine wine, the middle-aged man in front of him may be the most reliable grinder he has ever seen.

"So, do you really know how to repair this knife?"

At this moment, Du Chengfeng suddenly felt that if it was this man, maybe he could really do it.

Then the steamed stuffed bun he gave out just now is quite worth it?

"I know, I know, but I have to find out first what step you have reached in the process."

After eating half a bun, the middle-aged man raised his head.

"Since you are a student here, you should show this knife to the head of the mountain, right? What did he say?"

"This……"

Du Chengfeng scratched his head and roughly told the story Ruan Shantao had told him.

This is not something that needs to be kept secret. After all, judging by the appearance of the old man Ruan, although this story is not a household name, there are many people who know it - of course, there are also people like Liu Bolun and Du Chengfeng who don't know it. From old man Ruan's point of view, this is a symbol of ignorance and incompetence.

"So, if you want to bring this knife back to life, you have to sacrifice a friend...but I don't want to do that."

"Your idea is correct. Bravery and strategy, affection and righteousness are the true qualities of a man."

The middle-aged man nodded again and again.

"What a great talent...Boy, do you want to learn from me?"

"... learn from you?"

Du Chengfeng frowned slightly.

Although he also admitted that this middle-aged man might have some abilities, but if he opened his mouth and said that he wanted to learn from him... what could he learn?
"Yes, learn from me."

The middle-aged man smiled.

"You can indeed learn a lot here, but the teaching here is still a bit... superficial. Just like what you just said, haven't you ever been curious about the story that the mountain chief told you? , How did that young man who wanted revenge meet King Chu?"

"……Uh?"

Du Chengfeng was taken aback.

Didn't this directly enter the palace?Is there any other way to say this?
can.

There could really be another way of saying this.

Under the middle-aged man's narration, Du Chengfeng also gradually understood that there was another side to that story.

The initial process was similar. After getting the sword, the ferocious king of Chu beheaded the brilliant swordsmith. The orphans and widowed mothers could only hide in the mountains for refuge. The orphan also went to Yingdu in Chu State to avenge his parents.

And the story diverges here.

Unlike what Old Man Ruan said, the orphan directly fought against the King of Chu. According to this middle-aged man, the orphan could not even see the face of the King of Chu - this was the capital of the Chu State and the most heavily guarded in the entire Chu Land. In this place, there are not only numerous soldiers and armors, but also groups of sharp warriors. There are also nine strong generals who take turns guarding the place. There is no loophole to exploit.

An orphan, with a sword, might not even be able to get close to the city wall, and he would be sieved by the spears and arrows of the warriors.

Even if he is good at martial arts and can face difficulties, he will be cut off by the fierce generals who came over from Wen Xun.

Still the same sentence, how can the king of Chu be a fool if he can hold a rare sharp blade and fight from east to west for more than ten years?
"It was at this time that a man in black approached the orphan."

After taking the wine gourd handed over by Du Chengfeng, he took a sip to moisten his throat, and the middle-aged man continued.

The man in black approached the orphan, claiming that he could avenge him, so full of hatred, the orphan obeyed the arrangement of the man in black—the orphan cut off his own body with the sword made by his mother. The head, and then handed the sword and the head to the man in black.

Even if the head is lost, the headless body is still carrying out the process of revenge, which is the embodiment of the extreme hatred.

And the head itself, naturally, became a terrifying monster under this extreme ferocity.

The man in black nailed the orphan's sword to the monster's head, and took the monster to the Palace of Chu. He declared to King Chu that he had found the remnant of the past, but the other party would rather be turned into a monster by the evil spirit to avenge the blood. .Although the monster has been controlled by him now, if he wants to completely destroy the monster, he must find a big cauldron and cook the monster completely.

It's just that the king of Chu didn't believe it, but when he saw the sword nailed on the monster's head, the king of Chu was shaken again.

As for the reason, it is naturally because the formerly incomparably majestic King Chu Sword is no longer usable at this moment.

Just like people, swords also have a lifespan. Although as long as they are well maintained, the lifespan of a weapon can far exceed that of a human body, but no matter how high the level of maintenance is, no matter how good the sword is, it cannot withstand more than ten years of uninterrupted fighting. Conquering east and west.

Even speaking, under such violent use by the king of Chu, the sword of the king of Chu can last for more than ten years, which is enough to show how superb the swordsmith is.

So after seeing this other sword, the King of Chu will naturally not let it go, he will continue to fight, and he will plant the Phoenix Banner of Chu State all over the world.

So, even though he had doubts, the king of Chu sent someone to cast a big cauldron, and threw the monster's head with a sharp blade into it.

The fire was set under the cauldron, and the cooking lasted for three days and three nights. Seeing that there was no movement in the cauldron, no matter how patient the king of Chu was, he was a little anxious.

At this time, the man in black spoke again.

"My lord, the cauldron should be almost ready, why don't you take a look in person?"

After three days and three nights without a good rest, King Chu's spirit and physical strength were exhausted. At this moment, the man in black spoke, but King Chu did not doubt that he was there. He walked directly to the cauldron and lowered his head to take a look.

Then King Chu's head also fell into the cauldron.

It turned out that when King Chu looked at the tripod, the man in black pulled out King Chu's sword, raised the sword in his hand, and cut off King Chu's head.

"Wait."

Hearing this, Du Chengfeng was suddenly a little puzzled.

"The sword of the king of Chu must have killed many people, right? This sword goes down..."

"That's right, King Chu himself has also become a monster."

The middle-aged man laughed out loud.

However, although the two heads lost their bodies, they were still desperately biting each other under the influence of evil spirits. At this time, the man in black threw the body of King Chu into the cauldron as well. , there was a headless corpse to help, but the head of the king of Chu was like a tiger with wings added. After a while, he killed the orphan and even tore him to pieces.

However, at the moment when the king of Chu, who had turned into a monster, finally won, a sharp blade pierced through its head. .

It was the King Chu Sword that was already in dilapidated condition.

After nailing King Chu to the cauldron, the man in black also closed the lid of the cauldron and continued to increase the firepower.

The fire burned for seventy-seven and forty-nine days, and the black-clothed man lifted the lid of the cauldron, and pulled out a vicious halberd that was twisted like a spine.

Afterwards, the new king of Chu, holding this terrifying divination halberd made of two sharp blades, charged into battle, invincible.

After that, after three generations of Chu kings passed on, this terrifying divination halberd finally led the former Chu Kingdom to conquer the world and became the later Great Chu Dynasty.

"...Wait a while?"

Hearing this, Du Chengfeng came to his senses.

"The man in black is actually the Crown Prince of Chu? Is he just throwing his own father into the pot?"

"There's nothing you can do about it. After all, the King of Chu at that time was indeed too cruel. The continuous mobilization of troops for more than ten years did not give the people of Chu a chance to recuperate. What's more, there is no prince in this world who has been in power for 40 years..."

Having said this, the middle-aged man couldn't help but shake his head.

"Well, this statement is indeed a bit unpleasant, so it is generally not spread outside."

"This……"

Du Chengfeng was speechless.

It's different, it's so different. If the story old man Ruan told may still make him feel a bit of high-spirited blood, then the other version told by the middle-aged man in front of him only makes him feel chilly all over. of.

Originally, he thought that using human sacrifices as weapons would be outrageous enough, but that would be good, first turn people into monsters, and then use monsters to make weapons... Thinking about it carefully, this is indeed a feasible way ?

"That is to say, as long as I find the monster and remove its spine, I can revive this knife?"

"Huh? You don't reject this method?"

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, but the smile on his face was even wider.

"But things are not as simple as you said. After all, your knife is dead. If you want to make the dead weapon come alive, enough evil spirit is essential. Fortunately, in terms of materials, your knife It's just a mortal, it's enough to kill a few hundred people casually. At this time, you find a person with evil spirit in his body. When he turns into a monster, nail him to death with a knife, and then throw the body and the knife into the furnace. …”

The middle-aged man spoke earnestly, and Du Chengfeng also listened attentively, one taught and the other learned at a time, it was a scene of preaching and teaching.

It's just that the good times don't last long.

"Don't teach the old man's students your misleading things."

Under the heavy coercion, even the breeze that blows the vegetation stagnates.

"It's not your turn to take care of the old man's students."

"Brother Ruan, after all, he is also a former classmate, there is no need to be so strict, right?"

Returning the horse-breaking sword to Du Chengfeng, the middle-aged man stood up and smiled warmly at the burly old man walking towards him.

"You and I both come from Taixue, what difference does it make if you teach or I teach?"

Hearing this sentence, Du Chengfeng who was on the side realized why he and this middle-aged man had never known each other, but the other party always gave him a subtle sense of familiarity.

It turned out that this person was the former best friend of Ruan Shantao's soft old man in the memory of Fang Zheng's sword.

That imperial student named Xiang Rong.

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