Chapter 124 One Year

From the day Huan Yin made a bet with Lan Tongtian, he got up early and went to bed late every day, constantly practicing. In the twelve hours of the day, he only used one hour to sleep, and the rest of the time was spent on studying the way of sword-making.

Huan Yin would look for a large number of classics every day to read, because Duan Yun said that materials are the basis of sword-making. If you can't even recognize a few materials, then there is no need to talk about sword-making. Fortunately, Huan Yin is now the leader of the new generation of Wuliangmen. He wants to read the sect classics without any obstacles, which makes his study much smoother.

However, the more Huan Yin reads, the more he finds the difficulty of sword-making. Because every classic always has materials he has never seen, and there will always be new effects that make him feel strange. Even if there are two materials with the same effect, there will be subtle differences between them. If this difference is not remembered, it is very likely to lead to the failure of sword-making in the end.

Huan Yin feels that he has returned to the days of studying as a child. He reads many books every day, and there will be new discoveries and more problems every day. Although such days are hard, Huan Yin enjoys them. Because he has been a book lover since he was a child, he is deeply influenced by his father and is full of desire for knowledge.

This day is also an ordinary day. Huan Yin locked himself in the room and kept flipping through the classics on the table. At this moment, his originally empty room is already full of various classics. If someone who doesn't know him comes to his room, he will definitely think that he has gone crazy reading. Because now in his room, except for the bed and the table, other places are almost occupied by books. I don't know if he has moved half of the classics of Wuliangmen into his bedroom.

"Squeak!" In the quiet and somewhat lifeless room, this sound became extremely obvious. Huan Yin turned his head and saw that there was no figure at the open door.

"Brother, are you still reading?" Xiaotian's voice came from the door. It seems that the books at the door are too high, blocking his young body.

Huan Yin smiled, walked to the door and picked up Xiao Tian from the ground and said: "What's wrong, Xiao Tian, ​​is there no one to play with you?" It is afternoon now, and it is also the time for the Sword Pavilion to rest. In the past, at this time, except for Huan Yin and Li Xianyue who were still practicing, everyone would do something else. As for Xiao Tian, ​​he must seize the time to play at this time, after all, he is still a child.

"Well, Senior Sister Li doesn't play with me again, and Senior Brother Gao is like that all day long. I feel bored. Senior Brother, what book are you reading?" It seems that Xiao Tian thinks that Gao Shan is the only one to accompany him all day, which is too boring.

"Senior Brother is reading the classics about sword-making materials. Come, Senior Brother will show you." Huan Yin picked up the "Jiuzhou Zhi" he was reading and brought it to Xiao Tian.

"Senior Brother, you are really hardworking." Xiao Tian was a little helpless. He originally wanted to find Huan Yin to play with him, but he didn't expect to be stuffed with a book when he entered the door. However, he still picked up the book and flipped through it hastily.

"Huh? Why is it written that the effect of this material called 'Black Snake Shedding' is unknown?" Xiaotian suddenly pointed at a material in the book, surprised.

Huan Yin touched his head: "The immortal master who wrote this "Jiuzhou Zhi" himself didn't know what the "Black Snake Shedding" was for, so he just recorded it without adding any annotations."

Xiaotian looked at Huan Yin with a puzzled look: "This thing, it's easy to think of its effect?"

Huan Yin looked at Xiaotian in surprise and said: "Xiaotian, then what do you think the effect of this "Black Snake Shedding" is?"

Xiaotian said naively: "I have read in other books that the black snake is a spiritual species in Jizhou in the north, and this kind of snake can only appear in the river desert of Jizhou. Although Jizhou is a cold place, the river desert area is very different. Instead, it is a desert, which is extremely hot, so the black snakes living there are all fire-related. Since snakes are all fire-related, the black snake shedding is the skin shed by the black snake, so it should naturally be fire-related."

Huan Yin was shocked. He knew all the characteristics of the black snake that Xiaotian mentioned, and he had seen them all, but he had never thought of analyzing the materials starting from the snake. In other words, he had never thought about analyzing the materials. He had only memorized the materials before. He thought whatever the book said was true. But now, he clearly felt that every word Xiaotian said made sense.

"Xiaotian, is there anything else?" Huan Yin was somewhat looking forward to whether his junior brother, who was gifted in sword-making, could say something else.

Xiaotian nodded: "Well, since this 'Black Snake Shedding' is the skin shed by the Black Snake, it is also a kind of skin on the Black Snake. I saw in a book that although the skin of the Black Snake is soft and can be stretched at will, it is very strong and difficult to be damaged. And the higher the Black Snake's cultivation level, the tougher the skin. Therefore, using the 'Black Snake Shedding' to cast a soft sword just meets the needs of the soft sword to be soft on the outside and strong on the inside. At the same time, if you know what level of Black Snake Shedding it is, it will be easier to judge how tough it is, so that it will be more handy to use it."

"As for what level of Black Snake cultivation it is, it has actually been recorded in the book. The characteristics of Black Snake skin shed by different levels of cultivation are different. So in fact, as long as you can see the characteristics of the Black Snake Shedding clearly, you can directly judge what level of Black Snake cultivation the Black Snake Shedding in your hand is shed!" Huan Yin said with a look of surprise, taking over Xiaotian's words.

"Yes, Senior Brother!" Xiaotian still looked so innocent, thinking that what he said was natural.

However, Xiaotian had no idea how much shock he had brought to Huanyin. Huanyin had always memorized the properties of various materials before, because he felt that these materials were the accumulation of discoveries made by predecessors, and they were all knowledge that could be learned if remembered, but could not be learned if not remembered or seen. However, Xiaotian's analysis just now made Huanyin applaud, because even the book did not know what the effect of the black snake slough was, but Xiaotian analyzed it clearly.

Xiaotian did not know what "black snake slough" was, but he knew about black snakes, the environment in which black snakes grew and their own characteristics, so he analyzed the characteristics of black snake slough by analogy, and even explained how to use it.

Huanyin knew that Xiaotian was right, whether it was the characteristics of black snake slough or its use, Xiaotian was right. He suddenly felt that perhaps learning about materials could not only be done through memorization, but also through analysis.

Analyzing the various relevant characteristics of materials, and then deriving the effects of the materials and how to use them, although it sounds a bit ethereal, it is indeed feasible. Moreover, the clearer the understanding of the relevant characteristics of the material, the clearer the grasp of the material.

Huan Yin has read many classics these days, but some of these classics talk about the climate distribution in various parts of Kyushu, and some talk about the changing environment in various parts of Kyushu. Although Huan Yin thought that these things had nothing to do with sword-making before, he still browsed through them. But now it seems that these contents recorded in the classics are as useful as the contents specifically about sword-making materials, because Huan Yin can analyze them. As long as he knows enough seemingly complicated knowledge, he can derive the characteristics of many materials that he has never seen.

Huan Yin feels that Xiaotian has inadvertently opened a new door for him to identify materials. Through this door, he can make use of all the complicated knowledge that he used to think was useless, so that he can go to a higher level in identifying materials!

"Xiaotian, thank you!" Huan Yin picked up Xiaotian again, and was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

From that day on, Huan Yin's way of learning to identify materials changed. He no longer relied on a single memory, but would think while reading. In the process of learning, he even found that some annotations did not match his own analysis. That is to say, it is very likely that the annotations in the book are wrong. If he continues to study as before, what he has learned may mislead him.

In addition to identifying materials, Huan Yin repeatedly pondered the sword-making chapter of "Wulian Sword" and practiced it with Duan Yun every day.

Because of learning "Wulian Po Jing", Huan Yin's understanding of the sword-making chapter of "Wulian Sword" is also different from that of ordinary people. He can often find the corresponding answers in "Wulian Po Jing" for what others cannot understand, which makes it easier for him to learn "Wulian Sword".

Huan Yin does not know what the sword-making method in "Wulian Sword" is like, because he has no comparison object. However, he believes that the sword-making method in "Wulian Sword" is not comparable to other sword-making methods. He believes that what he has learned now is far more advanced than those sword-making methods in Yijianfeng, but what he knows is far from enough.

Day after day, although Huan Yin always experienced repeated failures when learning sword-making from Duan Yun, he never lost heart. Huan Yin only wanted to continue to work hard and constantly learn from his failures.

Duan Yun also worked hard every day. As a mortal, he only rested for less than three hours a day, and the rest of his time was almost all spent on teaching Huan Yin how to make swords. His training method was extremely strict, often making Huan Yin stay by the sword furnace for more than ten hours, and sometimes Huan Yin even stayed up for several days just to make a sword.

The efforts of the master and apprentice had obvious results. Huan Yin could not make a sword by himself at the beginning, and it took him less than half a year to successfully make the first immortal sword. Although this sword was very inferior, I am afraid that even the cultivators in the early stage of Qi Condensation would be a little disdainful, but this was also a real immortal sword.

As spring went by and autumn came, Huan Yin's days continued to flow in the sea of ​​various classics, in the countless words of "The Infinite Sword", and by the sword furnace on the platform of the Sword Pavilion.

This year, Huan Yin read through most of the classics of the Wuliang Sect, read the sword-forging chapter of "Wulian Sword", and forged three swords.