Chapter 1 Ancestral Tablets Have Magical Powers
The setting sun hangs on the moon, and candles shine on the windowsill.
The farmer harvests the plows and returns, and the wine shop welcomes guests.
In a broken house east of Hanxiao City, there was a large stove in the middle of the room. A bellows were installed bellows by the stove. When the bellows were pulled, the wind entered the stove. The flames in the stove rushed straight, and the roof was red. Xu You's seemingly thin body was sweating profusely by the fire. At this moment, he was struggling to pick up a red iron embryo from the stove and prepared to put it on the anvil aside forging.
The ancestors of the Xu family were blacksmiths, farm tools, kitchen knives, and weapons. They were all exquisite. It was said that they had been here for thirteen generations. Xu You's father Xu Tiecheng was a famous craftsman. However, the craftsman had been bedridden for several days. The doctor said that he was infected with wind and cold, and he was supplemented with medicine and stones. He could recover after resting for several days. But Xu Tiecheng just took on an important job the day before he got sick and repaired a sword for others.
Now that he has been in bed for several days, he can't move the hammer.
It would be fine if it was just an ordinary person to delay for a few days, but the guest this time was obviously not an ordinary person. It was a woman. When she came that day, the other party was wearing black clothes and holding a long sword. She looked as beautiful as a fairy but as cold as ice. She was taciturn, but every word revealed a chilling power, which was intimidating.
The woman in black made a lot of money and gave enough deposits. She agreed to send the repaired sword to the ruined temple outside the city in the evening three days later. After that, she left the broken sword in her hand and the materials used for cultivating the sword and left, only a few words.
The problem lies here. Xu You heard from his father that the broken sword was not an ordinary weapon, but a magic weapon used by monks, and the woman in black was not an ordinary person, but a monk.
Cultivators are all extraordinary people. There are so many rumors about monks in the world. Most of them are immortal, with supernatural powers, arousing revenge, and killing people without blinking. Even the officials dare not provoke them. Therefore, not only must this business be done well, but also have to send the repaired weapons on time and on time. If the weapons are not repaired or sent too late, the monks will be angry, and the Xu family and his son will be afraid of their lives.
Originally, with Xu Tiecheng's ancestral skills, he had his own secret technique to repair even the magic weapon of a monk. But by chance, he got caught in the cold that night and couldn't get sick.
Although he was sleeping on a sickbed, Xu Tiecheng still thought about this important business, but unfortunately he was powerless. Although Xu You was young, he knew how to share his worries for his father. However, although he had learned the skills of his master since he was a child, he was still much worse than Xu Tiecheng. This time he wanted to melt the sword with metal and iron to repair the sword body. After trying several times, he found that it was difficult to continue.
In the end, Xu You really had no strength, so he could only put down the hammer, walked to the backyard, and drank a bucket of water from the water tank, and poured it from the head. It was so happy, but he felt more and more anxious.
"It's all my fault that I am greedy and not good at learning skills on weekdays. Otherwise, I should be able to repair the magic sword." Xu You murmured to himself, reaching out to wipe the water from his face and head.
He also heard from his father Xu Tiecheng that it is not difficult to build ordinary weapons, but even if he wants to build magic weapons, he would never be able to do it. Even if it is just repaired, it is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can do. The Xu family's craftsmanship has been passed down for more than ten generations. His ancestors were fortunate to have received guidance from a sect weapon refiner, so he was able to repair magic weapons. It took at least twenty years for Xu Tiecheng to learn this craftsmanship to achieve results. Xu You only learned the art for seven or eight years at the age of six, so naturally he could not do it.
I went to see my father on the bed and was already asleep. The doctor in the clinic said that after drinking medicine, I had to sleep and recuperate before the disease could be cured.
Xu You entered the house, tidied up the quilt for his father, closed the windows, and then left. After looking at the time, it was time to go to the back hall to kowtow to the ancestors and cling to incense. On weekdays, the father and son went together, but now his father is in bed, but Xu You dare not abandon the rules.
At this time, he walked to a small house dedicated to the tablets of the ancestors of the Xu family and knelt on the ground. On the front altar table, there were more than a dozen tablets. The one placed on the top was the earliest tablets of the ancestor that the Xu family could trace back to. Because of its speciality, the other tablets were all made of wooden. Only the tablets of this ancestor were cast metal and placed on the top of the wooden rack, like stars holding the moon.
Xu You kowtowed every day, and today he kowtowed as usual. He first burned incense and then kowtowed three times in a manner. However, at this moment, a black shadow suddenly popped out of the corner and instantly rushed out of the house. Xu You was startled, his body tilted, and accidentally hit the table where the worshippers were ranked. The iron plate of the Xu family ancestors on the top fell down. By chance, it just happened to hit Xu You's head.
The iron plate was not worth it, and Xu You was immediately hit and bleeding from his head, falling to the ground and fainted.
At this time, no one noticed that a stream of light flashed out of the blood-stained iron plate, which was floating slowly, like a ghost god and Buddha. Looking at it, a complex pattern of the graph array appeared out of thin air on the plate. Then the pattern changed, and thousands of graph arrays were changed in succession, and the light and shadow changed. Then all graph arrays merged into a stream of light and drilled into Xu You's eyebrows.
With a bang, the iron plate seemed to have lost its spiritual energy, no halo, and fell to the ground, and then there was no movement.
At most half an hour, Xu You's eyelids moved and he woke up from the daze. He felt like he had a big dream, but he couldn't remember what he had dreamed of.
After getting up, I remembered what had happened before. I reached out and touched my head, and took out a hand of blood.
This scared him and carefully checked, the blood was no longer flowing, and there was nothing serious about it besides the wound. Xu You felt relieved.
After that, he hurriedly lifted the ancestral tablet with both hands and placed it again.
"I accidentally knocked down the tablet of my ancestors. I asked my ancestors not to blame him." Xu Yousheng was afraid of disturbing his ancestors, so he knelt down and bowed, secretly glad that his father was not here. If his father saw it, he would have to preach.
Xu You lost his mother since childhood and grew up with his father. Although Xu Tiecheng was just a blacksmith, the Xu family's tutoring was very strict, especially in places where the tablets of ancestors were worshipped. Every day, he had to burn incense and kneel down to worship all the ancestors, and he had to clean the house spotlessly, and not to have any disrespect or carrying.
If it were on weekdays, it would be very disrespectful to accidentally knock down the ancestral tablet. Fortunately, Xu You would not say it out by himself. But Xu You remembered the black shadow that suddenly appeared just now. If the black shadow hadn't scared him, he wouldn't have hit the table.
It was also because the room was dark and the black shadow was too fast, so Xu You didn't see clearly what it was.
"Maybe it's a wild cat!" Xu You thought to himself that there were many wild cats around their residence. Perhaps one of them was hiding here secretly. He was shocked when he came in and even scared himself.
After drying the blood on the ground and giving the ancestors a fragrance, Xu You returned to the stove and looked at the broken sword on the table with a sad face, not knowing what to do.
The promised agreement with the female monk in black is tomorrow night, and there is only less than a day left. How can I repair this magic sword?
If the female monk in black gets angry, the consequences will be unpredictable.
At this moment, a picture suddenly appeared in Xu You's mind.
The picture is in a six-sided inner circle, with many lines and patterns in it, like a map array. What’s strange is that Xu You remembers that he had never seen such a map array before, but at this moment, he is very familiar with this map array, as if he had thought about it day and night. Even Xu You even knew what this map array is for.
Because at this time, a melodious voice sounded in Xu You's mind and explained it.
"The way to refine weapons is to transform and fusion, fire attack is tempered as the lower, and the power of heaven and earth is the upper. This array diagram is called the Star Gathering and Welfare Array. When the Yang is not strong, it will be activated when it encounters a star. Even if the magic weapon under the yellow silver collapses, it can be repaired without defects. It can reach the peak in three days, supplemented by Xuan Iron Spirit Crystal and Spirit Blood Ghost, it can reach the peak in one night. If the lucky luck is at the forefront, the weapon will be born, the magical powers will rise, and the grade will be upgraded..."
Although the voice was only said once, every word seemed to be imprinted, imprinted in Xu You's mind, and he couldn't forget it even if he wanted to.
Xu You stood there for a long time and then came to his senses.
The map array called "Star Gathering Array" in my mind is still extremely clear. Xu You can even vaguely see that there are many phantoms of the array diagrams behind them, at least dozens of them, all covered by a fog. They can't see them clearly. The only thing that can be seen clearly is this first map array.
"Even if the magic weapon under Huangyin collapses, it can be repaired without defects?" Xu You murmured to himself, thinking that this is exactly what he needs at present. The broken sword magic weapon sent by the female monk in black once mentioned that it seemed to be just a low-quality brass. Under Huangyin, in this way, using this "star-gathering weapon array" can repair this magic sword.
Xu You was extremely excited at the moment. Although he was very curious about the array and sound that suddenly appeared in his mind, after the exploration was fruitless, he simply grind the powder with red stones, poured in ink according to the information in his mind, and found an open space to draw the array according to the "star gathering and nourishing array" in his mind. Because the array was extremely clear in his mind, he quickly drew it.
It was the night when it was dark, and the moon was bright above my head was filled with stars. It was really a good time to enjoy the moon and see the scenery. Unfortunately, Xu You didn’t have this time to do it.
With a nervous mood, he placed the broken sword weapon in the center of the formation, and also put the black iron spirit crystals and other materials left by the monk in black into it. Then Xu You flashed to the side and observed quietly.
After waiting for a long time, Xu You's hope slowly turned into disappointment. Suddenly, he remembered that he had forgotten the most important step.
The formation is just drawn, and it is a dead formation. To make the formation live, it needs to be activated.
So Xu You pressed the information in his mind with one hand on the 'restart position' of the map array and said, "The formation starts!"
The next moment, a starlight fell above his head, gathering in the formation. Xu You looked up and saw that at some point, there were floating stars floating in the sky, like flowing water. Looking at the formation map, halos had already emerged, like dreams and fantasy. Xu You stared at the formation, and the remaining swordsmanship and the materials in the formation were actually fused together.
After a while, the halo became darker, but there was still a flash of light on the broken sword in the center of the formation map. Xu You was stunned and stared at it for two hours. Later, his eyelids became sleepy, and the formation no longer seemed to be maintained by him. So he sat on the ground. In order to take care of his father for several days, Xu You had not had a rest for a long time. He saw that this mysterious formation was really useful, but it seemed to take a lot of time, so he fell asleep just leaning against the wall.
Chapter completed!