Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 148: Black Iron Hundred Refining Technique

Coming out of the cave where Dugu Qiubai was buried, Huang Sixi and Ren Yingying continued to walk towards the back of the mountain.

The two men passed through a lush forest and stopped at the foot of a cliff.

The cliff was very smooth, as if it had been cut by a knife or an axe. From a distance it looked like a huge screen rising into the sky.

"Brother Huang, look, there are words carved on the wall."

In the middle of the cliff, more than twenty feet above the ground, there is a huge stone about three or four feet square hanging, like a platform between the cliffs. On it are two stone characters "Sword Tomb". Because the characters are very large, they can be seen clearly from a distance.

However, there was no grass on the cliff, only smooth rocks. There were no leverage points for climbing with hands and feet, so it would be impossible to climb to such a high platform by relying on light skills alone.

Ren Yingying looked up and wondered, "Since there are words carved on the cliff, someone must have climbed up there before. How did they do it? Is there really a skill in the world that can jump to a height of more than 20 feet?"

"Impossible! Even if Senior Dugu were to be resurrected, he wouldn't be able to leap ten feet high, let alone twenty feet!"

There are many kinds of martial arts in the world that are light and varied, but the mortal body has its limits. Even a top master like Huang Sixi, even if he uses "Climbing the Clouds and Riding the Dragon" with all his strength, can only jump four or five feet high on the ground.

As for how Dugu Qiubai climbed up the cliff platform more than 20 meters high, it was actually very simple. He first used a sharp tool to dig holes in the wall, and then dug holes in layers upwards. He could then climb up by holding on to the holes with his hands and feet.

However, over the years, the cave was filled with mud and the mouth of the cave had been completely worn away. It was no longer visible to the naked eye, and one had to grope along the cliff bit by bit to completely dig out the mouth of the cave.

Huang Sixi felt that finding the climbing entrance was too time-consuming, so he went to the nearby woods to cut willow branches and weaved two ropes more than ten feet long.

Ren Yingying saw him coming back with a rope and asked in confusion, "With only a rope and no hook, how can you throw the end of the rope into the sword tomb?"

Besides, the sword tomb is more than twenty feet above the ground. Even if an iron hook is tied to the rope, it is impossible to throw the hook to the top.

Huang Sixi laughed and said, "My rope doesn't need a hook!"

His special skill is 'Divine Rope'.

He just raised his arm and threw the rope, which was infused with true energy and floated in the air along the cliff, like a straight, thin pillar.

He grabbed the thin pole and jumped upwards. His body instantly leaped several feet high and he reached the top of the rope in the blink of an eye.

However, this rope is only more than ten feet long. Even if it is stretched to the top, it only reaches half the height of the sword tomb.

Huang Sixi drew out the heavy sword from his back, held the sword horizontally, and inserted it into the cliff. Most of the blade was sunken, successfully creating a force point.

Huang Sixi then tied the end of the rope to the hilt of the sword and used the heavy sword as a transfer bridge.

With Huang Sixi's current martial arts skills, he could only raise the 'Immortal Rope' to a maximum of ten feet. If he could make the rope fly more than twenty feet in the air at once and reach the sword tomb directly, there would naturally be no need to build a transfer station, which would be so troublesome.

This is also a helpless move.

Huang Sixi tied the rope ends, stood on the sword blade with both feet, untied the other willow rope around his waist, and continued to operate the "Immortal Rope".

This time, Huang Sixi used the 'Immortal Rope' to fly to the top and then jumped directly into the sword tomb.

He saw a pile of rocks on the edge of the sword tomb, so he tied the end of the rope to the rocks and shouted to the bottom of the cliff: "It's safe up there. If you want to come and have some fun, then climb up the rope."

Ren Yingying couldn't help being curious, thinking that this martial arts relic was unheard of and it would be a great regret if she didn't take a look at it.

She grabbed the rope and climbed up. Thanks to her Qinggong skills, her body was very nimble, like a flying bird, and she entered the sword tomb in the blink of an eye.

Unfortunately, the situation inside the sword tomb was completely different from what she had imagined. There was nothing inside except scattered rubble.

"Since it's called 'Sword Tomb', why is there no sword here? Brother Huang, could it be that this was originally a place where swords were forged?"

"It's just a place where swords are buried!"

Huang Sixi pointed at the gravel and said, "Originally, there was a sword tomb here with three precious swords buried in it. But that was two hundred years ago. Today, the sword tomb has long since collapsed and the precious swords have been lost."

Ren Yingying thought that this sword tomb was a relic from two hundred years ago, no wonder it was so abandoned.

She casually looked around the sword tomb and accidentally discovered that there seemed to be some stone inscriptions under the rubble. She immediately kicked it and cleaned the ground.

She looked at it carefully again and said, "It is fierce and powerful, indestructible. Before I was twenty, I used it to compete with the heroes of Hebei."

This is the first line of words.

The second line beside it reads: "The Ziwei soft sword, used before the age of thirty, accidentally injured a righteous man, so it was unlucky, so I threw it into the deep valley."

She found it very strange. There was only a description of the sword but no real object. Which martial arts master took away the sword buried in the sword tomb?
She continued reading, and the third line was: 'The heavy sword has no edge, the great skill is not skillful, before the age of forty, he relied on it to dominate the world.'

She repeated: "A heavy sword has no edge, great skill has no effort..."

She suddenly let out a soft "Hmm!" and wondered if the heavy sword that Brother Huang had stuck on the cliff was taken from the sword tomb?

Huang Sixi seemed to see through her thoughts, and suddenly said lightly: "I forged my heavy sword myself. Senior Dugu's heavy sword was taken away by someone in the pre-Song Dynasty, and then it was melted down and disappeared from the world."

Ren Yingying turned around and said with a smile, "Someone visited this sword tomb in the pre-Song Dynasty. So, in the past two hundred years, there must have been a constant stream of people from the martial arts world visiting the sword tomb, right?"

Huang Sixi said: "It can't be said that there are endless streams, but every few decades someone will mistakenly come in. Senior Feng Qingyang from the Huashan Sect has been here before!"

When Ren Yingying heard that Feng Qingyang had visited the sword tomb, she subconsciously thought of the exquisite sword technique "Nine Swords of Dugu" used by Linghu Chong, and she couldn't help but wonder, could this sword technique have anything to do with the Sword Demon Dugu Qiubai?
She lowered her head and continued to read the fourth line of words on the ground: 'After the age of forty, you will not be attached to things, and grass, wood, bamboo, and stone can all be used as swords. From then on, you will practice diligently and gradually reach the state where no sword is better than a sword!'

After reading it, she walked along the sword tomb and found that there were only these four lines of words engraved on the ground.

She secretly guessed that there were originally four swords buried in the sword tomb. The second sword, the 'Purple Star Soft Sword', was discarded by Dugu Qiubai himself, leaving only the remaining three swords buried in the sword tomb. They were taken away by intruders one after another, so that now there is nothing left.

She turned her head and looked at Huang Sixi again.

Ever since she entered the sword tomb, Huang Sixi has been standing with his hands behind his back, looking up at the words "Sword Tomb" on the stone wall, staring at it intently.

Next to the words "Sword Tomb", there are two lines of stone inscriptions with smaller fonts, which read: "Sword Demon Dugu Qiubai was invincible in the world, so he buried his sword here. Alas! The heroes are helpless, and the long sword is useless, how sad!"

Ren Yingying thought, these stone carvings are all expressions of personal feelings, not martial arts secrets, so why is Brother Huang watching them so intently?

She then thought again, Brother Huang came all the way to this place, probably to seek the sword of Dugu Qiubai, but the sword was lost long ago, and Brother Huang naturally did not want to return empty-handed. Since he couldn't find the sword, could it be that he wanted to comprehend Dugu Qiubai's swordsmanship?

She stood next to Huang Sixi and began to look at the words "Sword Tomb". These two large stone characters were written in a flamboyant style, and were obviously carved by a sharp sword, perhaps implying some kind of swordsmanship.

In fact, Feng Qingyang had also thought about this idea in the past.

When Feng Qingyang accidentally entered the sword tomb, Dugu Qiubai's sword had long been lost. Unwilling to resign himself to this, he began to study the stone carvings. He used a sharp tool to carve back the originally unclear words, stroke by stroke, in an attempt to comprehend the swordsmanship from the words.

Unfortunately, Feng Qingyang did not get what he wanted. He lived in the sword tomb for several months without any gain. It was not until he met Lu Tu, the successor of the Ancient Tomb School, who taught him the "Nine Swords of Dugu" that he left the sword tomb.

Ren Yingying looked at it for a while, but couldn't figure it out, so she asked Huang Sixi, "Brother Huang, what are you looking at? Are there any clues to the sword hidden in these stone carvings?"

Huang Sixi nodded and said, "It does have some secrets, but you can't understand them!"

Ren Yingying couldn't help but smile: "I am a mortal with mortal eyes, it's normal that I can't see it. Brother Huang, you have a keen eye and can see the essence that ordinary people can't see. Then can you tell me, what secrets are hidden in these stone carvings?"

Huang Sixi asked her in return: "Do you know what the sword technique Linghu Chong uses is called?"

"Nine Swords of Dugu!"

Ren Yingying had been puzzled by this sword technique just now, and quickly asked, "The Dugu Nine Swords is definitely not a martial art of the Huashan School, otherwise it would have spread all over the martial arts world long ago. Is this sword technique the unique martial art of Senior Feng Qingyang, and was it only passed on to Linghu Chong?"

"Not bad!"

Huang Sixi said: "Just now I said that Senior Feng Qingyang had been to the Sword Tomb, and his "Nine Swords of Dugu" was inherited from here!"

"Oh, no wonder!"

Ren Yingying suddenly realized: "The Sword Demon Dugu Qiubai was obsessed with swords all his life. Only such a sword master could create such a supreme martial art as "Dugu Nine Swords"! Brother Huang, could the secret of this sword art be hidden in the stone inscriptions?"

Huang Sixi did not deny it.

But in fact, he was concentrating on looking at the two words "Sword Tomb", not to comprehend Dugu Qiubai's swordsmanship, but to observe another special skill.

From the moment he stepped onto the Sword Tomb, the "Sword Tomb" began to flash with tomb characters.

At first, the article read: "The relics of the famous masters: Contains the 'Black Iron Hundred Refining Technique'. If you master the sword art of no moves being better than moves, you can read and inherit it!"

After Huang Sixi forged the heavy sword, he was no longer bound by any sword moves. At the foot of the Huashan Cliff, he inherited the "Nine Swords of Dugu" from Feng Qingyang, and had long since realized that no moves are better than moves.

Therefore, he had completed the mission of collecting the relics of the famous figure when he left Huashan.

The tomb text immediately changed, and began to reveal the mental method of 'Black Iron Hundred Refining Technique'.

This is a martial art of forging weapons. In the past, Dugu Qiubai used this sword-forging technique to forge the Ziwei soft sword and the Xuantie heavy sword. However, the sword-forging technique did not originate from Dugu Qiubai, but was inherited by Dugu Qiubai from an ancient sword-forging master.

When Huang Sixi finished reading the 'Black Iron Hundred Refining Technique', he did not gain any internal strength, but inherited the complete sword-making method.

This sword-making method includes how to build a sword furnace and how to obtain materials and quench them.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be impossible for him to comprehend the sword-making method just by looking at the words "Sword Tomb".

In order to prevent Ren Yingying from being overly shocked, Huang Sixi concealed the fact of sword-forging from her, and only said that the "Sword Tomb" contained some secrets of the sword techniques of "Nine Swords of Dugu".

It is not surprising that there are many masters in the world who have learned sword skills from writing skills.

After Huang Sixi mastered the "Black Iron Hundred Refining Technique", he led Ren Yingying down the cliff.

He thought that this was the end of his gains from today's trip to the Sword Tomb.

Who would have thought that when he pulled the heavy sword out from the cliff and landed on the ground, he suddenly discovered that a line of sword words appeared on the blade of the heavy sword: "The method of breaking the wall is all in the sword!"

He suddenly felt very surprised. Could it be that the way to break through the wall that he had been looking for had been right within him all along?
He secretly speculated: "When I use the "Black Iron Hundred Refining Art" to reforge the heavy sword and turn it into a brand new divine weapon, perhaps the door to breaking through the wall will open."

Thinking of this, he pointed to the top of the cliff and said, "In the past six months, I have asked the four friends of Plum Manor to look for a new site for Jianglong Mountain Villa, but they haven't found one yet. I think this place is good. I plan to move Jianglong Mountain to the top of this cliff."

Ren Yingying knew that Huang Sixi had plans to move the village, so she nodded slowly, "This place is in a dangerous position, and is located between towering mountains. It is very suitable for seclusion."

The steep cliff on one side of the sword tomb is like a screen, and on the other side are rolling mountains with rugged roads. If a villa is to be built on the top of the cliff, a large number of manpower must be hired and the construction period will definitely not be short.

But what Huang Sixi was interested in was not only the secluded geographical location, but also the sword-making ruins on the top of the cliff.

In the past, Dugu Qiubai forged several swords for his personal use on the top of the cliff.

Huang Sixi can rebuild the sword furnace on the top of the cliff first, the villa is not in a hurry.

He made up his mind and took Ren Yingying back to Jianglong Villa that day and summoned the four friends from Meizhuang to arrange the relocation of the villa.

Lan Fenghuang has been practicing the Nine Yin White Bone Claw for the past six months and seldom leaves the villa. When she heard that Huang Sixi had already decided on a new site for the villa, she temporarily stopped practicing and accompanied the four friends from Meizhuang to the sword tomb to survey the terrain.

Huang Sixi also began to prepare to recast the heavy sword.

During this period, the Beggar Gang's law enforcement elder Song Gengping and the martial arts elder Xin Shanyuan came to visit together.

In fact, ever since the battle between good and evil at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain ended, the two elders have frequently visited Huang Sixi, hoping to persuade Huang Sixi to take over the Beggars' Sect.

Huang Sixi did not agree, but the matter could not be delayed any longer. He needed to talk it through with the two elders.

It just so happened that when Huang Sixi was at the Hengyang branch, he had heard Song Gengping mention that the former gang leader Huang Rong not only left behind a dog-beating stick, but also a stone carving on Junshan Island in Dongting Lake.

Huang Sixi had long wanted to see this stone carving, but for various reasons he had never been able to do so.

The sword furnace on the cliff of Jianzhong Mountain is being built. Huang Sixi is temporarily unable to forge swords. When he has some free time, he asks Song Gengping and Xin Shanyuan to lead the way to visit Junshan Island, the headquarters of the Beggars' Gang.

At that time, the Sun and Moon Sect had been disbanded, and all the members of the Demon Sect on the Black Wood Cliff, the headquarters of the Sect, had been driven away. The entire cliff was deserted, with only elders such as Bao Dachu left to guard the treasury.

Originally, Huang Sixi had already decided to hand over all the remaining treasures in Heimu Cliff to Ren Yingying, but Ren Yingying wanted to move the treasures into Jianglong Villa.

Huang Sixi was not aware of the value of the treasure, so he took Ren Yingying to the Beggars' Sect headquarters. After dealing with the affairs of the headquarters, he went to Black Wood Cliff to check the treasure.

(End of this chapter)