"Sir, you have been in the back mountain behind Xuantianguan for many years. Will you be lonely?" Li Ye asked seriously, while serving Ouyang Dongli who was sitting in front of him.

Cooking porridge after getting up early was a habit he developed on Tianshan Mountain, although there was a vegetarian hall after coming to Prajna Temple.

But when he came to the back mountain of Xuantian Temple, he knew that he had to do everything himself.

Ouyang Dongli thought for a while and said, "Sometimes there will be some, otherwise how could I know your husband and accept you as my disciple?"

Li Ye withdrew his gaze and looked at him curiously and asked, "Master, when did you know the gentleman?"

"By the way... I've asked you this question, but I forgot what year I met him. Anyway, we've known each other for a long time. You have to ask him about this. I don't have a good memory."

Ouyang Dong shook his head and said.

Li Ye swallowed the hot porridge with some difficulty, and looked at him with a slight voice, saying, "What did sir decide to fight today? Is it a furniture or a kitchen knife? He still remembers that kitchen knife in his heart."

Ouyang Dongli laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You like kitchen knives, I will teach you how to make a kitchen knives today."

Hearing this sentence, Li Ye was immediately delighted and said, "I didn't expect that I would learn to make swords with my master, but the first time I was playing a kitchen knife."

"You should be very proud of how many people in the Five Realms want to learn sword casting from me. I refuse them one by one if I feel it's troublesome. I think it will be cheaper in the end."

Ouyang Dongli smiled at him, as if admiring a piece of jewelry that had not been born.

Hearing these words, Li Ye couldn't help but blush and it took him a long time to calm down.

......

After cleaning up the pots, bowls and chopsticks, Ouyang Dongli cooked another pot of tea.

After drinking, he stood by the iron-scraping stove, pointed to the charcoal on the ground and said, "If you just make a kitchen knife, just use the charcoal made from the essence of the mountain. There is no need to use ore."

Li Ye nodded and began to add charcoal to the stove.

"Don't worry about making a fire at the beginning. Add charcoal bit by bit, and wait until the fire is fierce before adding..." Ouyang Dongli said.

"I used the mortal iron I bought from the Buddha's capital to make a kitchen knife. This saves time and does not have to smelve iron again..."

"At the beginning, you don't need to use the heaviest hammer, just use the slightly heavier one in the middle..."

"The fire is too small, speed up the bellows and get stronger..."

Dingding Dingding Dingding Ding, Ouyang Dongli surrounded the fire and began to create the mortal iron in his hand.

Li Ye pulled the bellows and added a few pieces of charcoal to the stove from time to time, and soon he sweated heavily.

Looking up, Ouyang Dongli still looked the same, and he couldn't see a drop of sweat.

"Master, why don't you sweat?" Li Ye raised his head and asked in confusion.

When Ouyang Dongli heard this, he laughed.

While waving the hammer in his hand, he said, "If you have to sweat like a kitchen knife, then wouldn't you have to soak in sweat when you hit a sword?"

The burning red iron splashed with sparks under the heavy blow of the hammer... and it changed color and cooled down in a short while.

Ouyang Dongli threw the cold iron block into the stove, and after it was burning red, he clamped it out and continued to hammer it.

"Didn't you eat porridge in the morning? The fire is so small, add charcoal quickly, pull the bellows harder, and make it stronger..."

Ouyang Dongli waved the hammer in his hand while guiding Li Ye to control the fire.

"Use iron to open the fire. There is too much charcoal blockage in the middle. How can the fire be violent if the wind cannot enter... Yes, that's it. Keep not stopping. I'll call you to stop and stop..."

"Are you tired? If you are tired, go and cook a pot of tea. Master, I am thirsty." Ouyang Dongli said from the side.

Dingding, Mars shining, Li Ye sweated like rain and lasted for an hour.

The piece of mortal iron in Ouyang Dongli's hand had turned into a kitchen knife, and the cold light shone under the illumination of the fire, leaving only the final quenching and opening.

"Master, is this a good construction?"

Li Ye picked up the kettle and placed it on the fire, looking at Ouyang Dongli and asked.

Ouyang Dongli threw the kitchen knife on the cast iron platform.

Looking at him and laughed, "If you put it in the simplest requirement, this knife is almost completed, and you can use it as long as you polish it tomorrow. But if you want a kitchen knife that will satisfy your wishes, you will need to hammer it for a few more days."

Li Ye nodded thoughtfully.

"Not to mention that it is a thousand-dressing, hundreds of times of hammering are always needed. I'll leave it for you to try tomorrow. There is an essential difference between what you spend ten days and half a month and what you spend one day hitting."

Ouyang Dong looked at him and said lightly.

"Master, don't worry, I will definitely learn this skill of casting carefully and will not disappoint you." Li Ye replied while pouring tea into the cup.

Ouyang Dongli nodded, picked up the teacup on the table, and showed a satisfied expression on his face.

......

In the days that followed, Li Ye not only guarded the bellows to control the flames every day, but also learned to swing the hammer behind Ouyang Dongli.

He beat a decent kitchen knife to the point of being rude and looked at Ouyang Dongli and smiled.

"Are you sure you are playing kitchen knives instead of fire sticks?"

"Heavy hammering surface and small hammering point. To create a wish-full kitchen knife, you must keep honing it. Yes, don't stop..."

"You have a physical state but don't use it. Is it just for your practice to find a stand? Not only do you need to use force, but you also need to use skillful force! Come on... Come on!"

Ouyang Dongli shouted loudly from the side.

one day......

Two days...

Five days...

On the seventh day, Ouyang Dongli just came to see him and stopped giving advice.

Because the kitchen knife in Li Ye's hand was already shining with a cold light under his tempering.

In Ouyang Dongli's words, Li Ye was also a genius in his creation practice.

This model was opened by Ouyang Dongli and continued to be tempered by Li Ye, and has become a rare good kitchen knife in the five realms.

After a few days of polishing, it will be a masterpiece for Li Ye to learn how to make kitchen knives.

However, Li Ye was not satisfied. He has been tempering this kitchen knife day and night these days, and at the same time tempering his muscles and bones.

Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired, and stay up day and night, just to practice more perfect casting techniques.

Just like after realizing the Slash Strike on Tianshan Mountain, you have to use the simplest sword move 20,000 times every day.

He is doing the same thing every day, doing the simplest fire and pulling the bellows.

Do the simplest hammering action, lift the hammer, drop the hammer, add charcoal, and pull the bellows.

It’s like repeating a formula every day, without any difference.

My husband once told him on Tianshan Mountain that practicing the simplest move to the extreme, even the simplest sword move can evolve your own sword intent.

Li Ye, who kept swinging the hammer every day, was also wondering if he practiced without knowing how tired he was. Will any movement hide the hammer's intention one day?

Such the simplest life and the simplest way of practice will definitely drive many people crazy, but Li Ye doesn't care.

Immerse yourself in the practice of casting, not knowing day and night.

He cannot activate the true energy of the Dantian, but he activates the physical strength of the Wuxian Dharma Body... through the arms and plate bones, condenses the power to the hammer... from the entire surface of the hammer to later condense to a certain point of the hammer.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

Ouyang Dongli, who occasionally came over, was also shocked by his strength, and he stopped for a moment from morning until he didn't see him.

Li Yewan, who was practicing day and night, gradually realized the mystery of casting and realized the joy of casting.

On the tenth day of his cultivation, he had already realized the purpose of every hammer knocking down.

A thought had already arisen in his heart. The hammer in his hand fell down, and he wanted to hit a whole piece of iron surface or the point of a kitchen knife.

Just like when he practiced the practice, his eyes could reach his hands.

Just like he practiced arrows on Fuchun River, wherever his eyes could see, the feather arrows in his hands were shot.

The arms and wrists do not require deliberate force. Just one casual move by him, the hammer in his hand will follow his thoughts and fall on a certain surface or at a certain point.

Using his own words to image, through hard practices over the years, he has been able to use the hammer in his hand like an arm to use his fingers.

Thoughts in the heart...

The hammer in hand...

The landing point of the hammer...

The three are integrated and cannot distinguish each other.

The seventh level of the formless Dharma body's mind operation, Li Ye felt that his soul had melted into this mountain, into the casting platform under the wooden shed, and into the hammer in his hand.

Refining the body, refining the heart, refining the soul...

Unconsciously, he actually integrated the seventh level of the mind method of the formless Dharma body with the casting technology taught by Ouyang Dongli.

While tempering the kitchen knife in your hand day and night, you are also inadvertently tempering your body, mood and soul.

The power of the body moves, and with the cooperation of the formless Dharma, body and mind, the hammer is swung and falls.
To be continued...