Ruian only learned some superficial sword skills and did not learn any fighting spirit, so Ruian cannot be regarded as a level 1 swordsman, but can only be regarded as a swordsman apprentice at best.
Similarly, if an apprentice who is learning magic cannot cast any magic yet, then he can only be called a magic apprentice.
Ruian learned that there are three ways to learn fighting spirit.
The first way is to pass down Dou Qi from family, that is, the father learns Dou Qi, and when his son grows up, he teaches the method of practicing Dou Qi to his son. Of course, the level of Dou Qi that the father learned determines the level of his son's Dou Qi. Very much.
Unfortunately, most people in this world learn the most basic methods of practicing Dou Qi. Even so, Ruian still didn't learn Dou Qi from his father, because his father didn't learn Dou Qi from his father's father either.
In the end he could only become a blacksmith.
The second way to learn fighting spirit is to study in an academy. There are many swordsman academies and even magician academies in the world that can provide people with access to study. Of course, the entrance examination and expensive tuition fees discourage most people.
Therefore, this is not something that penniless Ryan can afford.
The third way to learn Dou Qi is to buy Dou Qi secrets. The business in this world is relatively developed. Some powerful businessmen make some basic Dou Qi and even advanced Dou Qi cultivation methods into books and sell them at high prices to those in need.
Of course, this price is something Ruian cannot afford. Ruian learned that the worst fighting spirit manual requires more than 10 gold coins to purchase.
Regarding the current situation, Ruian seemed helpless and broke, so he did not need to consider the issue of fighting spirit in the short term. So he could only change his approach and see if he could find a way to improve his sword skills from the memories of his previous life.
Ruian could name many martial arts secrets described in novels about his previous life, but he was just talking about them. Besides, Ruian didn't know whether these martial arts actually existed or were purely fictional.
As for the eighteen martial arts that were often mentioned in ancient times, Ruian couldn't even say that he understood them. It was difficult to even name all the eighteen martial arts.
Ruian kept thinking in his mind: "Knife, gun, sword, stick... yes, it's a stick."
Ruian suddenly remembered that when he was studying in his previous life, in order to perform stick skills at a school party with a few classmates, several of them studied the stick skills for a period of time seriously. Like some "sweeping the army" and "the poisonous snake comes out of the hole"
, "Taishan Pressing the Top" and other moves are still fresh in my memory. However, this set of stick techniques used for performance cannot strictly be regarded as stick techniques. At best, it can only be regarded as playing with sticks. But in Ruian's memory of his previous life,
Those who have experience in "martial arts" only have this set of stick techniques.
Ruian thought about the stick moves in his mind and compared them with the sword moves that Ruian had learned before. He found that this set of stick moves was much better than the sword moves that Ruian had learned.
Ruian couldn't help but be a little excited and wanted to find a stick to play with immediately.
It's not hard to find a stick. In the grove where Ruian runs every day, he can just find a section of tree and remove the outer bark of the side branches to get a good stick.
From now on, Ruian's life will become even tighter.
As soon as the sky turned gray, Ruian woke up naturally. After waking up, he went out and started running. He ran to the woods outside the city and took out his homemade wooden sticks to play with. When his hands got tired, he switched to his legs.
After kicking on the tree next to me, my legs soon got tired, so I switched to playing with sticks. I did this several times until I was sweating all over, and finally I went to swim a few laps in a small pond.
It wasn't until the sun rose high in the sky and Ryan was very hungry that he ended his morning exercise and ran back to Moya's father's blacksmith shop.
After breakfast, Ruian started the day's blacksmithing work. His work has also improved a bit, from the earliest blacksmithing blank to being able to make some weapons that do not require too much precision. Of course, the salary has also increased from the original 10 silver coins per month.
, increased to 25 silver coins per month.
The blacksmithing work usually ends in the evening, sometimes as early as the afternoon, and the rest of the time is Ruian's private time.
Ryan will take a walk around the streets of Kata City after dinner. He doesn’t want to be completely immersed in exercise and get too far away from the world, so he will take a walk around the streets to get more marks on his body.
A mark on this world.
After returning from the street, Ruian stayed in his own courtyard, spending long nights exercising. Since Ruian returned to this world, his energy has become very good.
Sleeping for an hour or two before sleeping can keep you energetic throughout the day. This also caused a problem, that is, during the long nights, Ruian was extremely lonely, even though Ruian kept exercising, kicking and playing with sticks.
A few days after he started playing with the stick, Ruian created some mixed moves based on the stick skills he learned in his previous life and the characteristics of sword moves in this life. When practiced, they are quite powerful.
But half a month later, a new problem emerged: with Ruian's weight and strength, it was too light to play with a wooden stick.
The wooden stick weighs only a few kilograms, which is indeed a bit light for a person who used to use an epee weighing more than 30 kilograms. When Ruian used the wooden stick, it was very smooth and light, but it always felt that it was not powerful enough and was soft and fluffy.
, when encountering someone else's sword, it might be cut off immediately. Therefore, Ruian had the idea of making an iron rod immediately.
A stick is different from other weapons. It requires a certain degree of elasticity. If it is too hard, it will be very easy to deform. If you hit it a few times, it will no longer be a straight stick and will become bent and useless. So to make an iron stick, you first need to find a suitable material.
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Although Ruian was a junior college student in mechanics in his previous life, he knew little about the characteristics and types of metals. This is normal. In the world of his previous life, there was no need to expect an ordinary student to know a lot of knowledge. What's more, the knowledge of metals in his previous life is not important in this world.
The above may not apply.
As a last resort, Ruian could only ask Father Moya about this issue.
"Use soft iron. Its characteristics are softness and elasticity. Mix soft iron with ordinary iron to adjust its elasticity. Why do you ask?" Dad Moya replied.
"I need some iron ore, and I want to make an iron rod. The iron rod needs to have a certain degree of elasticity, so that at least it will not deform after smashing things."
"How long and how big is the iron rod?"
"The length of the iron rod is about the same as my height, and the width is about this wide." Ruian said while using his hands to indicate the width of the rod, which was about seven or eight centimeters wide.
"This requires a lot of iron ore, so we can't give it all to you for free." Father Moya said after thinking for a while.
"Okay, how much it costs, just deduct it from my salary." Ruian also knew that a lot of iron ore would be needed, and with Moya's father's character, it was impossible to give it to him for free.
"I'll deduct 15 silver coins from you, but you have to build it yourself, and don't delay your work." Father Moya didn't have a big mouth, but only charged about half of the iron ore material fee.
"Okay." Ruian agreed happily, and then asked, "Excuse me, Dad, what should be the ratio of soft iron to ordinary iron for such a flexible iron rod?"
Father Moya did not answer immediately. He thought for a moment and replied: "The ratio of soft iron to ordinary iron should be 1:7."
"Thank you, dad." Ruian got the answer he needed and couldn't wait to start building it right away.
However, making a new weapon is not a quick or easy task. The most critical issue at present is that the new weapon needs to make a mold to cool the molten iron.
The process of blacksmithing is not very complicated, but it is not as easy as imagined.
Generally speaking, blacksmithing requires forging and melting iron ore into molten iron, then pouring the molten iron into a prepared mold, and waiting for the molten iron to cool and solidify into the general shape of the instrument to be made.
Then heat the roughly shaped iron embryo until it is red-hot, and hammer it with a hammer. After it cools down, heat it until it is red-hot, and then hammer it with a hammer until the impurities in the iron are knocked out. The iron is solid and the instrument is thoroughly beaten.