Chapter 451: Chapter 209: Dragon Sparrow Coldblood, Luo Ming’s Sense of Loss

Xia Chuan nodded, thinking of something, and gave a hinting glance to Mu Dong, the director of the Craftsmen Department, at the back.

Mu Dong understood and took the two long wooden boxes he was carrying from behind and brought them in front of Xia Hong.

“What are these, weapons?”

One of the wooden boxes was almost two meters long, while the other was just over a meter.

Seeing the shape of the wooden boxes, Xia Hong could basically guess what they contained.

Xia Chuan nodded and stepped forward to open the nearly two-meter-long box.

A long, narrow blade with a length of one and a half meters and a width of only two fingers suddenly appeared before Xia Hong’s eyes, causing a touch of surprise to emerge on his face.

“Yi Blade, this is…”

A regular Yi Blade wouldn’t usually astonish Xia Hong.

The key was the dense thousand lines of patterns on this Yi Blade’s blade.

Xia Hong immediately took out the Yi Blade, holding it in his hand, and felt its weight of sixty to seventy thousand catties, bringing a glint of light to his eyes.

“Thousand-forged Yi Blade, did you manage this recently?”

With a smile, Xia Chuan nodded while Mu Dong beside him spoke up: “The leader has to go out, and having a handy weapon is essential. Over three months ago, we deployed a group from the Earth-digging Realm, rotating constantly for more than a hundred nights until we finally forged this Thousand-forged Yi Blade.”

The weapon classifications of ten-forged, hundred-forged, and thousand-forged aren’t overly complex, merely patterns imprinted on iron ore.

When regular iron ore is forged into a ten-forged weapon, its weight does not change; however, to imprint more forging patterns, new iron ore must be added and compacted through hammering.

A typical ten-forged blade weighs about six hundred catties; a hundred-forged, six thousand; and a thousand-forged blade over sixty thousand.

The Yi Blade used by Xia Hong had a narrow blade but a length far surpassing ordinary large blades, so its weight wasn’t much different from a regular large blade.

“Leader, try opening this other box!”

Mu Dong at this moment put the second, shorter wooden box in front of Xia Hong, with a slightly mysterious expression, motioning him to open it.

An expression of curiosity appeared on Xia Hong’s face, and his eyes lit up after opening the box.

Inside the wooden box lay a horizontal blade quietly, its blade part only eighty or so centimeters, and together with the grip, just over a meter.

The Four Types of Xia Blades: Yi, Horizontal, Barrier, Stranger. All blades at the camp are customized to these four forms, so a regular horizontal blade wouldn’t stand out to Xia Hong.

The issue was the blade of this large dagger was a brilliant blood-like red.

No, it wasn’t an ordinary blood color but one nearly akin to the texture of blood jade, even more precious and beautiful, making a joyous feeling arise at the mere sight.

“Half a month ago, Xiang Liang from Hefeng Camp in Wuyuan offered five pieces of Cold Marrow Iron to the leader, and we used four pieces to forge this horizontal blade. Leader, please inspect the forging pattern on the blade.”

Hearing Mu Dong’s words, Xia Hong reached out and took the horizontal blade, and after feeling its weight, a hint of amazement appeared in his eyes, as they narrowed slightly looking at the dense thousand forging patterns on the blade.

“The weight hasn’t changed, how come there are so many forging patterns?”

Those five pieces of Cold Marrow Iron, Xia Hong had seen them himself, knowing each piece averaged about a hundred catties, and this horizontal blade was forged from four pieces, with its four hundred plus catties weight being normal.

But how could there be over a thousand forging patterns?

Special material!

Sure enough, the moment this suspicion arose in Xia Hong’s mind, Mu Dong confirmed it openly.

“This Cold Marrow Iron must be a special material. When forging the blade mold, after forming ten forging patterns, we attempted to continue hammering, and unexpectedly could imprint new forging patterns. This prompted us to separate into groups and hammer simultaneously, yielding a thousand-forged pattern. It’s an unexpected delight.”

Seeing the two wooden boxes also contained inconspicuous wooden scabbards separately for each, warmth grew in Xia Hong’s heart. He turned to Xia Chuan and Mu Dong with the others, softly speaking: “You all were thoughtful!”

Even with a great number of Earth-digging Realm craftsmen in Great Xia, producing two thousand-forged weapons in such a short span wasn’t easy, Xia Hong naturally felt touched.

“Leader, please don’t say that, this is the least we could do. If after all this time, we still couldn’t forge you a fitting weapon, our Craftsmen Department truly wouldn’t be worth our salt.”

The crowd couldn’t help but chuckle at Mu Dong’s words.

Mu Dong thought for a moment, then continued: “By the way, leader, these two blades still haven’t been named. Please give them names!”

Xia Hong took the Yi Blade, sheathing it and then strapping it onto his back, before placing the horizontal blade into its sheath and hanging it at his waist. After pondering for a moment, he spoke directly:

“Dragon Finch, Cold Blood.”

Great Xia Dragon Finch, Great Xia Cold Blood!

Cold Blood, as its name implies, signifies the blood-drinking of the Ice Abyss Cold Beast, aligning with the attributes of Cold Marrow Iron, and bestowing upon the horizontal blade the fate of slaying Cold Beasts.

As for the former, although the meaning of the words ‘Dragon Finch’ wasn’t clear, after murmuring them twice in unison, people found the four words exceptionally smooth and carrying an inexplicable air of dominance.

On Xia Hong’s side, securing the two blades, he then retrieved a mask from his garments, with a vermillion inner layer. Adhering the vermillion side to his face, he instantly transformed into an ordinary man in his early thirties. With the black beast skin cloak donned especially today, standing amidst Xia Chuan and the others, he suddenly became unobtrusive.