The Hidden Myth of Ji Dara

He then mixed everything together evenly before pouring them into the mold meant for rods and staffs, and after about half an hour, these rods were already cooled and they were handle friendly…

Elder Smith took the staff, and immediately he could spot a few but enormous difference between them; Firstly, due to the addition of these other two ingredients, the amount of molten steel needed to make any weapon was halved…

It might not seem too extraordinary but it was extraordinarily efficient and cost effective in terms of resources…

Secondly, this staff was about ten times lighter than the normal steel staff, and all the Elders who were present during this testing had their socks blown out of the planet…

The other series of tests were deemed to be figured out in a duel, and thus, two men who were in the Peak Qi Creation Stage were to battle with it, and from first glance, the speed of the man wielding the new staff was more than five times faster due to the relative weight difference between the two staffs…

As the Qi Stones was glass like and was extremely light and sturdy as it could be seen that it took Dara with the strength of a Peak Qi Sea Stage expert to be able to break it apart, and that was the Qi Stones alone which weren't made strong because the expert who made them didn't think the weak experts bound by them would be able to break them…

But when one recalled how strong and sturdy the cages were, they would understand the relative strength of the Qi Stones…

Then if the steel added was now factored in, one would realize that not only would the new staff be lighter, but also stronger too, and that was even excluding the effects of the ore dust which would be realized later on…

But during their battle, there was one thing Dara noticed, and that was the fact that the new staff glowed during several clashes with the other staff, and he wasn't the only one who saw it, but he was the first to discover the probable reason for the phenomenon and its probable consequences…

"Elder Smith?"

"Yes tribe leader…"

"I will need you to make a sword from both materials…"

"Unh?" Elder Smith was stunned by the request;

"Make it your finest pieces…" Dara added;

"As you wish, tribe leader…"

Elder Smith added before they all returned to the smithy where he took about four hours to make both swords with the normal steel sword taking about three hours due to is difficulty to bend at will, unlike the new sword which took only an hour to make due to its ability to be bent at will as a result of its glassy component…

Every Elder as well as some normal tribesmen were also looking on anticipating what Dara was about to do as he took all of them outside the tribe and looked for two massive trees with impossible thickness, and before long they found two of them as he picked the sword and gave the steel sword to the man who was wielding the steel staff earlier and told him;

"Strike that tree using every ounce of power you have got…"

"Yes, tribe leader…" The man took the steel sword and stood in front of the tree; Hyah! The swung the tree with everything he had;

Chomp!

The sword sliced into the massive tree trunk but stopped about ten percent into its girth;

"Alright go take a rest…"

Dara told the man who then sat on a tree stub [The smooth flat surface of a tree trunk which had been previously cut] as Elder Wang looked at how comfortable the man felt before nodding to himself…

After about half an hour, the man was ready to go once more, and this time, Dara handed the new sword to him, and took him to a very similar tree and told him;

"Now, strike this one with the same amount of power…"

"Everyone stand back!"

He quickly ordered as everyone put a considerable distance between themselves and the man who headed straight for the tree;

Hyah!

He bellowed once again as he gathered all the energy within his body, but just as he was about to strike, everyone saw the sword glow about ten times brighter than the staff and then;

Swish! Whoosh!

The sword sliced straight through the tree's girth, cutting through it as cleanly as the word clean could get…

In fact, it was so clean that the tree didn't fall, there were about two smaller trees which had about half the girth of the tree which fell to the ground instead with a clean cut on the trunks as well…

But the man on the other hand saw his face went deathly pale;

"What did you feel?" Dara asked as everyone rushed over in anticipation, they had seen what had just happened and thus, they wanted to know why and how it happened;

"I tried putting in all of my strength as you said, and I don't know how or why, but the sword sucked a chunk of my Qi and put it into the sword…" He paused as he took a breath of fresh air;

"Then the moment I swung the sword, it felt like the power of my strike was amplified by 20 fold and thus when it landed on the tree it went straight through…" The man said as Dara put his index finger below his lips in thought;

"So the sword draws Qi from its wielder to amplify the attack by twenty fold…" Dara muttered as Elder Min quickly blurted excitedly;

"Then what if we added more Qi Stone dust to the mixture or make one completely out of Qi Stones!"

"That won't work…" Dara cut in because the conversation was interrupting his thought process;

"But how will we know if we haven't tried it yet?" Elder Min was not willing to back down as he wanted to claim an accolade for his idea;

"Tribe Leader is right, if we did that, not only will the sword we make become more brittle, but it might break, after all, glass is still glass and steel is still steel…" Elder Smith added;