Chapter 65
0065 : Demon Subduing Hall
“What does that mean? Gan Jiang and Mo Ya were not swords from the Warring States period?”
It was such a famous legendary sword that it was impossible to be mistaken.
Gan Jiang and Mo Ya!
Mangnyang grinned.
“Indeed. Do you know that story?”
“Of course.”
According to Wu Yue Chunqiu and the Yue Zhe Book, it was said that Gan Jiang, under the orders of the King of Chu, attempted to forge a famed sword for him.
After creating both Gan Jiang and Mo Ya, the blacksmith Gan Jiang was aware he would be executed for being late to deliver it to the King of Chu. Therefore, he presented only the concealed sword Mo Ya to the king and hid the water sword Gan Jiang in the trunk of a pine tree on a rock where Namsan could be seen from home. This was a riddle referring to a wooden column set on a cornerstone, and later, when Mo Ya birthed a child, he would have that child solve the riddle to inform him of his own death once the sword was found. Mo Ya followed his words, and her child, Zhe Bi, swore vengeance by finding the water sword Gan Jiang.