Chapter 729: Lone Rider—The Most Eye-Catching Figure in the Hunting Grounds

Chapter 729: Chapter 314: Lone Rider—The Most Eye-Catching Figure in the Hunting Grounds

The swordsmith Bill from Dog Town couldn’t help but recall the afternoon when Li Younan showed him how to forge a hunting knife from powder steel after the fourth time he cracked a billet.

Many times when people watch a craft as an audience, they often have the thought, “This? I could do that too.”

This feeling is particularly strong when they watch the work of some masters, because the master’s movements seem more composed, leading people to mistakenly believe that the skill has become much easier.

This sensation is particularly evident in sword forging; many people watching the Sword Forging Competition feel that there is nothing very difficult about it.

Bill had never tried forging powder steel before, especially using the Damascus method to forge powder steel. It was only after watching Li Younan forge up close that he thought he might as well give it a try.

And such an attempt directly tied him up here for over ten hours.

In the end, he successfully ended up with several cracked billets.

To be precise, he hadn’t even passed the first step of forging powder steel, which is controlling the temperature.

It’s truly too difficult.

The forging window for powder steel is only 50 degrees, and at the temperature of thousands of degrees of the billet, this 50-degree window is extremely narrow. Even with a thermometer, it can’t ensure that the entire billet’s temperature is controlled within this range.

And the difficulty of forging is even harder to mention. In his mind, he kept recalling Li Younan’s technique during forging, how he quickly pounded, when to put it back into the furnace for tempering and reheating.

It obviously didn’t look that difficult, but when he actually started trying, almost during the first three temperings, it inevitably led to the cracking of the powder steel.

This is simply impossible to achieve!

Yet Li Younan could do all this just by feeling.

He felt a bit frustrated and angrily tossed the last failed piece of powder steel into the bucket, causing steam to rise immediately.

Bill then sat in his chair, uncontrollably curious about Li Younan.

Logically speaking, how could such a top-notch swordsmith have no reputation at all?

During the conversation with Li Younan, he didn’t reveal much about himself, only saying he was a traveler from China.

In fact, at the time, Bill wasn’t concerned with Younan’s “traveler” identity, but now he believed Younan was certainly a long-famous swordsmith, so he tried searching for information about Li Younan online.

But what he found was stunning.

Wikipedia actually already had information about Li Younan.

However, Li Younan’s appearance on Wikipedia was not because of his sword forging skills.

Wikipedia recorded some of Younan’s experiences, and of course, since it’s from an international perspective, most of Younan’s domestic experiences are glossed over, but a few particularly notable experiences were documented.

The first was his excellent performance in the program “Alone in the Wilderness.” Although the content on Wikipedia was written fairly concisely, it still gave high praise, calling Li Younan a contemporary top wilderness survival master.

It also mentioned Younan’s strong professional athletic abilities, climbing Mount Everest, completing a downhill feat, and having high achievements in the field of art.

Of course, the content on Wikipedia is rather dry.

Why isn’t there any introduction of Younan’s sword forging skills on Wikipedia?

This is really too confusing; as expected, Wikipedia’s content is all lies.

Bill then searched for Li Younan on the video platform and was surprised to find that Younan already had significant fame abroad.

Most of the content came from Younan’s past performance in “Alone in the Wilderness,” and foreign websites would slice Younan’s classic segments for display.

Seeing these videos, Bill was immediately captivated. After all, as an old swordsmith living in Dezhou, he was quite interested in hunting and wilderness survival elements.

After spending a long time watching all of Younan’s video clips, he was still not satisfied and continued searching until he finally found Younan’s video homepage.

The first video was of Li Younan surfing, and the second was of him forging a sword in the smithy.

Bill quietly watched these two videos from Younan, placed his phone down, exhaled slightly, and stood up.

The first surfing video didn’t really interest him.

But the second video of sword forging in his own smithy.

This was the only sword forging content of Li Younan that he found.

However, he was somewhat dissatisfied.

Because Younan completely did not showcase the difficulty level of this sword forging in the video.

Although his videos showed the exquisite, incredible strength, and sharpness of the finished blade, as a professional swordsmith, he believed the video content should also explain the difficulty of forging the knife.

Younan had only about 60,000 fans on this platform, and he gently pressed ‘follow’.

Yet just moments after pressing follow, he suddenly received a livestream notification.

And the livestreamer was none other than Li Younan, whom he had just followed.