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I found three Chinese legendary swords which mentioned in OT 18. In China, there is a legend of three different swords. For the strongest among them, it gives no feeling of having killed someone upon killing them and the person killed does not even realize it and continues living. …Well, it is really just a metaphor used for ideological teaching, but it seems Curtana can truly accomplish that metaphor. It came from Chinese Taoist book Liezi (列子) Chapter 5 Question of Tang (湯問). The fable is called 孔周の三宝剣 (K'ung Chou's Three Treasured Swords). The name of three swords are: 含光 (Container of Light), 承影 (Receiver of Shadows), and 宵练 (Tempered by Night).

Chinese Wikipedia articles for three swords:


 * 含光剑
 * 承影剑
 * 宵练剑

Here is the part of translated text of Liezi:

I have heard that the grandfather of K'ung Chou of Wei won the treasured swords of the Yin Emperors. A single small boy with one of these swords at his side could drive back a whole army. Why not ask him for them?' So Lai-tan went to Wei and saw K'ung Chou. Before making his request, he addressed K'ung Chou with the politeness of a servant or a groom, and offered him his wife and children as slaves.

I have three swords, K'ung Chou said. Choose whichever you like, but none of them can kill anyone. Let me start by describing them for you. The first is called "Container of Light" Look for it and it is invisible, swing it and you cannot tell it is there. When it hits something there is no cut whatever; it passes right through without the victim noticing. The second is called "Receiver of Shadows". In the twilight just before dawn, between light and darkness when the sun goes in, if you scrutinise it with your back to the sun, there is a faint semblance of something there, but no one can recognise its shape. When it hits something there is a hissing sound, and it passes right through without hurting the victim. The third is called "Tempered by Night". By day you see its shadow but not its glitter, by night its glitter but not its shape. When it hits something, it passes through with a tearing sound, and the wound closes as soon as it has passed; the victim feels pain but there is no stain on the blade. These three treasures have been handed down through thirteen generations without being put to use: I have kept them in their cases and never broken the seals.