The next day, two carriages set off from the Yinyang Valley. In a carriage in front of them, Jiang Rong and a few people were sitting, Xiao Yu also squeezed in, and in the back car were Pei Xiu and Liufeng Huixue.

The group headed straight in one direction.

Yangzhou, Tonglu Mountain.

The shape of the copper furnace mountain resembles a huge "copper furnace", from which its name comes from.

Because there are magma fire veins hidden in the copper furnace mountain, the surface of the mountain is hot all year round, so the vegetation on the mountain is very scarce, and it is okay to go down the mountain, and it is basically a bare scene up the mountainside, and even the birds rarely nest here.

Halfway up the mountain, the mountain is completely exposed, and when it looks red, it looks like a red-hot copper furnace.

And there are large and small caves on it, deep or shallow, shallow only a few zhang can go to the end, and the deep one may lead to the magma fire veins deep in the belly of the mountain.

Usually few people come here, but for foundries, Copper Furnace Mountain is a holy place.

Because the caster refining tool inevitably uses fire, and the natural magma fire veins in the copper furnace mountain are much more than the man-made mortal fire, and the probability of refining peerless divine weapons is much higher. Therefore, it can be imagined that the copper furnace mountain is attractive to foundries.

However, the refining must have sufficient flames, but not too high a temperature so that the caster will not be able to withstand it. Counting down, there are only a few places in the copper furnace mountain that can meet these two conditions at the same time.

These places have been built into several refining rooms according to the situation, and the fire veins are introduced into the room, which is extremely convenient when refining weapons.

There are a total of 12 refining rooms, which are divided into Tianjia, Tianyi, Tianc, and Tianding in order in terms of location; ground A, ground B, ground C, ground ding; Xuanjia, Xuanyi, Xuanbing, Xuanding; Huang Jia, Huang B, Huang Bing, Huang Ding, these 12 rooms.

There are only twelve refining rooms, which is a number, and it is impossible to meet everyone's needs, but there are too many casters who want to enter the refining room, which also creates a situation where there are too many monks and too little porridge.

As a result, foundries from all over the world hold a refining competition every five years, and the ownership of these twelve refining rooms is determined by the level of refining.

The rest are not eligible to enter.

There is a small town located at the foot of Tonglu Mountain, and the name of the town is called "Tonglu Town", which is due to the evolution of Tonglu Mountain.

Originally, there were no people here, but because the refining competition was held here every five years, it gradually gathered a lot of popularity.

In the beginning, the refining competition was just a grand event in the caster's industry, but gradually, each refining competition not only attracted casters from all over the world, but also many people from outside the industry came to visit.

At the same time, many traders saw the business opportunities here and came here to do business, and many families settled down from then on.

Dozens of hundreds of years have passed, and the town of Copper Furnace has taken root here. And the refining competition every five years has also become a rare event in the copper furnace town, which is much more lively than the New Year. Correspondingly, the refining competition has become more formal, grand, and more widely known.

In the Great Qi Dynasty, this is almost a household name.

Along with it, Tonglu Town has also developed more prosperous and lively, although it is a small town, in fact, the scale is not much better than a small city. The town mostly deals in iron swords, and the practice of martial arts is very strong, and there are often people in the rivers and lakes walking in the meantime.

I don't know if it was the refining competition that made the copper furnace town, or the copper furnace town that made the refining competition.

Near the pass, there are several stone houses, which block the entrance in a corner to prevent anyone from breaking into it.

At this time, a carriage drove slowly, and even when it reached the stone house, it had no intention of stopping.

Seeing that the carriage was about to enter the mountain, a middle-aged man suddenly burst out of one of the stone houses, directly blocked the road, and shouted: "Bah, stop!" Idlers are not allowed to enter! ”

The young man who was driving the car raised his whip and smiled at the middle-aged man: "Brother Yang, why don't you even recognize me when you go out?" ”

Hearing the voice, Yang Weidong fixed his eyes, yo, who is not Huo Lao's apprentice Han Zongwei?

He hurriedly let go and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Han Gongzi, but he didn't see it for a while." Please come in, please come in. ”

Who else can make Han Gongzi drive the car besides Huo Lao? And what kind of character is Huo Lao?

The leader of the three consecutive refining competitions! The casting master who lives in the refining room of the Copper Furnace Mountain! The famous alchemist in Copper Furnace Town!

When he entered Tonglu Mountain, he followed up with his own family, where do you need any identity tags?

So Yang Weidong immediately dodged away.

Han Zongwei didn't worry about his identity, but greeted him very affectionately: "Brother Yang, the younger brother got a jar of good wine outside, I'll come to you when I'm free-"

Yang Weidong responded happily, and stretched his neck to look into the carriage, hoping to see Huo Lao. However, Huo Lao Qing didn't show up, where could he see him.

In the end, Yang Weidong could only shake his head and walk back to the stone house in disappointment.

A woman came out of the kitchen, still holding a spatula in her hand, and when she heard the sound, she ran out and asked, "Dongzi, who is that just now?" ”

Speaking of this, Yang Weidong looked excited, he approached his daughter-in-law and was about to speak, but when he caught a glimpse of her curious look, he didn't say anything, but sold it and said, "Guess?" ”

Hearing this, Yang Weidong's daughter-in-law Zhao's eyes were wide, and she almost slapped Yang Weidong with a spatula, "You still sell it to my mother!" Say it! ”

Zhao is the daughter of Tonglu Town, and the family is a dart teacher, so since she was a child, her temperament is also very tough, and she is not meek and weak at all, which is also very bold and atmospheric.

However, Yang Weidong loves her temperament, so after marriage, Zhao's temperament has not changed in the slightest, but has become more and more intensified.

People outside are rumored that Yang Weidong is afraid of the inside, but he doesn't care at all, he laughs when he meets people and jokes, with an expression of "Lao Tzu is afraid of the inside, what should you do".

As the saying goes, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, but the husband and wife have lived happily for so many years.

The only thing that doesn't go well is probably the issue of heirs. Zhao has been married to the Yang family for so many years, and she has not given birth to a son and a half daughter, so she doesn't know how many gossips she has suffered.

For this, the couple prayed to God and worshiped the Buddha many times, and they also ate the messy home remedies, but they didn't believe in it.

In the dead of night, the couple often sigh at each other, tossing and turning.

Don't mention the gossip, and after saying that the Zhao family made a threat, Yang Weidong immediately shrunk his neck, "hehe" laughed twice, and flattered: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll sue you if you can't do it." ”

"It's Huo Lao who has come back, and he just took the carriage into the copper furnace mountain. It's a pity that I didn't get to see his old man, and it would be nice if I could meet him for guidance......"

Zhao immediately smacked him, and said angrily: "You just dream, you!" Why don't you go outside and watch it, beware of asking people to touch it, you feel good! ”

After speaking, he didn't care about Yang Weidong, turned around and walked into the kitchen to get busy.

Yang Weidong was not angry when he was scolded, but touched his chin and laughed twice, he knew that his daughter-in-law was hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and he was afraid that he would be punished for making a mistake.

However, it was said that Han Zongwei drove the carriage all the way into Tonglu Mountain, and stopped in front of a bare stone wall.

There was nothing in front of the stone wall, only a huge old tree, I don't know what its name was, anyway, the branches were luxuriant, the roots were knotted, the bark surface was very dry, and even cracked in many places.

But the old tree still looks very energetic, and it is estimated that it will not die for a while, and it will continue to stand here for many years.

It's hard to believe that it can grow so big in this fiery place.

After the carriage stopped, Han Zongwei shouted into the carriage, "Master, let's get home!" ”

Before Huo Lao could answer, a black shadow came out of it, which one was not Lao Hei?

Although it was stabbed by the man in black that day, it was not injured in a critical place, and it took a reassuring pill in advance, and after being rescued by Huo Lao, it was almost better after lying down for two days.

However, Jiang Yi has not woken up yet, and he is still in a coma, because he was too seriously injured that day, and he didn't know how many times he was cut and how many arrows he was hit, not to mention that the arrows were smeared with poison.

If he hadn't taken the Reassuring Pill and the Hundred Flowers Pill in advance, where would he still have his life? I'm afraid I'm going to die if I don't hit the spot.

After Lao Hei woke up, he kept lying beside Jiang Yi, looking at him inch by inch.

Huo Lao wanted to drive it down and let it run after the carriage, but Lao Hei just didn't want to leave Jiang Yi. really annoyed it, and directly opened his mouth to bite Huo Lao.

There was no way, Huo Lao had to let this big guy stay in the car.

Han Zongwei shouted, and the person had already jumped down, walked to the bare stone wall and touched it a few times, his movements were very fast, like a dragonfly dotting water, almost invisible to the naked eye.

When he withdrew his hand, a hole suddenly appeared in the originally empty stone wall, and the edge of the hole was smooth, as if the original stone wall had disappeared out of thin air.

There is about one person at the entrance of the cave, one zhang wide, and it is more than enough for people to walk in, even if a horse enters it, it is not a problem.

Huo Lao seemed to have just woken up, and walked in slowly with his eyelids drooping, but he didn't care about the carriage behind him and Jiang Yi who was still lying in the carriage.

Helpless, Han Zongwei had no choice but to resign himself to moving Jiang Yi, who was still unconscious, in, and the carriage was directly tied under the old tree.

Entering the cave, there is a wide corridor, the stone walls on both sides are polished smooth, and a copper beast oil lamp is hung every other zhang.

The oil lamp is not ordinary kerosene, but a white and greasy flammable substance, which is very resistant to burning, and the smell is clear and mellow when burning, which is simply a combination of a bright lamp and an incense burner. (To be continued.) )