There is no snow in the nearby mountains, but they are also lifeless, and the mountains here lack soil, they are all made of irregular large stones, and in the winter when everything is withering, there is not a single plant to be found on the mountain, let alone a living thing. Fortunately, the bright midday sun brings a touch of warmth to the mountains, otherwise it would not be a good impression here.

Many caves were dug in the mountains, and there were many buildings near the mines, and together with the buildings, these caves and buildings formed the strange stone gate. It can be said that this is a mine, and it can also be said that this is a martial arts sect.

Zhao Zheng has been to the Strange Stone Gate a few times in the game, although the terrain here is hundreds of times larger than the Strange Stone Gate in the game, but the outline layout is basically the same. Without looking for a guide, he easily found the Heshi Pavilion scattered among the mountains of the Strange Stone Gate, where the head of the Strange Stone Gate lived, and was also responsible for negotiating some ore trading business.

He was brightly dressed, and even the white horse he was holding was obviously a precious breed, and the people of Qishimen did not dare to slack off and received him warmly. He expressed his willingness to buy Linglong stone, which is very versatile and rare, and has a lot of money. This kind of big businessman can't call the shots, so he can only ask the head to come forward.

He sat down in the living room of the Heshi Pavilion, sipping hot tea while waiting for the arrival of the head of the Qishimen. The head of the strange stone gate didn't let him wait too long, and when the tea was halfway down, the head came to the living room.

The head of the Qishi Gate is called Yan Shi, he is a very old man, he looks very good, with gray hair full of the vicissitudes of time, his eyes are as calm as a mountain, and he has a sword and a white jade pendant hanging from his waist. He is a five-fold heavenly warrior. It's the same as all the people in the Strange Stone Gate. The practice is the "stone carving sword technique". This swordsmanship comes from carving, and the moves are mostly hooked, pointed, picked, slashed, rotated, and slashed, just like the carving technique.

"When a distinguished guest comes, there is a loss of welcome, disrespect, and disrespect." Yan Shi hugged his fists and greeted politely, without the shelf of the head at all.

Zhao Zheng immediately got up. Respectfully returned the courtesy, politely said a few words, and said that he had heard the name for a long time.

After the politeness, Yan Shi changed his words and entered the topic.

"Zhao Gongzi, listen to my apprentice, you want to buy a large number of exquisite stones."

"Yes, buy as much as you want."

"The output of Linglong stone is very small, and in my strange stone gate, there are only 100 catties of existence."

"It should be enough for me."

Yan Shi was obviously interested in Zhao Zheng's purpose for buying the Linglong Stone. But out of business courtesy, there was no abrupt inquiry. I talked directly about the price aspect. This kind of stone is not cheap, as high as more than 200 taels of silver a catty, and 100 catties is more than 20,000 taels of silver. Zhao Zheng had a lot of spare money on hand, so he didn't lower the price, and agreed to the price in one bite. Yan Shi saw that Zhao Zheng was happy, and promised to lower the price, make up a whole number, and give some scattered exquisite stones to Zhao Zheng.

"There are about ninety catties of exquisite stones in the Heshi Pavilion, and the rest of the exquisite stones are in other mines, and it will take about two days to take them all, and I will be wronged by Zhao Gongzi in these two days."

"I've been on the road for a long time, I'm sleepy, and I want to take a break, and staying for two days is nothing."

"I see Gongzi you hanging a sword at your waist, you must be a good hand at sword practice, it just so happens that my Qishimen is also mainly practicing swords, if you are bored in the past two days, I can order the apprentices to accompany you to fight a few hands, pass the time." Yan Shi happily invited. Qishimen lives deep in the mountains, and the people rarely have the opportunity to learn from the outside world, Yan Shi said that he wanted to help Zhao Zheng pass the time, but in fact, it was more to hone the people.

"Master Yan is really thoughtful, and the younger generation can't ask for it." Zhao Zheng smiled and agreed, he was also happy to fight with all kinds of people and learn from them.

For Qishimen, the transaction of 20,000 taels is already a big deal, and there are not many orders throughout the year. Yan Shi set up a sumptuous banquet at noon with the courtesy of distinguished guests, and warmly entertained Zhao Zheng. After eating, Yan Shi once again mentioned the words of the exchange, hoping that Zhao Zheng could have a few hands with his apprentice.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey. After you have eaten and drunk, you can move a little, just enough to eliminate your appetite. Zhao Zheng stepped into the courtyard, stopped next to a chic reddish-brown stone, and turned around to wait for the doorman of the strange stone gate to step forward. Strange Stone Gate takes mining as its main industry, and has a deep study of various stones, and in addition to this reddish-brown strange stone, there are many other strange stones in the courtyard.

"Wei Meng, you go and learn a few hands from Zhao Gongzi and have a long experience." Yan Shi stood in the middle of the crowd and commanded with a gray beard.

"Yes!" A powerful man came out in response, and the color of his skin was very close to that of the reddish-brown strange stone, which should have been exposed to the sun over the years. He was also bare-chested in the winter, and his skin was covered with swollen veins and tendons. He looked very rude, but his expression was quite loyal.

Zhao Zheng greeted the doorman named Wei Meng, and the two of them each drew their swords and fought in the courtyard. The body of the sword reflects the sunlight above the head, and with the rapid movements, it turns into white rays of light, flickering forward and backward, flickering left and right, making people dizzy.

After two fights, Zhao Zheng judged that Wei Meng's strength only stayed in the realm of the two heavens, and the difference between him and the other party was really huge, even if he fought against him, he couldn't learn anything, and after fighting more than a dozen moves, after giving Wei Meng enough face, he defeated Wei Meng with one move in "Wudang Swordsmanship Thirteen Potentials".

Wei Meng lost to a young man much younger than himself, and felt a little ashamed, blushed, thanked him and hurried off.

"When we first met, I thought that Zhao Gongzi's martial arts were good, but I didn't expect you to be even more powerful than I imagined, it seems that it is a very right choice for you to learn from my apprentices, they should be able to learn a lot." Yan Shi looked at Zhao Zheng again and praised him.

"The seniors praised it falsely." Zhao Zheng replied politely, not taking these praises too seriously.

"Qin Yang, you are at the bottleneck of cultivation, let's return you to the field this time. This discussion may be able to help you. Yan Shi called another apprentice to come out.

This person named Qin Yang stepped forward, he was much younger than the previous apprentice, but he looked a little more powerful than the previous apprentice, and his footwork was very steady. There is a faint sharp aura in the bones of his body.

Zhao Zheng fought with Qin Yang. I found out that I guessed correctly. Qin Yang is indeed a lot more powerful than Wei Meng, he has already touched the threshold of the Three Heavens, and his moves are more varied, and he has obtained the true transmission of the stone carving swordsmanship. He deliberately spied on the doorway of the stone carving swordsmanship, and did not rush to defeat Qin Yang, and dismantled many moves with Qin Yang. Most of the moves he used were the "Thirteen Styles of Wudang Swordsmanship", and occasionally mixed with some self-created moves in the Maha Swordsmanship.

The two fought in one place, and the sword light flew. The figure flickered. In the eyes of outsiders, the two are on a par, but in the eyes of insiders, it can be clearly seen that Zhao Zheng has the upper hand and firmly holds the initiative. The more he fought, the more Qin Yang felt that he had no chance of winning, and he had the illusion that the other party was guiding him to use all the moves of the stone carving sword technique, which surprised him, because he felt that only a martial artist of the level of the head could do it.

"This little brother surnamed Zhao is much more powerful than me. Thank you so much for the advice. Qin Yang didn't want to fight anymore and jumped out of the circle.

"You're welcome. I also learned a lot. Zhao Zheng smiled, he really learned something, in the process of fighting just now, he thought of a good sword move, which was adapted from a move in the stone carving swordsmanship.

Yan Shi replaced Qin Yang and let the other apprentices play, his apprentices' level was generally average, most of them stayed in the Triple Heaven Realm, and only one Third Senior Brother reached the Triple Heaven Realm. Although there is no winner or loser in the competition, Zhao Zheng is obviously a lot stronger than these people, and he plays with ease every time.

After eight full games, Yan Shi was worried that the distinguished guests would be too tired, so he called a stop in time and terminated the exchange. Everyone got together and talked about the process just now, like a seminar.

Since most of Zhao Zheng was fighting with Wudang swordsmanship and was mistaken for Wudang's disciple, Zhao Zheng vaguely admitted it and did not refute it. Yan Shi is an old Jianghu, his eyes are more poisonous, and he recognized that the swordsmanship used by Zhao Zheng was not a complete Wudang swordsmanship, which was mixed with some swordsmanship of other sects, and it was more subtle. Yan Shi knocked on the side for a few words, and asked Zhao Zhengshi where he came from, and Zhao Zheng claimed that martial arts were taught by his family, and there was no teacher. Yan Shi didn't ask any further.

After the discussion, Yan Shi took Zhao Zheng to visit the showroom of Heshi Pavilion, in this huge room, there are dozens of stone carvings of all sizes, the largest is more than one person tall, and the smallest is only the size of a fingernail. Zhao is a layman, he can't see why, he just thinks that these stone carvings are very detailed, and the craftsmanship should be good.

"These stone carvings are all carved by the people of Qishimenmen, most of them are from my hands, and the rest are from the hands of my apprentices. The swordsmanship of our sect is realized from carving, and in the process of carving, we can deepen the understanding of this swordsmanship, so we are very encouraged to carve stones. Yan Shi walked to the side of a pine jade carving, the jade showed a dark blue color, very close to the pine trees in nature, "Jade, the beauty of stone, among all kinds of stones, jade is the most suitable for carving." I bought this piece of jade from out of town last year and spent two months carving it. ”

"It's beautifully carved. I just bought a wood carving a few days ago, and today I saw a stone carving, and it seems that I have been involved in carving recently. ”

"Wood carving and stone carving are common to a certain extent, in contrast, stone is more malleable, and the carved works are more detailed."

"Well, it's really detailed, even the texture of the pine leaves has been carved." Zhao Zheng narrowed his eyes, carefully observing the details in the pine tree.

"Guess what I carved this pine tree out of."

"What else could it be, of course, a carving knife."

"That's half right."

"The other half is?"

"It's the saber at my waist."

"You carved directly with your sword?" Zhao Zheng was slightly surprised.

"As long as you can infuse the internal force on the sword, it is not difficult to carve directly with the sword, if you are interested, I will perform it for you on the spot." Yan Shi led the way in front, left the showroom with Zhao Zheng, turned left and right, and turned left and right to another large room, which was the carving room, which was specially reserved for carving stones.

There are two doormen in the carving room who are carving, both of their works are in the rough stage, and the stones are still very vague shapes, and it is impossible to see what they are carving. The two doormen got up to greet the head of the door, and their attitude was extremely respectful.

Yan Shi instructed his apprentice to do it, found an ordinary black ore, and put it on the table.

"It's ugly." After Yan Shi finished speaking, he pulled out his saber and swung it towards the black ore, and the sword body burst out with a sword qi, which was accurately engraved on the black ore. The hardness of this black ore is not as good as jade, it is very soft to some extent, and the sword qi passes through, leaving a nick immediately.

Yan Shi's hand raised the sword and fell, the sword light flew up and down, he stepped out of the gossip step, walked around the stone, and after the sword was put into the sheath, the black ore had become another shape, forming a lifelike black flower, the petals were shining, and the edges were as thin as cicada wings, showing a ghostly carving.

"Awesome! That's a real trick. Zhao Zheng had to admire and clapped his hands a few times sincerely. Even a martial artist who is more powerful than the Five Heavenly Martial Artists may not be able to carve a flower out of such a short period of time with a sword, which can only be done with a lot of hard work. The skills precipitated by time and sweat are always admirable.

"If you like it, I'll give you this flower." Yan Shi said with a smile.

"Thank you." Zhao Zheng stepped forward and carefully pinched the black flowers, for fear of breaking the petals. He looked at the delicate flowers, and had an idea, "It's good to use this unique skill to make a smile, and it's quite romantic to carve a stone flower for the girl on the spot." ”

"Hehe, this trick has really been used, and there is a person in this sect who has captured the hearts of the Yi people with this hand."

"Is there such a thing?" Zhao Zheng smiled dumbly.

After visiting the dazzling showroom, Yan Shi took Zhao Zheng to see the mine again, because it was too cold in winter, the mine had been stopped, in fact, there was nothing to see, and the two stayed for a long time before returning to Heshi Pavilion. Zhao Zheng had visited enough, and planned to refine Gengyang Jindan as soon as possible, so he asked Yan Shi for some Linglong stones in advance.

The stone has a dark golden color and an uneven surface, as if it had been haphazardly kneaded with mud and then hardened by fire. This ore is rich in abundant gold dollars, which can be felt just by holding it in your hand. Even if you don't refine the Gengyang Golden Pill, you can cultivate by directly absorbing the Linglong Stone, but the effect is just worse.

Zhao Zheng took the newly arrived Linglong Stone and claimed that he wanted to take a break, and Yan Shi provided him with a clean and tidy guest room. After he closed the door, he first put the heavy Linglong Stone into the warehouse, then sat cross-legged on the bed, opened the list of dungeons, skillfully found the alchemy room dungeon, and chose to enter. (To be continued.) )