Chapter 711: Iron Spirit

"Can I try this pair of tips?" Luo Han picked it up and felt unusual, so he asked the old man for advice. "If it is damaged, I am willing to buy it at the original price."

The old man said proudly: "Even if you try, if it breaks, it's mine." Xiao Jia, go find two guns. ”

Luo Han hurriedly said: "Don't make a wooden one, let's cut off the iron gun barrel twice." ”

The old man's brows tightened, and he hesitated and waved his hand: "Do as he says." ”

After a while, a pair of guns arrived. Luo Han skillfully loaded the head of the gun, held two short guns in his hand, and played a set in the open space in the middle of the shop. The old man was surprised, Luo Han's set of short gun marksmanship was seen in the martial arts scene, just drawing cats and tigers from memory, but Luo Han himself has rich combat experience, and he is also decent to play. Playing with excitement, Luo Han twisted the two gun shafts together, combined them into a double-headed gun, and turned the gun wheel. The gun wheel flew in his hand, and it was dazzling to watch. Suddenly, the gun wheel took off his hand, turned into a silver light, and shot towards the ground at the door, and the head of the gun was deeply rooted in the bluestone slab at the door, leaving only the body of the gun to tremble and buzz.

"Good!" The old man and Tie Hun couldn't help but applaud.

Luo Han let out a breath, walked over and pulled out a double-headed gun, glanced at it and said: "It is worthy of being a forging master, although this material is still average, but the master uses a hammer according to his aptitude, and uses his strengths and avoids weaknesses, making this spear head tough and indestructible, and it is most suitable for vigorously breaking armor, and there is no problem that ordinary spear heads are easy to collapse." This is not something that ordinary masters can do, I wonder if I will be lucky enough to meet this master in the future? ”

The old man laughed: "The little brother has a good reputation, the old man Cui Ren, these weapons are all made by the old man." To tell the truth, the quality of the iron ingots produced in the royal smelter has become worse and worse over the years, and the old man is also helpless, so he tries to find another way and give up his hard work. It's just that if an ordinary blacksmith is like this, it is difficult to ensure sharpness, so it is difficult for the old man to promote this method, which is really embarrassing. ”

For a master of casting weapons, a martial artist who really understands weapons is a bosom friend, obviously Cui Ren has regarded Luo Han as a bosom friend.

Luo Han sighed and said: "That's a pity, I came this time to purchase some iron weapons to be sent to the Qin State to cast into weapons, if there are enough high-quality weapons, you can also buy them directly." But IMHO, limited by the material, except for the master's weapons, the others are not as good as the finished products of our foundry. Anyway, if the master is willing, I will buy these weapons separately as a collection, and then find some agricultural tools and the like to transport them back to be re-smelted. ”

Cui Ren also sighed and said: "It's a shame to say that the Iron Mountain State has one of the best blacksmiths in the world, but there is no qualified steel to perform. Originally, twenty years ago, the quality of the iron ingots in the smelter was not bad, but since the third prince took over the smelter, it began to be shoddy, and the reputation of the blacksmiths in the Iron Mountain Country has also been ruined. If it weren't for the extreme shortage of iron ore in the neighboring countries, the Iron Mountain Country would have been unable to sell things for a long time. ”

Luo Han's heart moved, and he asked: "I heard that the Iron Mountain Country has been mining iron for a hundred years, is it possible that this iron ore reserve is so large that it can't be mined in a hundred years?" ”

Cui Ren looked at the direction of the mine and shook his head: "Don't you know, it is rumored that there is a god in this mountain who is an iron spirit, absorbing the iron ore in the nearby leylines day and night, and gathering in the mountain, after it enjoys the essence, it will leave behind iron ore with a lot of impurities." Therefore, the Iron Mountain Mining did not directly excavate the rocks, but threw the stones and tributes from the caves in the mountains, and then collected the iron ore flowing from the mountains in the river below the mountains. As long as this divine iron spirit still exists, the Iron Mountain Kingdom will never have to worry about iron ore. ”

Luo Han was surprised in his heart, in the immortal fantasy scene, everything can open spiritual consciousness, plants and trees can become essence, spirit stones can give birth to living beings, and divine iron is naturally possible. However, on the surface, Luo Han had an expression of disbelief: "This is too weird, in this way, isn't the iron of the surrounding countries all dug up by the Tieshan Country?" ”

Cui Ren laughed: "Who said it wasn't? Anyway, the closer the country is to us, the less iron ore is found, and even if one is found occasionally, it is an extremely barren vein. ”

The two chatted a few more words, and Cui Ren expressed his love for Luo Han's idea of directly purchasing iron ingots and ores, and told him that the price of iron in the Iron Mountain Country may be cheaper than in other normal countries, but the blacksmiths in the Iron Mountain Country make a living from it, and the processed iron is definitely much more expensive than the pig iron in other normal places, and this business may not be possible.

Luo Han bought several of Cui Ren's works and said goodbye to Tie Hun and left. When he arrived outside the store, Tie Hun said in a low voice: "Brother Bai, don't listen to Cui Renhu, what he said is normal iron, you have to transport it back to be re-smelted anyway, I can find someone to hit a few hammers at will, the same weight is only two percent more expensive than the pig iron in the smelter, as long as you can control the transportation cost, it will definitely be profitable." ”

The merchant is really mercenary, Luo Han actually understands the intention of the Iron Mountain Country, deliberately produces inferior materials, and increases the cost of recasting and recasting in the surrounding countries as much as possible through iron processing, so as to suppress the armed forces of the surrounding countries, and they themselves must have better material forging equipment, so as to ensure that the Iron Mountain Country has enough deterrent force to defend this inexhaustible Iron Mountain.

However, Luo Han originally casually said that he was looking for a reason, he didn't have time to worry about business, not to mention that he now had a new goal. Therefore, Luo Han pretended to be lost and said: "Forget it, I thought that I could find a good business and make a big splash in the Chamber of Commerce, but I didn't expect the quality of the iron released by the Iron Mountain Country to be so poor, the profits have fallen sharply, the transportation cost has risen, and the cost of these two percent will be added, and the Chamber of Commerce will not agree to open this business road." I'm sorry Brother Tie, this is a little bit of my brother's heart, I apologize, please be sure to accept it. ”

Tie Hun took the bag of gold coins handed over by Luo Han, and shook his head, since Luo Han refused to do this business, he had no choice, so he made a few polite words, and then made an excuse to leave.

Luo Han sent Tie Hun away, but he went directly out of the city and went to the middle mine. When I approached the mine, I saw a dense sentry tower at the foot of the mountain, and soldiers in armor and helmets stood guard on top of the sentry tower, which seemed to prohibit suspicious people from entering. Of course, this is not difficult for Luo Han, there are no monks in this place, so he can turn into a white cloud and float into it with a random trick.

Beyond a hill, you can see a ditch, and many men, women, and children are rummaging through the river to pick up stones and bring them to carts on the bank, which seem to be ore. This is similar to the appearance of African warlords mining diamonds, but the treatment here is better, the miners are willing to work for a living, and the iron ore is not like diamonds, at least the size of a ping-pong ball, and you can't hide it if you want to. That is, the source of iron ore in this place is unique, so there is such a strange way of mining, normal iron ore mining, are mining holes, when there is no detector, it is pure luck, sometimes a few stones are a rich ore may be missed.

Luo Han looked at it from a distance for a while and found that the upper reaches of the river was a cave, and the river was very turbulent when it came out of the cave, bringing out stones of different sizes. A little further away, there were other people digging for rocks, but apparently they weren't for mining, because they would break the big rocks into smaller pieces, like those fished out of the river, and pick them up the mountain with picks.

Luo Han found a place where no one paid attention to and flew into the air, followed the route of those porters to look up, and sure enough, he saw the porters picking up the gravel to a big hole at the top of the mountain and dumping the gravel into the cave. There are still some people weaving bamboo cages next to the cave, and there are tributes such as wine jars and preserved melons and fruits on the ground, and there is a long rope next to it, which is estimated to put the tributes into the bamboo cage and put them down with a rope.

Looking at the current situation, it is a bit unrealistic to want to sneak down, and Luo Han doesn't want to cause trouble, after all, this place has not been occupied by the Storm Palace, and the reputation of his Storm God is not very good, so he simply went back to the Heavenly Palace to meditate and cultivate, and then came back at night.

By night, the people on the hill had almost withdrawn, and there were only scattered soldiers patrolling, and they didn't know what to be prepared for. Luo Han easily dodged the patrolling soldiers, came to the entrance of the cave, looked inside, and saw nothing in the dark. In this scene, Luo Han had nothing to fear, so he jumped into the cave and fell all the way to the end.

It was pitch black inside the cave, Luo Han took out a flashlight and looked around, which was really interesting. It was a wide platform, and the ground was full of gravel, but it was not covered thickly, and it was obviously taken care of. The stone walls on all sides and the ground beneath your feet are red and obviously rich in iron. At the end of this platform, there is a man-high cave, and at the mouth of the cave there are many destroyed bamboo cages, and the bamboo cages are still covered with ropes. In the clearing next to the cave, a large number of peels and various pits of various decays are piled up.

If the rumors are true, the spirit of the Iron must be living in this cave. Luo Han slowly approached the cave, and in the quiet space there was only the sound of his own footsteps and the sound of a slow and powerful heartbeat. Just as Luo Han was about to put the light of the flashlight into the cave, the cave lit up with colorful light, and then a colorful figure rushed out and crashed into Luo Han without saying anything.

Luo Han only felt that an invisible force suddenly enveloped his body, as if gravity had suddenly become dozens of times larger. Luo Han snorted, and quickly punched out, colliding with the fist from the colorful figure.

The impact seemed to hit a steel city wall directly, and the anti-shock force made Luo Han himself a little unbearable, and the other party was also beaten upside down and flew a somersault, falling to the ground with a crisp metal impact sound from his legs.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? The colorful light on the figure dissipated, revealing an indifferent and heroic face, the contours of the face were hard and sharp, and the pair of eyes were colorful.

Luo Han rubbed his fists, even if he was a serious strength elder, he would wear steel fist gloves and built-in cushions when fighting with his fists, otherwise he might not be able to withstand hitting hard objects and bones. Fortunately, the opponent's strength is not so strong, and Luo Han is only numb in his fists, and the skin is broken at the joints.

"I am the god of the Storm Continent, where do you come from?"

The other party said coldly: "What Storm Continent god?" Haven't heard of it. The master is the spirit of the ancient god iron essence iron, the big colorful sage. If you don't want to die, get out of here. ”

Luo Han chuckled: "You dare to call yourself a great sage?" What Ancient Divine Iron? You can deceive others but you can't deceive me, there is no real ancient thing in this world, you are just a piece of treasure iron containing spiritual energy that opened up spiritual wisdom by chance. ”

The Colorful Great Sage frowned: "Who are you?" "Obviously, Luo Han said that this is just a trial scene that has not been created for a long time, and the so-called antiquity only exists in classics and legends.

Luo Han put his hands behind his back and said lightly: "Emperor of Heaven, you always know, now my identity is still above the Emperor of Heaven, this world is now divided into six continents, and I am the lord of this Storm Continent where you are." ”

The Colorful Great Sage obviously didn't know what was going on outside, and sneered: "Higher than the status of the Heavenly Emperor?" How dare you brag. Master will give you another chance, leave here immediately, otherwise today next year will be your sacrifice day. ”

"Stubborn." Luo Han waved his hand, and the worm sword came out and shot towards the Colorful Great Sage.

The Colorful Great Sage was not in a hurry, let the worm sword slash on his body, and said proudly: "The little master is the spirit of fine iron, absorbing a lot of iron essence, it is already indestructible, no matter what magic weapon you have, you don't want to damage a single hair of the master." ”

Luo Han said leisurely: "Do you have hair?" ”

The Colorful Great Sage was speechless, and touched the top of his smooth and slippery head, he really couldn't answer this.

Luo Han withdrew the Worm Sword, but this time he rushed directly with the sword. The power of the sword directly providing energy blessing in the hand is naturally far superior to that of the imperial sword, and it slashes the colorful great sage flying wildly, but it still can't hurt him.

Luo Han tried a few times, and was hesitating to use a powerful move, but the Colorful Great Sage suddenly shouted: "Stop!" ”

Luo Han put away his sword: "What are you doing?" ”

The Colorful Great Sage looked at Luo Han: "As soon as you come up, you will chop and chop, I have a grudge against you?" ”

Luo Han shook his head: "No hatred." ”

"Since there is no enmity, you have something to do with me. What do you say? Is it cool to cut Lao Tzu everywhere? ”

This...... Luo Han didn't expect that although this Colorful Great Sage was indestructible, his own strength was really average, so he could only be at his mercy.

"Okay, I'm here to see if I can take you into a weapon and fight with me."

The Colorful Great Sage shook his head: "You said it earlier, didn't you just go to fight?" I know that my ability is average, once I am discovered, sooner or later I will be refined into a weapon, I think you have good skills, and there is no shame in giving you a weapon, as long as you promise me a few conditions, I will go with you. ”

Luo Han was not very happy, but asked vigilantly, "What conditions?" "He has always believed that there is no free lunch, and he was a little bottomless to get the compromise of the Colorful Great Sage so easily.

"It's easy." The Colorful Great Sage stretched out his fist and popped out a finger: "First, it's not allowed to carve rune circles on me, this will affect my spirituality, and maybe it will make my spiritual sense dissipate." Second, I am still in the growth stage, and I need to absorb a large amount of iron essence, which is the most essential thing in iron ore, and you must ensure the supply, of course, the more I absorb, the stronger my body will be, and it will also be good for you. Third, I can't let others use me. ”