There was a faint sound of striking iron in the darkness.

The apricot-grey sky grew brighter, and he stared sleepily at the painted rooftops, the early summer breeze spilling in through the cracks in the windows, enveloping the smell of scorching metal.

The sound of striking iron is like the sound of hollow valleys, slowly clear. His mother walked to his bed humming the ancient song of Loulan in the same way. He had a hunch that today was a special day, and among the many guests, there would be an important person!

Mo Tong took him into disheveled clothes, and gently put on a rice-ear-colored robe for him. When Mo Tong turned around to get the silk scarf on the iron rack, he couldn't wait to sneak out. The four attendants who were waiting outside the door trotted all the way behind him, but they could not outrun him at the age of twelve, and were even left far behind by him.

He ran among the towering columns of the cloister of earth and stone. The first light of the day shone lovingly on him, like a beloved son of light. His name is Wuyi Tianxing, and on the day he was born, a meteorite pierced the sky and landed in the southwest of Puchanghai outside the city, so his father Wuyi Kong named him Tianxing.

Loulan, the battleground on the Silk Road, is believed to be the place where anyone who wins the Silk Road will be able to control unlimited wealth and dominate the future.

Thirteen years ago, the king of Loulan abandoned the city for fear of invasion from various countries, resulting in a large loss of population. In the following year, the master of the Loulan King Kong Sword Casting School used the heavenly iron in the crater to cast weapons to help Khotan, Yanqi, Shule, and Wusun resist the invasion of the remnants of the Northern Xiongnu.

In times of tribulation, he stepped forward and became the spiritual pillar of Loulan. He led the residents of Loulan to rebuild the new city next to the Puchang Sea, and changed the sword faction to the Sword Alliance, because he had an oath with the four countries, and he would not participate in any rectification system throughout his life, and Loulan would not build a country, establish a king, not recruit an army, and renamed it "Sword City", take the sword as a belief, develop the ability to control the sword spiritually, and train the best swordsmiths for the four countries of the Alliance.

Each of the four countries sent elite troops to garrison the four gates of Loulan City. Located in the center of the city, the Sword Alliance forges a hundred good weapons for the four countries every year. Loulan, who has been violated by various countries, has explored a new way of balance in the troubled times because of her insightful vision.

What's more, the Sword Alliance, which is under the control of Wu Yikong, is fair and open to the students of the four countries, and promises to grant the Straight Transmission Sword Heart Forging Method to the sole heir!

This is the home of the Boundless Heavenly Star, the territory of the world's number one swordsmith. The cities on the Silk Road are all honored with the weapons of the Sword Alliance. Khotan, Yanqi, Shule, and Wusun rose to become the strongest forces in the Western Regions within ten years.

Tianxing's home occupies the most extensive area in Sword City, and even if he runs around the house for many years, he will still be surprised by the unfamiliar territory.

Almost every morning, there are new faces who come to study. Almost every evening, there are students who are not qualified enough to leave the courtyard outside the school, or voluntarily stay to become pyrotechnics and carpenters and other miscellaneous laborers. Because if someone in a family learns or works in the Sword League and obtains the Sword League logo to hang above the door of the house, the whole family can be protected by the Four Nations Alliance.

If you want to enter the inner courtyard of the Sword Alliance as a doorman, it depends on the selection on this day every year.

Wuyi Tianxing ran briskly through the long earth and stone corridors, and from a distance, what caught his eye was the Jianmeng Square full of morning light after everything woke up. In the center of the square is a large circular constellation of the Astrosphere. The constellation of the sword has a starlike structure as a whole, and there are ten metal veins intersecting in the star body. In addition to the tenth, the first nine metal veins are each inserted into the nine most famous swords of the time.

Around the constellation of the Star Instrument, colorful flags embroidered with the blessings of the four countries flutter in the wind. Today is the annual selection day of the division, so the whole square is crowded.

Wu Yi Tianxing ran all the way to the stone steps of the square. On the left side of the stone steps, there is a two-person high stone plaque, which is engraved with the words "The Way of Sword Forging". At the bottom of the stone steps, a variety of ores are placed near the wooden plaque engraved with the selected stone, and a row of utensils are placed around the engraved wooden plaque, which are filled with water, turbid water, mutton fat, butter, and so on. Behind them are three small furnaces, surrounded by a variety of sword-forging tools and an abundance of raw materials.

Three muscular test takers are standing in front of the furnace to forge their money. Behind them, there stood a row of Sword Alliance men dressed in plain linen clothes. The neckline and belt of these men were uniformly light yellow, and in the center was the tallest boy wearing a red gold belt.

Because of this red gold belt, the boy received the attention of the students present.

The students who were able to come here today had already inquired about various rumors about the Sword Alliance in Shikoku. For example, the Sword Alliance is divided into four gates: earth, water, fire, and wind, and all four of them wear plain linen clothes. Among them, the damper uniformly uses a white belt; The red belt is uniformly used for the fire door; The water gate uniformly uses a blue belt; Yellow belts are used for the underground gates. The four leading disciples of the four sects each used silver, magenta, indigo, and red gold, which were four-colored belts. These four leading disciples have extraordinary backgrounds, and they have long been known as the Four Great Sword Masters in the Western Regions, and they each have the support of the forces of the Four Kingdoms behind them. Among them, Tianshui, the swordsman of the Water Gate, was not only born in the Khotanese royal family, but also had a rich family.

The four countries relied on the sophisticated weapons provided by the Sword Alliance, and for ten years they have been thriving in the wars of various countries. The four countries contained each other, and Loulan was exempted from the possibility of being invaded by any one country, and became the only peaceful place in the troubled times of the Western Regions.

However, Shikoku has always been eyeing the secret of the direct transmission of the sword forging method. Fortunately, Wuyikong has established a supervised and sound learning mechanism, and students from the four countries compete fairly.

For ten years, the four countries each searched for smart teenagers in the country and sent them to study in Sword City. And among these teenagers, only the great disciple of the Earth Gate Heaven and Earth is deeply appreciated by Wuyi Kong and loved by all the people. Therefore, in the center of the disciples of the Earth Gate, the young man wearing a red gold belt naturally became the object of observation by all the new students present.