The old man's name is Gan Zimo, and he is the head of the West Courtyard of the Divine Barracks. The middle-aged beautiful woman's name is Qin Shuanghua, and she is the head of the East Courtyard of the Divine Barracks.

The Shen Barracks is divided into three courtyards: east, west and south, the south courtyard has been declining in recent decades, but the east and west courtyards are both flourishing.

The Divine Barracks was founded two hundred years ago by a refining master, after years of ups and downs, the door gradually formed the east, west, and south three courtyards, every three years, the disciples of the three courtyards will compete in the martial arts training field, the competition is divided into two kinds, fighting and refining, fighting in the front, a total of three, refining in the back, a total of two, five games and three wins, the winning side has to live in the backyard of the Divine Barracks for three years, study the subtlety of the backyard "Sword Shrine", and re-test in the fourth year.

The sword mound of the Divine Weapon Camp was originally built by the refining master who founded the Divine Soldier Camp during his lifetime, and it took decades to live, and it contains the refining experience of the refining master throughout his life, which is very precious, it is really a treasure, and it belongs to the holy land of the Divine Battalion, and outsiders are not allowed to step into it without permission.

In the past three years, although the losers in the two houses have worked hard to achieve shame in the next competition, the winners have not slackened and worked hard to protect the glory they have gained.

In the past few decades, the East and West Courts have their own wins and losses, and the competition between Jian Chen and Ge Bing is the last game in the battle.

Sitting on the west head brocade bench are people from other factions, most of them are refiners, all the refining sects in the city of water, when the god camp horse is the head of the horse, in addition to the refiners, there are also notaries jointly invited by the heads of the east and west courts, responsible for recording the victory and defeat of the competition.

In the middle of the west head of the visitors, there is a stone bench with a tiger skin cushion, which is fifty centimeters above the ground, and is made of the more precious colored marble stone in the Beimi Forest, which stands here all the year round, and cannot be moved by the wind and sun.

There is a person sitting on the stone bench, about forty years old, dressed in a green shirt, with thin yellow muscles, weak body, seems to be sick, holding a white paper fan, about a foot long, the fan bone is red and simple, spread out the fan, it is painted on a picture of an old man fishing, the stream is murmuring, swimming fish lurking, it seems to be indisputable, in fact, it is directly below the old man's grass-colored hat, but you can vaguely see a pitch-black sharp short blade, and there is a blue-gray brocade hanging from the waist, and he is staring at the head of the two courtyards in front of him with an obscure face.

The man's name is Bai Yangping, he was originally the head of the South Courtyard of the Divine Barracks, his own strength is not bad, and his refining attainments are the best among the three major leaders, but it is a pity that he has suffered from illness on the body of his sick seedling, and the disciples he has received in the past few years have gone away, scattered, and people have gone to empty buildings, coupled with the enhancement of the power of the East and West Academies, the South Courtyard has also been invisibly divided, including him, the huge South Courtyard, but now there are only three people left.

Without the position of the head of the house, Bai Yangping is now the only elder of the Divine Battalion, responsible for mediating the contradictions between the East and the West on weekdays.

At the end of the battle, Bai Yangping slowly stood up from the stone bench, a cold wind blew suddenly, and he tilted his center of gravity back a little unsteadily, but fortunately a young man behind him supported him so that he would not fall.

Waving his hand at the young man, Bai Yangping laughed softly, "Hehe, senior brother, senior sister, the battle competition is now over, let's start preparing for the refining competition." ”

Gan Zimo nodded when he heard this, then faced Qin Shuanghua on the side, and said with a smile, "Hehe, what Senior Brother Bai said is extremely true, but I don't know who Senior Sister Qin plans to send to appear in the first game of the refining competition?"

Qin Shuanghua swept the disciples behind him, hesitated for a moment, and called out a person's name, "Shengjie, you come to the first game." ”

"Yes!"

A young man in white came out with his fists clenched, and as soon as he appeared, the spectators here in the west were already talking.

"Hey, it's the sword saint, the Eastern Courtyard sent its own main force in the first game, it seems that this time it is inevitable!"

"Tsk, one of the four kings of the Eastern Courtyard, the Sword Shengjie, his Chaolu Treasure Knife is famous in the entire Water City!" In the crowd, a pock-faced man couldn't help but sigh.

Someone in the crowd asked, "This big brother, what do the four kings of the Eastern Courtyard refer to?"

The questioner was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man, who had been running tea business with Ma Lao Wu all the year round, and was very good at doing business, but he knew very little about the secrets in the divine barracks.

Mazi turned back when he heard this, and when he saw the little guy looking stupid, he shook his head and sighed, and immediately gave advice, "The four kings of the East Courtyard refer to the four trump cards in the East Courtyard - swords, guns, swords, and halberds. Each kind of weapon represents a person, the knife refers to the sword Shengjie, the weapon used is called the Chaolu Treasure Knife, the gun refers to the Zou gun, the weapon used is called Yinshan, the sword refers to Jian Chen, that is, the young man who just fought against the West Courtyard, the weapon he uses is called the throat sealing sword, as for the halberd, it naturally refers to the Shen Tu halberd, and the weapon used is called Iron Shatter. ”

"Oh, I see. The young man nodded suddenly, and then asked, "Since the East Courtyard has such a powerful four trump cards, then the next refining competition, won't the West Courtyard lose?"

"Lost?" Mazi glared at him with a bad face, "That's not necessarily!"

"Oh, what do you mean by that, big brother?"

Mazi snorted with a smile, "Hmph, there are four kings in the east courtyard, but there are also people in the west courtyard, but people are not called four kings, but four madness!"

"Four madness?" The young man became interested, patted the shoulder of the pockmarked face with a smile, and asked, "Big brother, which four people are the four madmen in the West Courtyard referring to?"

Mazi raised his eyebrows and said, "The four madness of the West Courtyard refers to the four beauties of the West Courtyard, they are the black narcissus willow swift, and the hidden weapon used is called the swallow dart; Yan Ruyu Xue Hai, the hidden weapon used is called the round hairpin, the white gourd Zheng Dan, the hidden weapon used is called the Ice Breaking Bullet, and the Mianli Needle Ge Bing, who just competed with Jian Chen, the secret weapon she used is naturally called the blue water needle." ”

"Are they all hidden weapons?" the young man suddenly found a clue.

Mazi gave him a contemptuous look, "What? Isn't it allowed to use hidden weapons? Hidden weapons are also a kind of weapons, what the West Courtyard is best at is refining hidden weapons, you don't underestimate people just because they are women, let me tell you the truth, the hidden weapons in each of their hands are very particular, if they are thin because of their greed for beauty, just your small body, it is estimated that they can be beaten into a sieve, hahaha......"

Mazi smiled lightly and mocked, which immediately attracted the laughter of many spectators next to him.

The young man didn't care, lowered his head and muttered, "The four kings and the four arrogant are a bit interesting, it seems that there are two courtyards of these things, and the next one is a good show!"

......

Seeing that Dao Shengjie had already appeared, Qin Shuanghua looked at Gan Zimo beside him with a smug expression, and chuckled, "Hehe, Senior Brother Gan, the candidates for this first competition have already been sent by my Eastern Courtyard, I don't know who you will send to meet you?"

Gan Zimo twisted his beard in his right hand, as if he was in his chest, his old eyes swept to the disciple behind him, and called softly, "Swift, come on." ”

"Yes, master. ”

With a soft voice, a rather handsome girl immediately walked out from among the disciples.

The two opponents stepped into the center of the martial arts training ground, first clasping their fists and saluting the surrounding guests, and then standing in front of their own sects.

"Hey, hey......"

Neat and heavy footsteps sounded, and twenty guards carried the two melting pots towards the training ground.

Zhou Nian raised his head and stared at the two melting pots in front of him, what this divine barracks had made was really a big deal.

The size alone is enough to make people look sideways, each furnace is two feet high, one foot wide, cast in bronze, with a corner on each side, with obscure lines engraved on it, and the furnace body has three openings, the lower opening is the largest, the top is second, the middle is the smallest, and a conduit extends from the middle opening, as if a hollow iron pipe was cut diagonally, and the tip was slightly downward, so that the melt could flow out.

On both sides of the furnace are all kinds of forging tools, hammers, tongs, grinding stones and cold water, just like the furnishings of an iron shop, all the necessary things are available.

Ready, Bai Yangping slowly moved forward with a white paper fan, reached out and touched it into his arms, and then took out a sealed envelope.

The envelope contained the exam questions used in this refining, which were personally issued by the three high-ranking notaries among the guests, and apart from the three of them, even Bai Yangping himself did not know what the specific topics were.

Tearing open the envelope, Bai Yangping took out the letter paper and scanned it carefully, and then read it out loud, "Ahem, in this refining competition, the first weapon to be refined-the three-bone knife!"

"Huh?"

As soon as these words came out, the crowd was embarrassed.

"Shady!

"It's over, doesn't this make it clear that you are bullying other people's West Courtyard?"

"My good man, this exam question is too biased, isn't it? As soon as you come up, you will refine the sword? The person sent by the Eastern Academy is the Sword Shengjie, isn't this his specialty?"

"Let Dao Shengjie refine the knife? Just kidding! He's eating this bowl of rice! Xiao Nizi from the West Courtyard, this time it's probably cool......

"The West Courtyard admits defeat as soon as possible. ”

......

As soon as the exam questions came out, a few families were happy and a few were sad, the sword saint was happy, and the nose bubbles were about to come out, but Liu Yuyan was unhappy, clenching her pink fists and standing there sulking.

Bully!

The East Courtyard is good at refining close-quarters weapons, and the West Courtyard is good at refining long-range weapons, and it is a fact that everyone knows it, but this exam question is ......

Gan Zimo even jumped up from his seat, looked at the three notaries opposite, and shouted directly, "I protest!"

Qin Shuanghua gloated, "Hmph, the protest is invalid! Senior Brother Gan, could it be that you have any prejudice against the three notaries? Don't forget the rules of our God Barracks!"

"Rules? This is a bully, and I still tell you the rules? Except for swords, guns, swords, and halberds, I can accept any weapon, and the exam question just bumped into your good apprentice's specialty, which is clearly a black-box operation!"

Qin Shuanghua spread her hands, fearless, "There's no way, the exam questions are not from me, if you are afraid, you can take the initiative to abstain." ”

"You ......"

"Master!" Gan Zimo was about to get angry and reply, but was suddenly interrupted by Liu Yuyan on the side.

Frowning, Liu Yuyan, as the most potential disciple of the Western Academy, naturally would not drop the chain for her master, "Master, since the exam questions have been released, it is futile for us to argue, so let's let the disciple give it a try." ”

Gan Zimo turned his head to the other party and hesitated, "You...... How sure are you?"

Liu Yuyan shook her head, "I'm not sure I'm sure, but the disciple will definitely do his best not to embarrass your old man." ”

"But these three bone knives ......"

"Master, please rest assured, although the three-bone knife is also a knife, but this refining method cannot be completely copied in accordance with the steps of knife refining, although the sword saint jie is proficient in knife refining, but it is not easy for him to easily defeat me. ”