As the location of the Hegu City Branch, one of the eight branches of the Instrument Alliance, Hegu City is a first-class city like Shangyang City, but from the perspective of the internal layout of the city, it is completely different or even opposite. Except for the Hegu City branch, which is located in the center of the city, which represents the power center of Hegu City, the rest of the places are really completely different from Shangyang City.

It stands to reason that it is a first-class city, there is a high-grade spiritual vein under the city, and it is one of the eight branches of the Instrument Alliance, so the reputation of Hegu City should be very loud. But in fact, the name of Hegu Castle has been ringing since twenty years ago.

Twenty years ago, in the Great Contest of the Instrument Alliance, the original first popular candidate Shangyang City Branch actually lost to the Hegu City Branch, which has always been ranked last, which is already an incredible thing, and in that Instrument Alliance Competition, the Hegu City Branch actually successfully ascended to the throne of the first of the eight branches of the Instrument Alliance with an extremely strange attitude, which surprised many people.

Although many insiders disagree with the first place in the Hegu City branch of the Qimeng Dabi that time, the world will always believe in the result, the Shangyang City branch lost, from the first hot to the last, and the Hegu City branch won, from the penultimate to the positive first, although there are many boos, but this is already a fact.

It was also this time that many people noticed for the first time the Hegu City Branch, one of the eight branches of the Instrument Alliance that was the first to last every year but successfully counterattacked. It also reminds people of the location of the Hegu City branch, which is a city that is not inferior to any of the eight branches of the Instrument Alliance in every way.

In the next few league competitions, although the Hegu City branch did not win the first place, it was the end of the stabilized Shangyang City branch, and the prestige of the Shangyang City branch over the years has successfully become a stepping stone for the rise of the Hegu City branch, and the exhibition of Hegu City is getting faster and faster, and it is almost over the city of Shangyang City in just twenty years.

Among the current Hegu City Branch, the most luxurious is the minister's room belonging to Li Dongshui, the head of the Hegu City Branch. And at this moment, in this extremely luxurious minister's room, the atmosphere is extremely tense. A middle-aged man looked at the sky outside the window with a sinking face, this person was Li Dongshui, the head of the Hegu City Branch, one of the eight branches of the Instrument Alliance, and behind him, seven or eight smelters fell to the ground, trembling all over, looking at the ground with their eyes, not daring to let out a loud breath.

"So, you didn't do anything and just came back from Shangyang City?" Li Dongshui didn't turn around, but the indifferent words came out of his mouth.

These seven or eight who fell to the ground were naturally the group of smelters who were sent to Shangyang City by the Hegu City Branch, because Shangyang City came up with a way to crack it, so they could only reluctantly return to Hegu City to report the situation to the head of the Hegu City Branch.

However, at this time, in the face of Li Dongshui's indifferent words, even the leading smelter felt a chill, and said tremblingly at the moment: "Your Excellency, it's not that we haven't done anything, it's that the Shangyang City branch has come up with countermeasures that make us unable to do anything!"

After speaking, seeing that Li Dongshui did not react, the leading smelter was immediately in his heart, and said boldly: "As far as the situation at that time is concerned, if we don't make a move, it will only make the hearts of the people of Shangyang City calm, but if we make a move, it will be solved by the masters of the Shangyang City branch one by one, and when the Shangyang City branch is in full swing, we will lose everything!"

"Oh, so I want to thank you for judging the situation and making a wise decision?" The words came out of Li Dongshui's mouth with a hint of doubt, and compared with the previous indifferent words, it was obviously too gentle.

The leading smelter who heard this was immediately overjoyed, and said without changing his face: "No thanks, this is what we should do as a member of the Hegu City Branch, I just hope that the minister can ignore the failure of our mission this time, and we must be grateful!"

"No thanks, grateful?" Still in the same puzzled tone as always, Li Dongshui said puzzledly: "So my plan is wrong?" Then before the leading smelter could speak, Li Dongshui turned around, there seemed to be a flash of thunder between his eyes, looking at the seven or eight smelters who fell to the ground, and coldly spit out two words: "Waste!"

The leading smelter seemed to be frightened, and looked up at Li Dongshui blankly, he couldn't understand why Li Dongshui, who had just softened his words, actually said the word waste to them coldly. Behind him, two smelters with their heads down pulled at his clothes as hard as they could, trying to make him lower their heads.

Li Dongshui looked at the smelter who was looking at his leader like an idiot, and shouted coldly: "Get out!" At the same time, a momentum suddenly exploded, directly knocking most of the smelters out of the minister's room. The leading smelter was shocked by this momentum, his face turned even pale, and he left the minister's room without saying a word.

It wasn't until he was the only one left in the minister's room that Li Dongshui snorted coldly again, and immediately sat back in the minister's seat, his eyes closed tightly, not knowing what he was thinking, and after a while, he said to himself: "You can actually see through my double plan, and use it to put me in a dilemma, it seems that there are also masters on the other side of Shangyang City! Twenty years of suppression still can't wipe out their heritage?"

"Yue Xian'er, smelting the eight veins, hehe, the current smelting eight veins are all some chickens and dog thieves!

Speaking of this, Li Dongshui suddenly opened his eyes, and said in an indifferent tone: "I will let you know that the first vein of water refining is one of the eight veins of smelting, not a knife in the hand of any of your veins!"

More than a month of time flies in the blink of an eye, during this more than a month, Shangyang City can be described as surging, the news of the two exchanges has spread, many warriors and smelters are very interested in this competition, before the arrival of the agreed period, they have rushed to Shangyang City, fortunately, Shangyang City is a first-class city, the internal space of the city is large enough, so it will not be crowded.

Needless to say, the benefits of having a large number of people are naturally needless to say, all the people who come are martial artists and smelters, and there are occasional rare items flowing out of various trading markets, even Lin Liang has a slight harvest, according to the record in an atlas left by Huo Xing, it only cost two thousand spirit crystals to exchange for a piece of meteorite iron the size of a fist.

You must know that although the grade of this meteorite iron is not high, it is a necessary thing for refining a smelting hammer, a fist-sized meteorite iron is worth more than 10,000 spirit crystals, but unfortunately the stall owner does not know the goods, and only treats it as an ordinary iron essence, which makes Lin Liang pick up a bargain.

Since he was successfully promoted to the Spirit Vein Realm, Lin Liang began to collect materials for refining the smelting hammer, several main materials have been found in the treasury of the Shangyang City Branch, only one specific material Lin Liang rummaged through the entire Shangyang City Branch's treasury but did not find it, but fortunately, under the influence of the two divisions, Lin Liang, who had been searching for two days in the trading market, finally found this material and bought it for five thousand spirit crystals.

Although the three months agreed with Wei Jian had not yet arrived, Lin Liang already had a lot of spirit crystals now, mainly thanks to Fang Yu and Hei Kai, the two ministers of the Shangyang City branch, who gave Lin Liang a large number of smelting opportunities, so that Lin Liang earned a lot of spirit crystals while practicing his smelting skills.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages, the arrival of many martial artists and smelters instantly filled the inn spirit residence in the entire Shangyang City, even the hundred refining spirit residence has already hung up a full brand. Of course, all this had no effect on Lin Liang, with the lava order left to him by Huo Xing, which represented the third-class privilege of the Instrument Alliance, the Hundred Refining Spirit Residence had already prepared a separate spirit residence for him.

In the past month and a half, Lin Liang's cultivation has already reached the second layer of the Spirit Vein Realm, and he has also consolidated the realm. However, the spiritual vein did not condense the second one, after all, now Lin Liang has no resources in his hands, and the second is not very sure, after all, condensing the first spiritual vein is to give birth to such a thing, who knows what will happen if the second spiritual vein is condensed!

And the day before the agreed period arrived, Lin Liang received a summons from Fang Yu and Hei Kai, the two ministers of the Shangyang City Branch, saying that they were to discuss some details of the exchange before the arrival of the people from the Hegu City Branch, and at the same time, let several candidates who were going to be sent know each other.

When Lin Liang came to the minister's room, there were already six figures in the minister's room. Two of them were naturally Master Fang Yu and Master Hei Kai, the deputy minister, while the other four figures thought that they should be the candidates to be sent out by the Yangcheng branch this time.

"It's coming, Brother Lin is here!" The sharp-eyed Hei Kai saw Lin Liang who came to the door of the minister's room at a glance, and greeted Lin Liang at the moment.

Hearing this, Lin Liang showed a wry smile, secretly complaining in his heart that Master Hei Kai was making a big fuss, and immediately walked into the minister's room, greeted the two ministers, Fang Yu and Hei Kai, and said slightly apologetically: "I'm sorry, I was delayed halfway, so I asked the two ministers to wait for me for so long!"

"Hmph, it's good to know that I'm sorry, the shelf is really big, I don't know and I think it's the seniors of the smelting world who have arrived!" Before Hei Kai and Fang Yu could speak, an unruly voice came from the side. But Lin Liang, who heard this voice, was stunned, because he had already recognized the owner of this voice, which was Wu Xiu'er, the granddaughter of Master Hei Kai.