"Aotian, although the Sword Casting Masters Tournament is held once in ten years, if you miss this time, there will be a next time, but the opportunity of life waits for no one, if you miss it once, it may not be possible to recover it in your life, although the teacher doesn't know what misunderstanding there is between you and the Seventh Princess, but the teacher really doesn't want you to give up like this!"

Hearing Ouyang Yunxiao's words, Aotian was silent, he also understood in his heart, and he didn't want to give up, but he definitely couldn't let the Seventh Princess see him.

"Don't let the Seventh Princess see herself?" By the way...... a good idea suddenly appeared in Aotian's mind, and he immediately looked at Ouyang Yunxiao and asked, "Teacher, can I compete in the competition with a mask in my face?"

"Masked, this, this doesn't seem appropriate!" Ouyang Yunxiao shook with a wry smile, but Aotian's words woke him up and made him think of a better way:" By the way, the teacher has a friend in the emperor's capital, who is very good at disguise techniques, I can ask her to help you change your appearance slightly, so that the seventh princess will not recognize you, but this is not a long-term solution after all, when you become a royal swordsmith, you will definitely meet the seventh princess in the future, so the teacher suggests that you should resolve the misunderstanding between you and the seventh princess as soon as possible!"

"Let's talk about it later, this time it's better to ask your friend to change my appearance for me!" Aotian finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said with a slight smile.

"Well, okay!" Ouyang Yunxiao nodded helplessly, "Then you will wait for me in the carriage in a while, I will take Mingzhu to meet the Grandmaster and Her Royal Highness the Princess, and by the way, I will sign up for the competition for you, and then take you to Yirong!"

"That's good, thank you teacher!" Aotian bowed his hand slightly.

Afterwards, Aotian stayed alone in the carriage, while Ouyang Yunxiao walked into the gate of the guild with Ouyang Mingzhu.

There were a lot of swordsmiths gathered in the hall on the first floor of the guild, some of them were gathering together to talk about something, and some of them were queuing up to sign up for the Sword Forge Masters Competition.

Seeing Ouyang Yunxiao walk into the hall, some of the swordsmiths immediately greeted him with a smile on their faces and saluted.

And Ouyang Yunxiao also said hello to those people casually, then took Ouyang Yunxiao up the stairs to the second floor, and then came to a spacious living room on the second floor.

At this moment, there were more than thirty people in the living room, Ling Xiao was in the first seat, the seventh princess was sitting next to him, and the handsome man was standing behind him.

On either side of the living room sat a dozen elderly people, one or two men and two men and women standing behind them.

Except for Ling Xiao, the Seventh Princess, and the man brought by Ling Xiao, the rest of the people here are the presidents of each branch, as well as the apprentices, descendants, or outstanding talents who were selected to participate in the competition.

Seeing Ouyang Yunxiao walk in, everyone's eyes looked over, and after a slight glance at Ouyang Mingzhu's body, they locked on Ouyang Yunxiao again.

"See the Grandmaster, see the Princess!" Ouyang Yunxiao took Ouyang Mingzhu straight to Ling Xiao and the Seventh Princess, and bowed.

"Ha Luha, President Yunxiao is exempt, please come and sit down next to you!" Ling Xiao said with a smile.

"Yes!" arched her hand again, Ouyang Yunxiao sat down on a chair on the side, and Ouyang Mingzhu stood behind Ouyang Yunxiao obediently, but her eyes involuntarily looked at the stunning beauty of the seventh princess, and she suddenly felt ashamed of herself in her heart.

Ouyang Mingzhu has always been very confident, thinking that his appearance is already stunning in the world, but today when he saw this beautiful and noble seventh princess, he knew what it means to be more dead than a person!

Compared with the Seventh Princess, her appearance was dull, so some of the young talents in this living room didn't look at her at all, and their eyes were secretly circling on the Seventh Princess.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's start talking about the process arrangement of this competition!" Ling Xiao on the first seat said again.

Before the words fell, I saw a woman with a graceful demeanor and a very shrewd and capable woman, who walked in with some information, and then introduced all the process arrangements to everyone present in the next two days.

In fact, the entire competition was organized by the staff of the Imperial Capital Guild, and there was no need for these old antiques to worry about anything, and their meeting here was just a formality.

After listening to the woman's introduction to the process of the entire event, Ling Xiao nodded, then looked at the other branch presidents and asked, "Do you have any doubts?"

"Nope!"

"No!" everyone shook their heads.

"Okay, then let's arrange it like this!" Ling Xiao said as he looked at the shrewd and capable woman.

The woman nodded, then respectfully stepped back again.

"Ha Luha, this competition, do you have any good candidates for each chapter?" Ling Xiao smiled again and looked at the people on both sides and asked.

"Alas—our chapter hasn't had a single outstanding talent in the past ten years!"

"It's the same on our side, although some new swordsmiths have appeared, but there are no candidates with enough recommended qualifications, it seems that it has reached the stage of lack of talent again!"

"Yes!" said several branch presidents with helpless expressions.

But there were also two branch presidents with smiles on their faces, each glanced at a middle-aged man behind him, and introduced one after another: "Our branch is okay this year, this is Chen Chong, the candidate recommended by our Lingde branch!"

"The one recommended by our Nanzhao branch is called Jiang Lingfeng!"

Hearing this, everyone turned their eyes to the two named Chen Chong and Jiang Lingfeng, and there was not much surprise in their eyes.

The two of them smiled and arched their hands to Ling Xiao and the other branch presidents.

"Hahaha, this session is not bad, much better than the previous one, if I remember correctly, only the Donglin City Branch recommended one candidate in the last session!" Ling Xiao said with a smile.

"Well, that's right!" nodded in response, the president of the Donglin City Branch.

"Ha Luha, this apprentice of mine will also participate in this year, let me introduce it to you. Ling Xiao suddenly turned his head to look at the handsome man standing behind him, "This is my apprentice Qin Zhen—Qin Zhen, I've seen the presidents soon!"

"Yes, Master!" Qin Zhen nodded in response, and immediately took two steps forward, arched his hand to the branch presidents on both sides and said, "Junior Qin Zhen, I have seen all the presidents and seniors!"

Hearing Ling Xiao's words, everyone's eyes showed a look of surprise, and they looked at Qin Zhen with admiration, and immediately smiled and hugged their fists in return.

After all, this Qin Zhen is Ling Xiao's apprentice, they naturally have to be polite and give three points, and if they can become Ling Xiao's apprentice, they will definitely have a bright future in the future, so they don't dare to put any older generation in front of him.

"Ha Luha, the apprentice of the Grandmaster is really extraordinary, look at this Qin Zhen Xiaoyou's age should be in his early thirties, it's really amazing to be able to come and participate in the Sword Forging Master Tournament at such a young age!" a branch president flattered.

However, although this person's words have flattery, what he said is indeed the truth, Ling Xiao was able to call this Qin Zhen to participate in the Sword Casting Master Competition, which means that Qin Zhen must already be at the level of Sword Casting Master, and to be able to reach this level, the blood level is at least the realm of a great martial artist, and then look at this person's age is only in his thirties.

Being able to reach the realm of a great martial artist at this age is already a gifted person.

"Yes, there must be no doubt about the apprenticeship talent of the Grandmaster, it seems that there will be no more candidates for the title of Royal Sword Forging Master this year!"

"Yes, hehe, this year's Royal Sword Casting Master is none other than this Qin Zhen Xiaoyou!" several other branch presidents also flattered.

Hearing the words of the people around him, although Qin Zhen had a humble smile on his face, there was a slight look of self-satisfaction and arrogance in his eyes.

"Hahaha, the presidents are serious, but my apprentice's talent is really good, he has just learned the art of sword casting for less than three years, and he can already refine a Xuan-level sword, let him participate in the competition this time, firstly, let him sharpen it, and besides, our guild's Sword Casting Master Tournament can't be held three times in a row without anyone getting the title!" Ling Xiao said with a smile on his face, and there was no modesty in his words.

However, there was no need for him to be modest, his apprentice was naturally the best in the Yunlan Empire.

Hearing Ling Xiao's words, Chen Chong and Jiang Lingfeng showed a slight look of shame on their faces, compared to Qin Zhen, their talents were really nothing.

"Hehe, this Sword Forging Master Tournament is really full of talents, Master Grandmaster, this competition, our Xilan City Chapter will also recommend a prodigy!" Ouyang Yunxiao suddenly said with a smile on his face.

"Genius?" Ling Xiao's eyes flashed, and he looked at Ouyang Yunxiao with some surprise, with a slight look of interest in his eyes.

And the people around him also gathered their surprised eyes on Ouyang Yunxiao's body, and some of them still had a slight doubt in their eyes.

"That's right, this son is a peerless genius I have never seen before, it has only been six or seven months since he learned the art of sword casting, and now he can already refine a Xuan-level top-grade sword!" Ouyang Yunxiao said with a proud face.

"Xuan-level high-grade!?"

"How is this possible after only studying for six or seven months?" The surprise on everyone's faces had turned to shock, as if they had heard some terrible news, their eyes widened and their mouths half open.

Even Ling Xiao's ancient eyes showed a look of extreme surprise, and the Seventh Princess beside him was the boss who stared at her beautiful eyes, full of surprise.

After only six or seven months of study, he was able to refine a Xuan-level high-grade sword, is there really such a terrifying talent in this world?

However, after the shock, everyone began to question Ouyang Yunxiao's words in their hearts, and their faces were full of disbelief.

After all, what Ouyang Yunxiao just said was too unbelievable, and even a little absurd.

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