I don't know how long it took, Ye Boyu opened his eyes, only felt that he was on a small platform, behind the platform was a big mountain, in front of it was a small river with a width of a zhang, and under the woods next to the river were several thatched huts, the huts were very simple, the form was very simple, Ye Boyu could vaguely recognize this as the most primitive thatched hut in the pre-Qin period. I can't help but wonder how I can be in such a place.

In the middle of the platform was a large, even stranger-style stove, and next to the stove stood two boys, one pulling the bellows, and the other observing the fire in the furnace. The furnace was large and high, more than three meters high, and under the stove was a furnace box for cleaning the slag, and there was an opening in the middle for a clear view of the furnace. The top of the stove was not sealed, and clouds of heat kept coming out.

Looking into the furnace again, I saw that the red metal in the furnace was slowly melting, and the two boys stared at the fire in the furnace without distraction, as if they didn't see the existence of Ye Boyu. The huge stove kept steaming, and the two boys who were roasting kept stretching out their sleeves to wipe their sweat.

After about an hour, the sky was completely dark, and the grass hut was lit by dim candlelight, and at this time, the fire in the great furnace on the platform was getting brighter and brighter, and the top fire was gradually turning blue. I only heard a boy next to him turn around and shout: "Master, Master, the hour is coming." ”

The hut firewood "squeaked" opened, and four people came out of it one after another, two men and two women, walking in the front was an old man with silver hair and a slightly hunched body, and the old man was followed by an old woman of the same age, who was probably the wife of the old man. Behind the old woman was a handsome middle-aged man, about thirty years old, with blazing eyes and no anger. The last one to come out was a beautiful woman in her twenties, dressed in emerald green, holding a handful of things in her hand. The four of them all had wide robes and big sleeves, and Ye Boyu knew at a glance that it was the outfit of the pre-Qin period, and it felt more and more strange.

The four of them walked quickly to the stove, and the old man looked at the fire first, only to see that the cyan flame was more than two people high, and the faces of several people turned red. The old man looked at it a few more times, turned his head to the middle-aged man and said, "Virtuous son-in-law, the auspicious time has come, you and the evil child should go to the Qingmiao to inform the gods." ”

The middle-aged man nodded, turned and walked with the beautiful woman straight into the dense forest behind the hut.

When the old man saw the two of them walking away, he said to himself with a gloomy expression: "It's another full eight days and nights, and today is the last day of the furnace. ”

When the incense was burned, the middle-aged man and the beautiful woman hurried back, and the beautiful woman said in a coquettish voice: "Dad, we have already offered incense to the gods." The old man nodded, turned to look at the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man also nodded, the old man's face was solemn, and he said, "I have told the ghosts and gods that the furnace will be separated at the third watch today." ”

Several people next to him all showed joy on their faces, and the beautiful woman said coquettishly: "Dad, we have been looking for three spring and autumn seasons, and we have been waiting here for one hundred and eight days and nights, will we be able to complete it today." ”

The old man twisted his beard and said: "We are entrusted by the king, if we can cast a divine soldier as we wish today, we will not be in vain The king has worked hard for me." (Ye Boyu said in his heart, it turned out that he was casting some kind of weapon.) ）

The middle-aged man raised his eyebrows, and said with a straight face: "Lord Yue, you are the number one sword forging grandmaster today, do you still have any concerns this time?"

The old man sighed, looked at the cyan flames, and said: "You don't know, the sword we cast in the past, although it is already famous all over the world, but it is only a sharp sword, the sword is completely different from the sword, the sword only needs to find the best copper, tin, choose the best water, and then have experienced people to master the essentials of fire, it is not difficult to cast." But the sword is a divine weapon, must take the aura of heaven and earth, the creation of ghosts and gods, not only the copper, tin, and water used must be rare treasures, and during the sword casting, there must be the blessing of the gods of the emperor, otherwise it will be jealous of the ghosts and gods. A few of us have done everything we can do, and the next thing is to see the creation of heaven and earth. ”

The middle-aged man and the beautiful woman glanced at each other, both of them couldn't help but feel deeply worried, and the beautiful woman comforted: "Dad, since the sword was cast this time, everything has gone well, the copper and tin used in the sword are the essence of Taiyi obtained by the king from the depths of the first mountain, and the water of sword refining is also the Ying of the water you selected. ”

The old man nodded and said, "Having said that, it's unpredictable after all." Just wait for the third watch today, and you will see. ”

Ye Boyu now also understands that it turns out that these people are hiding in this deep mountain in order to cast a sword for a "great king", and the old man in front of him seems to be a well-known sword-casting master.

But then I didn't understand how I came to such a deep mountain and old forest? What kind of place is this? Also, is this still the 21 st century that I am familiar with? The more Ye Boyu thought about it, the more anxious he became, the more questions he thought about, and he was in a hurry. Suddenly, a more serious question popped up in my mind: "No, where am I now, why can't anyone seem to see me, but I can see and hear others clearly?"

The two boys were constantly setting up a firewood, and the old man was sitting on the ground, using a knife to carve something on a piece of bone of an unknown animal, and his mouth seemed to have words. The middle-aged man didn't say a word, he stood behind the old man with a nervous expression, motionless, and the beautiful woman and the old woman went to the grass hut to cook on the fire.

In a trance, I don't know how long it was, I saw a full moon slowly rising to the middle of the willow tops, the old man suddenly stood up and looked towards Ye Boyu's position, at the same time, the middle-aged man also turned his head and stared at Ye Boyu's position tightly, the muscles on the faces of the two were twisted, as if they had seen something very terrifying.

Ye Boyu only said that the two of them saw him, so he was so frightened, and was about to apologize, when he suddenly felt that the fire in front of him was full of green light, and the flames were more than ten zhang high, and countless deep cracks were faintly revealed on the wall of the three-zhang high furnace, through the cracks, you could see that the red molten iron inside was boiling. I saw that the crack was getting bigger and bigger, and finally there was a loud bang, the furnace exploded, and a strong light as dazzling as the sun shone out, illuminating a radius of hundreds of kilometers as bright as day, and several people in front of them couldn't open their eyes for a long time.

After a while, the strong light gradually dimmed, Ye Boyu looked up, and saw colorful auspicious clouds directly above his head, and a giant sword hanging in the air. Faintly, it seems that you can still see the Xuanhuang two qi around the giant sword, the colorful light shining in the sky, the ground is full of mist, and there seem to be bursts of crane chirping in the distant sky.

The old man sat alone, closed his eyes and said nothing, and the middle-aged man, the beautiful woman and others all looked at the giant sword from afar, kneeling on the ground, and their expressions were extremely solemn.

Ye Boyu also knew that this was the divine sword that the old man was talking about, and when he saw the middle-aged man and the others kneeling on the ground, he suddenly reacted, he had been looking down from above, but he was in mid-air. When I looked around, I was sure to be high above, like a bird, looking down from the air. Ye Boyu was so frightened that he opened his mouth and shouted, but he couldn't make a sound at all. At this time, the horror in my heart reached the extreme, and I thought to myself, wouldn't my situation be like a ghost mentioned in the book.

was frightened, and suddenly saw the middle-aged man and the others still kneeling on the ground, but they all looked at themselves, Ye Boyu didn't know if they saw themselves, or saw something strange, but they didn't have time to think about it, and they were about to fall to the ground first, and suddenly saw the giant sword slowly turning a few circles in the sky, the tip of the sword was facing him, and a beam of dazzling white light was released, this white light seemed to have a suction, Ye Boyu was in the air, and he had nowhere to borrow his strength, and he couldn't help but be sucked in by this white light.

The giant sword also slowly withdrew its dazzling glare and fell to the ground.

The middle-aged man and the beautiful woman grabbed it at the same time, and the middle-aged man grabbed the giant sword in both hands, ran to the old man's side, and laughed loudly: "Lord Yue, the divine sword has been completed, please give it a name." ”

The old man stretched out a trembling dry hand, gently stroked the flowing sword light on the sword, and said slowly: "The English of hardware, the essence of the sun, out of the gods, the service is powerful, this sword is called 'Zhan Lu'." ”

"Zhan Lu!" The middle-aged man and the beautiful woman glanced at each other and looked at the old man, but the old man looked at the sword in his hand intently, and was silent.

After a while, the old man let out a faint sigh and said, "He's here, let's go." ”

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing who the old man said "he" was, Mrs. Meiyan was just about to open her mouth to ask, the old man waved his hand and said: "Cadre, Mo Xie, one should be pecked, destiny, you two don't need to say much." With that, the old man stood up, waved his big sleeves, and walked towards the foot of the mountain, and several other people hurriedly followed, and in an instant, several people disappeared into the jungle in the distance.

Not long after the old man and a few others left, two black lights flashed out of nowhere, and they stopped at the top of the mountain for a while, but they disappeared in an instant.

Thousands of miles away from the bottom of Buzhou Mountain, in the Shura Palace beyond the Nine Underworlds, the Netherworld Gate connecting the Demon Realm and the God Realm also slowly broke the dust seal of thousands of years and cracked a trace of cracks.

A long rainbow suddenly fell from the sky to the foot of the mountain not far away, turned into a middle-aged man wearing Taoist clothes, the Taoist eyes were lucky, the divine thoughts shot straight to the ground, at a glance saw the scene of thousands of gods and demons thundering outside the nine underworlds, nodded and said to himself: "The divine soldier was born, the six realms are in calamity;

Readers are encouraged to watch the next chapter, "The Mystery of the Ancient City".