Chapter 19: The Young Swordsmith

With the advent of early summer, everything in the northern land is revived, dotted with greenery and full of vitality. [Full text reading]

The first batch of enrollment plans of the Tianlu Sword Academy in full swing has also come to an end smoothly, the scene of 10,000 auditions, and the competition of 1,000 teenagers highlight the strength and performance of each person.

But many people are concerned about the talent recruitment ratio of the Tianlu Sword Academy, although the official statistics of the Tianlu Sword Academy are nearly 10,000 applicants, but after a month of screening, only 500 outstanding talents were left, which is almost one in a hundred, which surprised everyone.

Even the major forces are shocked, and they are also very depressed, the Celestial Empire is dominated by the seven major forces, and the number of disciples recruited every year, even if the restrictions are relaxed, there are only dozens at most, at most hundreds, and this is still the result of the disciples of various forces scattered all over the world and actively lobbying and soliciting.

But what made them vomit blood was that the Heavenly Road Sword Academy was just a newly established Xinnen sect school, and it was only by virtue of the fame and influence gained in the Sword Boy Contest that it attracted tens of thousands of people to compete, just for the five hundred places.

Many people can't figure it out, if you want to talk about strength, the comprehensive strength of this Tianlu Sword Academy is not even comparable to thirty percent of those top sect forces, even if the sect has the existence of such a genius as Nie Lin, it will not be very attractive, they don't understand, why those people are like crazy, they all want to enter the Tianlu Sword Academy, and the other sect forces have opened their doors, eager to take the initiative to grab it, but they are still crowded.

It is said that those people don't look down on those powerful forces, this is simply impossible, this strange phenomenon, in fact, many smart people can figure out why the Heavenly Path Sword Academy is more popular than those powerful sect forces, and it is even more flocking, even crazy.

In fact, the reason for the popularity of Pilgrim is nothing more than... , First, the Tianlu Sword Academy was established, but his previous reputation is still there, and the poor children also have the opportunity to advance to the exhibition, and the second is that the Tianlu Sword Academy is recruiting disciples, he is equivalent to starting from scratch, and the management is very clear in all aspects, there is no phenomenon of intrigue, and the space for exhibition is huge, and the third is a batch of disciples, who are the pillars of a sect in the future, and it is often easier to make a career and take on a higher position, which is the biggest advantage that those old sect forces cannot match.

It is precisely these reasons that countless people see its potential and want to join the ranks, so there is a hot scene of competition among 10,000 people.

People go to high places, who is willing to go to those old forces of the sect to start as a watchdog or coolie, even if it is for many years, it may not be able to have a chance of promotion, because the old sect forces are full of factions, and there are constant fights, and no one wants to go in and be angry, and the kendo family is difficult to enter and get out because of the heavy concept of the family, and it is not easy to do anything.

Therefore, an emerging force like the Heavenly Road Sword Academy, which rose as quickly as thunder at any unexpected time and degree, has become the choice of many people.

Of course, there are also people who choose the Heavenly Road Sword Academy because of the sword technique.

At the Sword Boy Competition, the Tianlu Sword Academy was rewarded with a Xuan-level exercise, and then the Sword Academy announced that this exercise would be open to all disciples of the Sword Academy, which stimulated the keen nerves of the teenagers who had been eager to learn higher-level exercises, and they frantically rushed to come, because in those powerful sects, newcomers who have only entered the sect for a year are not qualified to learn and practice Xuan-level exercises, unless they are geniuses, they can only have a chance if they stay up for three years, which is also a major reason why powerful sects are not popular.

The five hundred disciples selected by the Tianlu Sword Academy for a month this time are all teenagers with good moral character and potential to explore, according to the different character and potential of each person, they are assigned to the doors of the major sword halls, and the number of people is not balanced, some sword halls may have more people, and some will be relatively less.

For example, the precept elders, they can also accept disciples, except for Su Bo who did not accept them, Tu Lao saw a disciple who made him quite excited, so he accepted it into the door.

If you want to say that the disciples recruited this time, the biggest sensation is still the couple in the pharmacy, they originally planned to accept only two disciples, and it is not public, they are free to choose, but after this news spread for some reason, the people who came to Bazhou became even more crazy.

If it was only because of the potential of one kendo, many people might be eliminated, but after having the profession of pharmacist, it also gave some people hope.

The news of the recruitment of the pharmacist apprentice was revealed here in the Sword Academy, and it had to be made public, and the quota was expanded from two to four, limited to two men and two women.

It's just surprising that when Bei Ling and his wife were choosing, they actually picked eight of them, in Bei Ling's words, there were many talents who came this time, and he endured the pain to choose the eight with the best qualifications, which can be regarded as one out of a thousand.

But in fact, the high-level leaders of the Sword Academy all knew that these eight people were the limit of what Bei Ling and his wife could bear, because for the sake of prudence, these eight people were even several times stricter than ordinary screening.

In the summary of this admission, Nie Lin also participated in the first gathering of the core elders at that time, and he felt that it was very reasonable for the medicine master disciples, but when a sword instructor reported and summarized, there was one thing that made Nie Lin feel very interesting.

Originally, a disciple recruited by the Heavy Sword Pavilion passed the selection of the three repetition competitions, but he was eliminated because the last item did not meet the requirements, because this young man used a hammer, which made the sword elder wonder, we recruited kendo and taught swords, what do you do with a hammer.

However, the elder still let the boy participate in the assessment, but the boy still did not meet the minimum requirements because of his mistakes, and could only be eliminated, but when Lu Zhaonan was inspecting, he passed by there and saw a young man with a hammer walking out dejectedly, so he called over and talked to the young man.

Originally, Lu Zhaonan was known as a fiery eye, he saw that the young man was very different, and after talking with him step by step, Lu Zhaonan was shocked.

This young man is actually a junior swordsmith, just because of his poor family, he can't even afford to buy a set of sword-casting tools, and he can't afford to open a workshop, so he can only work for the government's foundry.

But for this kind of talent that the sword academy lacks, how can Lu Zhaonan let it go, although the proportion of swordsmiths in the entire continent is several percent higher than that of pharmacists, although there are also blacksmiths in it, but the profession of swordsmiths is still relatively popular, Lu Zhaonan and Swordsman recruited pharmacist talents this time, but they did not recruit a senior swordsmith, which is a pity.

Now that there is a young swordsmith in the Sword Academy, and he has great potential, how could Lu Zhaonan let it go, so this young man named Tie Zhan became the first swordsmith in the history of the Sword Academy, as long as there is a talent, Lu Zhaonan believes that it is not difficult for him to get the secret art of sword casting.

After Nie Lin heard about this young man named Tie Zhan at the summary meeting, he was also very interested, because he thought of the Flowing Shadow Sword in his previous life, which was specially forged for him by a hidden sword-forging Heavenly King.

Coincidentally, the hidden sword-casting king was also surnamed Tie, which couldn't help but make him wonder if this young man was from the descendant of the sword-casting king, and if so, it was necessary for him to take this young man and help him find the sword-casting secret technique left by the sword-casting king.

So after the meeting, after Nie Lin left the chamber, he asked the tutor about the location of the young man, and then came to the place where the young man lived alone.

This young man was arranged separately in a place at the northwest end of the Sword Courtyard that had just been built, and near the facilities that had not yet been renovated, there was only one house there, which was originally for the guards to live in, but because of the swordsmith, that piece was divided separately by Lu Zhaonan, and he was going to build a sword-casting furnace for the boy in the future, as well as sword-casting-related facilities, hoping to make the profession of swordsmith also develop in the Sword Academy.

Because there is no master to teach, Tie Zhan is currently going to learn the sword basically, so he was arranged by Lu Zhaonan to be a disciple in the Heavy Sword Pavilion, and a sword instructor with fewer disciples is responsible for teaching.

Today is the first day of the end of enrollment, and those lucky students who have become disciples of the Sword Academy have a day to celebrate with their families, or go out to buy things and buy some daily necessities.

Although the Sword Academy manages food, housing, and clothing, not everything has to be provided by the Sword Academy, and some necessary supplies have to be bought by the disciples themselves, so on a day off, the disciples of the Sword Academy put on the clothes of the Sword Academy, and when they went to the outside city to buy things, those people's envious and jealous eyes made them more proud.

Tie Zhan because of his poor family, only one sister in the family is married, and he has lived there quite well, so he takes his mother to live with her, and Tie Zhan is alone to work outside, and every month he will send some of the money he has saved to his sister, so that his mother can live a better life.

This time, the Tianlu Sword Academy recruited disciples, and Tie Zhan came with a little brother from the same village, but his brother was eliminated in the first screening, and although he persisted until the third time, he was almost eliminated, but this also allowed him to stay in the Sword Academy as he wished.

He cherished this rare opportunity, if in his hometown, he didn't even have the opportunity to go to school, let alone learn sword skills here, and he also received some subsidies every month.

It's just that his partner was eliminated, and he couldn't stay here, so today Tie Zhan went out early in the morning to sell the hammer, and sent all the money to his partner, so that he could go back with a family in a city near his hometown.