"If you have time, you might as well come to our White Deer Sword Academy to have a look and understand the sword marks left in the mountains......"

Silently paying the rest of the indemnity, the silver-shirted swordsman with a sad face seemed to have made a decision and sent out a bronze medal engraved with a deer antler pattern, indicating that their sect did not care about the fiasco of this sword fight, but on the contrary, wanted to form a good relationship with Zhao Qing.

Easily defeated by the younger juniors, the White Deer Sword Academy's original plan to take advantage of the momentum of the service to make a name for itself and revive the sect has come to naught, under normal circumstances, it is not uncommon for the loser to encounter such humiliation, and the loser commits suicide on the spot, thus forming a life-and-death feud.

However, for these swordsmen whose real age is less than fifty, but more than two hundred, more than ten years ago, in the battle between Wu and Yue, the Wu army pursued and rounded up the Yue people hiding in the mountains after the victory, and plundered, and did not retreat until the losses could not catch up with the harvest;

The benevolence of the husband and woman refused to listen to Wu Zixu's advice to destroy Yue in one fell swoop, naturally not because he was really so stupid, but because the Wu army had razed the Yue capital in this battle, causing the casualties in the core area of Yue to be as high as six or seven percent, and according to common sense, it would be impossible to reorganize the forces against Wu within a hundred years.

As the outermost mountain range of the Huiji mountain system, Bailu Mountain, which has more people around than the inside of the mountainous area, also belongs to one of the hardest hit areas of looting at that time.

Some hid in the depths of caves and starved to death for months, while others were discovered by Wu Jun and thrown into mountain swamps to drown; After being caught, the ordinary Yue people who were disliked and unfit to be slaves were gathered together and slaughtered, and the Jingguan built by the slaughter is even more shocking.

Although it seems to be more advanced than the Yue Kingdom and influenced by the ritual and music culture of the Central Plains, the upper-class nobles of the Wu State have always had a tradition of human martyrdom, as can be seen from the case of Teng Yu, the daughter of Lu Lu, who is very different from the Yue who did not have such backward customs, and their actions are much more cruel and tyrannical.

In the eyes of everyone in the White Deer Sword Academy, if Zhao Qing can understand something from them, and grow into an important figure in revenge against Wu in the future, then this will not only have the effect of fame, but also indirect revenge, so he didn't think that his position changed quickly, and he sent her an invitation.

Sensing the hope and expectation in the hearts of this group of people, as well as the merciful salute and gratitude to his subordinates before leaving, Zhao Qing also had a lot of thoughts, and realized the deep hatred and hatred that these Yue people who had personally experienced the catastrophe and seemed to have come out of the past.

Even in the depths of Huiji Mountain, the small village where she was originally located was abandoned to the point where only the mother and daughter remained, which shows that if Wu Jun's sweeping operation continued for a longer period of time, he might not be able to live to grow up, and there was a high probability that he would have died in infancy.

From this point of view, Gou Jian was willing to take a great risk to enter Wu as a slave, and dealt with his husband and Wu Zixu, thus avoiding the danger of countless Yue people.

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After a while, Zhao Qing, who was thinking about this in his heart, rode with Zheng Dan and quickly rushed towards the direction of the stomach family's mansion, and saw one after another foreign hotels along the way, lined with high-walled courtyards, each covering a wide area, enough to accommodate thousands of envoys.

Foreigners from remote areas come to the meeting to do things, but they can't find the way in a short time, and they are often bullied by people in the land who are not familiar with the place.

Therefore, with the permission of the Yue Guo Pedestrian Administration, the 100 Yue countries such as Ganyue, Yangyue, Minyue, Ouyue, Cangwu, Nanyue, and Xiou have set up special embassies in Fuyangli, which is a special foreign zone, which can be used for commercial and trade negotiations with the Yue country, and can also accept the help of many people from the same tribe.

As an important place for Yue people to make friends outside Huiji City, this area is full of traffic and horses on weekdays, bustling, and lively to the extreme, and there are often congestion and road congestion.

But when Zhao Qing and Zheng Dan galloped away from the avenue in front of them, countless Waiyue people who had just gotten the news of the battle gave way in advance, crowded on the wall to peek at the heroic posture of the two of them, and were amazed and reverent.

Obviously, the impact of defeating the people of the White Deer Sword Academy so easily is not just as simple as the fame of the Yue Kingdom, and after a few months, the fame will spread far and wide, spreading to the vast area of nearly a million miles from Huiji to Jiaozhi.

And when they arrived at their destination, it was already night, and the lights from the distant courtyard emitted a hazy light under the refraction of raindrops, like stars in the night sky.

Without checking the invitation, the guards at the gate of the Stomach Manor consciously opened the door, took the initiative to hold up a special giant umbrella with a diameter of several feet to protect from the wind and rain, and led the guests to the depths of the manor.

I saw that although the area here is large, the buildings are quite sparse, and there are no large-scale landscapes such as rockeries and lakes, but most of the areas are full of colorful exotic flowers and plants, not to mention thousands of varieties, many of which are plants that Zhao Qing has never seen before.

You must know that she has read hundreds of thousands of books in the Sui Dynasty library, many of which have records of plants, trees and flowers, and there are still most of the varieties that cannot be classified and identified, so it can be seen that a considerable part of the flowers and plants cultivated here should be unique to the main world and have strange effects.

It seems that this manor of thousands of acres should be a special flower and plant cultivation base, and I don't know if it is related to the invitation from Stomach Yu.

In order to avoid the hidden danger of stomach Yu or others at this dinner party, while observing and collecting information about these flowers and plants, Zhao Qing also quietly bounced a dozen Xiaoice beads into several ponds planted with lotus flowers, turned into the shape of ice lotus seeds, and sank deep into the silt at the bottom of the pool.

Together, these Xuanbing Lotus Seeds formed a multi-monitoring formation, and it contained an appropriate amount of metal deuterium charge, which was connected to her spiritual fluctuations through the cradle system, and could be detonated at any time, serving as her backhand.

After bypassing these ponds, the group finally came to a small courtyard with a quiet environment of chiseling ponds and stacking stones, planting trees and flowers, and sitting in a spacious and spacious hall with a rich façade level, which is enough to teach any first-time visitor to breathtaking.

The whole building is elegant, and the pool outside is borrowed from each other, sitting in it can see the pool brocade ripples, reflecting the shadow of the tree and the shadow of the cloud, quite the hall in the pool, the pool in the hall of the charm.

"The two of them came just in time, the crab roe soup in the Ding has been boiled for two hours, the aura and the soup in the soup are blended with each other, the flavor is excellent, and please taste one or two at the banquet."

When Zhao Qing came to this richly decorated banquet hall and sat down beside a few feasts separated by beaded curtains, he also led a team of maids to walk in through another door, and introduced lightly through the curtain.

What is striking is that this stomach is much thinner than she remembers, and it looks a little malnourished, and it is suspected that she has practiced some extremely expensive quick success methods, but when Zhao Qing secretly used his heart sense, he encountered a layer of obstruction.

With his voice, there were immediately maids on Zheng Dan and Zhao Qing's respective feasts, as well as a series of tableware corresponding to the etiquette system, such as Yan, Dun, bean, dagger, chopstick, Yi, Zun, Jue, Yao, etc., and there were several rows of maids playing music and dancing on the side.

However, even though Zhao Qing was not very familiar with the current ritual music, she quickly heard that the singing and dancing level of these maids was only barely strong, far less than the previous sound of the servants, and no one had cultivation, which showed that the once prominent Stomach family was now in considerable decline.

Before coming, he had already inquired about the news, and communicated with Zheng Dan on the way, Zhao Qing knew very well that this person was deeply threatened by his uncle in the past, and he had been hiding himself, and now that he was dead, he was likely to rise by homeopathy, but he did not underestimate the other party.

Speaking of which, although the various tableware placed on the feasts look no different from the bronze, showing a blue-yellow color and solemn form, in fact, it is a celadon made of imitation of bronze, from the Yue kiln, which has the most advanced ceramic technology in the world.

In addition to the crab roe soup specially introduced by Gaoyu, there are also grilled fish, steak, mutton skewers, deer breast and other delicacies that seem to be little different from later generations, and each ingredient is full of aura inside and out, and eating it is conducive to cultivation.

Different from normal history, the bronze ritual vessels used in the banquets of the upper nobles basically have practical functions such as heating, heat preservation, and reducing the escape of vitality.

Today, Zhao Qing has almost figured out that any Gang Jin martial artist who cultivates fire can melt gold and turn iron, which shows that the current production capacity can make iron in large quantities, but bronze tools are still overflowing, and bronze blades can be seen everywhere, which has become the mainstream reason:

To put it simply, when it comes to the factors of heaven and earth, bronze has a unique advantage compared with iron.

As we all know, different types of metals have different levels of hindrance to the vitality of heaven and earth, such as lead, mercury, gold and other high-density metals, if the vitality of heaven and earth and true qi want to penetrate, it needs to consume more energy;

This is also the reason why Zhao Qing used a vessel made of lead glass to store demonic energy, and the evil emperor relics could be isolated and sensed by mercury liquid.

For bronzes, which are generally made of copper, tin, and lead, each metal has its own unique properties and functions:

Copper, among these three metals, mainly plays the role of storing energy for the vitality. It's like in a circuit element, where the capacitor acts as a store of electrical energy, providing a steady stream of energy for the operation of the entire circuit.

In bronze weapons, this property of copper is fully utilized, it can store a large amount of vitality energy tightly and release it instantly during battle, and deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

Tin, among the three metals, mainly plays a role in regulating the fluctuation of different vitality. In circuit components, inductors play a role in regulating current fluctuations, and tin plays a similar role in weapons.

It can keenly perceive and control the fluctuations of the vitality energy released from the copper, making its output effect more accurate and powerful, coordinated and orderly.

Finally, there is lead, a metal whose main role in weapons is to block the flow of energy. In circuit elements, resistors play the role of blocking electric current, and lead plays the same role in weapons.

It can effectively control the flow direction of the internal vitality of the copper-tin alloy by means of diversion and pressure distribution, so that each attack can be carried out according to a predetermined route, and play a role in condensing and compressing energy.

There is no doubt that the current manufacturing process of mid-to-high-end bronzes belongs to the most cutting-edge secret technology below the Six Qi Realm, and even if a martial artist without a background collects enough materials for casting, at most it is at the level of producing low-grade treasure soldiers.

At the level of the treasure soldier, the materials of the bronze have reached the level of copper, tin, and lead, and the strength and hardness of the bronze are not much different from those of high-purity iron, and they can even be replaced with aluminum bronze at the edge to defeat the opponent;

If the distribution of each metal is controlled by multi-layer casting, a perfect vitality channel is formed, and the effect of amplifying the power is achieved.

As for the dark iron utensils, even if the relevant Yuan Qi channel technology can also be developed, it is impossible to catch up with the bronze craftsmanship with a history of 10,000 years in a short period of time in terms of complexity, so it is relatively rare and the value is not as good as that of bronze utensils.

As for the ordinary bronze utensils used by the common people, they are mainly derived from the by-products of the great forces when they mine the dark copper and the black tin, after all, if you want to breed a spiritual material-level metal, it is natural that the mining areas rich in this kind of metal have more chances.

"When Hux, he used stone as a soldier; At the time of the Yellow Emperor, jade was used as a soldier; In ancient times, there were countless treasures in the world, and it was extremely luxurious to carve the jade material that is thousands of times more valuable than the bronze in large quantities.

You must know that as a variety of Xuanyu in the white rank of spiritual jade, most of the reserves of vitality per unit volume are more than 100 times that of Xuantong, and its hardness is comparable to the level of demigod soldiers.

In Zhao Qing's opinion, in the main world, if iron replaces the status of bronze in the future, it is likely that the mining capacity and reserves of Xuantong and Xuanxi are limited, and lower-cost materials are needed to replace them.

The porcelain-making process that was initially developed as early as the Shang Dynasty was a kind of inferior alternative to the spiritual material-grade bronze ritual vessels, using a small amount of spiritual soil spiritual sand and ordinary materials to fire;

In the case that the cost is much lower than that of bronze objects of the same level, by incorporating the Yuan Qi rune into the inner glaze, although the original lethality is lost, some or even all of the efficacy of ritual utensils can still be realized.

Ordinary porcelain, medium and low-level law-grade porcelain, all kinds of natural treasures obtained from trading with foreign Yue people, water monsters hunted in coastal areas, and thousand-year-old ancient trees and 10,000-year-old sacred trees cut down south of Huiji Mountain are the main items of Vietnam's foreign export trade today, which has led to the prosperity of Huiji City.

Looking closely at the material strength of these imitation bronze celadons, Zhao Qing also unexpectedly found that this advanced technology, which seems to have something in common with his original synthetic dark iron, belongs to the category of artificial spiritual materials, and with the technology of Yuan Qi runes, it will have an incomparably broad prospect.

The first time she saw these porcelain ritual utensils that could be commonly prescribed by the upper nobles, she studied the mysteries in them while tasting the dishes on the table, which felt really good, and at the same time, she also heard a brief explanation of the reason for this banquet.

"So, what do you mean is that you want to invite a few of us to become the image spokespersons of the 'Stomach Makeup Powder' you developed?" Through a layer of bead curtains, Zheng Dan glanced at Zhao Qing's side, and the directions of the two women, Yuebo and Xuanbo, who were also going to the banquet, and asked with some surprise.

…… (End of chapter)