Chapter Eighty-Four: The Sword Casting Platform

The group continued to advance at the foot of the Broken Sword Mountain, and after a few days, they encountered many small beasts along the way, but none of them posed any threat to them.

"In two days, we should be able to go to Yanqi Lake, and when we get there, we will have completed half of our mission this time!" Wu Dashun said.

The tasks of several people are basically revolving around Yanqi, in addition to killing the Black Water Python and the Ghost Bat King, there are also tasks of collection and exploration, and in addition to the task of exploring the Hanging Pavilion of the horse evil, they are basically in the area of Yanqi Lake.

"If all goes well, we can use the rest of the time we have left to take a look at the rest of Broken Sword Mountain. Because of the appearance of the foreign land, the aura here has increased greatly, and some spirit fruits that would have taken many years to grow may grow in these three months, so we can take a good look. Zhou Tong said to a few people.

Such an opportunity is very rare, if there is an exotic land and beast tide in other places, then even if the Tianwu Sect is qualified to explore, it will have to compete with other sects.

And the disciples who enter the foreign land will not be all brothers with similar strength like now, in that kind of place, any strong man will appear, and there are not a few people who fight for a little profit.

Zhou Tong once had such an experience with Wan Feifei and Liang Fan.

That time, the beast tide appeared far away from Tianwu City, and it was the junction of the Xuanmen and Tianwu Sect's territory.

As a result, both sects sent a lot of disciples to explore, and there were even high-level disciples among them.

And because the two factions did not achieve a consultation, the disciples of the two factions met unexpectedly in that area that was eroded by foreign lands, so they fought and suffered heavy casualties.

The Tianwu Sect and the Xuanmen also had a grudge because of this.

However, these things are normal between sects, and it is very likely that they can either fight for the right to explore foreign lands, or they may join forces to explore.

Several people felt that this time they were all brothers of the same sect, as long as they concentrated on dealing with the alien beasts, they didn't need to be wary of other cultivators, even if they encountered trouble, it was just a small conflict, and there would be no major trouble.

"There's the Sword Casting Platform ahead, Senior Brother, your quest to explore the Sword Casting Platform can be completed. Ma Xie pointed to a small hill in front of him.

This sword-casting platform was also a place where the old site of the Tianwu Sect was founded, and it was the place where the old man Tianwu, the ancestor of the founding sect of the Tianwu Sect, cast the sword.

Three thousand years ago, the old man Tianwu was once a disciple of Xuanyang Sect, and when he was six hundred years old, he left Xuanyang Sect and came here to start his own sect - Tianwu Sect.

In order to show his determination to no longer rely on Xuanyang Gate, the old man Tianwu abandoned his sword and rebuilt a sword for himself here.

"Do you know why the ancestor abandoned the sword Mingzhi?" Zhou Tong asked.

Wu Dashun said: "I heard that a cultivator's weapon will produce a 'sword spirit' after a long period of use, is it related to this when the ancestor does this?"

Zhou Tong nodded and said, "Yes." The reason why cultivators always like divine weapons, in addition to the characteristics of these weapons themselves, the most important point is that only divine weapons can be used by cultivators for a long time. And only with long-term use can it be possible to produce 'sword spirits'.

The patriarch discarded the weapons that had accompanied him for more than 400 years, just because the sword spirit of this sword had too much to do with Xuanyangmen, and since the patriarch wanted to re-establish the sect, he naturally didn't want to have anything to do with Xuanyangmen. ”

"Sword Spirit, what is that?" Ma Xie asked, he had never heard of what "Sword Spirit" could be produced by a sword, but he felt that it had something to do with Master Zuo asking him to replace Mu Xunfeng's sword.

"I don't know. Zhou Tong shook his head: "That's the most secret thing in this world. Swords with sword spirits are extremely rare, less than dragon slayers. I only know that when a sword has a sword spirit, a cultivator will have a lot of incredible abilities. ”

Ma Xie picked up Mu Xunfeng's sword, Zuo Lingfei once told him that this sword guarded him like a father, could it be that this sword already had a sword spirit?

The long sword was silently in Ma Xie's hand, and there was no reaction.

"Haha, junior brother, do you also want to summon a sword spirit? That's impossible. Zhou Tong looked at Ma Xie and quipped.

Ma Xie scratched his head embarrassedly, he knew that he was thinking too much, Mu Xunfeng was just a cultivator who asked about his state of mind, and he had not practiced for a long time, how could he have a sword spirit?

"Senior Brother Zhou, this is your mistake, it's always good to have dreams! Who doesn't want to have their own sword spirit? Wu Dashun said.

"Also, I was wrong little brother. Zhou Tong said with a smile.

Everyone burst out laughing, and the tense atmosphere of the past few days finally relaxed.

As they spoke, several people had already arrived at the top of the hill where the sword-casting platform was located.

In the center of the mountain, there is a platform more than half a person high, and everyone walked over, this platform is made of pig iron, and it seems that it is the place where the old man Tianwu forged his sword.

"Let's see what your mission is, brother. I don't think there's much to explore here. Wu Dawei said to Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong took out the task list, only to see that it was written:

Casting sword platform, the place where the old man of Tianwu cast the famous sword "Yueru". On the day when the moon was cast, the old man of Tianwu sealed this place and did not allow his disciples to enter here. Legend has it that there is still a strange thing "Taiyin True Iron" in the sword-casting platform, and now the seal has been broken, and the sword-casting platform has seen the light of day, please find out this thing and send it back to the division.

It turns out that the task here is to find the "Taiyin True Iron".

But on the top of this bare mountain, there is only a crooked neck tree except for the sword casting platform, where is there any shadow of Taiyin True Iron?

"Why don't we split this sword-forging platform and try it, maybe the ancestor buried it underneath?" Wu Dashun said.

Ma Xie shook his head and stopped Wu Dashun.

"Senior brother, don't worry, I don't think this task was assigned by the ancestor, how could he hide the Taiyin True Iron under the sword-casting platform for us to look for? Ma Xie said.

Wu Dashun said embarrassedly: "What the junior brother said is reasonable, but I was reckless." ”

So a few people began to search around the sword-casting platform, but after searching for a morning, they found nothing, and even the iron of the sword-casting platform was touched, but they didn't find any mechanism.

The crooked-necked tree had been probed several times, but there was only one poor fruit on the tree, hanging alone from the branch.

"I said, what the hell is this task? With a legend, let's find a piece of iron, and it turns out to be a Class A mission. Zhou Tong said helplessly.

Everyone sat there and thought, should they just give up this task?

"I don't think it's that simple. Ma Xie said: "The master will not rely on a legend to formulate a first-class mission for no reason! Do you think that the senior brothers who came before have already discovered the Taiyin True Iron and then hid it in a dangerous place?"

"It's very likely! These divisional tasks are said to be exploration, but in fact, there are also artificially set up some obstacles to increase the difficulty of the task. Moreover, our senior brothers must have explored this area all over again, and only then did they carefully assign us various tasks. Zhou Tong said.

But there is another question, since the Taiyin True Iron is hidden somewhere, where is it? The senior brothers did not leave any clues.

"Do you want to dig in this hill?" Wu Dashun came up with another bad idea.

"We are practitioners, not miners. Wu Dawei said helplessly to his younger brother.

Zhou Tong held his head and thought of a way, after all, this was his own task, if it dragged on here for too long, he said that there was no way to complete other tasks.

"Let's go to the other mission points first, this mission doesn't have any clues, we can't waste it here. "Zhou Tong made a difficult decision.

"Senior brother......" Ma Xie was about to speak, but was interrupted by Zhou Tong: "I am the captain, I know what to do." We want to make sure that our team is in the overall picture. ”

"Senior brother, let's try again! at least until tomorrow. "Ma Xie is still unwilling for his senior brother.

The martial brothers also persuaded Zhou Tong, after all, it was still early, and it was still delayed for a day or two.

"Before dawn tomorrow, if we can't find a clue, we'll go to other points first and put this task last. Zhou Tong finally decided, after all, he didn't want to give up so easily.

Then the group decided to expand the search area a little, and searched within three hundred feet centered on the sword-forging platform.