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In the Sword Pavilion, because the topic of Lao Wang and Lao Zhou fell slightly, it became a little silent for a while, and no one spoke anymore. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the pair of young men and women at the table, the two of them did not speak, and slowly began to eat, and the young man from other places wearing a white robe was a little contemplative, and from time to time he swept the twenty-five stone sword tablets in the center of the Sword Pavilion with his eyes, and his eyes were distracted.

After a long time, the two of them finished eating, paid the bill, and came to stand on the street again, looking around, around Gujian Square, there was a street in front and back, left and right, which way to go, so that the young man hesitated slightly.

At this moment, the bewitching woman who had been following him stepped forward, came to stand still in front of him, and asked softly, "Next, what are you going to do?"

The young man was stunned, then smiled, took a big stride and walked towards the opposite street, and said, "How to do it? Listen more, watch more, and choose, if you are not satisfied, listen again, look again, choose again!"

The woman in purple, who had a very beautiful face and was born with charming bones, was slightly stunned.

When she came back to her senses, the back of the young man in front of her had disappeared into the distant street, and she was startled, so she hurriedly started and chased after her, and after a while, she came back to the young man in white shirt.

At this time, she saw that the young man in white shirt was squatting in a corner, asking an old woman with a burden carefully, and after a while, he got up with a smile, turned around and continued to walk forward.

In this way, at first, the woman was a little strange. But after a while, she finally understood what the young man was going to do.

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Blue Mountain Sword Casting City, the four major sword-casting families, Uncle Tai's sword casting technology ranked first, Ximen family second, while the Zhang family was third, and the Lu family was fourth.

In the Sword Pavilion. The top twenty-five long swords, of which there are nine handles, are from Uncle Tai's family, accounting for more than one-third of the proportion, while the Ximen family, it is seven, Zhang. The two Lu families are even less. The third-ranked Zhang family. There are only five handles, and the Lu family, which ranks last, only has three.

The four major sword-forging families in the same column, ranking first and fourth, are three times apart, this number is indeed amazing.

plus the "Tu Jiao" of the joint refining. On the sword tablet of the Sword Pavilion, there is the logo of the uncle's house engraved. It has reached the number of ten monuments, which is indeed a staggering number.

But. This is just the previous ranking, since the Zhang family moved to other places, Uncle Tai's family fell overnight, and the entire Blue Mountain Sword City, now the two most famous families, naturally only the Ximen and Lu families remain.

The Ximen family was originally the only one who could compete with the Uncle Tai's family in the Sword Casting City, and the Uncle Tai's family fell and benefited the most, naturally the Ximen Family.

Not only do they have a sword-casting workshop in the Blue Mountain Sword Casting City, but also dozens of branch workshops in other cities in the Tianlong Continent, and the accumulation of wealth is very amazing.

But.

I don't know what the reason is, after the decline of Uncle Tai's family, the number of swords produced in the entire Blue Mountain Sword City has greatly increased, but the quality of swords has declined significantly.

Take the twenty-five stone tablets in the Sword Pavilion as an example, some of these stone tablets are the earliest, and they can even be traced back to a thousand years ago, when the Blue Mountain Sword Casting City was just established, and some of them were only added in the last one or two decades, which can be regarded as new.

However, there is a clear dividing line, and that is ...... The first 700 years, and the last 300 years......

And if you carefully investigate the history of the Sword Casting City in the Blue Mountain, and those who have a little understanding of the four major sword casting families, it is not difficult to find that this time is before the decline of the Taishu family, and after the decline of the Taishu family.

In the first seven hundred years of the Blue Mountain Sword City, famous swords came out one after another, sometimes even appeared, every few decades in the past hundred years, there must be a world-famous weapon born of the best grand occasion, but in the last three hundred years, except for the last ancient work of the uncle's family - the wedding dress snow sword, the number of other sword weapons, the number has been greatly reduced, and some have not even produced one in a hundred years.

And the quality has declined greatly.

In the first seven hundred years, the four great families produced swords, and there were 20 swords that could be listed on the sword monument, and in the next 300 years, only five swords.

Among them, except for the Wedding Dress Snow Sword, which can be ranked as the sixth order, the rest of the sword weapons, the highest, are only the peak of the fifth order, and there is not even a sword weapon above the sixth order.

Twenty years ago, the Ximen family produced the last sword weapon that could be listed on the sword tablet, called "Lan Yan", and only got the fifth-order intermediate, but this is already the best sword weapon produced in the entire Blue Mountain Sword City for more than 100 years.

For the decline of Blue Mountain City, many people believe that it is the reason for the loss of technology after the departure of Uncle Tai's family, but more people believe that the descendants of the Ximen family, because there are no competitors, only know to look up to their ancestors, be content with pleasure, and do not want to forge ahead, which has a great relationship.

After all, the previous Ximen family, although not as good as the Taishu family, was also a well-known sword-casting family, and there were not no sixth-order sword weapons, and there were quite a few of them.

Even, the highest quality sword produced by the Ximen family is as high as the seventh order of the lower grade, called "Pouring Snow", which was famous at that time, and gave the Ximen family Bo the peerless title of "Sword Casting Master" and "World Instrument Sect".

It was also at that time that the Ximen family rose strongly with an extremely brilliant situation, becoming the only top sword-casting family in the Blue Mountain Sword Casting City that could compete with the Taishu family, until the Taishu family cast the second seven-grade sword weapon, "Famous Tears", that he was overwhelmed again and became the second sword-casting family, which has continued to this day.

But since the decline of Uncle Tai's family, the Ximen family, and even the entire Blue Mountain Sword Casting City, there has not been a single top-grade famous sword that can take the weight, which is a big disappointment.

Of course, part of this is because the best materials are difficult to find, and the kind of sword-casting prosperity thousands of years ago, can not be compared with the major reasons, after all, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, a top swordsmith, even if his skills are exquisite and ingenious, it is impossible to take a piece of scrap iron to cast a peerless sword that can cut gold and cut iron, it is absolutely impossible.

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Clapping his hands, confirming the information of the four sword-casting families in the mouths of the hawkers, merchants, old women, and children in the city, Ye Bai smiled bitterly, and said to Wu Mei: "Unexpectedly, this Blue Mountain Sword Casting City enjoys a great reputation, but the sword-casting technology has not fallen to this point, and it is still difficult to produce a fifth-order sword weapon for decades, not to mention, what I want to cast is at least a sixth-order." ”

Wu Mei followed behind Ye Bai, and this way he also heard the conversation between Ye Bai and everyone clearly, even if he was a fool, he knew a little about the various things in the Blue Mountain Sword Casting City at this time, so when she heard Ye Bai's self-deprecation, she frowned slightly, and said: "Perhaps, it is also because they don't have materials, after all, the best materials are so difficult to find, not everyone can get them, if they can't meet your requirements here, what are you going to do?"

Ye Bai smiled bitterly, turned around, walked in the other direction, and said, "How to do it?" I finally came to this city for a trip, of course I can't turn around and leave, at least we have to give it a try, we have heard enough, we know enough, and next, of course, we have to go and see." ”

"See?"

Wu Mei was slightly stunned, saw Ye Bai's direction, and then suddenly understood, immediately understood what Ye Bai meant, and immediately got up, caught up with Ye Bai's footsteps in front, the two gradually drifted apart, and finally, came to the east of the city, in front of a gorgeously decorated, simple style, vermilion lacquer gate, and a huge sword-casting workshop.

On the door plaque, the four big gilded characters of "Ximen Sword Fang", in the sun, flashing with the color of flowing gold, and next to it, there is a couplet, on the left is "the ancient sword casting master", and on the right is: "the first instrument sect in the world".

Here, Ye Bai inquired from people's mouths, and now the Blue Mountain Sword Casting City, the largest sword casting family, the location of the Ximen family's sword workshop.

It is also the entire Ximen family, in the sword casting workshop of the Tianlong Continent, from here every day, there are thousands of sword weapons, spread out, enter the entire continent, and put all the sword shop sword pavilion counters, every day, will bring a steady stream of huge wealth for the Ximen family.

Seeing this couplet, Wu Mei snorted coldly and said: "Ancient sword forging master, the first instrument sect in the world, what a big breath!"

Ye Bai also frowned slightly, a little displeased in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

Since you are here, you naturally won't turn around and retreat because of one of the other party's couplets, and besides...... If the other party really has the strength corresponding to their tone, this is a good thing, after all, the Ximen family is already the largest sword-casting family in this Blue Mountain Sword Casting City, if even they can't do it, then Ye Bai's trip is basically just a failure, and he wasted a lot of effort.

So, although the two of them didn't like it, they still walked up the steps and prepared to knock on the door, intending to take a look first.

At this moment, the vermilion lacquer gate in the middle suddenly opened, and the carts full of all kinds of sword weapons flowed out like fish, and hundreds of families in green clothes and cloth hats drove these carts, pouring carts of newly cast swords of various colors into the carriages that had already been prepared, and then, these carriages, along the street, rumbled, under the escort of hundreds of purple-clothed families, quickly left, and went to all parts of the country.

Seeing this, Ye Bai and Wu Mei had to step aside, seeing that the Ximen Sword Workshop was so imposing, it did not lose the reputation of a sword-casting family, and Ye Bai couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope in his heart.

The two waited until everyone left, and were about to enter again, inside the door, a red-haired middle-aged man dressed in red, like an iron tower, a volcano, and a lion, was striding out from within, with a pair of hands, caged in his sleeves, but faintly exuding an extremely burning feeling, the momentum was amazing, like an elephant stepping on the ground.

Ye Bai outside the door, Wu Mei saw this, and suddenly couldn't help but be stunned: "Xuanwang-level powerhouse!" (to be continued)