I didn't sleep all night, and when I returned to the forging shop, Li Yuan washed his face, went back to the forging room, and listened to the sound of tinkling iron, and his heart calmed down.

"That's a big deal!"

Wielding the forging hammer, Li Yuan was still thinking about what he had seen and heard yesterday.

At first, he only thought that someone contacted the forces in the inner and outer cities to ambush Qiu Long in order to compete for the interests of Gaoliu County, but now it seems that the water behind this is much deeper.

The Valley of Divine Soldiers has been dominating the Dragon Mansion for thousands of years, and its power has long radiated to all aspects, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a country within a country.

What level of force does Cao Yan have to take before he dares to go straight to the tiger's whiskers?

"Lu Yunqing and Cao Yan teamed up to ambush Qiu Long, the masters of the Divine Soldier Valley haven't moved for a long time before, are they also waiting for the person behind them to show up?"

Is this fishing with each other?

"It's not easy for me to catch the cloud show, and the quota hasn't been covered yet......

Li Yuan muttered in his heart.

What he saw last night made him feel a sense of crisis in his heart, and there were not too many things about the fire at the city gate and the fish in the pond.

"I'm still too weak......

The sound of striking iron became heavy, and Li Yuan quickly threw away his distracting thoughts and calmed down.

Forging requires patience and talent, and the creation of a high-grade blade, from beneficiation to the final quenching, tempering, and polishing, which step needs to be just right, and it is almost a little bit, even if it is not of high quality.

Li Yuan built it quietly, and soon, a day passed.

After work in the evening, he wiped his face, and when he was about to go home, Zhang Ben walked over quickly, with a relieved smile on his face:

"Quick, clean up, follow me to the inner courtyard, the big shopkeeper is back!"

In the past few days, his heart has been quite heavy, if something happens to Cao Yan, the foundation of the forging shop for more than two hundred years will fall at once, and the rest of the Cao family will not be able to support this stall at all.

"Cao ...... The big shopkeeper is back?"

Li Yuan is a spirit, this is the same as what I heard yesterday.

"Yes, I came back at noon, and after taking stock of the recent transactions, I was the first to ask you."

Zhang Ben smiled, obviously in a better mood.

"He, the big treasurer asked me?"

Li Yuan's heart tightened slightly.

"Clean up, that's a great thing!"

Zhang Ben urged.

"Don't rush me!"

Li Yuan fetched a basin of water and scrubbed it, but he couldn't help but be a little worried in his heart.

He didn't have a good impression of Cao Yan, and he showed his talent before, and he was also ready to bypass Cao Yan to catch the line of the Divine Soldier Valley.

Right now......

"Whew!"

After hastily cleaning up, Li Yuan followed Zhang Ben to the backyard.

The backyard is divided into three courtyards, where Cao Yan is located, it is naturally the largest and best, not only with all kinds of pavilions, but also a small garden.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and candles were lit in the small courtyard.

Cao Yan changed into a coat and sat at the table, while several female apprentices waited, serving tea and pouring water.

"Elder Zhang is here, sit down."

Cao Yan raised his hand and let the master and apprentice take their seats, smiled gently, and raised a glass to each other:

"These days, there have been a lot of things happening in the shop, thanks to Mr. Zhang's care......

"The big shopkeeper is too polite. The old man has today, it's all cultivation in the shop, what is it if he makes a lot of effort?"

Picking up the wine glass and drinking it all, Zhang Ben's face was full of redness.

"In times of trouble, you see people's hearts!"

Cao Yan put down his wine glass and took a deep look at Li Yuan:

"Speaking of which, it's my incompetence as the big shopkeeper, and after a few meetings, I didn't know that in addition to your forging skills, you also have such attainments in hammer skills!"

After learning martial arts for a year, the hammer method is complete.

The disciple with the best talent in the forging shop for more than two hundred years is also a master of hammering in more than a year, and in comparison, the apprentice in front of him has won much.

With such a talent, at most, in a few years, he will be able to hammer the Dharma to perfection and change his own roots and bones to the supremacy.

Bow into the Valley of the Divine Soldiers again......

"The disciples don't dare to ......."

Li Yuan lowered his head and served the wine, some of which were like a man's back.

He naturally knew what Cao Yan said, and he was talking about his initiative to contact Fang Yunxiu......

"Not only the big shopkeeper, but even the old man and I, I didn't see that his talent was so good! The hammer method is perfect, old man, I only touched this side a few years ago......

Zhang Ben raised his glass to toast, quite complacent.

Such a good seedling, but he liked it at a glance.

"It's a pity that such a good seedling can't stay in my forging shop!"

After drinking the wine in the cup, Cao Yan looked at Li Yuan with blazing eyes.

At this time, no matter how sluggish Zhang Ben was, he also noticed that something was wrong.

But no matter how he thinks, he doesn't feel that anything is wrong.

The genius apprentices in the shop were sent to the big sects, but if they succeeded, with this incense affection, the forging shop could make a lot of profits.

A profitable business, how can Cao Yan ......

What is this trying to do?

Force me to stay in the forge shop?

Li Yuan's heart tightened, but he could only pretend that he didn't understand, and raised his glass to toast: "No matter what the talent is, the disciple will never forget the cultivation grace of the shop and the big shopkeeper."

"It's good."

Cao Yan didn't drink the cup, but said calmly:

"Originally, the shop was going to settle in Fucheng next year, but who knew that this year, several shopkeepers and Qin guards had accidents one after another, and there was no one available for a while......

At this point, Zhang Ben's face changed:

"The big treasurer?"

Cao Yan ignored him, just looked at Li Yuan, his face sincere:

"Cao can promise that as long as you stay temporarily, you will be treated like the shopkeepers in the future, and the family members can also live in the shop.

In a few years, if you still want to go to the Valley of the Divine Soldiers, the shop will also support you......

"What do you think?"

You didn't even leave your chair......

Looking at Cao Yan with a sincere face, Li Yuan's heart was slightly cold, but naturally he could only bow down:

"Thanks to the great treasurer, the disciple is flattered......

Cao Yan was naturally not asking, and Li Yuan didn't feel that he had room to refuse.

Of course, he still struggled symbolically on his face, afraid that he would agree too quickly, Cao Yan didn't believe it......

Cao Yan looked at him for a long time before raising his glass and smiling:

"Good!"

Looking at the two smiling people, Zhang Ben felt a little chill in his back for no reason.

……

A banquet of wine, 'the guests and the host are happy.'

When Li Yuan left, he was a little drunk, but he still relied on Zhang Ben's support to keep him from falling.

"Hammer genius!"

On the wine table, Cao Yan turned his wine glass with a subtle expression.

In less than a year, the martial arts were successful.

This kind of character, if it is in the Dragon Mansion, he is not surprised, but Gaoliu County, for tens or hundreds of years, has never heard of it......

"This kind of person has always been arrogant, if you press him like this, aren't you afraid that he will have a grudge in his heart?"

Feng Gang walked out of the shadows with his sword:

"If this kind of gifted person can't be used by me, it's better to kill it with a knife, so as not to cause trouble in the future."

"What if you have a grudge?"

Cao Yan laughed, his eyes cold:

"This full of apprentices is tired and tired every day, and who is not full of complaints? But they still have to be busy every day, for fear of being kicked out of the shop."

Kill, he is a little reluctant to kill.

Blacksmiths who can build high-grade blades one after another at the age of seventeen, there are few blacksmiths in the past two hundred years, and those few have made the blacksmiths develop to the point where they are today.

If it weren't for the best blades and famous weapons left by those few people, where would he have learned to break through the inner strength with the Tiger Roaring Knife, and where would he be able to break into the Dragon Mansion?

"Tsk.

」

Feng Gang tugged at the corners of his mouth, and suddenly retreated into the shadows as if he was aware of it.

"The Great Shopkeeper!"

Leader Zhao, who was armed with an iron gun, came to the backyard, bowed his hand slightly, and handed over a booklet.

In the booklet, the big and small events that have happened in the inner and outer cities of Gaoliu County in the past few months are very detailed.

"There is labor."

Cao Yan nodded slightly, and asked a lot of things before sending Leader Zhao away.

"This kid's talent is really good. He inquired about Chijin, didn't he already have some confidence in building the best blade?"

Cao Yan's eyes lit up slightly: "If that's the case......

"No wonder you value him, if you can build the best blade at this age, I'm afraid that the incense master is willing to accept him!"

Feng Gang reappeared like a ghost.

Cao Yan's expression was cold: "This is my person!"

"Huh~"

Feng Gang sneered.

Cao Yan's face was gloomy, but he didn't say much, just flipped through the booklet, focusing on the words of Fang Yunxiu in the 'Bodhisattva Temple Bloody Case'.

"Valley of the Divine Soldiers......

……

"Alright, stop pretending!"

Holding Li Yuan out of the courtyard, Zhang Ben let go.

"No, I'm really drunk......

Li Yuan staggered.

"Those who are really drunk say they are not drunk."

Zhang Ben sighed:

"If you had known this earlier, the old man shouldn't have let you try to play a sharp blade, now it's okay, the big shopkeeper is reluctant to let you go......

A few years later, he didn't believe it.

A few years later, there are still a few years, and Cao Yan made it clear that he didn't want to let go......

"What does this have to do with you?"

Li Yuan looked at it: "If you are always guilty, it is better to give your disciple a few hundred taels ......

"you!"

Zhang Ben glared at him, and saw that he was not drunk, so he yawned and turned around:

"Since you have all agreed to stay, you have to open your mouth fiercely about what you should want, otherwise you will ......."

Otherwise, it's time to be suspicious.

Zhang Ben didn't finish speaking, but Li Yuan understood what he meant, but he didn't intend to be polite.

"He should know that I want red gold, right?"

Turning around, Li Yuan felt a little drunk.

He knew very early on that Cao Yan had a secret room, the rarest materials and the best blades in the forging shop, but they were all in it, and Chijin should naturally be there.

"Cao Yan ......"

……

"Whew!"

"Suck!"

Back in the courtyard, Li Yuan lifted the hammer and stood on the pile, adjusting his breathing, carrying qi and blood, and internal strength, until the blood and qi were exhausted, and then took out the ointment and medicinal oil to wipe his body.

After that, I jumped into the large water tank that I bought not long ago, and endured the friction of iron sand.

It is not difficult to learn martial arts, as long as you can endure the pain and have ointment and oil, at least before Xiaocheng, there are no stumbles.

Whoa!

In the vat, Li Yuan was stirring the iron sand naked, feeling the stinging pain all over his body, and his breathing couldn't help but be short.

Iron sand is not sand, this is something to polish knives, ordinary people dare to come here to soak it, and there is no good piece of skin left on the body.

Click~

The vat was nearly two meters high, and it was more than enough for Li Yuan to stand in it, and he used his military posture to distract his spirit.

This kind of friction method, Rao is also a little unbearable.

"Whew!"

After a long time, Li Yuan was really exhausted, climbed out of the vat, and lay in the courtyard, gasping for breath, and feeling the changes in himself.

After a long time of iron sand friction, although his skin seems smooth, it is very tough, like the soles of shoes sewn from several layers of cowhide, and a slightly blunt knife may not be able to cut through.

"If a woman with little strength splits

Cutting, it may not be able to cut through the oily skin, but with more strength, it is estimated that it will not work, and besides, I can't stand the stabbing and cutting......

Li Yuan soothed his muscles and bones, and the Seven Stars Horizontal Cultivation Body broke through to 'Mastery', slightly dispelling the depression in his heart.

"Flesh and blood, it's best not to fight with the sword, this can only be used as the last reliance, I really think I am invulnerable, I can't tell when I will be hacked to death......

As a blacksmith, Li Yuan knew this too well.

After the Seven Stars practiced his body and was known as Dacheng, he was not afraid of sword slashing, he was skeptical.

He estimated that this is not afraid, it is only limited to ordinary people, ordinary swords, replaced with sharp blades, high-grade sharp blades, and top-grade sharp blades, it must be impossible.

In the same way, masters like Cao Yan and Fang Yunxiu, even if they hold ordinary swords, who dares to resist with their physical bodies?

"Whew!"

After lying down for a long time, he felt that the blood qi in his body had recovered a little bit, and his internal strength began to swim again, Li Yuan got up, scrubbed it, and went back to the house to put on his clothes.

"Cao Yan is back, but Sun Fatzi hasn't come back yet?"

Glancing at the inner room, Li Yuan shook his head in his heart.

Although he guessed that Tang Tong and his wife should not have an accident, how could Sun Hao believe it?

"This fat man is not very bold, Cao Yan has come back, and he probably doesn't dare to stay longer......

Tearing a few pieces of bacon and feeding them to the fat little rat who was still a little vigilant, Li Yuan lit the oil lamp and took out the human skin mask that he had come out of the city and had not had time to look at carefully.

"Thin as a cicada's wings!"

Holding this human skin mask at close range, Li Yuan couldn't help but be amazed in his heart.

The mask was light and transparent, like a work of art, and he couldn't help but marvel at the workmanship.

"Try it!"

Walking to the bronze mirror with an oil lamp, Li Yuan carefully pasted it on his face, only to feel a slight chill, as if he had put on a transparent and breathable mask.

He carefully kneaded the edges, and was surprised to find that his facial features in the mirror had suddenly become the previous sallow and yellow-faced swordsman 'Li Ba!

"What a clever workman!"

Li Yuan looked at it carefully, didn't find any flaws, reached out and tore it, only to feel that his face hurt, as if it was glued to his face.

At that time, he wiped his right hand and directly received it in the space of the commander, and now he felt that the power of this human skin mask was like a change of face.

"It's a pity, there's only this one face, if only it could be changed back and forth......

Li Yuan played with it and tried it a few times, and he was quite satisfied in his heart, even if he didn't control it, this human skin mask was a rare treasure.

"Well, sticking this on, some things will be much easier to do."

Putting the mask back on, Li Yuan pulled out a piece of straw paper, scribbled some words with his left hand, and went out at night with his sleeve, went straight to the inner city, and went to the mansion.

Cao Yan did the first year of junior high school, and he had to do fifteen.

He didn't know who the incense master was, Fang Yunxiu should always know, right?

Changing his face, Li Yuan acted quite boldly, knocked directly on the door of the Lu Mansion, knocked the family who opened the door unconscious, and pasted the papyrus paper on the door.

Without waiting for a sound to come from the house, he turned around and ran.