() "What do I want to say, you actually went around in such a big circle, you can really talk nonsense......" Seeing Du Huairou dragging himself to the back room, Xiao Tianhe hurriedly tried to break free, "Hey, what are you going to do?

Du Huairou glanced at him, pushed open the door of the inner hall, and said angrily: "What the hell are you called?

"Ah...... Oh......"

Outside the door of the inner hall is a small open space, there is no scenery, only three old houses together to form the backyard of the "Knife Garden". The room was the largest, and the rooms on the left and right sides looked like transepts, but there were no doors. Through the window of the room on the left, you can see that there is a downward staircase inside, which should lead to the cellar where Du Huairou stored his dry goods. The room on the right has two large stoves and a kitchen.

Du Huairou finally let go of Xiao Tianhe's arm and pushed open the door of the middle room. There was no furniture in the room, only labeled boxes around the wall, and the two large boxes brought back from the Joy Shop were placed in the middle of the house.

"In the way of casting, materials are the most important thing, and this is the first lesson I teach you. Du Huairou changed her attitude and said seriously.

Looking at her serious face, Xiao Tianhe couldn't help but laugh with a "flutter".

"What's so funny about this?" Du Huairou looked at him in surprise.

"Sorry, gaffe. "Xiao Tianhe," but I doubt your words. Isn't the most important thing in the way of casting a talent and skill? How do you turn it into a material? According to you, give me some good materials, and I can become a master of casting knives?"

"That's a good question. Du Huairou put her hands behind her back, her expression was like that of an old-fashioned old pedant, "Let me ask you a question first, what is the so-called casting technique used for?

Xiao Tianhe thought for a moment and replied, "I understand what you mean." Casting techniques are used to purify materials, improve the hardness and toughness of the knife embryo, etc., and in the final analysis, they still belong to the category of improving the quality of materials. ”

Du Huairou nodded with satisfaction: "Good understanding, that's right! In terms of casting knives, magic knives should still be counted as materials before they are cast!"

"But what about 'casting talent', doesn't it depend on the caster's ability to inject mysterious power into the blade body?" Xiao Tianhe was puzzled.

"That's what I said. But whether the so-called 'ability' is congenital or acquired, no one can say clearly. In my opinion, this is far less important than the quality of the material. You have to know that the amount of Xuan Qi that a certain material can absorb is fixed, and it has nothing to do with any other conditions. When the various materials are mixed and smelted into a knife base, it also has a fixed absorption limit, which is determined by its various components. The swordsmiths were doing their best to channel the Xuan Qi into the blade and get it as close to that limit as possible.

The reason why the world thinks that 'talent' is more important is because the level of the sword-makers in the world is not enough to increase the amount of Xuan Qi absorbed by the material to the limit, so every time the blade embryo absorbs more Xuan Qi, it seems that the knife caster is more powerful. But if the strength of the caster is enough, no matter what kind of material is used, it can reach the limit of absorbing Xuan Qi, and in this way, it is the material that determines the final quality of the magic knife. Do you understand this explanation?" Du Huairou said as she opened a box, picked up the pieces of metal materials in it, and looked at them carefully.

"Infuse Xuan Qi, isn't it Xuan Li?" Xiao Tianhe couldn't believe it.

"Hmm...... There is a misunderstanding in the world's understanding of this step of enlightenment, and it is normal for you not to know. Du Huairou turned around, "The Xuan Power is produced by the Demon Cultivator after absorbing the Xuan Qi, in other words, it is unique to the human body, how can it exist in other objects? In other words, how much Xuan Qi is injected is equivalent to how much Xuan Qi is transformed. The more Xuan Qi contained in the knife, the higher the quality of the knife, which is very simple. After speaking, Du Huairou threw the metal block in his hand towards Xiao Tianhe.

Xiao Tianhe didn't move like a wooden man, his eyes widened, and he stared at Du Huairou with his mouth half-open, and the metal block smashed into his chest and landed on his feet.

Du Huairou gasped with a "sizzle", the piece of metal was very heavy, and it must not be a good feeling to hit his feet. "What, are you stupid?" she asked, unable to bear it, as she walked over and picked up the metal block.

Xiao Tianhe was not in pain, but was enlightened by Du Huairou's words just now, like an initiation and a sudden opening. It turns out that this is the mystery of the Enlightenment! Xuan Qi only exists in the human body, and Xuan Qi rarely exists in objects! Thinking of the aura of the Qinglong Continent, it must be the same reason, so the spirit crystal is the kind of thing that condenses the aura of heaven and earth, so it is so rare and so precious!

In addition, since the more Xuan Qi contained in the knife, the more powerful it became, the Split Void Knife that was forged by the Black Knife Ancestor from an unknown material was endless, so wouldn't it be so powerful that it was boundless?

But Xiao Tianhe thought about it again, no matter how much Xuan Qi there was in the Splitting Sky Knife, it was just Xuan Qi, which was too much worse than the Meng Qi in the Yu Yu Realm. "Maybe any magic knife in the Yu Yu Realm is more powerful than the Sky Splitting Knife, right?" Xiao Tianhe thought.

"What are you thinking?" Du Huairou stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Xiao Tianhe, waking him up from his thoughts. Xiao Tianhe smiled faintly: "I am more interested in you than the mystery of forging a knife." ”

Du Huairou raised her eyebrows and asked happily, "What do you say?"

"The world doesn't know that materials have a limit to absorb Xuan Qi, and when the so-called 'Knife Casting Masters' are still struggling to pursue more Xuan Qi inclusion, you have already discovered this, and directly found the root cause - the strength of the knife caster is not enough. Throughout the ages, from Ruan Yuandi, Jia Wanjun and Ye Congyun to Tu Lingchun and Deng Xianjue, no knife casting master has proposed that 'the material is the heaviest.'

To 'point of view'. In my opinion, at least in this great red realm, you are unsurpassed. Xiao Tianhe's words were tentative.

Du Huairou was stunned.

Xiao Tianhe smiled slightly, he had already got the answer he wanted. "It turns out that you still have a hidden hand, so why bother? Xiao Tianhe shook his head in disappointment.

Du Huairou lowered her head, as if she had a guilty face: "I'm sorry, I have no choice but to do it." I really didn't expect to be recognized by you so quickly, you are far smarter than I thought. ”

Xiao Tianhe asked her bluntly, "What is your purpose?"

Du Huairou sighed: "At least I can't tell you yet." But trust me, I have no ill will. ”

"Believe...... Hmph, don't you think these two words are too pale between us?" Xiao Tianhe raised his voice and sat on the ground, "Anyway, I'm here today, fight, I'm not your opponent; If you want to kill or chop, listen to it!" Instead of being constantly worried about the threat from the Demon Lord, it is better to have a good time. Now, Xiao Tianhe is also calm.

"Where do you start with this? I really want to harm you, you would have been buried at the bottom of the sea in Xiping a long time ago! You touch your conscience, how will I treat you?" Du Huairou also lost his temper.

Xiao Tianhe touched his head: "Aside from the teasing at the beginning, the back is still good." The stew soup is for me to drink, and he still defends me in front of the North Hall......"

"That's right, then you still say it so ugly!" Du Huairou complained angrily.

"You are a person from the Yu Yu Realm, and you deliberately came to approach me, how can I not be suspicious? Besides, what you did before is difficult for people to praise you. Xiao Tianhe pursed his lips.

Du Huairou looked surprised, and opened her eyes widely: "Before?Didn't we just know each other for a long time?I used to be in retreat, and I was entrusted by a friend to get out of the customs, how can you know about my past?"

"Come on, the sword immortal of the Yuyu Realm has become the demon lord of the Great Red Realm, the pattern of the four directions of the world and the outer core is not divided by you, who else can it be? Although the purpose of launching the Great War of the Four Directions is to consolidate the rule, the method is inevitably too bloody. The long-lasting melee of the big family not only buried the lives of many demon cultivators, but also caused many Li people to suffer. At this point, it is not an exaggeration to say that you are extremely evil!" Xiao Tianhe recalled what the first generation of demon lords had done, and he was extremely angry, and his good impression of Du Huairou also disappeared.

Du Huairou was stunned again.

"What's the matter, after exposing your shortcomings, you're going to kill the killer?" Seeing that she didn't speak, Xiao Tianhe said again.

"I'm the Demon Lord?" Du Huairou pointed to his chest, as if asking.

Xiao Tianhe frowned: "You're not a demon lord?"

Du Huairou's face turned red for a moment, her face gradually distorted, and finally she couldn't hold back her and burst out, and the high-pitched laughter resounded in the sky above the Dao Garden.

"You're not a demon lord!" Xiao Tianhe affirmed the answer, his face was slightly annoyed, and he didn't know whether to be disappointed or happy.

"Ouch, you're so funny!" Du Huairou clutched her stomach and laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist, "Hey, people, it's also a trouble to be too relatable, hahaha!"

"Is it that funny!'Haven't you heard of 'Great Wisdom and Foolishness'?" Xiao Tianhe patted his ass and stood up.

"I think you're 'stupid and wise', right?" Du Huairou rubbed the corners of her eyes exaggeratedly, and slowly stopped laughing, "I said, why did you suddenly look defensive, and actually regarded me as a demon lord! Okay, don't laugh, you say, why do you think I'm a demon lord?"

"I haven't asked you yet! You are not a demon master, how can you know about the Great Red Realm and the Yuyu Realm?" Since Du Huairou is not a demon lord, Xiao Tianhe had another question.

"That's why I misunderstood. It's true that I'm from the Yuyu Realm, but the one from the Yuyu Realm is not necessarily the Demon Lord!"

"Then you are also a sword immortal?" Xiao Tianhe quickly pondered in his mind, if Du Huairou was really a sword immortal, then was she the same person as the demon lord?

"No—yes—" Du Huairou dragged out her voice, "Think again!"

At the beginning, the passage between the Yuyu Realm and the Great Red Realm was opened by the White Sword Patriarch, and the purpose was to extradite the Sword Immortal to the Nether Realm, in other words, except for the Sword Immortal, no one could pass through that channel. Xiao Tianhe couldn't figure it out.

Seeing his blank expression, Du Huairou smiled slyly: "I, like the friend who asked me to get out, are not sword immortals. And you know that friend of mine, too. ”

"Shi Haoming!" Xiao Tianhe shouted in a lost voice. Indeed, among the people he knew in the Heavenly Flame Continent, only Shi Haoming was from the Yuyu Realm and was not a Sword Immortal. Immediately, he pointed at Du Huairou and shouted: "Ah, you are also a demon clan!"

"Shhh Such a loud voice will reveal secrets!"

"Uh...... That's what you're laughing at......"

"Don't be verbose!" Du Huairou whispered, "Now you know I'm not a bad person, right?"

Xiao Tianhe nodded: "Shi Haoming and several other girls of the demon clan have great kindness to me, I believe in them." ”

"Hmm, you mean Sister Yan, Xiaoxue and Xiaomei, I know about that. ”

Xiao Tianhe looked Du Huairou up and down: "Then you were also hidden in Meng Zhangpei and brought to the Nether Realm?" I remember Shi Haoming once said that he can't enter and leave Meng Zhang's realm at will, why can?"

"Hmm...... My current situation is slightly different from theirs, and it is not difficult for me to enter the Meng Zhang realm, but if I enter, I am afraid that I will never be able to get out again. Du Huai Judo.

"As far as I know, there are three palaces in the Mengzhang realm: Dongqi Palace, Dongfang Palace, and Dongxin Palace, which are the territories of the three girls. I wonder if you, like them, have a region of your own?" Xiao Tianhe asked again.

Du Huairou shook his head: "Don't guess, I don't belong to the Meng Zhang realm at all. In fact, there are a total of seven palaces in the Meng Zhang realm, in addition to the three palaces you just mentioned, there is also a Dongkang Palace that is Brother Shi's territory, and the remaining three palaces are currently empty. ”

"Dongkang Palace...... Since you don't belong to the Meng Zhang realm, then why did you hide in Meng Zhangpei and be brought to the lower realm?"

"Alas...... It's just that I'm unlucky, I was chatting with Sister Yan and them in Meng Zhang's realm at the time, but I didn't want Meng Zhangpei to be stolen by a thief and brought to this big red realm......" Du Huairou sighed again and again, her face sad.

"Ah...... Hahaha!" This time it was Xiao Tianhe's turn to laugh out loud, "It's actually because of this...... Haha! It's funny! Ouch!" He hit Du Huairou with a stiff blow on his head.

Xiao Tianhe stopped laughing, rubbed his forehead, and asked again: "Since you don't belong to the Meng Zhang Realm and you have come out of it, why don't you fly back to the Yuyu Realm?"

In fact, demon cultivation and immortal cultivation both belong to the category of cultivation, and cultivation is simply a process of absorbing the qi of heaven and earth and improving the energy of the body. When the energy in the body exceeds the boundary of the Great Equatorial Realm, it will naturally soar to the Yuyu Realm of the second layer. Xiao Tianhe expected that the cultivation method of the demon clan should be similar.

"Although I don't belong to the Meng Zhang realm, I belong to another subspace world. Therefore, the laws of heaven and earth in the Great Red Realm do not work for me at all. There is only one way to fly back to the Yuyu realm - Meng Zhangpei's master will ascend and bring me back. It's a pity that the demon lord doesn't have this idea at all. Du Huairou spread her hands helplessly.

"Is the other subspace also from the hands of the Four Great Divine Craftsmen?" Xiao Tianhe hurriedly asked. In fact, since Shi Haoming described to Xiao Tianhe in general terms the matter of Zhao Mengzhang, one of the four great divine craftsmen, casting the space spirit treasure, Meng Zhangpei, Xiao Tianhe has been very interested in this. It's just that the two meetings with Shi Haoming ended in a hurry, and there was no time to ask a lot of things in detail, and Shi Haoming also deliberately concealed some information, so Xiao Tianhe always knew nothing about it. This time, he planned to ask Du Huairou what was going on.

"Hey, it turns out that you also know about the four great gods. That's right, the subspace I belong to is called the 'Overseer Realm', which is the internal space of the Overseer. The forger of the Supervisor Pei, of course, is Chen Supervisor Bing, one of the four great divine craftsmen!" Du Huai Ju said.

"Chen Jianbing......" Xiao Tianhe knew the name of another divine craftsman, "What are the names of the other two divine craftsmen?"

"One is called Zhu Lingguang, and the other is called Wu Zhiming. It is these four divine craftsmen who have forged the four magic weapons that are famous all over the world. ”

"The other two magic weapons must be called 'Lingguang Pei' and 'Zhiming Pei'? I wonder if these four magic weapons have other effects? How did a demon clan like you get into it?" Xiao Tianhe kept asking.

"Tsk, just the fact that there is a subspace in the magic weapon is enough to shock the world! The four ** treasures can be refined, and the refiner naturally becomes the master of the magic weapon, and in the world inside the magic weapon, the master is a god and the master of everything. But that's not the only reason why all the world is coveted and coveted. The four ** treasures also have a more special ability - to fuse the demon spirit orbs of a specific type of demon clan with the attribute gems of the magic weapon itself to form a special life grid, making the demon clan a subordinate of the master of the magic weapon. Take Meng Zhangpei as an example, Shi Haoming is a dragon, Yang Yuemei is a raccoon dog, Bai Yingxue is a rabbit, and Li Cuiyan is a fox, they are all subordinates of Meng Zhangpei's master, so they occupy a position in the first palace in the Meng Zhangpei realm. Speaking of this, Du Huairou paused, "As for me, because when I was in the Yuyu Realm, the owners of Meng Zhangpei and the Supervisor Pei were husband and wife, so I could also go to the Meng Zhangjie from time to time to take a walk." I didn't expect to be taken to the Nether Realm in a daze, alas!

Xiao Tianhe listened to Du Huairou's narration almost with bated breath, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and praised sincerely: "The Four Great Divine Craftsmen are really too powerful! If there are several powerful demon clans to help in the battle, wouldn't it be easy to win?" He suddenly remembered that the nine brothers of the Dragon Clan who had caused an uproar in the Qinglong Continent, if they could receive such a helper, even if the opponent was a sword immortal, I am afraid it would be difficult to resist the rush of their own side. "But there is also something not so good about this, letting the demon clan become a subordinate, which is tantamount to threatening his life and restricting his freedom. Presumably, the demon clan must hate those four divine craftsmen very much, right?"

Du Huairou nodded: "At first, it was indeed like this. But think about it, the era when the four ** treasures were born happened to be the time when the power of my demon race was born and could not be lived. In fact, strictly speaking, the four ** treasures are not perfect, because the number of attribute gems contained in each magic weapon is certain, that is to say, the number of demon clans that can be accepted as subordinates is not unlimited, and because of the attributes of gemstones, magic weapons also have strict restrictions on the types of demon clans that can be accommodated. All in all, in terms of effect, it is simply a fool's dream to restrain the powerful demon clan with only these four magic weapons, but in terms of meaning, its impact is huge, and the leader of the demon clan has seen the terrible casting power and creativity of human beings through the four ** treasures, and it is this scruple that has created the balance of the world. ”

"Oh, that's interesting. Xiao Tianhe said with emotion.

Du Huairou continued: "Later, the four ** treasures continued to be inherited and changed hands, and the subordinate demon clan continued to change due to life and death, until now. She looked out the door into the distance, as if reminiscing about the past.

"Having said all this, a question suddenly came to mind. Xiao Tianhe suddenly laughed.

Du Huairou retracted her gaze and glanced at him: "Do you have fewer questions?" ”

"Hehe, what kind of demon are you? I'm quite interested!"

Du Huairou blushed, turned around and said angrily: "Hmph! I won't tell you!"