In the scorching sun, Xiaoyaozi entered Gongyezi's courtyard, and a young man with a bow and arrow leading a horse passed by him. The boy's unusual appearance caught his attention. After Xiaoyaozi came to the pavilion and sat on the ground with Gongyezi, he asked Gongyezi, "That young man is a noble son?"

"You mean the Heavenly Relic, right?" Gong Yezi smiled, "He was originally a child picked up by the old emperor more than ten years ago, and after the old emperor died, this child became the emperor who drove the carriage for me. Today, he drove me to this courtyard in a carriage to make an appointment. ”

"Oh, I see. This kid looks different from ordinary people, and he must be very unusual. ”

"This kid was originally gifted and intelligent, but he has been a little abnormal ......recently," Gongyezi, who was over half a hundred years old, was quite helpless when he mentioned the Heavenly Heritage. "Not long ago, he rode like a savage, and fell hard. The boy was not convinced, and when he turned around, he got two iron rings tied to the saddle, and this ride lasted for several days. ”

"Traveling by Gao Gai Xuan car, and taking a horse to fight on a horse leather chariot, this is the thousand-year-old tradition of the Xuanyuan Dynasty. Xiaoyaozi touched the beard on his chin, "This child rides like a barbarian, is it by nature?"

Gongyezi shook his head helplessly, "I also told him that the origin of the Xuanyuan clan is because its ancestor Guan Beidou started to build cars, so it is called Xuanyuan." Riding a horse was regarded as barbaric and lowly behavior, neither as noble and elegant as that of a scholar traveling in a high-gaisman, nor as majestic as a king riding a horse on a horse. But this kid pointed to the iron ring and said lightly: 'Don't underestimate this stirrup, it will change the pattern of the world'. You say a little kid, how can he understand the pattern of the world?"

"Master Gongye is in charge of the smelting of copper and iron, and he should know that often some small factors can change the outcome of certain things. What the kid said may be worth pondering. ”

"The Xuanyuan Dynasty has survived thousands of years, relying on the chariot corps that dominates the world. Among the princes of the world, they are mainly chariot soldiers, and the powerful princes are known as the country of a thousand times. How can the pattern of the world be changed by a small iron ring?"

"Lord Gongye should know how powerful the Five Dragons Clan was more than a thousand years ago, and their leader was able to control Ying Long to fight. But in the end, it was destroyed by the Xuanyuan clan, haven't you thought about the reason?"

"That's because the Xuanyuan clan has obtained the way of heaven and has been guided and helped by the gods. ”

No, this may not be the case. Xiaoyaozi retorted.

"More than ten years ago, I could still see the statues of the gods guarding the five dragons on the hills around the cliff sinkhole, these statues can't be fabricated out of thin air!"

"I really can't say, these statues may be made by King Xuanyuan in order to create the image of the divine authority of the monarch, and to shock people's hearts with divine authority, and send craftsmen to fabricate them out of thin air. ”

Gong Yezi looked Xiaoyaozi in a Taoist robe up and down, "This is not like a word that came out of the mouth of a monk. ”

"The path I follow is nothing but the right path that the human heart desires, and the art is the method of manipulating how the human heart leads to the right path. Xiaoyaozi said bluntly, "Although the five dragons have the ability to control the dragon, they are not popular with the people, especially those who are intelligent. And the Xuanyuan clan was virtuous and capable, building a large number of civil engineering, smelting copper and iron, building chariots, and finally sprung up. Five dragons with bronze against iron armor, how can they not be abandoned by the times?"

"Sir's words, the old man seems to understand something. ”

"I'm here to visit Gongye-sama today, I have something important to discuss," Xiaoyaozi said and took out a wooden box from his baggage, "You can take a look at this." ”

Gongyezi took the box, opened it, and spoke for a while: "Black and round, gold and silver particles are shining, it is rare in the world, this thing is not an extraordinary thing." ”

"My lord has good eyesight," Xiaoyaozi praised, "This is a thing that fell from the sky, more than ten years ago, the seven-star god statue around the cliff sinkhole was shattered overnight, and it is very likely to have something to do with it." ”

"Lord Taibu once said that the Seven Star Array was broken by a mysterious force, and the dragon soul suppressed in the abyss broke through the seal and escaped. It turned out that the mysterious power that Lord Taibu was talking about was it. Gongyezi pondered and asked, "Where did the Five Dragons Yuan Shen go?"

According to locals, there was a woman who had not been able to give birth to a child for three years and gave birth to a giant egg with scales on that night. ”

"After the demise of the Five Dragons, the dragons have disappeared for more than a thousand years. It's weird to give birth to a freak who is three years pregnant in that situation!"

"If it weren't for Providence, how could there be such a coincidence in the world? What's more, not long ago, someone claimed that he had seen the winged Ying Long hunting cattle and sheep. ”

"No wonder Taibu would say that the brightness of the Draco Star overshadowed Beidou, and the Xuanyuan Dynasty was in danger. ”

"If today's power is weak, the princes are strife, and the Xuanyuan Dynasty has existed in name only. The current 20 years are the year when the Beidou breaks the army, and those who break it will stand up, and all things are ruined, which means that all things are reborn. The king of Kyushu, the son of heaven, and the princes of troubled times are all greedy wolves. The last time there was a great chaos in the world was more than 180 years ago, when the army was also broken. It was from that time that the Xuanyuan royal family gradually began to go downhill. ”

"Break the old system and establish a new order......," Gong Yezi blurted out, "This sentence seems to have been heard somewhere. Gongyezi pondered for a while, "I remember, it's what that kid from Tianyi said when he was arguing with me." ”

"Is this really from the mouth of the young man?" Xiaoyaozi wondered.

"At that time, I told him that the Xuanyuan Dynasty could survive thousands of years of wind and rain, relying on the chariot corps that dominated the world. Among the princes of the world, they are mainly chariot soldiers, and the powerful princes are known as the country of a thousand times. How can the pattern of the world be changed by a small iron ring? He retorted that some new things can often break the old system and establish a new order. ”

"He's such a peculiar boy, can you call me and show me?" ”

"Heavenly relics, heavenly relics. Gong Yezi shouted twice in succession.

The long, curly hair of the Celestial Relic looked like a brown whisker, as if it had been caused by malnutrition. The relics just pulled the hair from their temples up to the back of their heads and tied them up, and the others were scattered. In the Xuanyuan Dynasty, where most men wore their hair in a bun, Tianyi's outfit seemed to the nobles as an anomaly, that is, a barbarian in their mouth.

After a while, the Celestial Relic came to the two with a bow and arrow. His dress is in stark contrast to Gongyezi's two. Gongyezi wore a wide robe and a robe worn by all men in the world, a dress like a doctor of Shiqing. Although Xiaoyaozi was wearing a black cloak, it could still be seen that he was dressed as a Taoist priest.

Although the celestial relics were wearing knee-length black robes, they were obviously carefully tailored. The sleeves are narrower, the belt is tied, and the slim fit can show off the toned figure of the teenager. The skirt of the robe had four slits in it, which the relics called knight's clothing, and the purpose of the slits was to facilitate horseback riding. However, in the eyes of many scholars and doctors in the Xuanyuan Dynasty, they are still lowly barbarians after all, and even their clothes are so nondescript.

And Tianyi has facial features that are different from most men, with slender melon seeds and high cheekbones and a hooked nose on his face. Although she is also seven feet tall, compared to those men with thick eyebrows and big eyes, Tianyi looks more like a girl with clear eyebrows. Therefore, it is not surprising that many people think that he is an alien barbarian boy.

"The lord called the heavenly relics, what are your orders?"

"This gentleman wants to talk to you. ”

"Sir, do you have any advice?" said the Celestial, placing the bow and arrow on the desk and sitting cross-legged.

The bow that Xiaoyaozi held was different from the shape of the soldiers. "You made this bow yourself?"

"Yes, it's called a tendon-and-angle compound bow, and it has good momentum, shoots far, and is suitable for use on horseback. ”

In the Xuanyuan Dynasty, which was dominated by chariot soldiers, each chariot was equipped with four war horses, and the chariot had no other decoration except for being wrapped in leather, so it was called the horse leather wheel. Normally, a chariot soldier is a small combat unit, a chariot commander, a ranged archer, a halberd armorer, a centurion, followed by ninety-seven armorers. Each chariot corps consisted of twenty-five small combat units and small phalanxes, and the entire Xuanyuan Dynasty was a combat system dominated by chariot corps, which had never been broken for more than a thousand years.

"Can you shoot arrows on horseback?" Xiaoyaozi asked in surprise.

Gongyezi on the side said: "Presumably, this kid accidentally broke his head while riding a horse, and he was talking nonsense." ”

"Master, I made you feel abnormal after I fell. However, it is a fact that the archers are highly mobile, their combat effectiveness is very impressive, and they do not consume supplies. ”

Xiaoyaozi asked: "Even if you hold the horse tightly with your feet and grasp the reins with both hands, if you don't ride steadily, you will be thrown off the horse." How can you shoot arrows on horseback?"

"With stirrups," replied the Celestial, "with stirrups, it is much more stable to ride a horse, and you can free up your hands to shoot arrows on horseback." ”

Xiaoyaozi looked at the clothes of the Heavenly Relic, then looked at the tendon and horn compound bow, combined with the stirrups that the Heavenly Relic said before, and asked, "How did you make these things?"

"These things are nothing," said Tenzuki, smiling, "in the other world, they can wipe out their enemies thousands of miles away. The weapons they use are as powerful as stars falling from the sky to the earth, and a city can be wiped out in an instant. ”

"To make a city disappear in an instant, I'm afraid it's difficult for even immortals to do. "Xiaoyaozi will be skeptical.

But they did. ”

"Are you saying they're beyond the gods, or are they gods themselves?"

"No, I don't know if there are gods, but they are beyond the people of this world who know the unknown. ”

"And how did you know that such a world existed?"

For this question, Tianyi can't say a reason, and he doesn't know how the words from his mouth came to his mind. So he replied: "Those images linger in my mind, and some of them are formed by self-heating, like dreams. ”

Gongyezi shook his head and smiled: "I just said that this kid broke his head while riding a horse, and he was talking nonsense." How many things in the dream can be true?"

"I don't think so," Xiaoyaozi objected to Gongyezi's view, "maybe there really is such a world." Xiaoyaozi pushed the wooden box in front of the Heavenly Relic, "Take a closer look, what is this?"

After taking a look at it, the Celestial Relic said, "This is a meteorite, that is, the stars that fell from the sky. Some meteorites have very high levels of radiation that can mutate what is around them. Preliminarily, the iron, chromium, and nickel content of this meteorite is relatively high, and the weapon made of such meteorite can be sharpened like clay. ”

Although none of them fully understood what the Heavenly Relic said, they couldn't help but be in awe of the Heavenly Relic in their hearts.

"A weapon that sharpens iron like clay," Xiaoyaozi raised his head, "If the soldiers of a country are equipped with such weapons, there will be a grand occasion when the Xuanyuan clan destroyed the five dragons more than a thousand years ago." There is no doubt that it will usher in a whole new era. In this way, it is not unreasonable to say that something can change the pattern of the world. ”

Gongyezi listened to Xiaoyaozi's words, seemed to understand the purpose of Xiaoyaozi's trip, and asked: "Mr. came to discuss with the old man on this trip, is it just for this thing that fell from heaven?"

Seeing that Gongyezi had already understood, Xiaoyaozi showed a smile on his face and said: "If this kind of meteorite iron falls into the hands of an ordinary blacksmith, wouldn't it be a tyrannical thing?" ”

"I'm afraid I'm going to have to run away in vain, sir. Gongyezi said.

"Could it be that Lord Gongye is unwilling?"

"It's not that the old man is unwilling, it's just that he ......" Gongyezi showed a very embarrassed look, "Although the old man has the position of Gongye, he has not been involved in smelting for many years, and everything is in charge of my son Gongye Ou." The old decay is old, and the hands are also raw, and the old decay may not be able to control the heat. Not to mention such meteoric irons. ”

"Compared with adults, how is the metallurgical technology?"

"Blue is better than blue, forging swords and making weapons, the son is better than Lao Tzu. Speaking of his son, Gongyezi is quite proud.

"That's good, can you help introduce your son?"

It's easy to say, but whether he wants to or not, it's up to the deceased. ”

"Yes Lao," Xiaoyaozi got up and arched his hand, "I'll visit the door another day and say goodbye." ”

Gongyezi also got up to see him off, "Every year on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he will return to this courtyard to pay tribute to his mother." At that time, the husband can come to the courtyard to drink and admire the moon. ”

"Thank you for your kindness, please stay. ”

"Heavenly relics, send off guests for the old man. Gongyezi commanded.

"The Heavenly Relic understands. ”

Tianyi picked up the bow and arrow, and walked towards the courtyard with Xiaoyaozi. Gongyezi looked at the backs of the two leaving, remembered the strange things Xiaoyaozi said, and combined with the bizarre life experience of the heavenly relics, his face became heavy.

As a servant of Gongyezi, the old emperor did not marry a wife and have children except for driving for Gongyezi's family in his life. And the child he picked up made the old man feel that it was a gift left to him by God, so he named the child Tianyi. has been raising the heavenly relics for twelve years, and the old emperor has come to the end of his life.

The talented young man was loved by Gongyezi, so he left him by his side to take over the work of the old emperor. In addition to teaching Tianyi to read and write, the diligent and studious Tianyi always took Gongyezi's hand and asked him to teach him metallurgical skills.

And not long ago, after the tengu eclipse, the heavenly relics became abnormal. First, he fell horseback, made such a broken thing as a stirrup, and now he tossed and shot a horse, which is simply unreasonable. But Xiaoyaozi suddenly visited with the fragments of the falling star, and he was full of praise for the heavenly relics. What does this mean? If, as the Heavenly Relic says, there are weapons that sharpen iron like clay, is it a blessing or a curse?