The Tang family's great commission is really beyond Mu Sanqian's imagination.

The courtyard is layered and changed the scenery, the first time to enter the Tang family from the door to the side garden has walked a lot of distance, and then by the second master of Tang led through the small pavilion corridor to the Tang family's most important hidden place, Rao grew up in the mountains and rivers of Wudang, still looking at Mu Sanqian secretly admired, the Tang family is really worthy of standing for hundreds of years without falling down of the wealthy family, such a heritage is probably the general Jianghu sect dare not compare.

After arriving at a place, Tang Erye ordered the guards to open the door, and after walking in, he pointed to the tall wooden frames on both sides, and proudly introduced Mu Sanqian.

"This is the warehouse of my Tang family, which stores the best minerals collected by my Tang family from all over the world. Liaodong hematite, Central Plains magnetite, and even the cold iron of the Northern Underworld, my Tang family also has treasures. ”

Speaking of the matter of mineral sword casting, Tang Erye was like a few family treasures, Mu Sanqian listened carefully, while admiring his extensive knowledge, and on the other hand, he was surprised why Tang Erye was so defenseless against himself, and he could tell himself everything about the Tang family's sword casting.

Leaving the huge warehouse, Second Master Tang was also secretly observing Mu Sanqian.

"Everyone in the world knows that my Tang family is rich and rivals the country, and they also know that the accumulation of my Tang family for generations is all based on a hammer in his hand. It seems that the scenery is infinite, every year I come to my Tang Mansion to learn to cast a sword, not to say that it is like a carp across the river, but also to say that it is a city, my Tang family has no reservations, for qualified talents I Tang family will teach each other, but for so many years, almost none of the people with foreign surnames have learned. ”

"Why is that?"

When it comes to striking iron and casting swords, Mu Sanqian will naturally think of Senior Brother Guo Datie, he didn't cause him less trouble on Wudang Mountain, fortunately, Senior Brother is a generous and honest person, and if he changes someone else, I'm afraid that Mu Sanqian will not know how many beatings he has beaten.

"Hehe, most of those who have not learned the arts, most of them complained when they left, saying that my Tang family was hiding their own secrets and refused to teach the superior sword-casting skills, in fact, where in this world are there any superior sword-casting skills. ”

Second Master Tang's laughter has an inexplicable meaning, but there is a faint sense of sadness, like a helplessness and loneliness that no one can understand.

"Among the children of my Tang family, the highest sword-forging skill is my eldest brother Tang Lu. Do you know why?"

"I want to hear about it. ”

Mu Sanqian bowed his hand, and his attitude was full.

"Because my eldest brother has been lonely all his life. ”

Second Master Tang talked a lot, and hung other people's appetites for a long time, but he waited for an inexplicable sentence. But he quickly explained why.

"In the final analysis, sword casting is to strike iron, melt and condense the ore, repeatedly beat, melt, condense, and beat, in fact, it is very boring. Moreover, guarding the hot stove for a long time, the constant tinkling in the ears, is not only boring, but also difficult for ordinary people to endure for a long time. ”

"Well, that's true. I have a senior brother because he wants to help his master to make alchemy, but he likes to play iron and cast swords, when I was still in Wudang Mountain, almost all the swords I used were begged from him, he was not annoyed, he was happy all day long, except for helping Shi Bo alchemy is to guard his own stove to make iron, I looked bored, but he enjoyed it. Come to think of it, this senior brother of mine should be a person with a great talent for sword forging. ”

"Indeed, if that senior brother is really like you say, then his heart is good enough to be called superior in sword forging. The feeling of the sword blank being hammered under your own hands is something that you need to experience over the years, until the hammer you use to forge the sword becomes the same as your hand, and every blow is as if you touch it with your own hands, and then you can be regarded as entering the doorway of sword casting. ”

"Therefore, there is no shortcut to sword casting, and there is no superior skill, and the sword-casting masters who are famous in my Tang family have all come over step by step, and then become a grandmaster in the eyes of outsiders. ”

Casting a sword is the foundation of the Tang family, but now it is not only the young people of the Tang family, almost the entire rivers and lakes are filled with a frivolous and impatient atmosphere, which is completely contrary to the ancestral teachings of the Tang family.

"According to you, this sword forging has to be honed for a long time, so I don't have a chance of winning?"

Mu Sanqian suddenly thought that he had touched the hammer head only a handful of times in his life, and the only few times he had helped Senior Brother Guo Datie help.

"There are many in this world, and there are very few, and there are exceptions to everything, how does Lord Kogi know that he is not that exception?"

After Tang Qing returned home, he told the three brothers about the teenagers he met by chance, and then learned that among those teenagers there was a herald from the current emperor's order, and they were all deeply interested in it.

After meeting Mu Sanqian, Second Master Tang was surprised by his youth and old age, and also surprised by the depth that revealed from his eyes that was extremely inconsistent with his age.

So taking the opportunity of Mu Sanqian wanting to meet his eldest brother Tang Lu, Tang Erye made a temporary decision and added such a test to Mu Sanqian.

There has always been a saying in the ancestors of the Tang family that there are two kinds of people in this world who are suitable for forging swords, one is a person who is loyal and tenacious, and the other is a person who is born transparent-Lord Xiaomu can cultivate so far at such an age, it should not be ordinary.

Born transparent, the last time Tang Erye heard of such a person was because Emperor Li Xian sent troops to Emperor Sha, and the prince of Buddhism was born transparent, but after that unilateral massacre, the prince of Buddhism disappeared from the world.

What a pity.

Thinking of this, Second Master Tang couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"Why did Master Tang sigh?"

Mu Sanqian listened clearly, and asked casually.

"Just think of something boring. ”

Second Master Tang waved his hand to dispel all the messy thoughts in his mind.

"This is the sword-casting room of my Tang family, it's a little hot inside, Lord Xiaomu should be careful. ”

When I arrived at another place, I felt a heat wave coming in front of the door, and the heavy cast-iron gate slowly opened with a bang, and the furnace was displayed inside, and the swordsmiths walked through it, and almost all of them were shirtless, and the muscles and flesh under the red skin roasted by the fire protruded, and a sword blank with a handle sprayed with a fire snake was put on the iron from time to time to beat, and from time to time it was inserted into the water to cool down, and at this time there would be bursts of smoke with a squeaky sound.

Mu Sanqian felt scorching hot when he first entered, but he quickly got used to it.

"Most of the people here are the children of my Tang family, of course, there are also some swordsmiths who have come to temper themselves, and most of the business of the sect and the military outside is done here. ”

Walking through the furnace room, Mu Sanqian found that no one was distracted, as if Second Master Tang and himself did not exist.

"The tests that Lady Kogi needs to complete are here. ”

After passing through the furnace room, the two of them went to another room, which was very simplely furnished, but the whole room did not even have a window, and it was all lit by candles on both sides, so it was a little dim.

"Here?"

There is no ore in this room, and there is no fire, but you have to test your talent in sword forging, what kind of test method is this?