A great sage once said: Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent is sweat.

Qian Yang found the rarest bit of inspiration, and all he lacked was a bucket of sweat.

The thrill of finding a research direction lasted not long before it dissipated, and the main theme of life was still boring and dull after all.

In the following days, Qian Yang dedicated all his time to understanding the stone.

Calcing is actually a very competitive thing, and dismantling a stone finely is a process of constant confrontation between patience and expectation.

You desperately want to unravel the stone and see the end result as soon as possible, but in the process of chasing the result, you must suppress your desires and forget your goals.

A bright future is waving at you on the other side of the river, but all you can do is turn a blind eye.

Forgetting the original intention, forgetting the dream, every movement of the steel file under the hand grinds away not only the stone skin, but also the edges and corners, as well as the dust.

Wash away the dust of the world and throw away the glitz of the red dust. The warmth and coldness of the world, joys and sorrows, slowly fade with the passage of time, leaving only the sharp steel file in his hand and a solid indifferent heart.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye, and the Tian Yuan Continent also passed a rare period of silence. The afterglow of the shocking battle between Duobaozong and Wuxingmen is still there, and its impact is far-reaching.

At that time, the Five Elements Sect launched a battle to destroy the Duobao Sect, and finally failed, and the reason for the defeat was embarrassing, they were stoned to death by the Duobao Sect with money!

The Tian Yuan Continent is recognized as having three super sects: the Hidden Sword Sect, the Five Elements Sect, and the Duobao Sect.

The first two are both old and powerful sects, standing in the Tianyuan Continent for thousands of years without falling, with a profound heritage. The Duobao Sect has a posture of coming from behind, and it has expanded rapidly in recent centuries, and its luck is overwhelming.

In fact, in terms of strength, there is still a gap between the Duobao Sect and the other two sects.

The secret technique of the hidden sword sect is unique in the world, which not only retains the sharpness of the sword cultivation attack and the purity of breaking ten thousand laws with one sword, but also makes up for the shortcomings of the lack of changes in the sword cultivation and the difficulty of dealing with complex scenes to a certain extent.

In terms of average combat power, the disciples of the Hidden Sword Sect are the first in the world, and there is no objection!

The characteristic of the Five Elements Gate is balance.

The disciples of the Five Elements Sect choose one of the five elements and specialize, and the five attributes have their own characteristics and complement each other, tyranny, warmth, and treachery.

In terms of the degree of difficulty, the Five Elements Gate considers itself to be the second in the world, and no one dares to admit the first.

And what are the characteristics of the Duobao Sect? The disciples of the Duobao Sect feel that their characteristic is that they have many magic weapons, and the evaluation given to them by outsiders is two words: rich!

Duobaozong monopolized more than half of the magic weapon manufacturing and sales share of the Tian Yuan Continent, and the spirit stones rolled in, making him the richest man in the world.

Before the Five Elements Sect launched a campaign against the Duobao Sect, of course it knew that the Duobao Sect was rich, but it really didn't expect it to be so rich.

In the final battle related to the luck of the sect, the Duobao Sect showed its family background, and the one-time self-detonation thunder and fire beads of various levels were smashed out like money.

If there are fifty people on the opposite side, I will smash the thunder and fire beads, and if there are five people, I will also smash the thunder and fire beads, and there will be one person on the opposite side.

The thunder fire beads of the Duobao Sect smashed into the disciples of the Five Elements Sect and began to doubt their lives, and they felt that the sect war might have entered a new model in the new era.

Could it be that the future sect wars will be covered bombing by both sides with weapons of mass destruction? What else will the spells they learned be used for?

It is true that Duobao Sect has the manufacturing technology of Thunder Fire Beads, but how can the manufacturing materials be so easy to find? In the Tian Yuan Continent, the materials used to make Thunder Fire Beads are extremely rare, and they are all sky-high.

A little calculation of the number of Thunder Fire Beads consumed by the Duobao Sect in this battle can be known that eighty percent of the Thunder Fire Bead materials in the entire Tianyuan Continent were not bought by the Duobao Sect, where did they get so much money?

The Five Elements Gate was smashed back to his hometown by Duobaozong with a thunder fire bead, not to mention the heavy casualties, and a lot of territory was lost.

The people are gone, the resources are gone, the Five Elements Gate is completely closed, and the entire sect has been beaten down a notch by life, so it has to be trapped in a corner, looking forward to a comeback.

In three years, Duobaozong initially digested the dividends of the war and looked at the world with the power of a great victory.

In the early morning of this day, as soon as Elder Chen, who was in charge of the affairs of the Western Wilderness of the Hidden Sword Gate, opened his eyes, he ushered in a wicked guest.

The person who came was a Jindan deacon of the Xihuang Branch of the Duobao Sect, with a high name and an embarrassing name, and the person and the name were very compatible, but he was full of confidence when he spoke.

Gao Yi saw Elder Chen, symbolically greeted him, and then went straight to the point: "Five years ago, there was some friction between my sect and your sect in Hongtou Mountain, and the master of my Duobao branch hall Zhou fell, and the bones did not return. Today, I am on the orders of Hall Master Cui to retrieve the bones of Hall Master Zhou to appease his family, and I hope that Elder Chen will allow it. ”

Elder Chen didn't say anything, but his mind kept turning.

Asking for the corpse of the master of Zhou Hall? As soon as I heard it, I knew that it was a pretext. The surname Zhou has been dead for five years, and the wild garlic on the grave has grown I don't know how much stubble, do you want a corpse now, what did you do earlier?

"Let's just tell me what I mean!" Elder Chen couldn't guess Duobaozong's intentions, and he didn't bother to talk to a junior.

Gao Yan shook his head: "I'm only here specifically for the bones of the Zhou Hall Master, and I have no other intentions." ”

Elder Chen said with a calm face: "In the dispute of the day, both you and I suffered a lot of losses, as far as I know, my Zong Hong Deacon and your Sect Zhou Hall Master fought to a desperate situation, and finally died together, and there were no bones left on either side. ”

Gao Yu nodded: "The bones are not left?" Elder Chen's explanation was quite pleasant. ”

This is not a good word, Elder Chen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in his heart that this kid is here to find fault today, right?

Gao Yu ignored Elder Chen's face, and continued: "According to what my sect disciples have seen with their own eyes, Hall Master Zhou and Deacon Hong fought on the top of Hongtou Mountain, where the spiritual energy was forbidden, and the two sides had to fight hand-to-hand, and the statement that there were no bones left is afraid that it cannot be established. ”

"So what?" Elder Chen pricked up his eyes.

Gao embarrassed and said, "Since Hall Master Zhou's body is not damaged, then ask Elder Chen to return it!"

Elder Chen snorted: "In the battle that day, the Duobao Sect was defeated and retreated, and our sect took over Hongtou Mountain, and then the disciples who cleaned up the battlefield disposed of all the corpses left on the mountain, either buried or burned, where do you let me go to find his body for you now?"

Gao Yi's tone was cold and hard: "Bury your own bones, burn your own ashes, Master Zhou has done his best for my sect, blood is spilled on the field, my sect can't sit back and watch his bones fall outside, today, the Hidden Sword Gate must come up with an explanation!"

"Presumptuous!" Elder Chen was furious, picked up the teacup and smashed it on Gao Yan's face.

Gao Yi wiped his face, looked at the blood stains on his hands, and said with a smile: "I am here today on behalf of the Duobao Sect, and Elder Chen is doing it to me, is it to provoke the Duobao Sect?"

"Don't talk nonsense with me! what do you Duobao Sect want?" Elder Chen was also short-tempered.

"We just want to return the bones of Hall Master Zhou. That's all there is to it.

"What if I can't take it?" Elder Chen said angrily.

Gao Yu coughed lightly: "The bones of the main body of Zhou Tang are buried in the red mountain, even if we dig three feet into the ground, we will find his bones." If the Hidden Sword Gate doesn't look for us, then, we'll find it ourselves!"

"Okay!" Elder Chen laughed angrily, "I'm waiting for you to come and find me!"

"Farewell!" Gao Wei bowed slightly, and turned back.

Driving away the second goods who were looking for a beating, Elder Chen's face gradually became heavy, and the signal released by the Duobao Sect was already obvious, this was going to fight!

No one wants to fight for no reason, so it's better to fight than to rob mines.

In the Western Wilderness, incidents of ore robbery by various sects occur from time to time, and most of them occur in Xinchang, especially the Xinchang that has just been developed, and Hongtoushan Mine happens to be in this category.

It is said that someone may come to rob the mine, but the Hidden Sword Gate is not really ready for a fight, and the reason is because of the self-confidence accumulated over the years.

In the Western Wilderness, the value of the 36 old farms is much higher than that of the new ones, but there, ore grabbing incidents are rare. Because those who have the right to occupy the old field are all powerful sects, if you rob other people's mines, you are robbing other people's money, you are slapping other people's faces, and if you don't do it, it will be a situation where you will never die, so it is easy for no one to have evil thoughts.

As one of the most powerful super sects in the Tian Yuan Continent, the cards are there, it would be good if they didn't fight other people's ideas, where would there be trouble coming to them without opening their eyes?

And the battle between the Hidden Sword Gate and Duobaozong was actually another situation, at that time, it was not who wanted to rob whose mine, but both sides took a fancy to Hongtou Mountain at the same time, the two sides did not give in to each other, fair competition, those who won stayed, and those who lost got out, that's all.

Elder Chen always felt that the fight would be over after that fight, and the Hidden Sword Sect's occupation of the Hongtou Mountain Mine was already a fait accompli, and Duobaozong could only pinch his nose and admit it.

But looking at today's posture, Duobaozong is afraid that he has bad thoughts.

Do you really want to fight? Or is it a bluff?

After winning the Five Elements Gate, has the Duobao Sect swelled to this point?

In fact, the attitude of Duobaozong is okay to say, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth. What worries Elder Chen now is the attitude of the Hidden Sword Sect towards the Hongtou Mountain Mine.

It's still the same question, for the sake of a small Hongtou Mountain, is it really cost-effective to have to fight with the Duobao Sect to the end?

For monks, especially high-ranking monks, participating in the battle of mine robbery is a very cost-effective thing.

As we all know, the aura around the mine is forbidden, and the monks can only use the physical body to fight, which greatly narrows the rank gap between the monks.

In the outside world, a Jindan monk will not be intimidated in the face of a hundred foundation building monks, and he can run away if he can't beat it. But once in the mining area, three or five foundation building monks were enough to break down one Jindan monk to pieces.

How good can the infant period be? One dozen eight, one dozen ten?

The Tang Yuan Infant Elder is worth ten or eight foundation building disciples? This is simply too embarrassing, and the foreseeable heavy losses have made all sects very cautious about this kind of thing like robbing mines.

If the Duobao Sect was really determined to rob Hongtou Mountain, how much loss would the Hidden Sword Sect be willing to suffer for Hongtou Mountain? This is a question that is difficult to quantify.

However, Elder Chen was sure that no matter what the sect's attitude was in the end, he, as the person in charge of the Hongtou Mountain Mine, would definitely not be intimidated.

After all, the Hidden Sword Gate still has to be faced.