"What?...... Can't you smelt the black iron?"

Yue Buqun looked at the more than twenty blacksmith masters in front of him suspiciously, seeing that some of them were ashamed, some were depressed, and some were indifferent...... He was very disdainful of their level, and wanted to tell them that the blast furnace could not melt iron, but suddenly remembered that the blast furnace was ironmaking, not forging.

Yu Ming's face was embarrassed, he pulled Yue Buqun's sleeve to the side, and whispered: "When the dynasty was first established, Emperor Hongwu issued an edict to compile the world's top skilled craftsmen into the imperial court industry or ordnance superintendent, and the secret of craftsmanship has always been passed from father to son and son to grandson, and it is unknown how much can be passed down in the past two hundred years...... Anyway, most of the folk blacksmith skills are not high, at most they repair agricultural tools, cast iron pots, and there are not many masters who can make steel blades......"

Yue Buqun asked in a low voice, "Among them, how many of them can build high-grade blades?"

Yu Ming replied: "With the face of the idle jinshi of the head of the family, we have dug up a lot of master craftsmen in the past two years in the military craftsmen of the guards in various parts of Guanzhong, and they can all build blades, and the more than 20 of them are already considered to be the best among them!"

Yue Buqun was helpless, and asked again: "Today, where is the blacksmith with the strongest skill in forging swords?"

Yu Mingming had already prepared, and immediately replied: "The great inner craftsman is the supervisor, and he specially forges the Shangfang sword for the emperor......" Seeing that Yue Buqun rolled his eyes again, he hurriedly continued: "Longquan County, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period Ouyezi, has been a prosperous place for sword casting for two thousand years, known as the sword porcelain Longquan...... The sword of the head of the house before was also forged by the famous craftsman of Longquan back then!"

Hearing this, Yue Buqun's eyes flashed. However, Longquan is far away in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, if he sends his subordinates to cast swords with materials, I am afraid that it is not very safe, in case half of the road is quietly robbed by a master, he may not be able to find someone, and there is no place to cry ...... Forget it, it's better to go there yourself, and it is said that there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, so you should travel in all directions.

After lunch, Yue Buqun and Feng Buping, Cheng Buping, and Yu Ming gathered in the 'Sword Qi Chongxiao Hall' to discuss matters. First of all, he summed up the results of the last annexation of Shuzhong Wulin, and prepared to screen a large number of leftist people who had taken refuge in Huashan many times, and at the same time eliminate the spies of other factions, they should also be hired according to their talents, and reintegrate the forces under their command.

Subsequently, the next expansion direction was discussed-Huashan monopolized Guanzhong and shared Shuzhong with Qingcheng. The situation in the surrounding four directions is different, Hubei, Henan, and Hebei in the east and south are the foundation of Wudang, Shaolin, Songshan, and the Demon Sect, and Huashan is simple if you want to intervene in one hand, if you want to occupy the dove's nest, then don't think about it; the northeast is Shanxi, which is the foundation of the Hengshan faction, but Hengshan is full of weak female streams, and it is simply unable to control Shanxi Wulin, Huashan can intervene a few more hands, but if you want to completely occupy it, I am afraid that it will cause the boycott of the other four factions of Wuyue, which is not conducive to moral reputation; Qinghai and Tibet, foreign people are not easy to deal with, and Tibet, Mongolia and Buddhism are deep-rooted, and there are many masters, only the Kunlun faction near the Kunlun Mountain in Qinghai also belongs to the Taoist sect, but people do not think that they are Taoist friends and have to give up their territory to you; to the west is Gansu, which belongs to the sphere of influence of the old big faction Kongtong faction, and there are many masters and huge influence; further south of Shuzhong is Yungui, which belongs to the Demon Sect and the Five Poisons Sect, and it is far away and is a poor and remote place, so it will not be considered for the time being.

On the whole, the Hengshan faction is the weakest soft persimmon, but it can't be bullied casually, and it has to grasp the heat; followed by the Kunlun faction and the Kongtong faction, the Kunlun faction has been unable to get along with Qinghai Buddhism for a long time, and it is still some strength, while the Kongtong faction is much more idle and sloppy, and the situation between these two factions and Emei seems to be, and there is no scruple with some small means;

Several people discussed for a long time, and finally decided that most of the forces in Huashan should be rectified internally in advance, and at the same time, a small part of the forces should be divided to slowly infiltrate Shanxi, boiling frogs in warm water, and the other part of the people began to lay spies in Gansu and Qinghai to collect intelligence. After the internal rectification is completed, we will concentrate our efforts on attacking Gansu and Qinghai.

With the expansion of Huashan's power, the subordinate organizational structure has become more and more rigorous and huge, and gradually formed a network structure with Huashan and Huayin City as headquarters, major cities and transportation fortresses as branches, and villages and towns as small strongholds. Every once in a while, the integration of various branches, the replacement of principals, and the promotion of outstanding people are also due meanings. Of course, Yue Buqun didn't take these semi-peripheral forces too seriously, after all, their martial arts were uneven, their virtues were different, their loyalty could only be said to be average, and the efficiency of their organization was not high. In Yue Buqun's potential plan, this structure was just overused, and when the disciples of Huashan's next generation grew up, they would slowly gain control and initiative, and form a more efficient and rigorous operating organization according to Yue Buqun's planning blueprint. Nowadays, among the next generation of disciples in Huashan, the older ones are twelve or thirteen years old, about two hundred people, and there are more than five to ten years old, Ling Hu Chong is among them, and this number is still increasing at a rate of one hundred to two hundred per year. After five or six years, the first batch of disciples will begin to work in various institutions for six months to a year before they officially join the company. In this way, as batches of disciples from Huashan descend the mountain one after another and step into the rivers and lakes, they will slowly spread out the grand cause in Yue Buqun's mind......

Early the next morning, Yue Buqun took Ling Hu Chong and Yu Renyan with a team of experienced swordsmen in the rivers and lakes to carry two large boxes containing the Yitian Sword, the head sword and all kinds of cherished castings collected from the palace, and the group swayed out of Huayin and headed towards Shuzhong. Anyway, it was a tour of the mountains and rivers, Yue Buqun took a detour to Shuzhong to inspect it, and by the way, he educated the two children and cultivated feelings. After intentional observation, he could feel that Ling Hu Chong's qualifications were not to be said, and he could learn any swordsmanship quickly, but unfortunately there were some signs of uncertainty now, the progress of internal cultivation was average, and he was blind with good qualifications, and he was always afraid of trouble, and he was cheating and slippery in case of trouble, while Yu Renyan's qualifications were average, fortunately, he had not learned obscenity with Yu Canghai now, but he had a stable personality and the potential for practical talents......

In the corridor of the back hall of the Black Wood Cliff, let me take the undefeated left and right with the east, and finally came to a hidden cliff stone room, sent the guards on duty, and took out a delicate and strange key to open the stone door mechanism.

Dongfang Undefeated's eyes flashed. Of course, he knew that this place was a place where the sect masters of the past dynasties retreated and cultivated, and it contained the treasures of the Divine Sect and several of the best martial arts secrets. As for the secret books in the Divine Cult's Treasure Pavilion on weekdays, most of them are much worse than here in terms of profundity. However, as the deputy sect leader, he had already read all the cheats except for the Sunflower Treasure Book, the treasure of the town sect, and he himself had another chance to inherit it, so he didn't look at the ordinary superior cheats in his eyes. Now let me bring him here, could it be ......

As the key in Ren Xing's hand turned around in the hole of the stone door according to a certain pattern, with a slight click, the closed stone door gently cracked a crack. Let me use my real strength, push the stone door open, and take Dongfang Undefeated straight to the mahogany bookshelf in the corner of the stone room, without looking at the more than ten classics on the shelf, directly pointing to the purple and red copper box in the center of the bookshelf, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Dongfang, this is the treasure of the town religion passed down from the masters of this sect through the past dynasties - the Sunflower Treasure Book, you watch it here for a long time, but you must not take it out of the stone room!"

Dongfang Undefeated forced himself to be surprised in his heart, bowed down, and said solemnly: "Thank you for the grace of the sect master......"

"No, you deserve it...... Well, I'll go first......" Ren Xing waved his hand, then turned to leave, and walked out of the stone room, a sly smile flashed on the corner of his mouth.

Dongfang Undefeated respectfully watched the back of Ren Xing go away, and then turned around, his eyes muttered meaningfully, and then reached out to take the copper box.

As soon as the subtle spring clicked, Dongfang Undefeated took out a simple scroll from the copper box, hesitated slightly, and gently opened the scroll, and the four big characters of 'Sunflower Treasure Book' at the beginning came into view.

But when he saw the first sentence of the text, Dongfang Undefeated couldn't help but shrink his eyes, and his face was shocked and inexplicable......

Ren Xing returned to Chengde Hall alone, sat on the throne of the sect leader, rubbed his fingers against the beard on his lips, squinted and fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Xiang Wentian walked forward quickly, and reported after saluting: "Sect Master, it has been investigated!"

Let me go and bow slightly, "Well, let's talk about it......"

Xiang Wentian said: "According to the information collected by the Five Poisons Sect in Yunnan, Duan Yu, the Dali monarch who cultivated the Northern Spiritual Skill four or five hundred years ago, finally went mad and died of blood......

Ren Wuxing frowned, and then asked, "Is there anything else......?"

Xiang Wentian also knew that the one in front was not good news, and hurriedly continued: "Back then, the senior monks of Dali Tianlong Temple also studied the Northern Shengong, it is said that although the Duan family Yiyang Finger Heart Method can guide qi to return to the void, it cannot completely dissolve and fuse the true qi of different species, and it must be done by the Secret Heart Method of the Free Sect or the Shaolin Yijin Sutra......

"Yi Jin Jing?" let me go, groaning, and couldn't help frowning again. The Xiaoyao faction and the Duan family disappeared hundreds of years ago, basically it can be said that they were wiped out, and the Shaolin Yijin Jing is even more troublesome, don't look at the rumors in the rivers and lakes that he is already a top master of the same level as the Shaolin abbot Master Fangzheng, but he knows in his heart that according to his current martial arts, he is sure to retreat under Fangzheng, but he may not be Fangzheng's opponent!

Xiang Wentian knew that his martial arts attainments were far from the sect leader, and he had no choice but to do anything about the sect master. After hesitating for a moment, Xiang Wentian continued to report: "The 'Three Corpse Brain Divine Pill' developed by the Divine Sect with the Poison Masters and the elders of the Five Poison Sect is almost complete......

Hearing this, Ren Xing only raised his head, and said casually: "I know......" and then contemplated a way to solve the drawbacks of the star-absorbing law.

Xiang Wentian wanted to speak and stopped, and finally bowed and retreated, turning around, but his eyes couldn't help but show a dull and melancholy color. The sect leader became more and more obsessed with martial arts, and the power in the sect was little by little in the hands of Dongfang Undefeated, although Xiang Wentian saw that Dongfang Undefeated was still respectful to Ren Xing, but he always felt that Dongfang Undefeated's move was a bit false, and his heart became more and more uneasy.

In fact, Xiang Wentian didn't know that since a few days ago, after Ren Xing absorbed the internal force of more than a dozen masters in the Yellow River Valley, the backlash of the star-absorbing Da*fa has become more and more frequent, and the symptoms of backlash have become more and more serious. According to Ren Xing's own estimate, if he can't understand the solution as soon as possible, after about seven or eight years, he will no longer be able to use his true qi, otherwise he will inevitably go mad, and after two or three years, he will have to suppress the backlash all the time. It's no wonder that he ignores the things of the Divine Religion, but now that he is in a situation of fighting for his life with the heavens, he can't relax for a moment, and it is not easy to be distracted to design the undefeated East. And he knows very well the depth of the trouble after absorbing the star, even though the Shaolin Yijin Sutra is a dream of martial arts people, but whether it can really solve this problem is still unknown. Otherwise, just like the Duan family's One Yang Finger Heart Method back then, it may be able to temporarily suppress this evil of different true qi, and there will be an outbreak after all!