Yue Buqun took Linghu Chong and Yu Renyan and his party into Shu first, then passed through Hubei, went around Jiangxi, walked and stopped along the way, watched the mountains and rivers, and taught the two children by the way, and finally arrived in Suzhou and Hangzhou, it was a month later.

For Ling Hu Chong, this journey can be described as endless scenery and fun, except for the head of the house, Rory, who always talks about some truths he doesn't understand, everything else is perfect......

For Yu Renyan, this journey has not only the earnest teaching of the master, but also the fun of the senior brother, and finally the fun......

For Yue Buqun, he was already completely desperate for teaching Ling Hu Chong as a leader who was "implicit and inward", this guy didn't have any scheming, he was full of joy, anger and sorrow on his face, he really wasn't that piece of material, and he would be left to an old bone to learn swordsmanship in the future...... Yu Renyan has average talent in martial arts, but he knows hard work and strong political wisdom, which is worth cultivating......

When he arrived at the Longquan realm, Yue Buqun was not in a hurry to find the swordsmith, after all, he was not familiar with this place, and it would not be good to be cheated rashly. Fortunately, he "took it all in black and white", first went to the county government to hand over the famous thorn, visited the county official as a study tour, and asked for a roster of Longquan craftsmen, especially marking the name of the sword-casting master. Then he went to the "Beggar Gang Liaison Office" where the three sects and nine streams gathered in the west of the city, showed the tricks of the deputy leader of the Wuyue Alliance and the head of Huashan, and spent some silver taels to let the local well-informed beggar gang disciples take him to find the best sword-casting master in Longquan. If it is such a two-pronged approach, he will be pitted, and Yue Buqun can only admit it......

"Master Yue, please ...... here Master Luo, who has the oldest qualifications and the highest skills in Longquan, lives in the front place...... If there's nothing else to do, the little one will go back......"

Signaling Yu Renyan to take some broken silver to reward the old beggar who led the way, Yue Buqun raised his eyes and looked at a courtyard next to the mountain stream in front of him. Although it is ordinary and simple, it is also spacious and dry, scattered, and the backyard looms in the thatched house and reed, blast furnace chimney, which seems to be a place for smelting iron and casting swords. Judging from the official news, this swordsmith surnamed Luo is highly respected here, and the rest of the famous swordsmiths in Longquan have more or less been guided by him, but he has lost his son when he is old, and only one grandson is left with him.

"The mountains and rivers are beautiful, Zhong Min is created, it is a good place to enjoy Qingfu......" couldn't help but praise him, but Yue Buqun did not hesitate to go straight to the door of the house, half a point did not disturb the quiet ashamed, only to see the corner of Ling Hu Chong's eyes twitch again and again, and the chaotic style of saying one thing and doing one thing to his own head was quite speechless.

After knocking on the door, there were footsteps in a few moments, and the door was gently pulled open in half, revealing a little boy with clear eyebrows. He looked at the strange Yue Buqun and couldn't help but show doubts, but when he saw Ling Hu Chong and Yu Renyan, two children who were about the same age as him, he was immediately happy.

Yue Buqun's eyes rolled, and he stretched out his hand to push Ling Hu Chong and Yu Renyan over, the boy really didn't refuse, opened the door and let the two of them in, Yue Buqun followed, and commanded the swordsmen behind him to carry the materials for forging the sword in. The boy turned a blind eye to this, just looked at Ling Hu Chong and Yu Renyan timidly, and looked at the wooden sword in their hands with great interest, but suddenly turned around and ran into the house, making Yue Buqun and the others inexplicable.

"Fan'er, who is it?" a vigorous voice came from the backyard.

"Grandpa, see for yourself......" The little boy ran out with a bang, holding three wooden swords in his arms, either quaint, exquisite, or gorgeous, all of which were much more beautiful than the ordinary wooden swords in the hands of Ling Hu Chong and Yu Renyan. He put the three wooden swords in front of Ling Hu Chong and Yu Renyan, and motioned for the two to choose, Yu Renyan still hesitated to look at Yue Buqun, but Ling Hu Chong directly dropped the ordinary goods in his hand, took a delicate and beautiful wooden sword from the boy's hand, swished and waved a few times, turned over and practiced two handsome Huashan swordsmanship.

Yue Buqun rolled his eyes, his heart's "lofty" expectations for Ling Hu Chong dropped a few points again, and while nodding to allow Yu Renyan to accept the wooden sword, he saw the boy staring at Ling Hu Chong in a daze, with both envy and longing on his face. Yue Buqun's eyes flashed, and he walked to the boy's side quietly and patted him on the shoulder casually. The boy only cared about watching Ling Hu Chong play handsome and practice swordsmanship, and he didn't react to this, but Yue Buqun's eyes lit up, and he had a plan in his heart.

At this time, a burly old man walked out of the door of the house, obviously with white hair and wrinkles, but his hands were thick and powerful, and he walked with a tiger's style, which was not much more than many martial arts people who practiced hard skills in the outer door. As soon as he approached, he couldn't help frowning when he saw the swords on the waists of Yue Buqun and the swordsmen, and then looked at the two big boxes brought by Yue Buqun, and knew Yue Buqun's intentions, so he directly refused: "This hero, the old man has already closed the furnace and gone into hiding, and no longer casts blades, do you see if you want to invite another ......."

Yue Buqun just looked at it for a while, and had already noticed that there were a lot of iron slag and soot on the old man's fingernails, sleeves and uppers, and he also smelled the rich smell of metal fireworks unique to the blacksmith on the old man's body...... If you want to build an ordinary sword, you naturally don't dare to disturb your predecessors at will, but this time the materials used are extraordinary, and you vow to cast a peerless edge...... If it weren't for the top masters like the predecessors, it would be hard to rest assured!"

The old man thought that Yue Buqun would stalk or turn his face and threaten like ordinary people in the rivers and lakes, but he didn't want Yue Buqun to be polite and polite, and he secretly provoked him. If he was desperate to blow away Yue Buqun and the others, he would be quite rude, and he looked at the two big boxes brought by Yue Buqun with a groan.

Yue Buqun hurriedly motioned to the swordsman to open the box, revealing the topmost Broken Heavenly Sword. As soon as he saw the cold light of the sword blade, the old man's face tightened, and he involuntarily took out the broken sword, turned it over and over carefully, and tapped it with his fingers from time to time to listen to its timbre.

After a while, the old man put down the broken sword and said in a deep voice: "The old man has cast a sword all his life, and he has never seen a blade made of pure black iron. I just don't know what kind of divine weapon can cut it off!"

Yue Buqun secretly admired the old man's experience, and replied briefly: "It is a dark iron broadsword, and it is the same as this sword...... In the end, the swords will be cut off and broken at the same time!"

The old man's eyes flashed, nodded, and then turned to look at the broken sword next to him, and he didn't need to pick it up and knock it, so he directly affirmed: "This sword is from the hands of my ancestors in Longquan, but unfortunately the material is limited, and it is not the top sword......" said as he opened the broken sword with his hand, looked through the various iron ingots and ores under it, and then went to check another box of materials, and his movements were extremely skillful, all at a glance. After a short time, he finished reading it, and then looked at Yue Buqun with a smile, and said: "Your Excellency's identity is not ordinary, you have searched all the treasures in the palace, there are cold iron, meteoric iron, Wuzi steel, and one or two pieces of precious ore that the old man can't recognize......"

Yue Buqun said embarrassedly: "Let the seniors laugh...... This was obtained from the eunuch of the Inner Treasury at a great cost......"

The old man nodded and said, "Why not pay a lot of money...... In the eyes of people who know the goods, these things cost more than 100,000 or 200,000 gold and silver...... "The implication is that Yue Buqun and those eunuchs are not knowledgeable about goods, and they are purely bought and sold cheaply, and it is likely to be calculated by the box......

Yue Buqun didn't expect that he also picked up the boss's cheapness, these two boxes of materials were five thousand taels each, plus the rest of the dots, in fact, it only cost more than ten thousand taels of silver. Of course, no matter how precious the material is, it is in vain if it cannot be forged into a sword, so he looked at the old man closely and asked, "The seniors agreed to cast the sword?"

The old man did not answer directly, but stretched out his hand and said, "Let's go into the house and talk about ......" and then instructed his grandson, who was still playing with Ling Hu Chong's wooden sword: "Take your little brother to the backyard to play!"

Entering the main hall, the old man poured tea and water, and said slowly: "Your two boxes of casting materials, plus two broken swords, after refining, are enough to cast five or six high-grade swords......

Yue Buqun asked, "How is it compared to the Xuantie Sword?"

The old man replied, "Perhaps a little inferior...... But after you martial arts people infuse their internal strength, it should be about the same!"

Yue Buqun raised his eyebrows, "Is there a better one?"

The old man nodded and said, "This is also what the old man is about to tell you in detail...... Although there are many ancient and modern swords, there is no one who surpasses the seven-star dragon yuan of Ou Yezi's ancestor in the casting process...... The remaining nine swords of the dozens of famous swords may be on par with the Seven Star Dragon Yuan in terms of sharpness, but many of them are inferior to the Seven Star Dragon Yuan in terms of casting process...... Of course, roughly calculated, the top ten famous swords all belong to the same level, which is the most precious sword in the sword, the peerless sword, followed by the top sword, and then the top sword, and then there is nothing to say...... Your pure Xuantie Broken Sword, in fact, can only be regarded as a top-grade sword in terms of craftsmanship, thanks to the incomparably hardness of the Xuantie, the sharpness can be worthy of reaching the level of a top-level sword, if it can reach the top in craftsmanship, even if it is cut with the same Xuantie broadsword, it will definitely not break!"

Yue Buqun thought for a moment, only to hear the old man continue: "We and other sword forgers all believe that swords have spirits, but this sword spirit can really appear in the former, only the ten famous swords...... It is like the seven-star dragon abyss, when the sword is formed, the seven stars of the Big Dipper in the sky are bright during the day, and look at its sword body, as if climbing a high mountain and looking down at the abyss, ethereal and deep, as if there is a giant dragon lying down, so it is called the seven-star dragon abyss...... In fact, such a peerless sword is only as good as a top-level sword, but with the power of an extraordinary sword spirit, the sharpness can be better than a top-level sword......"

Yue Buqun hesitated and asked, "What does the senior mean?"

The old man replied, "Your materials are of high quality and weight, and the old man is sure that he can forge a top-grade sword, plus two or three high-grade swords...... As for the peerless sword, it is said that he is not afraid of being ridiculed in the future, and after the old man returned to seclusion, he participated in research day and day, thought hard night and night, and often experimented with his hands, but also thought of a few methods to achieve extraordinary sword spirits......" Yue Buqun's eyes couldn't help but light up, but he heard the old man continue: "It's just that these methods are by no means effective in a short period of time, and it even takes years, decades of hard work day and night to achieve something......" said and looked at Yue Buqun expectantly.

Yue Buqun rolled his eyes, who could wait so long, and he still used his own materials as experiments, and politely refused at the moment: "You only need a top-level sword, don't dare to covet a peerless sword!"

The old man's face was pale, and he finally had enough cherished castings, but unfortunately he was not stupid, so he had to say angrily: "That's it...... The old man made some preparations today, and tomorrow he will open the furnace to refine the ore and iron ingots, and he will be able to start forging the sword in about three days. It's just ......" said that the nasal voice dragged on for a long time, as if it meant something.

Yue Buqun thought that he was asking for an honorarium, and hurriedly said: "Senior, rest assured, I am willing to give three thousand ...... of silver" I don't want the old man to wave his hand and interrupt: "The old man is not short of money, he doesn't need so many ......" In Yue Buqun's puzzled eyes, the old man said leisurely: "The old man is old, and his strength is not as good as before, if you build an ordinary steel sword, the old man thinks that it is okay, but to build a top sword, the old man's body is afraid that he will not be able to succeed him...... Seeing that your martial arts are okay, if you don't lack strength, you might as well give the old man a shot!"

Yue Buqun's eyelids trembled, and when he saw the ill-intentioned touch on the corner of the old man's mouth, he was about to refuse, but he thought that it was just a sledgehammer to strike iron, so he should practice the hammer method, so he nodded with difficulty in agreement.