In the outer courtyard of Zangjian Pavilion, in the middle of the four corridors is a square five feet square. In the middle of the square is a century-old pine tree. It is said that it was planted by the ancestors of Li Zong when they founded the sect. At this time, it was already as thick as a car cover, and its branches spread to cover half of it. place.
The corridor is not an ordinary corridor. The width is twice as wide as that of ordinary people's corridors. Because the corridor is closed, the corridor is full of high-quality swords made by the swordsmiths of the past dynasties of Li Zong. The sword in Li Luo's hand The sword is one of them. These swords are many times better than the swords in Jianghu. They will only be used by the disciples when Li Zong raises the clan to fight against foreign enemies.
Furthermore, only those with a slightly higher seniority are qualified to wear the sword in this corridor.
As the sword-guarding elder of Li Zong, Li Jun ranks second, and his martial arts skills are only a few points behind Ruan Zhong. If the two of them really fight, the outcome will be difficult to say.
Li Kun pushed the door open and entered the courtyard. When he saw the second uncle was refining his sword, he didn't bother him. He just bowed and walked to the backyard. Li Jun knew that it was his nephew Li Kun and didn't stop his sword moves. He just practiced martial arts by himself. .
Li Kun heard from his uncle that the second uncle, who did not drink alcohol, had been refining swords for more than ten years. He was considered a martial arts fanatic. He was comparable to Ji Wuxu, a famous swordsman in the world many years ago. He was twenty years old. A few years ago, Ji Wuxu was a member of an assassin organization called "Jingzhe" in the world. People in the world called him Sword Maniac. However, later on, the organization fought internally and in just a few years, almost disappeared. The famous assassin Ji Wuxu has not been heard from since.
The great uncle once guessed that the Seventh Floor might have something to do with the Jingzhe organization, and Ji Ruge, the number one assassin on the Seventh Floor who had only become famous in recent years, might have something to do with Ji Wuxu. But guesses are just guesses after all. No one has actually seen Ji Ruge, so Li Kun has always had a doubt in his mind about this issue. They wanted to catch Ji Ruge, but Jiangnan was in chaos and they couldn't catch him.
However, Ruan Qingchou, who was called Jianghu Baixiao by his father, had a bad idea. Ji Ruge failed to catch it, which aroused the dissatisfaction of Lu Jiao.
As soon as the chaos broke out, the person named Ruan disappeared without a trace, leaving a lot of mess for their sects in the south of the Yangtze River to clean up. The person surnamed Ruan is really not an upright person, it simply insults his reputation in the world.
Li Kunmai walked into the main hall of the Hidden Sword Pavilion. There are a total of small stone chambers from the outside to the inside. In the middle of each stone chamber, there is a middle stone platform. On the stone platform is a bronze box cast and connected to the stone platform. On the surface of the box They are all engraved with the name of the sword. If the box is kept by the three sword-making elders, his father will only have one key.
There are seven stone rooms, and a bronze box in each room contains a several-foot-long sword. The names of the swords are different, and the swords look different. Li Kun has only seen the sword in the outermost box. The box On it were the words "Hate the Sky", and inside was a bronze scabbard like a sword room. He opened the box with his father and looked at it once, but he didn't pull it out and look at it.
The name of the sword is Hentian. His father did not tell him the history, and he did not know what the swords hidden in the seven sword pavilions were like.
Li Kun knew very well that these swords were rarely used. Unless Li Zong encountered a great disaster, these swords would have almost no chance of being unsheathed. The stone chamber is called the Hidden Sword Pavilion. From the first sword pavilion to the seventh innermost one, in the middle of each Hidden Sword Pavilion is a bronze box on a stone platform. Except for the name of the sword, everything else is almost the same.
There are seven hidden swords, the names of the swords are "Hate the Sky", "Cut the Flower", "Purple Sword", "Thin Scales", "Huaishang", "Lang Yue" and "Qing Yang".
Li Kun was familiar with the names of the seven swords, but he could not see the true appearance of any of them. From the bottom of his heart, he wanted to see what these swords looked like, but he did not want anything to happen to Li Zong.
It can be said that these seven swords are the most precious treasures of Li Zong. If the swords are with the sect, the sect will be destroyed.
The structure of the Hidden Sword Pavilion spreads from the outside of the mountain to the depths of the mountain. It can be said that the real place where swords are made is inside the peak of Sword Making Peak, which is a huge grotto.
After the seven stone rooms of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, Li Kun pressed open the stone door on the wall. The stone door spread to both sides, and inside was Li Zong's sword-making cave.
The stone trough where the swords were made, the grotto where the coal mines were piled, and the scattered swords and waste swords were stuck on the ground, like an abandoned sword tomb.
In the center of the sword-casting cave is a huge stone trough, surrounded by various tools for forging iron and swords, stainless steel hammers, a large melting furnace, a fire-heated water furnace, and a sweet spring for storing quenching. All good things are there.
In the middle of the grotto, there are strong men from the sect who like to make swords. Several elders of the sword-making faction are naked and brandishing various instruments to make sharp swords.
There are three sword-making elders, the eldest elder Li Gang has a broad face and a long beard, the second elder Li Yi has a thin face and a short beard, and the third elder Mei Jun is bald.
The three of them are all over fifty years old. Their faces are densely covered with wrinkles carved by time. They wear a cowhide apron on their chest to prevent sparks from splashing and hurting their skin. They are old but not frail. They have been forging swords and wielding hammers all year round. , with thick and strong muscles, a strong back and strong waist, looking full of strength.
The Li Zong Sword Making Faction and the Sword Shou Faction both have three elders. As for the names, Li Kun still calls the three of them uncles, there is no difference. As for the six elders, they call each other by their first names.
Li Kun called Ruan Zhong, who guarded the sword, his uncle, and Li Gang, who made the sword, also called him uncle. Only when they were together, Li Kun would add their names to show the difference.
In the Sword Casting Cave, the sound of hammers and iron is hammered all year round, which is particularly loud in the entire cave.
At this time, the three elders Li Gang, Li Yi, and Mei Jun were not forging iron, but were controlling the iron bucket of molten iron to pour the iron they had just refined into the middlemost sword-making tank.
As for the material of the iron juice, it should be excellent iron. Over the years, the three sword-making elders have almost never left the sword-making cave because they worked together to repair a broken sword.
Today was the sixty-ninth time that they reconnected the broken sword.
Now is the critical moment for the continuation.
Li Kun's arrival did not attract the attention of the three of them, but two men who were doing odd jobs came over and saluted Li Kun. Li Kun waved his hand to signal them to stop talking and looked closely at the three elders Rong Tie. Forged sword.
When the two men heard this, they didn't dare to say anything and waited on one side.
I saw the great elder Li Gang controlling the steel trough where the iron juice was poured. The two elders Li Yi and Mei Jun were fanning and adding coal firewood under the mold where the broken sword was placed. The red iron was mixed into the solid stone mold. Only the broken edge of the broken sword was slightly burnt red, and the rest of the sword was still dark in color, without much luster.
If Li Kun had not known since he was a child that this ordinary broken sword was the oldest sword of Li Zong, and several sword-making elders had been tossing it, he would have really thought that this broken sword was useless. Black scrap metal.
