Chapter 3 third quarter

On the outskirts of Nanhuai, the night sky descends like a snake. The starry sky was clear, illuminating a flat clearing among the valleys.If you look down from the surrounding peaks, this valley looks like a deep pot. The little shadow worked hard to move the stone under the moonlight. What he was moving was a huge fiery red stone, and he had to stop for a breath after moving a few steps.There are various stones scattered in the center of the valley, and the stones are pressed on the huge pattern drawn by silver powder. Only people in mid-air can see the huge pattern in its entirety. The tall and thin old man in white stood in the distance, silently watching the little man busy.

The little man sat down on the ground: "Since you are reluctant to leave, don't you know how to help? Watch a little friend panting and moving stones? Is this what a noble feathered person should do?" "You didn't ask me to help you." The old man said, "I thought that a river network would regard it as a supreme honor to complete his work independently." "I'm a Heluo who came among human beings, has been blackened by interests, and has turned his back on the true God's way." The little man said, "So, I need help!" "Okay." The old man shrugged.

So the two of them worked hard together to move one stone after another. He Luo shouted orders from time to time, and the old man followed his instructions and moved one stone after another to a certain position where the silver lines intersected. "Hey, big bird! The cyan stone is off-center, I told you to move them precisely!" Heluo gave orders loudly again. "I told you not to call me Big Bird!" "Okay, His Royal Highness Gumo Stark, the great warrior of heaven, please move the blue stone seven feet towards Milo!" Heluo said loudly. Yi Tianzhan shook his head, helplessly continuing to be sent by this little man.

This huge formation took them a long time, and when they finally sat together to rest, Yi Tianzhan also took a little breath.He is a samurai, a rare and powerful man among Yuren, but it seems that he never thought that Gao Guiru would have to do this kind of hard work of moving stones in his life, and he was criticized and laughed at by He Luo for his clumsiness. "I was wondering why so many big stones are needed for a Heluo formation. I always thought that your things should be small and delicate." Yi Tianzhan wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. "Then shut up, do you think it's easy for He Luo, who is only four feet tall, to do this? Unless we have to, we won't use this kind of formation," He Luo sighed, leaning against Yi Tianzhan's back to rest , "I don't have the holy day fire in Hui Ye's Cave, so I can only use the power of fire in the stone. But this is not a complete star burning technique, and there may be some flaws left."

Yi Tianzhan's face changed slightly, he turned around and grabbed his friend's collar: "You better not be joking, I asked you to repair this sacred object because this sacred object must not be damaged in any way! I need to see the complete numb Erdus Golia!" He Luo broke away his hand and straightened his collar angrily: "Okay, don't scare your little friend, the weapon that can cut off the numb Erdus Goria again may not appear yet In this world...unless you meet Sichergen Duragon again." Yi Tianzhan was silent for a while: "When I showed you the broken gun, you knew that Xiqiergen Duragon had been awakened, right?"

"Nonsense. I haven't thought that there is a second weapon in the world that can cut the teeth of a tiger. But if you don't tell me, I still can't ask you directly." He Luo stared into Yi Tianzhan's eyes, he seemed a little funny His eyes were as serious as a mountain at the moment, "Then let me ask you now, someone really awakened the Soul-devouring Dragon Sword, right?" Yi Tianzhan nodded: "Yes." "Is that you?" Yi Tianzhan shook his head: "No." "Thank God, then it's not too bad." He Luo felt relieved. "What do you mean?" Yi Tianzhan frowned.

"I mean, I can't believe that you, an old bone, have become the master of Sky Drive." Yi Tianzhan smiled wryly. "Can I see the person who drew the sword?" He Luo stopped joking and looked serious. Yi Tianzhan shook his head: "He drew his sword, but he may not be the leader of Tianqi. There are many examples in history that people who draw swords cannot inherit Tianqi." "Yes, pulling out this sword is not something to be proud of. If I was by his side at that time, I would have discouraged him, right?" "Don't you want it to be pulled out?" Yi Tianzhan asked.

"That's the Soul Devouring Dragon. Maybe it shouldn't have lived in this world at all. Its appearance was made of blood. What about you? Sky Warrior, do you want to see it wake up?" He Luo asked. "I don't know," Yi Tianzhan pondered for a while, then shook his head, "It's a holy object, and it's also a magic weapon. It's a sword with sharp edges on both sides, which may hurt you. But the strongest weapon, Perhaps it is better to hold it in one's own hands than to be taken away by the enemy." "Although he is a feathered man, Gu Mo, the sky warrior, has always been a proud lion. A lion will not give his fangs to others," He Luo said.

He was silent for a while: "Sometimes I think that you and You Changji are the same kind of people." Yi Tianzhan was also silent for a while: "Are we ready? Then let's start." He stood up and saw by the moonlight that rocks of various colors stretched hundreds of feet above the huge silver star array, just like the orbits of stars on the celestial sphere.In the center of the star array, a broken spear was inserted obliquely into the soil. Its wooden barrel had been removed, leaving only the tiger-shaped spine and iron core. The severed iron core lay flat on the blue rock beside it. It is juxtaposed with a black hammer.

He Luo also stood up and looked around. "Let me tell our true God," he said. "I thought you had betrayed the true God for a long time." Yi Tianzhan said. "But my skills have been enlightened by him, and my heart and soul will be rescued by him." He Luo knelt down, put his hands on his knees, and looked up at the sky, "God, thank you with my heart for bestowing on the earth Your spirit and fire, that power burns like a coal mine in the depths of the earth, and the red magma turns into a river. I will move forward with your strength and will, holding the torch high above my head."

He switched to the incomprehensible Heluo language, his voice was low and high, reminiscent of the little people of this race dancing and drumming around the bonfire, burning their new works in the flames, but condensing The knowledge left by the gods since ancient times. "You were born as a Heluo, so you will be a Heluo forever. That's your blood. Don't say anything about abandoning your jokes." Yi Tianzhan sighed, he was too tall, he had to lean down to pat his friend's shoulder, " Just like no matter where I wander, I belong to the blue forest of Ningzhou." He Luo stood up, pulled out the black iron chisel from his chest pocket, and chiseled at the edge of the silver pattern with all his strength.The iron chisel collided with the ground, sparks shot out, and those silver powders burst into brilliant fire like sulfur.The fire moved forward rapidly along the silver line, and where it was ignited, the silver flower fire tree spewed out light like rain. The entire ground began to burn, and the fiery wind swept from the center of the star array to the surroundings, and both Yi Tianzhan and He Luo had to retreat to avoid the flames.The rocky ground became red hot, hot steam curled up, and the stones of various colors sounded like they were about to burst. Yi Tianzhan heard someone singing, he looked into the curling steam, and saw the ethereal golden shadows, they were holding hands, singing and dancing around the ancient guns, and raised their heads to sing to the sky.And a cyan flame began to rise straight from the gun, pointing directly at the sky, like a huge cyan sword. Yi Tianzhan closed his eyes hard and then opened them again. In the lines of the flames, those shadows were still as if nothing, and the singing seemed to come from tens of thousands of miles away. "These are the ones it killed. Fragments of their souls awoke and sang the song of sacrificial weapon. It is considered one of the saddest songs in the river. The day we forged weapons Singing this song around the fire is to repent of one's sin." He Luo said in a low voice. The high and sharp female voice rose from the ground, as if a silver thread was thrown into the air.A hazy blue shadow stretched out from the blue flames, it was a woman, she looked down at the shadows dancing and dancing around her, her hair and body were blurred and changing in the rising steam.She stretched out her hand, as if wanting to caress the tops of their heads, and the shadows knelt down reverently towards her. "What is that?" Yi Tianzhan's voice trembled slightly. "It's an illusion, what everyone sees will not be exactly the same," He Luo lowered his voice, "But I think what you see is the daughter of casting, one of the greatest Alokas in the history of our clan, she is The first soul sealed in Tiger's Fang." "There are tears on her eyelashes." Yi Tianzhan murmured. "Because of compassion, the greatest creations and the most dangerous weapons are all from her hands." He Luo sighed, and his tone turned into anger, "These are also sacred objects in He Luo's heart. You tyrannical Heavenly Exorcists insist on snatching it away." Yi Tianzhan frowned: "Okay, you are no longer a young man, my dear Maru Kangzu, don't make such jokes anymore, you are a sky drive yourself." "Yes, yes! But so what? The reason why I am a celestial exorcist is because I have no brothers or sisters. My mother can only pass her finger cots to me. I am forced!" He Luo said Very sincere. The two looked at each other and suddenly laughed. "Hey, Big Bird, there is something you might want to know." He Luo said. "What?" Yi Tianzhan felt the solemnity in his friend's words. "About eight months ago, the mission from my hometown came to Nanhuai once. They got the molten steel formula of sand steel from me." "Sand steel?" Yi Tianzhan's snow-white long eyebrows trembled. "Like coral gold and rose silver, this is a very special metal. It used to be one of the secret materials in the sacred book "Soul Seal Book" of our river network. But later the "Soul Seal Book" was criticized as Only a small amount of recipes and techniques were approved, and they were allowed to be released to Heluo with the highest technology. Sand steel is one of them. However, this kind of thing is indeed too difficult to manufacture, and even if sand steel is obtained, it is still It takes a lot of repeated forging to use it as a piece of armor. Therefore, even in the river network of Beiman Mountain, this technique is rarely spread." "You said... this metal is used as armor?" He Luo nodded: "This is a perfect material, but it also has fatal flaws." "What defect?" "After repeated tests, only sand-steel laminates with more than 2,000 layers can completely block the thrusts of refined iron weapons. This means that sand-steel armor that is not thick enough is basically useless, but once it reaches a sufficient thickness, it can resist Almost all stabs." He Luo stared into Yi Tianzhan's eyes, "And if the armor has more than two thousand layers of sand steel, then its thickness is about one and a half fingers, and the weight of the entire armor will not be less than eight. Ten pounds. Only one type of armor I know of is made of grit-steel." "Iron Buddha..." Yi Tianzhan whispered, trying his best to appear calm. "Yes, they got the formula of molten steel, and the iron beast-like cavalry can reappear in the world. I don't know who is in charge of all this, but the Iron Buddha, which was buried by Emperor Fengyan, has not been forgotten!" "Maybe you shouldn't have given them." He Luo shook his head: "You are wrong, Gu Mo, this is not something I can stop. What I am facing is the messenger from my hometown. Even without my formula, they still have enough excellent technicians to make it within a year." Produce qualified sand steel molten steel. They have full determination to do this, and I can't stop it." "Heluo...will he also get involved in this war?" Yi Tianzhan pondered. "Will Yuren know?" "Probably unavoidable. When the envoys with black flags passed by the Hanzhou grassland, how could they abandon the forest in Ningzhou?" "They have already gone to Hanzhou?" He Luo was taken aback. "They probably have already been to your hometown." Yi Tianzhan's cheeks tightened like the edge of a knife, "By the way, Maru Kangzu, why don't you go back to Leiyan Mountain with the mission? I know you don't like it." War, and with your wisdom and skills, you may be regarded as a 'husband'!" He Luo shook his head with a smile: "They won't, they will kill me...just like you are back in Stark city-state now." Yi Tianzhan was silent. "Yi Tianzhan, does Tianqi have a future?" He Luo asked. "I don't think it will be long before the eagle flag will fly on the land of the Eastern Continent again." Yi Tianzhan said slowly, "I have already seen the brilliance of Beichen shining on my shoulders." "I'm still very happy to hear this kind of news. But I'm just a blacksmith, and I can't compare with people like you. I can only use a hammer, not a sword. I will do my best!" He Luo looked up at Yi Tianzhan.The height gap between the two of them was almost double, He Luo stretched out his hand and patted Yi Tianzhan on the shoulder.Yi Tianzhan was stunned for a moment, feeling that his hands were as cold as ice, and the cold air kept penetrating into his bones.At this time, the blue flames swept into the air, as if the ground fire was gushing out, and the black shadow of the broken gun in the blue flames trembled violently in the rising flames. "Blue and white, it is the pure flame color. If it burns, it will become transparent. The fire in the stone has started to burn, and this is the time!" He Luo shouted in a low voice. The skin of his whole body suddenly turned green, like a person frozen to death in the ice and snow.When Yi Tianzhan was in a daze, he strode into the flames. The flames seemed to have no harm to him. The flames close to his skin were extinguished immediately. He strode towards the burning star array and ran towards the direction of the broken gun. . "So there is such a cold technique." Yi Tianzhan praised. Surrounded by flames, Heluo ran with all his strength, and his arrival alarmed the worshiping souls.The souls were terrified at first, and they retreated together, gathering together and trembling.Then they seemed to wake up suddenly, and rushed towards Heluo fiercely.Their shadows stretched and twisted, reaching out in the air with long armored hands, pointing at Heluo's head.Aloka, standing in the blue flames, suddenly disappeared, and the broken spear rang out loudly and shrillly. The spirits cannot harm the river.The moment their shadows approached the river network, they were all washed away.He Luo rushed to the side of the broken gun. He grabbed the hot hammer, put the two iron cores together, and hammered hard against the rock. His iron hammer was burning, and every time he hammered down, blue-white flames splashed in all directions. Yi Tianzhan couldn't get close to the flame, so he could only watch his friend beat it with all his strength.His beard and hair were ignited and quickly extinguished in the fire, and his clothes were scorched, but he just hammered with all his might, without fear. Those golden shadows trotted around him on tiptoe. Sometimes they clustered behind him, and sometimes climbed on top of his head. There was a shadow like a woman that became extremely soft, winding around Heluo's neck seductively like a snake, Other shadows poked out their sharp nails behind him, and those who couldn't get close to him flew into the air, baring their teeth in the air! Yi Tianzhan's heart tightened, he reminded himself that everything in front of him was just an illusion in the flames, but he still felt as if his heart was being squeezed by a cold hand. However, nothing can stop the sound of Heluo's heavy hammer. He repeatedly raises the hammer high and continues to forge, and the earth will also crack under his hammer! Yi Tianzhan looked at his friend, closed his eyes silently, and only listened to the sound of the hammer. Yi Tianzhan felt the heat wave outside recede.In just an instant, the light and heat that could not be blocked by the eyelids suddenly disappeared. He opened his eyes nervously and looked around.On the ground, white smoke curled up, and the flames burned the ground black.But those golden and bluish-white flames have already dissipated, extinguishing faster than when they started burning.Yi Tianzhan himself couldn't tell how much of what happened just now was flames and how much it was an illusion. He rushed into the fire, shouting his friend's name: "Maru Kangzu! Maru Kangzu!" Behind a pitch-black rock, a thin arm slowly raised up. Yi Tianzhan ran over and saw the little man lying on the dark ground.His whole body was scorched black as charcoal, all his clothes were swept away by the flames, only a pair of eyes were shining brightly. Yi Tianzhan picked him up, leaned his head on his forearm, touched his breath, and felt relieved. "Don't touch it, don't touch it, I still have my eyes open, I'm not dead!" He Luo complained loudly in a hoarse voice, "I'm still alive, an old He Luo doesn't die so easily!" After speaking, he smiled smugly, his teeth were white and lovely, not like an old guy at all. He lifted the thing in his hand, the jet-black spear had been reloaded, and the silver-colored tiger's eyes were shining brightly.Yi Tianzhan took it and shook it vigorously, the spear vibrated and buzzed. "It's enough to install a new wooden pole. The rest of the work can be done by the children in our Heluo place. There is no need for me, an old guy." Heluo whispered, and slowly closed his eyes , "I'm tired, you give me a rest." "Thank you, friend." Yi Tianzhan lowered his voice. "By the way, speaking of children," He Luo opened his eyes again, "where's your little princess?" Yi Tianzhan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't know, she is becoming less and less like a princess now."