Pushing the Three Thousand Worlds

Chapter 204 The Past ([-] words)

The servant led Li Qiu to the lobby.

A tall, middle-aged man with a middle-aged appearance was wearing a toga and was sitting on a chair.

He seemed to be influenced by the young man in the gold-embroidered brocade robe just now, his brows were slightly frowned, his face was not very good-looking, and the half-drunk tea was left on the side table.

"Master, the guests are here." The servant said.

Ouyang Xuan waved his hand, and the servant left.

He looked at Li Qiu, his gaze narrowed slightly, and he asked, "What do you want from me?"

Ouyang Xuan got straight to the point as soon as he came up, and Li Qiu could tell that he was in a bad mood, so he probably didn't want to be polite.

"I came to visit Master Ouyang today to ask Master Ouyang to help me reforge a knife." Li Qiu cupped his hands.

Ouyang Xuan frowned, many people begged him to forge a knife, but very few people begged him to reforge a knife.

He seldom forges knives much now, and finds it boring to forge some ordinary magic weapons. Only casting peerless magic weapons can make him interested and challenged.

"Is that sword you want me to recast a peerless weapon?" Ouyang Xuan asked.

"No." Li Qiu shook his head.

Ouyang Xuan was about to speak to see off the guests, but Li Qiu continued.

"But it has the potential to become a peerless weapon."

Ouyang Xuan frowned.

"Is it because the treasure material fell into the hands of ordinary swordsmiths and only forged a magical weapon, so you want to ask me to recast it?"

Li Qiu shook his head again, and untied the long knife and brocade box behind his back.

He opened the brocade box, revealing the red gold inside.

"My knife is made of black smelting iron, and there is no black smelting iron mixed with red gold." Li Qiu explained.

"Black smelting iron?"

Black smelting iron is a rare and rare material in the world!
Ouyang Xuan's expression changed slightly, he quickly walked to Li Qiu's side, and took the knife from him.

Swish!
With the long knife out of its sheath, Ouyang Xuan looked eagerly at him, nodded with joy.

"That's right, it really is Black Smelting Iron!"

"Heiye iron is extremely rare in the world, and I have only seen one piece, and it is much smaller than the original material of this knife."

"This long knife made of black smelting iron can be called priceless!"

Without waiting for Li Qiu to speak, Ouyang Xuan looked at the long knife and frowned.

"With such a poor casting method, I guess the black smelting iron for casting this knife fell into the hands of an ordinary blacksmith who doesn't know the goods, and he took it as black iron."

Ouyang Xuan guessed the truth almost instantly.

"Yes." Li Qiu's eyes moved slightly.

"The treasure is dusty!" Ouyang Xuan stroked the blade of the long knife, shook his head and sighed.

"I don't know if my long knife made of black smelting iron is qualified for Master Ouyang to make a move?" Li Qiu asked.

Ouyang Xuan straightened his expression, put down the long knife, and returned to his seat.

"If this knife is recast with red gold as an auxiliary material, it will almost certainly become a peerless weapon!"

"A peerless divine weapon is certainly qualified for me to make a move. Not only me, but I don't think any swordsmiths in the world will refuse."

"But it's one thing for me to be willing to make a move. It's another thing for me to recast the long knife for you with what you can come up with."

It's like one person is willing to sell something to another person, but the other person has to pay, and it has to be a satisfactory price.

Li Qiu's expression moved slightly, and he took out a stack of bank notes.

A thick stack of banknotes!
"This is all my net worth. I only have these. I don't know if Master Ouyang can see it."

A small part of these banknotes were obtained from Jin Li, and the rest were all obtained from Jiang Hongda.

Jiang Hongda, as General Yangwu appointed by the imperial court, has been corrupt in Xingqing City for decades, especially after taking full control of Xingqing City.

The accumulation of his life is not small, plus the accumulation of Jin Li's life.

Even Ouyang Xuan, who is the world's top casting master and a warrior in the coagulation period, can't afford so much money for a while.

Ouyang Xuan glanced at the bank note and shook his head.

"I believe this is all your net worth, and the amount of these bank notes is indeed very considerable."

"But I don't pay attention to enjoyment. I think enough gold and silver can be spent, and too much is useless."

"So, these silver tickets are not enough for me to forge knives for you."

Li Qiu frowned.

"Is it really not possible?"

A strange light flashed in Ouyang Xuan's eyes, and he said.

"I have a suggestion, but it depends on your willingness?"

"Master Ouyang, please tell me."

In fact, Ouyang Xuan really wanted to recast this black iron sword, so that another peerless magic weapon could be born in his hands.

In addition, Li Qiu took out so many banknotes.

Not only can he forge a peerless magic weapon to make himself more famous, but he can also get so many silver tickets, so why would he not want to.

But he had a more greedy idea in his heart, so he rejected Li Qiu.

Ouyang Xuan cleared his throat and said.

"If you are willing to give one-third of the black smelting iron as a reward, I am willing to recast this knife for you."

"As for the missing one-third of the materials, I will take out the best iron materials under precious materials to make up for you."

"After recasting this knife, it is still possible to become a peerless magic weapon!"

Precious materials that can be used to forge peerless magic weapons are hard to come by. Just because he is one of the top swordsmiths in the world, he will not be lucky enough to meet them.

Over the past 100 years, Ouyang Xuan has tried his best to collect precious materials that can be used to forge peerless magic weapons, but he has only collected a few. It is enough to forge a short knife, but it is still far from a long knife.

If he had one-third of Li Qiu's black smelted iron, he would be able to forge a peerless magic weapon, a peerless magic weapon that belonged to him!
It's not that Ouyang Xuan has never forged peerless divine weapons, but those peerless divine weapons were taken away by their masters after they were forged.

Not being able to possess the peerless magic weapon that was forged by one's own hands is the common pain point of all top swordsmiths or swordsmiths in the world.

Although all the top swordsmiths or swordsmiths in the world, they all want to make the peerless magic weapons they create known to all warriors in the world, so that they can be famous all over the world and even through the ages!

Maybe a little greedy, but the two are not in conflict.

Ouyang Xuan has long been famous all over the world, but he doesn't know if he can keep his name through the ages. He doesn't want anything else now, he just wants to have a peerless magic weapon that he created.

After hearing Ouyang Xuan's suggestion, Li Qiu frowned.

From being almost sure to become a peerless magic weapon to possibly becoming a peerless magic weapon, the gap between the two naturally goes without saying.

Li Qiu didn't want to gamble on luck.

And even if one-third of the black smelting iron sword was missing, it was lucky to become a peerless magic weapon after recasting.

It is estimated that that knife should also be the worst among the peerless magic weapons.

But right now, if he doesn't accept Ouyang Xuan's suggestion, there seems to be no other way.

Li Qiu hesitated for a while, thinking whether to accept Ouyang Xuan's suggestion.

For a moment, he remembered one thing.

Li Qiu raised his head, his expression moved slightly, and he asked.

"..."

"I remember there was a rumor that there was a genius martial artist who came to the door with a piece of precious material and asked Master Ouyang to make a knife. In the end, he got his wish."

"As far as I know, that genius has neither background nor gold and silver."

"I want to know, how did that genius impress Master Ouyang?"

When Ouyang Xuan heard this, his expression froze and he frowned.

He was silent for a while and said.

"It's actually very simple. I thought he had the potential to become a martial saint, so I thought it was a condition for him to forge a knife, and asked him to promise me that he would do something for me when he achieved great martial arts in the future."

"One thing? Is it specific?"

"If it's specific, I wonder if I can know what Master Ouyang said about it?" Li Qiu asked tentatively.

There was a trace of sadness in Ouyang Xuan's eyes.

"It's not a secret."

"I don't know if you know about the massacre by ghosts in Nam'an City, Gyeongju 70 years ago?"

A look of doubt appeared on Li Qiu's face, and he shook his head, expressing that he had never heard of this matter.

"That's right, this matter has been going on for a long time, and the court tried its best to block this matter, so it's normal for you not to know." Ouyang Xuan said with a sigh.

"70 years ago, a ghost appeared in Nam'an City, Gyeongju. To be precise, it was a monster. Once it was born, it could rival the strength of warriors in the late blood coagulation period!"

"As soon as that monster was born, it emptied the Yin Qi in a radius of dozens of miles, and its strength was terrifying."

"The most important thing is that it has a terrifying ability to release contagious plagues."

"Warriors cannot sense the changes in Yin Qi, so no one knows when it was born."

"By the time someone knew of its existence, most of the hundreds of thousands of people in the city had already been infected with the plague."

"In order to prevent the plague from spreading to other places, the imperial court sent a large army to surround and block Nan'an City."

"Our family lived in Nan'an City at that time. At that time, I heard that there was a spring in the north of Nan'an City, which was especially suitable for casting knives, so I took my family and moved to Nan'an City temporarily.

When the incident happened, I was physically strong as a warrior, and I was not infected with the plague..."

Speaking of this, Ouyang Xuan said with a painful expression and a trembling voice.

"But my wife and my two children under the age of nine were all infected with the plague."

"The imperial court collected famous doctors from all over the world to try to resolve the plague and save the people of Nan'an City, but all the famous doctors were helpless, and finally came to a conclusion that the plague was so terrible that there was no medicine to heal it!"

"In Nan'an City, my daughter died first, then my son, and finally my wife. They all died!"

"I watched them die in front of my eyes, but I couldn't do anything!"

"At that time, I swore that no matter what the price, I would kill that monster to avenge my wife and children!"

"But I also retain the last sliver of reason. I know that with my strength at the time, if I broke into that weird birthplace, I would just die in vain."

"If I die, who will avenge my wife and children!"

"After all the plague-infected people in Nan'an City died, the warriors who were not infected with the plague were released from Nan'an City."

"Because of that weird existence, Nan'an City has become an empty city, sealed off by the imperial court, and no one is allowed to approach it."

"After I came out of Nan'an City, I worked hard to improve my strength, and I gradually became less able to forge knives. I want to use my own strength to enter the strange birthplace of Nan'an City one day, and kill it to avenge my wife and children!"

"After the monster killed hundreds of thousands of people in Nan'an City, its strength has rivaled that of the Martial Saint!"

"In my dreams, I want to become a martial sage and kill that monster, but although my talent in martial arts is not low, it is still a bit short of the aptitude to become a martial sage."

"Decades ago, I broke through to the late coagulation period, and I was only one step away from becoming a martial saint, but that step seemed like a natural barrier."

"After breaking through to the late stage of the coagulation period, my martial arts potential was exhausted, and my strength began to stagnate."

"Even with the aging of the body and the decline of Qi and blood, my strength began to decline."

"I thought it would be difficult for me to take this path to avenge my sons and daughters, so I started making knives again."

"My talent in knife casting can be said to be rare in ancient and modern times. Even if I was abandoned for a long time in the middle, I finally became one of the top knife casting masters in the world."

"I want to use my ability to forge peerless magic weapons to invite a martial sage to avenge my wife and children."

"But no martial saint is willing to fight to the death for a peerless magic weapon, and that monster whose strength can match that of a martial saint. After all, nothing is more important than life."

"Besides, I'm not the only master swordsmith in the world..."

A bitter smile appeared on Ouyang Xuan's face.

"At that time I felt that I might have no hope of revenge in my life."

"Until more than ten years ago, the genius you mentioned, he heard about this and came to my door and gave me a little hope."

"He was very high-spirited at the time, and said that he had the potential to become a martial saint. Adding icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow. If I forge a peerless magic weapon for him, he will kill the monster in Nan'an City for me and avenge me when he achieves great martial arts in the future!"

"He is indeed highly qualified. He has reached the early stage of viscera cultivation at about the same age as you. He has a very high possibility of becoming a martial artist."

"I was moved by his words at the time, and I considered a dead horse to be a living horse doctor, so I took the initiative to forge a peerless magic weapon for him."

Li Qiu's expression moved slightly when he heard this, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.

"But unfortunately, within a few years after that, he died in the hands of others."

Ouyang Xuan shook his head and sighed deeply.

That genius gave him a little hope when he was about to despair, and finally made him lose that little hope and completely despaired.

Until now, Ouyang Xuan felt that there was no hope of avenging his wife and children in his life, and he had already given up.

"This matter about me is not a secret. I deliberately publicized it at the time, hoping to attract another genius who has the potential to become a martial artist."

"But in fact, it was just an attempt I felt unwilling and lucky. There is no such thing as a coincidence in the world."

"Let me meet two people who have the potential to become martial saints, and who are fortunate enough to pick up precious materials that can be cast into peerless magic weapons."

Pausing for a while, Ouyang Xuan seemed to remember something, with a look of anger on his face, he snorted coldly.

"Geniuses who have the potential to become martial saints have not been attracted, but many arrogant people who think they have the potential to become martial saints have been attracted."

"Just now, the son of Yang Shi, the commander of the Fuzhou Jitian Division, came to my residence with his subordinates holding a piece of treasure, and wanted me to help him forge a magic weapon."

"Let's not say that he doesn't have the aptitude to become a martial sage at all. I don't think he will avenge me even if he becomes a martial sage. He just wants to deceive me."

(End of this chapter)