Chapter 110.

“Let’s go.”

Since the Casting Dao Grand Competition had already begun, there was no need for Zhou An to stop, and Qi Shuo nodded and went out the door with Zhou An.

After leaving the room, Zhou An walked down the street, side by side with Qi Shuo, looking at the lively scene on the street and the crowds coming and going.

“The Yunlai Mansion probably hasn’t been this lively for a long time.” Zhou An surveyed the hurried passersby.

They were heading in the same direction as Zhou An.

For the Casting Competition this time, Qi Shuo had already explained the rules to Zhou An on the way.

The government office had specialized in one place and set up a venue for the competition, and this time, they went over just to enter the venue.

After all, there were a lot of people coming, and a lot of people were prone to accidents, so a venue was specially divided to isolate it from ordinary people.

Qi Shuo was confident all along the way, after all, when Blacksmith Zhao said that Zhou An was a sure winner.

He could already think that by the time Zhou An got the first place, his own position in the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce would rise.

“Luck plays a part in a person’s life, meeting a nobleman is much better than working on my own.” Qi Shuo thought.

The nobleman, of course, referred to Zhou An.

Qi Shuo knew that with Zhou An’s strength, he couldn’t possibly be an obscure nobody, and would definitely blossom into a greater light sometime in the future.

At that time, when Zhou An became famous, he himself would also be able to rise to the top.

The two of them walked like this, and in a short while, they arrived at their destination, which was an extremely empty area, but a lot of houses had already been built to occupy it.

At the entrance, there were quite a few people lining up.

The gate was tightly closed, while at the main entrance was the Sun Mansion Order.

This time, the Casting Dao Competition held in Yunlai Mansion was itself presided over by the Mansion Order, so it was only natural that the Sun Mansion Order had cast aside all other things and finished today’s stuff first.

“Brother Zhou, I won’t see you off.” Qi Shuo arched his hand and said something auspicious, “I wish Brother Zhou to win first place.”

He was just stopping by to see him off, and he would not be allowed to enter any further.

Zhou An nodded and watched Qi Shuo leave, patiently standing behind the crowd and waiting.

Just then, he really did encounter an acquaintance.

Long Xing stood at a place not far away, looking at Zhou An with a complicated glow.

“He really did come.”

“With him here, everyone is just a chaperone in this Yunlai Prefecture Casting Dao Competition.”

Next to Long Xing were young men with swords and longbows, who couldn’t figure out why Long Xing was particularly disheveled lately.

They had also asked, but Long Xing was beating him to death to tell them.

The young man with the longsword said strangely, “Long Xing, what exactly are you looking at? You’ve really been out of sorts lately, why is it like you’ve lost your essence?”

Although he saw Long Xing’s complicated gaze, there were so many people here that he didn’t know who exactly Long Xing was looking at.

Hearing this, Long Xing finally came back to his senses and revealed a bitter smile, “It’s nothing, for this Casting Dao Competition, everyone just try their best.”

He was keeping in mind the words of Blacksmith Zhao, he would definitely not reveal the news of Zhou An, otherwise when the time came to dump the pot on himself, he couldn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t be able to lose his head one day.

The killing aura that Zhou An had erupted in the beginning, if it wasn’t for the fact that Blacksmith Zhao had suddenly arrived and Zhou An had given Blacksmith Zhao a face, it was estimated that he would have had to have his head moved at that time.

“You guys don’t have to ask, just line up first.” Long Xing sighed.

Zhou An naturally took in Long Xing’s expression, he didn’t take it seriously, this was just a passerby.

Time was gradually passing by, the Sun Prefecture Order’s side had been communicating with the person next to him, as if they were discussing the details of the Casting Dao Competition.

After roughly half a pillar of incense, the Sun Mansion Order finally stopped and coughed gently.

The venue, which had been slightly flustered, instantly quieted down, and everyone bet their gazes on Mr. Sun.

After coughing, only then said loudly: “all of you, welcome to participate in the great chu country first young people casting road than, this big competition, mainly for the selection of young generation of casting road talent, into the great chu country everyone aspires to craftsman supervisor, I hope everyone do their best, for their own future Bo a bright.”

The words of the scene, naturally everyone will say.

Sun Fu Ling has been walking in the official field for so many years, casually say a few words or have.

Waiting until after the words are finished, this only came to the main event.

“This big competition, is expected to take nine days, the middle of the rest day, a total of only than two, the first is more than casting weapons, the second is more than casting defense things.”

“During these eight days, everyone must eat, drink, shit, and sleep in our place, but you can also rest assured that we have professional personnel to serve, to ensure that everyone has a better time than outside.”

“During the Grand Competition, communication with the outside world is not permitted, and those who communicate will be treated as cheating.”

“Whether it’s weapons or things of defense, it’s your choice, cast how you want, as long as you don’t break away from our general category.”

Zhou An was listening from below and rubbed his chin when he heard this, thinking.

It was more or less the same as what he had expected, weapons or defensive objects were used for war.

The Great Chu Kingdom’s selection this time was to select those who used the Casting Dao for war.

It was still considered fair, everyone ate and slept here, and they were not allowed to communicate with the outside world, avoiding the possibility of cheating.

Thinking this way, Sun Fu Order’s side also stated the general rules and pointed in another direction.

“For this grand competition, a specialized person will conduct the evaluation, please welcome the lord of the smithy supervisor, Lin Companion Tie.”

The crowd’s eyes followed the direction pointed by the Sun Prefecture Order again, and they saw a thin, middle-aged man, carrying a mirror in his hand, dressing up there.

Zhou An: “……”

How could he not have expected to encounter the Old Lin from before?

Old Lin was still there, stroking his hair narcissistically at the mirror, and after hearing the words of the Sun Prefecture Order, he waved his hand helplessly.

“I’m the Craftsmanship Supervisor’s man in Yunlai Prefecture, this time it will definitely be fair and impartial, if you think there’s any unfairness, you’re welcome to bring it up to the Craftsmanship Supervisor’s superiors at any time.”

“I believe everyone cares about the evaluation criteria this time, it’s actually quite simple, in addition to quality, creativity also accounts for a big plus.”

“The young generation of the future that we need is not only to be built with high technology, but also not to be able to solidify their thoughts.”

“So, everyone work hard.”

With that, he said a few words and went back to scowling at himself in the mirror.

Zhou An was aware of this guy’s quirks and thought it was normal, but the others didn’t know ah, and were casting strange gazes.

The areas of the Prefecture level all had a lot of minerals, and the Crafting Supervisor would arrange for personnel to be stationed here.

Don’t underestimate these people, these people are not idle.

When they come over, as long as they are related to mines, they are a handful.

Such as Wang Mang kind, specializing in the management of minerals in the Yunlai mansion, all of them, are subject to the arrangements of the resident personnel.

The Sun Prefecture Order naturally knew Old Lin’s temper, so he didn’t care and just waved his hand.

“You can go in, remember, there are any materials you need inside, you only need to build them within nine days time.”

“The first four days, are for building weapons, when the time comes, there will be a rating, the second four days to build things of defense, the same will be rated, and then combined, a total of two people will be recruited.”

As the Sun Prefectural Order finished his sentence, the flow of people began to flow, and the crowd slowly walked towards the inside in an orderly manner.

Zhou An followed behind and soon stepped through the gate.

Behind the gate was an extremely spacious courtyard.

Surrounding the courtyard were staggered houses.

These were where they lived.

Zhou An was led by a court constable and entered a room.

The room was well equipped, and even more outrageously, at the back of the house, there was a casting room, which was filled with all sorts of casting materials.

“From the moment you enter the room, you have begun the competition, from now on, your clothes, food and living will be taken care of by us, you only need to build seriously.”

After announcing the rules for a while, the constable asked Zhou An if he needed to eat.

When he came, Zhou An had already eaten, and after replying that he didn’t need it, the constable left.

When he left, the constable also said that he could open the door and call him at any time if he needed to.

When the constable left, Zhou An did not rush to build, but found a place to sit down.

“That woman, should be up to something.” Zhou An thought.

The Zhen Gui Si was probably already moved, but he didn’t know exactly how he was going to act.

However, Zhou An guessed that it should also have something to do with keeping a watchful eye.

“First think about what exactly to build.”

Zhou An came to the back of the building site and looked at the various materials inside, falling into deep thought.

What Old Lin had just said about this time’s rating was not just about quality, but also creativity.

Both had to account for a large portion, meaning that neither end could be spared.

“I have to play some new tricks out.” Zhou An quickly had an idea.

In this world, there were swords, guns, sticks, hooks, forks, axes, all these weapons, but he thought of a weapon that had never appeared in this world before.

“Then build this thing.”

After figuring it out, Zhou An began to pick out the materials.

It had to be said that the materials were really manageable for the Casting Dao Competition held this time.

Not only iron ore, but also other types of metals were in there.

Zhou An was also seeing so many good materials for the first time, rubbing his hands together, he began to patiently pick them out.

It wasn’t just him, the others were also patiently picking.

Some had an idea and had already started to build it, while some were still torn and hadn’t moved on.

And in the hidden place of this place, Zheng Shifu, with his men, was in ambush.

“My lord, there are no abnormalities here at all, no one seems to be coming out.”

“The place we are guarding, no abnormalities have appeared either, it seems like that woman doesn’t intend to strike here.”

“And our place, it’s all quiet.”

One after another, there were people under his command who came to inform, and the general content was the same.

When Zheng Sifu heard all of this, his brows furrowed tightly.

“It’s only the first day, keep a good watch, maybe she’s waiting for us to be lax before making her move.”

The Great Dao Casting Competition would last for nine days, and something might go wrong in those nine days.

Every second could not be slacked off, and it was important to make sure that everything was safe and sound.

The people under his command nodded, and after promising, they left one after another, heading to the positions they were guarding.

Everywhere had its own movement.

Time gradually passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was already two days later.

Zhou An wrapped the long pole weapon in front of him with a cloth and stretched his back.

It had to be said that he had really used up a lot of effort in this build.

The main problem was not the process of building it, but rather trying to remember what the weapon looked like while building it.

Zhou An was very excited.

This was also the first time he had ever built this item, and remembering the description of this item in that novel in his previous life, Zhou An felt particularly eager to have it appear in this world.

Now that it had been built, and all the other edges had been completed, Zhou An felt that he suddenly had nothing to do.

Originally, it was said that the build would take four days, but now it was completed in two days.

Now that there were two days left, Zhou An opened the door.

At the door, two constables were patiently standing guard.

When the door was opened, one of the constables asked what the needs were.

Here, everything needed for life was provided in place, except for not being able to go out.

Of course, if one wanted to go to a hookah place and find two women to send over, this was not allowed.

“Send over some food, roast chicken from Meng Hua House and a pot of good wine.” Zhou An said.

It’s free, why not eat it?

Nothing smelled as good as white johns these days.

Besides, Zhou An had gone to eat once before, and Meng Hua Lou’s roast chicken was indeed one of the best.

The constable nodded and quickly left one.

The other constable was still guarding the door.

Zhou An was rather bored.

He closed the door and returned to his position.

Right now, he was thinking about the way to improve the other skills.

Now that the Butcher’s Sword Technique had reached level five, and all the other skills had reached level four, it was time to upgrade the other skills to level five.

“As of now, of the skills I have, the one that already has a target is the Fusion Casting Method.”

The Fusion Casting Method’s previous enhancement was arm-length iron bars fitted together, but now it only needed to be shortened.

After all, Blacksmith Zhao had also told himself that if practiced to the extreme, those of the size of a grain of rice could also fit together.

But the other skills were currently a bit of a bottleneck.

Zhou An looked at the materials in the room and revealed a smile.

“I’m iron smithing, so there will definitely be wear and tear.”

Now that there were just the right amount of materials due to the location and there was still plenty of time, Zhou An didn’t want to waste it, and it would be good to improve the Fusion Casting method.

Thinking of this, while the food hadn’t been delivered yet, Zhou An returned to the place where he was beating iron, picked up the materials, and prepared to start raising his proficiency.

“Ding Ding Ding ……”

Soon, the room resounded with the sound of incessant hammering.

A moment later, two iron bars that had been partially shrunk appeared.

Zhou An tried to bring the two iron bars together.

This time, it was much smaller, and when it was closed, it was slightly insufficient, with only one tenth of it being able to fit tightly.

With the text of rising proficiency coming from his eyes, Zhou An knew he was doing the right thing.

“Continue!”

His side was in order.

On the other side, a plain house.

Mi Mo ate the food on his plate, clapped his hands, and looked at Yu Hang who was tied up next to him, revealing a perverted smile.

“The Casting Dao Competition has finally begun, and I’m going to carry out my plan, it’s time to make the entire Yunlai Mansion, plunged into a bloodbath.”

Speaking here, Mi Mo seemed to have mentioned a happy place, and even covered his mouth and laughed, his laughter was extremely perverted, and his shoulders shrugged.

Yu Hang witnessed this scene from the sidelines, and even though he was tied up, it still couldn’t stop him from making a sound.

“Snake Scorpion Demoness!”

Mi Mo’s laughter stopped and she shook her head, “There are many bad people in this world, I’m not the only one, do you think the good people in this world are really good people?”

Yu Hang sneered, “I don’t know if there are good people in this world, but you must not be a good person.”

Mi Mo shrugged her shoulders with an indifferent look, “Whatever you think, anyway, this time, Yunlai Mansion is afraid that it is hopeless, just wait for them to continue the competition, the more exciting it will be then.”

Speaking here, Mi Mo stood up and came to Yu Hang, slowly squatting down.

“Zhou An caused me to suffer such a serious injury, I will give him the best treatment, don’t worry, I won’t kill you.”

“I will wait for him to find me and kill you in front of him, at that time his expression must be wonderful.”

“I especially like to see this kind of sight, when I was surrounded by people and then saved by a commoner.”

“I burned their child into a pile of ashes in front of them, their expressions were so painful, I enjoyed watching it.”

“Hahaha!”

The more Mi Mo said, the louder she laughed.

Yu Hang’s eyes turned red, “What an animal! I really don’t understand you people, obviously you have powers beyond normal people, why do you still want to make all these storms?”

“Why?” The smile on Mi Mo’s face disappeared and was replaced by a cold look.

“If I say it’s for the sake of fairness, do you believe me?”

Yu Hang froze.

He felt particularly ridiculous that this vicious demoness was here to talk to him about fairness.

When Mi Mo saw Yu Hang’s look, she snorted, “I knew you would have this look on your face, this organization, Verticality, is all made up of miscellaneous people, don’t look at the fact that we haven’t been established for a long time, but the ultimate goal, is to kill all the other three disciplines.”

“To do as we please, to be free from all restraints, and ultimately to let the other three sects die out before the Miscellaneous Sect will blossom.”

Yu Hang frowned, “What do you mean by that? The four major sects in the world today are not enough to blossom?”

Mi Mo shook her head and looked at Yu Hang with a look of a fool.

This look was as if Yu Hang was a blank sheet of paper and didn’t understand anything.

“In the beginning, the founder of the Five Elements Burial Sect originally had the ability to unify the Miscellaneous Sect, but in the end, he was jointly annihilated by the other three major sects.”

“Even the Miscellaneous Sect’s own people were trying to deal with him, and the Casting Dao was one of those lineages.”

Mi Mo’s voice gradually became grim, and those eyes became murderous.

“After that, I could see that the so-called Righteous Dao is nothing but a bunch of fame and fortune villains, they couldn’t see the Miscellaneous Sect rise up because once they did, they would be able to overtake them, that’s why they made their move.”

“Even the Miscellaneous Sect’s own people are willing to be lackeys, it’s really disgusting to the extreme, they will never think that if they can unify the Miscellaneous Sect, and then let everyone cultivate the Five Elements Burial Method, then we are the only ones in this world.”

Speaking of this, Mi Mo’s tone became even colder as if he had remembered those traitors.

Yu Hang was also hearing these secrets for the first time, but he found a blind spot in them and roared, “What does that have to do with ordinary people? Moreover, the drawback of the Five Elements Burial Method is that it maims other people’s lives, can this kind of thing last as well?”

“The three major sects in the world are linked together with the people of the Miscellaneous Sect, not because they are afraid that the Miscellaneous Sect is too strong to control them, but because they want to change all of this.”

He could sort of see that the woman in front of him was twisted beyond his imagination.

Especially this kind of bizarre logic was simply not something a normal person could think of.

A gong method that required other people’s lives as a price, to be honest, this kind of heavenly reasoning would be hard to tolerate if it wasn’t exterminated.

As expected, just as he had this thought, Mi Mo’s next sentence corroborated his thoughts.

“Why do you care about the lives of those ordinary people?”

“So what if they are missing in this world, how many people are born every day in the world? What’s wrong with dying these people?”

“The resources are just so little, dying some people so that others can obtain more resources can make this world a better place.”

Mi Mo looked at Yu Hang with a very strange look, as if what Yu Hang said was what was wrong.

Yu Hang chose to keep his mouth shut.

He felt that it would be redundant to pull it off with this woman.

Because this woman had been completely twisted, it was impossible to break it back with just a few words.

Even if he did, this woman would definitely die.

Others did not understand Zhou An, but he, Yu Hang, knew Zhou An the best.

This brother of his family would never let any of his enemies go.

This woman’s death was predetermined a long time ago, it could only be said that the time was sooner or later.

Seeing that Yu Hang did not speak, Mi Mo felt very bored.

“Time is getting faster and faster, I’m looking forward to the tragedy that will happen then.”

Two days was not much time, and it passed in the blink of an eye.

If not, this place was set up well.

The room was also made of some unknown material, and the soundproofing was great.

Even the sound made by someone knocking was extremely subtle.

It was obvious that the Sun Mansion Order had taken this scene into consideration.

After the current four days had finally passed, Zhou An stayed in his room and heard footsteps outside.

He put down the iron bars in his hands and shouldered the long item wrapped in cloth.

Outside the door, the sound turned from sparse to thick, and finally a loud voice came.

“Time’s up, all participants please come out and remember to bring the weapons they have built.”

When this voice sounded, there were people opening the doors of the room one after another.

Zhou An also opened the door and walked out, smoothly carrying the long weapon wrapped in cloth over his shoulder.

As soon as he went out, he saw all sorts of weapons, each with a different shape, but only the outlines could be seen as they were all wrapped in cloth.

This was also a requirement of the government office.

There was no guarantee that someone would see someone else’s built item at the last minute and then wait for an opportunity to steal and excerpt it, this was something that no one could say for sure.

So even at the last minute, one would not reveal one’s weapon.

Originally, I was considering using a wooden box or other box, but then I thought that there are people who have built things that are not suitable to be placed inside, so it would be better to just cover them with a cloth.

After all, in the past, there were blacksmiths who had built extremely sharp objects, and as a result, when they were placed in a wooden box, they simply wouldn’t fit.

When it came to that kind of sharp object, it would be fine to directly cover it with a wider cloth.

Everyone had confidence on their faces, as if what they had built was the best.

Zhou An was bored and turned his gaze to the position right in the middle.

Old Lin was already waiting there, patiently waiting for the crowd to arrive.

Not to mention, even while waiting for people, Old Lin wiped a handful of his hair from time to time, as if he was very obsessive about his face value.

After waiting for a while, when the last person came out of the room, all the people had arrived.

Standing next to him, Sun Fu Ling coughed, meaning stop messing with that mirror of yours.

Only then did Old Lin come back to his senses, glanced at the crowd, and said, “Let’s start with you, open your weapons.”

The one who was pointed at was a young man standing not far away, holding an arm-length object in his hands.

After he heard Old Lin’s words, he clutched the object in his hand even tighter.

“Do I …… open it in front of so many people?”

Old Lin said, “Let’s go a little more efficiently okay, I’m here, none of them can cheat, the reason why I let you guys cover it with a cloth is because I wasn’t around during that time.”

After all, he was from the Crafting Supervisor, and by him saying these words, that young man also let go of his courage and carefully lifted the cloth.

When the young man lifted the cloth, what was revealed was a long sword.

However, this sword was stylized at the hilt, especially where the hand cupped it, with a few indentations, as if it was better to hold.

Old Lin simply glanced at it, took out a piece of paper, and recorded it with a pen, while asking this young man his name, before looking at another young man.

What followed was so organized.

There was quite a lot of paper wasted, after all, everyone used a piece of paper to record, and Zhou An guessed that this should be the specific rating.

Every time Old Lin’s gaze passed by Zhou An, he quickly skimmed over it as if he hadn’t seen it.

One by one, the ratings came over.

Various kinds of weapons were also displayed, much to Zhou An’s delight.

All of these people had made some improvements to their weapons, but at the root, no specific major changes had been made, nothing more than being more convenient.

Of course, being able to make these changes was already very good.

Some of them were indeed practical things.

At this time, the rating came to Lonestar.

Lonestar moved the cloth in his hand away, revealing a double hook.

The double hook was oddly shaped without much added to it.

But build-wise, it was exquisite enough.

Old Lin also just took a look at it and left it alone, recording what he had just seen on a piece of paper.

No one bothered to doubt Old Lin’s vision, after all, he was from the Crafting Supervisor down, and was also a Casting Dao expert.

There were times when a master of the Casting Dao only needed to take a look, it was that simple.

After Long Xing’s inspection, it was the turn of the two people next to Long Xing.

These two people, were the young men who had a sword and a bow in the beginning.

The two young men were still fighting to this day, both vying to be first and wanting to display their weapons first.

These two guys were sort of fighting, and even at this time, they were starting to not distinguish between occasions.

“Alright, alright, you two display together.” Old Lin said impatiently.

The two of them coincidentally, both lifted the cloth on their hands.

Zhou An also looked over curiously.

But soon, he was slightly disappointed.

In fact, up until now, all of these young men’s build items were that much lower in Zhou An’s eyes, even Long Xing’s build wasn’t very good.

He felt that it wasn’t that he had a higher vision, but that the Fusion Casting Method proficiency was too high, so accordingly, the group’s means of casting appeared to be low.

Both young men had put themselves on display, which was actually considered good in the eyes of the others.

Old Lin nodded and took out two more pieces of paper to jot them down.

At this time, the young man with the sword said, “My lord, you haven’t said which of us is higher or lower?”

The young man with the bow also said, “Yes, my lord, would you say the sword or the bow is better?”

Old Lin didn’t feel that these two had any offense, after all, as people of the Cast Dao, it was best to be able to have a mentality of competition.

“What’s the point of competing for second?”

When the two heard this, they all revealed puzzled expressions, not just them, even the others were puzzled.

Competing for second?

What was the meaning of this?

Only Long Xing sighed.

“Yeah, this match, it’s only going to be a fight for second forever.”

His words made the crowd even more puzzled.

Old Lin waved his hand, not bothering to explain anything and letting the next person continue.

However, the words just now had already left a mark in the hearts of the crowd, and everyone understood that it seemed like someone had already settled for this first place.

The young people present were all young and vigorous, and they were not convinced by each other, so they all stared without looking at each other.

This caused the young people at the back to be nervous.

But the grading had to continue.

After another young man was pacified, the people present were also confused.

These people at the back didn’t seem to have anything outstanding to offer.

As time gradually passed, the corner of Zhou An’s mouth twitched slightly.

This Old Lin, who hadn’t allowed him to come and participate, had clearly put him in the back.

He could already imagine the scenes at the back.

There was no need to think of the back, just the current situation, there were fewer and fewer people, and in the end, he was the only one left.

It had to be said that this feeling of passively nourishing people was indeed very cool.

It felt even better than explicitly nourishing people.

As more and more people lit up their weapons, in the end, there were very few people left present.

Until finally, only Zhou An was left.

At this time, everyone’s eyes were cast over.

The fewer people there were, the more people watching from behind.

Everyone was filled with anticipation and excitement, not knowing who the internalized number one actually was.

With each weapon unveiled, there were people with expectations, but in the end, they all turned into disappointment.

This was because these weapons were not much different from their own, just a little difference in creativity.

But when only Zhou An was left in the end, everyone knew who the person Old Lin had just spoken of was.

“I knew it was him.” Long Xing laughed bitterly.

Next to him, the young man with the sword said in disbelief, “Long Xing, you know him?”

The bitterness on Long Xing’s face intensified, “You’ll know if you watch on, it won’t disappoint you.”

The expression of the young man with the sword froze.

He was aware of Long Xing’s temperament, and would rarely submit to people, at this time, his expression was clearly convinced.

“This person, can it be that he is really that kind of supreme genius?”

Such a thought did not only appear to him, all the others were thinking the same way, and some were still unconvinced and wanted to take a look.

“Bring it up.” Old Lin stretched out his hand.

Who was Zhou An?

A man of two lives.

He was very calm in this kind of scene.

Placing the long weapon in his hand on Old Lin, Zhou An grabbed a corner of the cloth and ripped the piece of cloth away ……