Jiang Deng asked curiously, "What's the reward for the winner?"

To be honest, this sword is too badly broken. If the reward is not generous enough, she will not be interested in repairing it.

Nangong Xiangrui took a deep breath and said, "This sword is related to the future of my Nangong family. Whoever can repair this sword will be the benefactor of my Nangong family. At that time, I will give him a place to participate in the sword competition!"

Jiang Deng: “…”

Ah, it sounds like the reward isn't very generous?

Before Jiang Deng could do anything, Nangong Yanming jumped up and down, "Sister, you promised to give me a spot, how can you give it to someone else?"

The others also tried to persuade her, "Miss, you can't do that! Our Nangong family only has three spots for the Sword Competition. How can we give such a precious spot away?"

The older Steward Wang pondered, "Why don't we use refining materials as rewards? After all, they are all refiners, and refining materials are the most important thing to them."

Nangong Xiangrui shook his head and said stubbornly, "Right now, repairing this sword is the top priority for our Nangong family. If anyone can solve this urgent problem, they should naturally exchange it for our Nangong family's most precious possession."

Hearing that Nangong Xiangrui had made up his mind, the others sighed and had to give up.

Nangong Xiangrui and the others had thought that Jiang Deng and the others would be ecstatic when they learned about the reward, but Jiang Deng scratched his ear and said speechlessly, "Honestly, I really don't want the spot in the Sword Discussion Tournament that you guys treasure so much."

"Um???"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Jiang Deng.

Seeing that this person is also a sword cultivator, he doesn't even want to participate in the sword contest that all sword cultivators yearn for. Is there something wrong with his brain?

Hearing that Jiang Deng didn't take the place in the Sword Contest seriously, Nangong Yanming sneered, "Why are you pretending? You talk as if you have a place in the Sword Contest."

Jiang Deng smiled slightly, "Sorry, I really do have one."

As he spoke, Jiang Deng took out his own sect leader's seal. On the pure white jade stone were written the characters "Master of Taichu Sword Sect" in large letters!

Everyone was stunned where they were, their faces full of disbelief.

The Taichu Sword Sect does have the right to freely allocate places for the Sword Discussion Conference, and in previous years there were always ten places.

If this person is really the clan leader, he can definitely pocket a spot.

But here’s the thing…

Although the Taichu Sword Sect is located in the smallest spiritual realm, it is still the second-ranked sword sect among the ten realms. There are many cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Realm within the sect. It would be unreasonable to choose someone in the early Nascent Soul Realm to be the sect leader, right?

Nangong Yanming quickly reacted, pointing at the Sect Master Seal in Jiang Deng's hand and shouting, "Fake! Your Sect Master Seal must be fake! How dare you forge a Sect Master Seal? Aren't you afraid that the people of the Taichu Sword Sect will come after you!"

Jiang Deng held his forehead with his hand.

Sure enough, Nangong Xiangrui was right. Her brother was indeed a little bit mentally unstable.

"Shut up!"

Nangong Xiangrui couldn't help but slap Nangong Yanming on the back of the head, "Who would forge a top-grade earth-level spiritual weapon?"

Yes, the sect master's seal in Jiang Deng's hand is not only a symbol of the sect master's identity, but also a spiritual weapon. It is a top-grade earth-level spiritual weapon, and its grade is not low.

How could someone forge a top-grade Earth-rank spiritual weapon? The cost would be too high!

Nangong Yanming puffed his cheeks and continued unconvinced, "She is originally a weapon refiner. She can even refine a heaven-grade spiritual weapon, not to mention a high-grade earth-grade spiritual weapon."

"Are you a fool? The seal itself has such a strong sword energy, and you, as a sword cultivator, can't even feel it?"

Nangong Xiangrui slapped Nangong Yanming on the back of the head again, and said angrily, "Even if she can really forge a fake spiritual weapon, the hundreds of sword energies in the treasure seal cannot be faked no matter what!"

Nangong Yanming covered the back of his swollen head and said with tears in his eyes: "Sister, why are you still hitting me? I'm not smart to begin with, what should I do if you make me even dumber?"

Hearing this, Nangong Xiangrui also stroked his chin and pondered, "Could it be that you are so stupid because I have been beating you since you were a child? But what's the point of having a younger brother if I don't use him to beat him?"

Nangong Yanming: "...Are you my biological sister?"

Nangong Xiangrui said with disdain: "You talk like someone wants to be your sister."

Nangong Yanming was even more hurt, and ran to the corner without saying a word, drawing circles.

Nangong Xiangrui raised his hand and saluted Jiang Deng, saying politely, "I didn't know that Sect Master Jiang would come to my humble home in person. I hope you won't blame me for this inconvenience."

"nothing."

Jiang Deng waved his hand. Seeing that he had proved his identity and could put forward conditions, he put the sect leader's seal back into the Eight Gates World.

"Since Sect Master Jiang is not interested in a spot in the Sword Discussion Conference, what does Sect Master Jiang want?"

Jiang Deng curled his lips and smiled, "I would like to borrow your soul summoning bead."

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, Nangong Yanming in the corner almost jumped out to disrupt the situation, but fortunately, Nangong Xiangrui kicked him back into the corner to make circles.

Nangong Xiangrui asked politely, "I wonder what Sect Leader Jiang wants to do with the Spirit Pearl?"

Jiang Deng said frankly: "Of course it is used to awaken the spiritual intelligence of the spirit beast. Besides this function, is there any other use for this thing?"

Nangong Xiangrui smiled upon hearing this and nodded, "Alright, if Sect Master Jiang can repair this sword, I, Nangong Xiangrui, swear here that I will lend the Soul Summoning Pearl to Sect Master Jiang!"

"readily."

Jiang Deng praised, saying that she liked dealing with straightforward people.

Then, Nangong Xiangrui walked to the broken sword and introduced it.

"This sword is crimson in color, with only a few drops of crimson traces on the blade, resembling red plum blossoms in full bloom, hence the name Red Plum Sword. It is a heavenly-grade, top-grade spiritual sword. As for its origins..."

"I believe you've all heard the rumors about our Nangong family. This sword was an engagement gift from the Pei family. When my father was trying it out, it somehow broke at the hilt."

"Not only did the sword break, but my father, who was testing it at the time, also suffered a severe backlash and is now in critical condition and remains in a coma."

"We have also questioned the Pei family about their motives for using a defective sword to harm our Nangong family. However, the Pei family insisted that the sword was personally forged by the Weapon Master Pei Yu, and there couldn't be any problems with it. We must have framed them, deliberately breaking off the engagement, and destroying their spiritual weapon."

"Now the Pei family has only given us, the Nangong family, two options. One is to return the intact Red Plum Sword and at the same time cancel my engagement with the Pei family's young master. The other is to not return the sword and just continue our engagement."

"If I don't choose one, the Pei family will wipe out my entire Nangong family!"

At this point, Nangong Xiangrui sighed, "Although my Nangong family is one of the four great families, it is the weakest family. The Pei family ranks second, and there are top-level masters at the Venerable level in the family. No matter what, they are existences that our Nangong family cannot afford to offend."