After listening to Nangong Xiangrui's story, Jiang Deng gradually understood.

No wonder when she first arrived in Nangong City, the Nangong Mansion was closed and even set up a top-grade earth-level protective formation. It turned out that they were worried that someone would come to kill them...

It sounds like these four great families are not that glorious. If their own strength is not as good as others, they will still be bullied.

"So... I had no other choice but to post a notice and hold this weapon refining competition, hoping to find a top weapon refiner who can repair the Heavenly Grade Spirit Sword."

Nangong Xiangrui continued, "Fortunately, God rewards those who work hard. I finally found it. I would like to ask Sect Master Jiang to help my Nangong family repair the Red Plum Sword!"

As he spoke, Nangong Xiangrui saluted in the direction of Jiang Deng and Chi Lian.

Chi Lian pointed at Di Tong, who was not far away, and asked in confusion, "Why don't you ask her for help? Didn't she also refine a lower-grade Heavenly Grade Spiritual Weapon?"

Di Tong smiled and said frankly, "To be honest, Nangong and I are close friends. She was the first one to come to me for help with the Red Plum Sword. I have already examined the Red Plum Sword and I really cannot repair it with my own strength, so I can only leave it to you."

Jiang Deng also asked in confusion: "Since you've already come here to see it, why are you still participating in the weapon refining competition?"

Upon hearing this, Nangong Xiangrui and Di Tong looked at each other, as if discussing who should speak better. After a brief exchange of glances, it was finally Di Tong who spoke.

"For one thing, if someone can refine a Heaven-grade spiritual weapon like me, we can continue with the overtime round. If I am the only one who can refine a Heaven-grade spiritual weapon, it won't be too embarrassing for the Nangong family."

Having said that, Di Tong winked at Jiang Deng and said, "Don't blame me, this was all Nangong's idea."

Nangong Xiangrui clenched his fist and put it to his lips, chuckling twice, "Well, after all, I am going to be the head of the family, so I have to use my brain a little bit."

Jiang Deng: “…”

So it seems that only she and Chi Lian were plotted against?

"Miss!"

At this moment, the servant's anxious voice sounded outside the door, "Oh no, oh no!"

The smile on Nangong Xiangrui's face immediately disappeared, and he turned serious. He looked at the servant who ran to the door and asked, "What are you so scared about?"

"The Pei family! Someone from the Pei family is coming!"

The servant said with a distressed look, "I don't know how they got the news. They knew we were holding a weapon refining competition today, so they removed the protective formation and came here."

Nangong Xiangrui said in a deep voice, "I had expected that they might come today. Who is coming?"

"It's the Second Elder of the Pei Family!"

Elder Pei II?

Nangong Xiangrui's eyes darkened. This man was the second brother of the head of the Pei family.

His strength is at the peak of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, and he is only half a step away from entering the Void Return Realm. Although he is not the strongest, his influence in the Pei family is not small. I didn't expect that he would be sent to handle this matter. It seems that the Pei family attaches great importance to this matter!

Fortunately, it wasn't the Master of Weapons himself, so no disaster would befall us...

"Where is he?"

The servant said anxiously, "In the reception room, he threatened that if you didn't go see him in person, he would kill everyone in our Nangong family."

"snort!"

Nangong Xiangrui sneered, "You're only at the Spiritual Transformation Realm, yet you're so arrogant. Do you really think there's no one left in my Nangong family?"

As she spoke, she turned to look at Jiang Deng and said in a deep voice, "Please, Sect Master Jiang, quickly repair the Red Plum Sword. If... it truly cannot be repaired, then forget it. Perhaps my Nangong family is doomed to suffer this disaster. If I were still alive today, I would definitely lend the Soul Summoning Pearl to Sect Master Jiang."

Jiang Deng nodded and said, "I can only say that I will do my best."

"Thank you for your help."

Nangong Xiangrui took a deep breath, followed the servants to the reception room to meet Elder Pei Er.

Di Tong also nodded to Jiang Deng and said soothingly, "You two should concentrate on your research here. I will guard outside the door and not let anyone disturb you."

As Di Tong said this, she walked out of the treasure house. At the same time, she did not forget to drag Nangong Yanming, who wanted to stay here to supervise, out, and she also closed the door considerately.

"Sister Tong, why should we go out? What if they get lazy or get dirty and steal the treasures from the treasure house?"

"Shut up! I'm the leader of the Taichu Sword Sect. Do you really think anything can catch my eye?"

There was a loud bang, and as expected, Nangong Yanming's head must have become even more swollen.

Inside the treasure house.

Considering the urgency of time, Jiang Deng didn't want to see the Nangong family being wiped out before he got the Soul Summoning Pearl, so he quickly called Chi Lian to come forward and check the Hongmei Sword.

"What can you tell?"

Jiang Deng has great faith in Chi Lian's ability in refining equipment.

After all, Chi Lian was able to help her refine the lower-grade Qingluan Sword easily, which meant that she had been hiding her abilities. Her true level of refining skills must be very high, and she might even be able to refine a higher-grade spiritual sword.

As for the problem of the broken Red Plum Sword, she could definitely see it.

"Let me take a look."

Chi Lian picked up the Hongmei Sword and looked through it for a while. When he saw the material of the broken end, he suddenly stopped.

"Hahaha……"

Chi Lian couldn't help laughing so hard that tears came down.

Jiang Deng's mouth twitched, "What's so funny about this?"

Why couldn't she understand Chi Lian's funny point?

Chi Lian wiped away the remaining tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at the broken sword in her hand with disgust and hatred, as if she saw the figure of someone else through her.

"After not seeing you for so many years, Pei Yu's weapon refining skills are really getting worse and worse."

After listening to Chi Lian's complaints, Jiang Deng was confused.

Pei Yu?

Isn’t he the weapon master of the Pei family? If his weapon refining skills are so poor, how can he become the weapon master?

And Chi Lian's tone was also strange, as if they knew each other...

Jiang Deng shook his head, shaking off the suspicion in his mind. "Stop wasting time. Just tell me why the sword broke and how to repair it."

"The reason this sword broke is because Pei Yu's refining skills were too poor. He couldn't completely remove the impurities in the refining materials, so he forcibly reshaped the sword, injected it with spiritual power that it couldn't bear, and barely raised it to the level of a Heavenly Grade, Top-grade Spiritual Sword."

Chi Lian said with disdain, "If Pei Yu could recognize his own weapon-refining ability and only refine this sword into a lower-grade Heavenly Rank Spirit Sword, it would be extremely stable and would not have the problem of the sword body being broken by the input of spiritual power."

Jiang Deng nodded thoughtfully.

From what Chi Lian said, it seems that Pei Yu's weapon-refining ability is very exaggerated, and no one knows how he became a weapon master.

"As for... repairing this sword, it's easy."

As he spoke, Chi Lian handed the Red Plum Sword to Jiang Deng and said earnestly, "Next, it's your turn."

"I?"

Jiang Deng caught the sword with one hand and pointed at himself with the other, saying incredulously, "How can I help? I don't know how to refine weapons."