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Gan Yuxuan looked at Helian Man Qiu. He had never realized that this kid's skin was thin. On the contrary, his skin was very thick; it was unscrupulous and thick-skinned.

"Thin to …"

Helian Manqiu gestured with her hand. In the end, she waved it with a smile and said, "So thin that it can't be seen."

The corner of Gan Zhixuan's lips slightly curled up as he revealed a rare smile. This kid was quite knowledgeable. The hardest part was that he dared to speak the truth.

"Qing Yu, it's best if you can treat this place as your home. As long as you're free."

"Yes, thank you for your indulgence. Please do not hesitate to do as you please, and ignore this shameless person."

Gan Yuxuan stood up and walked over to the table to continue his work. Helian Manqiu narrowed her eyes for a moment, wanting to go over to take a look as well. She thought that at this time, she and Gan Yuxuan were too unfamiliar with each other.

She went back to her bed and crawled onto it. She held a pen and a dozen pieces of paper and continued her work in excavating gold from the Great Hengde Empire.

"If Master has any orders, please do not hesitate to give them to me. This general will definitely do his best to serve you."

She continued to place her attention on the white paper. Great pictures, shiny golden things, were about to come out from the tip of her brush.

In recent days, she had drawn many different kinds of prostheses that could replace her limbs, but these prostheses obviously didn't mean the same thing. Copper and fine iron were too precious and too heavy to equip a disabled soldier with something like that.

Most of them are replaced by wood, and iron is added to the joints.

The smelting and casting techniques of the Great Hengkong Empire were very brilliant. Copper and iron alloys appeared, and bronze was one of the alloy's products. It was not easy to rust, but was tough and durable. Forging armor was difficult for a weapon to enter, and it was incomparably sharp when a weapon was forged.

Refined iron was the most precious, it was more than ten times more valuable than copper, and it was the best raw material for making armor and weapons.

Because the production of fine iron was very low, only the generals knew that many fine iron were added to their weapons. As for their armors, none of the generals knew how to use fine iron to make their armors. This was not only because refined iron was rare, but also because refined iron was a heavy metal, much heavier than ordinary copper, iron, and metal.

Most of the weapons used were made of refined iron, which was very hard to find. It was very rare to find a weapon that was made of refined iron.

Helian Manqiu's gaze suddenly fell on the sword underneath Gan's ribs. She wondered if the great general's sword was all made of fine iron.

She suddenly crawled onto the wheelchair and slid beside Gan Zhixuan. Gan Zhixuan knew that Helian Manqiu had come over, so he didn't move and continued to read the secret letters and military intelligence reports. He didn't keep the secret letters and military intelligence reports because of Helian Manqiu's arrival, so as to avoid Helian Manqiu from seeing him.

Helian Manqiu lowered her head to look at the treasured sword that was being worn under the Dark Ribs. There were many people who used swords in the Northern Frontier, but the number of people who used swords was actually fewer.

When fighting against an enemy, fighting and killing him, using a saber was better than using a sword.

The men of the Northern Frontier were strong, so they preferred to use weapons that were straightforward and needed strength rather than swords that were light and light.

She suddenly recalled that all the generals and soldiers she saw beside her seemed to be using sabers. He had really never seen many people who wore a treasured sword underneath their ribs. In other words, it was the white eagle feathers of the parrot beside Gan Yuxuan that had worn a treasured sword under its ribs.

Many soldiers of the military state laughed at the sword worn under the white eagle's ribs. It was just like the scholars of the Great Hengkong Empire, it was a decorative device that could at most cut vegetables. One had to be careful not to cut one's fingers.

The sword was also a symbol of status and position in the Great Hengkong Empire. It was one of the accessories worn.

Many scholars, scholars, and civil servants would wear treasured swords under their ribs, symbolizing that they were not weak scholars. In fact, many of these people might never be able to pull out their treasured swords under their ribs.

There was once a joke in the Great Hengkong Dynasty about a certain scholar from the Han Lin Academy who loved to wear treasured swords throughout his life. "Green shark hide scabbard, inlaid precious stones, pure gold hilt and gauntlet, the value of a sword on the outside is staggering.

When the last of the scholars died, the later generations wanted to pull out the sword and wipe it clean before placing it in the coffin as a companion.

As a result, when the treasured sword was pulled out of the scabbard, it had actually rotted and died, becoming half a dilapidated, rusty piece of scrap iron. The other half was a fragment that was left in the scabbard. When he poured it out, he saw that the sword that looked so glorious on the surface was already a piece of scrap.

"Master's sword, let this lowly general have a look."

Helian Manqiu did not take herself to be an outsider. She went straight down from Gan Gongxuan's ribs to unravel the treasured sword. As she did not move, she stared at Helian Manqiu with wide eyes and the impulse to kick her out of the tent.

Was this sword beneath his master's ribs something that others could casually accept or look at?

As far as he could remember, he had never seen his lord's sword before. Even when his lord summoned women to sleep, bathe and change clothes, he would never let the sword leave his side.

Returning Dust carefully glanced at Gan Shixuan. Seeing that his master had not moved and had not stopped Helian Manqiu, he could only continue to stand in the corner without making a sound, as if he did not exist.

Helian Manqiu gently unsheathed the treasured sword from Gan Jianxuan's body. With one hand, she held it. It was truly heavy.

The sword that he did not want to give to Xuan was so heavy. One hand held the heavy sword as it continued to fall. What a heavy weight. Perhaps this sword was made entirely from refined iron. It must be a treasured blade that could slice through metal like mud. Compared to her Autumn Water Longevity Sword, which sword was better?

After she had obtained the Autumn Water Longevity Sword, she had not taken it from Helian Qingyu's room and left it with him. This way, it would prevent others from being suspicious, because the Autumn Wave Sword was the treasured sword of the Helian Family's eldest daughter.

She suddenly realized that she had a lot to do with "Autumn". The sword she had been using was originally called "Autumn Wave Sword", and the sword she had turned around to use was called "Autumn Water and Sky".

Autumn Water, Changtian, was naturally better than the Autumn Wave Sword by more than a level. It was a treasured blade, and when she saw this sword, she could not bear to part with it.

"Zheng …"

Helian Manqiu drew her sword.

"No, don't pull out the sword …"

Gui Chen was a bit late in speaking. Helian Manqiu's hands were quick enough as she had already drawn Gan Jianxuan's sword out of its scabbard.

It was dark and lifeless, with a dull black color, like a piece of black iron without the slightest bit of luster. There was a palm as wide as his hand, and it was four feet long. The width, length, and thickness of the swords were all larger than normal swords. It was three times as thick as an ordinary sword and nearly twice as wide.

An ordinary sword was three feet long and this sword was around four feet long. Its weight was even heavier, and it revealed a hint of purplish black color.

Unexpectedly, there were bloody grooves on both swords. Helian Manqiu sucked in a cold breath of air. There were bloody grooves on both sides of the swords. She had never seen such a treasured sword before.