"Are you sure you're ready?"

Ouyang Yushui and the other two refiners sat on the side, looked at Chen Zhiyuan, who was standing straight in front of him, and asked.

"Yes. ”

Chen Zhiyuan nodded, recalled what he had learned recently, and made sure that he had nothing missing.

"The rules are clear, right?"

"Yes, but I still want to ask, can't you really make a suit?"

"Roll the calves, don't even think about it, it's good to be able to give you materials to build one for free. ”

After a year of apprenticeship, today Chen Zhiyuan ushered in his first assessment as a refiner, if he successfully passed, then he will be able to get rid of the identity of an apprentice in the future and become a real refiner, which means that Chen Zhiyuan has the ability to open a refining shop by himself and lead an apprentice by himself.

After learning that the materials used in the first refining assessment were basically free, Chen Zhiyuan had some special ideas. Of course, free here refers to the materials of the first order, that is, the common dark iron, ice silk, etc., and you have to pay for the first order and above.

Chen Zhiyuan wanted to create a complete set of equipment at the beginning, but this idea was rejected by Ouyang Yushui at the beginning, after all, even if it is the cheapest Xuantie, how much does it cost to build a set? And this set depends on how you define it, the top and pants are a set, and the shoes can also be called a set, even if the equipment is equipped to the teeth, as long as the creator himself thinks it is a set, it can also be regarded as a set.

Ouyang Yushui has brought so many apprentices, naturally he will not suffer this loss, he is full of tears when he thinks about it, there was once such a refining apprentice who did this, and even the face armor was made, and the assessment of a first-grade refiner dragged on for five days to complete, and since then Ouyang Yushui has erased this possibility from the assessment, and now the assessment of a first-grade refiner can only create a single piece, even if it is to create a finger sleeve, it is counted.

Smacking his lips, Chen Zhiyuan felt a little pity, after all, there are not many free opportunities, and the salary during the apprenticeship period is not high, in addition to consuming all the wages of the apprenticeship period this year, Chen Zhiyuan has also consumed part of the resources in his hands, in short, it is more than in, so Chen Zhiyuan thinks that he can take a little bit for nothing.

"Don't think about it, let's get started, you only have one day, even if you fail if you overtime, you won't have this chance to be free next time you come to the assessment. ”

Looking at Chen Zhiyuan, who was still standing there thinking about it, Ouyang Yushui couldn't help but urge, after all, this was the apprentice he brought out, if he failed, it would be his face that would be lost.

"Good master. ”

Chen Zhiyuan answered, turned around and ran towards the ore pile.

The first step of refining is to preheat the furnace, and they have already prepared this Ouyang Yushui, so they don't need Chen Zhiyuan to preheat it by himself, and directly skip to the second step to select ore.

Don't look at the fact that these dark iron mines are almost the same, in fact, there are still some differences. If the impurity content of the selected ore is not at the same level, then some materials may have been burned too much, and some have not achieved the expected effect, so that the smelted molten iron seems to be fine, but when the problem occurs when casting into the finished equipment, it cannot be changed.

These ores have been sorted by Chen Zhiyuan's hands, so Chen Zhiyuan has a much faster speed of selection.

In the time of a pillar of incense, Chen Zhiyuan had already picked up a small cart of dark iron ore, which was a hundred catties, and Chen Zhiyuan pushed the cart back again after pulling this car of black iron ore away to continue to pick, looking at Ouyang Yu with a toothache, why didn't any of his apprentices have this face during the assessment?

When Chen Zhiyuan was about to pick up the third car of Xuaniron ore, Ouyang Yushui couldn't help coughing, and Chen Zhiyuan, who heard the voice, had no choice but to laugh and push the small cart to the other side.

Chen Zhiyuan really can't be blamed for picking so many Xuantie, after all, this refining hall is mainly responsible for the equipment of low-level disciples, so there are really not many first-order material varieties, Xuantie, Ice Silk, Ebony Wood, Copper Mother, just a few, so Chen Zhiyuan's range of options is really not much.

Two batches of black iron ore add up to more than 200 catties and 300 catties, and after the smelting, the molten iron obtained should be about 200 catties.

Chen Zhiyuan smelted the two batches of dark iron ore in two batches, and the molten iron that he waited for did not dare to mix them directly, because Chen Zhiyuan himself did not know whether these two batches of dark iron ore could really be mixed together after smelting, after all, he did not dare to guarantee that the remaining impurities on both sides were the same.

"Seeing that he took so much dark iron and didn't mix it up in the end, what do you think he would end up building?"

A refiner sitting on the side looked at Chen Zhiyuan, who was busy with his work, and asked the apprentice next to him.

"Seeing that the amount of these two pieces of molten iron is about the same, I think it should be to create a pair of double knives that can be spliced together, or to create a chopping knife with a very heavy handle, after all, everyone has always been used to using more knives, and when Senior Brother Yuan used a knife when recruiting new people, there were many people who saw it at that time, and the effect of Senior Brother Yuan's charged blow was not bad. ”

"Well, there is some truth in what you said, so what do you think of Luo Ming?"

After listening to one of the apprentice's answers, the alchemist turned to the other apprentice.

"I think Senior Brother Yuan may be more inclined to create an armor. ”

"Oh, tell me what you understand?"

"I think Senior Brother Yuan might create a heavy armor, a very heavy one. After all, now everyone has their own weapons at hand, and Senior Brother Yuan's original knife is still quite good, I believe that when there is already a weapon at hand, Senior Brother Yuan will go back and consider his own defense. ”

"Compared with weapons forged at one time, equipment, especially armor, is more spliced, which greatly improves the fault tolerance rate of the finished product. I suspect that Brother Yuan will use one piece of molten iron to forge the main body of the armor, and the other part of the molten iron will be used to create the rest of the stitching. ”

"Well, what you said is very reasonable, but none of us are Yuan Zhiben himself, and there is no guarantee of what the finished product will be at that time, so let's watch it with peace of mind first, and see if you can learn anything from him. ”

The refiner touched the beard like a steel needle on his chin, and finally came to a conclusion that there was no nutrition, after all, he couldn't see what Chen Zhiyuan wanted to do.

With the continuous sound of blowing, the two pieces of molten iron in Chen Zhiyuan's hand were also slowly knocked out of the silhouette by Chen Zhiyuan, which was exactly what the two long knives looked like, but they were different from ordinary long knives.

Chen Zhiyuan's two long knives are thick on one side and thin on the other, and the thin side also occupies most of the blade, but the strange thing is that this thin side is actually the back of the knife, and the degree of inclination on both sides of the thick and thin is not the same, which looks a little deformed.

After doing this, Chen Zhiyuan put the two long knives that had been hammered back into the furnace, so that they could maintain the temperature and not completely cool down, while Chen Zhiyuan and the others actually turned their heads and pushed the cart again, and ran towards the copper mother.

Seeing that Chen Zhiyuan had created two strange long knives, the apprentice who was the first to answer didn't know when a smile appeared on his face, but Chen Zhiyuan was now running to pull the copper mother, he was really a little incomprehensible.

"Old Ou, tell me honestly, what do you want to do as an apprentice?"

The refiners next to Ouyang Yushui were almost confused by Chen Zhiyuan, refining tools for so many years, he really had never seen anyone refining tools like this, obviously it was already over when he looked at it, but he threw the refining back into the furnace and went to find the materials.

"I don't know, he bought a binder from me yesterday, probably to make a big thing, who knows what he wants to do. Also, call me Ouyang, don't call me Lao Ou, my surname is Ouyang, not Ou. ”

Ouyang Yushui originally thought that Chen Zhiyuan asked him for the adhesive just to buy a copy to use later, but looking at it like this, this is going to be used today, and Ouyang Yushui felt that his brows jumped, just these two strange long knives have already used so many materials, Chen Zhiyuan is still going to pull the copper mother, what do you want to do?

Chen Zhiyuan didn't think so much in his heart, Chen Zhiyuan just thought, he could take more if he could, but not too much, and what to build, he already had an idea in his heart, that is, to build a heavy sword.

Fortunately, Chen Zhiyuan didn't bring a lot of copper mothers this time, and everyone didn't know why, but they all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

After the copper mother melted, Chen Zhiyuan took out the fixer next to him and took out the long knife and fixed it, but after thinking about it, he felt that the fixer was a little inappropriate, so he put the long knife back again, picked up the mold next to it and carved it carefully.

Looking at the dents that were constantly forming on the mold, everyone gradually understood what Chen Zhiyuan wanted to do, this was to recruit a giant sword, but why was this sword so big?

The apprentices were still lamenting Chen Zhiyuan's strange ideas, and the experienced refiners were already thinking about what happened to Chen Zhiyuan's finished weapon.

First of all, there is no doubt that this is a giant sword, but it can be cast at one time, why did Chen Zhiyuan cast two long knives separately? Moreover, the main body of the long knife is dark iron, why do you still use so many copper mothers? If you use copper mothers to glue them, will this weapon not be able to withstand the blow and be damaged from the bonding place when it is hit in the future?

After the mold was carved, Chen Zhiyuan carefully put the long knife in, and after subtle adjustments to make it more fit, Chen Zhiyuan poured the molten copper mother into the vacant place in the center of the mold.

Just when everyone thought it was over, they didn't expect Chen Zhiyuan to disassemble the mold that was about to solidify, and forcibly removed the long knife and copper mother that had been glued together.

Looking at the two strange dark iron long knives and bronze mother swords lying quietly on the ground, Chen Zhiyuan kept lifting them up and hitting them on the anvil, beating them smaller than they were.

Put the hammered long knife and copper mother sword into the mold again, the mold that originally fit is already a little loose at the moment, but this is what Chen Zhiyuan wants.

poured the adhesive bought from Ouyang Yushui into the gap, these adhesives are not resins, but Ouyang Yushui himself used some metal to melt and configure, when it cools down, it is also metal, but using it to bond different metals will undoubtedly greatly improve the degree of stability.

This time, Chen Zhiyuan did not disassemble the mold again, on the contrary, Chen Zhiyuan began to pour his own real fire into the mold, melting the surfaces of the three weapons and mixing them with the adhesive.

When the mold cooled down and Chen Zhiyuan opened the mold again, what was displayed in front of everyone was a giant sword half a zhang long, pure black on both sides, and cyan in the middle, as thick as an adult's waist.