The sun was shining brightly, a piece of gold, shining in the barracks, diluting the aura of slaughter a lot.

Fang Chong got up early in the morning, watched his hundreds of soldiers practice on the school ground, and then made an excuse and took Da Niu and Tong Man to Zhaonan County.

Zhaonan County, Vientiane Building.

Today, Fang Zhong was dressed in military uniform, and no one dared to stop him from entering this Vientiane Building, Zhang Daniu and Tong Man followed behind, like two mountains, majestic.

"I think I met Sister Lin in this Vientiane Building, I don't know how she is now?" Fang Zhong sighed in his heart, stepped into the hall of Vientiane Building, and directly threw a stack of silver tickets to the waiter, and said: "I want ten catties of star stripes, the best grade, wrap it for me." ”

"Yes, sir, wait a minute. The waiter smiled humbly and stepped back.

Vientiane Building is all-encompassing, dazzling, a lot of strange things can be found, Zhang Daniu and Tong Man's eyes are shining, looking at the past in front of one by one window, and admiring again and again.

Seeing the two of them like this, Fang Zhong suddenly laughed: "You two, you are also the commander of the Red Tiger Army, can you pay attention to your image?"

The two of them laughed, and Tong Man had a depressed expression on his face, and said, "My lord, don't you know, the things in this Vientiane Building are ridiculously expensive, and I didn't dare to come in before." ”

"Well, it's really expensive, I haven't been here before, I just took a casual look, and a dagger costs three hundred taels, which is really ...... What about robbing people?" Zhang Daniu also looked angry, and said with a snort.

"These two guys, it's a shame. Fang Zhong noticed the unshaven eyes around him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "Count yourself lucky today, go pick it yourself, and let people take whatever you like, and I'll pay for you." ”

"Thank you, then, sir. The two of them were full of surprise and ran away.

In the end, Zhang Daniu and Tong Man jumped a weapon, Zhang Daniu is a heavy axe, Tong Man is a thick-backed knife, both are heavy weapons, weighing hundreds of pounds, the two of them waved it in their hands for a while, startling the people around them to quickly dodge.

Both of them are extremely strong, and one with a giant axe and the other with a large knife are very suitable.

However, Fang Zhong took these two weapons and looked at them twice, and immediately frowned, although the grade of these two weapons was not bad, they were still much worse than what he had tempered himself, but he didn't bother to spend effort to temper the divine weapons for these two guys, and he would just forget it.

Soon, the waiter handed over a small bag to Fang Chong's hand, and said respectfully: "My lord, this is the condensation steel you want, exactly ten catties, a total of two hundred taels of silver." ”

"Yes, it's exactly ten pounds. Fang Zhong knew after a slight weighing, ten catties is no more and no less, and thought in his heart, "Using these ten catties of condensation steel to cast a box, it should be able to isolate the heat of the fire source crystal, anyway, the fire source crystal is only the size of a fist, and I will carry it with me in the future." ”

Leaving Vientiane Tower, Fang Chong went all the way west, bypassing half of Zhaonan County, and finally stopped at a remote ironsmith shop.

This shop is extremely old, the courtyard is deserted, and there is an old man in his seventies and eighties, who is obviously very unsatisfactory.

Zhang Daniu stared at the shop twice, and asked curiously: "My lord, do you want to build weapons?" ”

Glancing at this guy, Fang Zhong didn't bother to explain, and ordered the two of them to guard at the door and went in by himself.

In the shop, an old man sat by the fire, knocking on the red iron over and over again, Fang Zhong couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at it.

"No wonder the business is so bleak, this forging skill is really a little too bad. Fang Zhong said secretly in his heart, but he wanted to forge the box containing the fire source crystal by himself, this old man's forging skills almost had no effect on him, as long as the tools were complete.

"Smack!"

Throwing a bag of silver in front of the old man, Fang Zhong said with a smile: "Old man, I want to borrow your forge shop to make something by myself, this money should be enough, right?"

"Enough, enough...."The old man smiled happily and grinned: "So much money, it's enough to buy the old man and my shop." ”

"Just buy this shop, I just want to borrow your tools to forge one thing, and I have the materials myself. Fang Zhong smiled and walked inside, glanced at the things inside, and nodded slightly, the things here are quite neat, and the smelting and casting condensation steel is enough.

The furnace fire was ready-made, and Fang Zhong took out the condensed steel and threw it into the furnace.

Seeing the pitch-black condensed steel in the furnace, the old man's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, and he exclaimed, "This is ..... This is condensation steel. ”

The old man looked excited, and subconsciously shook his head, "The condensation steel is as cold as frost, it can isolate the heat, if you want to use my furnace to smelt the condensation steel, I'm afraid it won't work, it is impossible to smelt the condensate steel without a special method." ”

Fang Zhong smiled slightly, without explanation, took out a jade bottle from his arms, and a cold mist suddenly rose, causing the temperature in the room to drop a lot at once, and the water in the jade bottle was murmuring, and there was a light blue liquid shaking, glowing.

"This is extremely cold water, you actually have extremely cold water, no wonder you are sure to smelt condensed steel. The old man was shocked, revealing a sudden expression.

"This old man actually knows about the extremely cold water. Fang glanced at the old man, a little surprised, and couldn't help but ask, "Old man, how do you know that this extremely cold water can smelt condensate steel?"

"Hehe, old man, although my forging skills are sparse, some ancestral things still dare not forget, this extremely cold water can smelt condensate steel is one of them, but unfortunately the old man I am very poor, condensation steel and extremely cold water can't afford it at all. The old man laughed to himself and said slowly.

"I see. Fang Zhong was relieved, thought about it, and took out a stack of silver tickets from his body again and put it on the table, which was a thousand taels, "Since the old man knows the skill of smelting condensing steel, he can't bury it, this bit of silver is considered to be lent to you by me, I hope you can carry forward the skills of your ancestors." ”

Fang Chong's move was purely a whim, anyway, the ease with which his silver came was from those bandits in the Black Wind Ridge, and he was not distressed at all.

Moreover, although this old man is old, he knows how to smelt condensate steel, and he is a companion to him.

However, it was different for the old man, I saw that he was excited, the old tears were crossing, and he sighed: "My lord, my old man can't stand your kindness!"

This move was nothing more than a gesture, Fang Zhong smiled slightly, turned around and poured the blue liquid in the jade bottle onto the condensed steel.

Suddenly, a puff of smoke rose from the condensed steel, and then softened at a speed visible to the naked eye, melting into a puddle of viscous liquid in just a few moments.

If it weren't for the records in the "Twelve Chapters of Forging", Fang Zhong would not have believed that the fusion of these two extremely cold things together could produce strange changes and soften the condensed steel that could not be smelted at high temperatures.

"There are so many wonders in the world, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Fang Zhong sighed in his heart, and when he looked back, the old man didn't know when he was gone.

He didn't care, anyway, he didn't need the old man's help, so he simply picked up the tools himself, cast the softened condensate steel, and tempered it into the shape of a box, boxy, but a little bigger than a fist, just enough to hold the fire source crystal.

Half an hour later, Fang Zhong finished casting.

A square box as black as ink appeared in his hand, the ghostly light flickered, and the cold was piercing, it was a box made of condensed steel.

With a satisfied smile, Fang Zhong turned around and walked out of the door, he chose such a remote place to forge just because he didn't want to be noticed by someone with a heart.

After all, condensing steel has a special nature, and casting a box with condensation steel, as long as people with some common sense know, it is definitely a treasure with fire attributes.

"Your Excellency, please wait. ”

At this moment, the old man came out of the room, covered in dust, holding a stone box in his hand, it is not difficult to imagine that it must have been a long time to find this stone box.

"No wonder the old man hasn't been here for half an hour. Fang Chong's heart suddenly smiled, and said, "Old man, do you have anything else?"

"My lord, your great kindness can not be repaid, this is a forging secret book handed down by the ancestors, the old decay has low talent, is old, and has no children under his knees, and he is only buried in the future, and he will be brought into the coffin in the future, and he is sorry for the ancestors, if he gives it to you, I hope you can carry forward the skills of the ancestors. The old man held the stone box, rubbed it carefully, and the old tears were all over the place.

The stone box is simple, with some simple patterns carved on it, all of which are in the shape of swords, and the whole stone box presents a dark purple, which is very weird.

Fang Chong's eyes looked around the stone box, then looked at the old man's tearful appearance, and excused himself: "Old man, this is your ancestral heirloom, I must not accept it." ”

The old man sighed, stuffed the stone box into Fang Chong's hand, and said: "My lord, this stone box is the ancestor's lifelong skill, if I enter the soil with the old decay, it will really be buried, and the old decay will not face the ancestor even if it is underground, please be sure to fulfill it." ”

In this way, Fang Zhong could only accept it, it may be just a stone box for him, but for the old man, it is a kind of inheritance, a continuation of ancestral skills.

Bidding farewell to the old man, Fang Zhong left the shop with Da Niu and Tong Man, and went all the way out of Zhaonan County.

Instead of going back to the barracks directly, Fang Chong and the three of them detoured into the continuous mountains behind the Red Tiger Army, came to the stone forest, dug out the fire source crystal from the stone forest, and put the fire source crystal in a box cast by condensed steel.