Chapter 4: Broken Swords and Broken Swords
"Refining seniors, lonely voices are disturbing..."
In the Valley of Forgetting Worries, outside the casting furnace, Yan Guming, who has always been free and easy, has a rare and well-behaved disciple to worship. www.biquge.info It's not that Yan Guming's respect for the people in his heart is worse than that of his master, it's just that the smart three disciples don't want any unexpected trouble.
After all, compared to his little Lori-like master, this temper refining senior is even more eccentric, and if one of them doesn't go well, it's not impossible to turn him away like this. If this is the case, wouldn't it delay the time to forge the sword for the second senior sister and delay the business?
"Enter."
Inside the house, a slightly drunken sound sounded, and the door of the casting furnace also opened at the same time in the babbling singing, similar to the medicinal fragrance in the grass hall, the moment the casting furnace opened, the unique flame of the casting also spread.
Outside the door, Yan Guming bent down and saluted again, and then walked into the inside of the casting furnace.
The room, which is slightly darker than the outside, has only a small window at the top, and the one-story furnace is too tall in comparison, and the huge furnace and casting platform occupy most of the room, and the other gaps are occupied by random stacks of firewood ingots... And, of course, the drunken man leaning on the stove with a drunken beard.
"What are you going to cast today?"
"Senior, Gu Ming wants to forge a pair of swords today."
"Oh?" Lian Chixin's body leaning there didn't move, but a faint gleam flashed in his originally cloudy eyes... But soon, his eyes turned to jokes, "Ho Ho, I didn't expect that there were so many confidantes around your kid, and in the end you chose that crazy girl?" ”
"Senior... Jinxuan is my senior sister. ”
"Nonsense! Can't my sister ask to be a mother-in-law? ”
――Nobody said no, but why do you always react so much?
Silently complained in his heart, Yan Guming only showed an embarrassing wry smile on the surface, and stopped arguing.
"Hmph, you kid is really boring..."Lian Chixin snorted coldly, raised his head and took another sip of Du Kang, "But the words can be said in the front, but the two swords that Chenzi gave to that girl are not ordinary goods, with your current skills, no matter how clever you are, I am afraid it will be difficult to make better works." ”
"Gu Ming can save it, the masterpiece boy who went to Rigao naturally didn't dare to climb high, and the sword that came to forge today was just to help my sister meet the needs of the moment."
Legend has it that the two mad sword spirit swords used by the second senior sister were originally made by a skilled sword-casting saint for his friends who made swords a hundred years ago, and the materials used were all of the highest quality, if Yan Guming really could knock out a better weapon with two iron ingots, then he would not be a sword-casting master, but a casting god!
Of course, he didn't go into further detail about the loss of the "Crazy Sword Spirit Sword", after all, he promised to help the second senior sister keep it secret, so naturally he couldn't sell her so quickly... However, although Yan Guming didn't mention this stubble, he still found a sore foot that made him unhappy by leaning on the furnace.
"Boy, do you think that the reason why you can't forge a famous sword is because I don't have good materials here!"
"How dare you, everything is a lonely sound casting technique, how dare you anger others."
"Humph! Don't think I don't know if you don't tell me! Lao Tzu told you the truth, if you stop in the realm of life and death for the rest of your life, then even if you throw the whole piece of extraterrestrial meteorite in front of you, you won't be able to cast any peerless divine weapons! ”
"What the predecessors taught me is that Gu Ming will definitely step up his cultivation in the future."
Yan Guming saluted again... However, this salute is not polite, but because the words of refining the red heart are indeed reasonable.
To be honest, although his casting technique has already reached the level of 99 full level, it is just a hard pile of the system, not to mention anything else, just now Yan Guming's casting technique in his mind is not enough to play at all, and the reason is nothing more than a lack of skill and inability to complete the ideal forging process, so although refining the red heart is more straightforward, it does break the key to the problem.
It's just that... If he just wanted to forge a pair of temporary emergency swords for his senior sister, even if the internal force that could be called on was insufficient, he was confident that he would complete it.
Bypassing the refinement of the red heart, Yan Guming simply did not continue to dwell on this issue, and after picking out the hammer that suited his size among the miscellaneous items stacked with tools, Yan Guming silently walked to the furnace that had not yet been extinguished.
The flame in the furnace is not simply heated by charcoal, otherwise this simple open structure would not have been able to reach the temperature required for casting a weapon - in fact, charcoal only serves as a fuel for combustion, and at the bottom of the charcoal fire, the "Heart-Eater" that exists almost exclusively in books is the source of heat for the entire furnace.
The ultimate flame buried in the depths of the volcano is almost never extinguished, and it is perfect to use it as a heat source to smelt the gods... Even thanks to its ultra-high temperatures, foundries can even create masterpieces that far exceed the original quality of the material.
And this time, in order to create a sword that was enough for the second senior sister to use her cultivation at will, the casting materials Yan Guming chose were "Shenyuan Iron" and "Hundred Forged Steel". Really speaking, these two are actually not particularly high-grade materials, at most they can only be regarded as medium to upper-average, and it is not impossible to have better materials than them in the casting furnace, but seeing Yan Guming choosing these two for casting, Lian Chixin, who was standing next to him, did not stop it.
The choice of casting materials is related to the characteristics of the weapons that need to be built, the ability of the foundry and the firepower used, casting methods, etc., etc., and so on, blindly choosing the highest grade materials is just a symbol of a rookie, although Yan Guming's internal force cultivation is not high, but the vision of casting refining the heart is still absolutely agreed, since he chose these two materials, it proves that these two ores can best play the quality of the sword cast.
Finally, after taking a handful of firewood to burn the fire, Yan Guming officially began the forging.
Generally speaking, casting can be divided into three steps: smelting, pouring, and repairing, but to fully melt different materials, the processing steps required are completely different.
Take "Shen Yuan Iron" and "Hundred Forged Steel" as an example, the former is a naturally formed precious mineral, which needs to be fully smelted by slow fire to remove the impurities before it can be used as a raw material for casting divine soldiers, while the latter is an intermediate product that has been artificially processed, and the preciousness is fully reflected in the word "Hundred Forging", if the same method is used for smelting, it is a waste of the unique steel formed in the Hundred Forging, so it only needs to be heated for a moment with a rapid fire, and once the raw iron is melted, it will immediately enter the next step.
As for what to use to forge the sword and which to use to forge the sword, Yan Guming already had a plan in his heart.
Although it is a sword that is used together, in Yan Guming's impression, the second senior sister Ji Jinxuan is not without focus, with her habit of attacking the enemy with a knife and guarding the emperor with a sword, so the sword is strong and domineering and suitable for heavy and solid Shenyuan iron as raw materials, and the sword in the other hand relies on light and quick strikes and flexible body methods to dodge and parry, so it is suitable to use a hundred forged steel forging with full toughness but light material.
In addition to these, if you want to create a divine weapon, you naturally need a variety of auxiliary materials, but because the category is too complex, I won't introduce them one by one.
… After a while, the temperature of the furnace fire was already appropriate, and Yan Guming also began the smelting work, after fully melting the Shen Yuan iron, he poured the molten iron into the mold, condensed into a predetermined shape, and then beat and forged. For the swordsmith, this step may be regarded as the most high-level step, but at this moment, Yan Guming, who obviously has a lot of understanding of casting, did not perform any exquisite forging techniques, but did his best to be rough, hammering the iron at will, and wantonly exerting the performance of the casting block in front of him.
This kind of irresponsible forging technique naturally can't be put on the table, and it is impossible to be tolerated by refining the red heart.
The strange-tempered caster's eyes flashed with a hint of impatience, and finally waved his hand in praise the moment before the knife was about to be completed, condensing into an extremely hot invisible qi blade that cut at the top of the blade with incomparable precision!
No matter how strong Shen Yuan Iron is, it has not yet been tempered and formed, and the qi blade generated by the profound skill of refining the red heart is unstoppable, and the knife that Yan Guming is forging was finally broken into two before he was born...
However, Yan Guming, who was holding the hammer, did not show the slightest annoyance because of this, he had long known that Lian Chixin would act like this, and he swung a few hammers quickly, and then carved and shaped the broken knife embryo, quenched and cooled.
After that, he used the same method to forge the sword again, and this time, although Lian Chixin did not do it again, Yan Guming himself still smashed the spine of the sword with a hammer, and then completed the carving of the resulting mutilated sword body.
Broken swords, broken swords
It seemed that the work that could not have failed made Lian Chixin, who was leaning aside, frown slightly. After looking at it for a long time, the casting master showed a sudden look, and at the same time glanced at Lian Chixin with an incomparably complicated gaze.
"You're a ghost."
"The seniors praised it falsely, Gu Ming is not proficient in learning skills, and his skills are insufficient, in order to cast a sword that can be driven by his senior sister at will, this is just a last resort."
"Hmph, you kid said all the positive and negative, so what else do I have to talk about?" Another sip of cow drink, Lian Chixin squinted his drunken eyes and said lightly, "It's just that casting this kind of thing is just an evil way after all, if you still want to go further, I advise you not to cast this kind of thing again!" ”
"The good words of the predecessors are remembered by Lone Ming."
In fact, there is no need to refine the red heart to say, Yan Guming himself actually rejects such a casting technique in his heart... This "broken edge method" inherited from the system is actually in the case of insufficient skills of the caster, on the premise of sacrificing the service life of the casting, increasing the power of the cast weapon - the hesitation of the broken edge of the special manufacturing method constantly overdraws the potential of the remaining materials, so that the power of the sword can be greatly increased in a short period of time, but as the days go by, the blade will eventually decay and die, and at that time the two broken blades and broken swords will also be automatically destroyed and returned to dust...
To put it more plainly, this sword is simply a "consumable".