Every day, as long as the rooster crows, there will be a "clanging" metal knocking sound in the sect forging room, which is a compulsory course for Li Bin of the Futu Gate every day.

The daily itinerary is basically full, after several days of unremitting efforts, I don't know how much sweat I have shed, Li Bin's forging skill proficiency has finally risen to 100, and the quality of items that can be forged has also been whispered from the lowest E to D.

In the list of D-quality forgeable items, there are more practical weapons, such as long swords, single blades, iron rods, etc., which are commonly used in martial arts. Li Bin couldn't help but say happily in his heart: "Finally, you don't need to build daggers anymore, the Kyushu martial arts assassin profession is non-mainstream, and no matter how high the quality of daggers is, they can't be sold for a high price." ”

In a corner of the forging room, hundreds of daggers produced by Li Bin were discarded indiscriminately. Li Bin decided to choose the longsword from the list of D-grade quality weapons to build, and when Li Bin thought about the process of building the longsword, a detailed longsword forging process appeared in his mind. Each step is very detailed.

After comprehending it, Li Bin can start to try it himself. With some previous experience in forging daggers, some of the processes of forging a longsword are similar to forging daggers, the first process is to fold and forge the red-hot steel, and you will get 1024 layers of steel.

Through folding and forging, impurities and excessive carbon in the steel can also be removed, increasing the elasticity and toughness of the steel. The more times you forge it, the more uniform the carbon content of the sword embryo will be, and the more detailed the iron crystals will be, and the final forged sword embryo will reach thousands of layers, giving the sword a strong toughness.

Li Bin has not fully mastered this step of the forging process, and the forged sword embryo can only reach the level of one or two thousand layers, but even to this extent, the quality of the long sword forged according to this process will be higher than that forged by other weapons shops and blacksmith shops.

In addition to repeated folding and forging, there is another process that is more difficult than repeated folding and forging.

In order to make the steel have better plasticity in forging, the temperature should be increased as much as possible. In order to increase the temperature, heating is chosen in the uppermost oxidation flame of the furnace. However, there is an excess of oxygen in the oxidation flame, forming an oxidizing oxygen-rich zone outside the flame core, and in the repeated heating and forging, the sword embryo will produce a large amount of oxide scale and serious decarburization, so in the forging process, it is also necessary to continuously carburize in the lower carbonization flame (reducing flame) to allow the sword embryo to absorb carbon and increase the carbon content.

However, this does not fully replenish the carbon lost in heating forging, so the number of heating times is strictly limited in order to maintain the carbon content of the steel. And the plasticity of the steel will change greatly when it cools quickly. Therefore, an experienced blacksmith must accurately adjust the change in the force of each hammer in order to make the steel into a blade blank in a limited number of heating times. Such sword steel was called "hundred steel" in ancient times.

The "Hundred Steel" swords are polished to the highest quality, and various forms of beautiful forging muscles appear.

The process of forging sword embryos is very exquisite to the experience and skills of the blacksmith, each stroke is the perfect embodiment of experience and strength, to achieve this state, only repeated practice and exploration, only in the process of continuous practice forging skills can be improved.

After the sword embryo is forged, the final process is "quenching". It is to first put the beaten long sword on the stove fire and burn it red, and then immediately put it into cold water and dip it properly to let it cool down suddenly. This is repeated a few times, and the sword will become tough and elastic. The quenching process seems easy, but it is extremely difficult to grasp the operation just right, and the heat of the fire, the degree of cooling, and the quality of the water have a lot to do with it.

If the quenching is not enough, the blade is not hard and easy to curl; If the quenching is overdone, the blade will become brittle and easy to break; Quenching is suitable for quenching, and it is necessary to have extremely rich experience.

After more than two hours of forging efforts, the first long sword forged by Li Bin himself was successfully born. The quality of the long sword is rated as D, which is barely qualified.

Since Li Bin learned the systematic forging technique book, he has also obtained an ability to identify the quality of weapons, no matter what kind of weapon, as long as you look at it completely, you can automatically get the quality of the weapon.

Although the quality of the long sword forged by Li Bin is D, the quality is much better than that forged by ordinary weapons shops. The innate quality of the weapon forged by a good steel ingot is stronger than that of the weapon forged from other inferior materials, unless there is a world-apart gap in the skill of the forging master, otherwise the quality of the forging material determines the quality of a weapon.

The Forging Skill Proficiency has been increased from 100 to 108, which is equivalent to an hourly increase of 4 Skill Proficiency, the Forging Skill Proficiency has been increased to 100, and the Forging Quality has been increased to D level.

Every time the forging quality is increased to a certain level, you must choose the corresponding quality item to forge in order to improve the proficiency of the forging skill normally, which is not a trick.

According to Li Bin's current forging skill proficiency and experience, he can forge up to four long swords every day, increasing his forging skill proficiency by 32 points.

"Master, the ring of the sect disciple Dabi has been set up, please ask the master to test it." Chen Xiaoqi reported.

"yes, got it."

"Xiao Qi, there are a few long swords here, you can take them out and use them for the disciples who have not yet been issued with the corresponding weapons."

"Understood, Master."

"Wow, Master, the quality of your swords is really good, much better than the one I use, can I choose one of them?"

"Absolutely." The long sword he forged was sincerely praised by his disciples, and Li Bin still felt a sense of face and achievement.

Chen Xiaoqi's style of action is meticulous and thorough, and he has won Li Bin's trust, so Chen Xiaoqi is responsible for the important preparations for the disciple competition and the construction of the ring.

Because the main building of the Futu Gate Hall is located, there is no large open space for Luoshan Feiyunding to build the ring, so the disciples of the Futu Sect Dabi Ring are selected to build the ring on a flat and open ground at the foot of Luofu Mountain.

Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as he came out of the sect's cultivation room, Li Bin called out to the big white eagle with a whistling sound, and the big white eagle flew to the disciple Dabi ring built at the foot of Luofu Mountain.

Without waiting for the big white eagle to land smoothly in the ring, Li Bin performed light skills and jumped off the big white eagle and practiced a set of Tai Chi Shenquan in the ring.

After the Tai Chi fight, Li Bin was still satisfied with the quality of the ring.

"Master Li, so early?" As soon as he looked up, Li Bin saw Wei Biao, the lieutenant of the Chinese military academy of the Lingnan garrison, riding lightly and galloping towards the ring.

Wei Biao had already received the news that the Futu Sect was holding the first sect disciple competition today, and selected outstanding disciples from the registered disciples to officially join the Futu Sect, so he rushed over early in the morning, for fear that he would miss the precious promotion opportunity once a year.