Chapter 32: The Crucible of Everything

Outside the Ancestral Altar, the Forges of Everything is the core source of all weapons and equipment throughout the settlement.

Strange to say, no matter how old you are or how much your memory has deteriorated, the construction method of the three facilities, the Creation Hall, the Ancestral Altar, and the Furnace of Everything, as a settlement, will never be forgotten by the Great Elder of the Settlement.

Even if he dies unexpectedly and leaves no inheritance, the newly elected Great Elder in the settlement will be given the method of their construction when he holds the first ancestor sacrifice.

It was precisely because the Crucible of All Things was so important that Haruka invited Huangquan to help build it, which surprised the flying arrows. However, now that the settlement is at a critical juncture of life and death, it can be said that fate is tied to the thought of Huangquan, so it is not easy to oppose the arrows.

Moreover, the Crucible of Everything itself has a very limited secret value, and without the power of the Living Stone, it is just an ordinary furnace.

The Forges of Everything had chosen a place to build, a chamber with a large hole in the top. The Great Elder had already ordered someone to move a few boxes into here, then open them one by one, take out the parts from them, and start building them himself.

The name of the Melting Pot of Everything is really extraordinary, but looking at the structure, it is an ordinary and primitive furnace. Before the old humans entered the great industrial age, the furnaces they used were not necessarily much behind the current one.

The structure of the furnace was ordinary, but the materials used to build it surprised Huang Quan.

The inner walls of the furnace are made of black wooden strips. When Huang Quan first got it in his hand, he carefully identified it for a while, and finally confirmed that it was a wooden strip, only the appearance was blackened, and the inside was still wooden.

In Huangquan's impression, it seems that no wood can withstand the temperature of the furnace flame. But the facts were in front of him, and he couldn't believe it.

The wooden strips were neatly arranged by the Great Elder on the inner wall of the smelting, and were fixed with a pale white glue to each other. Then it's time to build the cover, install the blower, and complete the basic work.

Then entering the most important part, the Great Elder began to pray again, and in a few moments, many roots protruded from the specially set aside openings under the furnace and plunged into the earth.

After the furnace was built, the Great Elder did not bother to rest, and then took out the charcoal that had been prepared long ago from another box and put it in the furnace. This time it's real charcoal, but it's still not quite the same as regular charcoal.

In Huangquan's memory, it seems that coal is a better fuel, and coal can be found in the rainforest, but I don't know why charcoal is used.

After filling the charcoal, the Great Elder cut an iron rod used by the ogre into several pieces, placed it in the furnace, and began to smelt it.

In a matter of moments, flames erupted from the fire holes, and the Great Elder opened the furnace door, and the molten iron slowly flowed out and poured into the prepared mold. When the molten iron in the mold is cool, it is an iron ingot.

The problem is that the iron rods used by the cannibals are not real iron, but an alloy of iron doped with an unknown substance.

According to Huangquan's limited smelting common sense, ferroalloys are often much more difficult to melt than pure iron. But after only a short period of time in the furnace of all things, molten iron came out, which is really a bit magical.

Looking at the red flames spewing out of the fire hole, Huang Quan's heart moved, and he reached out and tried it. He put his finger in the fire and burned it for a while, before he felt a slight tingling and took it back.

This move immediately stunned the Great Elder next to him.

Huang Quan frowned, puzzled. As he expected, the temperature of this dark red flame was very low, and it should be far from the melting point of the ferroalloy. But this melting pot of all things has turned iron into molten iron.

He had also seen the structure of the furnace, it was not complicated at all, and the flame coming out of the fire hole should not be much lower than the temperature inside the furnace. There is no possibility of high temperature in the furnace and low fire holes.

After waiting quietly for a while, the iron rods turned into pieces of iron ingots, which were put away and used as materials for forging tools and weapons in the future.

If the first use of the Forge of All Things only made Huang Quan wonder, then the second time shocked him.

This time, what the Great Elder brought was actually the wreckage fragments of the spaceship!

The spacecraft that crashed here is made of far more material than ordinary ferroalloys. Some of the materials used to build starships have extremely high melting points to withstand the high temperatures of entering and exiting the planet's atmosphere.

The Great Elder actually brought this thing, regardless of the rust on it, and added it directly to the furnace without the slightest treatment.

Even if you don't know much about smelting, anyone who has studied basic natural science knows that the rust on metal is completely two substances. If you want to get a pure alloy ingot, you must first remove rust and clean it.

However, the Great Elder just put the alloy fragment into the furnace and simply knocked it out with a few blows. It seems that for the Great Elder, the shape of the raw material is much more important than the composition in the smelting process.

Under Huang Quan's gaze, a new furnace of alloy melt came out of the furnace and turned into a dark silver alloy ingot. The whole process, but it takes longer than the molten iron alloy, and the temperature of the furnace does not increase significantly.

The whole process made Huang Quan a little crazy and completely out of line with common sense.

He finally broke his silence and asked the Great Elder directly about the rationale.

However, the Great Elder couldn't give him a clear explanation, for the Great Elder had received the inheritance knowledge that the Crucible of All Things was used in this way, and he never thought of trying other methods.

Huang Quan thought about it, the difference between the thing in front of him and the ordinary furnace seemed to be the roots that pierced into the earth, and the whole process that the Great Elder was chanting.

Huang Quan asked, and finally learned how to use the furnace of all things that the Great Elder had obtained when he was sacrificing to the ancestors.

In addition to the above operation process, there are more than a dozen sets of prayers that are used in different ways, some can speed up the melting of metal, some can make the metal harder, and some can greatly increase the toughness of the metal.

According to the Great Elder himself, he was considered the most intelligent of the Great Elders of all generations, and he had memorized seven complete sets of prayers at that time, and even now that he was older, he had only forgotten two of them.

With the five remaining sets of prayers in his hand, the Great Elder was confident that the settlement would survive.

Regarding the use of the Melting Pot of Everything, and the way of knowledge transmission of settlements, Huang Quan felt like he had heard a mythical story.

In this world, people have taken a completely different path, the development of the power of the Holy Radiance is far ahead of the Empire, but the civilization has regressed to a time close to primitive.

Continuing to live in this way, Huang Quan felt that within a few hundred years, the human race in this rainforest would be completely extinct.

The Lost People were able to harness the power of the Life Stone, and in Huang Quan's opinion, it was more due to the fact that this power was softer, far less powerful than the Holy Radiance, and more friendly and cooperative. The Living Stone seems to have some kind of spirituality, sometimes as if it is guiding the lost people to use their powers.

However, in the Empire, ordinary people who came close to the Stone of Radiance would not be able to afford to fall ill, and it would not be long before they died in agony. Unless it is a truly strong person chosen among thousands, it will not be able to carry its power at all.

Even Huang Quan, an existence standing at the pinnacle of the empire's power, needed all kinds of means to protect himself, so he barely survived the initial test and obtained the true power of Shenghui.

Compared to the Stone of Radiance, the Stone of Life is a domesticated existence, which has changed from a beast to a domesticated one.

After smelting two furnaces in a row, the Great Elder's spirit visibly declined and became sluggish, and he asked people to put away the materials and go back to rest.

Regardless of the method of inheritance, the Forge of Everything is of great significance to the settlement, with which the shipwreckage can be utilized, and the settlement has valuable metal resources.