The streets of the market outside Wuluobao are very interestingly named, the east-west direction is called the street, the north-south direction is called the road, the most central street and the road are called Zhongyang Street and Zhongyang Road respectively, and the other four streets are called the north-south first and second streets and the east-west first and second streets respectively.

Just like the law of the layout of merchants in the secular world, the more prosperous the shops occupy the more advantageous the geographical location, so the leading bosses of the refining shops in the market outside Wuluobao, "Long Xingxing" and "Fengtianxing", occupy the most core areas of the entire market - Central Street and Central Road.

The reason why these two refining shops can become the leaders of the industry is because only these two shops have a Jiedan monk in charge, who not only has the ability to smelt high-grade materials, but also can make high-grade magic weapons with a low failure rate, and even it is possible to produce low-grade magic weapons with five to ten years of work.

In addition, these two shops also have several alchemists in the middle and late stages of foundation building, although they can't smelt high-grade materials, they are still comfortable smelting intermediate materials, which is also beyond the reach of most shops.

In particular, the two monks in the two shops are also the registered elders of Wuluobao, and this relationship enables the two shops to not only get all kinds of materials and ores at low prices, but also to get the vast majority of refining orders from the inner gate of the fort, so they gradually have an industry status that no one dares to compete for.

From the location of the hardware store, the penultimate store on South Second Street, it is not difficult to see its humble status in the refining industry.

The highest cultivation is the Mao shopkeeper in the middle stage of foundation building, and then there are two refiners in the early stage of foundation building, and the guys in the qi refining period did not dare to hire them, because they only rely on those two refiners to smelt primary materials, rely on Mao Shopkeeper to smelt intermediate materials and occasionally make some middle and lower grade magic weapons, and then deduct the cost of labor and materials, they can't earn much spirit stones at all.

This refiner is not an outer disciple, so naturally he will not get cheap materials and orders from the castle, and his craftsmanship is not very good, so the competition with other similar shops depends on lower-priced primary material blanks and low-grade magic weapons with poor prices.

Shopkeeper Mao frowned every day, and after several years of operation, he knew that it was only a matter of time before he closed down like this, so he gritted his teeth and made up his mind to find the old man Qian from the reception of the outer disciples, and asked him to help him recruit a foundation building monk who could smelt intermediate materials at a high price.

Early the next morning, Shi An came to the hardware store and asked the guy at the door to tell the shopkeeper that the refiner recommended by Qian Daoyou was here.

Shopkeeper Mao, who had waited for more than a year without any news, heard this information and rushed out of the backyard in surprise.

When he saw that the person who came was just a middle-aged monk who was only in the early stage of foundation building, he was full of joy and turned into a cold water empowerment, but he said that this person had given the old man Qian benefits, so he was sent by him to fool himself, so he said very unceremoniously: "Although you were recommended by Qian Daoyou, if you don't have any real skills, I won't keep you." ”

Hearing this, Shi Anxin was unhappy, and said coldly: "I don't know what you mean by the true ability, refining magic weapons and magic weapons I really can't, but if I have the ability to smelt intermediate materials, if you don't need it, then I'll leave." Then he turned around and was about to leave.

As soon as the words "smelting intermediate materials" came out, Shopkeeper Mao's eyes turned green, and he hurriedly stopped in front of Shi An and said: "Mr. don't be in a hurry, Mr. don't be in a hurry, Fang Cai is in a mouthful, his words are abrupt, and he is offended." Since you are recommended by Brother Qian Dao, and you can smelt intermediate materials, then please be sure to stay, although the store is small, but it will definitely be supported with a high salary. ”

As we all know, the classification of materials is mainly based on the reserves of materials, the larger the reserves, the lower the difficulty of mining, the greater the output, and the less impurities in the raw ore, the easier it is to smelt.

Therefore, although intermediate materials and primary materials have similar smelting processes, the gap in melting difficulty is far from being narrowed by hard work.

As far as the removal of impurities in one of the processes of smelting materials is concerned, the lower the grade of the material, the lower the degree of integration of the impurities with the material itself, the easier it is for the impurities to float on the surface after melting, and the easier it is to peel off and remove cleanly, so that the less aura or divine consciousness is consumed to purify the material.

Therefore, generally speaking, the smelting of primary materials can be completed by refiners in the early stage of foundation building, while the smelting of intermediate materials can often be done by refiners in the middle or even late stage of foundation building.

This is the fundamental reason for the great contrast between the attitudes of the shopkeeper Mao before and after the cultivation of people.

"I don't know what to call you?" asked the shopkeeper respectfully.

"Zhao An. Shi An said lightly.

"Can you help me smelt a piece of Haoshan Cui?"

Shi An knew that this was the shopkeeper Mao testing whether he could really smelt intermediate materials, so he used Haoshancui, an intermediate material that was not a good smelting material, to test himself.

He secretly said that if I don't let you see my methods today, it will be difficult for me to gain a foothold in Wuluobao in the future. So he said to the shopkeeper Mao: "Please provide your bank with the earth fire and the materials that need to be smelted, and I have the other utensils myself." With that, he took out an extremely ordinary refining tripod from the storage bag.

"You just use this thing?" shopkeeper Mao couldn't believe his eyes, "You can use this thing to refine Haoshan Cui?" don't lie to me. ”

Looking at the inconspicuous small tripod in Shi An's hand, Shopkeeper Mao was very unsure, because the refining tripods of the two refiners who could only smelt primary materials in his shop were much stronger than this.

"That's it, don't worry, if the smelting is broken, I will compensate you for a piece of material according to the price. Shi An still said lightly.

Pushing open the stone door of the earth fire room, a violent fire aura came with a scorching heat wave, Shi An frowned, the fire of this earth lung is indeed much higher than the heat of the flameless black gold, if the success rate of refining here is much higher, the loss of aura will be much less.

The stone chamber is not large, only three zhang square, and in the middle is a stone platform with a two-foot square and a basin-sized hole in the center.

Looking into the hole, there are rows of dense and small cavities, and although there is no flame, you can still feel the heat spewing out from here.

Shopkeeper Mao kindly invited Shi An to sit down on the stone bench next to the stone platform, and with a flick of a small fine iron paddle next to him, a pale blue flame more than a foot high erupted from the small hollow, and the heat in the room was even better than just now.

"You can get started. With that, he handed over a two-fist-sized piece of brown ore.

Shi An lightly blocked with his hand: "Wait, I'll familiarize myself with this fire first." ”

After that, he put the small ding on the hole, reached out and took out a large piece of refined iron ore, and threw it into the ding without looking at it.

Shopkeeper Mao frowned beside him, as if he wanted to say something, but he stopped after thinking about it for a while.

The refined iron ore entered the ding silently, and did not jingle as the shopkeeper Mao imagined, he hurriedly looked at it, only to see that the stone did not fall at the bottom of the ding, but hung about five inches from the bottom of the ding, and kept shaking gently.

"What is he doing? Why don't you put the ore at the bottom of the ding? Why don't you know how to use the paddle to adjust the intensity of the flame? What is the purpose of using the aura to hold the ore? What is the purpose of using the aura to hold the ore? How can you get rid of the impurities in a while? I think this guy is a layman ninety percent of the time, which makes me happy in vain. ”

Looking at the ore block, and then at Shi An, Shopkeeper Mao shook his head slightly.

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