In the inaccessible black forest, there was another earth-shattering loud noise, and the flames were accompanied by countless gravel and iron slag, splashing everywhere. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Sui Xiong jumped into the river not far away, listening to the sizzling sound of the hot gravel and iron slag on his body when it met the cold water, and couldn't help but sigh.

"How many times have this failed!"

He looked at the scene of the explosion, and the ground was in chaos, with scattered stones and mud mixed with iron ore peat, and dotted iron slag mixed in - this was the result of his "blast furnace ironmaking".

"What's wrong?"

After failing so many times in a row, even art students felt that something was wrong. Sui Xiong dared to bet on his own discipline that his blast furnace ironmaking technology must have fatal flaws, and it was likely that he had made a mistake in some key point. But he thought about it, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Iron ore and coal react at high temperatures to reduce the combined iron to iron atoms—he remembers that he should have been taught in high school chemistry class.

Although Brother Xiong is an art student, he was admitted to college anyway, and redox reaction is a key point in high school chemistry, and he can't forget it all.

But...... Why not?

Iron ore, he has it, coal, he has it, and high temperature, he has it. And in order to make the reaction sufficient, he also specially mixed the coal and iron ore evenly, and it was almost ground and mixed together.

But why did it turn out to be either burning and extinguishing, or burning and exploding?

What's the problem?

Sui Xiong is not unlearned, he is not a man who does not come to iron smelting without any preparation. Before starting to do it, he also went to the blacksmith shop to inquire and observe the ironmaking technique.

The world's iron-making technology is roughly like this: an oval barrel with a short chimney is built by mixing mud and straw, with two air inlets and a slag outlet under the furnace, and then iron ore and charcoal are layered on top of each other. Ignite the fire and burn slowly, slowly adding charcoal and iron ore layer by layer while burning.

This is a very slow process that produces a large amount of useless iron slag, which has to be burned for a long, long time to get some iron lumps full of holes. Then the iron pieces are to be burned red in a forge. It is slowly forged to remove air bubbles and impurities, and finally the actual iron is obtained.

In general, this method is not efficient, and it consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. Therefore, the price of iron in this world is very expensive, and even the price of carrying iron tools is very expensive.

In fact, bronze is still used in many parts of the world.

Of course, in a magical world, there are naturally ways to solve problems with magic. That's the magic furnace.

Magic can produce an astonishing amount of heat, and naturally it can burn iron ore. Then add the reducing agent, you can smoothly get the molten iron, and then get pig iron, then add carbon reforging to get wrought iron, and finally mix raw wrought iron to get steel.

This method is very efficient in making iron, and the quality of the iron smelted is good, the only problem is the high price.

The cost of the magic furnace is staggering. Several magicians are also needed to assist in the operation, and precious magic crystals are consumed as fuel. The furnace is often turned on once. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, a few hundred gold coins will be smashed.

As a result, the price of steel is still very high, and the output is still tragic.

The Church of the Goddess of Fortune once calculated that under the existing conditions, the lowest price of iron production. In fact, it was a high-level mage who used the "Plane Travel" spell to go to the earth elemental plane to directly find the pure iron ore vein......

Sui Xiong also learned that the dwarves had a special skill that could raise the temperature of the magma and melt the iron ore into it. Then use a secret method to extract the molten iron directly from it.

The iron ingots obtained in this way are known as "dwarven steel" or "lava ingots", and are the highest grade of steel known.

...... Naturally, the yield is also the lowest.

Not to mention that the right lava is hard to find, and even if you find the right lava, there are very few masters who can perform that special skill, and even for most dwarves, this skill is just an ancient legend, and no one has ever seen the real thing.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still dwarven steel products handed down, I am afraid that many people would even wonder if it was a false rumor.

Sui Xiong's plan was to develop a low-cost and efficient iron-making technology. In his impression, even if the earth is backward, steel is definitely not a rare thing. Don't you see African tribal vendettas, all of them are a machete?

Of course, he certainly didn't know that those machetes were "made-in-China".

However, it is really not easy to come up with such a technology!

With a deep sigh, he flew out of the river and recast his spell to build the blast furnace.

"The explosion was due to poor ventilation, I should have worked more on ventilation......"

Obviously, the experiment will continue.

This experiment may have a significant impact on the future development of this world, but in fact, it is only a combat incarnation of Sui Xiong who is presiding over the experiment at the moment, and his body remains in the "shelter" of the Kingdom of God and is doing a big thing.

"Oscar, are you going to hatch eggs?" Weiye looked at Sui Xiong, who was lying motionless on the ground, and asked with a smile, "It's really strange that a hen hatches eggs by putting eggs under her body, but you incubate eggs with eggs on top of your head!"

Sui Xiong couldn't help laughing and said, "This is not an egg, have you ever seen someone whose egg can hatch a god?"

He was lying on the ground at the moment, his body in the shape of a round tray with a concave middle, and in the center of the tray, a white cocoon of light was firmly placed in it. From the bottom of the tray, powerful divine power flowed into it continuously, and dozens of tentacles were attached to the light cocoon, which on the one hand played a fixed role, and on the other hand, channeled and fine-tuned the divine power, making subtle adjustments to the contents of the light cocoon.

Because the light cocoon is opaque, no one can see what is inside. In fact, even if you can see it clearly, it is useless, because there is only chaos in it at the moment, and there is nothing formed at all.

The thing inside this light cocoon is the "Angel of Love" that was swallowed by Sui Xiong when he attacked Cloud City at the beginning.

The predecessor of the Angel of Love was the god of healing, and one of the gods was a good deity who was very good at healing spells and even became a priest. But this deity is lucky. Somehow, it fell into the hands of the sun god, was taken away from the priesthood, and transformed into an angel.

Sui Xiong swallowed it at the beginning, and received the inheritance of the dying gift of the sun god, so he built such a system, and used himself as a biochemical modulation tank for the evil doctor. Trying to return the Angel of Love to its roots, and then turn it back into the original god of healing.

It may seem like just a few words to say, but it's extremely difficult to actually do. He failed several times in the beginning, and the Angel of Love was blown into a mess of shards. Fortunately, he was well prepared before, wrapped the loving angel in a light cocoon, no matter how failed and exploded, the material was not lost, and he was able to continue to work hard and try to improve it in the direction he wanted.

But even the material is not depleted. His divine power and energy are also to be consumed. After all, if the light cocoon debugging tank is considered a machine, even if the loving angel as a material in the machine can be undamaged, the divine power as the power of the machine, and the energy required to control the machine, will inevitably be constantly consumed.

Therefore, he has to take a break every once in a while to let himself breathe, and at the same time summarize the research experience of the previous period so that he can start the next stage of the experiment.

"How long are you going to do it?" asked Morani, curious. "Looks like it's going to be a long time, right?"

"Three days is not short, and a hundred years is not too long. Sui Xiong said with a smile. "Anyway, this is my most important job in the next few years, when will it be successfully transformed, add a nurse to our team, and when will it be finished. ”

"It's going to be a long time...... I have inquired with someone during this time, from the sun god capturing the god of healing alive to the appearance of the angel of love. I'm afraid thousands of years have passed. Viyer said.

Sui Xiong sighed and said helplessly: "Actually, I am already difficult to ride a tiger now, if the debugging is suspended, the divine power and divinity of the Angel of Mercy will be lost a lot, and the possibility of success next time will be greatly reduced." So no matter how much time it takes. I'm going to have to keep going until I succeed. ”

"And...... In fact, this debugging work is also very beneficial to myself. He continued, "In the process of commissioning, I also learned a lot of things and summed up a lot of valuable experience. So no matter how long the experiment is, it is not a waste of time. ”

Friends suddenly realized - it turned out that he could have a big harvest regardless of whether he succeeded or not, no wonder he had been working hard during this time, and he didn't have the slightest intention of retreating and giving up.

Sui Xiong rested for a while, and then began to urge the divine power again, subtly controlling them with his soul power, trying to reconcile the already chaotic divinity in the light cocoon, trying to form a complete structure.

Of course, this structure is not arbitrarily choreographed, and it is necessary to combine them into the priesthood of "healing".

This is an extremely difficult thing, even if he has obtained the information of the healing priesthood from the sun god, it is not easy to draw a scoop with a gourd.

You don't see that famous paintings abound in the world, but there are not many good painters who can copy famous paintings exactly like the original.

The information given to Sui Xiong by the sun god is really all-encompassing and profound, and it constitutes a complete system of priesthood, which can be used as a basis to construct a simple but at least complete world. Coupled with the knowledge of almost every known domain, it is a professional encyclopedia for the gods - and at the highest level.

But Sui Xiong himself, for the time being, does not have the ability to use this encyclopedia freely.

It's not that there is a lack of divine power, but that there is a lack of knowledge.

Many things that are taken for granted for a powerful god like the sun god, those things that are so simple that they don't need to be explained, need to be studied and figured out by Sui Xiong, and there is no way to achieve them overnight.

...... But it is precisely because of this reason that the benefits he can get from this information are far more than those of powerful divine powers such as Le Feng.

When he was dying, the sun god copied several copies of his wisdom and experience in one fell swoop, entrusting them to all powerful beings or potential masters that he believed might threaten the Lord of Light. Among them, the main gods such as the orc god system, the nature god system, and the war god system, their original abilities are not much worse than the sun god, even if they are inferior, they are not much worse, and they are even more clever than the sun god in what they are good at. For them, this information may only be a supplement to minor issues that they are not very concerned with in the first place, or it may simply provide some valuable ideas on some difficult points that they do not necessarily work in that direction, and nothing more.

Powerful enough for them, each of them has already had its own path. No matter how great the benefits are, they will never change their path.

As the saying goes, if I learn from you as a dragon as a snake, if you learn from me as a phoenix into a crow, every strong person has their own understanding of power and the world, and they have their ideas and pursuits for the way forward, the sun god is nothing more than one step ahead of them, and finally fell under the hands of the Lord of Radiance, so that the correctness of this step is greatly reduced, in this case, how can those powerful gods rely too much on this information that is indistinguishable from falsehood?

But Sui Xiong is different, although he also knows a lot of knowledge of fields and divine powers, but in general he is still a junior brother among gods. The information given to him by the sun god is like a complete set of scientific and technological materials for a poor new country, plus a lot of precious experimental data. Although what is at the highest level may not be correct, at least what is up to the "world-leading level" is not only complete, but also informative.

After getting such a set of materials, the rest is to gradually learn and understand them according to their actual situation, integrate them, and improve their hard power.

If one day, Sui Xiong can understand all the information given to him by the Sun God, then he must have stepped into the level of powerful divine power, and he can pursue the realm of powerful divine power by himself, which is called "great divine power".

Maybe...... Among the so many materials sent by the Sun God, those materials sent to the powerful gods were actually just in vain, and the one that could really fulfill his dying wish and bring trouble to the Lord of Light was a gift to this inconspicuous jellyfish god who did not even have a priesthood.

Maybe...... Many, many years later, Sui Xiong may really embark on the path of pursuing the highest realm because of this information, and when the time comes, there will inevitably be a dragon battle with the Lord of Radiance.

Of course, that was a long, long time later. For the current Sui Xiong, the most important thing in front of him is nothing more than two things.

First, don't be in a hurry or be impatient to adjust slowly, and strive to turn the loving angel back into a god of healing as soon as possible, and add a powerful nurse to your team.

Second, seize the time to work hard, and strive to complete the research and development of the blast furnace as soon as possible, open the steel age of the territory, and sound the clarion call of the industrial revolution! )