Chapter 7: The Road of Refining
Besides, Shen Xian, all the way down the street to the east, found a pharmacy and bought some trauma medicine to take orally, plus the old man specially treated it before, the injuries on his body have been much better, and there is no big problem. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info So I went all the way to East Street and came to the market.
There are a lot of people in the market, but compared to West Street, it is obviously still deserted, only the armory, blacksmith and refining room can still see people coming and going, and the other shops are full of doors.
This is closely related to the martial style that the Shenwu Continent has been following, taking the private school as an example, it should have been built away from the downtown area, but it fell in the market. However, if a scholar only buries his head in the book, most of them will not achieve great results, and what they have learned is considered by the world to be impractical. Moreover, people who practice martial arts practice the muscles and veins and acupoints, and the heavenly spirit above the head is clear, which is also beneficial to reading, if the practice reaches the realm of martial arts or above, the acupoints around the body are opened, the mind is shrewd, and the ability to never forget is also there, so it is more appreciated than those who only specialize in books. Of course, not everyone has the opportunity and qualifications to break through that realm, so some people give up their ethereal hopes and turn to learning and studying secret arts, and some ordinary people send their children to private schools to study in order to seek official positions in the future.
Speaking of which, it is necessary to explain the knowledge of the officialdom of the Shenwu Continent.
In general, officialdom positions are divided into two categories, civil and military attachés. Because the practice of martial arts is too much, in the officialdom there has always been a military attache is slightly higher than the civilian official, take the highest position of civil and military attache as an example, the highest military attache worships the "king", and the civil official worships the "minister", it stands to reason that they are all at the same level in the court, and there should be no distinction between the upper and lower, but in fact, the power of the "king" is higher than that of the "phase", and the most important manifestation is the military power, and the "king" can support private soldiers, although there is a limit on the number, but it is a higher level than the "phase" who does not have the right to support the army. In other words, the official position of the same level and the position of military attache are more powerful than the position of civilian official.
The civil official positions of the Shenwu Continent from low to high are: order, order, division, governor, secretary, and minister; from low to high, the positions of military attachés are: ya, deacon, guard, general, marshal, and king. In addition to the position, but also the special title of "knighthood", the title can be hereditary, in order of high and low: duke, marquis, uncle, son, male, generally speaking, in addition to the emperor's relatives, only those who have made extraordinary meritorious deeds will be given the title, with the title, that is, it means that it has a certain right to support the army, but under the control of the emperor, the number is not much, just stained with favors, enjoy a very high salary.
It is also necessary to explain the difference between a feudal king and a "king". The sub-feudal king does not belong to the official position, but the title of the lord of the sub-feudal country, usually the sub-feudal king only has a title but no official position, generally called "prince", or according to the title conferred directly called the title. The "king" is an official position and official position, which is usually called according to the official title conferred, such as "backer king", he is not called "king", but only "backer king", and there are also people in the world who are called "kings", which also belong to this category.
Although the literati are called "literati", they are not as powerless as described, after all, most of them are willing to do this because they find that there is no hope of improving in the realm of martial arts, of course, there are also those who are born with quick thinking and have a unique path on the road of literacy, and those who are appreciated by the world, or only appreciated by the emperor, can also enter the court. But this kind of people always stand out from the crowd, do things uniquely, and most of them can't get their ambitions in the court, so they would rather live far away from the temple, find a secluded place, be alone, and do some shocking articles, rather than enter the court as an official.
Although the literati are not reused in today's opportunities, they still have a place, especially those who are full of wealth, proficient in the art of war and the art of war, and are often like generals and talents, who are favored by the emperor, among them, there are today's "Four Great Princes".
There is a saying in the world, "South Korea and North Continent, Ouyang in the east, Linghu in the west, get one of them, the country is rich and strong, and the battle for the world is only in the day." It is said that the ability of those four people, including the universe, is immortal, as long as one of them is obtained, they can seize the world in the day and night! Although the ability of these four people is so great, but no country can find even one of them, so that the four people are more mysterious and more favored by the emperor.
Speaking of which, I have to turn the conversation back again and continue to talk about Shen Xian.
Shen Xian followed the banner hung by the market and easily found the refining room all the way. This refining room is several times larger than the one in the original town. Although the store is not luxurious, it is also antique, especially a sense of aura is swept away, and it can already be felt a dozen steps away from the door.
Shen Xian took a step inside, and the little steward of the refining room came out.
"This master, are you here to buy refining things, please come to the inner hall!" said the little steward in a gesture of invitation.
"Oh, this little brother, I'm not here to buy things, I'm here to work!" Shen Xian was quite polite, and he also bowed slightly and clenched his fists and said.
Xiao Guan was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said, "Then please wait a while, I'll go and ask the chief steward!"
Shen Xian stood in the store and didn't dare to run around, so he had to take a look at the furnishings in the store.
Unlike the blacksmith shop and the armory shop, there are no counters, tables and chairs in the door, only three rows of cabinets and three large baskets. There is one on the left and one on the left and one of the cabinets, and some weapons are placed, but none of them are colorless, that is to say, they are just ordinary blades, not refining weapons. There is also a cabinet near the inner hall of the store, which is all armor, handguards and other armor, and it is also colorless, and it is just ordinary items. Those three baskets contained some materials, and with the way of immersing refining weapons for many years, it was obvious at a glance that they were necessary for refining and consumption, in addition to the spars necessary for refining weapons, there were also some unknown silk threads and ores.
Shen Xian was fascinated by these dazzling things, and there was a sound of footsteps, Shen Xian looked back at the outside of the store, but saw a young man walking out of the door.
This person is gorgeously dressed, but he has a goatee on his face, and there is a bit of spirit in his eyebrows, especially with his hands behind his back, and he has quite a bearing and demeanor.
"Hehe, this steward, is polite! Is the folding fan that Xiao Sheng commissioned to make a few days ago ready?" The young man saw Shen Xian, and he was quite polite, but he mistakenly thought that Shen Xian was the steward in the store.
Shen Xian stepped forward to return the salute, and before he could explain, a middle-aged man walked out of the inner hall, dressed quite gorgeously, full of spirit, and his expression was a little serious, but he was also extraordinary. He had a jasper wrench on his right thumb, but it was a refining plaything, and it seemed that he should be the chief steward of the shop.
When the chief steward saw the young man, he stepped forward in a few steps, quite polite, but without losing his grace, he said: "Sir is here, I have missed the welcome, please forgive me!"
"Hehe, what's the big steward, don't you still have a little steward, why don't you come forward?" the young man replied.
The chief steward looked at Shen Xian and said to the young man: "Mr. misunderstood, this little brother is working in the store, and he hasn't had time to introduce it yet." ”
"Oh?" The young man looked at Shen Xian unconsciously, nodded and said, "This little brother is young, but he already has the art of refining, not bad, the future is limitless!"
"Mr. Cheng Jiyan, Xiao Ke's working hours are still shallow, and he still needs to learn, so he doesn't dare to be praised like this!" Shen Xian said sincerely.
"Well, knowing how to be courteous and courteous, some measures, at your age, are very rare. The young man praised it again, then stopped looking at Shen Xian, and asked the chief steward instead: "I don't know if the folding fan I ordered a few days ago has been completed?"
"You came by chance, the master has just finished it, and he just called me to take it out!" said the chief steward, taking out a long box from his bosom, holding it in both hands and handing it to the young man.
With a look of joy on his face, the young man immediately took it and opened the lid of the box.
In the box is a golden folding fan, but it is a refining thing, and it is actually a medium-grade golden refining thing!
"Good thing!" the young man nodded and praised, "It's really worth my trip to Mengzhou, hahaha!" The young man laughed proudly, his voice was extremely hearty, making people feel that this person was open-minded, and he should be a rare true gentleman!
"If it weren't for the materials provided by the gentleman himself, the shop wouldn't have been able to refine such items!" said the chief steward.
"No, no, no, if you are not a capable person, how can you refine those miscellaneous materials into such a treasure?" the young man admired again and again, and then took out a bill from his bosom, handed it to the chief steward, and said with a smile: "Here is the silver tael that was said!" Then, without saying much, he shook the folding fan, turned around and left happily.
Shen Xian and the chief steward faintly saw a golden "Lu" word on the fan, and they were all stunned. The chief steward looked down at the bill in his hand, and was even more surprised!
There are five black characters clearly written on the face of the ticket - "gold three hundred two"!
"Oh, this, that's a lot!" said the chief steward, and went out to chase the young man, but where could he still see the man's shadow? But Shen Xian wondered, how could he meet a strange person again? But he didn't think much about it, just waited for the big steward to clean up for a while, and then talked about work.
When all this was over, the chief steward looked at Shen Xian and asked.
"Is that what kind of work is the little gentleman going to work in the shop?"
"This, I once learned some refining skills in the town, but I didn't know that there were still fine workers and qualifications here, and I also bothered the chief steward to explain a thing or two for Xiaoke. Shen Xian said with a respectful salute.
"But there is no need for this explanation, just tell me what you have done, weapons, shields, jewelry, playthings, and what kind of things you have done. The chief steward said.
"Yes, Xiao Ke has made a blade, and it is a low-grade silver!" Shen Xian said.
"Oh?" the chief steward's eyes lit up, and he looked at Shen Xian carefully, and then pondered for a long time and said, "In this case, you have good luck! We happen to have a master who can make blades here, and these days are just in time for delivery, and we are worried that we are not in a hurry, and we need manpower." Since Mr. Xiao has this ability, how about helping the shop?"
"The big steward is polite, Xiao Ke is here for work, just give orders!" Shen Xian couldn't help but be happy when he heard it, he originally thought that he would have to spend some time and money to get through the relationship when it came to work, but he didn't expect to catch up with the coincidence.
"In that case, please follow Mr. Xiao to the inner hall, sign the probation contract first, and follow him to work after meeting the master in charge of refining!"
"Please lead the way!" Shen Xian saluted again.
The chief steward nodded, turned around and led Shen Xian into the inner hall.
When you enter the inner hall and turn left, you will see a row of several large closed houses. This kind of renovation is similar to what Shen Xian had seen in the town before, with square rooms without windows, and only an iron door on the left for entry and exit. It's just that there are a lot more rooms in the refining room in Qin'an City, and they are all hung with half-person-high wooden signs to show their functions.
The first and second rooms are to do "refining", the refining materials that need to be used are processed, generally just to remove impurities, leaving the necessary parts, it seems very simple, but in fact, in the refining line, this link takes half of the time, because the quality of the materials, refining or not, is directly related to whether the refining can be successfully produced in the future, and is also related to the quality of the items practiced. Refining generally contains three processes: screening, smelting and beating, except for the two simple and easy-to-operate processes of screening and smelting, and beating is quite exhausting. This is because when removing impurities, some hard materials may contain substances that cannot be melted by smelting, which requires manpower to repeatedly polish them like striking iron, so as to remove the impurities that are easy to fall and fragile, leaving only the hard essence!
The third and fourth rooms are "repair materials", which are processed according to the required size, shape, and so on. Because of the existing tools, there are not too many difficulties in this link.
The fifth room is "refining soldiers", that is, refining blades, using prepared materials to fuse and calcinate in the furnace, and then people beat and grind with just the right amount of strength, and finally make a weapon containing aura.
Polishing is also the same as the beating in the first step, it takes people's spirit, especially some weapons made of materials with extremely rich aura, ordinary refiners can't polish and modify them at all, and they have to rely on the help of those masters who have condensed their fighting spirit and even reached the realm of martial arts to refine them.
In this way, the refining tool is roughly the same as ordinary casting, but it combines some principles of alchemy, so that the created thing becomes spiritual and sublimated!
There are also the sixth and seventh rooms, which are used for "refining tools" and "refining accessories" respectively, to produce armor and accessories containing aura.
In general, the functions are very complete, but Shen Xian has not seen the settings in the room, and I don't know if it is also fully prepared.
The chief steward led Shen Xian to the door of the fifth room, and pressed a mechanism in the upper right corner of the iron door, and faintly heard the sound of a bell coming from inside.
This is called the "sound bell", and the general refining room has this setting, because the room is closed, if outsiders have something, they can't call the people in the room, with this call bell, the people in the room can know that someone outside is looking for it, so it is convenient to stop the way and come out to answer the door.
The iron gate "squeaked" open, and a wave of heat hit the face like a tidal wave. The chief steward should be accustomed to it, and there is no change in his hands on his back, except for the fluttering of his clothes, but he looks extraordinary. Instead, Shen Xian took a step back and raised his head to look at the person who opened the door, but there were beads of sweat on his face.
The door was opened by a man in his fifties, shirtless, but showing strong muscles. There are also beads of sweat on his face, and his body is drenched in sweat, but outsiders look at it, but they think that this person should be amazing, indescribably strong and vigorous!
"Master!" the chief steward saluted the man and said, "This is a newcomer who can refine blades, and you just happened to be short of a start, so you ordered him to go!"
The master stared at Shen Xian with a pair of eagle eyes, his face was expressionless, as if he looked at it for a long time before he nodded, opened the iron door, and motioned for Shen Xian to go in.
Shen Xian nodded and entered the room without saying much, and the master nodded to the chief steward and closed the iron door.
The room was a different scene.
In the middle is a stove, about the width of four people, and the red pulp burned in it should be some kind of fusion material. To the left of the stove was a cast-iron platform, similar to a blacksmith, but larger, with a smoking iron vessel on it, faintly visible as a long sword, but still unformed. On the right side of the furnace is the grinding platform, which is used to polish and process the shaped utensils, and there are various spirit stones around it, emitting all kinds of strange light. Behind the stove was a strangely shaped countertop, with a quaint wooden table, on which were placed carving utensils, as well as pen and ink, and I don't know what it was used for.
The master master led Shen Xian to the furnace and asked, "You have refined weapons before, but what grade is it?" The master master's voice was thick and rough, and it was quite majestic.
"Inferior silver!" replied Shen Xian. The master nodded, pointed to the stove and said, "Since you have done it, it will be simple, you will help me smelt and make it here!"
Shen Xian nodded, and then went to the stove according to the master's instructions.
The refining sect is also popular in the Shenwu Continent, and there are many refining masters. But after all, this door consumes too much material, and without strong financial resources, it is impossible to reach the peak.
Here is a brief introduction to the workmanship of the refining tool.
It is the same as the martial arts realm, and the refining weapon is also divided into levels. From the perspective of refining quality, it is divided into lower grade, middle grade, upper grade, spiritual weapon and artifact. The difference between them, except for the fineness, is the so-called "Reiki".
All things are born with spirituality and aura, which is different from the "fighting spirit" that people cultivate. Dou Qi comes from the aura, people breathe and breathe through the exercises, inhale the aura, and the body, after changes, become the fighting qi, can open the meridians, break through the acupoints, condense changes, drive things, and communicate the aura, can use the spirit weapon class, can resist the genus of the spirit animal, it can be said that the fighting spirit is the foundation of today's martial arts, fundamental, but also the difference between people and spiritual things.
Although Reiki is the origin of all things in the world, there are also big and small. Something with great spiritual energy, which can be made into blades, armor, and ornaments, is a rare spiritual weapon. What's more, they may have become a "weapon" by themselves, and they have been created by heaven and earth, which is an "artifact", which is coveted and coveted by the world. But after all, things are rare and expensive, spiritual weapons, artifacts are rare, spiritual weapons are still priceless, and people with a big background and great financial resources can also get or entrust people to build them.
Speaking of refining weapons, in addition to quality, there is also fineness, from low to high color are: green, silver, gold three colors, except for the spirit weapon and the artifact have no color difference, the rest of the quality contains color, which is commonly referred to as the three grades. Generally speaking, the closer the color is to gold, the greater the power, if it is not a grade, the power is also very different.
As for the refining master, there was originally no hierarchy, but there is such a genius in the world, who is proficient in the art of refining, and can actually refine artifacts, and he is inevitably recommended by the world, and the refining weapons are also divided into levels.
Generally speaking, the refiner who can refine the medium-grade cyan artifacts is called the "apprentice", the refiner who can refine the high-grade cyan artifact is called the "extortion", and the refiner who can refine all the high-grade cyan artifacts is called the "everyone". The span between the high-grade refining artifacts and the spiritual weapons is very large, if the spiritual weapons can be refined, the refiner is called the "grandmaster", as for the legendary refiner who can refine the artifact, he is called the "holy hand" by the world, and it is also like the artifact itself, which is rare in the world, only unseen.
It is also necessary to explain here that the Shenwu Continent's explanation of the word "grandmaster" generally does not deliberately emphasize the identity of the grandmaster, then it only indicates a type of person who has reached the realm of martial arts that can be worthy of the creation of heaven and earth, and if it is specifically called a certain grandmaster, it usually indicates the level of its refiner.
Shen Xian has been coming to the Qin'an City refining room for some time, in the first few days, in addition to helping the master smelt materials and build weapons every day, he also helped the master master who made jewelry to carve some patterns, the work is actually simple, but Shen Xian feels that he has benefited a lot. In particular, the master of refining soldiers also has a great reputation in Qin'an City, he was born in iron, and later entered a small sect in Mengzhou, and he was very fond of the art of refining, and he has been specializing for 20 years. Later, because the sect withered, he came to Qin'an City to work, and in less than a year, he became famous and became the premier refiner here. This refiner's surname is "Zhou", but no one knows his name, but he often hears the master in the workshop call him "Old Zhou", or "Master Zhou".
Shen Xian followed Zhou Lao to work, and also learned a lot of things, I don't know if Zhou Lao deliberately taught and guided, and explained in detail every time Shen Xian encountered key problems. In addition, Shen Xian has always been diligent and studious, never complaining about tiredness and hardship, and working silently, so that although Shen Xian's refining technique has not improved by leaps and bounds, he has also benefited a lot, especially the screening, refining, and creation and grinding of refining materials, all of which have shown unprecedented unique vision and unique skills.
After a few months of painstaking thinking, Shen Xian finally consolidated some refining knowledge, and combined with what he learned, he was finally able to stabilize the refining technique, and he was able to refine the low-grade cyan weapon without too many mistakes. This is very rare in the art of refining, after all, ordinary refiners like to try and learn new levels of things immediately after reaching the realm, and everyone wants to take their skills to the next level. However, Shen Xian knew his ability, and listened to Zhou Lao's advice, so he was not in a hurry, and constantly reviewed and consolidated, so as to accumulate thick and thin.
Shen Xian sometimes has nothing to do, and likes to make some gadgets by himself. Although the materials in the refining room are complete, Shen Xian doesn't dare to use them casually, so he still uses "ebony" as the material to make some wooden swords to play. Speaking of which, although he has no talent, he always has eccentric thoughts in his head, and the general refiners pursue a higher realm and want to refine spiritual weapons, so the refined artifacts can be regarded as decent, that is to say, a sword is a sword, and a knife is a knife, except for being full of spiritual weapons, there is no other function. However, Shen Xian is different, he likes to transform weapons, or cast some mechanisms in them, and forge a variety of blades for success. It can be said that Shen Xian is a wonderful flower in the refining world, and he can be regarded as a geek in refining!
Zhou Lao always disagreed with this, but encouraged Shen Xian to persevere, he saw it in his eyes, although he knew in his heart that Shen Xian was not a very talented person in the way of refining, but now with his unremitting efforts, he finally found a unique way, and he was still a talent that could be created!
Shen Xian also felt very happy, and he studied more diligently, which satisfied Zhou Lao. But every time Shen Xian wanted to solemnly call Zhou Lao "master", Zhou Lao refused, only saying that he promised the head of the sect back then, and would not accept apprentices in this life and this life, but he couldn't bear to see that the art of refining was lost, and saw that Shen Xian could bear hardships and stand hard work, and was full of enthusiasm for refining, so he couldn't help but inadvertently taught some ways of experience, but he didn't teach his skills, so he couldn't be called "master". Shen Xian had no choice, so he had to call him "Old Zhou" according to Zhou Lao's meaning, but the relationship between the two was more intimate. In Shen Xian's heart, this rugged man has become another relative of him in this world.