Chapter 113: Ancient Alchemy?
was dragged to the back room by the old madman, and Xiao Ling soon saw the bellows made by the old madman.
Xiao Ling didn't expect the old madman to move so fast, although the principle of the bellows is simple, it takes a lot of effort to make, this old madman only took a day to do it, now Xiao Ling believes in the old madman's ability.
Perhaps this crazy and unkempt old madman on the outside is indeed a master of refining.
Coming to the bellows, Xiao Ling first observed, although there were some differences between the bellows in front of him and his impression, there was no problem in general.
The old madman on the side was already a little impatient and asked, "Okay, boy, now you should tell me what this thing called bellows is for, can it be that this thing can raise the temperature of the fire?"
Seeing the old madman's impatient look, Xiao Ling smiled and said, "Of course, as long as you plug the mouth of this bellows into the iron furnace and fill it with gas." ”
"How is this possible, blowing air into the fire, doesn't that blow out the fire?" asked the old madman, his eyes wide and puzzled.
Xiao Ling didn't explain much like the old madman, but urged: "Don't worry, if you do it according to my method, unexpected things will naturally happen." ”
After hearing this, the old madman was a little skeptical, and he could see Xiao Ling's confident expression, and the old madman couldn't help but be curious, so he moved the bellows to the side of the iron furnace and connected them together.
Immediately, the old madman pulled the bellows handle with both hands, and then leaned forward and fell backwards, pushing hard, and the bellows suddenly made a continuous low sound.
In the blink of an eye, the old madman saw the flames in the furnace rise sharply.
Some unbelieving tried several times in a row, and the flames in the furnace gradually rose with the old madman's actions, and a powerful heat wave rushed towards the old madman.
"This ...... This is incredible, how did you do it?, why did the wind blow in, and the fire did not go out, but became hotter?" muttered the old madman, as if startled by the incredible sight before him.
Xiao Ling was also greatly relieved when he saw the steaming flames, originally he was still worried that the physical principles on the earth were not applicable to this Tianyuan Continent, after all, he had been here for more than a year, and Xiao Ling had already seen many things that violated the laws of physics.
Of course, Xiao Ling was just a chef before, and all he knew was some simple physics knowledge in middle school textbooks, but the old madman at the moment was stunned by this simple physics principle.
He had never seen such a miraculous thing, and when he came back to his senses, the old madman couldn't help but grab Xiao Ling's arms excitedly, and said incoherently: "It's amazing, it's amazing, how did you do it? Do you know the alchemy of ancient times?"
"What ancient alchemy?" Xiao Ling asked a little inexplicably.
"Don't lie to me, except for the alchemy of the ancient period, you can't explain everything in front of you at all, you must know the ancient alchemy, you can't be wrong. The old madman said with certainty.
Xiao Ling couldn't laugh or cry a little, I'm afraid that as long as people who have gone to school on this earth understand the principle of bellows, how did it come to the mouth of this old madman, and this simple physical principle has become the ancient alchemy in his mouth?
But no matter how Xiao Ling explained, the old madman always believed that Xiao Ling knew ancient alchemy. In the end, this old madman even planned to worship him as a teacher, which really scared Xiao Ling.
Seeing that this old man who was old enough to be his grandfather was crying and shouting that he wanted to worship himself as a teacher, with a posture on his face that if you don't agree, I won't let you go, which made Xiao Ling really embarrassed.
In the end, there was no way, Xiao Ling had to promise to have time to communicate with him, but Xiao Ling resolutely disagreed with the matter of apprenticeship.
Xiao Ling knew in his own heart, where did he know what ancient alchemy techniques were, and he didn't even know how to refine them, so why did he be the master of this old madman.
The old madman has been immersed in silver refining for most of his life, and it can be said that he is obsessed with refining weapons, and at this moment, seeing that Xiao Ling still refuses to agree, he is still a little unwilling.
In order not to continue to entangle in this matter, Xiao Ling hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Okay, now that the bellows have been made and the temperature in the furnace has increased, will you be able to successfully smelt the flying meteorite?"
As soon as he heard Xiao Ling's words, the old madman suddenly remembered, and he didn't care about talking to Xiao Ling, so he hurriedly took the flying meteorite from Xiao Ling's hand and put it in the furnace.
The steps are still the same as what Xiao Ling saw yesterday, except that a bellows has been added next to the stove today, and Xiao Ling has also found that the clear water used by the old madman to cool the Flying Meteorite seems to be a little different.
After a closer look, Xiao Ling found that there was a trace of white gas on the clear water, and approached with some curiosity, and suddenly a cold breath came.
"How is this water ice?" Xiao Ling asked in surprise.
He knew that there was no refrigerator on this Tianyuan Continent, and there could be no ice cubes in other places except for that extremely cold place.
When the old madman heard Xiao Ling's question, he said without raising his head: "In this water tank, there is a treasure that I have treasured for many years, if it weren't for the reason of this flying meteorite, I would not have been able to take it out." ”
"What baby?"
"Ten thousand years of ice!" said the old madman with a slight expression.
Xiao Ling was not surprised when he heard this, because he had never heard of this thing at all, but Ling Xiao, who was hidden in Xiao Ling's consciousness, said with a slight surprise when he heard it: "It turned out to be a 10,000-year-old ice spirit, it is an extremely rare magical thing that only exists in the Aurora Cold Plain." ”
"How precious?" Xiao Ling asked curiously.
Ling Xiao explained lightly: "The reason why it is called 10,000 years of ice spirit is because it takes 10,000 years for this thing to be formed, and it is not enough to have time, it must be formed in the ice spirit spring in the center of the Aurora Cold Plain, it is said that the temperature there is the lowest place in the entire Tian Yuan Continent, not to mention ordinary people, even ordinary Tianxuan powerhouses are difficult to resist the cold there." ”
After listening to Ling Xiao's explanation, Xiao Ling finally understood the value of the 10,000-year-old ice spirit in front of him, but he couldn't understand why the old madman would be willing to take out such a treasure to forge a weapon for himself.
As if guessing what Xiao Ling was thinking, the old madman smiled and said: "Boy, don't think about it, my old madman has been obsessed with refining weapons all his life, and his greatest wish in this life is to be able to forge a peerless weapon, this flying meteorite is rare in the world, if you can use it to forge a weapon, it will definitely not lose to the starfall sword forged by Mo Yan, in order to be able to surpass that old guy, this time I have made a lot of money." ”
After hearing this, Xiao Ling also had a lot of feelings in her heart.
All morning, Xiao Ling stayed in the refining workshop and watched the old madman smelt the flying meteoric iron, and finally after repeating this nearly thirty times, the old madman put the flying meteorite on top of Tie Dun, and after carefully observing it, he suddenly showed an ecstatic expression, and then laughed like crazy.
"Hahaha! it worked, it really worked!" cried the old madman dancing with his hands.
Xiao Ling, who had been bored all morning, hurriedly came up and took a closer look at the flying meteorite. Sure enough, the originally extremely hard Flying Meteorite had changed slightly at this moment, becoming a little softer.
Seeing this, Xiao Ling was also overjoyed, the efforts of the past few days were finally not in vain, although he could not completely smelt this flying meteorite into molten iron, but he finally saw hope.
This time, Xiao Ling was finally somewhat convinced of the old madman's ability.
"By the way, boy, I was so excited to see this Flying Meteor Iron before, but I forgot what weapon you are going to use this Flying Meteorite to forge with it, is it a long sword?" the old madman calmed down and asked excitedly.
Xiao Ling shook his head and said, "No, I'm going to build a spear." ”
"Spear? You have a different idea, there are not many people who use guns these days, except for some special mental methods that need it, others feel heavy and inconvenient to play, I advise you to think about it. The old madman said with a frown.
"I've figured it out, but the spears I'm talking about are different from the ones outside. ”
After Xiao Ling finished speaking, where did he get a pen and paper, and sketched the appearance of the spear on the earth.
The old madman stared at the spear on the drawing, pondering carefully, the old madman who has dealt with weapons all his life is naturally very familiar with the special surnames of various weapons, and when he saw the spear drawn by Xiao Ling at this moment, he suddenly had a feeling of brightness.
"Where do you see this, this gun has such a strange shape, but it doesn't look like anything special except that it feels a little flexible. The old madman stroked his beard and commented.
At this time, Xiao Ling suddenly remembered a question, and then asked: "Senior, my gun is mainly flexible and versatile, the head of the gun is heavy and indestructible, but the body of the gun is mainly dexterous and soft, I wonder if the predecessor can forge it according to my requirements?"
Listening to Xiao Ling's request, the old madman immediately frowned.
"The spear head is heavy and indestructible, this is naturally no problem, the weapon forged with this flying meteorite iron is naturally extremely sharp, and ordinary things can't be destroyed at all, but this gun body is dexterous and soft, I don't understand. The old madman shook his head and said in great bewilderment.
What Xiao Ling thinks is actually very simple, in ancient China's spears, most of the spear heads are made of iron and copper, and the gun body is mainly made of wood fir, so the spear made in this way is in the middle of the fight, because the special surname of the wood cedar makes the gun body bend with the collision.
This greatly reduces the force of the shock that the warrior bears, and at the same time makes the spear more agile and ghostly.
But the strength of the martial artists on the Tianyuan Continent far exceeds that of the earth, if they just use the ordinary wood fir as the spear body, let alone the enemy, they are afraid that once they trigger the Xuan Qi, the spear body will not be able to withstand its own strength and will directly collapse.
(To be continued)