After a week of salting fish, Xia Ling finally lifted his spirit and prepared for a new job.

The first step in the whole life starts with being a blacksmith striking iron.

It was not for nothing that Xia Ling was looking for Ning Fengzhi to ask for rare metals and iron-striking tools, he was really ready to seriously engage in the craft of forging.

The main thing is that being idle is also idle, and if you can't use your soul power, you can't even use your soul cooking skills, so you can only practice something else.

So, he thought of a craft he had once learned—blacksmithing.

When he first joined the Wuhun Palace, in order to exercise his physique, and also to study and study the ancient Tangmen secret weapons in the original work, he also studied forging for a period of time.

It's just that the level is not very high, that is, it can achieve this level of 100 forging.

This is not to say that the summer spirit is not enough or that other soft power is poor, mainly in the current timeline, the upper limit of the blacksmith is only on the verge of reaching a hundred forgings, and it is far from the development of twenty or thirty thousand years later.

In this era, the status of blacksmiths is not very high.

Even the tall master of Gengxin City, who is known as a divine craftsman, is only at the level of a professional blacksmith of about two levels in later generations.

But this does not mean that the master of the building is very good, this is just the limitations of the times.

As a predecessor to open the way, this is far more difficult than to follow the path left by predecessors.

If Lou Gao can be born 20,000 years later, not to mention the guarantee of the divine craftsman, it is easy to mix at least an eighth-level holy craftsman.

Coincidentally, Xia Ling has also saved a lot of the power of fate over the years, and this time he took this rare opportunity to exchange for something that he has loved for a long time, to improve his forging skills, and by the way, he also ordered a little bit of technology tree in this area.

To say that it is worthy of being the richest sect in the world second only to the Wuhun Palace, the Seven Treasure Liuli Sect, the family background is solid.

All kinds of rare metal ores that could be found on the market and could not be found Ning Fengzhi had prepared a large pile for him, and all kinds of low-grade materials were piled up in an entire warehouse.

Looking at this well-equipped forging room, Xia Ling rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job.

Set a small goal first and successfully complete a thousand forges!

As for the big goals, they won't be able to accomplish them in a while, for example...... Let the Dou Armor be born 15,000 years in advance or something?

Xia Ling picked up a piece of tungsten steel, skillfully lit the stove, set it in the furnace and calcined, and at the same time skillfully pulled up the bellows with his right hand.

Now he has no soul power, although forging can be completed even without soul power, just by strength and the power of qi and blood, but in this era, there is no high-tech forging equipment that Tang Wulin can do, everything must be completed by the hands of a blacksmith.

When he still had soul power before, he only needed to pinch the trick, and the fire element, water element, and wind element arm were like a command, and he could easily raise the temperature to a suitable point.

Now, he can only rely on this small earthen stove to burn slowly.

Although the furnace is backward, there is still no shortage of functions that should be there. Under the action of high temperature, tungsten steel quickly becomes red. Xia Ling controlled the fire chopsticks with his left hand and cut it, and easily clamped the piece of metal.

Quickly fixed it on the casting table, Xia Ling summoned his hands, and the Dawn Martial Spirit appeared in his hands.

Unlike in the past, the axe in the right hand has been deformed in the blade, and now it resembles a strange hammer.

Two hammers, one large and one small, quickly picked up and struck on the reddish tungsten steel, making a series of clanging sounds.

A few years ago, when Xia Ling was just beginning to get into the craft of ironmaking, the blacksmith of the Wuhun Hall taught him to use a hammer for casting.

Including Tang San, Tang Hao, and a few people in the building, in this era, when the hundred forgings are at the top, it is natural that the faster the forging is done, the better, and the more ruthless, the better.

The faster and more impurities in the metal can be removed, the stronger the basic casting skills of the company.

At first, Xia Ling was like this, after exchanging the Chaos Cloak Hammer Method to the system, with his own Daybreaking Martial Soul, his forging level became more and more exquisite, and he soon reached a bottleneck.

Later, when he broke through the thirtieth level, although he failed to marry a baby, the great increase in his mental power reminded him of the various plots he had seen in books in his previous life.

He clearly remembered that in the Tang Wulin era 20,000 years later, the blacksmiths of the Douluo Continent used two-handed hammers when casting, rather than smashing them with one-handed hammers.

Therefore, he began to study the difference between two-handed forging and one-handed casting.

One forging, one casting, is different from the name.

After a year of continuous experimentation, he finally discovered the disadvantages of one-handed casting.

The blacksmiths of this era paid too much attention to the removal of impurities, believing that after removing impurities to a certain extent, the metal would definitely undergo qualitative changes.

The spokesperson of this violent genre is none other than Tang Hao.

Indeed, he has the ability to forge ordinary pig iron into an iron mother, which is to turn decay into magic. But it is precisely because of this extremely violent forging technique that restricts the possibility of the next development of metal.

The removal of impurities too thoroughly completely destroys the texture and spirituality of the metal itself. Although this violent casting technique has even crushed the effect of chemical extraction after it has been developed to the extreme, this casting method is destructive.

The pseudo-forging metal cast in this way has been completely finalized, and it will never be able to carry out the next thousand forging, let alone spirit forging and soul forging.

It's like a guy who has drunk too much is not feeling well, and then you punch him in the stomach, and the guy throws up with a whoop.

Are you comfortable after throwing up? It's comfortable, but it has caused damage to the throat and stomach, and as a result, the person may not be very awake.

And what about two-handed forging?

It is necessary to "communicate" with the metal in a seemingly heavy but gentle way, forging along the texture structure of each piece of different metal, rather than beating and violently removing it. In this way, the forged metal is spiritually intact and its internal structure has not been destroyed.

The same person who had drunk too much alcohol arrived at the hospital, and after the doctor asked about the situation, he was fed sobering medicine and sobering injections.

After a while, this guy staggered to his feet, except for the fact that his head might be a little dizzy, there was nothing else to do.

After passing through many comparative experiments, Xia Ling found that the difference between the two was too great. It's like heaven and earth.

Tang Wulin in the original timeline probably inherited Tang San's blacksmith talent, and it took only three years to complete the first thousand forgings in his life.

But Xia Ling is different, he has no teacher to teach, and he completely relies on his own exploration and the description of the words in the original book to scrutinize, step by step towards the level of Qianforging.