From the internal core module to the overall structure, it is completely designed by Xia Ling, which is different from the mature melee soul guide design at this stage.

At this point, the hourglass just finished missing the last piece of sand.

The noise barrier falls automatically, opening up the space next to the workbench.

A group of elders pushed Sun Mingfeng, who was already confused, and rushed in.

"Morning light! Show me first! ”

Luo Hongchen, who was shorter, was squeezed behind, and he could only see an outstretched hand.

The bearded elder moved the fastest, squeezing to the front.

"Boy, cow!"

As he spoke, he was about to touch the freshly baked long knife.

Xia Ling dodged deftly, dodging Elder Zhe's outstretched hand.

He smiled slightly, and said, "Elder Zhe, please wait a few minutes, my knife has not been completely made, and the most critical steps are still missing." ”

Elder Zhe was stunned for a moment, but after hearing him say this, he immediately laughed violently.

"Good, good, good boy. It's me who is old and confused, you come, you come. ”

This Elder Zhe is also an interesting person.

Compared with Luo Hongchen's reserved and introverted character, Zhe Chang seems to be a heroic and hearty knight.

These two people are together, just like Zhao Gang met Li Yunlong.

Although it is very compatible, it is often thundered by the anger of the other party.

The other party also takes pleasure in it.

After getting Elder Zhe's approval, Xia Ling stepped back slightly.

A long, thin bucket was taken out of the storage ring and placed on the floor, and a special grease was poured inside.

Seeing this, Elder Zhe stroked his beard with a smile.

This is not yet done quenching.

Moreover, the root of the blade is still exposed, and there is no handle attached to it.

Heat treatment.

This is indeed the most crucial step in crafting a melee spirit guide.

Many eighth-level soul masters have been building remote soul guides, and the shells are all assembled after heat treatment in advance, but they have forgotten this step.

Summer Spirit reinserted the long knife into his usual furnace and calcined the blade into a beautiful orange-red color.

Feeling that the temperature of the blade had reached the standard, he pulled out the long knife without hesitation.

Holding it downward, the whole person knelt on one leg and half knelt on the workbench.

By the height of the workbench, he plunged the blade of the long knife into the thin bucket filled with grease in an instant.

This step requires the forger's hand to be absolutely stable, and the blade must not be crooked when inserted.

If it is skewed, the metal will be twisted by the different temperatures on both sides during insertion, which will likely cause the final quenched blade to curvature.

While maintaining stability, the previously heated blade must also ensure that the heating temperature is consistent.

Otherwise, no matter how stable the hand is, it will be useless.

If it's an ordinary cold weapon, there's still a chance to correct it through tools.

But this is a melee soul guide.

If you make a mistake, you lose everything.

Even a whole set of core circles were scrapped.

With the insertion of the long knife, the sound of zila zila sounded.

The flames burst up and touched the hand of the summer spirit.

Sun Mingfeng subconsciously wanted to rush forward to see if his junior brother had been burned, but was stopped by Elder Zhe and Luo Hongchen, who were waiting on the side, reaching out at the same time.

Only then did Sun Mingfeng realize that he had made a joke.

With the body of the Summer Spirit Contra Douluo, it is impossible to be burned by the mortal fire at all.

On the workbench, Xia Ling's expression was solemn, and his fingers were like iron coins firmly pinching the root of the long knife, moving up and down in the grease.

He felt the warmth of the knife in return.

At some point, he quickly and surely pulled the long knife out of the grease and swung it in the air a few times, flicking away the flames.

Look up along the root of the knife.

Perfect!

The straight line of the board is very beautiful.

Xia Ling took out an iron-gray metal file and rubbed it hard along the blade.

Listening to the sound of metal rubbing and the sparks coming out, Xia Ling breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the hardness is qualified.

The quenching process requires extremely high temperature and time control.

Once it is not accurate, the hardness of the quenched weapon will not meet the standard.

In desperation, a second quenching is required.

The more quenching you have, the greater the chance of failure.

Not only is it less likely that the hardness will be successfully achieved, but the blade will also be more likely to bend.

What's more, multiple quenching can easily lead to the deformation of the core circle.

At that time, it is likely that the hardness will be enough, but the core circle will be scrapped.

It is precisely because there are too many restrictions and difficulties in creating melee soul guides that few soul masters will specialize in this way.

In the Dou Er period, high-level soul masters rarely even used melee soul guides to fight.

I don't know if it was because I didn't study the ninth level or because of what.

Anyway, the per capita humanoid self-propelled turret is right.

The quenching success of the summer spirit jumped nimbly from the workbench, and once again inserted the long knife into the forge to heat it under the puzzled gaze of many elders.

An elder asked puzzledly, "What are you?" ”

"Lu Timid, this is called backfire. The aim is to eliminate the internal stress inside the blade and improve strength and toughness. ”

Without waiting for Xia Ling to reply, another elder took the lead and sprayed a wave of his own colleagues.

Even in front of two juniors, he showed no mercy.

Summer Ling took out the long knife that had been heated up and placed it in a special container for heat preservation and rapid cooling.

As the finger of his right hand slashed across the blade, the long knife cooled down at an even rate.

Then, Xia Ling controlled the tools on the workbench to fix the long knife that was nearly finished.

The automatic polishing machine starts and throws the blade out of a beautiful bright silver color.

At the same time, the blade has also been sharpened and polished by the soul guide grinder.

Xia Ling picked up the two 10,000-year-old soul beast bone handles and the Celestial Star Steel Blade from the table on the side and installed them.

With the hammering of several metal rivets, and the grinding of the grip is completed.

The whole long knife seems to have been completed, waiting for the arrival of a destined person.

Several elders saw that the long knife had reached this level of completion, and they were ready to step forward again to take a closer look.

Xia Ling suddenly turned around and said, "Elders, please see, the following is the moment to witness the miracle!" ”

With that, he placed the long knife into a slot that had been prepared for him again.

Inside the tank was a puddle of black liquid.

Several eighth-level peak soul masters looked at each other, stunned as if they didn't know what Xia Ling was doing.

If the Bluestar Bladesmith was here, he would have recognized it.

This step is called acid leaching.

After a short period of time, Xia Ling scooped it up with his bare hands and carefully wiped the liquid off it with a cotton cloth.

At this time, the sword body no longer has that dazzling bright silver.

In its place, it is a stunning matte silver and an extremely beautiful texture.

These fine black-and-gray lines vary in size and length, but they are arranged in sequence according to a certain pattern, which is full of a certain unique beauty.

As long as it is a man, he will definitely not be able to walk when he sees this pattern.

There are only two words left in my mind - want!

This is the romance of men, Damascus steel!

He deliberately used several metal ingots to create a Malaysian billet after the melting and forging was completed.

Although this may make the performance of this soul guide slightly reduced.

But I can't stand it, this thing is so handsome!

Xia Ling handed the forged long knife to his teacher.

Luo Hongchen took it with both hands with a serious expression.

It seems that he is not taking the assessment results of a novice Xiaobai, but a work of art created by a master.

The elders gathered in a circle, constantly admiring the sword's pinnacle of forging craftsmanship.

Whether it was the slightest bit of core formation carving or impeccable forging techniques, this knife could be called the best of the sixth-level soul guides.

Luo Hongchen carefully poured soul power into the blade, for fear of damaging this hard-won treasure.

The perfect core module inside the blade responded extremely quickly, completely filling the entire blade with soul power and expanding it almost instantly.

Just like the lightsaber in Star Wars, the long knife emits a clear blue light.

The blade was constantly swallowing sharp ice-based sword qi.

Elder Zhe, who was too close to him, even felt a tingling sensation coming from his arm that was about to be severed.

"Such a sword, can it have a name?"

Feeling the biting chill coming from the knife, Luo Hongchen smiled.

As a senior eighth-level peak soul guide, even if he is not very good at melee soul guides, he still senses it the moment he gets started, this is not any kind of known melee soul guide.

No melee spirit guide has such an internal structure.

There was no sixth-level soul guide that could emit such a cold sword aura.

Even if there was no layer of sword qi, the chill produced on the sword body alone was enough to be comparable to a fifth-level frozen ray.

Combining the few, this is definitely a masterpiece that is infinitely close to a seventh-level soul guide.

"Heavenly Sword? Kasumi frost. ”

Xia Ling slowly spit out four words.

For no reason, he somehow felt that this knife should be called that.

Originally, I wanted to call the whole job a long knife with money, but when the words came to my mouth, I changed my mouth inexplicably.

It's a strange thing.

"Heavenly Sword? Xiashuang, yes, good name! It's a perfect match for this knife! ”

Elder Zhe snatched the Xia Shuang from Luo Hongchen's hand, gently stroked the lines on it, looked at it carefully with his eyes, and praised it without hesitation.

The rest of the elders chimed in.

Sun Mingfeng didn't dare to squeeze into the pile of elders, and after taking a few glances with his feet, he came to Xia Ling's side and congratulated him in advance on his successful assessment.

Not surprisingly, the sixth-level soul master certified by the inner court must be stable.

Officially entering the inner courtyard is also a sure thing.

After a long period of appreciation, the elders reluctantly returned Xiashuang to the summer spirit.

The elder who angrily reprimanded his colleague for showing timidity just now asked, "Chaoguang, I want to ask, how did you get the pattern on this knife?" It doesn't seem like it's been engraved, but it looks like it's there. ”

Xia Ling smiled: "You have a high opinion, it is true. No matter what material is used, the final product is called Damascus steel. ”

"The principle is to use multiple pieces of metal materials to heat and then continue to forge and make their composite number one, and then stretch and twist, and then repeat the forging, so that several times into a knife blank. Quenching and tempering are followed by soaking in an acidic liquid, and the final result is a natural pattern that looks good. ”

"I see, thank you for your clarification. is worthy of being a craftsman, and when it comes to forging alone, the old man is ashamed of himself! ”

"I don't dare to be it, I don't dare to be it, it's just picking up the wisdom of the predecessors, plus I still have a bit of spirituality to be like this. Don't dare to take credit. ”

"Okay, but the whole inner courtyard knows that you are a demon, so don't be modest."

Luo Hongchen said with a smile.

Then, he took out a badge with seven stars from the soul guide and pinned it to the right chest of Xia Ling's school uniform without half a sleeve.

"Congratulations, Asahitsu. From today onwards, you will be an official seventh-level soul master, and you will also be an official student of the inner court. Tomorrow, the college will officially issue the formalities and assign you your own exclusive laboratory. ”

As he spoke, Luo Hongchen took the lead in applauding.

In the applause of several elders, Xia Ling looked a little embarrassed.

"Old, teacher, I'm ...... I still don't know a lot about the sixth-level soul guide, this seventh-level, isn't it a little early? ”

Elder Zhe smiled: "Oh, what seventh-level eighth-level, isn't it just a matter of a few days earlier and a few days later for you?" Tut-tut, let me tell you, boy, the old thing I just asked you about the pattern is the most studied melee soul guide among us. It's the first time I've heard Lao Liang praise someone like this! ”

Elder Liang seemed to have a cold temperament, and just said flatly: "Chaoguang is forging a sect and is a divine craftsman, and I am just a grandmaster-level blacksmith. When it comes to blacksmiths alone, I'm far from Chaoguang. Don't be complacent in terms of soul guides, you and I are all counted as old guys, one counts as one, and sooner or later all of them will be overtaken by the latecomers of the morning light. ”

The rest of the elders nodded in agreement.

Elder Liang's rainbow fart blowing was a little embarrassing for the summer spirit who was thick-skinned over the corner of the city wall.

This person who usually doesn't have much to say praises people, that's really a set.

And it's involuntarily convincing, hehe.

Elder Liang spoke again: "Chaoguang, if you have any problems with the melee soul guide in the future, come to me, and you and I can discuss it with each other." I don't dare to say that in the whole continent, at least in this Sun and Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Academy, when it comes to melee soul guides alone, I am still the first for the time being. ”

Good fellow, the boss of the melee soul guides!

The most dick soul masters in the Sun Moon Continent are all in the Sun and Moon Empire's Royal Soul Master Academy.

Isn't the number one in the academy the first on the mainland in disguise?

Summer Spirit hurriedly thanked him.

"Elder Liang, you have a good reputation, I am still far behind, I need to learn a lot from seniors like you."

"Hahahaha, good boy. Nowadays, people are impetuous, and there are few young people as modest as you. ”

In the atmosphere of mutual blowing, this soul master level assessment can be regarded as a perfect ending.

In just four months, Xia Ling had learned all the knowledge of the soul master before the fifth level.

Under normal circumstances, he would not be able to complete the sixth-level soul guide.

It's not because he can't understand the sixth-level core formation.

Mainly because there are only a few books about the sixth-level soul guide in the outer courtyard library.

There are only sporadic little basic formation extensions.

Coincidentally, Xia Ling is getting more and more comfortable in the assessment today, and seems to have found a unique way.

He ingeniously combined the three techniques of refining, forging, and soul guide, and forcibly upgraded the melee soul guide, which was originally only level five, to level six.

In terms of soul guides, Summer Spirit has a unique advantage.

As the saying goes, the stones of its mountains can be used to attack jade.

Not only is he well-versed in the past and the present, but he also has a lot of knowledge that the current soul master does not have.

The inheritance from the refiner, forger, and array mage itself can even allow him to bypass.

For the most difficult inscribed core formation in the soul guide, it was completely indifferent to him.