Travels in the Western Continent Chapter 45 Two Sorrows
When I entered the door, I saw that this was actually an earth fire cave, and the flame color of the earth fire was the best pure white earth fire in this Seven Flame Cave. Some neatly arranged refining tools are regularly placed near the earth fire, which makes people think that the owner of this place is obsessive-compulsive.
And that master was actually a black-robed man who came to refine the purple pomegranate gold when the Heaven Refining Pavilion opened, and when he saw Han Nuo coming in, this person was stunned for a moment, and immediately put away the things in his hand. Han Nuo knew that the thing in his hand was a purple grenade mine, but he pretended not to see it and walked in front of him.
"In Xia Hannuo, it was Yu Jiang's seniors who introduced me here to ask for the art of refining." Han Nuo saluted the big man.
"It turns out that Your Excellency is the Central Plains monk that the four elders said!" The black-robed man looked Han Nuo up and down, "I said that this refining technique is so wonderful, it hasn't been cracked for two years, and it is actually the secret technique of Middle Earth." ”
"Fellow Daoists, but do you need to refine a large amount of purple pomegranate gold?" Han Nuo was a little surprised to hear that the other party had spent two years on cracking his own refining method.
"This ......," the black-robed man hesitated for a moment, "It's not a secret, in the lower clan, some kind of secret treasure is currently being refined, and the amount of purple pomegranate gold needed is a bit much, but with the current refining speed in Xia, I'm afraid the delivery date is about to be missed." ”
"Oh? Sounds like a good business. Han Nuo grinned.
Seeing his expression, the black-robed man was stunned at first, and then laughed heartily. "Your Excellency is probably going to be disappointed, in order to collect enough purple pomegranate gold, my family has already looted all the money. Now I can't afford to pay that price. ”
"Coincidentally, it's not the spirit stone that I want at the moment." Han Nuo took out a half-finished magic weapon from the storage bag, only to see that it was flat and long, and he couldn't tell what it was used for.
The black-robed man could see at a glance that this thing was made of purple garnet ore mixed with other materials, but the rest of the materials would not be visible for a while. "Your Excellency means that you want to take the ore waste from which the purple garnet gold is extracted as payment?"
Han Nuo nodded and shook his head again. He glanced at the entire refining chamber and pointed to some of the piles of materials.
Seeing this, the black-robed man frowned, thinking that he might think that the Central Plains Alchemy Technique could actually use these ore wastes to refine magic weapons, I am afraid that there is some secret in it. "Can you tell me what this ore scrap is for?"
Han Nuo smiled, "Isn't this unclear?" In this way, I will come back on the fifteenth day of this month, and my brother will give me an answer at that time. He bowed his hand to the black-robed man and took his leave. He knew that the black-robed man was stimulated by him, and he estimated that it would be time to ponder the art of stone refining in the coming days.
The appointment of a few days soon arrived, and to Han Nuo's surprise, the woman who had seen on the seventh floor that day had sent a subordinate to wait at the door of her shop. Han Nuo rewarded the man with two spirit stones, then closed the shop and went out.
As soon as Han Nuo entered the shop, he found that dozens of hundreds of people had gathered in the hall. I saw that these people were like uncles and aunts in the blind date market, each holding a brand, and they gathered together in twos and threes. They understand each other's needs and exchange or buy according to the materials they have.
As soon as she saw Han Nuo, the hostess greeted her, "Bearded...... No, Han Daoyou, you're here, go and save that nerd in my house! ”
"Why did Daoyou say this?" Han Nuo was confused by this woman's words, and was dragged into the refining room at the back. I saw the stones all over the ground in the refining room, and the black-robed man was lying on his back, his eyes red.
Seeing Han Nuo, the big man sat up, and with a wave of his hand, he put away the mess all over the ground. He got up and bowed to Han Nuo, and Han Nuo also bowed. "Han Daoyou, can you show me some alchemy skills?"
Han Nuo smiled when he saw this, and sure enough, this big man was driven crazy by a pile of stones. In this world, there is no method of blast furnace iron smelting, only block alchemy of heating iron to about 1,000 degrees Celsius and then repeatedly tempering it. Therefore, there is basically no high temperature that can melt the ore, even in the seventh layer of this Seven Flame Cave, the pure white earth fire can reach about 1,400 degrees at most, even if the stone is burned, it can't be melted.
He didn't immediately agree to Dahan's words, but just glanced at the woman. Seeing this, the woman was also clever and handed a storage bag to Han Nuo. "Here is a thousand spirit stones, and I would like to ask Daoyou to help my husband complete the smelting of purple pomegranate ore. As for the ore residue after smelting, all of them were given to Daoyou.
Han Nuo took the spirit stone bag and flipped it in his hand, and nodded, "If that's the case, Han Mou will show his hand." With that, he pulled out a pair of gloves from his storage bag, a special tool he had prepared for the future in battle, using hydrogen and oxygen to spew out high-temperature flames.
The black-robed man saw Han Nuo's hands clasped together, and a sky-blue flame shot out from an inch of his fingertips. Dahan immediately took out a piece of purple pomegranate gold ore, only to see that the ore was burned by the azure flames, and within a moment, a large amount of purple pomegranate gold flowed out in a liquid form.
While smelting the purple pomegranate gold, Han Nuo used his spiritual power to gather the purple pomegranate gold liquid together, and it didn't take long to get a complete piece of purple pomegranate gold. Han Nuo didn't stop, but continued to burn the purple garnet with the fire, until it turned into a reddish liquid before mixing some other substances to shape it into the shape of a wine jug.
Not to mention that the purity of the purple garnet gold is still so high that the big man and his wife are amazed, and the wine jug made of the purple garnet alone also makes people itch. I saw that the flask was light purple and translucent, and some pomegranate-like patterns covered the body of the jug.
Han Nuo's skills immediately made this big man admire him so much that he almost kowtowed to his master. He begged Han Nuo to summon the blue flame one more time, and Han Nuo smiled and agreed.
"Can you tell me where this fire came from?" The black-robed man pointed to the fire path.
"This fire is not created by heaven and earth, but is born from a practice that is practiced below." Han Nuo explained, "It's a pity that my technique is unique, and only people with five spirits can practice it. He added.
"Huh? Is this a serious thing? The black-robed man was amazed when he got the answer.
"But what's wrong?" Seeing his reaction, Han Nuo became a little strange.
"But this fire obviously already has some aura, if it is refined, it may be able to turn into a fire spirit." The black-robed man explained, only to see his dark eyes turn, "Can you let you collect a piece of this fire to refine it?" ”
When Han Nuo heard Dahan's words, he felt that his knowledge blind spot was involved again, so he hesitated a little, but still let Dahan collect some flames. After receiving this fire, the big man was so excited that he danced like a child. And the woman stared at the big man with a gentle look on the side, as if she was very happy for him.
For the next three months, Han Nuo stayed in Dahan's refining room, and in addition to smelting the remaining purple pomegranate gold for him, he also assisted him in refining many other materials. The two exchanged refining experiences in a fascination, as if two friends who hadn't seen each other for many years ate and lived together. Dahan invited Han Nuo to drink half a pot of thousand-year-old peach blossom brew that can only be found in this Anyu City, and Han Nuo invited Dahan to drink the glow-in-the-dark wine that he had treasured for many years.
Before he was about to leave Dahan's refining room, Han Nuo learned that his name was Xiao Yan and his wife's name was Yu Nian. Xiao Yan is the Yu family who joined the Yu family as a son-in-law, although Yu Nian is only a young lady of a side branch of the Yu family, but she is also in charge of some ministries in this Qiyan Cave, which makes Xiao Yan have enough resources to concentrate on refining.
Before leaving, Han Nuo persuaded Xiao Yan to cultivate hard and strive to marry as soon as possible, so that he could have hundreds of years of lifespan to study those techniques that he was interested in. And Xiao Yan gave the remaining half pot of thousand-year-old peach blossom brew to Han Nuo, and also packed the slag left over from his previous refining for Han Nuo to take away.
Out of the refining room, Han Nuo said goodbye to Yu Nian. From Yu Nian's eyes, Han Nuo vaguely felt some jealousy unique to women. If you think about it carefully, the two of them haven't slept together for more than two years, and they have been with the big man for three months as soon as they came. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something strange had come out, and he quickly stopped.
"Han Daoyou, stay together!" Just as Han Nuo was about to go out, Yu Nian stopped him.
"What does my sister-in-law command?" Han Nuo turned to look at Yu Nian who was walking towards him.
"I saw a Taoist friend looking for this thing at the trade fair before, and my grandfather gave me a grain when I was a child, and today I gave it to a Taoist friend, in order to reward the Taoist friend for giving my husband the spiritual fire." Yu Nian took out a peach box and handed it to Han Nuo, "Daoist friends are cautious, don't open it here." ”
Han Nuo solemnly took the box, and his heart suddenly churned, but he still calmly thanked him and left.
Han Nuo, who came out of Yu Nian, began to feel a little lonely inexplicably. He could see the intimate feelings between the little couple, and he was a little envious. He wandered around the town aimlessly for a whole day, and finally did not return to his shop, but walked out of the Seven Flame Caves to the ground.
When he arrived on the ground, it was the hour of the hour, and Han Nuo glanced around, and then the imperial treasure flew towards Andu City.
Because of the protection of the god peach tree, this Andu City is the only city built on the ground in the entire ghost country, so the people here still maintain the habit of going out day and night, but there is still an endless stream of pedestrians on the road. And Han Nuo found from the breath of the cloud silk golden thread left on Cheng Xiu's body that Cheng Xiu was somewhere on the outskirts of the city at this time. Maybe that's where they live, after all, it's hard for ordinary people to live in the center of the city, where land is at a premium.
However, the real situation was far beyond Han Nuo's imagination, and when he arrived at Chengxiu's residence, looking at this dilapidated and withered courtyard, he could hardly imagine that this was the residence of a foundation building monk.
Due to the Divine Peach Tree, Ando Castle does not allow anyone to dig a cave or other behavior that may damage the roots of the tree, and even the soil on the ground cannot be taken casually. Therefore, the buildings of Andu Castle are basically made of timber transported from other places, so the buildings are generally not high, which makes the number of people who can accommodate it limited.
Therefore, most of the people who live in the inner city of Andu are people who have built a foundation or cultivated or have strong family wealth. And those who have not cultivated or are Qi Refiners basically live on the outskirts of the city. Cheng Xiu's home is in the most barren part of the city.
And because food is not allowed to grow here, the problem of food depends on the supply of other towns. The three Yaksha people in Chengxiu's family who ate an amazing amount of food, plus the recently born third child, made Chengxiu spend all his monthly income on eating, and the family's Gini index was extremely high.
So there was the scene that Han Nuo saw, in the courtyard surrounded by dilapidated earthen walls, some bamboo grates were used to dry the semi-finished rune paper materials for making talismans. The second daughter Cheng Ke fell asleep on the recliner at the door of the room with the newborn third Cheng Tao crookedly, while Su Yi and the eldest son Cheng He spread rune paper evenly on a smooth wooden board.
Cheng Xiu was preparing some wooden frames covered with gauze, and some rune patterns were painted on them. And on the table top with a wooden frame, there are some demon blood materials for drawing talismans in a mess. Han Nuo recognized this thing at a glance, it was very similar to the screen printing on the earth.
As soon as Han Nuo arrived at the gate of the hospital, he was discovered by Cheng Xiu, who turned his head and smiled at him, did not come to greet him, but continued his work. Han Nuo didn't mind, and directly raised his feet and entered the courtyard gate. He came to Cheng Xiu and helped him arrange the wooden frames, and then helped him print the talismans.
Han Nuo had actually thought about whether the runes could be made by printing for a long time, because the output of the runes drawn by the talisman makers one by one was too low. However, this time, I saw Cheng Xiu, and found that the symbol-making technology of the ghost country had entered the stage of screen printing.
However, he didn't have the heart to continue thinking about it, because Cheng Xiu's work was too complicated, and it looked like a very simple job, so he was so busy that the group was busy until three o'clock. After all the work was completed, Su Yi set out a table of simple wine and food, and Cheng Ke put Cheng Tao in a small pocket on the side, and also sat at the table and waited for the meal.
And the distribution of meals is given priority to plain clothes, because she also has to feed Xiao Chengtao. And the second is Cheng He, because he is a man, Cheng Ke only gets half of Cheng He. Cheng Xiu and Han Nuo only got half a pot of wine, and they didn't even have a pair of chopsticks.
Seeing this, Han Nuo couldn't help but have a sour nose.