The 'smelting room' is divided into two parts: the gravel field and the fire refining room, and there are tens of thousands of disciples of the Cangyue Sect, and they continue to recruit trial students to replenish their blood, and the number of losses and normal supplies is very amazing, these are basically supplied by the 'refining academy' in the sect, and the main materials of most of the low-level magic weapons are refined copper and refined iron. Each kilogram of black iron ore can be refined up to 200 catties of iron, and bronze ore can only be refined into 150 catties of copper, and to extract refined copper and refined iron from copper and iron, it is difficult to refine one or two catties of 10,000 catties, that is to say, 50,000 catties of bronze and black iron ore can only be refined into about one or two refined copper and refined iron.

The person in charge of the gravel yard belongs to the junior apprentice of the 'Refining Academy', and must have the third level or higher realm cultivation of any auxiliary exercise to be able to take the position, generally speaking, they will choose the 'Hercules', 'Mountain Giant Ape Technique', 'Hourglass Technique' or 'Thick Earth Technique' that will help them complete the task.

The 'Hercules', 'Mountain Giant Ape Technique' and 'Thick Earth Technique' are all based on forging the body, and the cultivators are infinitely powerful and can give birth to cracked tigers and leopards. The 'hourglass technique' is mainly practiced to control the strength, and it is said that when cultivated to the subtle place, you can dial a thousand catties in four or two, and the weak is better than the strong.

Becoming a junior apprentice is the initial goal of all the trial students in the Refining Academy, and it is also the first threshold for them to step into the ranks of immortal cultivators, but the number of trial students who can cross this threshold is only two or three percent at most, and most of the trial students will be forced to leave after a year.

However, the focus of the entire 'smelting room' is in the 'smelting room'. The minimum threshold for the 'Fire Refining Room' is an intermediate instrument disciple, who must have two intensive cultivation techniques at the third level or above, and one of the intensive cultivation exercises must be 'Fire Alchemy'. The requirements for high-level instrument disciples are even more severe, they need to have three intensive cultivation techniques to reach three levels or above, and one of the intensive cultivation exercises must also be cultivated to the top level, Xiao Mo is the only senior instrument disciple in the 'Fire Refining Room', except for the owner of the house, Uncle Cui, he can be said to be the first person in the 'Smelting Room'! Therefore, Hao Mingli is extremely attentive to him, that is because after arriving at the 'Fire Refining Room', it is Xiao Mo who directly manages him.

Xie Ling didn't care too much about Hao Mingli's attitude, but carefully looked at the other people's gravel on the side. Bronze ore is tougher than black iron ore and is more difficult to break. However, Xie Ling noticed that those trial students who had completed better yesterday did not have a particularly large force for each hammer, but the tough ore below could generally be split from it, and at most one or two hammers could completely separate the remaining large pieces of gravel.

The ore of the same size is smashed with all its might, sometimes only a little at the edge, and it takes several hammers to completely break it, and the ground is full of fine ore fragments, making the dust fly, and the strength is used a lot, but the result is half the effort.

"Look at what, don't go back to your position yet, and if you can't complete the task when the time comes, it's up to you what you do!" Hao Mingli saw that he didn't move on the side, and said angrily.

Xie Ling knew that this person liked to bully and flatter, and he didn't want to be targeted by him to be used as a punching bag, so he smiled, and while recalling the gravel picture he had just seen, he walked towards the open space where he had broken the gravel yesterday.

However, many things cannot be understood at a glance, Xie Ling spent a long time and found that it was still the same as before, and there was no progress.

"You can't accomplish much in a day. You see—"

At this moment, a rather mature trial student walked over, he squatted down and pointed to the surface of the black iron ore with his right hand and said, "These fine lines are actually the cracks left by the formation of the black iron ore, as long as they are smashed at the place where they meet, they can be easily shattered." After speaking, he straightened up and smashed the hammer in his hand at the intersection of the fine lines according to what he just said.

Bang, with a muffled sound, in Xie Ling's surprised gaze, the black iron ore split in all directions.

"Try it!" the trialist stepped aside.

Xie Ling brought a piece of black iron ore over, and there were really fine lines on it, and when he saw one of their intersections, he placed it on the iron pier below, took a deep breath, and then picked up the purple iron hammer and smashed it down.

Bang, the black iron ore shattered along the lines with a muffled thud.

Xie Ling was so excited that he brought a few pieces of black iron ore again, bang bang, sure enough, each piece could be broken with only two hammers at most, and because the purple iron hammer was small, the contact surface was not large, and the force of smashing at the intersection of the lines was just right, as long as it used forty percent of the original strength, it was enough.

"Thank you! My name is Xie Ling, senior brother, are you?" Xie Ling gratefully stretched out his right hand.

"My name is Qin Pei. Your strength is really not small! I see that except for Long Xiang, no one is stronger than you. Qin Pei smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Xie Ling's hand.

"Qin Pei, I only have two strengths, it's comparable to your dexterity!" a dark-skinned, round-faced young man walked over with a grin. "My name is Long Xiang, if you need help, find me, nothing else, there is no problem with hard work!"

"I'm Xie Ling, it's nice to meet you!" Xie Ling liked Long Xiang's straightforward personality very much, and stretched out his right hand to shake it with him.

"Your strength is really not small, I didn't even dare to use that hammer when I first came. Long Xiang glanced at the purple iron hammer in Xie Ling's hand and sighed.

The three of them had similar temperaments and soon chatted together, and Xie Ling gradually became familiar with the situation here.

Qin Pei and Long Xiang were both trial students who came three months ago, and Qin Pei had chosen the 'Hourglass Technique', and he had already cultivated to the second level, and his control of strength was very good. And Long Xiang chose to practice the 'Hercules Technique', and he also cultivated to the second level, with infinite strength, only slightly inferior to Hao Mingli in the gravel field.

When the two of them learned that Xie Ling hadn't cultivated anything, but his strength was no less than that of Long Xiang, who had already cultivated to the second level of the 'Hercules Technique', they both smacked their tongues and couldn't believe it.

"My goal is to cultivate to the foundation building stage before the age of twenty-three, huh?" Xie Ling asked.

"My father wants me to become a ** instrument, so that our family can do business in the sect. Qin Pei said.

"I'm the same as Xie Ling, my uncle wants me to cultivate at least to a junior weapon, otherwise I won't be allowed to go home. Long Xiang said with a bitter face.

"Well, it seems that everyone's goal is not low! Let's work together to see who achieves the goal first, okay?" Xie Ling said.

"Okay, let's do it together!" Qin Pei and Long Xiang said in unison.

At the end of the day's work, Xie Ling was a little excited, and he made two friends today, Qin Pei and Long Xiang, so that he couldn't sleep for a while. Suddenly, he remembered the situation when he first met Zhang Meng that day, and he felt very funny when he remembered the appearance of his black charcoal. By the way, he seems to know a lot, so it's better to ask him what he needs to do to cultivate to the foundation building stage. Thinking of this, he jumped up from the stone bed with a carp and walked towards the stone house where Zhang Meng went back in his memory.

"It's you!" Zhang Meng opened the wooden door and saw that it was Xie Ling, and said a little strangely.

"What, won't you invite me in and sit down for a while?" Xie Ling smiled.

Zhang Meng hesitated for a moment, but still let go and invited Xie Ling into the stone house.

After Xie Ling entered the house, he felt that it was very clean and tidy, and there was even a hint of fragrance. He looked at Zhang Meng, after all, it was night, and he couldn't really see it, but now he looks not tall, his body is very slender, his eyes are smart, his nose is narrow and small, and his skin is snow-white.

"Do you have anything to do with me?" Zhang Meng said with some displeasure when she felt Xie Ling's gaze staring at her.

"That day was the first time I entered the 'Refining Academy', and I overheard your words, and I didn't understand a little, so I came here to ask for advice!" Xie Ling retracted his gaze and said.

"You're also a low-grade immortal root, right?" Zhang Meng poured him a cup of tea.

Xie Ling nodded, picked up the tea, and a fragrance wafted into his nose.

"Your surname is Xie, what is the relationship between the Xie family in the four secular families of this sect and you?" Zhang Meng asked again.

"I'm a child of the Xie family, what's wrong with that?" Xie Ling wondered.

"It's strange, with your Xie family's status in the sect, even if your immortal roots are not good, you won't be assigned to this place where birds don't!" Zhang Meng said with some disbelief.

"I don't know this, I'm in the gravel yard of the 'smelting room' now, and I'm really right by you, every day like a charcoal seller, it's black. Xie Ling said around his head.

Seeing that he looked funny, Zhang Meng covered his mouth and laughed crisply: "I'm in the 'coking room', and the coke used in your 'fire refining room' is all from us." Most of us who only have low-grade immortal roots will be assigned to the 'Refining Academy', 'Spirit Beast Academy' or 'Alchemy Academy'. These three courtyards are all auxiliary structures of the main sect, and they are only preserved for the other two courtyards, the 'Trial Sword Temple' and the 'Cultivation Temple'.

"Sword Trial Academy and Cultivation Academy!" Xie Ling heard these two names from Zhang Meng's mouth for the second time.

"Yes, the two courtyards are the two pillars of the sect, and to enter it, you need at least a medium-grade immortal root. The 'Sword Trial Academy' mainly cultivates swords, and uses swords to enter the Dao, which is called sword cultivation!, while the 'Cultivation Academy' is mainly based on cultivating supernatural powers, and there are many disciples in the courtyard, and six of the strongest nine people in the young generation of the Cangyue Sect are from this academy!" Zhang Meng was a little fascinated.

"But I heard Senior Brother Qi say: The real 'refining master' is definitely the most powerful existence standing on the top of the Immortal Gate. Not only is he proficient in the rune array and Dan Dao, and his divine sense is far stronger than his peers, but he also has at least one of the two divine powers of wind and fire that has been cultivated to the fullest. Isn't what he said right?" Xie Ling said, expressing the doubts in his heart.

"Hmph, what he said is naturally good, but do you think it will be easy to become a master refiner? On the contrary, he is much more difficult than becoming a top-level sword cultivator. At least so far, I have heard of a lot of top-notch sword cultivators, but the only one who can be called 'refining master' is Master Yi of the main sect hundreds of years ago. Zhang Meng said.

"Master Yi, these are too far away from me, I just want to know what I need to do to become a Foundation Building Stage Monk?" Xie Ling finally asked the purpose of coming to the door today.

"Foundation Building Period Monk, hehe, as a ghost place where only the lower grade Immortal Root is still in this ghost place where the light of day is not seen, you want to become a Foundation Building Period Monk, you really dare to think about it!" Zhang Meng's words were full of mockery.

Xie Ling didn't speak, he was waiting for Zhang Meng to continue.

"Okay, I think you really have this idea, if you want to become a foundation building monk, you must first get enough contribution points from within the sect. If you are in the gravel yard, you must first strive to become the person in charge there, and become a junior apprentice, so that you can quickly accumulate your contribution points. Of course, to get this position, you need to cultivate the 'Hercules' to at least the third level, and the third-level 'Hercules' requires a total of fifty contribution points, which means that you will have to accumulate at least half a year or so to complete the tasks every month before you can redeem them. ”

"This is just the first step, after becoming the head of the gravel yard, you can start accumulating contribution points in exchange for the 'Fire Alchemy' that can enter the 'Fire Refining Room' qualification. The first layer of 'Fire Alchemy' only needs 30 contribution points, the second layer of 'Fire Alchemy' can be exchanged for 60 contribution points, but the third layer of 'Fire Alchemy' requires 120 contribution points to obtain. Even if you can complete the Gravel Yard quest every month, you will need at least 210 Sect Contribution Points to do so. By the way, in about three years, you can go to the internal affairs office that issued the qualification token to assess the intermediate apprentice. ”

"The purpose of entering the 'Fire Refining Room' is to accumulate contribution points more quickly, if you don't have big ambitions, it's good to live a peaceful and stable life. But if you want to build a foundation, then you have to consider how to choose the path in front of you when you are an intermediate apprentice. ”

"Of course, before that, you must be familiar with the current cultivation system, and the foundation building period realm in your mouth is only a basic exercise system. Cultivating the basic exercises, for monks, it only means the high and low level of your realm, and it has little to do with the size of the supernatural power in the early stage. ”

"The other is the refinement system, the 'Hercules' and 'Fire Alchemy' I just talked about belong to the refinement system. These auxiliary exercises need to be based on the main exercises of a certain basic system in order to fully exert their power. Whether it is 'Hercules' or other intensive exercises, if there is no support from the basic exercises, it is like water without a source, and it is impossible to cultivate to a high level, and the 'Hercules' can be cultivated to the third level at most, and the same is true for the 'Fire Alchemy', if you want to go up, you must reach the corresponding realm of the basic exercises. ”

"Therefore, when you reach the intermediate level of instrument disciples, you have to choose a basic technique that is suitable for your cultivation. And the contribution points it needs are based on hundreds, and the burden is very heavy for an ordinary disciple in the refining room, plus there are many detours at the beginning, and if you want to build a foundation, hehe, it is extremely difficult! How about it, do you still have the confidence to become a foundation building period monk?" Zhang Meng looked at Xie Ling who was deep in thought on the opposite side with a mocking look.

"It's really hard to hear you say that!" Xie Ling said with a sigh.

"You must know that the 'Refining Academy' has a total of five rooms, but there are only nine monks in the foundation building period, even the dean is only cultivating in the later stage of foundation building, and it is even more difficult to get ahead here than to ascend to the sky!" Zhang Meng said.

"How many contribution points do you need to get the first-tier 'Hercules Technique'?" Xie Ling asked after thinking for a while.

"Ten contribution points is enough!You don't think-" Zhang Meng looked at Xie Ling with some surprise, and then said, "That's useless to you!"

"According to the normal way, as you just said, there is a chance for us there, rather than this, it is better to fight!" Xie Ling clenched his fists and said.

"You're the same as I am, but it's very risky, and if you don't complete the mission, you'll die ugly. Zhang Meng said.

"Where is the place to assist in the exercises, can you sue me?" Xie Ling did not answer, but asked rhetorically.

"In the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion in the sect, in addition to the 'Hercules Technique', there are some other refined exercises, if you are really interested, I will go there at noon tomorrow, I can take you along. Zhang Meng said.

"Well, thank you very much!" Xie Ling said with heartfelt thanks.

After agreeing on the time and place with Zhang Meng, Xie Ling returned to his stone house and leaned on the stone bed, at this time his mind was still thinking about what Zhang Meng said just now. Just like Zhang Meng said, the foundation building period of cultivation is really not an easy task!