Three days later.
Zhang Changkong watched as the King of Steel sprayed out a huge beam of light like a laser cannon. A cicada-like insect flying in the air left only ashes after the beam passed.
After shooting the bug to death, there were still many steel ants fighting with various bugs on the field. The Steel King didn't have the demeanor of a strong man at all. He rushed over and bit a bug covered in carapace with his huge mouthparts, and then The carapace was gnawed into pieces and swallowed.
Seeing the Steel King wreaking havoc, there were one or two Iron Ant elites who couldn't escape and were trampled to death by the Steel King. In addition to the Steel King, the nine six to eight meter long zerg were also ferocious and kept killing.
"It seems that Steel King's innate spells are Earth Movement and White Light of Destruction. Moreover, now that its ferocity has been fully aroused, it should be able to survive in the Sanhe Rainforest even without me watching it," Zhang Changkong glanced at the steel ant elites on the ground who no longer looked like miners, and nodded with some satisfaction.
The power of the ant tide composed of steel ant elites far exceeded Zhang Changkong's expectations. It was simply a dark torrent of destruction, destroying all life wherever it went.
"Looking at the ferocious appearance of the Steel King, I'm afraid it won't be willing to let it go back underground now."
After Zhang Changkong asked the Steel King to sweep the steel ants in one direction toward the core area, he rode an elite steel ant quickly toward the direction of the vitality stone vein.
He wasn't worried that the Steel King would encounter those from the Bug Catching Team. After all, the core area was vast and the Bug Catching Team was only tossing around in a small area. How could they encounter such a coincidence.
Without the Steel King to mine, Zhang Changkong would have to work hard.
Half a month later.
Zhang Changkong walked out of the castle passage. After reaching the mastery stage of "Secret Technique of Slave Insects", he became very good at controlling insects, making the Iron Ant's mining efficiency much more powerful than that of the Steel King.
"After half a month of digging, I only got fifteen high-grade vitality stones. The mining progress in this half month is at least equivalent to the Steel King's three or four months. Moreover, it is not only the high-grade vitality stones, but also the middle and low-grade vitality stones. It has begun to decline. It seems that after a few more attempts, this vein will become a waste mine." Zhang Changkong was a little sad. The vein of vitality stone that had helped him the most on his cultivation path was finally going to dry up.
Just when Zhang Changkong wanted to go back to practice, the butler from the castle came.
"Master Immortal, the head of the research laboratory on Miao Mountain is waiting for you in Black Bee City. I heard he said that he has something important to ask for." The well-maintained middle-aged housekeeper with meticulously combed hair reported to Zhang Changkong.
"In that case, go ahead and inform him." Zhang Changkong nodded.
An hour later, the housekeeper brought five people to the castle hall, one was Kong Gui, the other was Master Cha who he had met once, and there were two middle-aged people and an old man who had no impression of them, but they were all wearing researcher's white coats.
After the ceremony, Zhang Changkong asked them to sit down.
"Master Immortal, you have finally made progress in refining fallen dust iron, fluorescent sand and other materials," Kong Gui said as he stood up.
"Oh, is it one kind of material, or have other materials made progress?"
Zhang Changkong's eyes lit up slightly. This is indeed good news. He will not only have one or two magic weapons to refine in the future, but he will have to rely on himself. The time spent searching for materials will not count. The refining time alone may take a lot of time. After spending tens or hundreds of years, it would be great if Miaoshan could initially refine the materials.
Kong Gui said nothing and looked at Master Zha.
"Master Immortal, this research result was developed by the four of us together." Master Zha stood up and nodded to the other three researchers.
"Based on the artifact refining books you brought, Master Immortal, and the relics found in the cave where the fallen iron is located, we have developed a method for refining falling dust iron." Master Zha thought for a moment and said, "Actually, The most important thing is the relic data, where a method for refining fallen iron has been developed. We just improved it and found some materials to replace some materials that can no longer be found."
"Ruins? The characters in that ruins should not be the characters of our human race, right? Although I have only learned two kinds of characters, I have seen about ten other characters in the Xiangshan Sect, and none of them are similar to the characters in the ruins. Can any of you understand the writing in the ruins?"
Zhang Changkong asked.
Master Zha said: "The relics data are not all written in text, but also have some simple patterns. As for the text, it was this researcher Shi Xiong who deciphered some relevant information."
As he spoke, Master Zha looked at the old man whose hair was as gray as his, but whose appearance was even older than his.
Shi Xiong stood up and said in an old voice: "Master Immortal, according to my research, that ruins should be left by an extinct alien race. That alien race should not be very powerful. The writings they left behind are not as good as ours." The text used now is so complicated that it took me several years to combine it with images and finally be able to understand some simple information. At this time, Master Cha found me and asked me to assist him in researching how to refine fallen iron."
"I see. In that case, Kong Gui, this researcher Shi Xiong has made a major research breakthrough. Isn't the research room divided into trainee researchers, formal researchers and master researchers? With his language research, researcher Shi Xiong also Enough to become a master researcher." Zhang Changkong said: "Also, regarding your experience in writing research, Shi Xiong, you are also opening a special course in Miaoshan and teaching a few disciples carefully, which may be useful in the future."
Zhang Changkong was worried that Shi Xiong looked senile and would not survive the migration to Miao Mountain.
"yes."
Kong Gui and Shi Xiong agreed.
Zhang Changkong looked at Master Zha and said, "So, Fallen Iron is ready to be refined?"
Master Zha glanced at Zhang Changkong and said: "The ore of fallen iron is huge and hard. Although the method we have developed long ago can be refined on a small scale, it will take at least several decades to refine the entire vein using this method." .
Zhang Changkong frowned, "Is there any solution?"
"Yes, there are currently two problems in refining dusted iron and even other materials. One is insufficient firepower, and the other is incompatible equipment. As long as these two problems are solved, other problems will be secondary, unless there are some refining difficulties in the future. Larger ore materials." Master Zha said calmly: "For these two problems, firepower can be achieved by using an active volcano as a refining site, using volcanic magma and the high-temperature flames generated by the special environment in the volcano to provide firepower, and re-refining it. Make huge furnaces and other equipment suitable for being placed in volcanoes, and use an active volcano to build the entire refining system. This is the method I came up with after reading the refining classics and is suitable for us mortals to refine refining materials."
