Wei Wen knew in his heart that Shi Fen was comforting himself.
Compared with Shi Tian, his own talent is actually not much different. But I am still proud of myself. When I was in high school or in my third year of high school, I just used a little leisure time on weekends to learn blacksmithing, and I made great progress.
Because of Shi Fen's "retreat", Wei Wen's forging was changed to Shi Tian's main teaching. Changing teachers did not hinder Wei Wen's rapid progress.
A few weeks ago, he followed Shi Tian and used fine steel to learn how to forge rough weapons. While practicing alone, he unexpectedly succeeded once.
The crude weapon embryo that Wei Wen succeeded in by luck was directly taken over by Shi Tian. Shi Tian continued to forge and process it, and went on to make a beautiful short knife. Although the short knife did not have a "birth certificate" and was listed for sale at "Sanshi", it still sold for a high price of 600 Chinese coins.
Shi Tian didn't keep the 600 yuan, he directly paid it into Wei Wen's account.
With the unexpected income, Wei Wen became more determined to learn blacksmithing.
In Shi Tian's eyes, Wei Wen, the "apprentice", was very smart, and since he was Shi Fen's good friend, he taught him very seriously. The conditions that Wei Wen enjoys now are much better than those he had back then. He has a "famous teacher" to guide him when he gets started, so he can make rapid progress.
Shi Tian's forging ability is completely inferior to Shi Fen's forging level. But Shi Tian's current forging ability is much higher than the stone iron that taught him to forge when he was a child.
The importance of a good teacher is unparalleled.
Two teachers, one strong and one weak, teach apprentices with the same talent.
Of course he is a great teacher, and the apprentices he teaches are even more powerful.
In this way, Wei Wen could make rapid progress at a speed far exceeding Shi Tian's.
Wei Wen is not only talented, but also very hard-working. He practices very diligently and comes here to learn blacksmithing whenever he has time. I often practice until my hands are shaking so much that I can’t even pick up chopsticks.
Seeing that Wei Wen was training so hard, Shi Tian directly took charge of Wei Wen's diet during training and cooked a lot of beef for Wei Wen to help Wei Wen replenish nutrition and regulate his body.
The more Shi Tian taught him, the more Shi Tian appreciated this little brother. When he found out that Wei Wen had accidentally created a rough embryo of a weapon, he was shocked.
Then he no longer regards Wei Wen as his "apprentice", but as his future partner, the forger of the future "Three Stones", and the backbone of the future "Three Stones".
Shi Tian told Shi Tie this idea.
Shi Tie greatly agreed with this idea and believed that it was a good choice to consider the future in advance. The two made an unscrupulous decision, treating Wei Wen as a "guinea pig" and taking this opportunity to plan the future of "Three Stones" in advance.
Therefore, Wei Wen became the experimental subject of "Three Stones" without knowing it. He devoted all his efforts to training the subject and allocated all his resources to train him as a forger of "Three Stones" as soon as possible.
With the full supply of resources, the guidance of famous teachers, outstanding talents, and his own efforts, Wei Wen's blacksmith skills have improved by leaps and bounds.
Shi Fen knew this.
That's why I was curious as to why Wei Wen ordered so much pig iron.
Shi Fen saw that his comforting words seemed to really put Wei Wen into a state of "admiration".
I feel less happy than ever.
Shi Fen touched Wei Wen's arm with his hand and said with a smile: "Isn't it good that you use fine steel to learn forging? Why order so much pig iron?"
Wei Wen was no longer proud of his progress, and smiled slightly and said: "I thought my foundation was not very good, so I ordered some pig iron and planned to do my best to consolidate the foundation.
For me now, the best material for practicing forging is pig iron. I used stainless steel, it was too early.
I plan to use the vacation after the college entrance examination to practice using all these tons of pig iron. By then, my forging foundation will definitely improve a lot. "
The speaker has no intention of saying this, but the listener has intention.
These words were like thunder, constantly exploding in Shi Fen's mind.
Shi Fen had an epiphany!
He got it.
Why is he stuck in stage eight. In two years, there was no improvement at all.
This is all "strange", as the saying goes in the third stage.
"If you want to have the ability to concentrate metal a hundred times, you must use the best iron as raw material and temper it to the level of the star sea pattern before you can continue to concentrate the metal."
Just this sentence, Shi Fen was influenced by his previous life, and he understood it wrong.
What he understood was to use the best high-quality steel as raw materials, temper it to the level of the star sea pattern, and continue forging. To this end, he used various materials on the raw material table to create 52 kinds of high-quality special steels. He tried hard to forge and mastered the 9 times concentrated forging of 52 kinds of metals.
After understanding this, Shi Fen felt so stupid.
The third major stage is obviously the forging of mortal transformation. Doesn't "fan" refer to pig iron?
The pig iron produced in the virtual trial space is an alloy of iron and carbon without any other impurities. But Shifen was stupid and manufactured 52 kinds of high-quality special steel.
Obviously he only needs to forge dual-element alloys, but Shifen makes it more difficult for him to forge multi-element alloys. Isn't this just causing trouble for himself?
Shi Fen forcibly increased the difficulty of the trial for himself.
Although wrought iron only contains iron, it is too soft and is not suitable for forging. Extreme forging usually starts with pig iron.
Call it stupid, he forged all 52 multi-element alloys to the level of "nine times concentration of metal", and he was extremely skilled at it. Call him smart, he hasn't thought through such a thing.
Shi Fen was stunned for a few seconds.
After figuring out the key issue, Shi Fen dropped a sentence.
"Wei Wen, you can eat whatever you want for lunch, even if you go to a 5-star hotel. I'll reimburse you!"
Regardless of Wei Wen's reaction, he ran back to the forging room with his dagger in hand.
Wei Wen was confused and didn't know what was happening. Wei Wen had some understanding of Shi Fen's "weirdness", and vaguely felt that one of his own words inspired Shi Fen to behave like this.
So Wei Wen stopped worrying about the matter and continued to direct the unloading.
After completing the unloading, Wei Wen took the workers to the small restaurant that Wei Wen often went to. This small restaurant tasted very good and the price was very affordable. His parents would occasionally take him here to improve the food.
Wei Wen ordered a lot of hard dishes and had a hearty meal with the workers.
Wei Wen is not a spoiled person, he has his own rules for doing things.
His parents attach great importance to tutoring and taught him from an early age that the most important thing in life is duty. No matter when and where, he must be modest and prudent, and guard against arrogance and impetuosity.
Wei Wen did the same.
"Three Stones" has helped him a lot. As the "apprentice" of "Three Stones", everything he eats and drinks at "Three Stones" is free every day, so he doesn't have to spend any money. The people of "Three Stones" were extremely friendly to him, even the cameramen of "Three Stones" were very polite to him.
Wei Wen is now a member of the "Three Stones". As long as he works hard, he will definitely be the forger of the "Three Stones" in the future.
Even though Wei Wen didn't know what he had done for Shi Fen to make his brother Shi Fen so excited, he received an inexplicable "reward" from Shi Fen.
A five-star hotel with high luxury consumption was an outrageous place for Wei Wen. He did get permission from Shi Fen, and he could indeed go. But his conscience doesn't allow him to go!
How dare you treat your own family like this?
He didn't even want to pay for the meal this time with "three stones". The 600 yuan he earned before was enough. The money he earned himself can only be spent with peace of mind and peace of mind.
However, he didn't feel comfortable spending the 600. After all, this was Shi Tian's skill, and he was just a layman who got lucky.
…
Shi Fen entered the forging room, locked the door from the inside, entered the rest compartment, and lay down on the bed, preparing to enter the "virtual trial space".
He lay on the bed, feeling extremely excited. After lying there for more than ten minutes, his mind calmed down and his consciousness entered the virtual trial space.
He picked up a square piece of pig iron with a side length of 30 centimeters from the raw material table.
The pig iron block weighed more than 200 kilograms, but with the physical fitness of more than 800 kilograms of punching power, Shi Fen moved the pig iron block to the forging platform without much effort.
Open the forging table, and the pig iron block will slowly sink under the lifting platform of the forging table, enter the inside of the forging table, and be heated evenly.
Shi Fen was carrying a huge "oscillating hammer" and pacing back and forth in front of the forging table, showing his excitement.
The red-hot pig iron slowly rose above the forging area of the forging platform. Shifen, who was waiting anxiously aside and spinning back and forth, saw the pig iron block rising completely.
When the stone is divided, it is a heavy hammer.
With just one hammer, all the oxide scale residue on the surface of the pig iron fell off. The pig iron did not have any deformation, but became brighter and brighter.
The stone was pointed towards the top of the side of the cast iron block, and with a light hammer, the cast iron block turned over. When the cast iron block was completely stable, another heavy hammer was given. The cast iron block shone a little brighter.
Then, with another gentle hammer, the pig iron continued to turn over.
When the pig iron block stabilized, another heavy blow was given.
Shi divided the six sides of the pig iron block and hit them hard with the vibrating hammer over and over again in the order he remembered.
The intelligence of the forging table will choose the right time to clean up the residue of the pig iron. You don't need to pay attention to anything else. You only need to hammer the wheel over and over again and concentrate on forging.
The heavy hammers fell one after another, and the pig iron became brighter and brighter, and the light and heat it emitted became more and more intense. It is like "sweating" due to heat, with residues constantly appearing on the surface and being constantly shaken off.
Its shape has not changed, but its volume is gradually shrinking.
Shifen uses the most advanced forging technology. With the "Vibration Hammer", he can directly forge the pig iron block to the "Star Sea Pattern" stage without following the step-by-step process.
Save a lot of time.
When the lump of pig iron shines like a "star", the stone splits change the way it is forged.
Start tapping the eight corners of the pig iron block one by one. As the pig iron block deforms, its volume begins to gradually shrink and its brightness gradually decreases.
Shifen felt the changes in the metal with his heart, listened to "its thoughts", and subconsciously kept swinging the hammer.
The pig iron block gradually shrinks in size.
Double the size.
Shrink twice.
Three times smaller.
…
Nine times smaller.
Shi Fen didn't know at this time that the volume of the pig iron in front of him had been condensed nine times.
He was completely immersed in the forging state. He followed the feeling, staring at the metal block, and unconsciously turned the hammer.
With one hammer, the volume shrinks 9.3 times.
The bottleneck that had troubled him finally broke through at this moment.
But this is not his limit.
He was still spinning the hammer frantically.
Shrink ten times.
Shrunk eleven times.
Shrunk twelve times.
…
As the hammer hammered down, the metal block became darker and darker, and gradually became smoother. The stone seemed to be forging a solid metal ball.
Shi Fen had completely given up on independent guidance. He completely let go of himself and allowed this strange feeling to dominate his body.
The forging at this time completely relies on the subconscious swing of the hammer. At this moment, Shi Fen was like a bystander. The consciousness is completely "off duty" and there is no need for him to bother forging it.
This state of Shi Fenjue is a hundred times more concentrated than metal and is more precious. Now Shi Fen is desperately trying to remember this state.
When Shifen completely entered this state.
Metal is concentrated again.
Shrunk twenty times.
Shrunk twenty-one times.
…
Thirty-three times smaller.
When the volume of metal is concentrated to 33 times, the metal block completely turns into a round ball.
The vibrating hammer hits the ball and no longer deforms. No matter how you strike it, it will always be in a perfect spherical shape.
The brightness of the sphere became darker and darker, and its volume began to condense at an accelerated rate.
Shrunk forty times.
Shrunk fifty times.
Shrunk sixty times.
…
Until it shrinks a hundred times.
At this moment, Shi Fen stopped swinging the hammer for an instant, and the arm holding the hammer unconsciously dropped.
The metal ball cooled down completely, as if it had condensed in volume and consumed all its heat. The metal ball turned dark and stayed quietly on the table, as if it had grown on it.
Shi Fen's consciousness was frantically remembering the feeling just now, and he completely fell into an "epiphany". His consciousness was completely closed, and he lost his ability to perceive the outside world.
Shi Fen didn't know that he had completed extreme forging, and the most difficult metal was concentrated a hundred times. In front of him was the "hundred times iron" he had dreamed of.
But Shi Fen just stood there blankly. There was no response. His consciousness was completely immersed in the epiphany... Shifen's mind was completely immersed in the forging just now.
Shi Fen was in a magical place, repeating the forging process over and over again, as if it would never end...
