After listening to Senior Brother Cheng's explanation, Qian Chao returned to Chengqi Hall from the small door.
The small bag that was handed to Senior Brother Cheng just now was the second time Qian Chao refined green copper ingots for Senior Brother Cheng.
The first time was when Senior Brother Cheng taught him how to refine green copper ingots, also known as the method of "making materials". He saw that Qian Chao learned the refining method quickly, so in order to let Qian Chao practice more, he took out Some of his green copper ore was given to Qian Chao for refining.
Those green copper ore Qianchao had been refined and returned to Cheng Qantang a long time ago. There were more than 20 green copper ingots in total, plus less than a whole piece or half an ingot of green copper.
That time, Senior Brother Cheng didn't let Qian Chaobai work, and gave the small half of the green copper ingot to Qian Chao.
In this Chengqi Hall, there are not many people who are willing to help others refine green copper ingots, and if there are, they are juniors like Qian Chao who have just started. However, not many people feel comfortable giving their ore to others to smelt. As for the reason, Qian Chao only learned about it later.
That time, a senior brother named Guo was too busy. Seeing that Qian Chao was idle, he asked Qian Chao if he was willing to help him smelt a piece of ore. Qian Chao was naturally willing, so he found a fire eye next to senior brother Guo to smelt it for him.
After getting the ore, Qian Chao discovered that the ore was different from the ones he had refined for Senior Brother Cheng. First, it was smaller. Then Qian Chao used the object-controlling technique to detect that there were some things in the ore that were not green copper. Inside.
But no matter what the material is, the refining technique is the same. After Qian Chao got the ore, he cut the ore into pieces with his spiritual sword and started refining.
Qian Chao was already familiar with refining green copper at that time, but the material that was not green copper took Qian Chao some time and effort to completely refine.
There is nothing much to say about green copper. There is not much green copper in that piece of ore, less than an ingot. But Qian Chao had never seen the extra thing. It was a stone about the size of a pigeon egg, almost transparent, with lumps of something similar to hoarfrost distributed inside.
When Qian Chao returned the green copper and the small stone to Senior Brother Guo, Senior Brother Guo looked at Qian Chao in surprise, joy, and weirdness.
When Qian Chao asked him what the stone was, Senior Brother Guo realized that Junior Brother Qian didn't know much and didn't recognize it yet. If he did, hey, Junior Brother Qian might take this stone by himself. Maybe the stone will fall off.
Later, I heard Senior Brother Guo say that there are three sources of gold and stone minerals for their weapon refining. The first one is the Chengqi Hall, which can be bought with spiritual stones or exchanged for items; the second one is from every person in the Helou by the lake. There is one day every month where Qi refining disciples sell items and communicate with each other, or there are several small markets in Jiu Xuan Sect, where Jiu Xuan disciples usually buy and sell equipment refining materials and the like; the third It was when I was sent by the Jingshiyuan to go to the sect to do some work, I found it and brought it back.
The green copper ore obtained from the Chengqi Hall, such as the batch that Qian Chao refined for Senior Brother Cheng for the first time, rarely contains other materials. The ore must be carefully inspected when it arrives at the Chengqi Hall. Yes, the cutting process is also very particular. The amount of green copper in the ore is almost the same. After the final smelting, it will definitely be a green copper ingot. Even if there is a difference, it will not be too big.
When buying ore from other people, the ore they buy is brought back from outside the clan, but the quality is generally not good. If the quality is good, why not melt it yourself and sell the ingots to make more money?
Most of the ores he found from outside the sect were of poor quality. After smelting a large piece of ore, only a small piece of green copper was obtained. However, the ore he found also had an advantage, that is, there might be something hidden in the ore. Among other refining materials, green copper is the lowest level material, so as long as there are other materials in the ore, it must be a better material than green copper, and you will make money.
A monk who practices object control can naturally roughly determine what materials are in a piece of ore, but not everyone has the patience to check them piece by piece, so every time other materials are refined from the ore, it is considered It was an unexpected surprise, and because of this, although the senior brothers in Chengqi Hall felt that refining green copper ore was a difficult and troublesome task, they were all willing to do it with their own hands, just because they were worried that if they found someone else to do it for them When refining ore, if any high-level materials are withheld or misunderstood by the refining person, wouldn't you suffer a loss?
According to Senior Brother Guo, the small stone that Brother Guo refined with the Qian Chao Gang is a material called snow spar, which is named after the lumps of white frost-like stuff inside. This snow spar can be regarded as a middle-grade low-grade material, and green copper is considered a lower-grade low-grade material. According to the classification of material grades, there are lower-grade middle-grade materials and lower-grade high-grade materials in between, and then there is the middle-grade material. Low-grade, it can be seen that this middle-grade low-grade snow crystal is much more precious than this green bronze.
Senior Brother Guo was very happy to get the snow spar, and even wanted to give the green copper refined together to Qian Chao, but Qian Chao confiscated it. This was not because he looked down on the green copper, but Qian Chao It seems that Senior Brother Guo is not a generous person. Now that he has given this green copper to himself, he may regret it after a cup of tea. That is not good. It is better not to let him accept the favor. .
In fact, helping others refine ore is also valuable. According to Chengqitang's practice, helping others refine ten green copper ingots can receive one spiritual stone.
However, Qian Chao helped others smelt ore but never mentioned the spirit stone. He only wanted to practice making materials.
Ever since he learned that the ore from outside the sect might be used to refine some other high-level materials, when Qian Chao helped someone refine the ore, no matter what the source of the ore, he would always find a fire eye that was closer to that person to refine it. Making it is almost like doing it in front of others. Later, Qian Chao actually encountered the matter of refining high-level materials several times. Due to the close distance, Qian Chao told the other party that when the refining was completed, it would be as much as possible. Return the other party, and never be greedy in the slightest.
This made Qian Chao gradually become more popular in Chengqi Hall, and he also gained a reputation as "good luck".
However, people also understand that what good luck actually means is that Junior Brother Qian has no evil intentions, which is just reassuring.
Since then, more and more people have asked Qian Chao to help refine the ore, and Qian Chao is also happy about it. As long as there is ore to smelt, he can practice material making, object control and Yuanchu skills together. Why not?
Qian Chao never mentioned the matter of spirit stones. As time went by and the number of times increased, those people finally became embarrassed and gave Qian Chao the scattered green copper that was left over after refining. , Qian Chao did not refuse these, and accepted them with peace of mind after thanking him.
As for green copper, I will always use it in the future.
Qian Chao once counted his storage bag at his residence. Although he had not yet refined the weapon, there were quite a lot of green copper in the storage bag, including ingots and scattered ones. It would be estimated if those scattered ones were also melted into ingots. There can be as many as five. Senior Brother Cheng gave him one when he taught him how to make wood. It was given by his master, so he had a total of six green copper spindles. In addition, Senior Brother Cheng gave him another piece today, so there are seven in total. A green copper ingot, that's a lot.
Back at Chengqi Hall, when Qian Chao was about to try again as Senior Brother Cheng just said, he noticed that something seemed wrong with a senior sister he was passing by.
The senior sister was seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was not very familiar to her. She seemed to have seen her several times in Chengqi Hall, but she had never spoken to her. This senior sister's surname was Gong. As for her appearance, she could only be said to be average among the many female cultivators. , the cheekbones are slightly higher, the cheeks are slightly thinner, and he looks a bit sharp.
However, at this moment, Senior Sister Gong was smelting something unknown. A group of hot and bright white things were entangled above the fire eye. Senior Sister Gong seemed to have reached the point where her spiritual power was exhausted. Her face was full of sweat and anxiety, and her hands were also wet. Trembling slightly, the bright white thing on the flaming eye gradually became unstable, floating up and down, almost falling into the flaming eye.
Qian Chao couldn't understand, and was still puzzled. Normally in this case, he should put away the refining thing first, meditate for a while to recover his spiritual power, and then continue. Why didn't Senior Sister Gong stop at this point?
Qian Chao came to Senior Sister Gong, sat across from her, and used his Object Controlling Technique to support the bumping object, and said, "Senior Sister Gong, I'll take over and hold it for you first. You can meditate for a while, and then come back." continue."
After the pressure was greatly reduced, Senior Sister Gong did not thank her, but asked: "Junior brother, please estimate how long you can hold it."
Qian Chao felt it for a while, and he didn't know what the object was. However, Senior Sister Gong forced out all the firepower of the blazing eyes. The heat was extremely high, and he said: "If you just hold it like this, it will take more than one moment, and no more than two moments at most." time."
Senior Sister Gong obviously breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's enough." She took out a small bottle about the size of a palm from her storage bag. After taking it out, Senior Sister Gong was still very reluctant to part with it, but in the end she gritted her teeth and pulled it out. He took out the cork, poured the light blue wine-like substance in the bottle into his mouth, then took out a spiritual stone, held it in his hand and began to meditate.
Qian Chao's sharp eyes saw that the spirit stone was not big and must have been used many times before. Even so, Senior Sister Gong's formation still made Qian Chao feel that the extremely hot thing he was lifting with his object-controlling technique was definitely not simple.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Senior Sister Gong had finished meditating. She seemed to have regained her spiritual power. Her eyes were shining brightly as she stared closely at the object Qian Chao was holding up.
"Senior Sister Gong, I can still hold on. I'm holding it, and you just need to separate the three of them in twos."
Hearing what Qian Chao said, Senior Sister Gong glanced at Qian Chao in surprise, and asked while taking action.
"Junior brother, do you actually know that there are three things in this?"
Regardless of Qian Chao's answer, Senior Sister Gong began to use the object-controlling technique to separate the mass bit by bit.
With Qian Chao's help, the two of them performed their respective duties, and it became easier to do this. In less than a moment, Senior Sister Gong divided the hot thing into two groups. There seemed to be no difference. However, under the art of controlling objects, Qian Chao could still find subtle differences, so he had previously asked Senior Sister Gong to just concentrate on separating the two objects.
"Junior brother, thank you very much. I don't know what your name is?" Senior Sister Gong asked while looking at the wooden barrel next to her rolling like boiling water.
"My name is Qian Chao."
"Oh, you are the Junior Brother Qian that people often talk about. I have heard of you."
Senior Sister Gong turned to look at Qian Chao and said, "So, you did me a favor, how should I thank you?"
How could Qian Chao speak? Should he give me spiritual stones or green copper? Qian Chao's original intention was not like this. He noticed that there seemed to be a trace of ridicule in the eyes of Senior Sister Gong when he looked at him, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. It seemed that what he had just done was done deliberately, and he was taking advantage of himself and taking advantage of the opportunity. mean. Then he stood up and said:
"It's nothing to worry about. Since there's nothing else to do, I won't bother Senior Sister Gong."
After saying that, Qian Chao bowed slightly, turned around and left.
"Thank you very much." Senior Sister Gong said from behind.
What's going on with this woman? I was kind enough to help her, but why did it seem like I was scheming against her? Forget it, there are so many people in Jiuxuan, you can meet all kinds of people, so just don't deal with her as much in the future.
However, Qian Chao is still curious about what Senior Sister Gong is refining, and why he can't stop and continue. Why are the two things so similar? There are only slight differences, but Senior Sister Gong's cultivation level is higher than that of Senior Brother Cheng. That thing It is probably something that I don’t need now, and I will definitely know about it in the future. Moreover, I have also used it, so I know the difference between the two things, which is a gain in knowledge.
The scene just now was all seen by Senior Brother Lu from Chengqi Hall. After a while, Senior Sister Gong packed up her things and left, then Senior Brother Lu slowly walked over to Qian Chao and sat down in front of him.
"Junior Brother Qian, are you curious why Senior Sister Gong was so... um... rude just now?"
"Maybe Senior Sister Gong has a bad temper," Qian Chao replied.
"Well, having a bad temper is just one aspect of it. On the other hand, she is someone who has been practicing the art of refining weapons for a long time in Chengqi Hall. She has spent more than forty years on this art of refining weapons. Time, when it comes to level, well, it's actually average, so if she hears others praising someone in the Chengqi Hall, she may feel uncomfortable. Don't take it personally. When you meet in the future, just keep a respectful distance. "
"More than forty years? How old is Senior Sister Gong?" After hearing this, Qian Chao was first curious about Senior Sister Gong's age. He has spent more than forty years in the art of weapon refining, but although Senior Sister Gong has an ordinary appearance, But he still looks like he is seventeen or eighteen years old.
"Oh, that's right, I just took the Zhuyan Pill. Haha, when you look at a female monk in the sect, don't judge her age by her face. You have also seen some female seniors, who are not young... they have pretty good looks. Yes, they are actually hundreds of years old, otherwise how could they have such terrifying cultivation? Well, if nothing else, look at me, guess how old I am?"
"This..." Qian Chao stared at Senior Brother Lu's face. He wanted to say seventeen or eighty-eight, but he was not sure. In the end, he could only say, "It's hard for me to say this."
"Haha, what's not good to say? It's almost as you guessed. I haven't taken the Beauty Pill yet."
Later, Qian Chao learned from Senior Brother Lu’s words that there were many Qi Refining disciples over 100 years old within Jiuxuan. This reminded Qian Chao of his ancestor Qian Shoulin. If he were within the sect, Isn’t he also a qi-refining disciple who is over a hundred years old? But my ancestor must have taken the Zhuyan Pill. A man who is over a hundred years old looks like he is more than ten years older than his father.
However, Senior Brother Lu told him that he should not provoke these qi-refining disciples who are over a hundred years old, especially if they are outside the sect in the future. They are slow in cultivation, and they are anxious to begin with. When he meets those who are fast in cultivation and have good qualifications, The young disciple felt even more jealous, so it was better to hide away. For example, Senior Sister Gong, who is not yet sixty years old, has such a weird personality that she doesn't know what to do in the future.
Only when Qian Chao got here did he understand that there were not many people in Chengqi Hall. Why was Senior Sister Gong just in trouble but no one helped her? It was because she had offended so many people and no one wanted to pay attention to her. Then Senior Sister Gong doesn't ask for help when she needs it. She just competes with herself. Isn't that also the reason for her weird and extreme temperament? It was because I, as a newbie, had helped out in the past, but it ended up making me feel uncomfortable. Alas, why bother?
Later, Qian Chao told Tang Ping about this matter. Tang Ping rolled her eyes at him and said jokingly: "Who told you to be troublesome and abuse good people everywhere!" Later he said, "What do these people care about her? It's for herself." Are you angry? Now that our cultivation level is low, she can still give you a look. Let’s wait until you have established your foundation. By then, it is estimated that your senior sister is probably less than a hundred years old. Let’s see what face she will have then! "
