A few days passed.
Uncle Ye waited until he had basically mastered the use of the tripod. He selected a few simplest materials from the warehouse and asked him to refine it himself.
By the way, let's see how far Liangchen can go with his current mana.
Since this was his first time refining a weapon, Mr. Ye asked him to refine the most common and simplest dagger - the Maple Leaf Sword.
The Maple Leaf Sword is a low-grade fire attribute magic weapon. The sword is two feet long and two fingers wide. The sword grid is in the shape of a maple leaf and the sword body is vermilion, so it is called the Maple Leaf Sword.
Because of its good power and good-looking appearance, it has always been one of the most commonly used weapons by low-level monks.
Ye Lao chose this sword as the first weapon made by Liangchen because the dagger required less materials and was more time-consuming and labor-saving to make.
Moreover, weapons with fire attributes are relatively easy to refine successfully compared to other attributes.
Mr. Ye finished preparing the materials and explained to him the key points in the refining process.
When everything was ready, Liangchen started his first weapon refining under Ye Lao's eyes.
I saw him uttering incantations and sacrificing the Deer King Cauldron, and the flames of the magic formula rising with his hands.
After a while, wait until the temperature inside the cauldron reaches the temperature required for smelting, then put the main material cinnabar ore into the cauldron and start smelting.
There is an old saying that the eye is high and the hand is low, but now I realize that this is true!
Usually when I watch Mr. Ye refining weapons from the side, I always feel that it seems very casual. It is only when I refining it myself that I understand what it means to learn from books.
There are many difficulties in this first process alone. On the one hand, the flame must be constantly replenished to control the temperature in the cauldron to be relatively stable. On the other hand, part of the mana must be allocated to control the flame to evenly calcine the ore.
Fortunately, he is now very good at controlling flames. Otherwise, this first step alone would probably be too much.
"Vermilion ore has a low melting point and is an ore that is relatively easy to refine. It can usually be melted in half an hour." Mr. Ye explained carefully.
Unconsciously half an hour has passed.
"If we continue at this level of consumption, we can only last for another one or two hours. I wonder if it will be enough to complete the refining?"
Liangchen felt that his mana was being consumed a bit too quickly, and he thought to himself.
"The ore has melted. Make sure the temperature is even and don't get distracted." Mr. Ye reminded him as if he felt something.
Liangchen quickly gathered his mind and devoted himself wholeheartedly to refining the ore.
The vermilion ore is indeed easy to refine and has already begun to melt. Moreover, the dagger uses only a small amount of material, it is only about the size of a fist, and it melts relatively quickly.
After another half an hour, the ore finally melted completely and turned into a ball of fiery red mineral liquid.
At this time, the mineral liquid begins to flow out of impurities of other colors. Gradually, there are less and less impurities of other colors, and finally there are no more impurities flowing out.
"Well, the ore has been smelted. Now it can be condensed into liquid." Mr. Ye said beside him.
"The materials have just been made, and more than half of my mana has been consumed." Liangchen sensed the mana in his body and groaned secretly in his heart.
"No matter what, let's condense the sword first."
Liangchen allocated another part of his mana to slowly control the flow of the ore liquid, and refined it according to the shape that Uncle Ye explained at the beginning.
At this time, Liangchen needs a mana to add flames to the cauldron to ensure that the overall temperature in the cauldron remains stable.
Another part of the mana controls a part of the flame in the cauldron to wrap around the material and control the temperature balance around the material.
It is also necessary to allocate a portion of mana to control the mineral liquid to slowly take shape.
It was possible to control the flames by dividing it into two parts, but when the third part was divided, the mana in Liangchen's body was lost at a very fast rate!
The hilt of the sword has been slowly formed, the mineral fluid is slowly flowing, and the sword body stretches forward at a very subtle speed.
At the same time, the mana in Liangchen's body was rapidly depleted.
The sword stretched forward only half a foot, and the fire in the cauldron suddenly became chaotic, and the temperature became uncontrollable.
With a "ding-dong~" sound, the unformed broken sword lost control and fell into the cauldron.
"Alas!" Liangchen, who had no mana in his body, was sweating profusely and sighed as he looked at the flickering flames in the Deer King Cauldron.
"Don't be discouraged, you have performed very well today. Uncle Shi, this is my first time making a weapon, but I didn't even make the materials." Uncle Ye said with slight approval from the side.
"Uncle Shi, please stop comforting me. I haven't even perfected the shape of the sword yet. How can it be considered a good performance?" Liangchen looked at the half of the dagger in the cauldron and said with a bitter smile.
"Indeed, your performance today is enough to impress me!
I think back then, it took me several trials to get to where you are. As for completely condensing into the sword shape, it took dozens of failures to succeed.
Judging from your performance today, it's just around the corner to form a sword. "Uncle Ye said.
"Thank you Uncle Ye for the encouragement." Liangchen's disappointed mood finally improved.
"By the way, Uncle Ye, I have a question. It took me more than an hour to refine the ore before I used up most of my mana, but then in less than half an hour, all my mana was used up. How could this happen?" Liangchen asked.
“On the one hand, it’s because your mana is too low, and on the other hand, your spiritual thoughts are not strong enough, so it becomes more and more difficult the further you go.
You only consume most of your mana in the first two hours because you are more proficient in controlling flames and consume less. However, controlling the shape of materials is still new to you, so it consumes faster the further you go. "
Uncle Ye thought about the explanation.
"I see. Then Uncle Ye, how should I use my spiritual thoughts and how can I become powerful?"
Liangchen had only vaguely understood it before, but there were still many specific questions.
"Spiritual thought is a kind of soul power. It is used externally to sense all things in the world, and internally used to control mana and magic weapons to attack."
"The power of the magic weapon depends on the depth of your magic power, but the control still depends on your thoughts, that is, spiritual thoughts.
When you manipulate a ray of flame, it is a thought, a ray of spiritual thought, and you only need to concentrate on it. But controlling two flames requires you to be distracted.
When there are more and more flames, and you need to separate more and more spiritual thoughts, you will be in a hurry. "
Uncle Ye explained it to Liangchen using a relatively straightforward metaphor.
"This is also the reason why the further you refine the weapon, the faster your mana consumption becomes, and the further you go, the harder it is to control the situation."
"Then how can you make your spiritual thoughts stronger?" Liangchen asked.
“Divinity mainly depends on talent, of course there are some secret techniques, but they are more difficult to find.
I heard that there is a group of aliens in the far north. They are proficient in the secrets of witchcraft and can kill people with their spiritual thoughts.
The secret art of Xi Jian Sect is also said to have powerful divine-like effects. "Uncle Ye thought for a while and said.
"Then what should I do?" Liangchen asked a little disappointed when he heard that there was no good way.
"You don't have to think so much. There are many benefits to having a strong spiritual mind during the process of refining the weapon, but in the entire process of refining the weapon, the most difficult process only requires three or four distractions.
All you need to do is practice a lot and become proficient in the weapon refining process. There is no need to practice deliberately. " Mr. Ye said.
"Of course, as we refine our weapons, our spiritual thoughts will gradually become stronger as time goes by. After all, if we practice regularly, over time, we will always be a little stronger than ordinary people."
"That's it." Liangchen felt relieved after hearing this.
Otherwise, there would already be a big problem of insufficient mana in front of us, and coupled with the lack of spiritual consciousness, my journey would be too difficult.
"The process of refining the materials is barely up to standard, but look."
Uncle Ye picked up the half-broken sword.
"The hilt of the sword is good, but the sword grid is not. It is obviously due to improper control of mana, resulting in uneven intensity.
The sword body is even worse. It has exhausted its mana and is refining it too fast. Even if such a sword is refined and formed, it is doomed to fail during quenching! "
Ye Lao pointed at the broken sword, flicked his fingers, the sword body shattered, and the broken sword was broken into several sections!
"Put the broken sword away and look carefully. Any broken parts are flaws.
If the sword is uneven, how can it become one, how can it withstand external attacks, and how can it become a magic weapon? " Mr. Ye ordered again.
"Yes." Liangchen possessed himself and put away the broken sword on the ground.
Uncle Ye pointed out a few mistakes Liangchen made in the process of refining the weapon, letting him slowly understand, and then turned around and left.
Liangchen reassembled the broken sword and restored it to its integrity. Referring to Uncle Ye's words, he went through the refining process in his mind several times.
Then, looking at the cracks, I recalled the deviation of the flame control during the refining process, the molding speed, and the mood swings at the time, and analyzed what reasons should have caused these flaws.
