In the past three months, several more groups of people have entered, and the remaining rooms in the Seven Swords Furnace are finally filled with people.
Later, there were occasionally those who failed to complete their tasks and were imprisoned in a small dark room and punished by having their souls removed and their bones scraped.
As people gradually became familiar with the rules, and also understood that they could obtain war blades by buying them or temporarily borrowing them from acquaintances, so the sword furnace was not filled with howls all day long.
The war blades traded privately are also priced at one thousand spiritual gold.
As people gradually discovered that their lives were guaranteed, some smart people began to appear to buy war blades and sell them to people who occasionally failed to complete the task, in order to earn spiritual gold.
Among them, the slightly famous ones are Ulma and Hualian from Room Three B.
Liangchen has dealt with them several times these days, because they regularly buy swords from room to room, charging them for eight or nine hundred gold, and then selling them for one thousand gold.
He had accumulated thirty to forty war glaives during this period. Except for keeping a few for emergencies, the others were sold to several people.
In this way, the cost of the elixirs I consumed was finally settled, and there was still some surplus.
Maybe it's because everyone is a prisoner and there is no big conflict of interest. Moreover, if you fight in private, you will be caught in a small black room and punished. If you hurt someone's life, you will be shot directly, so the atmosphere in the entire sword furnace is extremely harmonious.
But it’s right to think about it. Everyone here is a craftsman who has worked hard to find the weapon. If one of them is lost, they need to find a way to catch them from the outside, so they are extremely concerned about the safety of these people!
After these days of repeated practice, the time it took for Liangchen to refine the war blade began to be shortened, and he and others from Xinsai discussed and tried some methods to shorten the time.
In the end, he found several feasible ways so that he didn't have to spend all day and night refining the sword.
In three days, you can squeeze out most of your free time to do other things.
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On this good day, I handed in the task and received the materials. Instead of going directly back to the room to refine the weapon, I accepted Ren Ji'an's invitation to watch him refine the weapon.
He thought about it and decided to see this person's weapon refining method.
Following Ren Ji'an, he came to the Six Bing room. There was no one in the room. They should all be refining the war blade in the weapon refining room.
The two came to the weapon refining room and saw a large black cauldron placed above the ground fire in the weapon refining room. Next to the cauldron was a half-person-high forging platform. There were a lot of materials in the room, including scrap swords and the like.
Ji'an asked Liangchen to sit on a futon aside and began to refine the war blade.
He took out the materials and began to refine the weapon while introducing:
"My method of refining weapons is divided into six major steps: refining, beating, forging, polishing, painting and quenching.
Each big step is divided into five or six small steps, so it takes a lot of time and it is difficult to complete the task in a short time. "
Ji An said as he put purple gold stone, dark silver and black steel into the cauldron.
The introduction took half an hour, and the materials in the cauldron had slowly melted and merged, and finally the materials completely turned into a pool of liquid.
Ji'an grabbed the giant cauldron with both hands, and the fiery red ore liquid material seemed to be sucked up by a huge force, turned into a stream of water, and shot into a long mold next to it.
"This is the first step of refining." Ji An said as he began to prepare the animal blood materials.
After half an hour, the mineral liquid in the mold had solidified into a long red sword embryo. The sword embryo was about four fingers square and about one foot long.
Ji'an grabbed a handful of saltpeter crystals and sprinkled it on the upward side of the sword embryo. Then with a movement of strength, there seemed to be a layer of gray stuff on his hand, and then he grabbed the red sword embryo with his bare hands!
Grab one end with each hand, pick up the sword embryo, then fold it in the middle and place it on the forging table.
Then use a clip to clamp one end of the sword embryo, and then pick up a giant hammer with black electric light patterns from the side.
The head of the giant hammer was as big as a flower drum, the handle was as thick as an arm, and it stood almost as high as Liangchen's shoulder.
Ji'an held the hammer in both hands, raised it high, about level with his head, and waved it towards the sword embryo.
"Kang! Bang!" started to beat.
With the hammering of the giant hammer, the sword embryo was forged to be about two fingers thick. Ji'an put the sword embryo into the cauldron and heated it until it turned red. He took it out and sprinkled it with a layer of saltpeter crystals. Then he grabbed the sword embryo and folded it with both hands. , continue to forge.
After doing this for five or six times, Ji'an was sweating profusely and his whole body was soaked.
He paused for a moment, took off his shirt, revealing muscles as fine as fine iron, grabbed the giant hammer, and started forging again.
After beating it ten times, it finally stopped.
Ji'an put the sword embryo into the cauldron and calcined it, then took out a small purple gold hammer and started the third step of shaping it.
In about an hour, the giant sword was roughly formed.
Ji An picked up the sword and pointed it at a sharpening stone and began to polish it carefully.
After another half an hour, a silver-colored war blade finally showed its edge.
Ji An shook off the sweat on his head, took out a handful of silver coins, stained with animal blood, and began to draw patterns on the sword body.
"The sword is the carrier, the runes are the guide, and the spiritual power is the bone." Ji'an said,
“Most of us have no mana, or have less mana, so we have to rely on spiritual crystals to activate our mana in order to exert our maximum power.
Therefore, the most critical step for the sword we refine is not quenching, but the fourth step of drawing the runes.
If this sword is used by body-refining monks, it only needs to be inlaid with a few spiritual crystals in the rune eyes as sword bones. "
Ji'an painted the flowing cloud pattern, one of the most basic runes of the sword pattern.
Groups of flowing clouds slowly bloomed under the pen, and then were absorbed by the war blade and disappeared.
After spending an hour like this, the sword was covered with runes, but nothing could be seen.
He put the sword into the cauldron and calcined it for a while, then took it out and put it into the spiritual water mixed with Xuni tree sap next to it.
"Now!" With a sound, a large cloud of steam rose up in the room, like a white mist shrouding it.
Ji'an waited for about a stick of incense, took out the war blade from the spiritual water, placed it on the forging table, then sat down on the ground and began to rest.
"How about the sword?" Liangchen asked.
"We'll find out later." Ji An replied breathlessly.
For about half a stick of incense, there was a clear sound from the sword, and the cold light flowed from the sword, moving along the dark lines of the flowing clouds like a tangible object. Then it dimmed and turned into a dark giant sword again, as if it had never had any luster.
"Luckily, the sword is ready!" Ji An said with a smile.
Liangchen looked at Ji'an and smiled bitterly,
"This sword took five hours! How can we complete the task at such a speed!?"
"That's right, so it's difficult to complete the task. Please give me some advice, Brother Ye." Ji An also smiled bitterly.
"I don't dare give you advice. I can only think of some ways for you. It's up to you to try it and see if it can save some time."
Liangchen remembered the various methods that he and Xinsai and others had been considering for several months, and would recommend several methods based on his situation for him to try.
"Well, thanks a lot, brother! What I'm short of most right now is time."
"I have also seen your weapon refining method in an early secret book. The description is somewhat similar to your forging process, but it is slightly different in some details.
For example, in the forging process, I think you only need to fold it ten times, but the secret book I read requires about thirteen or four folds. "Liangchen remembered what was said in the book he bought and discussed it with Ji'an.
"Brother Ye doesn't know. This sword embryo has a thousand layers after being folded ten times, which can meet the purity and toughness requirements of a general high-grade magic weapon. And it has ten thousand layers after being broken thirteen or four times. It is usually used to refine spiritual treasures. Just need it.
And the further it goes, the more time it takes. I would like to stop after seven or eight discounts, but I am afraid that the sword embryo is not pure enough, which will affect the success rate. "Jian explained.
The two of them were discussing like this, and the time for two cups of tea passed in the blink of an eye. Liangchen stood up and said,
"It's getting late, I have to go back to refine the war blade, and the longer the delay, the harder it will be for you to complete the task. That's it for today.
I'll help you think of any good solutions when I have time when I get back, so you don't have to be too anxious. Liangchen stood up and said.
"Thank you, Brother Ye." Ji An also stood up to see off the guests.
Just like that, I came to watch Ji'an sword making when I had some free time.
After two or three months of exploration, he really found several ways to save time.
The biggest saving is the smelting time. Considering that Liangchen's method of removing impurities is forging, the smelting time in the cauldron can be saved.
It is completely possible to put the materials into the cauldron for smelting in advance when the first war blade is about to be completed. After the first war blade is completed, you can continue to forge the second material after taking a short rest.
This saves nearly an hour.
It was just that the physical exertion on Ji'an was much greater. After several experiments, Ji'an found that he could forge three materials in a row, but he could no longer continue.
But even this saves a lot of time.
Liangchen bought a few more bottles of Lingjiao Dan and gave them to Ji'an, which made him extremely grateful.
Ji'an was finally able to complete nine pieces of materials, and the success rate of each war blade hovered around seven. When he was lucky, it was seven, and when he was not lucky, it was six. In this way, he could finally complete the task by himself.
What he didn't expect was that his help to Ji'an would quietly spread in private.
