The blacksmith shop Zhang Yan was looking for was the largest in Langyuan City. It was said that there were many branches in Nanyuan Kingdom, and they operated a series of goods channels from raw materials to finished products. It was also Zhang Yan who came to Zhou Cang's door after asking for information.
With Zhou Cang's introduction and Zhang Yan's current status as a guest teacher at the Wushu Academy, the shopkeeper of the blacksmith shop did not dare to deal with it. After reporting the news, I started looking for it in shops and mines all over the place. Due to time constraints, there are only more than ten kinds that have been put together and handed to Zhang Yan. There are basically some ores that are related to "special". There are some that can be used, and some that are considered scraps in the shop. I don’t know if these can satisfy Zhang Yan.
However, Professor Zhang was really generous in his actions. That’s a lot of money just to look for. This is what the shopkeeper thought in his heart.
Zhang Yan's expression remained unchanged, but he listened very carefully, followed the shopkeeper's introduction, and picked up the dishes with the same perception and discrimination.
Although he can't even be called a weapon refiner, the understanding he gained during this period of time allowed Zhang Yan to enter the door with half a foot, and he was not a layman who didn't know anything. Just simply compare the properties of the numerous materials recorded in the classics on weapon refining. This is not difficult, just a little troublesome.
"This... um... brittle iron stone is a bit interesting. Do you encounter it often?"
After the shopkeeper finished the introduction, he heard Zhang Yan pick up a black stone in the box and asked with a smile, and he quickly replied with a smile: "Many! This brittle iron stone is often found in iron ore, and its appearance is almost the same, so it is often mistaken. , if you are lucky, you can still find it during the screening before entering the furnace. If you are careless, mixing this thing into the furnace can destroy the entire furnace. It is extremely annoying. And this thing can only produce brittle iron when refined alone. It’s useless. But it definitely fits the special word I taught you to say.”
It is indeed very special. It looks like iron ore, and things can be made using iron-making methods, but it is so brittle that it breaks when touched. It's not like people in the Wild Sky Realm haven't thought about this thing, but they can't find any use for it. So this thing is a very special but very useless example. Due to time constraints, the shopkeeper also used it to make up the number. After all, it would be difficult to explain to Zhang Yan if the number of samples was small.
"It's indeed special." Zhang Yan smiled, feeling unexpectedly surprised. Because he found in his mind a corresponding material recorded in the weapon refining classics that was considered the best material in the Earth's legendary era: iron crystal.
There is only one word difference between iron crystal and iron essence, but they are two completely different things. Like gold essence, iron essence is a common weapon-refining main material extracted from iron using refining methods. The grade is not high, and it is mostly used to cast the main body of low-level magic weapons. Although the iron crystal is just one word different, it is infinitely more precious than the iron essence.
Even using the iron-making method to smelt iron crystals is a huge waste, because it is only a semi-finished product that is half-smelted. So the finished product is not crisp enough! Special techniques for refining are required to bring out its "brittle" characteristics to the extreme, so that the purest iron crystals can be obtained.
Why does it need to be "crisp"?
Because for some things, brittle actually means harder! Its brittleness is just because its hardness has reached a certain extreme, but it lacks toughness and cannot maintain the overall structure when resisting impact. Iron crystal has very stubborn independent characteristics and is extremely difficult to be compatible and complementary with other things, so it is regarded as "waste".
Even though it is called "iron crystal", it actually has nothing to do with metal. They just look alike.
Of course, since iron crystal can be called "the best material" in the classics of weapon refining, there must be corresponding refining techniques to tame it.
If you don't tolerate one thing, you are independent, right? Then make a few more, first make a special material suitable for iron crystals to be integrated into, and then add iron crystals into it. In that case, the super hardness of the iron crystal can find complementary toughness. This is also the best refining method for weapon-like weapons that pursue hardness and toughness.
"How can I sell this kind of brittle iron stone if I want to collect it in large quantities?"
"A large amount? May I ask how much the teacher is planning to collect? If it weighs tens or hundreds of kilograms, I can make the final decision to send it to the teacher. If it's more, I'll have to take a closer look." The shopkeeper didn't mince words either. Although he didn't know what Zhang Yan could do with this thing. But that didn't stop him from giving a clear answer immediately.
It's not worth anything. If it costs a hundred pounds, I'll just give it to you. But if it is more, labor money will be inevitable, and there may be some business that can be done in it. After all, he is a businessman. When it is said to be waste material, it is because it cannot be sold for money, so it is "waste". When it can be sold for money, it is no longer "waste material".
In fact, it can be seen that the number of iron crystals in the Wild Sky Realm is far greater than that on the earth. It can even be said to be extremely unusual here. God knows how many there are in the entire wilderness?
Just a hundred pounds of iron crystal ore? How many iron crystals can be produced by using them? And this is not a one-time deal, there will be long-term demand in the future.
Moreover, it is impossible for Zhang Yan to open a blast furnace and revolve around iron crystal ore all day long.
"Not just one or two hundred kilograms of ore, but perhaps a hundred or ten kilograms of brittle iron smelted in a blast furnace at one time. And I will need it from time to time. I can ask you to keep it for me and help me refine it when I want it. Just calculate the cost for your account, and you can’t let your account lose money.”
"Ah? Refined brittle iron? It costs about a hundred kilograms at a time?! Tutor, you may not know that one kilogram of brittle iron requires hundreds of kilograms of brittle iron ore. These hundreds of kilograms of brittle iron... ...Are you really kidding me?”
Although there is a lot of brittle iron ore, it is only an associated mineral species after all. There is no way to dig out baskets one by one by drilling down a set of mine tunnels. They can only be picked out during the terminal beneficiation. It is actually not easy to collect a hundred pounds. Smelting one pound of brittle iron is so troublesome, but Zhang Jiaoxi said he wanted to make a hundred pounds of brittle iron. Are you sure this is not a joke?
Zhang Yan didn't waste any time and nodded directly to show that he was serious.
"This..." The shopkeeper's mind changed, and he quickly came up with a set of business tips in his mind. Then he followed Zhang Yan with a smile and talked about things like the scarcity of brittle iron ore, and how smelting brittle iron would damage the blast furnace. . When he finally took out the price in his mind, he found that Zhang Yan accepted the offer without even paying the price, and then realized that he seemed to be too timid.
It was agreed that a batch of ten kilograms of brittle iron would be delivered in three days. Zhang Yan paid the remuneration for the previous ore search and gave a deposit for the first batch of brittle iron. Then he left the blacksmith shop and went to a not too far away one. A big jewelry store.
Zhang Yan collected the gold nuggets here before. Later, I asked the other party to find some strange stones.
It was similar to the situation at the blacksmith shop before. Naturally, the most common thing in a jewelry store is all kinds of beautiful stones. The more beautiful the stone, the more "gem" it is, and the more expensive it will be.
It was among these bright stones that Zhang Yan discovered another unexpected surprise: spiritual stones.
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