As soon as he arrived outside the gate, he heard the rhythmic sound of blacksmithing reaching his ears.
The entire shop is made of a kind of black mountain stone, with the words Wan Lian Fang hanging on the door. A sharp aura came to him, and Ye Bai walked in with a smile on his face.
A tall, fat and honest man in his twenties stood at the front desk and immediately stepped forward to greet someone when he saw someone coming in.
"Hello, my name is Ye Bai. I'm looking for Teacher Zhao Cheng. Is he here?" Ye Bai saw the man approaching and asked directly before he could speak.
"Yes, yes! You are the junior brother Ye Bai that the master said! Yesterday I heard the master talking about you. I am your third senior brother Feng Ying. If you need anything in the future, you can come to me."
Feng Ying's enthusiasm and honesty made him feel dazed for a moment. After all, this was the first time he encountered friendship between people of the same age, but he quite liked it.
"Hello, Third Senior Brother."
Ye Bai's response made him even happier. He pulled him towards the back hall and took him to find the teacher.
"I am the youngest among the brothers. Master used to call me Xiaosan. From now on, I will be the youngest when you come here."
Feng Ying told him some interesting stories, and Ye Bai listened quietly, occasionally replying.
The two chatted casually on the road, and as the sound of blacksmithing got closer and closer, they also came to the backyard.
The entire backyard is unexpectedly wide, covering an area of several hundred square meters. The ground is flatly paved with white rocks. There are furnaces on the left and right sides. There is a large red furnace in the center, which is burning with red fire. Even though the distance was relatively far away, Ye Bai could still feel the burning sensation.
At this time, Zhao Cheng and a tall and lanky young man were watching a big man forge weapons, and kept tempering the dragon-grained steel that had just been taken out of the furnace. After being burned by the fire in the furnace, the dragon-grained steel gradually became malleable.
The big man kept adding supplementary ingredients. The dragon-patterned steel is exposed to the air, and the high temperature makes the surrounding air hot. A traditional dragon-patterned sword is slowly formed, and finally quenched with extremely cold ice spirit water. This operation needs to be carried out nine times, and in the last When the weapon is tempered, the weapon finally takes shape. It is called the Nine Spirits Forging Method.
Of course, if cracks appear during this process, the weapon will be considered useless.
Tsk~
With the contact between the two heavens of ice and fire, bursts of thick smoke rose up. This was already his ninth quenching. The big man picked up the already formed dragon pattern sword and handed it to Zhao Cheng.
The tall and lanky young man on the left took the weapon in advance and watched with Zhao Cheng.
After Zhao Cheng watched it for a while, he was not in a hurry to comment. He waved to the two people behind him, motioning for them to come over. Then introduce it to everyone.
"This is the fourth child, your junior brother. This kid doesn't have any relatives here. You should take more care of him from now on." Zhao Cheng pointed at Ye Bai and introduced him.
"You should also know Xiaosan Feng Ying. This is your senior brother Wan Kong on the left, and your second senior brother Wan Ming is on the right. They are brothers."
"Hello, senior brother, hello second senior brother."
Ye Bai immediately greeted him respectfully and observed the two senior brothers.
The second senior brother is the tall and thin young man, and the first senior brother is indeed a strong and serious man, who looks very similar to his teacher. But I feel like I should be more honest than the teacher. Ye Bai thought to himself.
"Hello, junior brother." The second senior brother responded to Ye Bai in a hoarse voice.
"Hello." The senior brother nodded calmly and responded.
The few of them got to know each other simply. Zhao Cheng held up his wine gourd and handed it to Ye Bai with a smile.
"Come on, let's take a sip first. This is the official introduction. My master asked me to take a sip in the same way at the beginning, so I stayed in this bad habit.
Ye Bai looked at the people beside him who were laughing wildly with a wry smile. Even his senior brother raised the corners of his mouth. He took the wine gourd and took a decisive sip. The spicy taste stimulated his senses.
"It's great! This is the first time I feel like this."
Ye Bai looked at the wine gourd happily, and then took another sip, which made the people next to him laugh even more cheerfully.
"It seems there are going to be a lot of little drunkards among us." Zhao Cheng said with a smile.
"Looks like I need more drinking buddies." Wan Ming said happily.
Zhao Cheng called a few people together and prepared to explain to them the newly forged dragon pattern sword. He placed the weapon across his chest and looked at it. The surface had a ripple-like texture, which was formed through repeated folding techniques.
Then a sword was swung out, and with a burst of spiritual energy, the stone pier a few meters away cracked. After a few taps, a clear sound like a dragon's roar came.
"It's not bad. This is a top-quality magic weapon made by your senior brother Wan Kong himself. Both the conductivity and sharpness of the spiritual energy have reached the pinnacle of top-quality magic weapons..."
He explained the advantages and disadvantages of this dragon pattern sword to everyone, and then asked a few people to leave, leaving a confused Ye Bai beside him. A few people naturally knew that the teacher was going to talk about some basic things alone next.
"Xiao Bai, you don't have any basic knowledge at the moment. Let me tell you some basic knowledge about weapon refining first."
"Okay, teacher." Ye Bai nodded in agreement and immediately listened carefully.
Afterwards, Zhao Cheng explained it step by step in an eloquent manner, and he understood it quickly, which made Zhao Cheng feel a lot more relaxed.
"The weapon refining process involves selecting materials, purifying them with real fire or earthly fire, then condensing the main materials into embryos, and adding auxiliary materials in between. The order must not be mistaken, then forging into weapons, then quenching and finally tempering."
"Doesn't it sound difficult?" Zhao Cheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Ye Bai who was thinking seriously, wanting to hear his understanding.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Bai said: "The control of the fire temperature, the strength during forging, and the proportion of materials when adding, etc., are all not accomplished in a day."
Zhao Cheng nodded happily. Ye Bai's intelligence made him very happy and praised: "Although it is not comprehensive, it is not bad. This is just a basic magical weapon. When you refine the spiritual weapon, you will Spiritual prohibitions must be engraved on the weapons.”
"Spiritual Confinement? What is that?" Ye Bai asked.
"Spiritual ban is a kind of restriction that can enhance the power of weapons. There are three kinds of spiritual bans, such as ordinary bans, spiritual fire bans, and flying swords. They can release spiritual fire to disturb the enemy when fighting against them. There are also stronger earth evil bans later. As well as the Tiangang prohibition. Each type of prohibition has different effects."
As Zhao Cheng explained step by step, he also had a simple understanding.
"Of course, there is no way for magical weapons to be engraved with spiritual taboos, and only spiritual weapons containing spirituality are qualified to be engraved."
"When each spiritual weapon is successfully refined, it will be engraved with one or more spiritual taboos." After saying this, Zhao Cheng took out two jade slips from the ring and handed them to him.
"This one records hundreds of divine training styles, and the other one records spiritual restraints, including more than 200 ordinary spiritual restraints and three earthly evil restraints."
"It will be much faster for you to learn spiritual restraint. After all, this thing is also a way to use inscriptions. That's why I said before that formations and weapon refining have some similarities."
Ye Bai suddenly understood and nodded, then Zhao Cheng led him to the furnace in the middle, where several senior brothers were also practicing.
Zhao Cheng picked up a piece of the most common black iron steel, which is a commonly used material for forging low-grade magical weapons.
The black iron steel melted at a speed visible to the naked eye under the burning of the earth fire, softening the entire body into red. Zhao Cheng took out his spiritual energy Ten Thousand Hammer and began to beat it.
The hundreds of divinely forged moves were danced by him smoothly, from the first move to the thirty-sixth move, every strike crushed the impurities of the black iron steel, and the rhythmic strike also beat into Ye Bai's heart.
Finally, Zhao Cheng drank it loudly, and the black iron steel was completely tempered. The outer layer had a bright black luster, and the whole body shrank. At this time, the black iron steel could already be called iron essence.
Several senior brothers nearby also ran past and gathered around to watch.
"As expected of a master, I was able to beat him perfectly into an iron spirit with just thirty-six moves. I don't know how long it will be before I have this mastery." Wan Ming shook his head and sighed.
Wan Kong also felt the same way. They still had a long way to go, and Feng Ying also nodded with a smile.
"Okay, stop flattering me. Brother, I have told you more than once. When you hammer down, don't drop it randomly without purpose. Every hammer must know why it lands here. As long as you practice more carefully, you will be able to reach this point. It’s not even half-assed.”
Zhao Cheng took a sip of strong wine and laughed and scolded Wan Ming. This guy usually liked to cheat.
When Wan Ming saw his master turning on the sage mode again and started nagging, he immediately made an excuse to go to the furnace to practice, and the other two people quickly ran away.
Carrying the gourd, Zhao Cheng took Ye Bai to the furnace and began to guide him step by step on how to forge iron.
