Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 28 Mining at the Bottom of the River and Forging Swords on the Bank (Please continue reading and recommend!)

After the bottom layer of stone broke open, a lot of broken iron ore immediately emerged from the stone layer, and the slowly flowing lava river water rolled these ores forward.

Lu Cheng'an quickly collected the broken pieces of fiery iron ore and then swam towards the lava riverbank.

These flaming iron ores are just the initial raw stones. The flaming iron contained within them is not pure. It is necessary for a weapon refiner to quench the flaming iron from them to extract the pure flaming iron before it can be used to refine magical artifacts.

The amount of Fiery Iron Ore mined by Lu Cheng'an this time was relatively small, not enough to forge a Fiery Sword.

Therefore, after placing the molten iron ore on the riverbank, he re-entered the bottom of the lava river.

Lu Cheng'an finally stopped after making more than ten trips and mining enough flaming iron ore.

He climbed onto the riverbank, dressed, and then took the refining furnace out of his storage bag.

The furnace is divided into two parts: a smelting chamber and a quenching chamber.

The smelting room is used to forge the weapon blanks, while the tempering room is used to temper the rune arrays on the weapon blanks.

Lu Cheng'an placed the refining furnace on the lava river, then cast a spell with both hands. The surging earth fire in the lava river was drawn by the spell and slowly gathered at the bottom of the refining furnace.

This is a method of gathering fire recorded in the weapon-refining tradition. It requires Lu Cheng'an to expend some of his energy to perform, which increases the difficulty of refining magical artifacts.

If there is a completed weapon-refining room, there will be an array that automatically draws in the earth fire, which can reduce some of the pressure on the weapon refiner.

However, Fire Locust Mountain clearly does not have the conditions for refining such weapons.

As the Fire Gathering Technique was continuously applied, the earth fire gathered beneath the Qi Refining Furnace became increasingly fierce.

The scorching heat from the earth fire, under the influence of the rune array imprinted on the furnace, was all concentrated in the furnace's smelting chamber. At this point, the temperature in the smelting chamber reached an extremely terrifying level, much higher than the temperature in the lava river.

However, this scorching temperature had no effect on Lu Cheng'an, as his Fire Spirit Body made him completely unafraid of flames.

Once the temperature in the smelting chamber was sufficient, Lu Cheng'an placed the flaming iron ore into the chamber.

As the temperature in the smelting chamber continues to rise, the hard ore gradually becomes soft.

Lu Cheng'an was constantly observing the changes in the flaming iron ore with his divine sense, and occasionally casting out refining incantations.

These refining techniques are recorded in the Xu family's refining heritage and are specifically used to refine raw ore materials.

As time goes by, the impurities contained in the flaming iron ore are gradually refined out, and the flaming iron contained within becomes more and more refined.

Half an hour later, Lu Cheng'an took out the molten iron ore that had gathered in the smelting room and placed it on the smelting platform.

At this moment, he took out an iron hammer from his storage bag. This iron hammer was a magical artifact that was paired with the gas refining furnace, and it was specially used to quench ores and forge artifact blanks.

The hammer was heavy, but it seemed quite light in Lu Cheng'an's hands.

Lu Cheng'an swung his strong arms rapidly, hammering the iron ore repeatedly.

With each hammer blow, the deep-seated impurities contained in the molten iron ore are gradually being removed.

After repeatedly hammering it hundreds of times, Lu Cheng'an put away the iron hammer artifact and threw the cake-shaped flaming iron ore back into the smelting room to continue quenching it with the scorching temperature of the earth fire.

This was an extremely tedious process; the flaming iron ore needed to be repeatedly quenched to meet the standards for forging a magic sword. Lu Cheng'an spent three days refining the flaming iron ore.

Of course, he did not waste any time during this period of cultivation.

After the flaming iron ore was quenched, Lu Cheng'an put the pure flaming iron, along with some low-grade refined iron, into the smelting room to begin forging the embryo of the Fiery Blaze Sword.

The amount of spiritual materials required for a first-grade low-level magic weapon is not large. For example, for the first-grade low-level Flame Sword, the ratio of first-grade low-level Flame Iron to lower-grade refined iron is one to nine.

It is not true that using more first-grade low-grade flame iron will make the resulting Fiery Sword more powerful.

This ratio was derived by a high-level weapon refiner and cannot be changed arbitrarily.

Changing the refining process of the embryo will affect the subsequent quenching process.

The embryo of the Blazing Flame Sword was not difficult to forge; Lu Cheng'an successfully forged it in just two days.

This is the final step in crafting magical artifacts: tempering.

Tempering is the most difficult step in crafting magical artifacts; if tempering fails, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Moreover, a failed talisman array will also destroy the spirituality of the refining materials, directly turning the artifact blank into a pile of scrap iron.

Previously, Lu Cheng'an had failed at the tempering step in every attempt to forge refined iron magic swords.

"Both the Blazing Flame Sword and the Refined Iron Sword are first-tier low-grade magic swords. The two rune arrays that these two first-tier low-grade magic swords need to be tempered are the same. The only difference is that the Blazing Flame Sword needs to be tempered with the Flame Spirit Rune Array, while the Refined Iron Sword needs to be tempered with the Armor-Piercing Rune Array."

The two identical rune arrays are the Spirit Gathering Rune Array and the Sharpness Rune Array, and almost all magic swords need to be tempered using these two rune arrays.

The different powers exerted by magical artifacts are mainly due to the rune arrays refined within them.

Previously, when Lu Cheng'an was forging the refined iron magic sword, he had already tempered the spirit gathering talisman array and the sharpness talisman array many times. He originally planned to forge the blazing flame magic sword, so he also practiced tempering the flame spirit talisman array.

Of course, because he had never forged the Blazing Flame Sword, his mastery of the Flame Spirit Array was not as good as that of the Gathering Spirit Array and the Sharpness Array.

Lu Cheng'an did not hesitate for long; he remained very calm.

Because the lava river contains a large quantity of flaming iron ore and fire-refined gold stone, he is not afraid of failing in his crafting process, since he has an inexhaustible supply of crafting materials.

Perhaps it was because Lu Cheng'an held this attitude that he was able to forge the Blazing Flame Sword very smoothly. After spending most of the day, he successfully tempered the three rune arrays of Gathering Spirit, Sharpness, and Flame Spirit on the weapon blank.

This does not mean the end of the crafting process. After the pattern is successfully quenched, the artifact blank still needs to be repeatedly quenched in magma water.

Only when the runes within a magical artifact remain intact after repeated tempering can it be considered a complete success in its crafting.

Of course, if the runes imprinted on the magic weapon malfunction during the tempering process, the weapon refiner can repair it in time. As long as the repair is successful, the magic weapon will be fine.

Lu Cheng'an spent another three days repeatedly tempering the Blazing Flame Sword in the lava river, and finally successfully forged the second magical artifact of his life.

"The Blazing Flame Sword is the second type of magical weapon I can forge. My weapon forging progress has increased by two points, as shown in the attribute panel!"

After seeing the changes on the attribute panel, Lu Cheng'an couldn't help but sigh.

I'd like to ask for names for the rune arrays, and it would be best if you could also include their functions (ω).
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