Douluo Dragon King: Nine Dragons Break the Abyss

Chapter 77 Melting
A day later, Qiangu Qitian asked Yali for another short vacation.

The only downside to having too many teachers is that you have to explain several times when asking for leave.

The night before leaving, Qiangu Qitian handed a box to Leng Yulai.

"There are sixty 10-milliliter bottles of my blood in there. Remember to drink one every night."

This box is made of spiritual metal, with a low-temperature cooling soul guide array engraved inside, and is kept running by a soul guide core energy similar to a battery.

Leng Yulai took the box and put it aside.

Then he suddenly stood up, which scared Qiangu Qitian.

"Why are you so startled?"

After the kiss that day, the relationship between the two remained the same as before, without any change.

They both chose to "forget" the kiss tacitly.

"What are you afraid of?"

Leng Yulai said unhappily, taking two steps forward.

Leng Yulai was very tall, and Qiangu Qitian's head was only at her chin.

As the two were quite close to each other, Qiangu Qitian had to slightly raise his head to see Leng Yulai's aggressive eyes.

"Of course I'm scared." Qiangu Qitian said confidently, "I've already drawn more than 600 milliliters of blood in the past two days to prepare rations for you, and now the landlord has no surplus food."

It’s no wonder that Qiangu Qitian reacted, because Leng Yulai always had this look in his eyes before using the word “strong”.

It doesn't seem like one party is forcing the other. To put it figuratively, it's like the interest of a young couple playing the "S" and "M" role-playing game.

Nowadays, Qiangu Qitian’s role is often played by the “suppressant”.

But as it has been said before, things change over time, so don’t look down on the young and the poor.

It's not that there is no reversal, it's just that the time has not come yet.

Leng Yulai looked at the "tough" Qiangu Qitian in front of him and suddenly burst out laughing.

"Haha, I lied to you."

While Qiangu Qitian didn't react, Leng Yulai walked forward, bent down, and gently kissed Qiangu Qitian on the forehead.

This time, she did not touch and leave like last time. Instead, she stayed for several seconds before Leng Yulai let go of Qiangu Qitian.

She held up Qiangu Qitian's face, as if trying to imitate a gentle tone, but because she had never said it before, she spoke like a beginner who had just come into contact with a foreign language, with a voice and intonation like a robot:

"Okay, practice. I'll wait for you to come back."

Qiangu Qitian was speechless.

"Actually, you don't have to force yourself."

Leng Yulai thought that Qiangu Qitian was concerned about her, and she suddenly felt a warm current passing through her heart.

"You sound like a bionic robot produced by a factory without any certification. It doesn't even have a certification mark."

"I'm not the type to be gentle..."

"Little ghost, are you looking for death?"

The warmth in Leng Yulai's heart instantly turned into fuel to help her warm up. She hugged Qiangu Qitian with one hand and clenched her other hand into a fist, poking Qiangu Qitian so hard that he grimaced.

Qiangu Qitian would not surrender without a fight, he secretly pinched the soft flesh on Leng Yulai's waist with his small hands, exerted a little force, causing the latter to gasp in pain, thus making a contribution to the warming of the climate in Douluo Continent.

After playing around for a while, the two went back to their respective rooms to wash up.

However, when Qiangu Qitian was about to fall asleep, he vaguely felt that someone sneaked into his room.

He was very familiar with the smell of the person who came, so he ignored it.

Then, his consciousness gradually sank and Qiangu Qitian fell asleep.

……

The next day, at half past ten in the morning, Qiangu Qitian arrived at the headquarters building of the Tiandou City Blacksmith Association.

The fusion forging we are going to learn today is not a difficult technique to get started with. The difficult part of fusion forging is to master it.

In fact, it is extremely difficult to successfully forge a piece of pure metal.

Because it is difficult for metal to give birth to life and intelligence on its own, it is not as simple as imposing life on it artificially.

When life is born, a higher-level energy is generated, which involves the energy at the level of life laws.

Nowadays, it is difficult for anyone in the godless Douluo Continent to truly understand this kind of energy.

These energies are extremely huge for metals that have been given life.

If it can be accepted, the evolution of the life level is completed; the result of failure is that the metal completely becomes a dead object, which is what blacksmiths often call a failure.

If Qiangu Qitian had not been using the life energy in Jianmu to maintain and activate this special law energy, he would not dare to guarantee that his spiritual forging would be 100% successful.

Not everyone is a wall-hanger like Qiangu Qitian.

Not to mention most blacksmiths, even the best blacksmiths, the eighth-level saint craftsman, cannot guarantee that he can complete the spiritual forging 100% when forging pure metal.

After all, the strength of pure metal is still too poor.

In order to improve the success rate of spiritual forging, the predecessors in the forging industry found another way after countless generations of experiments.

That is, alloy.

The so-called alloy is the fusion of different metals in proportion, the forging of different metals into one, and the uniform formation, in order to improve their own quality and characteristics.

This process is called melt forging.

Moreover, the difficulty of melt forging is not the forging, but the formula.

Today, the formula for every alloy metal on Douluo Continent is the crystallization of countless precious metals and the blood and sweat of blacksmiths.

Alloy formulas are divided into two categories: common and rare. The rare type can be said to be a secret recipe that only a very few people know. The common type is commonly used on the mainland and most people know it. In the process of making alloys, the more types of rare metals are fused, the more difficult it is to forge, because there are more changes when they are fused together. The formula becomes more precious.

Generally speaking, alloys forged from two to three metals are mostly common types. Alloys forged from three or more metals are rare formulas. The more rare metals used in forging an alloy, the rarer the formula.

And Qiangu Qitian naturally doesn't have to worry about this problem.

Not to mention that there were some alloy formulas in the notes Muchen gave him, not to mention that his teacher Zhenhua, as a master craftsman, possessed quite a few alloy formulas; even if he relied on the strong financial resources of the Spirit Transmission Tower to buy it, Qiangu Qitian would definitely be able to obtain the alloy formula from a saint craftsman who was short of money.

When he walked into the forging room, he saw Zhenhua standing there waiting for him.

In addition, there is a familiar figure.

It was none other than Makino.

"Teacher, Uncle Ye."

"Xiaotian, come quickly and learn the basics of fusion forging from your teacher."

For some reason, Makino looked more excited than Zhenhua.

This made Zhenhua, who was standing beside him, hold his forehead with his hands.

Brother, are you so anxious to send the sect's secret techniques away?

"Muye, please go out first. It will take me a long time to teach Xiaotian Rongduan."

Zhenhua thought Muye was getting in the way and started to chase him away.

When he thought of his Xiaohong, Makino decided to follow the instructions of his sponsor and walked out the door quickly.

When passing by Qiangu Qitian, he gave Qiangu Qitian a look.

"I'll make you something delicious."

When he heard about delicious food, Qiangu Qitian's eyes lit up.

After Muye left, Zhenhua began to explain the basic principles of fusion forging to Qiangu Qitian.

"The most basic fusion forging is to combine two metals with different properties into one through forging. For example, when fusing sunken silver and magic silver, the final product is neither sunken silver nor magic silver, but a new name - jade silver."

"Jade silver has the toughness of sunken silver and the good soul power conduction performance of magic silver. It is the most commonly chosen base metal by elemental soul masters when creating battle armor."

"Two in one?" Qiangu Qitian asked, "Teacher, pouring two cups of different liquids together and stirring them together can make the two different liquids blend together faster. So is there any forging technique that can achieve this effect and make the metal blend better?"

Zhenhua was very satisfied with Qiangu Qitian's ability to draw inferences from one example.

He nodded and smiled, "Of course."

Zhenhua stretched out his two palms, put them together, and continued,
"My two hands are two pieces of metal ready for forging. If you want to achieve the effect you described, you only need to hit the side of the metal to make it rotate."

As he spoke, Zhenhua touched the side of the upper palm with his lower hand.

"By continuously applying a rotating force, the metal will produce a seemingly chaotic but regularly distributed vortex pattern during the fusion process. When these patterns become extremely fine, the metal will be able to achieve a perfect fusion effect."

"Perfect fusion? Does it mean the fusion degree is 100%?"

Zhenhua shook his head: "As long as the degree of fusion exceeds 60%, it is considered a success. After that, every 5% increase will increase the quality by a level, which means that this piece of metal can be integrated with another metal in the future. When it reaches 90%, then this piece of metal has the possibility of being forged by heaven, and we call it divine metal."

"Is there any metal that has achieved 100% fusion?"

Zhenhua smiled bitterly: "In theory, it does exist. But my highest fusion degree is only 98.7%. It is extremely difficult to increase it by one percentage point."

"I see."

Qiangu Qitian was a little disappointed.

He had originally planned to melt and forge the nine most powerful single-attribute elemental metals that exist today in the future, which would correspond exactly to the nine elements of his Panlong Stick martial spirit.

But after hearing what Zhenhua said, this plan was probably going to fail.

"Okay, let me show you the key points of fusion forging."

This time, Zhenhua did not teach the spirit forging in one go like he had done before. Instead, he broke down the entire process and explained each step clearly to Qiangu Qitian.

If there is anything he doesn't understand, Qiangu Qitian can ask Zhenhua directly.

It’s not that Zhenhua didn’t teach Qiangu Qitian with all his heart last time, but that a blacksmith cannot be distracted during the process of spiritual forging.

It is different from melt forging, to be precise it is the most basic melt forging.

In less than ten minutes, while Zhenhua was explaining the story to Qiangu Qitian, he had completed the jade silver that was forged from the heavy silver and the magic silver.

The volume of the jade silver is exactly the same as the previous block of sunken silver and the block of magic silver, but its weight is the sum of the two pieces of metal added together.

It looked like a crystal jade, with cloud patterns inside, as if mist was flowing through it. It had not been forged, but it was already full of life. The halo it emitted was light silver.

Zhenhua casually placed the jade silver on the instrument beside him to test the degree of fusion.

"Ninety-four point three percent."

hiss~
Qiangu Qitian took a deep breath.

He knew that Zhenhua was explaining to him while forging the metal just now. He was able to forge perfect molten metal by doing two things at the same time. Qiangu Qitian could only say that he was worthy of being a master craftsman.

The next period of time is the time for Qiangu Qitian to play freely.

Three hours later, Qiangu Qitian looked at the jade silver in front of him with a fusion degree of 60% and felt a little disappointed.

"Teacher, it seems I still need to practice."

Zhenhua, who was standing by, patted Qiangu Qitian on the shoulder and walked out of the house without saying a word.

Did you complete the fusion forging in the first practice?
Even if Zhenhua told others, no one would believe it.

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