Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 296 Too difficult

After getting the three materials of gold, silver and copper, Chen Xuan asked Su Roujia to work on it by herself and not to disturb her, and then he started to make the bell.

He first grabbed a handful of copper coins and weighed them, about a pound. Then he opened his other hand, a slightly dazzling light flashed, and a blue flame rose in his palm. In the blink of an eye, it grew bigger until it was the size of a ping-pong ball before stopping.

This scene seemed magical, but it was only the crude application of martial arts by circulating true energy at the Grandmaster level, and it was not enough to reflect the extraordinary nature of this level.

But don’t underestimate this small blue flame fireball. A congenital master like Liu Zhenwei would have been burned to ashes if he had been exposed to it!
Moreover, the astonishing heat it emitted was also controlled by Chen Xuan in a small area above his palm. The surrounding air was distorted like paste. If this kind of heat was not controlled and allowed to run rampant, the high temperature generated would be enough to burn the surrounding area.

The methods used at the Grandmaster level, no matter how casual they were, were extremely terrifying to those below this level. If they were not controlled, it would be a disaster within a certain range. Especially if there were any residual effects after the use of one's own martial arts will, that area would be extremely dangerous for a period of time.

This is also why you rarely see masters fighting in the martial arts world. The innate realm is the mainstream, and more often it is the stage for the acquired realm, where large-scale destruction is caused at any time, which can be called a mobile disaster.

When you step into the realm of a master, your spiritual will is combined with your true energy, and you can perform your methods smoothly and smoothly, and accurately control the power and range of the methods. The invisible and intangible spiritual will is the key, which can achieve extraordinary things that are difficult for ordinary people to understand.

For example, at this moment, if Chen Xuan had not controlled the small fireball in his palm with his mental will, his newly built home would probably have been burned to ashes.

Chen Xuan knows a lot of martial arts, including martial arts with characteristics of ice, heat, lightning, etc. The true energy cultivated by Ze Yuan Jue can be circulated through different routes to perform corresponding martial arts, and this fireball is just a superficial application of one of them called Seven Revolutions Flame Sun Palm.

This palm technique has a total of seven levels, corresponding to seven turns. The power increases greatly with each level. Now, even with his Grandmaster level of cultivation, he can only perform the fourth turn and below. It's not that he can't practice the fourth turn and above, but his cultivation is not enough to perform it.

What he has displayed now is only the first level, which can be displayed in the acquired realm. However, with his current level of cultivation, even the first level is extremely terrifying. After all, the power of martial arts increases with the improvement of cultivation. The simplest first level is enough to play with it in many ways, and he can do whatever he wants.

At this moment, the blue fireball in his palm was like a blooming flower, beautiful and deadly, forming a blue flame like a peony. At the same time, he threw about a pound of copper coins into it for calcination. In the blink of an eye, it melted into a ball of bright white copper water, and the impurities in it were burned away.

Quickly remove the blue flame and let the molten copper cool down naturally. If it burns a little longer, the molten copper will be burned out.

In the past, a congenital master like Hu Feng could use his fiery martial arts to melt sand into lava, but now Chen Xuanrong's copper coin is simply insignificant.

"What happened, Master?" Su Roujia, who was planting vegetables not far away, noticed the flickering light here and asked in confusion.

Chen Xuan waved his hand and said, "It's okay, just focus on your own things, don't be so surprised."

She said "oh" and continued to work, not daring to ask any more questions.

"I underestimated myself. I didn't control the temperature well enough. The power was still a bit too strong. I have to be more careful next time."

Thinking about it, after a while, when the copper liquid cooled naturally, Chen Xuan got a solid copper ball weighing about one kilogram. Then a blue flame appeared in his palm again. He no longer touched the copper ball directly. From a distance of several inches, the high temperature emitted by the flame burned the copper ball to a reddish and white color that was visibly visible to the naked eye.

'Although I don't have any tools, my hands are the best tools.' Thinking of this, he removed the flame, covered his hands with a layer of true energy that was invisible to the naked eye, and pinched the whitish copper ball into a copper bar.

Then it was folded in half, cooled, heated, and then folded in half again. This process lasted forty-nine times. The number of stacked layers of the copper bar had reached an astonishing level.

This is not the end. After being folded forty-nine times, it is allowed to cool naturally, heated again, and then rotated and twisted at different angles. In short, Chen Xuan strictly follows the production process left to him by Lao Liu.

After an hour or so, he obtained a copper bar covered with complex textures. Upon closer inspection, he found that those textures had a very special arrangement, which was both beautiful and mysterious.

At this stage, he was only doing the preliminary processing of materials for making the bell. He had no idea of ​​the principle or why he had to do this. This was his first time to learn about refining equipment, and it was even the most basic part. He didn't understand it at all and just followed the steps strictly.

Or maybe you will understand it naturally as you gain more experience.

After the copper material covered with complex textures was processed, Chen Xuan heated it again. The next step was to shape it. There could not be any mistakes, otherwise all the previous efforts would be wasted and he would have to start all over again.

To avoid mistakes, Chen Xuan once again told Su Roujia not to disturb him, and then began to shape it carefully. He didn't dare to touch it himself, but controlled his true energy as a tool to perform delicate operations of "knocking and hammering" in the air, strictly according to the size, shape, weight and thickness in his mind.

After a while, when it cooled, he had a copper bell three and a half inches tall, shaped like a trumpet with a width of two inches. Its inner and outer surfaces were covered with extremely complex and beautiful patterns. Although it was called a copper bell, it had no internal impact part and was actually more like a small copper bell.

Looking at the small copper bell in his hand, it was at best a semi-finished product. Chen Xuan looked at it inch by inch, comparing it with the details that Lao Liu left him in his mind. After a moment, he collapsed in the chair, what a piece of crap.

Even though it was only a semi-finished product, the textures on many parts of it didn't match. He had been careful enough, but mistakes still occurred. This thing was a thousand miles off by a hair's breadth, so there was no point in continuing.

"In the end, after working so hard for so long, I got nothing." Chen Xuan was speechless.

His talent in martial arts is astonishing, but other aspects are really disappointing. For example, when he was refining the elixir, it took him seven years to slowly accumulate and work hard, but now he can only make some mid-to-low-level elixirs. Refining equipment is no simpler than refining the elixir. I wonder how long it will take him to reach the threshold.

Anyway, the half-finished bell he had worked so hard on was definitely scrap, so he just crushed it into a lump and threw it aside. There was no need to modify it at all, as its internal structure had already been finalized, so he might as well start over with the raw materials.

"Don't you say that scientific research burns money? This refining is no different from scientific research. And the gold, silver and copper here are linked to money."

After working hard for a long time and getting nothing out of it, Chen Xuan took a break, had a meal and continued. Experience is accumulated, and if you don't have the talent, you can only rely on hard work. He didn't believe that he couldn't make a few bells. It would just take some time.

During the second operation in the afternoon, Chen Xuan picked up the waste again and melted it into copper liquid raw materials. It couldn't be wasted. It was all money. If he didn't save it, he would not have enough money to burn in the future.

After a series of operations, he still couldn't get a semi-finished product that matched it. The problem still lay in the texture details. That thing was really hard to control. It was not meant to be used as a bell, but to be used to set up an array. Any mistake would prevent it from producing the desired effect. However, waste products also have their uses, and they can be used to practice the next step of operation.

Then I tried it for the third time, but it still didn’t work…

The day just passed by like this, so I went to bed. Since I don’t have the talent, I can only try to correct the mistakes bit by bit.

For the next four or five days, Chen Xuan was busy with this matter in his spare time. As the number of times increased, his experience also accumulated, and his control over details became more refined. The repeated failures made him a little haggard, not physically exhausted, but mentally exhausted.

It was so difficult that even a Grandmaster like him became haggard. Of course, his talent was mostly due to his astonishing talent. The profession of weapon refining was a true portrayal of the journey from entry to death.

More than ten kilograms of copper coins were used, that's all money.

It was too difficult, but he did not give up. He had to find something to do, otherwise it would be more comfortable to just let the grass grow. This was also a way to exercise his patience.

It was not until the eighth day after he started that he finally produced a complete semi-finished product. Whether it was the size, texture, thickness or weight, it matched the details instilled in him by Lao Liu.

But this is only a half-finished product...

"It was really not easy. It took me eight days to make the first semi-finished product, and this set consists of nine. Although each one is of similar size, the details are different. It's a headache. But I have accumulated considerable experience before, so it will be much easier to make the other eight semi-finished products later." In the pavilion, Chen Xuan looked at the semi-finished small bells on the stone table and sighed in his heart.

This set of nine bells is called the Nine-tone Soul-Calming Bells. The finished set can be arranged into a special area above the mechanism where the formation is not complete. The so-called soul-calming means that the souls of those who die in this area can rest in peace. Isn't it soul-calming? If someone below the innate level accidentally enters, no matter who it is, they will not know how they died. Even if a master of the innate level breaks into the area, his life will be in danger if he does not leave in time. Anyway, that's what the introduction says, and the specific result depends on the final result.

The area where the finished product is arranged is dangerous, but if someone knows the reason, it is easy to solve. After all, the bells themselves are very fragile, and destroying one of them will make it useless. It is good for guarding the house or ambushing people.

At the moment, it is only a semi-finished product, and there is only one of it. Of course, it cannot be used to set up an array. Chen Xuan took it in his hand, holding a thin needle with a slight edge on the needle, and then began to meticulously carve on the surface and inside of the semi-finished bell, using the thin needle to carve out shallow lines and grooves, which looked complex and mysterious.

There couldn't be any mistakes either, as the depth, angle, and size were all very important. Fortunately, his hands were steady, and he had practiced on semi-finished products many times before, so he could do it in one go. This was much simpler than the uncontrollable texture of the bell itself.

There are two groove lines carved by the fine needles, which are intertwined but not crossed, connected end to end, and cover the entire inner and outer surfaces of the bell.

"It looks like a texture or a mysterious symbol, but it also has a circuit diagram feel to it."

Looking at the still unfinished bell, Chen Xuan had this thought in his mind...

(End of this chapter)