Slow and immortal

Chapter 59

Chapter 59

Since Xiao Yao has made up her mind to learn how to refine weapons, she must learn from the very basics.There is still more than a month before the Qi Refining Sect accepts the named disciples, so she decided to explore it first to learn about the refining process.

Among the five major skills of alchemy, weapon refining, talisman, formation and beast control, weapon refining has always been the most difficult to get started.Unlike the other four skills, as long as you want to learn, as long as you are not an idiot, you can basically learn it. Naturally, it is another matter to improve.

Just talking about refining tools, before learning, you must understand the most important and only limiting condition for getting started: strength.Different from the other four skills, refining equipment is both mental work and physical work.It is divided into four parts: billet casting, furnace smelting, grinding and forming.Among these four parts, the billet is the most critical.The billet casting process is somewhat similar to forging iron, which requires the billet to be tempered to remove impurities.The whole process is boring and repeated, and it must be supported by strong strength, otherwise it will only fail during the billet casting process or there will be too many impurities after casting, and it can only be regarded as a waste product.It should be known that monks do not practice body training, and this only condition has turned away many monks who want to learn how to refine weapons.But Xiao Yao was different. After re-cultivation, the physical body tempered by absorbing immortal energy was extremely powerful.If it is only about strength, she Xiao Yao dares to recognize the second, fearing that no one would dare to recognize the first.

After gaining a general understanding of some common sense, she began to prepare the items needed for the refining tool.The ancients said: just talk but not practice fake moves, in any skill, in addition to paying attention to technical talent, the word "practice" is the most important thing.

She bought a large amount of the lowest-level black iron and some low-level monster skeletons from the market place of Xianyumen, as well as hammers and furnaces for billet casting, etc., and the miscellaneous things cost her more than a hundred yuan. Pin Lingshi.This big expense made her heartache for a long time.In the end, I caught a glimpse of an ordinary alchemy furnace in the store with a price tag of several hundred middle-grade spirit stones, and then I touched the furnace in my hand with less than 60 yuan of middle-grade spirit stones, and felt relieved.

After these things were brought back, they almost filled Xiao Yao's narrow cave.After checking again to make sure there were no omissions, she took out two jade slips from the storage bag.These two jade slips both talk about the skills and methods of how to cast billets. Although the results seem to be the same, the methods used are completely different.

One of the jade slips was given by the little old man Wu after she formed the alchemy.The method described in this note is very different from another method that is most widely circulated in the industry.The traditional method pays attention to spiritual consciousness, and the sharing of spiritual power and strength can afford part of the physical exertion.However, the jade slip given by Old Wu has his own set of theories: it is only necessary to use strong force during the whole casting process to reduce the consumption of spiritual consciousness, because spiritual power and spiritual consciousness will be consumed a lot when it comes to the furnace refining step.Among them, it also involves the exquisite standing posture, pace and strength when casting slabs.If you follow the method described, you must have the power to pull mountains and rivers to be competent.Xiao Yao doesn't care, she only cares which method has the best casting effect, so both are willing to give it a try and see what the result is.

After igniting the furnace, she put the black iron into the furnace. After smelting for a certain period of time, she clamped the softened black iron. With the sound of "dang dang dang", she began to repeat the boring physical work as described in the jade slip.

Day after day, Xiao Yao repeated the process of casting billets without sleep.At the beginning, there will always be situations where the strength is not well grasped, the force is too light or too heavy, and the feet are full of defective products that are scrapped due to too many impurities or broken due to too much force.On the tenth day, Xiao Yao finally forged a decent sword blank.Satisfied, she held it in her hand and gestured twice.

The saber-toothed leopard, who had been doing nothing for several days, also looked up and commented: "I finally figured out a decent blank, but in my opinion, it's still a bit of rubbish, and it can be broken with a little blow."

This kind of basic material is only used to practice hands, how tough can it be?Xiao Yao didn't bother to pay attention to its mouth farting, and picked up a piece of black iron and threw it into the furnace. The feeling has not yet disappeared. If you practice a few more times, you must let your body remember the control of strength.

Seeing that she was going to continue, Saber-toothed Leopard looked a little weird: "Don't take a break? Then at least tidy up your appearance, do you think you are still a woman?"

Xiao Yao was slightly taken aback, only then did she notice that the right half of her upper body shirt had been withdrawn to her waist at some point, only the left half was still hanging on her shoulders, most of the pink bellyband was exposed to the air, and the spring scenery was boundless.The right hand holding the sledgehammer was also dirty, with sweat stains all over his body.She suddenly realized why those blacksmiths were working naked and with their upper body exposed. She would only know it after experiencing it herself. It turned out that it was too hot.

"It's okay, let's talk about it after I forge these billets. Even if I do it now, I still have to take it off later."

She wiped off her sweat and continued to forge the black iron.The saber-toothed leopard stopped talking and just watched quietly.

After repeated smelting and beating in this way, Xiao Yao's mastery of strength when casting billets is becoming more and more perfect, and her technology is also constantly improving.She also found that if the billet was cast according to the jade slip method given by Wu Xiaolaoer, the quality of the finished billet was much higher than that of the traditional method, and it could be said that the impurities in the billet were almost completely removed.Although the energy spent is dozens of times that of the traditional method, but because no consciousness and spiritual energy are used, even if the physical strength is slightly stronger, the spirit is still full.What's more, it's not a waste to Xiao Yao at all.But traditional methods are not enough, both physically and mentally exhausted, and mental exhaustion is often more tiring than physical exhaustion.

Xiao Yao has the least lack of strength, so comparing the pros and cons of the two, she is more inclined to the method proposed by Wu Xiaolaoer Yujian.In the end, I practiced this method with all my heart and soul, and abandoned the traditional methods.Finally, after one month passed, Xiao Yao's black iron was almost exhausted, so she stopped practicing.

At this moment, there is a black iron sword blank more than one foot long on the stone bed, which is Xiao Yao's last achievement in this month.If you ask a master craftsman to inspect this piece of blank, you will be surprised to find that such a mottled mineral material like black iron can be de-quality and purified into nearly [-]% pure black iron!What kind of powerful force is needed to do this? !
But Xiao Yao was not satisfied, she even felt that after practicing this method for a hundred years or a thousand years, she should be able to remove the quality and purify [-]% pure black iron from it.

The saber-toothed leopard, who had been watching from the sidelines, also loosened its muscles and bones, jumped onto the stone bed, patted the sword blank with its claws and asked her, "This is the final result of your one-month practice? How can you tell if it's good or bad?"

Xiao Yao smiled at it: "You can tell it just by looking at it."

And took one of the defective products piled up as high as a hill.When she brought up the final blank and cut it towards the defective product, she only heard a "嘡啷", and the defective product broke into two pieces.She went on to take another blank cast by traditional methods.It was still cut, and after a "clang", a crack clearly visible to the naked eye appeared on the body of the blank. After all, this time it was a blank and not a defective product.

"This is the level of casting I have practiced for a month. As for how far I have reached, I should be able to know when I arrive at Shifang's 'Xuehai Wuya'. The time seems to be almost here, and we should prepare to run to Langyafang one trip."

After finishing speaking, she tidied up her clothes, put the sword blank into the storage bag, and after adjusting her breath, she left the cave with the sabre-toothed leopard.

When she visited Langyafang again, she didn't change her appearance like last time, and she even put on the obvious robe of a disciple of Xianyumen.After all, she did not learn the craft of refining tools just to forge the magic weapon of her life, but also planned to rely on refining tools to earn spirit stones. Naturally, she had to use her real body, so that she could avoid being watched by some dogs when she learned something. A lowly villain should be pinched as a soft persimmon.

The situation of going to Langyafang for the second time is slightly different from the first time.Everything is due to the ethos in the world of cultivating immortals. The last time I lowered my cultivation level was just a casual cultivator in the foundation building period, and no one in the market paid attention to it.Now she is wearing the Taoist robe of an inner disciple of the Xianyu Sect, and she is also a monk of the Golden Core Stage.The prestige and strength of the school made many monks pay attention with friendly eyes.

Xiao Yao did not linger on the main street, but went straight to the compound of "Xuehai Wuya".Arriving at the outer courtyard of "Xue Hai Wu Bai", everything was still the same, and it was very lively. Various monks held banners of the Bao Xue Bao Association, and the banners were everywhere to attract apprentices.

When she walked by, she was surrounded again like last time, and was able to come to the inner courtyard.I still remember that when I came last time, there were not many people in the inner courtyard, but now it is a completely different scene. The entire inner courtyard is bustling with monks, ranging from apprentices in the Qi refining period to monks in the Jindan period.There was a long queue at the registration offices of the five factions.

In the entire ancient world of cultivating immortals in Taigu, affected by the trend of bookstores, among the five skills of alchemy, weapon refining, talisman, formation and animal rearing, learning alchemy is the most favored by monks.After all, the other four skills are just aids in improving one's strength, while elixirs can directly improve one's cultivation, and can increase the success probability of various foundation building, pill formation, and baby formation, which are closely related to one's own achievements.

Therefore, this situation of only one outstanding has also led to many negative results: for example, there is a surplus of monks learning alchemy; various spiritual herb resources are in short supply; whether it is low-level herbal medicine or high-level herbal medicine, the price is doubling every year. increase.However, the other four skills have been disconnected due to being neglected, especially the talismans and formations are the most obvious.Among the five major skills, these two skills belong to the type with extremely low barriers to entry, but difficult to learn. Everyone knows a little bit and is not very interested.Qi refining and beast control are at an intermediate level.

Based on these reasons, looking at the inner courtyard at a glance, the largest line of people is the registration office of the Spirit Pill Sect. The long line occupies half of the inner courtyard, young and old, male nuns and nuns.The Kaishanmen and Xianfushan registration offices had the least number of people, and the two teams combined had less than 20 people.The registration places of Beast Control Pavilion and Qi Refining Sect are relatively average, with neither too many nor too many people.But the team in front of Qi Lianzong in the entire inner courtyard is the most conspicuous and shocking: all burly men, with an average height of more than eight feet, well-developed muscles, and look very powerful.Those who didn't know thought it was recruiting soldiers or recruiting thugs.

So when Xiao Yao silently walked to the end of the Artifact Refining Sect team and lined up, it attracted the attention of the whole courtyard.A group of burly men got mixed up with such a small bird, and all the monks looked sideways and speculated: Is this female cultivator in the wrong position?Even thinner male cultivators are not qualified to learn the skill of refining weapons, let alone female cultivators.Looking at the entire Taiji Immortal Cultivation World, there are almost no female cultivators who can learn how to refine weapons, and even if there are very few, they are all female cultivators who are as strong as men.It was the first time for such a petite woman with a gentle face, a gentle face and a moderate figure to learn how to make weapons, and she had never seen it before.

The big man in front of Xiao Yao also seemed to sense the strangeness behind him, turned his head and found a female cultivator standing behind him.Guessing that he was standing in the wrong position, he kindly reminded him: "Friend Daoist, this is where Qi Lianzong recruits nominal disciples to line up, and the place with the most people on the right is where the Lingdan Sect recruits."

Xiao Yao smiled and thanked him, "Thank you for reminding me, fellow Taoist, I am indeed here to sign up to learn how to refine weapons."

Seeing that she said that she came to learn how to refine weapons, the big man had a strange and depressed expression, but he turned his head away without asking any further questions.

Now that the recruitment has not officially started, many monks have entered the inner courtyard one after another. Among them, a young male monk with a gentle and handsome appearance is particularly eye-catching: he walked in small steps with a fan in his hand, shaking his head. Coming from the courtyard, he chanted as he walked: "Ten years of life and death are boundless. If you don't think about it, you will never forget it. There is a lonely grave thousands of miles away, and there is no place to talk about desolation..."

This person was reciting poems in such a weird manner, if he hadn't been able to detect the aura fluctuations in this person with his spiritual sense, he might have thought that he was a student who was rushing to take the exam and went to the wrong place.

Looking at the slightly thin body of the male cultivator, he shook his head so rigidly, which seemed both pedantic and comical.He paced in small steps, and finally stopped behind Xiao Yao.

This scene attracted the attention of the monks in the inner courtyard: what kind of wind is blowing today, two strange people unexpectedly appeared.

(End of this chapter)