Douluo's Fate Modification System

Chapter 397 Who Can Reject Damascus?
From the internal core module to the overall structure, it was completely designed by Xia Ling independently, which is different from the mature melee soul guide design at this stage.

At this time, the hourglass just leaked the last sand.

The sound barrier automatically fell, opening up the space next to the workbench.

A group of elders pushed and shoved Sun Mingfeng, who was already in a daze, and rushed in.

"Zhaoguang! Show me first!"

Luo Hongchen, who was shorter, was squeezed behind, and only one hand could be seen.

Elder Zhe with a beard moved the fastest and squeezed to the front.

"Boy, cow!"

While talking, he was going to touch the freshly baked long knife.

Xia Ling dodged deftly, dodging the hand extended by Elder Zhe.

He smiled slightly, and said: "Elder Zhe, please wait a little longer, my knife has not been completely finished, and there are two most critical steps missing."

Elder Zhe was taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing after hearing what he said.

"Okay, okay, boy. I'm old and confused, you come, you come."

This Elder Zhe is also an interesting person.

Compared with Luo Hongchen's reserved and introverted personality, Zhe Chang is like a bold and straightforward knight-errant.

These two people are together, just like Zhao Gang met Li Yunlong.

Although they are very compatible, they are often furious by the other party.

The other party also enjoys it.

After getting Elder Zhe's approval, Xia Ling retreated slightly.

He took out a long thin bucket from the storage ring and put it on the ground, and poured a special grease into it.

Seeing this, Elder Zhe stroked his beard with a smile.

This is not yet quenched.

Moreover, the root of the knife behind the blade is still exposed, and the handle is not installed.

heat treatment.

This is indeed the most critical step in making a melee soul tool.

Many eighth-level soul instructors have been making remote soul guides, and the shells are all heat-treated in advance before assembly, but they forgot this step.

Xia Ling reinserted the long knife into his usual stove, and calcined the blade into a beautiful orange red.

Feeling that the temperature of the blade reached the standard, he pulled out the long knife without hesitation.

Just holding it down like this, the whole person half-kneeled on one leg on the workbench.

Taking advantage of the height of the workbench, he instantly inserted the blade of the long knife into the thin barrel filled with grease.

This step requires the forger's hand to remain absolutely stable, and the blade must not be crooked when inserted.

Once it is skewed, the difference in temperature between the two sides when inserted will distort the metal, which is likely to cause curvature in the final quenched blade.

While maintaining stability, the previously heated blade must also be heated at a consistent temperature.

Otherwise, no matter how steady the hand is, it will be useless.

If it is an ordinary cold weapon, there is still a chance to correct it through tools.

But this is a melee soul tool.

Once you make a mistake, all is lost.

Even a whole set of core magic circles were scrapped.

With the insertion of the long knife, the sound of zi la zi la sounded.

The flame rushed up and grabbed Xia Ling's hand.

Subconsciously, Sun Mingfeng wanted to rush forward to see if his junior brother had been burned, but he was stopped by Elder Zhe and Luo Hongchen who were waiting in line at the same time.

Only then did Sun Mingfeng realize that he had made a joke.

With Xia Ling's Contra-level body, it is impossible for him to be scalded by mere Fan Huo.

On the workbench, Xia Ling had a solemn expression on his face, and his fingers held the root of the long knife as firmly as iron coins, moving up and down in the grease.

He was feeling the temperature returned from the blade.

At a certain moment, he quickly and surely pulled the long knife out of the grease, waved it a few times in the air, and flung the flames away.

Look up along the root of the knife.

perfect!

The board is straight and straight, very beautiful.

Xia Ling took out an iron-gray metal file and rubbed it hard along the blade.

Listening to the sound of metal rubbing and sparks emerging, Xia Ling heaved a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the hardness is qualified.

Quenching requires extremely high temperature and time control.

Once it is inaccurate, the hardness of the quenched weapon will not meet the standard.

In desperation, secondary quenching is required.

The more times of quenching, the greater the chance of failure.

Not only will the chance of successfully achieving hardness become smaller, but the chance of bending the blade will also increase.

What's more, multiple quenching and easily lead to deformation of the core circle.

At that time, it is likely that the hardness will be enough, but the core magic circle will be scrapped.

It is precisely because there are too many restrictions and difficulty in making melee soul guides that few soul masters are specialized in this way.

In the Dou Er period, high-level soul engineers seldom even use melee soul tools to fight.

I don't know if I didn't study the ninth level or because of something.

Anyway, the per capita humanoid self-propelled turret is right.

Xia Ling, who had been quenched successfully, nimbly jumped down from the workbench, and inserted the long knife into the forging furnace to heat again under the puzzled eyes of many elders.

An elder asked puzzledly, "Who are you?"

"Lu Qi, this is called tempering. The purpose is to eliminate the internal stress inside the blade and improve the strength and toughness."

Before Xia Ling could reply, another elder took the lead in spraying a wave of his colleagues.

Even in front of two juniors, he was merciless.

Xia Ling took out the heated long knife and placed it in a special container for heat preservation and rapid cooling.

As the sword finger of his right hand slid across the blade, the long blade cooled down rapidly at an even speed.

Afterwards, Xia Ling controlled the tools on the workbench to fix the near-finished long knife.

The automatic polishing machine started, throwing the blade a beautiful bright silver.

At the same time, the edge of the blade has also been sharpened and polished by the soul guide grinder.

Xia Ling picked up two ten-thousand-year-old soul beast bone knife handles and the Tianxing steel knife smelt that had been prepared long ago from the table on the side to install them.

With the knocking in of several metal rivets, and the polishing of the grip is completed.

The entire long knife seems to have been completed, waiting for the arrival of a predestined person.

Several elders saw that the long knife had reached this level of completion, and they were ready to step forward to take a closer look again.

Xia Ling suddenly turned around and said: "Elders, please look, the following is the moment to witness the miracle!"

After all, he put the long knife into a slot that had already been prepared.

Inside the tank is a puddle of black liquid.

Several eighth-level peak soul instructors looked at each other, wondering what Xia Ling was doing.

If there is a Blue Star swordsmith here, he will definitely recognize it.

This step is called pickling.

After a short period of time, Xia Ling picked it up with bare hands, and carefully wiped off the liquid on it with a cotton cloth.

At this moment, the dazzling bright silver color was no longer on the knife body.

In its place is a stunning matte silver with a stunningly beautiful texture.

These fine black and gray lines vary in size and length, but they are arranged in sequence according to a certain rule, full of a unique aesthetic feeling.

As long as it is a man, seeing this kind of pattern will definitely make him unable to walk.

There are only two words left in my mind-want!
This is the romance of men, Damascus steel!

He purposely used several metal ingots to forge the Dama steel billet after the melting and forging.

Although this may slightly reduce the performance of this soul guide.

But I can't stand it, this thing is so handsome!

Xia Ling handed the forged long knife to his teacher.

Luo Hongchen took it with both hands with a serious expression.

It seemed that what he took was not the assessment results of a novice Xiaobai, but a work of art created by a master.

The elders formed a circle, constantly admiring the pinnacle of forging technology of this knife.

Whether it's the exact core formation carving or the impeccable forging technique, this knife can be called the best of the sixth-level soul tools.

Luo Hongchen poured soul power into the blade carefully, for fear of damaging this hard-won treasure.

The perfect core module in the blade responds extremely quickly, filling the entire blade with soul power almost instantly, and expanding it.

Just like the lightsaber in Star Wars, Long Dao Dao emitted a clear blue light.

The sharp ice-type knife energy is continuously swallowed from the blade.

Elder Zhe, who was too close to him, even felt a tingling pain in his arm that was about to be cut.

"Such a precious sword, does it have a name?"

Feeling the biting chill coming from the blade, Luo Hongchen smiled.

As a senior eighth-level peak soul engineer, even though he is not very good at melee soul tools, he still felt it the moment he got started. This is not any known melee soul tool.

No melee soul guide has such an internal structure.

There is also no sixth-level soul tool that can emit such a cold knife aura.

Even without that layer of saber energy, the chill produced by the saber alone is comparable to a level five freezing ray.

Combining the two, this is definitely an excellent work that is infinitely close to a seventh-level soul tool.

"Tiandao Xiashuang."

Xia Ling slowly spit out four words.

Without any reason, he somehow felt that this knife should be called by this name.

Originally, he wanted to call the whole thing Jiaqian Changdao, but he changed his words inexplicably when the words came to his lips.

Weird.

"Tiandao Xiashuang, yes, what a name! It matches this knife so well!"

Elder Zhe snatched Xiashuang from Luo Hongchen's hand, stroked the lines on it gently, looked closely with his eyes, and praised without hesitation.

The rest of the elders also echoed.

Sun Mingfeng didn't dare to squeeze into the crowd of elders, he came to Xia Ling's side after stepping on his feet for a few glances, and congratulated him on his success in the examination in advance.

Not surprisingly, the sixth-level soul instructor certified by the inner court must be stable.

Officially entering the inner courtyard is also a certainty.

After appreciating for a while, the elders reluctantly returned Xiashuang to Xia Ling.

The elder who angrily scolded his colleague Lu Qi just now asked: "Chao Guang, I would like to ask, how did the pattern on the body of this knife come out? It doesn't seem like it was engraved on it, but it seems like it already exists. "

Xia Ling smiled and said: "Your opinion, it is true. No matter what material is used to make it, I will call it [Damascus steel] for the final product."

"The principle is to use multiple pieces of metal materials to heat and continuously forge them into one, and then stretch them, twist them, and repeat the forging, so as to form a knife blank several times. After quenching and tempering, use acidic liquid Soak it in and you end up with this nice natural pattern on the metal."

"So that's the case, thank you for your clarification. You are worthy of being a master craftsman. In terms of forging alone, I am ashamed of myself!"

"I don't dare to act, but I just picked up the wisdom of the predecessors, and I still have a bit of spirituality to do so. I dare not take credit for it."

"Okay, but the whole inner courtyard knows that you are a monster, so don't be modest."

Luo Hongchen said with a smile.

Afterwards, he took out a badge with seven stars from the soul guide, and pinned it on the right chest of Xia Ling's school uniform with half of his sleeve missing.

"Congratulations, Chaoguang. From today onwards, you are an official seventh-level soul engineer, and you are also an official student in the inner courtyard. Tomorrow, the academy will officially issue the procedures and assign you your exclusive experiment." room."

While speaking, Luo Hongchen took the lead in applauding.

Under the applause of several elders, Xia Ling seemed a little embarrassed.

"Old, teacher, I... I still don't know a lot about sixth-level soul guides. Isn't this seventh-level a little early?"

Elder Zhe smiled and said: "Oh, what about the seventh and eighth grades, isn't it a matter of a few days earlier or later for you? Tsk tsk tsk, let me tell you, boy, the old thing who asked you about the pattern just now is ours. Among the old fellows, he has the deepest research on melee soul tools. This is the first time I have heard Lao Liang praise others like that!"

Elder Liang seemed to be rather cold-tempered, so he just said plainly: "Zhaoguang is a master craftsman in forging a school, but I am just a master-level blacksmith. As far as blacksmithing is concerned, I am far inferior to Zhaoguang. In terms of soul tools Don't be complacent, you and I, old fellows, all count, one counts, and sooner or later they will all be taken over by Chaoguang's latecomers."

The rest of the elders nodded in sympathy.

Elder Liang's rainbow fart was a bit embarrassing for Xia Ling, who was so thick-skinned that he was too thick-skinned.

It's really a trick for people who usually don't talk much to praise others.

And I can't help but be convincing, hehe.

Elder Liang said again: "Chaoguang, in the future, if you have any problems with melee soul tools, come to me. You and I can discuss with each other. I dare not say the whole continent, at least in the Royal Soul Engineering Academy of the Sun Moon Empire, As far as melee soul tools are concerned, I am still number one for now."

Good guy, the boss of melee soul tools!

The best soul engineers in the Sun Moon Continent are all at the Royal Soul Engineer Academy of the Sun Moon Empire.

Isn't being number one in the academy the same as being number one on the mainland in disguise?
Xia Ling hurriedly thanked him.

"Elder Liang, you are overrated. I am still far behind. I need to learn a lot from seniors like you."

"Hahahaha, good boy. Now that people are impetuous, it's rare to see such a humble young man like you."

In the atmosphere of a business exchange, this soul engineer level assessment can be regarded as a perfect ending.

It only took four months for Xia Ling to learn all the knowledge of soul engineers before the fifth level.

Under normal circumstances, he would not be able to complete the sixth-level soul guide.

It's not because he can't learn the sixth-level core formation.

The main reason is that there are not many books on the sixth-level soul guide in the library of the outer courtyard.

There are only sporadic extensions of the basic formation.

Coincidentally, Xia Ling has become more and more comfortable in the assessment today, and seems to have found a unique way.

He ingeniously combined the three methods of refining, forging, and soul tools, and forcibly upgraded the melee soul tool, which was originally only level [-], to level [-].

In terms of soul tools, Xia Ling has a unique advantage.

As the saying goes, stones from other mountains can attack jade.

Not only is he knowledgeable about the past and the present, but he also possesses many insights that current soul mentors do not have.

His own heritage from refiners, blacksmiths, and formation masters allows him to comprehend by analogy.

As for the most difficult method of engraving the core formation in the soul guide, it is not a problem at all when it comes to him.

　Thanks to the book friends 20210724204602184, the two bosses of XYZ Xiaopiqiu for their rewards and the monthly tickets of the bosses

　　
　
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