refining sword

Chapter 34
"The rules of the first round of the competition in this conference are not much different from the previous ones. After you have finished refining the swords, you will screen out the top-ranked magic swords through the inspections offered by yourself and your engineering divisions. Entering the second round of the competition. But unlike the previous session, the time limit for sword training this time has been extended and changed to seven days." Situ Hao continued.

Hearing this, there was some noise in the square.

Chen Guang was also stunned for a moment, and a strange color appeared on his face.

"What's wrong? But what's wrong?" Seeing this, Tie Jian asked in a low voice.

"In the past, the time limit for sword training was three days. If it is extended this year, even if it fails the first time, if the materials are sufficient, there is still a chance to practice it again." Chen Guang said thoughtfully.

"So, the requirements of this Sword Refinement Conference are looser?" Tie Jian asked in confusion.

"Well, it seems that this time the imperial court wants to encourage sword refiners to make more high-grade, and even top-grade magic swords." Chen Guang thought for a moment before saying so.

"Why?" Tie Jian asked again.

"You don't know, according to the usual practice, every time the sword-making conference, whether it can be won or not, all the magic swords that are made will be purchased by the court and returned to the treasury." Chen Guang said in a low voice.

This time, Tie Jian was even more confused.You must know that the refining of each magic sword embodies the painstaking efforts of the swordsman.If this is the case, why are there still so many swordsmen who are doing business at a loss, but still take pride in participating in the swordsmanship conference?
"Don't think that the swordsmen are at a disadvantage. The price offered by the imperial court is much higher than the price on the market. Moreover, the higher the quality of the sword, the higher the price. Not only that, it can be used in sword refining. The value of the up-and-coming sword masters at the conference will also double, and the benefits brought by them are not just what you see on the bright side." Chen Guang continued to explain.

Listening to Chen Guang's explanation, Tie Jian couldn't help being secretly startled. After so many years of accumulation in the conference, how many magic swords have been accumulated in the treasury of Yue Kingdom?And for the country of Yue, which has always been martial, what is the purpose of accumulating the most important weapons of these countries?
"The time has come, and the Earthfire Sword Room is ready. Everyone, please hand over items such as storage and storage bags to others for the time being, and prepare to enter the sword room to practice swords." Situ Hao looked up at the sky and said. announced.

As soon as the voice fell, there were bursts of "boom" sounds on the white stone square, and the ground shook violently.

I saw the bricks and stones on the square split, and there were bursts of machine turning sounds from the ground, and black holes were exposed on the surface, each with a spiral stone staircase leading to the ground.

Tie Jian glanced roughly and found that there were 36 of these holes in total, and each entrance was shrouded in a faint yellow halo.

"Enter the room, refine the sword!"

Situ Hao glanced at the crowd and commanded loudly.

Hearing the sound, the crowd began to disperse. All the presidents of the chamber of commerce and the patriarchs of the family retreated consciously, while the 36 sword refiners in the field walked towards a cave entrance.

"Let's go too." Chen Guang glanced at Tie Jian and said.

Tie Jian nodded, and Chen Guang and Chen Guang each picked up the wooden box and walked towards the left side of the square.

At this moment, Tie Jian suddenly felt a rather unkind gaze cast on him in the crowd of people beside him. He turned his head to look, and saw Qiu Batian standing not far away, looking at him with a half-smile.

Although he thought it was strange, he just thought it was because of the last sword-making challenge. The other party still hated him, so he didn't think much about it. He just grinned and didn't care.

When he and Chen Guang came to two adjacent cave entrances, they parted ways after handing over each other, and each chose a cave entrance and walked over.

When he walked to the entrance of the cave, Tie Jian could clearly see the luminous object in the entrance. It was a weapon identification talisman whose function was better than the sword detection talisman. Whether the Ming sword master has a storage magic weapon hidden on his body.

Because ordinary sword detection talismans cannot detect the magic swords in the storage instruments, for the sake of fairness, Situ Hao reminded everyone that they should not carry storage rings and storage bags on their bodies.

Chen Guang and the others had reminded this point before, so Tie Jian's storage ring had been stored in Yan Zi's place.

After taking a brief look at the entrance of the cave, he walked slowly towards the entrance of the cave.

Going all the way down the spiral staircase, walking about a hundred or ten steps, he entered a relatively closed stone room with a brazier inside, and there was plenty of light.

The whole stone room looks square and square, about the same size as the ordinary sword room, but the height is slightly shorter, which is a bit depressing.On one of the walls, a two-foot-square window was cut out, and wisps of hot breath came in from the outside.

Tie Jian walked over to take a look, and found that the magma pool in the crater was facing outside, with thick chains intertwined, and the circular white stone platform was suspended.

Judging from the position, the stone house where he is located seems to be lower.

After watching for a while, Tie Jian turned around and looked at the stone house carefully, and found that in addition to the spiral staircase built at the corner of the house, there was also a square fire pit built at the root of the right wall, covered with an iron plate.

Next to the fire pond, there are naturally the forging table and the storage rack.

He walked to the front, opened his wooden box, took out the other sword-making materials in the wooden box one after another, and placed them neatly on the shelf.

Then he changed into a bunt clothes he wore when practicing swords.

"Chichichi..." With a slightly dull friction sound, Tie Jian slowly pulled out the thick iron plate on the fire pond, and a fiery red light immediately reflected inside, revealing the overflowing pond of crimson magma .

A fiery breath immediately spread throughout the entire sword room.

He glanced down at the rolling lava, raised his hand and took a square box from the shelf.

Tie Jian opened the box, took out some fire essence powder, and sprinkled it into the fire pit.

Just hear the sound of "huh"!

The magma in the fire pond rose violently, as if it was about to erupt, surging violently.

At the same time, groups of bright red flames began to rise from it, causing the temperature of the entire sword room to skyrocket again.

It only took a moment for Tie Jian to see sweat on his forehead.

He clamped the stone cup used to melt the material with iron tongs and placed it in the fire pit for burning.

The raging flames immediately entangled up, covering the whole stone cup, and it burned red in a short time.

Tie Jian then took out a piece of white spar of different sizes and shapes from the wooden frame, and the surface reflected silver light, and put it into the stone cup.

He observed the state of the ground fire for a while, then found a clean place to sit down on the side of the wall a little far from the fire pond, took out the bottle of Yangshen Pill, took one, and closed his eyes to rest.

The object in the stone cup is called spar, which is a crystal that resembles stone but not stone, and resembles iron but not iron.Its nature is stable and it is extremely difficult to change. If you want to use it to make a sword, you need to go through a long period of calcination. Therefore, after putting it into the fire, Tie Jian will no longer look after it and let it smelt by itself.

After a whole day and a night, Tie Jian stood up and went to the fire pit to check.

I saw the falling crystal stone in the stone cup. At this moment, it was like a stone cup. The whole turned into a red color, but it still maintained its original solid state.

Tie Jian nodded slightly, which was not much different from his pre-estimation.

Then, he raised his hand and took out the square box from the shelf again, twisted some fire essence powder from it, and sprinkled it into the fire pond again, so the flames in the pond skyrocketed again and became extremely hot.

After doing all this, Tie Jian walked back to his original position again and sat down with his knees crossed.

This sitting was another two days and two nights.When he got up again and returned to the fire pond, all the spar in the stone cup had melted and turned into a magma-like crimson slurry, with circular bubbles the size of thumbs constantly bulging on it.

Seeing this, Tie Jian showed a smile on his face, and began to take out all kinds of auxiliary materials from the shelf, and put them into the stone cup in a certain order.

Mysterious iron powder, red copper ore crystal, colorful stone...

Finally, he took out a palm-sized black spar, rubbed it twice, and put it into the cup.

This stone is nothing else, it is the scattered fire cloud crystal that is very important to refining the Burning Heaven Sword.

Fortunately, Tie Jian had originally obtained two of these spar stones, but the larger one was replaced by Yao Bin, and now he can only use this slightly smaller one instead.

After all the materials had disappeared into the spar slurry, Tie Jian didn't try to get the fire essence powder, but raised one palm to face the fire pool. A golden flame came out.

I saw the billowing fire surging out, and the stone cup was wrapped in it in an instant.

The magma in the fire pond also seemed to be instantly ignited to a boiling point.

The fiery energy contained in it was pulled by Tie Jian's strange fire and rushed towards the stone cup.

Under the intense high temperature calcination, all the materials in the fire pit stone cup melted quickly, and a very strange scene appeared on the fire pit.

I saw that all the flames in the fire pool were like petals of red and gold, blooming evenly around the stone cup.

The lava formed by the melting of the rest of the materials in the stone cup merged with the lava spar and turned into a gorgeous color, which looked very dazzling.

About half an hour later, Tie Jian was soaked in sweat, and he suddenly retracted his palms, and Jin Yan, who had poured out of his body, was immediately withdrawn from his body.

And his whole person couldn't help staggering, and his face became a little pale.

After entering the Foundation Establishment period, his mana has increased significantly.Although every time the different fire is used, it will still produce severe consumption, but it can barely support the whole process of melting and forging.

Tie Jian took the iron tongs and removed the stone cup from the fire pit, and poured the refined melt into the mold that had been prepared on the side.

After all the crimson lava was evenly spread over the entire mold, he put the stone cup to the side, then flipped his palm over, took out the bottle of Qi Tonic Pill, poured out one, and drank it with his head.

After a few moments of breathing, his expression returned to normal.

At this time, the molten slurry in the mold has gradually cooled and formed, and it has turned into a long strip of iron.

(End of this chapter)