Blue Silver Grass Guide.

Chapter 41
Time flies by as Ling Yi starts studying here with fifth senior brother Wang Meng.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

During this month, "Muzhi City" had no accidents, and the waves were calm, which made Ling Yi quite satisfied with this small remote country far away from the accident-prone place in the center of Douluo Continent.

In the familiar dormitory 304 of Building [-], Ling Yi opened his eyes again and looked around the bed next to him. He saw the "Blue Silver Grass" wall that had been placed at half a person's height. He felt even more happy.

A month ago, Ling Yi asked someone to bring three letters back to Jiang's blacksmith shop in Beikouhe Town.

One was for Master Jiang, in which he thanked the other party for his recommendation, and now he has joined Mr. Jin's family, learning to forge with his fifth senior brother Wang Meng

The other two letters were handed over to Ling Bai and Yan Bin, the deacon of the Wuhun branch in the town.

In Yan Bin's letter, he was not far from Master Jiang, and it was also a word of thanks. In addition, he visited Lu Yi, the senior deacon in the main hall of Wuhun in "Muzhi City". It can be regarded as the initial establishment of some friendship.

On Ling Bai's side, the letter is mainly to report to Ling Bai, as well as his parents, grandparents, uncle and cousin in Shanhai Village, that everything is fine for him now, so don't worry about it.At the same time, there are intimate words specially marked for each person at the back.

At the end of the letter, Ling Yi specifically told Zhang Lei to help dig out the [-] "Blue Silver Grass" planted in the corner fence in his yard, and transplant them in a wooden box , handed over to Ling Bai to take to the town.

On the third day after receiving the letter, these two hundred and four "Blue Silver Grass" were brought by a caravan heading to "Muzhi City" to the [Silver Xin Blacksmith Shop] in the east of the city.

After more than 20 days, these "Blue Silver Grass", which were still withered and drooping leaves when they first entered the city, have already returned to their former prosperity, especially because the soul power accumulated in the previous year is much better than the one cultivated by Ling Yi before the start of school. Hundreds of plants, as well as the "Blue Silver Grass" cultivated later, have more and longer grass leaves and roots, and their activity is also greatly exceeded.

In addition to the nearly five hundred "Blue Silver Grass" beside the bed, there are also knotted bamboo tubes under the corner of the bed, each of which is planted with the excellent "Blue Silver Grass" seeds brought together last time. When they grow up a bit, they start to be stacked next to Ling Yi's bed.

Thinking about it, before the end of the year, Ling Yi might turn the bed he was in into a single room!

……

[Yinxin Blacksmith Shop].

As usual, he had breakfast with his fifth senior brother Wang Meng's family, and Ling Yi came to the forging table to prepare for today's practice.

However, before Ling Yi raised the forging hammer in his hand, Wang Meng didn't go to his exclusive forging table, but went straight to Ling Yi's side.

"Fifth Senior Brother~" Ling Yi put down his half-raised arm and greeted him.

"Xiao Yi~" Wang Meng nodded, looking at the iron ingot in front of Ling Yi.

This is not the block from a month ago, but the eighth block.This piece was originally as big as the heads of three adults, but now it is only the size of the fists of two adults.

"Smelting raw materials such as pig iron is the path that every apprentice blacksmith must pass~"

"Generally speaking, when pig iron is hammered to one-third of its original size, it is already a qualified iron embryo, which can be used to forge various ironware..."

Wang Meng looked at the iron ingot that was still standing still in the raging flames, and repeated what he said a month ago.

Master Jiang also said this to Ling Yi more than a year ago.

"Of course, the iron tools made directly in this way can only be used as kitchen knives, sickles, hoes, shovels and other daily utensils and agricultural tools at most..."

Wang Meng's words continued, while Ling Yi listened quietly, even though he had already memorized these contents.

"Junior blacksmiths can easily complete the smelting of pig iron, and then use the corresponding iron embryos to create shaped utensils. The strength of these utensils is generally not bad, equivalent to the strength of ordinary weapons without soul power, Wuhun awakened Wuhun ...

That is, the most basic ironware! "

“Going further up, we need to use larger iron embryos to forge the desired iron tools. This requires forging to further refine the iron embryos to improve the quality of the material!
Within ten forgings, there is no subdivision, and it is basically contained in the forging process of basic ironware.

Twenty forgings, thirty forgings, forty forgings... These represent the progress of a junior blacksmith's skills, and step by step, he is climbing towards an intermediate blacksmith! "

"When the material can be forged fifty times, it means stepping into the threshold of an intermediate blacksmith, which is the same as the hundred forgings of a senior blacksmith later.

What prevents many junior blacksmiths from being promoted to intermediate blacksmiths, and intermediate blacksmiths to senior blacksmiths, is the blacksmith's own strength factor on the one hand.

If the strength is not enough, it is natural that the materials that have been tempered to a certain level cannot be further tempered.

On the other hand, it is skill. How to use the minimum force and maximize the effect when each hammer falls is an unavoidable problem for all weak and weak blacksmiths. "

Speaking of this, Wang Meng's face inevitably showed a sigh of relief, because he was nearly forty now, and he was still stuck at the nineteenth level of soul power, it was difficult to make further progress, and there was little hope for the future.It was also because of the four sons that he failed to inherit his talent as a soul master. Although under his careful teaching, it is not a big problem to become an intermediate blacksmith, but if he wants to become a senior blacksmith, ordinary people require more skills. For the harsh!

Shaking his head to dispel the negative emotions in his mind, Wang Meng looked at Ling Yi with a serious face, and continued:
"And all of this is very, very critical during the period of practicing materials and tempering during the apprenticeship!"

"The master said that in the metal capital 'Gengxin City', whether it is a junior blacksmith, intermediate or advanced blacksmith, they are actually just blacksmiths who have just started~"

"Because, below the blacksmith level, many soul masters can rely on their own powerful strength to forcibly complete the forging process of the hundred forging level. At most, the utilization rate of materials will be much lower, and the service life of the tools they create will be lower. Some……"

Speaking of this, Wang Meng smiled bitterly: "Of course, this point is not a problem, no matter which big city or main city of the two empires.

Because more soul masters actually use their own martial souls, and many of the utensils made by blacksmiths are discarded..."

"They trust their own martial spirit even more!"

Faced with Wang Meng's words, Ling Yi was noncommittal.

Who told this to be a world dominated by martial spirits?Even if the martial soul is a wooden stick, as long as one has the innate soul power to cultivate, with the blessing of each soul ring, it will soon have a hardness surpassing that of steel.With the blessing of soul skills, factors related to one's own solidarity, self-repair and other factors, the demand for tools made by blacksmiths is naturally greatly reduced.

"call"

Wang Meng let out a long breath, no longer indulged in these pessimistic messages, and asked Ling Yi:

"Xiao Yi, in this month, you spent more than 120 hours on four weekends, four hours on [-] nights, and a total of more than [-] hours of material training. How do you feel?"

Facing Wang Meng's inquiry, Ling Yi looked at the slightly red iron ingot at the bottom, then moved to Wang Meng, looked at each other, and softly uttered two words:
"Rhythm? Groove?"

Hearing these two words, Wang Meng couldn't help opening his eyes a little bit, and looked at Ling Yi with surprise.

After opening and closing his mouth a few times, Wang Meng said with anticipation: "Tell me~"

"Hmm~" Ling Yi nodded, thought for a while, and after organizing his words, said:
"When I was studying with Master Jiang last year, I also started from the hammering of the material. It took about a month to hammer the pig iron to the state of the iron embryo. After that, Master Jiang began to teach me, and then through forging, the iron embryo Make it into the desired shape of the utensil..."

"At that time, when I was forging materials, I just wanted to remove the impurities in pig iron and other materials through hammering, and refine and shrink the materials~
But this month, I felt that when I found my most comfortable forging posture, I could feel the feedback reaction of the iron ingot under the hammer every time I hit the hammer, as if...it was breathing! "

"And every time I swing the hammer, the rhythm of my whole body, and the breathing rhythm of the iron ingot, the more in tune, the better the efficiency and effect of refining!"

"Not bad!" Wang Meng listened to Ling Yi's narration. The more he listened, the more obvious the smile on his face became. In the end, he couldn't help clapping his hands:
"Xiao Yi, although I have always known that you are smart, but I really did not expect that your understanding is so strong!"

"You are simply a natural blacksmith!"

　Thanks to book friends [Civil Warlock], book friends [Dade Tudou], and book friends [Qingchen T Ruthless] for voting monthly, thank you [book friend 20211012224807747] for your reward, thank you for your recommendation tickets and follow-up, thank you Everyone! ! ! (*^▽^*)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)