Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 276: Lord Yang Forging a Sword

A team of strong men carried a set of equipment into Yang Qian's house and built a simple shed in the backyard, and then arranged it neatly. Someone also built a stove, which took a total of three days to complete.

After everyone left, Yang Qian looked at the big and small things in the backyard, a smile spread across his face.

The people Yang Qian hired were from the army, and the tools were borrowed from the army's baggage. The furnace was also built by the old blacksmith in the army.

What was Yang Qian going to do? Of course, he was going to forge a sword. Or rather, he was going to refine a weapon.

There are two ways to refine weapons: blood refining and spirit refining.

Blood refining is a method used by demon cultivators and evil cultivators. The process is accompanied by bloodshed and even human sacrifice. This is not what Yang Qian wants. What Yang Qian wants is spirit refining, using spiritual energy as a means of refining.

A good weapon refiner will have his own elixir fire, and using elixir fire to refine weapons or elixirs will produce the best results.

But in order to have Dan Huo, one must reach the Nascent Soul stage. The so-called Dan breaks into an infant, and only after it breaks apart can Dan Huo be produced. The conditions for this are not yet met in the Core Formation stage.

Therefore, Yang Qian could only settle for the next best thing and use the same method that most cultivators who were not yet at the Nascent Soul stage used: a forge or an alchemy furnace.

The forging furnace used for refining equipment actually has special specifications, but Yang Qian does not have the conditions for it at the moment, so he can only make improvements on an ordinary forging furnace.

So Yang Qian worked in the yard until midnight, using his fingers as a carving knife to carve more than seventy sets of array patterns inside and outside the forge. He also made some changes to the structure of the forge, mainly to the internal space. After all, the furnace for refining does not burn charcoal, so more space can be freed up for actual refining.

After carefully confirming it twice, Yang Qian felt that there was no problem. He took out a palm-sized iron ingot from one of the dozen large baskets covered with oilcloth on the side and threw it into the furnace, ready to try out the effect of the forge he made.

These iron ingots were allocated to Yang Qian by Ge Shuni after he knew that Yang Qian wanted to forge his own sword. There were a total of more than 2,400 kilograms, and they were all top-quality iron ingots.

He threw an iron ingot into the furnace, and then Yang Qian placed his hands on both sides of the forge, with his palms pressing on the intersection of the two magic array patterns he had engraved on the furnace. There was a special name for it: the eye of the array.

Yang Qian has no spiritual energy, but he can use innate true qi instead, and the effect will not be different.

Instantly, the lines of magic array on the forge began to glow with various colors, but as time went by, they were gradually replaced by red light. This process is called: warming the furnace.

As the forge started up, the invisible furnace walls inside also began to radiate abnormally high temperatures.

In just ten breaths, the iron ingot in the forge had melted into a ball of molten iron, floating in the furnace.

An ordinary blacksmith would not heat the iron ingot to this extent. At most, he would heat it until it was red and soft before starting forging.

As for Yang Qian's weapon refining, he had only just begun. He hadn't even finished the beginning.

After it turned into molten iron, an invisible force was generated in the furnace, as if kneading and beating the molten iron continuously. During the kneading process, wisps of gray things were magically discharged from the molten iron and fell into a depression inside the forge. The volume of the molten iron became smaller and smaller as these things were discharged.

After a cup of tea, the fist-sized mass of molten iron was reduced to a tiny mass the size of half a pea. No matter how high the temperature in the furnace rose, or how much the power of the magic circle on the inner wall beat it, it would not overflow with gray matter, and always maintained its size.

Yang Qian sensed the situation inside the furnace, then slowly reduced the high temperature, and then used a magic circle to take out the last half pea-sized object left inside.

It is white-gray and still looks like metal, but it is no longer ordinary iron, but iron essence.

It is also the easiest material for refining that Yang Qian can currently obtain. Generally, five pounds of refined iron can produce one ounce of iron essence. If the names are reversed, they can almost be called two different things.

The half-pea-sized thing in Yang Qian's palm is iron essence, and it weighs two taels!

In fact, although iron essence is easy to obtain, it is not very popular among weapon refiners. First, iron essence is not very sensitive to the conduction of spiritual energy and magic power, and is very slow compared to other weapon refinement materials.

Second, iron essence is too heavy. A fist-sized piece can weigh dozens of kilograms. It is too clumsy to use it to refine magic tools.

But Yang Qian didn't care. He was a martial artist, using innate qi. Iron essence could transmit innate qi very quickly, not at all slow. Moreover, the small size and large weight of iron essence was not a disadvantage for Yang Qian, but an advantage.

Yang Qian just felt that the weapon was too light and not convenient to use. Now that he had the Iron Essence, his problem was perfectly solved.

However, iron essence alone is not enough. Other refining materials are needed to increase compatibility. Otherwise, the texture of iron essence is not suitable for engraving many magic arrays, which will limit the main power of the magic weapon.

So after Yang Qian had tempered half a fist-sized, forty-pound iron essence, he threw his Tianshuang Sword into the furnace.

Return to the furnace.

Anyway, the Tianshuang Sword was already broken, and it would be extremely troublesome to repair it. It also couldn't change the fact that the Tianshuang Sword itself could no longer satisfy Yang Qian's killing needs. It was a good opportunity to recycle the waste and get some usable materials to use on the new magic weapon.

An hour later, the Tianshuang Sword disappeared in the forge, leaving behind three balls of high-temperature liquid of different colors.

Yang Qian could use all three materials, so he put all the 40 kilograms of iron essence he had refined before into the forge.

And this is the real key step in refining the weapon: gathering the weapon.

How to properly blend different refining materials together, without mixing them up but complementing each other. This requires techniques, which is also a major content in "Talking about Equipment".

Yang Qian's idea was to just honestly make a low-grade magic weapon first. Although he now had a chance to refine a medium-grade magic weapon, the probability of failure was very high. There was no need to rush to refine a medium-grade weapon for the first time.

Therefore, the entire process of Yang Qian's first weapon refining was completely under his control.

At dawn, Yang Qian took his hands off the forge and stopped heating the furnace. Then he took out an oxtail knife from the forge.

After getting used to it, Yang Qian still prefers the configuration of the oxtail knife, which is more convenient for chopping and more suitable for killing the enemy by dragging the knife while moving at high speed.

However, although this oxtail knife looks similar in size to an ordinary oxtail knife, its weight has reached a terrifying 54 kilograms, which is more than three times the weight of the Tianshuang Knife that Yang Qian used before.

Not to mention that ordinary warriors cannot use this sword, even weapon cultivators cannot use it. Only a martial artist like Yang Qian, who has terrifying physical strength, can use it with ease.

Yang Qian also engraved three magic arrays on the knife: sharp, tough, and frost.

The first two are commonly used by weapons, while the frost array is inherited from the Sky Frost Blade.

Yang Qian played with the knife and felt very satisfied. Although it was a low-grade magic weapon, it was enough for Yang Qian. The most important thing was that this knife was very handy in terms of both shape and weight!

(End of this chapter)