Nine days alone

The next day, Fang Zhong got up very early to exercise his body. After completing a whole set of exercises, his face was already covered with sweat, and it fell on the bluestone floor.

"Huh, fortunately there is a spirit gathering array, otherwise my body would not be able to improve so fast." Fang Zhong raised his arms high and clenched them into fists. He could feel the powerful force rushing through his body, which made him overjoyed.

With the help of the Spirit Gathering Formation, not only did his physical improvement speed not slow down, but it soared rapidly.

As time passed, Fang Zhong found that his own body and the Spirit Gathering Formation had become more closely integrated. The billowing heaven and earth aura flowed through the muscles, bones, and blood vessels, becoming more docile and easier to absorb than before. , In this way, it will be difficult for him not to improve his physical fitness.

The physical training did not stop, and at the same time, Fang Zhong was constantly trying to stimulate the aura of the spirit gathering array to evolve into something similar to inner strength.

However, after a whole month or two, there is no progress at all. It is too difficult to control the aura of the spirit gathering array. The reason why it was successful last time was completely accidental. I want to find the inevitable in the accidental, and control this Inevitably, it is not a simple matter.

However, Fang Zhong was not discouraged. He believed that if he persisted, he would succeed.And he still has a lot of things to do now, the most important of which is to study the "Twelve Forged Chapters".

For two months, Fang Zhong continued to study "Twelve Forging Chapters", and verified the skills in it one by one, practicing...

The final result was that all the rich black iron in the blacksmith shop was smelted into fine iron by him.

Of course, part of it was purified from the stamens of the blue star grass, plus he hand-made it, the refined iron after refining can only reach the low-grade refined iron grade.

Half a month later, Fang Zhong had mastered the heat and the dosage of the blue star grass. The refined iron produced reached the middle grade, and occasionally there would be some high-grade refined iron. The drug purification method has always been limited, and it is not bad to be able to reach the middle grade. It is almost impossible to extract all the top grades.

Therefore, Fang Zhong has now abandoned the medicine purification method and started to study the magic charm purification method!

The so-called spiritual talisman purification method is actually using flames to purify metals, but it is not ordinary flames, but spiritual fire transformed by talismans.

Compared with ordinary flames, spiritual fire is purer and has a higher temperature, so it can effectively remove impurities in metals, concentrate and refine metals, turn black iron into luminescent refined iron, and can guarantee the extracted refined iron. Iron is all top grade.

One month later, Fang Zhong initially mastered the method of purifying the spirit talisman, and he began to prepare to practice it.

"Well, I still need to prepare some things before the practice, and... a helper." Fang Zhong chuckled inwardly, and arrested Fang Zongqing.

Who let him have no inner strength?

Activating the talisman requires internal strength, and Fang Zongqing is the best candidate, with a thick inner diameter and a fire attribute, which is really good for forging metal.

In the blacksmith's shop, Fang Zongqing looked at Fang Zhong's densely carved lines on the furnace, feeling very confused, and asked, "Chonger, what are you doing?"

Fang Zhong smiled and said: "Father, my name is Fuzhuan, it's hard to explain, you just need to know that with this thing, we can refine high-grade refined iron."

"Oh, that's how it is." Fang Zongqing suddenly realized that he didn't ask any more questions. It's okay to ask him to forge iron, but it is really difficult to understand these complicated talismans. Anyway, as long as his son understands it, he was happy and relaxed, sitting with his arms folded. On the side, wait patiently.

After half a sound...

"It's done!" Fang Zhong's face was filled with joy, and he finally carved a strange pattern on the furnace, saying: "Father, it's your turn to do it, use your 'flaming fire formula' quickly, this fire attribute inner strength is used to Refining metals and forging weapons is really great, and it works flawlessly with my talisman."

"Uh, 'Yan Huo Jue' is a secret book of martial arts, and you actually called it a blacksmith's style, ha ha..." Fang Zongqing couldn't help but wryly smiled, but still put his hand on the furnace.

laugh!

With a soft sound, Fang Zongqing's arm suddenly turned red, and there was a trace of fiery red light, which was the real manifestation of inner strength, and they all rushed to the furnace spontaneously, walking along the talisman seal engraved on it by Fang Zhong , forming a peculiar pattern.

With the injection of the inner strength of the 'Yan Huo Jue', the talisman seals on the furnace suddenly lit up, as bright as fire.

Under Fang Zongqing's astonished eyes, the internal energy transformed by the talisman turned into strange flames, floating into the furnace like red clouds.

"Hey, the black iron melted so fast!" Fang Zongqing was taken aback, staring straight at the black iron in the furnace.

In the furnace, the dozens of kilograms of black iron melted easily when it touched the cloud-shaped flame, and the speed was more than ten times faster than when he forged it with ordinary flames.

Fang Zhong stood next to Fang Zongqing, and laughed cheerfully.

The talisman purification method, which is more advanced than the medicine purification method, cannot be used without internal strength. From this point, it can be seen that the effect of refining metals must be very extraordinary.

In just a short while, dozens of catties of black iron were all turned into molten iron, boiling and tumbling in the furnace, emitting plumes of black smoke.

The black smoke is all the impurities inside. When the black smoke is evaporated, the black iron inside becomes more pure, and the volume becomes much smaller. The black iron that weighs dozens of kilograms now only looks like about ten kilograms. , only half of the first smelting.

Half an hour later, dozens of catties of black iron had all been smelted into refined iron, and the volume had shrunk by more than ten times.

Clang!

Fang Zongqing took out the refined iron from the furnace, and weighed it in his hands when it cooled down. He said in surprise, "My good fellow, the black iron of dozens of catties is less than two catties when smelted. The grade of these two catties of refined iron It’s definitely not too bad, it should be considered top grade.”

Fang Zhong also moved closer to take a look, and smiled with satisfaction. Judging from the color of this piece of refined iron, he knew that it was definitely top-grade refined iron.

The next step is forging. The smelted refined iron is very irregular. There is no way to sell it directly like this. It can only be sold after simple forging.

Of course, if you directly cast refined iron into weapons and so on, the price will naturally be higher, but casting weapons cannot be completely made of refined iron, and some other materials need to be added. After the iron essence is sold, those materials can be purchased to make weapons.

Forging is actually very simple, just use a hammer to beat continuously to achieve a regular shape.

This process was all completed by Fang Zhong. He found that during the forging process, the Spirit Gathering Array in his body would speed up, allowing more heaven and earth spiritual energy to gather in his body, which was equivalent to speeding up his tempering. Physique, how can such an opportunity be let go?

Boom!

There was a dull sound in the blacksmith shop, and a huge hammer came down in the air, shaking the chopping board.

......

Three months later, Fang Zhong was 14 and a half years old.

Fang Zhong and Fang Zongqing got up early that morning. After exercising in the yard, they had breakfast and left Ningcang County in a hurry.

In the past three months, Fang Zhong has forged all the gold black iron in the blacksmith shop into fine iron, with a total weight of nearly fifty catties, most of which are low-grade and middle-grade refined iron, and a small part of high-grade iron , and all of them were left in the blacksmith shop by Fang Zhong.

This time, they wanted to take the forged fine iron to the city of Zhaonan County to sell it, exchange it for silver, and then buy what they needed.

Fang Zhong and Fang Zongqing each equipped a set of black warrior uniforms and long knives made of low-grade fine iron mixed with black iron. They walked along the official road quickly, kicked up a cloud of dust, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Ningcang County is very far away from Zhaonan County, thousands of miles away, it is impossible to rush back in a day or two, and there are bandits who loot along the way, and horse thieves who run amok, the danger is higher than in Ningcang County Too much, they can't help being careless.

Therefore, a long knife is necessary. Although you may not encounter robbers or horse thieves, it is always good to be prepared.

Fang Zongqing has the cultivation level of a second-rate martial artist, and ordinary robbers are naturally not afraid. Fang Zhong also has the cultivation level of a third-rate warrior. Although it is slightly insufficient, he will not be at a disadvantage in a real fight. The heavy armor weighing more than 300 kilograms on his body.

This thing is a burden when fighting.

However, Fang Zhong didn't care at all. With his current physical fitness, more than 300 kilograms is actually a bit light, and the exercise effect it can achieve is somewhat insufficient, and it doesn't hinder his speed and agility too much.

But with heavy armor on his body, his defense ability has been doubled at least, so why not do it?