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Chapter 17 Weapon Refining Disciple

Luo San was also a cheerful person and said, "Okay, I will call you by your name from now on. You are an inner disciple, I can't afford to call me senior brother, so just call me Luo San." Shi Feng said hurriedly, "How does this work!"

"Then call me Manager Luo."

"Okay!" Shi Feng nodded.

Luo Sandao, "Shi Feng, have you ever been exposed to the art of weapon refining before?" Shi Feng shook his head, "I am just a mortal in the world. I have only been on the mountain for six or seven days and I don't understand anything." Luo Sandao said, "It doesn't matter. This is true for all first-time disciples. Although you are less than fourteen years old, you are strong and not short, so you are quite suitable for our weapon refining hall."

As he spoke, he shouted outside, "Go and call Lao Guo." There must be someone outside. It was not long before an old man with a goatee in his fifties came in. Luo Sandao said, "This is the new disciple Shi Feng. Lao Guo, please take him in."

That old Guo nodded and took Shi Feng away. Passing through several portals along the way, we arrived at an open-air flat. There were about a dozen disciples busy on the field. Old Guo said in a hoarse voice, "You are just getting started, so start by identifying the materials. Here are the sects sending gifts from all over the place." Come here for the refining materials."

As he spoke, he came to the largest pile of black and red soil and said, "This is the most commonly used iron essence for refining weapons. Iron essence is completely different from the iron in the world. It must have been soaked in the underground golden spirit for more than a hundred years." Iron essence is produced, and this iron essence is often accompanied by sulfur copper powder, so it is black and red in color. The sulfur copper powder needs to be removed and purified to obtain iron essence. "

As he walked, he pointed to a pile of seemingly ordinary logs and said, "This is a yew produced in Mantou Mountain in Bingzhou. The yew is as hard as iron, but what we want is not the yew itself, but the sojourn The purple-winged insect in the trunk of the yew tree is not purple in itself. It just stayed in the yew tree for a long time and was dyed purple by the tree sap. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to identify. This five-foot-long yew tree It would be great to get three or two purple-winged insects.”

Lao Guo obviously knew a lot of materials very well. He talked about them as he walked, including sparrow grass, black rhinoceros horn, nine-bone essence copper, red stone... some were vegetation, some were monster bones and skins, some were ores, and some were inexplicable. , Shi Feng didn’t remember everything after hearing it.

Lao Guo finally said with a dull look, "You are a new disciple. No matter what great family you come from, you will be an ordinary disciple after entering the sect. You start by identifying the materials. In the next month, there will be gifts from various places. You are responsible for carrying the materials that come in with others and sorting them into categories. It is two spiritual stones a month, but if you are wrong, if I find it once, I will deduct one spiritual stone. Hehe, if you don’t deduct enough, I will call you. The family will give you spirit stones to subsidize you." He obviously didn't know the identity of Shi Feng's inner disciple.

For the next month, Shi Feng spent the day in the weapon refining hall helping to transport and identify materials. He was busy until the end of the day at Youshi, and then returned to Yuxiu Peak to rest. At night, Changqing would come to explain "Pure Yuan Gong" to him from time to time. After a month, although Shi Feng had learned a lot of materials, he was still deducted five spiritual stones. At the end of the month, not only did he not get the reward of two spiritual stones. , but instead gave Guo Laosan the five spiritual stones he originally received in his pocket.

After Changqing heard this, he laughed and asked Shi Feng if he wanted him to come forward to help him get it back. Shi Feng shook his head and said, "I admitted my mistake. No need. I have no use for the crystal anyway." Then Mr. Guo got it later. Knowing that Shi Feng was an inner disciple, he quickly wanted to return the spar, but Shi Feng didn't want it alive or dead.

In the second month, Shi Feng had made great progress. He only admitted the wrong material once, and was finally rewarded with a crystal stone. After two months, Chang Qing finished teaching "Pure Yuan Gong", and his own cultivation was also at a critical juncture. , the number of times he came to see Shi Feng became less and less.

Shi Feng found it very troublesome to travel between Zhujian Valley and Yuxiu Peak every day, so he suggested that he simply live in Zhujian Valley. Changqing listened and thought it didn't matter. There are many houses around the Sword Forging Valley. After all, the work in the Weapon Refining Hall is dirty and tiring. Not many disciples are willing to come. Many of them are forcibly assigned. Those with a little connections have already been transferred to other branch halls. .

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In the middle of the night, in a wooden house next to the Sword Forging Valley, Shi Feng sat cross-legged, with his hands crossed, holding his shoulders, his eyes slightly closed, and his left and right nostrils alternated to breathe slowly. He had meditated on "Pure Yuan Gong" for more than two months. After diligent practice, he finally found a way. At this moment, he was running the Molten Gold Technique. As he breathed, he felt as if a tiny hairspring from heaven and earth entered his body. He hurriedly concentrated on storing the hairspring in the sea of ​​​​qi. Unfortunately, , as Chang Qing said, people without spiritual roots have a physique that rejects spiritual energy. No matter how many hairsprings are stored in the Dantian, it will gradually dissipate after a cup of tea.

However, although the spiritual energy cannot be transformed for oneself, through the inhalation and dissipation of the spiritual energy, his physical body has indeed been strengthened to a certain extent, and his spirit has become much better. And because Shi Feng was born with the ability to multi-task, he worked during the day while half of his consciousness was resting. He would not feel overwhelmed by practicing Pure Yuan Gong at night. As long as he slept for an hour before dawn, he would be refreshed immediately.

Two months later, Shi Feng's identification of the materials was completely correct and he worked very hard in handling the materials. Mr. Guo felt very satisfied. Now, let Shi Feng learn the second step of refining the weapon, how to decompose and refine the materials. Since the decomposition and refining of each material are very different, seven out of ten disciples in the refining hall are doing this job.

The workshop that Lao Guo took Shi Feng to was the one that decomposes and refines iron essence. Iron essence is the main raw material for making weapons, so it also has the most manpower.

The refining of iron essence is not simple. First, the ore must be melted and the sulfur and copper powder mixed in it must be evaporated. This step alone requires melting and cooling three times. The Sword Forging Valley is located near Fentian Peak, and an underground fire has been transformed. The quality of Chengdi stove is second only to Fentian Peak.

The temperature of the underground stove was much higher than that of mortal fire. As soon as Shi Feng walked in, he felt his mouth was dry and his whole body was sweating like pulp. After staying in this state for half an hour, he couldn't bear it any longer, so he came out and drank half a bucket of water. , still feeling dizzy.

Melting the iron essence is only the first step. After that, while the iron essence is red, hammer it continuously. The iron essence is also divided into grades. The one that hammers a pound of iron concentrate into nine taels is the first-grade iron. The iron essence that can be hammered into eight ounces is the second-grade iron essence... Of course, the one that can be hammered into one ounce in the end is the best ninth-grade iron essence.

This is by no means an easy task. Every time the iron essence is hammered, the density will increase. If it is to be strengthened again, the difficulty will naturally increase. Moreover, after hammering once, the iron essence cools down and must be put back into the furnace to melt again the second time.

The weapon refining hall requires disciples to hand in at least ten yuan of fifth-grade or above iron essence every month, and the reward is five spiritual stones. Of course, if a higher-grade spiritual stone can be submitted, the reward will also increase accordingly. If it is a ninth-grade stone, the reward will be increased accordingly. Tie Jing, then one piece can be exchanged for twenty spirit stones.

Since refining iron essence is time-consuming and labor-intensive, the disciples were divided into groups to do the refining. Shi Feng was assigned to a group with four other people. The oldest of the four was a boy of eighteen or nineteen. He was obviously dressed better than the others. He is a polished person with an arrogant expression. He does his least work but complains the most. The other three were only one or two years older than Shi Feng. Shi Feng had only been here for a day or two, and everyone just nodded to each other.

As time goes by, it gradually becomes familiar. One day, Shi Feng quietly asked a fat disciple, "Hey, Fatty, what is Gu Mingsi's background?" The disciple named Fatty whispered, "He is a direct descendant of the Gu family, one of the seven aristocratic families. The family had high hopes. Last year, he went up to the mountain to take the sect's examination. Unexpectedly, he only tested the first-level spiritual root and could not enter the inner gate at all. He can only enter our outer door. He originally refused to come to the Weapon Refining Hall, but the Gu family is famous for its Weapon Refining among the seven great families. Mr. Gu still wanted to inherit his father's legacy and forced him to come to the Weapon Refining Hall. So he cursed every day.”

Shi Feng said, "I have something very strange. You said we couldn't hold on for long when we entered the underground furnace room. Why did he seem to be fine? Since he has no spiritual roots, he should also have no magic power."

"Hey, can we compete with such a rich young man?" Xiaopang curled his lips, "Did you see that the jade pendant hanging on his waist is called Leng Yue Zhenru Pei, and it is a high-grade spiritual weapon that can best ward off fire. Han, with this treasure to protect him, he will be fine even if he stays in the furnace for a whole day."

Shi Feng secretly sighed. It turns out that this world of cultivation is just like the mortal world, with rich and poor people. Then he asked, "The fire spirit energy in this earth furnace is so abundant, why isn't it used to practice fire-based skills?" Xiaopang was stunned, "There is a higher-grade earth fire in Fentian Peak, why do the inner disciples come here to practice?" ?” He came from a small and run-down family. Although he was not very old, he had been exposed to many things since he was a child, and his knowledge was much better than that of Shi Feng. He continued, “As for us outer disciples, the sect has not taught us any techniques. Even if you are a disciple of an aristocratic family and have some fire-based skills at home, we are here to work, and you can meditate and practice in front of us without being whipped by Manager Luo. "

Shi Feng listened and stopped talking. He had secretly made a plan in his mind. He was an inner disciple and had a book called Pure Yuan Gong. The method of absorbing the Five Elements True Yuan was recorded in it. However, he happened to be able to do two things, so it didn't matter if he practiced at the same time.

On the same day, after returning to the house, Shi Feng took out "Pure Yuan Gong", turned to "Yang Yang Jue", and studied it carefully. Chang Qing had already talked about this technique before. Shi Feng spent a whole night and briefly studied it. Have a clue.

The next day, Shi Feng melted the iron concentrate in the underground furnace and secretly used the Yanyang Jue. Sure enough, a trace of heat around him entered his body as he breathed, and the heat was suddenly greatly reduced. However, this fire spirit energy entered the Dantian and then dissipated. Shi Feng had also tried to use the "Metal Gold Technique" to absorb the golden spiritual energy before. Although it could not be stored in the Dantian in the end, a cup of tea time could still exist after all. However, this fire spiritual energy could not even be stored for a breath. It seems that the fire element of my body is worse than the metal element.

However, Shi Feng was already very satisfied. He used Pure Yuan Gong to resist the heat, not to practice.

With this method, Shi Feng could stay in the furnace room for half a day. And after taking a short rest after coming out, you can stay for most of the day. Everyone was inevitably surprised, and after asking around privately, they found out that this young man with an unattractive appearance was actually an inner disciple, and he must be protected by a magic weapon given by his master. As a result, Gu Mingsi looked at Shi Feng with a bit more jealousy, and Xiaopang looked at Shi Feng with a bit more awe.

As time went by, everyone knew that Shi Feng also had no spiritual roots and was recruited into the inner sect as an exception, so their respect disappeared. In addition, this "student from the inner sect" had no airs at all, and he gradually became one with everyone. .

With the help of "Yangyang Jue" and the dual-purpose, Shi Feng's refining of iron essence immediately accelerated, and he obtained thirty kilograms of fifth-grade iron essence in the first month. Shi Feng has been very stubborn in doing things since he was a child. Starting from the second month, he was no longer satisfied with the fifth-grade iron essence, but tried to refine higher-grade iron essence.

The higher the grade of fine iron, the longer it will naturally take. Seeing Shi Feng hammering a ten-kilogram iron fine into five kilograms, it was already a fifth-grade iron fine, but instead of handing it over, he continued hammering. Four kilograms, three kilograms, two kilograms... Shi Feng is still hammering.

The other four disciples in the same team were stunned. A month had passed. Since Shi Feng did not turn in any iron spirits this month, he naturally received no reward. Xiaopang couldn't help but said, "Shi Feng, what are you doing?" Shi Feng smiled, "I'll try to refine a piece of ninth-grade iron essence." Gu Mingsi muttered, "I'm sick!"

As a result, after spending nearly a month, Shi Feng actually refined a piece of ninth-grade iron essence. Manager Luo San was greatly impressed and praised Shi Feng in public.

After Manager Luo left, Gu Mingsi said to himself, "I could have easily raised thirty yuan of fifth-grade iron essence in one month, and got 15 spiritual stones. In two months, I got 30. But it took two months. A piece of ninth-grade iron essence, I got 20 spiritual stones, I spent time and lost money, my head is really full of water..."

However, what made Gu Mingsi unbelievable was that Shi Feng's head really seemed to be filled with water, and he continued to refine the ninth-grade iron essence. But this time, Shi Feng spent only a month to refine a piece of ninth-grade iron essence, and obtained 20 crystals. Stones, and among the disciples, the most were only twenty or thirty pieces of fifth-grade iron essence, with a maximum of 15 crystal stones. As for Gu Mingsi, he has always been idle and can't even refine fifth-grade iron essence for ten dollars.

The rules of the Refining Hall are that if you pay less than ten yuan for fifth-grade iron essence, even if you refine nine yuan, you will not be given a penny. Gu Mingsi's family is well-off, so he naturally doesn't covet the five crystal stones, but if he doesn't pay enough every month, he will inevitably be scolded by Manager Luo and embarrassed.

That night, Shi Feng was meditating and resting in the house when he heard someone outside the house saying, "Brother Shi, Brother Shi, are you asleep?" It was Gu Mingsi's voice. Shi Feng stood up and said, "Is this Senior Brother Gu? Please come in." He took out a moonstone from the drawer, and the whole room suddenly became bright.

When he first started working, he was a silly boy who didn't know anything. He once fell asleep in the dark because he couldn't find oil lamps and wax torches. Later I learned that monks all use this kind of moonstone for lighting, which is much brighter than lamps and candles and is very convenient.