The next day, Fang Chong got up very early, tempered his body, and completed the whole set of exercises. His face was covered with sweat and fell on the bluestone floor.
"Huh, fortunately there is a spirit gathering array, otherwise my body would not have been able to improve so quickly." Fang Chong raised his arm and clenched it into a fist. He felt the powerful force rushing in his body, which made him feel overjoyed.
With the help of the spirit gathering array, his body's improvement speed not only did not slow down, but instead soared rapidly.
As time passed, Fang Chong found that the fit between his own body and the spirit gathering array became closer, and the rolling spiritual energy of heaven and earth flowed through his muscles, bones, and blood, becoming more docile and easier to absorb than in the past. In this way, it was difficult for his physical fitness to improve.
The physical exercise was not over yet, and Fang Zhong was constantly trying to stimulate the spiritual energy of the spirit gathering array, which evolved into something like internal strength.
However, after a whole month or two, there was no progress at all. It was too difficult to control the spiritual energy of the spirit gathering array. The reason why I was able to succeed last time was entirely accidental. It was not an easy thing to find the inevitable in chance, and controlling this inevitable was not a simple matter.
However, Fang Chong was not discouraged. He believed that if he persisted, he would always succeed. Moreover, he still had many things to be busy with, the most important of which was to study "Twelve Forgings".
In two months, Fang Chong continued to study the "Twelve Forgings" and confirmed the techniques one by one and practiced...
The final result was that all the black irons in the iron shop were refined into fine iron by him.
Of course, some of them were purified with the stamens of Blue Star Grass, and with it, the refined iron only reached the lower-grade fine iron level.
After half a month, Fang Chong had mastered the heat and the dose of Blue Star Grass. The refined iron produced reached medium-grade level. Occasionally, some top-grade fine iron will appear. However, the purification method of using Blue Star Grass to purify the drug has always been limited. It would be good to be able to achieve medium-grade level. It is almost impossible to extract all the top-grade levels.
Therefore, Fang Chong has now abandoned the drug purification method and started to study the spiritual talisman purification method!
The so-called spiritual talisman purification method actually uses flame to purify metal, but it does not use ordinary flames, but spiritual fire transformed by talismans.
Spiritual fire is purer and has a higher temperature than ordinary flames, so it can effectively remove impurities from metals, concentrate and refine metals, and turn black iron into cold light essence iron, and ensure that all refined essence iron extracted is top-quality.
A month later, Fang Chong had initially mastered the method of purifying the spirit talismans, and he began to prepare for practice.
"Well, you need to prepare some things before practice, and... a helper." Fang Zhong laughed in his heart and captured Fang Zongqing's strong man.
Who made him lose his internal energy?
Activating the talisman requires the support of internal strength, and Fang Zongqing is the best candidate, with a thick inner diameter and fire attributes. It is really good to use it to forge metal.
In the iron shop, Fang Zongqing looked at Fang Chong's dense lines carving on the furnace, and felt very confused and asked, "Zhong'er, what are you doing?"
Fang Chong smiled and said, "Dad, this is called a talisman, which is difficult to explain. You only need to know that with this thing, we can extract the top-grade fine iron."
"Oh, so that's it." Fang Zongqing suddenly realized and stopped asking. It was okay to ask him to make a blacksmith, but it was really difficult to understand these complex talismans. Anyway, his son could understand it. He was happy and sat on the side with his arms in his arms, waiting patiently.
After a while...
"It's done!" Fang Chong's face was happy, and he carved a strange pattern on the furnace at the end and said, "Dad, it's time for you to take action. Use your 'Fire Fire Art'. This fire attribute internal energy is used to refine metals and forge weapons. It's perfect to match with my talisman."
"Uh, 'Yanhuo Art' is a martial arts secret book, you actually said it to be a iron-smashing hand, haha..." Fang Zongqing couldn't help but smile bitterly, but he still put his hand on the furnace.
laugh!
With a light sound, Fang Zongqing's arm suddenly turned red, and a trace of fiery red light was seeped out. It was the true manifestation of internal strength, and all spontaneously rushed to the furnace, wandering along the talismans carved on it on Fang Chong, outlining a strange pattern.
With the infusion of the internal strength of the "Yanhuo Jue", the talismans on the furnace suddenly lit up, as bright as fire.
In Fang Zongqing's surprised gaze, the internal energy transformed by the talisman turned into strange flames, floating into the furnace like red clouds.
"Hey, the black iron melted, it was so fast!" Fang Zongqing was shocked and stared at the black iron in the furnace.
In the furnace, the dozens of kilograms of black iron easily melted when it touched the cloud-shaped flame, and the speed was more than ten times faster than he usually forged with ordinary flames.
Fang Chongli was beside Fang Zongqing and laughed happily.
The method of talisman purification is a more advanced thing than the method of drug purification. It is impossible to use without internal strength. From this point of view, it can be seen that the effect of refining metals is definitely very unusual.
In just a short while, dozens of kilograms of black iron turned into iron, boiling and rolling in the furnace, wisps of black smoke emerged.
The black smoke was all impurities inside. The black smoke was steamed out, and the black iron inside became purer and the volume became much smaller. There were dozens of kilograms of black iron, but now it looked like it was only about ten kilograms, and it was half the amount of the first melting.
Half an hour later, dozens of kilograms of black iron had been melted into fine iron, and the volume was reduced by more than ten times.
Sharp!
Fang Zongqing clamped out the fine iron in the furnace, and put it in his hand until it cooled down. He said in surprise: "Good guy, dozens of kilograms of black iron, but it's less than two kilograms of smelting. The grade of these two kilograms of fine iron will definitely not be too bad, it should be considered a top-grade."
Fang Chong also approached and took a look, smiling with satisfaction. Judging from the color of this piece of fine iron, he knew that it was definitely a top-grade fine iron.
The next step is forging. The melted fine iron is very irregular and there is no way to sell it directly like this. It can only be sold after simple forging.
Of course, if you directly cast the fine iron into weapons, etc. and sell them for sale, it is naturally more expensive. However, you cannot use fine iron completely. You also need to add some other materials. These things are not heavy in the west, so you must sell some of the iron essence before you can buy those materials to cast weapons.
Forging is actually very simple, just use a hammer to continuously hit it to achieve a regular shape.
This process was completed by Fang Chong. He found that during the forging process, the spirit gathering array in his body would accelerate, allowing more spiritual energy from heaven and earth to gather into his body. This is equivalent to accelerating the tempering of his physique. How can this opportunity be missed?
Bang bang!
A dull sound came from the iron shop, and a huge hammer came down from the air, shaking the chopping board.
......
Three months later, Fang Chong was fourteen and a half years old.
Fang Chong and Fang Zongqing got up early that morning. After a meal in the yard, they had breakfast and hurried out of Ningcang County.
In the past three months, Fang Chong has forged all the black irons in the iron shop into fine iron, with a total of nearly 50 kilograms, most of which are low- and medium-grade fine irons, and the top-grade ones account for a small part, and all of them were left in the iron shop by Fang Chong.
This time they wanted to take the forged fine iron to Zhaonan County to sell it, exchange it for silver, and then buy what they need.
In the black warrior suit, the long sword made of low-quality fine iron mixed with black iron, Fang Chong and Fang Zongqing each equipped a set, walked quickly along the official road, stirring up a burst of dust, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Ningcang County is very far from Zhaonan County, thousands of miles away, and it is impossible to get back in one or two days. There are also bandits robbed along the way and horse thieves who are rampant. The dangers are much higher than those in Ningcang County, so they cannot be careless.
Therefore, a long sword is a must. Although you may not encounter robbers or horse thieves, it is always good to be prepared for any trouble.
Fang Zongqing has the peak cultivation level of a second-rate warrior, so ordinary robbers are naturally not afraid. Fang Chong also has the cultivation level of a third-rate warrior. Although it is a little insufficient, he will not be at a disadvantage when fighting. The only thing that makes Fang Zongqing frown is the heavy armor of more than 300 kilograms of Fang Chong's body.
This thing is a burden when fighting.
However, Fang Chong didn't care at all. With his current physical fitness, more than 300 pounds were actually a little light. The exercise effect it could be done was somewhat insufficient, and it did not hinder his speed and agility.
But with heavy armor in his body, his defense ability has been increased by at least twice, so why not do it?