The sun was shining brightly and golden, shining in the military camp, diluting the solemn and murderous aura a lot.
Fang Chong got up early in the morning and watched the hundreds of soldiers under him practice on the school ground, then made an excuse and took Daniu and Tong Man to Zhaonan County.
Zhaonan County, Wanxiang Tower.
Today, Fang was wearing military uniforms, and no one dared to stop him from entering the Wanxiang Tower. Zhang Daniu and Tong Man followed behind him, like two mountains, with great power.
"I remember Sister Lin, who I met in this Wanxiang Building, I wonder how she is now?" Fang Zhong sighed in his heart, stepped into the hall of Wanxiang Building, threw a stack of silver notes to the waiter, and said, "I want ten jin of Xingbian, the best one, pack it for me."
"Yes, sir, please wait." The waiter stepped back with a humble smile on his face.
The Wanxiang Building is full of all kinds and dazzling, and many strange things can be found. Zhang Daniu and Tong Man's eyes shine, looking at them one by one, and admiring them all.
Seeing the two of them looking like this, Fang Chong immediately laughed: "You two are the commanders of the Red Tiger Army, can you pay attention to your image?"
The two of them smiled embarrassedly, and Tong Man even looked depressed and said, "Sir, you don't know that the things in Wanxiang Tower are extremely expensive. I didn't dare to come in before."
"Well, it's really expensive. I haven't been here before. I just took a look at it. A dagger costs 300 taels. This is really... what a snatch?" Zhang Daniu also looked indignant and said with a humming voice.
"These two guys are embarrassing." Fang Chong noticed the gaze that was seen around him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "You are lucky today. Go and choose it yourself. If you see anything you like, please give it to me. I'll pay for you."
"Then I'll thank you sir." The two of them ran away happily with surprise on their faces.
In the end, Zhang Daniu and Tong Man jumped into a weapon. Zhang Daniu had a heavy axe and Tong Man had a thick sword, both of which were heavy weapons, weighing hundreds of pounds. The two of them held them in their hands and waved them for a while, which shocked the people around them to avoid them quickly.
Both of them are extremely strong, and one uses a giant axe and the other uses a big knife.
However, Fang Chong took these two weapons and looked at them, and frowned. Although the grades of these two weapons were not bad, they were still much worse than what he tempered himself. However, he was too lazy to spend his energy to temper the magic weapons for these two guys, so he would just let it go.
Soon, the waiter handed a small bag to Fang Chong and said respectfully: "Sir, this is the condensed steel you want, exactly ten kilograms, a total of two hundred taels of silver."
"Yes, it's exactly ten kilograms." Fang Chong thought a little and knew that ten kilograms were not much or less. He thought to himself, "Casting a box with these ten kilograms of condensed steel should be able to isolate the heat of the fire source crystal. Anyway, the fire source crystal is only big in the fist, so I will carry it with me in the future."
Leaving Wanxiang Tower, Fang Chong headed west, bypassed half of Zhaonan County, and finally stopped at a remote iron shop.
This shop is extremely old and has a deserted house. There is only an old man in his seventies or eighties inside, which is obviously not satisfactory in his business.
Zhang Daniu stared at the shop and asked curiously: "Sir, do you want to build weapons? You have to choose a better shop."
He gave this guy a blank look. Fang Chong was too lazy to explain and ordered the two to guard the door and go in by himself.
In the shop, an old man was sitting by the stove, knocking on the red iron blocks over and over again. Fang Chong couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at it.
"No wonder the business is so bleak. This forging skills is really bad." Fang Zhong said in his heart, but he wanted to forge the box that was decorated with fire source crystal by himself. The old man's forging skills almost had no effect on him, as long as the tools were complete.
"Bang!"
After throwing a bag of silver in front of the old man, Fang smiled and said, "Old man, I want to use your forging shop to create something by myself. This money should be enough, right?"
"Enough, enough..." the old man smiled happily and said, "That's enough money, I just bought the old man's shop."
"Just buy this shop. I just want to use your tools to forge something. I have the materials myself." Fang Chong smiled and walked to the inner room, glanced at the things inside, nodded slightly. The things here are quite neat, and it is enough to melt and cast condensed steel.
The fire was ready-made, Fang Chong took out the condensed steel and threw it into the stove.
Seeing the dark condensed steel in the stove, the old man's turbid eyes lit up and he said in surprise: "This is...this is condensed steel."
The old man looked excited and subconsciously shook his head, "The condensed steel is as cold as frost, which can isolate the heat. If you want to use my stove to melt condensed steel, it is probably not possible. There is no special way to melt condensed steel."
Fang Chong smiled slightly, without explanation, took out a jade bottle from his arms, and a cold mist suddenly rose, causing the temperature in the room to drop a lot. The water waves in the jade bottle were gurgling, and a light blue liquid was shaking, shining brightly.
"This is extremely cold water. You actually have extremely cold water. No wonder you are sure to melt condensed steel." The old man was shocked, revealing a sudden expression.
"This old man actually knows the extreme cold water." Fang Chong glanced at the old man, a little surprised, and couldn't help asking: "Old man, how do you know that this extreme cold water can melt condensed steel?"
"Haha, old man, although my forging skills are absent, I still dare not forget some of the things I have passed down from my ancestors. This extremely cold water can melt condensed steel is one of them. Unfortunately, old man, I am very poor. I can't afford condensed steel and extremely cold water at all." The old man laughed at himself and said slowly.
"So that's it." Fang Chong felt relieved, thought for a while, and took out a stack of silver notes from his body and placed them on the table. It was a thousand taels. "Since the old man knows the skills of smelting condensed steel, he should not be buried. This amount of silver was lent to you. I hope you can carry forward the skills of your ancestors."
Fang Chong's move was purely a whim. Anyway, his money came easily, and he didn't feel sorry for the bandits in Heifengling.
Moreover, although this old man is old, he knows how to melt condensed steel. He is like walking with him. Meeting is fate, and supporting him is nothing.
However, it was different for the old man. He looked excited, and tears were flowing, and he sighed: "Sir, I can't bear your kindness!"
This move was just a slight effort. Fang Chong smiled slightly, turned around and poured the blue liquid in the jade bottle onto the condensed steel.
Suddenly, a smog of smoke suddenly rose from the condensed steel, and then softened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in just a moment it melted into a pool of viscous liquid.
Condensed steel is cold, and extremely cold water is also cold. If it were not recorded in "Twelve Forgings", Fang Chong would not believe that these two extremely cold objects can actually produce strange changes and soften the condensed steel that cannot be melted even at high temperatures.
"There is nothing but wonders in the world, this is just the tip of the iceberg." Fang Zhong sighed in his heart, and when he looked back, the old man was gone.
He didn't care. He didn't need any help from the old man, so he picked up the tools himself, cast the softened condensed steel into a box, and honed it into a box, which was square, but a little bigger than a fist, just enough to hold the fire source crystal.
Half an hour later, Fang Chong completed the casting.
A square box as dark as ink appeared in his hand, and the gloomy light flashed and the cold was the box cast by condensed steel.
With a satisfied smile, Fang Chong turned around and walked out the door. He chose such a remote place to forge it but didn't want to be noticed by those who are interested.
After all, condensed steel has a special nature. If you use condensed steel to cast boxes, anyone with some common sense knows that it is definitely a treasure with fire attributes.
"Sir, please wait."
At this moment, the old man walked out of the inner room, covered in dust and holding a stone box in his hand. It is not difficult to imagine that he must have been searching through the boxes and cabinets for a long time before he found the stone box.
"No wonder the old man hasn't been there for half an hour." Fang Zhong suddenly realized in his heart, smiled, and said, "Old man, what else do you have?"
"Sir, I can't repay your great kindness. This is a secret forging scripture passed down from my ancestors. I am low-quality, old and have no children. I will keep it and only buried it. I will bring it into the coffin in the future. I am sorry for my ancestors. I would rather give it to you. I hope you can carry forward the skills of my ancestors." The old man held the stone box and rubbed it carefully, and tears flowed.
The stone box is simple and carved with some simple patterns, all of which are like swords and weapons. The whole stone box presents a dark purple color, which is very strange.
Fang Chong looked around the stone box, then looked at the old man's tears, and refused: "Old man, this is your ancestor's belonging, I will never accept it."
The old man sighed, stuffed the stone box into Fang Chong's hand, and said, "Sir, this stone box is the lifelong skill of our ancestors. If I get buried with me, it will be really buried. I will not face my ancestors when I get underground. Please help me."
In this way, Fang Chong had to accept it. For him, it might be just a stone box, but for the old man it was a kind of inheritance and a continuation of his ancestors' skills.
After saying goodbye to the old man, Fang Chong took Daniu and Tong Man to leave the shop and left Zhaonan County.
Without going back to the military camp directly, Fang Chong and the other two took a detour into the continuous mountains behind the Red Tiger Army, came to the stone forest, dug out the fire source crystal from the stone forest, put the fire source crystal in the box cast by condensed steel, and Fang Chong breathed a sigh of relief and rushed back to the military camp with the two.