Gongliang, whose hearing had improved, had already known Yuan Gungun and ran to Xiaoshi's house without caring about him. He walked to the kitchen, put water on the fire and cooked the beast meat, then grabbed the giant bone placed in the corner, intending to carry it and start exercising.
Suddenly, he looked at the hand holding the giant bone with a strange look on his face.
It was very difficult for him to carry the giant bone while running yesterday. Why is it so easy to grab the giant bone today? He can't even feel the weight of yesterday. What's going on?
Could it be that the purification of true energy can also increase the strength of the body, otherwise there is no way to explain this strange phenomenon. He grabbed the giant bone and waved it. It was still difficult to hold it with one hand, but there was no problem at all with both hands. As long as he wanted to
It needs some training to be used as a weapon, after all, he has never used a bone club before.
Although the giant bone has become lighter, daily exercise must continue.
It's just that he won't be able to carry the giant bones anymore in the future. After all, they are too light to achieve the effect of physical exercise. He will have to find something to replace them.
After he returned from exercise, the ferocious beast meat in the pot was cooked, so he started to eat meat and drink soup. For some reason, his appetite increased greatly today, and he couldn't get enough even after eating all the ferocious beast meat cooked in the morning. He had to
He cooked some more until he had eaten a third of the portioned beast meat to fill his stomach.
It's really strange. I haven't been able to eat this much before, so why is my belly bigger today? Could it be because of the purification of Qi? What the hell?
Because the hunting team had hunted the king of beasts this time, the tribe specially rewarded each of them with half a ferocious beast, which was originally enough for him to eat while he stayed in the tribe. But now it is not enough. It seems that he has to go hunting, otherwise he will starve to death.
After eating and taking a rest, he walked to Yehan's blacksmith shop.
Yehan was just about to go out with his things on his back, "Aliang, you're here, what do you want to hit this time?"
Gongliang shook his head and said: "I don't want to hit anything, I want to learn to blacksmith from you."
"You want to learn blacksmithing?" Yehan gave him a strange look, but he didn't care, and said: "Blacksmithing is very tiring. If you really want to learn, I can teach you. But you have to wait a while, I have no more iron ore here.
, I’m going to dig some out and bring them back.”
"Where to dig?" Gongliang asked.
"Right next to our tribe."
"Then I'll go with you."
"Okay, then go over there and carry a basket and dig some ore back." Yehan was not polite and planned to use Gongliang as free labor. After he carried the basket, he walked out of the tribe with him.
"A-Liang, you are going to mine too!" Tao, who was guarding the village gate, greeted Gong Liang when he saw him. As for Yehan, he was a very familiar person and he was not even interested in saying hello.
"Yeah." Gongliang nodded.
"be careful."
"knew."
The iron ore is located on a hill outside the Yanbu extinct volcano, and a black hole has been dug out at the foot of the mountain. When Yehan came here, he took out a torch from the basket on his back, and took out two pieces of refined iron from his arms to beat them.
.After a few blows, a few sparks burst out from the fine iron and fell on the torch, and the dry torch covered with animal oil suddenly burned.
The black hole is the mine where Yehan mines ores. There is a storage room inside, which is specially used to place some things needed for mining.
He went to the storage room and took two mining iron pickaxes and divided them between them. He also took out an animal oil torch and lit it and handed it to Gong Liang. Otherwise, it would be dark inside the cave and it would be impossible to walk at all.
The mine is large, but not deep, and we walked about fifty meters to the bottom.
When they reached the innermost part, Yehan stopped and started digging with an iron pickaxe. After digging out a few pieces of ore, he called Gongliang and taught him how to distinguish between concentrate and miscellaneous ore in iron ore. He waited until Gongliang understood.
After that, he left it alone and started digging for ore. Gongliang also started digging with a pickaxe.
Mining was not difficult. With his strength, he brought out a piece of ore as soon as the pickaxe came down. After stopping to pick it up, he continued digging.
In the silent mine, the sound of his pickaxe striking the iron ore echoed silently.
Next to him, Ye Han had been secretly observing. Seeing how fast he was digging, he was unwilling to admit defeat and started digging hard.
It's just that his physical strength couldn't be compared with Gongliang's. He was out of breath after a few moments and had to stop and rest. Gongliang, on the other hand, was like a fierce bull, tireless and mindlessly digging. It didn't take long for the mine wall next to him to be dug.
A hollow was dug out by him.
"Keng"
Gongliang swung the pickaxe hard and dug down. With another force, a piece of ore fell off the mine wall.
At this time, he saw a round egg-shaped ore rolling down from the top. When he picked it up, he saw that the egg-shaped ore was about the size of a duck egg. It felt heavy and he didn't know what it was. He held it
He asked Yehan next to him: "Yehan, what do you think this is?"
Ye Han took a look and said with envy: "This is the iron spirit. You are so lucky. It didn't take long to dig out the iron spirit."
"Then...what's the use of this?"
"This is something better than iron ore. It is the essence of iron ore. The weapons made from it are very hard, sharp and durable. It is just not easy to dig. I have been digging for so long and I haven't found a few," Yehan said.
After that, he continued to immerse himself in mining. Gongliang had already dug a pile of iron ore. Although he was not as young as him, he didn't want to lose too much.
It seemed to be a good thing. Gongliang looked at the iron essence, put it aside and continued mining.
"Keng"
He dug the iron pickaxe hard into the mine wall, and then tilted it hard, and suddenly a lot of iron ore fell off the mine wall. Suddenly, he saw that there seemed to be a pile of iron essence inside. At that moment, he didn't care about the iron ore dug out.
He hurriedly dug up the stone. After a while, he dug up more than thirty iron essences, large and small.
Yehan looked at him with very resentful eyes.
He had dug iron ore for so many years but could not find a few iron essences. Gongliang dug a nest the first time he came and even let no one live.
Under Gongliang's hard work, the ore that Yehan originally took a day to dig was actually dug in one morning. Yehan began to carry the iron ore back with Gongliang, and the two of them carried a lot of iron ore several times.
Memorize them all.
Gongliang came to learn blacksmithing from Yehan. Usually the first step in learning blacksmithing is to play the wind drum, and then learn how to smelt ore. But Gongliang will go out hunting in a while, and there is no time to grind here, so
Just skip the first two steps and come to the third stage of forging iron blocks.
The iron ore is melted into iron juice by the furnace fire. After the first cold quenching to remove impurities, it becomes rough iron blocks.
Forging is to reheat the solidified iron block and then use a hammer to knock out the impurities inside.
Yehan patiently taught him to hammer out the impurities from the iron block. After beating for a while, Gongliang felt that the hammer in his hand was too light, so he asked Yehan: "Do you have a hammer with a key point here?"
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"They're all there, go look for them yourself." Yehan pointed to a few hammers placed in the corner.
Gongliang walked over and tried them one by one. He felt that the largest hammer fit the best, so he picked it up. Yehan looked at his face and said strangely: "This one...can you use it?"
"Just right." Gongliang waved the hammer to signal.
Yehan didn't know what to say. This hammer was the biggest and heaviest hammer he had here. He had to use both hands to lift it. Unexpectedly, Gongliang could lift it lightly with just one hand. And then he thought that he was mining like a drink.
The water looked like this, and I immediately felt that this guy was a freak.
With the big hammer, it was obviously much faster to hammer out the impurities in the iron blocks. Before long, Ye Han had forged all the iron blocks he had left.
However, this first pass is just to forge the iron block into a slightly purer iron ingot. To forge it into steel, more time and energy will be needed.