Chapter 1254

Indeed, it's feasible.

Beside it is a furnace.

Zhuangya can continuously draw in the furnace's flames and turn them into her own flames.

Then she can forge while breathing fire at the same time.

No waiting needed during heating.

And the iron blank won't cool down from forging, requiring reheating.

Calculating based on a two-handed Phoenix Cry Blade.

Original: 【Heat 15 minutes】 → 【Forge 2 minutes】 → 【Heat 15 minutes】 → 【Forge 2 minutes】…… cycle 20 times.

If it's an improved weapon, it needs another 10 cycles, 30 in total.

If it's a super-improved weapon, it needs 10 more cycles, 40 in total.

Just this heating and forging process alone takes 680 minutes, equivalent to 11.3 hours.

Adding the other process steps, crafting one Phoenix Cry Blade takes 15 hours.

Among them, the most critical step is not heating, but forging.

The steel must be continuously folded and forged to remove impurities and improve quality.

If the number of times is insufficient, the quality will drop.

It might even fail entirely.

And the prerequisite for forging is heating.

Because once the temperature drops, the iron blank becomes brittle.

One hammer strike might shatter it outright.

All previous efforts would be wasted.

So after 2 minutes of forging, it must be reheated for 15 minutes until the iron blank turns red.

When the iron blank is taken out to be forged, the temperature drops quickly, so it can only be forged for 2 minutes.

If the forging time is too long, the temperature will be too low, risking shattering it.

If the iron can be kept at a constant temperature, it can be continuously forged and folded.

Overall:

A super-improved Phoenix Cry Blade requires at least 40 forging cycles, which is 80 minutes.

So of this 680-minute step, only 80 minutes are the most essential part.

The remaining nearly 600 minutes can be saved in Zhuangya's hands.

Including similar heating steps in other processes, all can be saved.

And this has just been verified!

It's achievable!

A two-handed super-improved Phoenix Cry Blade, in Zhuangya's hands, only needs a basic 5 hours to complete!

Same as the base time for stockings!

Adding various bonuses, the forging time can also be greatly shortened!

Including armor like the Mystic Maiden Battle Armor works too, since the principle is the same!

So inside Zhuangya's body, the forging time can be directly shortened to one-third of the original, with extremely high efficiency!

Amazing!

If that's the case, teaching blacksmiths the Sea of Fire skill might improve forging efficiency?

No……

Ordinary blacksmithes don't have Zhuangya's "Scorching Body" gene.

If they use the Sea of Fire technique, at most 4 seconds and their spiritual power is drained.

That's completely useless.

You could say it's pointless.

Unless the blacksmith's enhancement isn't on efficiency but on spiritual power, lasting a few more seconds.

But that…… is even more useless.

And those with "Scorching Body" are basically fire elementals or other magical beasts.

It's hard to get them to forge……

So Zhuangya's situation can be said to be one of a kind.

Didn't expect such a clever use.

Truly amazing!

Zhao Chi kept sighing in his heart.

Zhuangya heard every word clearly.

Zhuangya 【Am I really that good, my lord? Why do you keep praising me like this? I'm a little embarrassed】

Zhao Chi 【Of course it's true, and it's really, really, really true! You can save us an enormous amount of time! In terms of forging, even Qiyue's efficiency isn't as good as yours, amazing!】

Zhuangya 【Hahahahaha, little Zhao Chi, you're overpraising me~ Hahahaha, it's not that exaggerated~ Hahahahaha】

Zhao Chi 【Stop hahaha-ing, Qiyue can endure 6 Quick-Work Talismans, I don't know how many you can endure, let's begin】

Zhuangya 【Okay, I've never tasted a Quick-Work Talisman before, let's try it!】

1 hour and 10 minutes later.

Both Zhao Chi and Zhuangya were dizzy, nauseous, and felt like vomiting.

Several times Zhao Chi nearly hit his hand with the hammer.

Zhao Chi had originally assumed that Zhuang Ya's sadistic preferences would work on him too, but it seemed that wasn't the case.

At the very least, they could no longer hold out.

Perhaps it really was useful.

But because of Zhuang Ya's sensitive constitution, the negative side effects of the Hastening Talisman hit her even harder.

So now, having used seven Hastening Talismans, she felt she had already reached her limit.

It seemed that, just like with Qi Yue afterward, using six Hastening Talismans each time was a more appropriate measure.

It wouldn't be too unbearable.

And in the end, it could guarantee quality.