Chapter 195: Long Life: My Farming-Style Cultivation Is Too Steady Chapter 195 Forging Skill: Deft Hand

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Because it was freezing cold outside, Xu Zhangqing did not want to go out.

Although he was not afraid of the cold, it was mainly that there was nothing to do.

Therefore, after finishing breakfast, he brought a bowl of yellow and tender chicken egg custard into the Basement Second Floor.

But this time, he was not continuing to refine pills.

After all, it had only been a few hours since the last time ended.

Coming to the Refining Area this time, looking at the various artifact refining equipment before him, Xu Zhangqing revealed a thoughtful expression.

These artifact refining equipment were respectively:

【Chitian Forging Hammer】

Function One: Material Shaping

Function Two: Spiritual Power Guidance

【Green Carp Carving Knife】

Function One: Rune Carving

Function Two: Spirit Pattern Decoration

【Yellow Brass Crucible】

Function One: Material Melting

Function Two: Attribute Harmonization

【Basic Mold】

Function One: Ordinary Tool Shaping

Function Two: Standardized Production

【Ordinary Spirit Tool Mold】

Function One: Ordinary Spirit Tool Shaping

Function Two: Spiritual Array and Rune Pre-installation

Of course, there were also the Furnace, Bellows, and Stove, all of which were included when Han Su built the second basement level.

For now, forging common basic tools and ordinary spirit tools with these was enough.

Therefore, Xu Zhangqing planned to try it today to see if he had talent in this aspect.

The first time definitely could not choose a spirit tool, even the most ordinary spirit tool had difficulty.

Trying without any experience would definitely fail one hundred percent, not to mention wasting time and materials.

He fixed his gaze on the 【Basic Mold】, planning to forge a... sickle.

As a spirit farmer, forging a sickle was reasonable, right?

Mainly because it was simple, without so many complicated steps.

Although Xu Zhangqing had already imprinted the 【Refining Tool Beginner Tutorial】, 【Spirit Pattern Basic Explanation】, and 【Simple Spirit Tool Refining Diagram】 into his mind, equivalent to remembering them thoroughly.

But remembering and using them were still very different.

Slurp~

Xu Zhangqing drank the chicken egg custard in one gulp, then put the porcelain bowl to one side.

His right hand reached into the Furnace, his thumb and index finger rubbing back and forth.

A weak orange flame emerged, and the firewood inside was ignited in an instant.

The first step of forging was 【Building Furnace and Making Fire】.

Next, Xu Zhangqing pulled the Bellows beside him.

Whoosh~

Whoosh whoosh~

As he kept pulling, the flames in the Furnace grew more and more fierce.

Soon changing from orange to blue-green.

The temperature at this time was approximately two times that of orange fire.

It had already reached the degree needed for basic forging.

Therefore, Xu Zhangqing carried out the second step, which was 【Turning Iron into Juice】.

Placing the 【Yellow Brass Crucible】 beside him onto the Furnace, once the inside began to turn red and emit heat, he immediately put the purchased iron ingot into it.

The whole process was very quiet, almost without any sound.

Not long after, the already red-hot iron ingot, starting from the bottom that was heated first, bit by bit turned into molten iron.

Some impurities turned into black slag, floating on the surface and edges of the molten iron.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing scooped them up with a ladle and quickly skimmed them into a pottery jar to one side.

Once the iron ingot had completely melted into molten iron, he immediately poured it into the 【Sickle Mold】.

The ordinary mold was a complete set, containing almost all tools needed for daily use.

Such as sickles, shovels, hoes, hammers, iron rakes, etc., with a full twenty-plus types.

Waiting until the molten iron in the mold, its surface turned dark red, in a semi-solidified state.

Xu Zhangqing quickly took it out, then placed it on the hard Iron Anvil.

Then he used iron tongs to hold it steady with his left hand.

He raised the Chitian Forging Hammer with his right hand.

Afterward, he struck it lightly, again and again.

For a time, the sound of "ding ding dang dang" rang out unceasingly on the Basement Second Floor.

With constant knocking, the blade's edge gradually thinned and grew ever sharper.

Once fully shaped, he immediately clamped it with iron tongs and plunged it into Cold Pool Water to soak.

Cold met heat, and with a sudden "hiss," a plume of pungent smoke rose.

As time passed, the red-hot sickle cooled and set bit by bit, finally completing the forging.

Xu Zhangqing lifted the crescent-shaped sickle from the Cold Pool Water, then held it before his eyes to examine closely; after a long moment he said, "It still lacks a hammer!"

Actually, he hadn't expected the first forging to succeed so smoothly.

Though it was only the most basic of tools, he had no experience whatsoever.

Judging by the current situation, though it hadn't reached supreme quality, in terms of luster, hardness, toughness, sharpness, and so on, it should count as ordinary standard.

Just then, Xu Zhangqing's heart stirred, and he looked at his Attribute Panel.

【Forging Skill: Entry↑】

Effect One: Loss rate reduced from 50% to 40%.

Xu Zhangqing suddenly realized that although artifact refining was unlike pill refining, where one could use a pill formula to improve quality.

But as long as he succeeded once himself, he could master this art.

Once entered, he could consume lifespan to improve it.

Put plainly, he could fail countless times, but as long as he succeeded once, he would... take off.

【Consume 5 years of lifespan to raise Forging Skill to Masterful Hand?】

"Yes." Xu Zhangqing awaited it with great expectation.

In an instant, he was like a blacksmith's apprentice, starting from entry, step by step raising his skill.

Not long after, withdrawing from the mysterious and profound state of enlightenment, his whole person returned to normal.

【Remaining Lifespan: 701】

【Forging Skill: Masterful Hand】

Effect One: Loss rate reduced to 10%

Effect Two: Fine product rate increased to 90%

Effect Three: Supreme product rate increased to 80%

Special Effect One: Material Optimization, even the tiniest scraps can be incorporated.

Special Effect Two: Innovation through renewal, every successful forging can bestow a special effect upon the artifact.

Xu Zhangqing blinked his eyes: "It seems... not bad?"

Forging is forging.

Artifact refining is artifact refining.

Forging is a skill even mortals can master.

Only artifact refining is a skill cultivators can master.

That is to say, the first successful forging grants Forging Skill.

That means, the first successful artifact refining can also grant Artifact Refining Skill.

Thus, he need not, like others, spend decades or even over a hundred years accumulating experience bit by bit.

As long as he succeeds once, he can instantly become one of the most powerful artifact refiners in the entire Cultivation World.

Xu Zhangqing furrowed his brow: "If so, why has no Pill Refining Skill appeared?"

Is it the posture that's wrong?

Or some other reason?

From the previous Labor Strengthening Pills, all the way to last night's Foundation Spirit Pills, they were all supreme quality.

Especially the Labor Strengthening Pills, he had succeeded not just once, but many, many times.

In the current Lightly Vitality Gourd, at least over a hundred are stored.

Even after refining Foundation Spirit Pills, no Pill Refining Skill appeared.

This shows there must be some reason, or something incorrect.

Xu Zhangqing thought it over and over, but had not the slightest clue.

Shaking his head, he couldn't be bothered to waste time, and immediately focused his attention and gaze on the 【Ordinary Spirit Tool Mold】.

If his guess is correct, as long as artifact refining succeeds once, he can obtain this art that countless Metal Spirit Root and Fire Spirit Root apprentices dream of.

By then, he need not go to Zhuqi Peak to find Zhu Tong and other Blacksmiths; he himself can refine spirit tools and even magic tools.

As the saying goes, relying on oneself is better than relying on others!