NOVEL WEB Chapter 84: Steel is forged, iron ropes trap evil
[Forging Expert] (Blue): A rare achievement that can be achieved by forging a blue quality weapon by yourself.
Achievement reward: Strengthening Stone*100
Seeing this achievement, if it was two days ago, he might have hesitated.
Nowadays, the Craftsman Dao has entered the sixth-grade skilled craftsman realm and is fully qualified to refine hundred-forged steel.
All that's left is to continuously improve your forging skills.
With his talent in forging one, it shouldn't take long.
Liu Ye is quite confident about this.
……
Ding-ding-ding-ding! !
Early in the morning, a crisp sound of iron was heard in Mr. Meng's small courtyard.
To be honest, Liu Ye underestimated the difficulty of refining Hundred Forged Steel.
Different from refined iron, the reason why hundred-forged steel is called hundred-forged steel means that it is a high-purity material that needs to be tempered at least a hundred times before it can be completely formed.
The magical weapons that the world often talks about actually refer to weapons made of hundred-forged steel.
In a sense, hundred-forged steel is the pinnacle of creation that can be forged by manpower.
As for strange objects that contain special energy, such as meteorite iron from the sky, deep sea marrow essence, thousand-year flame essence, and ten thousand-year cold iron, they are all created by heaven and earth and cannot be made by human beings.
"Crack!"
"Alas, failed again."
Looking at the cracked iron piece that he hammered, Liu Ye sighed, threw it into the furnace and recast it, picked up another piece of refined iron and started a new round of hammering.
This is already the seventh piece of fine iron that he has hammered into pieces.
Compared with the first six pieces, this piece has the highest degree of completion, reaching 90 forgings, and is only short of the last 10 forgings before it is complete.
However, the harder this thing is hammered to the back, the more difficult it becomes. If you are not careful, cracks will appear, and you have to recast it.
"It seems that making blue-quality weapons is not as simple as imagined." Liu Ye couldn't help but sigh.
Just the first tempering stage stumped him, and the subsequent forging stages would only be more difficult. Liu Ye was ready for a protracted battle.
The day passed quickly, and when night fell, Liu Ye also stopped what he was doing.
"Strange, why does it crack every time it reaches 99 forging?"
Looking at the iron block on the forging table that was just short of the final forging, Liu Ye didn't dare to start.
Since I hammered out the first piece of 99-forged refined iron seven hours ago, it's like being poisoned. All of them cracked at the -forged time, without exception.
At first Liu Ye thought it was a technical reason and didn't pay much attention.
If this one doesn't work, then replace it with another one. As long as you become more proficient, one of them will succeed.
However, now it seems that this is not a matter of proficiency at all, but a key link is probably missing.
As the saying goes, when you are in doubt, ask Mr. Meng. Liu Ye picked up the iron block and left the casting room without saying a word.
Finding Mr. Meng who was sleeping on a chair, Liu Ye pushed him. Seeing no response, he whispered in Mr. Meng's ear.
The next second, Mr. Meng suddenly jumped up from his chair.
"Who! Who dares to steal my wine at all costs!"
"Ahem, Mr. Meng, no one stole your wine. I just have some questions about casting that I would like to ask you for advice."
Liu Ye coughed twice and explained with some embarrassment.
"Stinky boy."
Mr. Meng cursed angrily, then lay back on the chair: "Tell me, what's the problem?"
Hearing this, Liu Ye handed over the iron block: "I want to hammer out a piece of hundred-forged steel, but it cracks every time it reaches the 100th forging. Can you tell me why?"
"Oh, this is about it."
Mr. Meng did not take the iron block in Liu Ye's hand at all, and said directly: "Have you heard the allusion that a thousand-mile embankment collapsed in an ant nest?"
"Of course I've heard of this."
Liu Ye didn't understand why Mr. Meng suddenly mentioned this.
"It's easy to handle once you hear it. It's the same principle. Your first 99 exercises may seem perfect, but in fact there will be some minor flaws every time.
Individually, these flaws are innocuous, but when accumulated, they can become an anthill that breaks the bank.
As the saying goes, steel is made from a hundred refinements, and the last refinement is its ultimate leap. Any flaw will lead to the failure of the final transformation.
What you have to do is treat each training as its last training, so that you can achieve something. "
Liu Ye listened thoughtfully. After a long time, he was about to say thank you when he heard a snoring sound in his ears.
Looking up, Mr. Meng was sleeping soundly with his wine bottle in his arms.
Liu Ye laughed and shook his head, took off his coat and covered Mr. Meng with it, then turned and walked out of the courtyard.
After all, it's late at night, and blacksmithing can easily disturb people.
Just as he was about to continue his daily patrol work, there was suddenly a rush of footsteps on the street, which sounded like hundreds of people.
"Did something happen?"
Liu Ye's expression changed slightly and he hurried in the direction of the sound.
……
"The first and second teams are preparing chains, the third and fourth teams are on guard around the area, and the rest are waiting in place."
When Liu Ye arrived, he saw Chen Mo directing a group of soldiers to surround a private house.
"Brother Chen."
Liu Ye shouted.
"Brother Liu? It's dangerous here, leave quickly!" Seeing Liu Ye, Chen Mo was stunned for a moment, then scolded Liu Ye with a serious face to leave quickly.
Liu Ye naturally wouldn't listen. He took a look at the house and felt the strong yin energy inside, and he roughly understood the situation.
Evil spirits enter the body!
This cold aura is no different from the evil spirits of those barbarians back then.
"Oh, I didn't expect that this kind of thing would happen after patrolling for a while late."
Liu Ye couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Mainly as time goes by, the rate of Yin Qi spreading between heaven and earth will become faster and faster.
Especially in the middle of the cold month, that period is the most difficult, and the concentration of yin energy will reach the highest value in the year.
"Brother Chen, is there something evil here?" Liu Ye came to the front and stood side by side with Chen Mo.
"Oh, why don't you listen to my advice?"
Seeing that Liu Ye refused to leave even though he knew something evil was going on, Chen Mo sighed and then briefly introduced the situation.
In fact, after so many years of development, various places in the Han Dynasty have extremely mature countermeasures during the late cold month.
Each city is equipped with a Yin Qi compass built by the Mo family. Once an evil spirit appears somewhere, the location will be immediately located and special personnel will be dispatched to deal with it quickly.
Zhang Liao had previously called a meeting of all the major commanders for this matter.
Chen Mo is responsible for this area.
"boom!"
Suddenly, a black shadow jumped out from the house. As soon as it landed, it rushed towards everyone at an alarming speed.
"Quick, throw the chain!"
Chen Mo didn't bother chatting with Liu Ye and quickly directed everyone to fight.
Swish swish!
The next second, dozens of iron chains were seen flying in the air, and then dozens of people held both ends of the chains and quickly spun around.
In a moment, the figure with black gas all over his body was trapped in the middle.
The whole set of movements was smooth and smooth. It was obviously not the first time he had done this job.
Liu Ye couldn't help but nodded when he saw this.
The evil spirit's defense is amazing, and trapping it with chains is undoubtedly the best way to deal with it.
Although there will be a certain increase in strength after the evil spirit enters the body, it is not too outrageous. At most, it will increase by one or two thousand kilograms, and dozens of elite soldiers can completely pull it.
"Come here, prepare the kerosene!"
Looking at Xie Sui who was still roaring and struggling, Chen Mo's eyes were cold.
Xie Sui only had amazing physical defense, but it still couldn't stop the fire attack.
But just when several soldiers were about to pour fire oil on them, a voice stopped their movements.