Chapter 50: Sect Established

Having mastered the first level of the weapon-making inheritance, Jian Shiyuan remained indifferent.

He casually lifted up his long hair, revealing his appearance completely. When Jian Shiyuan was not smiling, one could not tell what he was thinking just by looking at his face. His eyes seemed to contain thousands of words, but left them to the onlookers to interpret.

I have to say, he is a beautiful woman who can bewitch people.

This sense of bewitching does not refer to how charming and alluring he is, but rather to the fact that he carries an aura that makes people feel close and trustworthy. From the first moment you see him, you will have the illusion that "he may be a fellow traveler and confidant." Jian Shiyuan is harmless, and whether he smiles or not, he does not put any pressure on people.

At the same time, he is also extremely poisonous.

Without understanding a person, blind trust and closeness can be fatal.

His heart is not as harmless and gentle as his appearance.

Jian Shiyuan's aura was still flowing. After he understood part of the inheritance, his Dharma image naturally emerged. At this moment, he was surrounded by a layer of golden light, which made him look more solemn than usual.

"Is this the most advanced weapon-making tradition in the world of immortal cultivation? Is this the lifelong accumulation of a great cultivator?"

Jian Shiyuan finally smiled. When he smiled, the temperature around him seemed to rise steadily, making people's fingertips itch with warmth.

Unfortunately, his smile didn't express joy or appreciation. His crimson lips uttered the harsh words, "Nothing more than that."

Jian Shiyuan is really a little disappointed.

His understanding of the world of immortal cultivation came from his master's diary and what he saw during his travels. In his impression, weapon making was a complex art, and self-taught cultivators could only scratch the surface. To create powerful magical and spiritual weapons, they had to learn the specialized knowledge of weapon making from a master.

Take magical instruments as an example. The world of immortal cultivation divides magical instruments into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Huang. Each level is divided into three grades: upper, middle, and lower. Wild cultivators learn to make instruments by themselves, and can only produce the lowest level, Huang-level magical instruments. Anything higher requires an instrument maker to refine.

But it is not easy to train a weapon maker.

Even though aristocratic families and major sects monopolized the knowledge of weapon crafting and enjoyed the majority of cultivation resources, it was still extremely difficult to produce an excellent weapon crafter. Take the Shu family, a family of weapon crafters, for example. They only had two weapon masters capable of crafting heavenly-level magic weapons, and both were nearing the end of their lifespans and would not easily start refining weapons.

Jian Shiyuan originally thought that the knowledge of instrument making was too profound, so it was difficult to train an excellent instrument maker.

He had a strong curiosity about profound knowledge and had always looked forward to learning the complex knowledge of weapon making one day. However, when he really inherited the top weapon making heritage, Jian Shiyuan was extremely disappointed.

This is not systematic knowledge at all, but a summary of the experience of predecessors.

Judging from the knowledge Jian Shiyuan already possessed about crafting, this tradition was merely a summary of others' experiences. It documented the specific steps and processes for creating many perfect products, but it didn't mention the essence of things.

It's like telling you the "Law of Universal Repulsion" but just asking you to memorize this technical term without explaining "what it means" or "what it can do".

It is impossible to accurately describe the disappointment in Jian Shiyuan's heart. He sighed deeply, as if overlapping with Kaiyuan.

He walked in the wilderness and saw a rough and crude scene.

What a crude inheritance, what a ridiculous complacency.

Jian Shiyuan didn't understand why it was necessary to be so cautious about such a heritage and not let it be cut off?

It has no continuity.

What fixed materials are needed to make a certain magical tool? If the fixed materials become extinct, can we only give up making this magical tool?

How ridiculous is this?

Why can't we find alternative materials?

Because the knowledge of instrument making passed down over the years only requires the successors to recite, not think.

What's more, if you want to think about "what", "why" and "how to do it", you have to break down the production process of each magical instrument, just like you disassemble a finished generator and reversely deduce "electromagnetic induction". This is undoubtedly an extremely painful and tedious process.

People are lazy, and it's easier to just copy the experience of their predecessors than to think. Moreover, for a craftsman, simply replicating a perfect magical instrument would bring them success and fame. With shortcuts available, who would waste time taking detours?

Jian Shiyuan finally understood why it was so difficult for excellent instrument makers to emerge.

The complete crafting steps were recorded in the tradition, but over the years, the materials themselves had changed. Even if the craftsmen had the complete crafting process and followed the steps, it would be difficult to successfully replicate the same magical instrument.

Survival of the fittest, nature is constantly evolving.

A creature that was omnivorous a thousand years ago might become a herbivore a thousand years later. They might still have the same name, and even their appearance might not have changed much, but their internal composition would have long since changed. Making tools is a delicate process; even the slightest mistake can lead to failure.

Materials have different natural properties such as acidity, alkalinity, flexibility, and hardness, and play different roles in tool making. These properties should be discovered, recorded, counted, and tested, but in inherited knowledge, there are only fixed nouns and fixed steps.

Making utensils is not like making chili sauce. It's not about relying on a fixed recipe and a little ingenuity to keep it going for years. In a sense, making utensils is about making tools, liberating productivity. It shouldn't be limited to handmade production, nor should it be controlled by a few people.

This is a wild place and we need people to open up the roads.

Just because others can't do it doesn't mean Jian Shiyuan can't do it.

Jian Shiyuan half-closed his eyelashes to hide the thoughts in his eyes. He was not so arrogant as to think that he could calculate the properties of all substances by himself.

Thinking of that group of players, Jian Shiyuan's lips curled up slightly.

He could just leave this matter to the players.

[Long-term mission: Record the material properties of accessible objects.]

[Quest Description: Different objects possess different properties. For example, water, found everywhere, possesses high heat capacity and reverse expansion, making it a good solvent. Water exhibits different states at different pressures and temperatures. The clan leader is struggling to find the right materials for his craft. Clever players will surely know how to help him solve this problem.]

[Note: Crafting materials require not only metal ores, but also various strange and bizarre objects. Players are encouraged to use their imagination and work hard to experiment and sort out the material properties of the objects they can touch!]

[Reward: The dashboard - Database will be open soon. Organize and store a material (with at least four attributes) to enter a lucky draw. The organized data will also retain the player's ID. As the number of organized data increases, the Hall of Fame - Medal rewards will gradually be unlocked. Stay tuned!]

After issuing the task, Jian Shiyuan closed his eyes and continued to absorb the remaining inherited knowledge.

On the players' side, the sudden long-term task shocked them into silence.

Fluorescent Protein, who was holding a sharp piece of iron as a dissecting knife, was stunned. Looking at the snow bat that was being disemboweled in front of her, her eyes became strange.

"Um, are snow bats considered a rare and exotic material?"

The long-haired male player who was assisting her with the ID [Lancet] was also stunned. "That should be considered. Anything crafted in the world of immortal cultivation should be able to be thrown in for refining."

They looked at each other, and Fluorescent Protein spoke first, "Then let's try uploading the snow bat's data?"

Lancet: "It doesn't matter if it doesn't work, just give it a try."

When they got the snow bat's body, the group of animals dissected it several times inside and out. They carefully examined the snow bat's unique cochlea, bones, membranes, five toes, as well as the venom gizzard in the abdomen and the digestive system. In order to better observe the inside, they even made a magnifying glass out of ice.

The research conditions were simple, but the samples were sufficient and the researchers were highly skilled, so they were able to come up with something.

When I opened the character panel, a database appeared. I clicked on it, found the photo function, and took a few photos of the bat's corpse.

Then start recording.

Snow bats have snow-colored fur and a bat-like appearance, a pig-like face with sharp teeth, and protruding horns on either side of their heads. They are approximately 1 cm long. Dissection revealed degenerate tibiae in their hind legs, well-developed ear shells, and the ability to echolocate. Their claws, wing fur, and teeth are all laced with toxins. If they catch someone, they can quickly infect them, causing skin ulcers and swelling. If left untreated, their face will turn black and their body will swell, but this is not fatal.

After explaining the basic characteristics, it is time to write the attributes.

Fluorescent protein doesn't usually play games, and she doesn't understand what this property actually refers to. She just followed her daily research process and wrote down everything she could, such as acidity and alkalinity, bone hardness, toxic effects, etc. She even tested whether snow bats can be eaten after being cooked, and the carbonization phenomenon after being burned. In short, she racked her brains to earn a chance to enter the lottery.

And Lancet was even more outrageous, he even tasted bat saliva and feces.

Fluorescent protein types very fast, but it still took her half an hour to organize the information about the snow bat. In order to show her sincerity, she hand-drew a full-body skeleton diagram of the snow bat in the supplementary column and even gave her own speculation.

[Personal Opinion: I've discovered undigested minerals (bluish in color, with snowflake patterns) in the intestines of snow bats. I've examined the minerals separately and discovered they're extremely cold. I've tried applying force to them with various tools, but nothing has been able to break them. Their extreme hardness makes me suspect only the gastric juices of snow bats can corrode and digest them. I've found this type of mineral in the snow bat's habitat, and upon study, it's an extremely stable metal ore, likely suitable as a stabilizing material in the reaction.]

After clicking Submit, the fluorescent protein waited expectantly.

When the panel showed a pass, Fluorescent Protein suddenly jumped up, hugged Lancet and laughed, "It really works!"

She was full of energy and couldn't wait to organize all the materials collected by the players.

Lancet urged, "Quickly see what's in the raffle?"

Fluorescent Protein quickly switched to the lottery column and looked at the familiar big turntable. Fluorescent Protein didn't wait and quickly clicked [Lottery].

The pointer slowly stopped at a position [One opportunity to make a device].

Fluorescent protein:!!!

Look at the small text prompt below: Congratulations on getting a chance to make a weapon! Please feel free to submit raw materials for refining. The more suitable the materials submitted, the higher the success rate. As for what is the right material, please feel free to explore it.

Lancet had played a lot of games, and after listening to Fluorescent Protein read out the prompt, he said, "To strengthen the weapon, you can choose some materials and give them to the Sect Master for strengthening. If you're lucky, the quality of the weapon will be improved. If you're unlucky, the raw materials will be directly scrapped. Try it with a worthless item first."

Fluorescent protein looked at the nearby knife and then at the snow bat.

She asked slowly and hesitantly, "What can be made from snow bat iron?"

Lancet said, "Uh," and then he said, "Why don't you try it and know?"

Jian Shiyuan looked at the snow bat corpses and a large piece of iron sheet submitted by the players, and he fell silent.

You can practice, but it doesn’t have to be so gloomy.

However, since he had promised the players to help them refine weapons, Jian Shiyuan could not refuse. He calmed down and circulated his spiritual power.

The materials uploaded by the players are all ordinary things that do not require spiritual fire to be calcined. Jian Shiyuan only took a quarter of an hour to melt them all into a mixed liquid. Then he would observe their rejection reaction. If there is no rejection, they can be cooled and shaped.

I don’t know if it was because the players were lucky or Jian Shiyuan operated properly, but this pile of strange materials really produced something.

Jian Shiyuan threw the finished product in his hand into the teleportation array and continued to close his eyes and regulate his breathing.

The weapon refining just now gave him some insights and he gained some experience in weapon refining of his own.

If you want to improve your equipment refining skills, you have to keep trying and practicing. Players who come to him to refine equipment are also helping him grow.

Here at the fluorescent protein, a teleportation array suddenly appeared in the sky, and a round thing fell from the sky.

She quickly reached out to take it, and it was a bat-shaped speaker.

Lancelot came over and said, "This refining efficiency is too high! How long has it been?"

Fluorescent protein held up the horn and couldn't let it go. She put it to her mouth, took a deep breath, and blew it hard. The horn didn't sound, but water sprayed out crazily.

It just happened to spray Ye Lingfei's face as he came over to watch the fun.

Ye Lingfei: Why does this smell so much like snow bat saliva?