Jiang Yuan and Shi Xuyao ​​are both working on the weapon's conduction efficiency at this moment. However, Shi Xuyao ​​is heating the weapon blank and then embedding gold wires, which are the conductive materials, on both sides.

This inlay is extremely crude; it can be performed simply by reheating the blank to a semi-solid state. The only difficulty in this process is activating the conductive material.

The conductive material cannot be used simply by embedding it into the blank; it must establish a connection with the blank. In other words, after embedding it into the blank, it needs to be forged a second time before it can be made into a real weapon.

"Inlay method!" Jiang Yuan caught a glimpse of Shi Xuyao's actions out of the corner of his eye. He did not deny the effectiveness of the inlay method, as it was the optimal choice for mass forging. However, as this was his first real forging experience, he did not want to produce a shoddy product.

"Then let's use it!"

Among the weapon-forging traditions left by the Holy Lord of the Sun and Moon, there is a technique that preserves the efficiency of weapon transmission quite well, and that is—same-position replacement.

The so-called isotope substitution also cannot bypass the inlay method. However, unlike the inlay method, isotope substitution has a second step. After the inlay of the conductive material is completed, isotope substitution will integrate the conductive material into the blank and then continue the inlay process.

If the inlay method is simply inserting a copper wire into a piece of gel, then the replacement method involves first inserting a copper coin into the gel, then integrating the copper wire into the nearby gel, and after integration, inserting another copper wire into the position where the gel was before.

The advantage of doing this is that it changes the conductivity coefficient of the device embryo, giving it a stepped conductivity fluctuation, and the range that the energy can radiate after being activated in the weapon will also increase.

Jiang Yuan did not hesitate at all. Although the prototype in his hand was not as large as Shi Xuyao's, its shape was more exquisite, and it would require no less conductive material than his. Moreover, his prototype was divided into a gun and a magazine, which was more complicated in comparison.

Both of them were using the 'embedding' technique, but after ten minutes others noticed something was amiss.

"That Jiang seems to be lacking. Why does it take him two times to embed the conductive material? Is he too inexperienced?" someone asked, puzzled. He mistook Jiang Yuan's repetitive actions for inexperience. But it's understandable, as Jiang Yuan's movements did indeed look very similar.

Tie Niu was also full of doubts. He had already figured out from the hammer Jiang Yuan had struck before that Jiang Yuan must be good at forging weapons, but now that the inlay conductive material had failed several times, it was a bit hard to understand.

Moreover, Jiang Yuan's failure wasn't just due to a failed inlay; he seemed completely incapable of inlaying conductive materials. Who would continue forging and quenching while inlaying conductive materials? This was clearly the behavior of an amateur.

"Brother Shi seems to have finished inlaying it!"

The others were also impressed by Shi Xuyao's speed as he began the second forging process. Very few people could complete the inlaying within ten minutes; at least none of the people present could do it.

"Could it be another failure? This is a material with a conductivity coefficient of fifty percent!" Tie Niu was a little afraid to watch. The higher the conductivity coefficient, the more difficult the secondary forging is. Therefore, every step of the inlaying must be done with utmost care. Shi Xuyao ​​had tried a material with a conductivity coefficient of fifty percent before, but without exception, it all failed.

"Probably not, look how confident Brother Shi is!" another person analyzed.

"Look, Jiang Yuan is almost better too!"

All eyes turned to Jiang Yuan, whose inlay work was nearing completion.

"Fifteen minutes, that's not bad! It's just as fast as ours!"

"No, strictly speaking, Jiang Yuan's speed is no slower than Brother Shi's. Look at his artifact blank; which of you could finish inlaying it in fifteen minutes?"

Iron Bull truly lived up to his reputation as the top blacksmith of Yanshan Village, seeing through the essence at a glance.

"Hey, that's not very funny! Even if we wanted to inlay it, we couldn't forge a blank like that!" one of them joked.

None of the people here can forge a vessel blank with this shape.

"Our skills are still too weak. It seems we still need to go to the artifact monument to learn something!" Tie Niu said thoughtfully.

Upon hearing the word "inscription," the others immediately gave Tie Niu meaningful glances, and Tie Niu, momentarily distracted, fell silent.

However, in that instant, Jiang Yuan, who was just about to finish his replacement, clearly heard the words "artifact tablet".

"I knew things wouldn't be that simple!" Jiang Yuan muttered to himself. He wasn't greedy for anything; he was just purely curious. Even if the other party had told him the reason, he wouldn't have coveted what he didn't deserve.

He stole the Holy Coffin only because he was a mortal enemy of the Holy Spirit Clan! But he wouldn't commit such a robbery against his own kind as long as they hadn't done anything heinous.

After putting aside the matter of the artifact stele, Jiang Yuan began preparing for the second forging.

The conductive material is inlaid into the blank. The next step is to fuse the conductive material with the blank through secondary forging, thereby activating the conductive material and making the blank containing the conductive material a complete entity.

The second forging was much simpler than the first forging. It took Shi Xuyao ​​thirty minutes to activate the weapon blank, and the dazzling golden edge made the black gold sword even sharper.

"Tsk tsk, perfect!" Shi Xuyao ​​praised the sword he had forged. The Black Gold Sword could now be called a weapon, and the talent of forging an eighth-level weapon with seventh-level strength was unmatched in the mountain stronghold.

"The proportion of black meteorite gold is still too high; the sword body feels too rigid!"

When Shi Xuyao ​​took out the sword, everyone else swarmed around him and started pointing fingers and making comments about the black and gold sword.

"It shouldn't be a problem. We've been adjusting the proportions according to the blueprints sent from Nancheng, so there shouldn't be any mistakes!"

"Our place is too remote. We don't even have a chance to kill some monsters to get some forging blueprints. Otherwise, we wouldn't need to trade with other people!"

Hearing the discussion, Tie Niu said in a deep voice, "Alright, quiet down, Brother Jiang Yuan's weapon hasn't been forged yet!"

Several people, including Shi Xuyao, turned their gazes to Jiang Yuan. Although they were amazed by Jiang Yuan's forging skills, they were still not impressed by his speed.

If it were them, forging a fifth-tier weapon would only take half an hour, but Jiang Yuan has already spent more than two hours from the start of forging the blank, which is obviously unnecessary.

Unlike the others who were just watching the spectacle, Jiang Yuan was completely focused on preparing for the final processing step.

The crystal plate only gave Jiang Yuan a general idea of ​​how to forge Tier 5 firearms, but the actual operation still depended on him.

Blue crystal, as the main material of the revolver, has the ability to concentrate energy. When combined with materials with a conductivity coefficient of over 50%, the power it can unleash is comparable to that of a sixth-order weapon. However, blue crystal also has two drawbacks.

The performance is not stable enough.

The material is not hard enough.

These two drawbacks need to be compensated for by using vibratory steel powder.

"Is a second forging enough?"

Jiang Yuan smiled confidently.