Flames rose again, this time the temperature of the subterranean fire was much higher than before.

"Let the third forging begin!"

Jiang Yuan threw the partially completed artifact into the flames.

This scene once again surprised the blacksmiths of Yanshan Village.

"What is he doing? Is he trying to destroy his own artifact blank?" Some people were clearly puzzled by the idea of ​​reforging, because the artifact blank had already been shaped and the position of the conductive material inside was fixed. Wouldn't reforging destroy the artifact blank?

"I don't understand!" Tie Niu shook his head as well.

Shi Xuyao, the only one who looked surprised, asked in astonishment, "Does he want to rework the energy-gathering effect?"

"Re-engineering and revitalizing?"

All the blacksmiths were completely bewildered. Tie Niu, seemingly understanding but not quite, said, "Are you sure this is a remelting and reshaping energy gathering? It doesn't seem very reliable to me."

"The energy-gathering effect can indeed be reversed by remelting, but this is no less difficult than forging a double-layered weapon blank! Moreover, not every weapon blank has the potential to be remelted. Only when the conductivity coefficient reaches a certain level can you try it. Otherwise, recklessly remelting will only lead to failure!" Shi Xuyao ​​sneered, not knowing whether he was mocking Jiang Yuan or himself.

He never imagined that after spending over a decade forging iron before the cataclysm, he would become a weaponsmith afterward. His ambition was far greater than the other's; it was truly pathetic.

"Wait a minute, he has another material in his hand!" Tie Niu stared at the Zhen Gang powder in Jiang Yuan's hand.

Shi Xuyao ​​took a breath and frowned, "You mean it has additional special effects!"

"Impossible, impossible!" Even Tie Niu himself didn't believe it. He quickly said, "I must be overthinking it. What kind of blacksmith below the ninth rank would add special effects? Isn't that nonsense?"

The stone was thrown into the ground, causing a great stir. Whether Tie Niu believed it or not, all the other blacksmiths looked at Jiang Yuan with expectant eyes.

Jiang Yuan has already begun the third forging process!

The fire-attribute god can control the earth's core fire. Because the temperature of the flames at close range is too high, he has to activate his ultimate armor to resist the high temperature and carry out the final step of the refining process.

Although the temperature was extremely high, there was no movement inside the artifact. Jiang Yuan knew that with his current level of cultivation, he could only reforge the outer three layers. The inner seven layers were definitely beyond his current reach, so he had to protect them with divine power.

As the outer three layers of the vessel began to dissolve, fire-attribute divine energy began to seep into every corner of the vessel.

Enhancing the energy-gathering effect requires the blacksmith's personal involvement, but the blacksmithing skills that Shi Xuyao, Tie Niu, and others received were clearly not authentic, otherwise they wouldn't be unaware of this.

He would let the divine energy flow through the embryo again and again, ensuring that the energy flowed smoothly through every part before proceeding to the next step.

Zhengang powder!

Vibration steel powder possesses elements that can compensate for the shortcomings of blue crystal, and it also has a little-known special feature.

Using vibrating steel powder to create patterns may produce a special effect—an oscillation layer.

A weapon forger not only needs to know how to forge weapons, but also needs to learn how to inscribe formations. You can make up for the shortcomings of low-level weapons with hardness, but high-level weapons are inseparable from formations.

Just like the patterns on the body of the Holy Spirit Beast, that is also a kind of formation. If living beings need formations, why shouldn't weapons?

Jiang Yuan's plan was to first use the Zhen Gang powder to inscribe the array, and then coat the revolver.

The array formation is recorded on the crystal plate, but this kind of thing is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can handle. Even if you tell them what it is, they will not be able to carve it.

Countless tiny particles rapidly entered the embryonic vessel. Jiang Yuan dared not slack off, and his Heavenly Eye was wide open, consuming a large amount of divine energy. However, thanks to the blessing of the Heavenly Eye, he made rapid progress. In just half an hour, the formation had been engraved on the outer three layers of the embryonic vessel.

"Whether I can succeed or not is up to fate!" Jiang Yuan didn't have much hope of activating the shock layer. Although he had obtained the inheritance of the Sun and Moon Saint King, forging weapons was really just theoretical. It was very possible that the weapon he forged would be unusable.

Jiang Yuan still had most of the Zhen Steel powder left, and he didn't waste it. He directly plated all the Zhen Steel powder onto the blank, making the key parts of it have a silvery-white steel feel.

"Finally finished!" Tie Niu was even happier to see Jiang Yuan stop than he was to stop himself. He had so many questions that Jiang Yuan needed to answer.

"You succeeded?"

Shi Xuyao ​​was no longer as arrogant as before. After a brief exchange, he had to admit that Jiang Yuan possessed some unique forging skills. However, he did not think he would lose, because forging is forging, and the real result would only be known after the weapon was forged.

"We'll see!" Jiang Yuan barely regained some confidence in himself. Anyway, it was only twenty ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stones. If he lost, so be it. He had plenty more.

"Alright, let's have Tie Niu be the referee and decide which weapon is better!" Shi Xuyao ​​said.

Jiang Yuan nodded; he had only dealt with Tie Niu here before.

Tie Niu stepped forward, rubbing his hands together and chuckling, "Who wants to go first?"

"Let me go first!" Shi Xuyao ​​took out the black gold sword that had already been forged and introduced it: "This time we won't compare the strength of our weapons, but only the details! If Brother Jiang Yuan does the details better than me, then he wins!"

If we're talking about strength, there's no need to compare at all. An eighth-tier black gold sword is undoubtedly stronger than a fifth-tier revolver.

"Are you sure? Don't let things go wrong!" Tie Niu seemed quite surprised. It wasn't that he was biased towards his own village, but he felt that Shi Xuyao's chances of winning were slim, given Jiang Yuan's strength.

"It's alright. As the best blacksmith in Yanshan Village, do you think I lack this much confidence?" Shi Xuyao ​​handed over the black gold sword.

Tie Niu shrugged, then picked up the black gold sword and began to appraise it with the others.

Before long, Tie Niu and the others provided the answer.

"An eighth-order black gold sword with a conductivity coefficient of thirty-five percent and an energy aggregation level of intermediate level. As for special effects: none."

"The advantages are twofold: first, the forging blank adopts a hundred-refinement process; second, the layered quenching greatly maximizes the hardness advantage of black meteorite gold."

"And then there are the drawbacks!"

Tie Niu glanced at Shi Xuyao, then said weakly, "It still comes down to the two points from before: the forging process is not mature enough and is slightly insufficient for an eighth-order black gold sword; the other is that the properties of black meteorite gold have been over-exploited, making the whole sword too rigid and easy to break!"

Shi Xuyao ​​almost cursed when he heard this comment. Can you please change your sarcastic comments? You just praised my strengths, and less than three seconds later you started to negate them. Isn't this intentional?

"In short, it's not the best, but it's not the worst either!" Tie Niu finally said, echoing the 'judges' comments.

Shi Xuyao ​​finally nodded in agreement, knowing that forging an eighth-order black gold sword with his current strength was too much of a stretch.

Jiang Yuan took out a ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stone, inserted it into the revolver magazine, and then started spinning it with a whoosh.

clatter!

"Look at mine!"