“Then I won’t bully you. I will still forge an eighth-tier black gold sword. We will only compare forging skills, not grades or power!” Shi Xuyao tacitly agreed that Jiang Yuan would use the fifth-tier gun blueprint, while he chose the black gold sword blueprint.
As for Shi Xuyao's statement about not comparing grade and power, this was clearly to take care of Jiang Yuan, because no matter how excellent a fifth-grade gun is, it will not surpass an eighth-grade black gold sword. This is a difference in quality that cannot be made up for by skill.
Jiang Yuan unfolded the crystal panel, and the structure of the firearm was immediately memorized, followed by the energy conversion device. After having a general idea of the firearm in his mind, he asked Tie Niu, "Do you have any fifth-tier blue crystals?"
"Yes!" Tie Niu nodded immediately.
"Give me another piece of conductive material, about the size of my palm, preferably with a conductivity coefficient of over 50%!" Jiang Yuan added.
"Fifty percent!" Tie Niu said with a pained expression.
The conductive material is a crucial factor in determining the quality of a weapon. Ordinary materials are not very sensitive to spiritual energy, with a conductivity coefficient of less than ten points, making the quality of such weapons self-evident. In contrast, materials suitable for forging blanks generally have a conductivity coefficient of over twenty points, meaning that only weapons forged with a conductivity coefficient of twenty points can unleash their full power.
"Give me some more Zhen Gang powder!" Jiang Yuan acted as if he were one of the guests, asking for materials without hesitation.
"Brother, you have to use it sparingly. We don't have much of this Zhen Gang powder left!" Tie Niu handed over a small glass bottle again, which contained the silvery-white Zhen Gang powder.
Jiang Yuan was completely absorbed in the blueprints, and the knowledge of blacksmiths in his mind was constantly being analyzed and transformed into his own abilities.
"You must personally experience the control of fire!" Jiang Yuan noted down the Sun and Moon Saint Lord's insights on fire control. There is no trick to fire control; it is simply a matter of practice.
His divine power entered through the flames, but the heat of the earth's core fire constantly scorched his divine power, and the fluctuating temperature caught him off guard.
"Damn, he's really become a theoretical master now!" Jiang Yuan remembered that just a few minutes ago, he said that Shi Xuyao's timing was wrong, but now his timing is even more of a mess.
"Don't panic, don't panic, we have the legacy of a great master!"
Jiang Yuan kept convincing himself that if once wasn't enough, then twice; if twice wasn't enough, then three times!
While Jiang Yuan was still controlling the fire, Shi Xuyao on the opposite side had already started the furnace to heat the black meteorite gold in preparation for casting the vessel blank.
"Right, could it be that the divine power attribute doesn't match!"
Jiang Yuan had a flash of inspiration and immediately switched his divine power to the fire attribute. He had used the Yangyan Domain and the small fireball before, so he still had some control over the fire attribute.
"It's done!"
In the blink of an eye, he could feel that the fire-attribute divine energy had perfectly merged with the earth's core fire, and the temperature of the earth's core fire could also change with the change of the divine energy.
"See? It's pretty simple!"
Jiang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. The blacksmith's inheritance in his mind was no joke. He would be furious if the inheritance he had gone through so much trouble to obtain was completely useless.
Flames rose up, and Jiang Yuan threw the blue crystal into the flames to heat it. This step also required precise control of force, as only when the temperature was right would the formed object be perfect.
"You're not good at controlling the fire, but you're really not as good as me at forging the embryo!" Jiang Yuan said calmly. If controlling the fire is based on feeling, then forging the embryo requires skill, and the Sun and Moon Saint Lord has put all the skills of forging the embryo into his inheritance.
Judging that the temperature was about right, Jiang Yuan picked up the hammer, which weighed several dozen kilograms, from the table. "It's still not powerful enough!"
Just by picking it up casually, Jiang Yuan discovered the hammer's flaw: a hammer isn't necessarily better the heavier it is, but it's definitely not good if it's not heavy.
A hammer capable of forging weapons must be the best of the best. It may not be made of the hardest material in the world, but it must at least be no weaker than the weapon blank in your hand, otherwise how can you forge a weapon?
"Just make do with it!" Jiang Yuan didn't care too much. To be honest, fifth-tier firearms are exquisite items and don't require high-strength forging blanks. What matters is the quality of the core device. Only with a good core device can its power be sufficient.
Jiang Yuan swung the first hammer blow, and with that one blow he found his rhythm—the forging instinct cultivated by the Sun and Moon Saint Monarch.
"You must regard the blank as a part of yourself. You must understand the blank as thoroughly as you understand yourself. Only in this way can you forge a perfect blank!"
One sentence kept echoing in Jiang Yuan's ears: the Sun and Moon Saint Lord's summary of forging embryos.
"See it as part of yourself!"
Just as Jiang Yuan was getting into the swing of things, he immediately lost his composure, and his second hammer blow even missed the mark.
"This guy's acting really weird!"
Shi Xuyao was watching Jiang Yuan closely, but seeing his performance, he still sighed. In the end, there were still too many keyboard warriors in this world, who would point fingers beforehand and then look completely clueless afterward.
Jiang Yuan lost his composure for a simple reason: his first strike was not based on his own feeling, but on the forging instinct of the Sun and Moon Saint Monarch; therefore, he decisively gave up on the second strike, as he needed to find his own feeling.
"Black Meteorite Gold!" Jiang Yuan looked at the remaining materials on the platform and casually tossed them into the flames.
"Only by giving it your all can you find your own rhythm when forging a blank!"
His purpose was clear: to use the black meteorite gold, which even Shi Xuyao could only forge to 70%, as the weapon blank. The blue crystal was too brittle, and if he went all out, it wouldn't withstand more than a few blows. It was nowhere near as satisfying as the black meteorite gold.
When they saw Jiang Yuan abandon the blue crystal and start forging black meteorite gold, Tie Niu and Shi Xuyao both showed helpless expressions, but they did not stop him and just played along with his nonsense.
After relaxing, Shi Xuyao gradually got into the swing of things, and each of his hammer blows carried a unique melody, the clanging and banging sound like a melodious song.
Black meteorite gold is a metal that is considered excellent even among eighth-tier materials. It is obviously impossible to completely forge a blank with seventh-tier strength.
So Jiang Yuan chose to activate his energy gathering ability, and each hammer blow was imbued with the power of a super ninth-tier skill—energy gathering. One hammer blow, two hammer blows… gradually, he forgot how he was striking.
However, it was this seemingly numb scene that attracted the attention of the eleven people in the Forging Cave.
"That hammer!" Tie Niu's expression was solemn, his eyes fixed on Jiang Yuan's hammer swing.
"It looks like just random tapping, but somehow I find it so pleasing to the eye!"
The blacksmith closest to Jiang Yuan had a dazed look in his eyes, seemingly deeply attracted by Jiang Yuan's movements.
"Brother Shi, you'd better come and take a look!" Tie Niu shouted to Shi Xuyao.
"Prepare the coolant, start quenching in three minutes!" Shi Xuyao didn't look at Jiang Yuan, but instead told Tie Niu to prepare the coolant.
He remained focused on his weapon prototype, striving to forge the perfect eighth-tier black gold sword in his mind.
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