While Lu Ran was learning nutritional combinations and improving his cooking skills, he also did not fall behind in his studies in the forging department.
Generally speaking, a normal person would not be able to digest so much knowledge in a short period of time.
But Lu Ran is different, he is willing to spend money.
He bought a lot of Qingling Fruit and temporarily increased his learning ability.
So on his side, he is almost working on two parallel tracks: cooking and forging.
At this time, on the forging side, Lu Ran had almost mastered some basic common sense theories.
After mastering the basic theory, Lu Ran quickly came up with some ideas.
He wanted to enchant the Ice Sky Greatsword with a blood-sucking attribute.
Fang Lan is developing poison and needs the blood of diamond dragons, the more the better.
Although Mr. Ha can break the defense of the Diamond Dragon and make it bleed a little, the blood volume is too little.
Moreover, it is not easy to collect.
But if there is a weapon with blood-sucking properties, then after Lu Ran attacks, he will get a "sword bathed in dragon blood".
The demand is met.
In addition, there was another reason why Lu Ran came up with this idea.
The legendary secret realm can only be cleared once, what a pity!
Lu Ran wanted to try and see if he could obtain something repeatedly from the diamond dragon.
Of course, if the unloading was too severe, Lu Ran was worried that he would pass the level accidentally.
After all, the trial mission of the legendary secret realm is just to "defeat the diamond dragon", not to kill it.
They all have the ability to remove the BOSS's important organs. It would be embarrassing if the Infinite City judged it as "completely defeated".
But if it was just some dragon blood, it should be fine, right? Obviously, just knocking off a few scales and getting a few drops of blood had nothing to do with defeating the dragon.
At that time, after sucking a bottle of dragon blood, quit and give up the challenge, then go in again and continue the challenge...
When the challenge crystal coin is 0, as long as the strength is sufficient, Lu Ran feels...
Well, the high-level king has pure dragon blood, which is not rare, but it is also very rare.
The most important thing is that it comes from a mutant like the Diamond Dragon. If you miss it, you will miss it forever.
At this time, a weapon with blood-sucking properties is very important! However, although Lu Ran has figured out the principle of this difficult enchantment operation, he is not sure if he can do it himself.
Therefore, Lu Ran decisively chose to call for help and summoned Master Lin who had just finished his class.
"If you want your weapon to have the blood-sucking property, you must first use the rare resource 'Blood-sucking Stone' as the main strengthening material..."
"Why, do you want me to help you, or do it yourself?" Master Lin looked at Lu Ran.
"Do it yourself, but I need you, Master Lin, to teach me."
At present, it is too difficult for Mr. Ha to break through the defense of the diamond dragon, and it is useless to have a blood-sucking weapon too early.
It would be better to wait until Mr. Ha’s strength improves a bit before going.
After learning the basics for two days and cooking for a few days, Lu Ran is now itching to change his mindset and study forging.
"Okay, I'll be free next time anyway, so why not wait for a better day? Today I'll take you to try forging for the first time." Master Lin crossed his arms across his chest with an expectant expression.
After all, Lu Ran’s beast taming skill is Flame Spirit.
Once Lu Ran has mastered the art of forging, he will surely become the world's best blacksmith.
By then, he can also brag that Lu Ran was taught by him.
"By the way, besides forging swords, what else do you want to forge?" Master Lin asked.
"It's a bit difficult to start with a sword."
"Why don't we start with the simple ones first."
"Ah? I also want a crow feather bow." Lu Ran said.
It is not used to increase the relationship with Dark Crow.
It's purely a poison-applying technique that can be used with a long-range weapon.
"This..." Master Lin's mouth twitched and he said, "There's more."
This is not easy either, the forging department is also divided into different majors, such as tailoring... bow making is even more specialized.
"Let's get another stone tablet." Lu Ran said.
This was the COS Ba Xia gift he planned to prepare for the Black Turtle to assist it in suppressing the coastal areas.
"Stone tablet?" Master Lin said, "Then let's start with the stone tablet. This is the easiest."
“As long as you have enough talent, I will be able to forge weapons of rare quality within half a month.” Master Lin said confidently. He did not believe in Lu Ran, but in Yan Ling!
"Half a month!" Lu Ran nodded, feeling it was acceptable.
Next, Lu Ran began his first forging under the guidance of Master Lin.
The materials used are provided by Master Lin.
Lu Ran is a very special blacksmith who hardly relies on any external facilities or equipment.
The first step is to smelt the materials. After he is possessed by the fire spirit, he can control the release of energy and make fire by himself.
In terms of temperature control, he has a basic knowledge of cooking and fire control, so there are basically no problems.
In addition, the Flame Spirit can sense the optimal temperature for smelting minerals, so Lu Ran completed this step very easily.
Whoosh whoosh.
Lu Ran stood in place. In front of him, a special liquid formed by the smelting reaction of core materials and auxiliary materials floated in the flames, sparkling.
"Yes, yes, that's right." Master Lin exclaimed in admiration when he saw this scene.
Next, for the second step of shaping the appearance, he combined energy shaping and energy covering techniques, and directly controlled the Fire Spirit to help shape the smelting essence. As long as the structure was not too complicated, it could be shaped directly without the help of a mold.
At most, it will be polished and refined afterwards to pursue the details.
Under Lu Ran's control, this ball of mineral essence was slowly wrapped by flames and shaped into the shape of a stone tablet.
No wonder Master Lin said that Lu Ran was not suitable to study with the freshmen of the Forging Department. If they studied together, Lu Ran's configuration would be a dimensionality reduction attack.
Next, under the guidance of Master Lin, Lu Ran inlaid the main materials, such as water-enhancing and rock-enhancing minerals, on the unformed stone tablet.
After a lot of hard work, Lu Ran soon forged a huge stone tablet inlaid with gems.
But that’s not all.
"The next step is the most important one..." Master Lin said, "The materials for forging this stone tablet, the teaching materials, notes, and treasure books I gave you all have records of how to carve the inscriptions. You should have studied them carefully on your own."
"Of course." At the last moment, Lu Ran took out the inscription stone.
Inscription engraving is the most important part of forging high-quality equipment.
It is just a simple smelting reaction and the addition of main materials to shape the appearance. The equipment can only be said to be a semi-finished product.
The function of the inscription is to synthesize the power of a group of materials into a whole through external forces. This process requires the use of a natural mineral called inscription stone.
The purpose of the inscription stone is actually easy to understand. It absorbs the user's physical strength to release a magical wave. This magical wave greatly promotes the fusion of various forging materials.
As long as the inscription stone contacts the forged weapons and equipment, the power fluctuations of various materials can be "connected" with the trajectory suitable for various mineral materials. After the connection is completed, a high-quality weapon can be forged. This step is called engraving because it is very similar to engraving on weapons and equipment.
The difficulty of the final link lies in the fact that the trajectories connecting different mineral materials are not the same. When faced with some familiar materials, it will be easy for the blacksmith to forge them as long as he expends a certain amount of physical strength.
It will be simple, just like a chef cooking according to tutorials and recipes.
However, if there is no past experience to refer to for the mineral materials used and the material combinations used, the process will be very difficult. The blacksmith needs to continuously devote energy to experimenting in the final stage, just like a chef researching new recipes. This process tests the blacksmith's physical strength and experience.
Among them, if some major mistakes occur, it will also cause damage to the forged equipment embryo or reduce the quality of the finished product.
Fortunately, Lu Ran has a superhuman physique, and this process also has great advantages.
As for the forging this time, it didn't need to be so troublesome. Lu Ran followed the tutorial and easily completed the carving of the inscription. With his extraordinary physique, he only sweated a little after forging.
A high-quality stone tablet that can amplify the power of water and rock was completed easily.
"Not bad." After Lu Ran finished forging, Master Lin looked at the stone tablet. As the first time forging, the finished product was already quite good.
However, as he looked at Lu Ran, he found that Lu Ran looked at the stone tablet with a bit of dissatisfaction.
"I feel like we can do better." Lu Ran said.
After all, it was a gift to the Black Turtle. Given his current status, he should at least give it a rare quality stone tablet weapon, which would be justified.
"Haha, don't worry. This is your first time forging. It's not appropriate to start with a difficult one. If you like, keep this stone tablet as a souvenir. If you don't like it, just tear it down. Based on it, continue to process and reorganize it to improve your skills."
"dismantle?"
Lu Ran's eyes lit up and he said, "I know this. When I was a kid in Hawaii and learned about firearms, I also learned how to disassemble and assemble firearms. This process is very helpful for getting started with firearms. It turns out that forging can also be done this way."
Master Lin was confused: ??? What kind of family do you come from? When you were a kid, you learned how to disassemble and assemble guns in Hawaii...
"Master Lin, can we also dismantle the four swords that I forged here for the freshman competition and use them for study?"
Master Lin: ???
"Damn it, tear it down if you want to!"
…………
It doesn’t even take half a month.
Just one week later!
Through continuous practice, by disassembling the masters' works, learning the masters' ideas, and following the masters' experience, Lu Ran was able to forge weapons of rare quality.
The price was only the permanent damage to several weapons.
Green Sea City.
Ten days later, Lu Ran finally fulfilled his promise and sent the dragon dishes he had cooked during this period to Black Turtle.
Outside Qingwu Lake.
Lu Ran walked to the lake with a dark crow on his shoulder.
This time I came back, in addition to delivering resources to Black Turtle, I also wanted to test the training results of Dark Crow.
It worked very hard, and the effective range of its skills had exceeded 50 meters. The effective range of its curse had also reached 50 meters. Compared with the previous 20 meters, it was not so useless, and the improved food that Lu Ran had given it was not wasted in vain.
[Don’t say that…]
[This so-called dragon cuisine is indeed delicious. ]
[I am already old, when have I ever eaten something so delicious? ]
As for Black Turtle, tears were streaming down his face, and he seemed very satisfied with the food made by Lu Ran.
"How about this Seven-Star Dragon Fish Ball? It's good, right?" Lu Ran smiled.
The Seven-Star Dragon Fish Balls are white in color, elastic but not greasy, with fragrant and loose fillings and a sweet and smooth taste.
It is made from mutant dragon fish meat, dragon blood porcupine meat, and dried lobster as the main ingredients, supplemented by a variety of ingredients.
It is a dragon dish that mainly enhances the purity of dragon blood and the defensive power of scales. It was developed for the King of Sudden Death.
Now, it is also very suitable for the black turtle to use.
Beside it, snow-white dragon fish balls as big as basketballs rolled around, like stars in the sky across the lake. The black turtle sighed as faint red energy lines appeared on its black shell.
Obviously, this dragon dish is subtly changing the black turtle's physique, allowing it to evolve into a sub-dragon race, the dragon turtle.
"It's all yours, take your time to eat."
"Old turtle, this is for you too." Next, Lu Ran took out a huge stone tablet that matched the size of the black turtle, put it aside, and said, "This stone tablet is called the Abyss Stone Tablet. It is of rare quality and has an adsorption effect. You can carry it on your turtle shell without worrying about it falling off."
"Ah?" The black tortoise was eating happily, but was stunned when he saw Lu Ran carrying out a huge stone tablet.
Does it really need to carry this thing?
It looks so heavy.
"Don't underestimate it. This thing can effectively improve your strength and make you the master of the near sea! Whether it is to enhance the power of water skills or the power of rock skills, it is a good hand... Although it seems a bit redundant, how does the saying go..."
"Ga!" Dark Crow reminded from the side.
It looked at the black turtle solemnly.
"General Black Turtle, even if you carry the Abyss Stele on your back, you can still be invincible in the near sea. Don't let the king down!"
"Fly away, that's not what you said, the stone tablet is a burden." Lu Ran drove the stupid bird away and said to the black tortoise: "It's all poisonous chicken soup anyway, it doesn't matter, you just need to know that this is a good thing."
The black tortoise fell into deep thought.
Is it really okay for me to let Lu Ran torment my old bones? Never mind, I'll eat the meatballs first.
…………
After arranging the Black Turtle, Lu Ran returned to Sky City and, under the guidance of Master Lin, spent two days completing the final training.
Finally, the blood-sucking effect was enchanted onto the Ice Sky Greatsword by fusing the blood-sucking stone.
After nearly half a month, Lu Ran once again entered the legendary secret realm, the Dragon King's Nest! "Roar!!!"
Under the roars of two giant dragons, Lu Ran repeated the first battle process again this time.
At present, they still do not have the strength to defeat the Diamond Dragon, but compared to last time, they are a little calmer, and their goal is clear.
"Boss Ha, fly the sword."
"Woof!"
Inside the cave, the Sudden Death King endured a heavy blow, creating an opportunity for Boss Ha to attack, then a flying sword flew out, piercing through a scale, drawing blood from the Diamond Dragon, causing it to scream in pain.
However, just as it was about to retaliate angrily, it was stunned to find that the flying sword was quickly swept back by the strong wind and the enemy had disappeared without a trace. The Diamond Dragon lowered its head and touched the wound... and then found even more confusedly that the blood in the wound was gone.
(End of this chapter)