Lan Xuanyu took the forging hammer, and his expression suddenly became serious. He picked up the forging hammer, and the pattern on the handle fit his fingers. For him, the forging hammer was a bit big. After all, he was still young and his body had not grown yet.
The forging hammer is also heavy, but with Lan Xuanyu's strength, it is naturally no problem for him to control it.
The senior stopped talking and stepped aside, preparing for his forging.
Whether a spirit master has a talent for forging can often be roughly determined during the first forging. A talented person will naturally show differences from ordinary people.
The smelting time was not long, the forging table cracked again, and the burning red silver slowly rose up and was pushed onto the forging table by the slide rail. Suddenly, the temperature of the whole room rose a few degrees.
Lan Xuanyu took a deep breath and focused on the silver. Although it was his first time forging, he had heard that forging requires concentration and using one's mental power to feel the changes in the metal during the forging process. This change often determines the success rate of forging and also determines the subsequent means of forging.
He could feel that the originally hard Shenyin seemed to soften due to the high temperature. Shenyin gave him the feeling of a change from silence to activity. It seemed that it also wanted to be more active.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Lan Xuanyu immediately moved. He raised his hammer and smashed it down on the heavy silver in front of him.
The young senior student next to him naturally had no rules for his hammer, and even the way he used force was wrong. However, he swung the hammer very decisively, and it was obvious that he used all his strength.
With a loud bang, Lan Xuanyu felt a strong force coming, which instantly made his palms hot and his mouth numb. But the blood power in his body started to work on its own, and in a moment, it neutralized the recoil force. The silver in front of him suddenly sank under his full force.
"Nice strength." The senior praised.
Using the force of the rebound, Lan Xuanyu raised the forging hammer in his hand again, and then smashed it down again.
There was another loud bang, and sparks flew everywhere under the hammering of the Shenyin. Faintly, Lan Xuanyu seemed to feel that some changes had occurred in the Shenyin.
He couldn't explain what this change was, but what was certain was that this change should not be a bad one.
The forging hammer was raised, dropped, and struck again. Again and again, firmly and with all his might.
Lan Xuanyu didn't know how to forge, but everyone could do simple hammering. As he hammered down, watching the silver being gradually flattened, Lan Xuanyu silently felt the changes in the silver in front of him.
Yes, it has been changing in its own forging.
The senior student behind him just crossed his arms and watched silently at first. Lan Xuanyu, like most people who had never forged before, just used the forging hammer to smash. However, after a while, he began to be moved.
Lan Xuanyu’s blows were indeed simple, but the force of his forging hammer was almost the same every time it fell.
You know, not everyone can keep hammering with all their strength. The recoil of the forging hammer can easily hurt the bones and muscles. Although the soul master will be much better with the protection of soul power, it is not so easy to control the power.
Lan Xuanyu clearly used all his strength in every hammer strike, but he was able to keep it up. More importantly, he was focused. From beginning to end, he did not say a word during the forging, his eyes were always fixed on Chen Yin, and he kept hammering.
The cube of metal was gradually broken into pieces by him, but he did not stop hammering. He continued to smash it down.
As the temperature of the Shenyin continued to drop, its hardness also began to increase. The red color gradually disappeared, but Lan Xuanyu found that the Shenyin, after being hammered by him, seemed to be a little brighter than before.
The forging hammer in his hand finally stopped, and he turned to the senior who looked surprised and said, "Senior, does the fact that the silver has become brighter mean that my forging is effective?"
The senior nodded silently, "Yes, this means that the quality of the sunken silver has improved and the impurities have been reduced under your forging. The process just now can be regarded as the first forging. How is it? How does it feel to try it?"
Lan Xuanyu thought for a moment and said, "I seem to be able to feel that it has actually been changing during my forging process. But I can't tell what the change is. Maybe it's the process of impurities being reduced that you mentioned. In other words, if I forge it a hundred times, I need to fold it up and hammer it again, right? Until I complete it a hundred times?"
The senior said: "The so-called hundred forgings does not mean that it must be forged a hundred times, but it means to purify it to a certain degree. The significance of the hundred forgings is to reduce the impurities inside it as much as possible. A piece of metal with almost no impurities can be considered to have been forged a hundred times. That's why it is called hundred forging purification."
Lan Xuanyu suddenly said: "Then I understand, thank you senior. I think I like forging. I like the feeling of concentrating on it, and concentrating on feeling the changes in the metal. It feels wonderful."
The senior gave him a thumbs up and said, "Not bad, not bad. From the way you were focused before, I felt that you were a good candidate for learning forging. Welcome to join the Forging Association." As he spoke, he extended his broad palm to Lan Xuanyu.
“Can I join now?” Lan Xuanyu asked him in surprise.
The senior laughed, "Of course! It's not difficult. Let me introduce myself. My name is Yang Yingming. Everyone calls me Brother Yingming. You can call me that, too."
"Hello, Brother Yingming." Lan Xuanyu called out hurriedly.
Yang Yingming said: "Everyone joins the association because they like forging, so there is only one standard for joining, that is, love for forging. Since you think you like it, you can join directly. And what kind of forger you can become in the future depends on how much you put into forging. Forging is the most fundamental part of battle armor production. If the metal forging is not good enough, it will be useless no matter how good the production is. Therefore, we are the roots of battle armor. If you work hard, if the metal you forge is good enough in the future, you can sell it for money, which can also be considered a way to make money."
Listening to his story, forging seemed to have only advantages and no disadvantages, but Lan Xuanyu still felt something was wrong and asked tentatively: "Senior, then the metals we use for forging, especially the metals we use for practice, are they provided by the association?"
Yang Yingming's face changed. "How is that possible? The academy encourages self-reliance, so you should find a way yourself. You can exchange badges at the exchange office. I suggest you start with the cheaper ones. Then you should hire a teacher to teach you. For a rookie beginner like you, it is most cost-effective to hire seniors like us. I am already a third-level blacksmith and can perform a thousand forgings. It is enough for me to teach you. And the price is cheap. One white-level badge can give you three lessons, each guaranteed to be more than an hour. What do you think, junior brother?"
Lan Xuanyu stared at him in astonishment and said, "Not only do I have to pay for the metal, but I also have to pay to learn forging?"
Yang Yingming snorted, "Of course, what do you think? All secondary professions require money to learn. For our forging side, the tuition is relatively cheap. Design and production are a little more difficult, but their material costs are relatively low. The material cost for designers is the lowest, and they just draw the blueprints. For production, you can practice with ordinary metals. We are more miserable. We can only practice forging with rare metals, otherwise we will never master the characteristics of rare metals."
Lan Xuanyu's mouth twitched. No wonder this man allowed him to join the Blacksmith Association without hesitation. The association was a bit of a rip-off! In Shrek Academy, it was indeed difficult to move forward without a badge.