The blacksmith continued to hammer away, but when he saw people coming up to watch, he had no time to pay any attention.
He didn't even know that the young woman in front of him was the newly appointed Taoist priest of Yang County.
Xu Chunniang witnessed the whole process of the blacksmith forging iron. Through repeated hammering, the iron block gradually took shape.
The blacksmith worked hard, sweating profusely. After an hour, he finally polished the iron block in his hand into its initial shape.
He paused for a moment, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and seeing Xu Chunniang staying at the door of the blacksmith shop for a long time and refusing to leave, he couldn't help but smile.
"Where did this little girl come from? You are actually interested in my blacksmithing job. But my hammer is quite heavy. I'm afraid your thin arms can't lift it."
Xu Chunniang secretly laughed. If she, a "little girl", used her thin arms to lift the hammer with one hand, the blacksmith would probably be shocked.
After a moment's silence, she asked about her confusion, "I've seen you occasionally put iron blocks into cold water. What's your intention?"
The blacksmith smiled and explained frankly, "This is a part of the ironmaking process called quenching. This process can remove impurities and increase the hardness of the iron."
After a short rest, the blacksmith picked up the hammer and started forging iron again.
Quenching... Xu Chunniang was thoughtful.
Using water as a tool to quench the red-hot iron actually has remarkable results.
The valley merged with the heavenly fire, and was very similar to the red-hot iron block.
Her heart suddenly started beating faster.
Since there is a method of quenching fire with water in the mortal world, can she follow suit and use the Spirit Rain Technique to quench the black soil valley that is most likely to hide the heavenly fire
Xu Chunniang took a deep breath and walked straight towards the valley.
She wanted to try it out to see if this method worked.
Entering the valley again, what came into view was still a stretch of black soil with no grass growing.
Xu Chunniang took action directly, transforming the five elements of spiritual energy into abundant water spiritual energy, and then performed the spiritual rain technique.
Then, a large amount of spiritual rain was seen falling on the black soil, and the sound of "hissing" was heard continuously.
At the same time, the unusually hard black soil, under the light spiritual rain, actually left shallow marks of rain.
A bright light flashed in Xu Chunniang's eyes. The blacksmith had just quenched the iron block by placing it in water to quench out impurities and other substances.
Now the spiritual rain is falling on the black soil, it must have the same effect.
She no longer hesitated and was about to continue to use the Spirit Rain Technique, but she saw wisps of scorching hot air emanating from the marks eroded by the Spirit Rain.
Most of it spilled out directly, and a small part of it entered her body and was then absorbed.
The place that absorbed the hot breath felt slightly hot, and there was a warm feeling, which was similar to the reaction after eating the magical rice.
But soon, that warm feeling disappeared as the hot breath disappeared.
Xu Chunniang's eyes showed surprise. Could it be that the hot breath obtained from quenching has the ability to strengthen the body
She no longer hesitated, raised her hand slightly, and cast another spiritual rain spell, pouring it on the strange black soil.
As the "hissing" sound was heard, a hot breath that was exactly the same as before continued to emerge.
This time, she did not let them dissipate, but chose to actively absorb them.
Several strands of hot breath entered her body, washing over her body, bringing bursts of burning sensation while also beginning some subtle transformations.
Three days later.
After Xu Chunniang absorbed the hot breath in her body, she opened her eyes and a gleam of brilliance flashed in them.
After three days of verification, she is now completely certain that the hot breath obtained from quenching is of great benefit to cultivators!
The amount she absorbs now is not much, so the effect is not very obvious.
But Xu Chunniang believes that as time goes by, the results will eventually become apparent.
Three days passed, and after hundreds of times of tempering the Spirit Rain Technique, the valley had completely changed.
The valley in front of me was still black, but the surface was no longer smooth. Instead, it was bumpy and uneven.
Xu Chunniang took just one glance and then looked away. During the past three days, she had been performing the Spirit Rain Technique while absorbing the scorching air, and more than half of the spiritual energy in her body had been consumed.
Although this is the mortal world where cultivators are scarce, one must remain vigilant. To some extent, the mortal world is even more dangerous than being inside the sect.
Xu Chunniang didn't want to put herself in a state without any spiritual energy, so she stopped the quenching after only three days and drove the flying sword to dig a cave beside the valley.
The top-grade flying sword was so sharp that a cave of a certain size was built in just half an hour.
Xu Chunniang did not stop and continued to expand the space inside the cave, polishing the cave to make it more suitable for living.
It was not until an hour later that she was satisfied and stopped. She set up a top-grade concealment formation at the entrance of the cave and entered the cave to start setting it up.
First, she took out the night pearl for lighting, then arranged the spiritual soil and the best spirit gathering array, and then Xu Chunniang began to meditate to restore her spiritual power.
Compared to when they were in the sect, the effect of the spirit gathering formation was much worse.
Fortunately, the effectiveness of the spiritual soil was not compromised, and the recovery speed was not too slow. It only took one day and one night to fully restore the spiritual power.
Xu Chunniang left the cave and came to the valley, but she was not in a hurry to perform any magic.
Since the Spirit Rain Technique can quench fire and obtain a scorching aura, then the Spirit Dew Technique should be able to do the same, right
She seemed to be thinking about something, and her spiritual power poured out from her fingertips, turning into spiritual dew rich in spiritual energy and falling on the black soil in front of her.
Then the black soil was seen to make a few "hissing" sounds, and a small pit was directly corroded by the spiritual dew. A few wisps of hot air floated out of the small pit.
Xu Chunniang perked up a little and absorbed all the hot air directly.
After doing all this, she compared the quenching effects of the Spirit Rain Technique and the Spirit Dew Technique.
The Spirit Dew Technique evolved from the Spirit Rain Technique, so the amount of hot breath obtained from quenching the two is the same.
However, the Spirit Rain Technique was relatively dispersed. Even if Xu Chunniang tried her best to absorb it, some of the hot aura still spread throughout the world.
The Spirit Dew Technique is more concentrated, allowing her to absorb the hot breath more easily, with less of it leaking out.
Xu Chunniang didn't think much about it and used the spiritual dew technique to quench her energy without hesitation. The efficiency of absorbing the hot breath increased instantly.
The hot breath entered her body and transformed her body at a slow pace.
She could feel that with the help of this hot breath, she was getting closer and closer to the ninth level of Qi training.
I believe that it won’t be long before I can achieve a breakthrough in my cultivation.
Since Xu Chunniang began to temper herself, she has never returned to Yang County.
The Censorate, which she specially commissioned to be built, was left vacant after being lived in for only a few days.
At the beginning, every few days some people would come to worship and pray, hoping that the immortal master would help save the wheat fields.
But as time went on, fewer and fewer people came to the Censorate, and finally there was only one person left, who still insisted on coming every once in a while.
As no one had lived there for a long time, the Censorate was now covered in dust, and a lot of weeds had grown in front of the yard.
An honest man carrying a hoe walked over with difficulty.