There are many passages around the hall, and in these passages, there are separate rooms.
Every room is a forging room. Anyone who is a blacksmith from the Beast King Sect can come here and borrow the room for forging at any time.
However, there are also levels of hierarchy in these forging rooms, especially the forging rooms dedicated to the elders of the sect. They are all particularly luxurious and luxurious, making ordinary blacksmiths green-eyed with envy.
Of course, there are two particularly spacious forging rooms in this huge building.
Each forging room can accommodate hundreds of people.
On weekdays, such a forging room is not open, but if there is a master blacksmith giving lessons, or if there is any sensational competition, then this is the best venue.
Although Ouyang Ming and Xu Guangji are not masters, they represent Bai Zhiyi and Xu Feiyu respectively.
Moreover, Xu Guangji is also considered a young powerhouse with a great reputation within the Beast King Sect. Especially in terms of forging talent, he is known as the number one rising star.
Therefore, after hearing that Xu Guangji was participating, the number of people rushing to this huge forging room gradually increased.
Bai Zhiyi and Xu Feiyu climbed onto the high platform. They first checked the forging room and felt there was nothing unusual before retreating to the corners.
Later, Ouyang Ming and Xu Guangji climbed onto the high platform respectively.
Xu Feiyu said in a deep voice: "If a blacksmith wants to forge good equipment, the first thing is to control the heat during forging." He paused and said: "You two each choose a gold-filled stone and a black grindstone. Let’s blend it together.”
Xu Guangji responded, walked to the side of the forging platform, and selected two stones from a pile of stones there.
Ouyang Ming's eyes widened, somewhat at a loss.
Bai Zhiyi's old face turned red and he said quickly: "Brother Xu, Xiao Ou is from outside the county and doesn't understand the rules here." Then he waved to Ouyang Ming and said: "Xiao Ou, we are here. The test is to select two designated ores and use flames to blend them together. Our requirement is that the more complete the blending, the better.”
Ouyang Ming immediately understood the meaning of this sentence.
Fusing two kinds of ores is the most basic technique in blacksmithing. If you can't do this, you don't deserve to be called a blacksmith at all.
However, the level of ore fusion is also divided into high and low levels. The most important way to distinguish is how high the degree of fusion can be.
The degree of fusion here does not refer to the ratio between different ores, but to the degree of blending between the ores placed according to the proportions.
In the eyes of a true forging master, if the compatibility of the ore is less than 80%, it is considered unqualified. With such a degree of fusion, no matter how good the materials are, the final forged equipment will become junk.
Generally speaking, it is possible to forge a magical weapon only when the fusion degree reaches more than 85%, and the goal pursued by all blacksmiths is when the fusion degree reaches more than 90%.
Nodding slightly, Ouyang Ming said: "I understand, don't worry, Mr. Bai."
He glanced at the ore in front of Xu Guangji, and also selected the same two types from the pile of ore.
Xu Feiyu and Xu Guangji looked at each other, with faint smiles in their eyes.
It turns out that Ouyang Ming doesn't know these two ores, which is great. The result of this competition is almost certain.
Gold-plated stone and black grindstone are not rare things, but these two ores have certain special properties. It is much more difficult to blend them with each other than choosing ordinary ores.
If it were not for a long period of exploration, many unexpected problems would often occur during the first smelting, leading to smelting failure or insufficient fusion.
Bai Zhiyi stepped back, looking at the expressions of the two Xu family members, he sneered in his heart.
If an ordinary blacksmith is suddenly exposed to two unknown materials, he will definitely be confused and unable to exert much ability.
But what a monster Ouyang Ming is. He is a genius who can forge half-step silver, and can repeat the process after observing the forging of a high-quality magic weapon once.
How could such a character be stumped by the most basic smelting
Even though Ouyang Ming had never seen this smelting thing before, Bai Zhiyi didn't think he would lose.
Xu Guangji snorted coldly. He suddenly waved his hand, and a black shadow suddenly jumped up from the stage.
This is a spiritual beast that looks like a large domestic dog. It looks extremely weird, with a particularly sharp mouth and a pair of smart eyes. When it came to Xu Guangji's side, it rubbed its head affectionately against his trousers.
Xu Guangji chuckled and said, "Stop playing, we have to start working."
The weird spirit beast nodded, turned around suddenly, opened its mouth, and spit out a flame, covering the two ores on the forging platform.
Xu Guangji's expression also became solemn, and he stretched out his palm. The blazing flames burned directly into the flames spit out by the spiritual beast. The flames released by one person and one beast suddenly merged together. Not only did the flames shine a little brighter, but even the aura became much larger.
Ouyang Ming looked at it in surprise, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Bai Zhiyi stepped forward and whispered beside him: "Xiao Ou, this is the fellow practitioner's technique I mentioned. Xu Guangji's natal spirit beast is a rare fire spirit beast, which is of great benefit for forging equipment. ”
The corners of Ouyang Ming's mouth twitched and he said, "So, this is also okay?"
Bai Zhiyi chuckled and said: "We are the Beast King Sect here, so it is natural to let our natal spiritual beasts help."
Ouyang Ming nodded slowly. He had already seen that Xu Guangji's natal spiritual beast was quite strange. Although the flames it spit out were not as exaggerated as his own weapons, they were definitely one of the rare spiritual fires in the world. If any blacksmith can have such a spiritual beast to help him, he will definitely get twice the result with half the effort when forging.
However, a faint smile bloomed on his face. So what if he had the help of a spiritual beast? Could it be better than my weapon-in-one
He stretched out his wrist, and his spiritual power surged wildly, turning into raging fire and enveloping the two ores on the casting table.
This time, in full view of everyone, Ouyang Ming naturally chose to cover up, and everyone could only see the intense flames in front of both parties. However, they had no idea what happened in the flames.
Of course, experienced people can also make guesses based on the jumping changes of the flames.
But after a while, they couldn't help but started whispering.
Xu Guangji and the spirit beasts cooperated perfectly, and the flames jumped frequently, which showed that strong changes were taking place.
On the other hand, Ouyang Ming, although there was a raging fire, the fire was extremely stable. Even if there were flickering flames, they were only within the normal range. If you want to deduce from the changes in appearance, even if the gods come, you can't do it.
For a moment, everyone looked at each other in confusion.
Those who can come here, even if they are not blacksmiths, at least have some understanding of blacksmithing. Even ordinary helpers know some basic knowledge. Therefore, when they looked at Ouyang Ming, their eyes were full of weirdness. Could this guy be a silver gun candle head
Although the flame is burning, it is only superficial burning, and the two ores in the flame are not fused at all.
Well, that must be the case, otherwise how could this flame jump so smoothly.
Everyone looked at Bai Zhiyi, trying to see something from the old man's face. However, Bai Zhiyi's face was expressionless, but there was a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, as if he was not worried about Ouyang Ming's situation at the moment.
In fact, he really didn't have anything to worry about.
Ouyang Ming controlled his spiritual power to turn into flames to wrap the two ores, although the weapons had been integrated with his spiritual power. However, the magical effect has not been reduced at all, but it seems more convenient to control.
Almost in a blink of an eye, Ouyang Ming melted the two ores and began to blend them.
In the process, he keenly discovered some subtle differences.
One of these two ores has an extremely high melting point, while the other has a melting point that is not worth mentioning.
This is a test of the blacksmith's control over the flames. If he cannot control them to an extremely fine level, then it is basically impossible to fuse them.
Of course, for Ouyang Ming, who has practiced the art of hot and cold, this is just a small problem.
However, when fusing the two molten ores, Ouyang Ming discovered that there seemed to be a certain innate resistance between the two solutions. It was difficult to combine them with ordinary smelting methods.
At this moment, Ouyang Ming still didn't understand that this was a trap set by the two Xu family members.
Without certain techniques and abilities, it is basically impossible to fuse them.
As for why Bai Zhiyi didn't remind him, Ouyang Ming guessed some of the reasons. Perhaps it was because his previous performance had exceeded the old man's bottom line, so he became somewhat blindly trusting.
However, Bai Zhiyi really guessed it, and Ouyang Ming still couldn't get over this little thing.
Under the burning of the spiritual fire, all the resistance seemed to be shattered. The powerful flame power reached every part of the two ore liquids. Then, driven by the flame power, the two ores Begin to coalesce and merge.
This was a natural process, and it was quickly completed in Ouyang Ming's hands.
For him, this is not much more difficult than forging an ordinary piece of equipment. Anyway, it is all melting and condensation. He has done it too many times.
However, just after he finished, he found that Xu Guangji was still working hard silently.
Ouyang Ming thought about it seriously and did not immediately remove the flame in his hand. Instead, he waited quietly, waiting...