When they arrived at the Weapon Foundry Shop in Jinlong City, Ou Qianxie had already instructed his servants to come here to inform the weapon foundry masters in the shop that Ye Li would be sent as an apprentice.
The weapon casters in the store were not trained by the Foundry Hall, but were hired from other places who came through the Foundry Hall's tests and then stayed here.
Becoming an external weapon caster in the Foundry Hall is not a bad thing, because the Foundry Hall will regularly arrange for external weapon casters to participate in training, and Ou Qianxie will teach them personally and pass on some experience to them.
Moreover, if they encounter various problems in their daily casting, they can also get authoritative answers in the foundry hall. This is a great thing for any foundry worker who does not have a good master.
After all, improving one's skills is the pursuit of every weapon caster, and being able to exchange labor for the guidance of a master in the weapon casting hall is definitely a very cost-effective thing.
When Ye Li arrived at the shop and explained his purpose, the person in charge of the shop, Tang Qian, who was also the shop's number one weapon caster, welcomed Ye Li in with enthusiasm.
After all, Ye Li is Ou Qianxie's fourth disciple. Even if his weapon-making ability is limited now, it will definitely not be too bad in the future. As an external weapon-making master, Tang Qian naturally has reasons to curry favor with him.
In a general weapon casting shop, the staff consists of one earth-level weapon casting master, two mysterious-level weapon casting masters, and five weapon casting apprentices, a total of eight people.
In the past, the Heavenly Grade Toolsmiths were all elders in the Toolsmith Hall, who would take turns touring the various counties to fulfill the Heavenly Grade Toolsmith orders from various shops.
However, ever since the Weapon Foundry Hall split up, almost all the elders stood on Duan Qianye's side at first. Ou Qianxie had no other staff besides a few disciples, some hired weapon foundries, and apprentices.
As time went by, a small number of elders chose to return to Ou Qianxie and continue to patrol the various shops in the Foundry Hall to solve the problem of heaven-level orders.
But after Duan Qianye and his men disappeared, no elders appeared anymore.
Ou Qianxie also secretly sent people to investigate why Duan Qianye disappeared, and tried to find out about him, but in the end he found that the other party seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth and no trace of him could be found at all.
Even the spies from the four major chambers of commerce spread all over the country failed to find any clues.
There were rumors that Duan Qianye might have gone overseas and hid on a secret island, but Ou Qianxie did not comment on this speculation because he could not find any reason for Duan Qianye to go to an overseas island.
The secret investigation of Duan Qianye was gradually put on hold as there were no clues at all. Ou Qianxie led the new foundry hall and started to get back on track.
After Ye Li arrived at the shop, Tang Qian enthusiastically introduced him to other talisman masters and apprentices, and arranged for him to cast talisman armor and talisman weapons in the apprentice area.
A large number of casting orders come in to the shop every day. In addition to the independent spiritual talisman masters and a large number of martial talisman masters who buy them, many forces will also place orders in bulk at fixed times for their own guards and children.
After all, many of the talisman weapons and armor are consumables, and even if they are of high quality, it is impossible to use them forever.
For example, as the aura shield of the talisman armor is constantly broken and restored, the rune formation inside the talisman armor will gradually become damaged until it can no longer be activated.
Not to mention the rune weapons. No matter how many "solid" and "sharp" rune formations are on them, they will definitely be damaged in battle. Once they are broken, new ones will need to be purchased. Therefore, the demand for these things is huge in the entire world.
Standing in front of a foundry furnace, with boxes of various materials piled beside it, Ye Li's task was to cast a large number of talisman armors.
Because there is a good market for talisman armor of all quality, whether low-quality, medium-quality or high-quality, no casting shop will only cast high-quality talisman armor.
Even if apprentices have the ability to perfectly cast high-quality rune armor, they will still make low-quality and medium-quality rune armor according to the rules.
However, high-level apprentices did not deliberately carve rune formations randomly when making low-quality or medium-quality rune armor, but chose to lower the quality of materials.
When drawing rune formations with low-quality materials, problems are bound to arise, resulting in a decline in the quality of the rune armor and rune weapons.
However, low-quality materials are cheap, so the low-quality or medium-quality talismans and weapons drawn will not be wasted. After being sold at a low price, the store can still ensure sufficient income.
Ye Li's casting time in the shop is only from noon to sunset in the evening. His task is naturally to make as many talismans and weapons as possible.
Ou Qianxie wanted to use this method of repeatedly casting talisman armor and talisman weapons to help him become more familiar with and understand the casting process.
During the first day of casting, Ye Li's movements were not very fast, and even compared with other skilled apprentices, his movements were only inferior.
The only thing is that the quality of the talisman armor and weapons he forged is quite good, at best they are of medium quality.
However, he was still very dissatisfied with this speed, and he felt that he still had a lot of room for development.
This kind of life lasted for a month. Ye Li was completely devoted to cultivation. He attended classes with Ou Qianxie every morning, made talismans and weapons in the shop in the afternoon, and went home at night to study the secret method of "body casting" and practice the skills of shooting with both hands.
After a month, Ye Li's speed in casting talisman armor and talisman weapons began to make a qualitative leap. Relying on his extraordinary knowledge of runes, his speed has surpassed all apprentices and skilled workers.
In terms of the quality of the talisman armor and weapons, Ye Li can already guarantee that if ordinary materials are used, all of them will be top-quality talisman armor and weapons.
Even if he uses the worst materials, all he can produce are medium-quality talisman armor and talisman weapons. Anyway, no matter how he casts them, he will not produce low-quality talisman armor and talisman weapons.
Such strength also made other apprentices in the shop admire him very much, and they sighed that he was worthy of being Ou Qianxie's disciple.
However, when it comes to the secret method of "body casting", Ye Li was just as Ou Qianxie said. Even after trying for a month, he still had not used it once.
The skill of shooting with both hands soon reached a bottleneck. With both hands, he could only draw two nine-character and three-character talismans at the same time, and it was difficult to continue to improve.
Ye Li told Ou Qianxie the truth about these troubles and asked him if he had any solutions.
After understanding the situation, Ou Qianxie smiled and said, “You can get answers to these two questions during the casting process.
If you understand the casting process more deeply, I believe you should be able to master the secret method of 'casting' soon."