Swallowed Star: A Universe of Its Own

Chapter 252 First Forging

Xu Feng laughed inwardly, “It seems that these dwarf children are about the same age as Tuka.

"The appearance of the dwarves does not conform to human aesthetics. Even the children look like middle-aged uncles with full beards, so it is not easy to tell their age.

Just looking at their strength, it can be seen that these dwarves are not at the cosmic level, and are even much weaker than Tuka. From this, it can be determined that they should be about the same age.

"Hundreds of primary blacksmith beasts?" A dwarf woman opened her mouth in shock. At this time, many people who were still forging iron came over. One of the middle-aged men laughed and said, "Tuka, you can hunt and kill hundreds of primary blacksmith beasts by yourself? That's great."

"Tuka has great potential. He can be ranked in the top ten among his peers." Another middle-aged dwarf also nodded.

At this time, a strong middle-aged dwarf with dark skin, wearing only long pants and bare upper body, looked at Xu Feng with deep eyes, and then looked at Tuka: "Tuka, where is the dwarf behind you from? Why have I never seen him before?"

Xu Feng didn't care about the strong middle-aged man at all. The strength of this strong middle-aged dwarf was quite good, and it was estimated that he was as strong as a domain lord. However, in front of Xu Feng, he was still far from enough.

Hearing this question, Tuka said respectfully: "Uncle Mantu, I encountered a group of cosmic beasts this time. I almost became their feces. It was only because of this Lord Huolu who rescued me that I was able to return to the village!"

The middle-aged dwarf named Mantu placed his left fist on his right chest, bowed slightly and said, "Mantu, on behalf of Tuka, would like to thank your friend. What is your friend's name?"

Xu Feng smiled slightly, and then gave a fake name: "Haha, Brother Mantu, my name is Huolu!"

"Brother Huolu, on behalf of the entire Tucson village, I would like to thank you for saving Tuka. Let's go to my house and let me give you the best wine!" Mantu spoke very enthusiastically.

Xu Feng shook his head and said, "No need, I just want to stay in Tucson Village for the time being. I plan to go to Ironforge after a while."

Hearing the word "Ironforge", Mantu's attitude became slightly more respectful: "If you have any problems, just let someone tell me. In Tucson Village, I, Mantu, can manage almost everything."

"Lord Huolu, Uncle Mantu is a senior blacksmith in our village. Only the village chief has a slightly higher status than Uncle Mantu." Tuka said to Xu Feng.

Xu Feng also imitated the etiquette of the dwarves and put his left fist on his right chest and said: "If there is any problem, I will definitely go to your place."

"Tuka, take me to your place." Xu Feng looked at Tuka.

Tuka smiled and said, "Okay, follow me."

Mantu shouted to the people watching: "Keep forging, don't waste time here."

The people around him continued to forge or went back to their own residences to study. Xu Feng and Tuka came to Tuka's residence, a very ordinary house.

This house has only one floor and three rooms. Tuka usually lives in the room on the left. The middle room is the living room, used to entertain guests. The room on the right is now Xu Feng's residence.

"Lord Huolu, please tell me if you have anything to say." Tuka said to Xu Feng with a slight bow.

Xu Feng nodded and smiled: "I just happen to have something to trouble you. I want to read your tribe's experience in refining equipment. Of course, I will pay you."

"Weapon forging experience?" Tuka was slightly stunned. There are dwarves who are not good at forging. Could Lord Huolu be one of them? He immediately responded, "Sir, the tribe's forging experience is in the weapon forging hall. It is open to the public. You don't have to pay any fees. If you want to go, I will take you to see it!"

"Okay, then go now. I don't have anything to do right now."

Xu Feng followed Tuka to the largest stove-shaped building in the center of the tribe.

"Sir, this is the tribe's weapon refining hall. Although the information inside is open to the public, please do not damage it at will. After all, it is the hard work of our predecessors."

"Okay, I understand. Go and practice."

"Okay sir, if you need anything, please come find me at home!"

After Xu Feng saw Tuka walking away and made sure that there was no one around, he quietly sent out a Dark Electric Eagle clone to hunt for the Heart of the Earth. Xu Feng then entered the weapon refining hall and read the information inside.

One day later.

Xu Feng closed a book of unknown material and praised.

"The dwarven forging method is truly magical. It does not rely on any technological means, but simply smelts and forges, yet it can forge Force weapons!"

"What's even more amazing is that adding the Earth Mark can actually have a similar effect to awakening a spirit, adding various effects to the weapon, such as increasing sharpness, hardness, or weight!"

"It's time to try this secret method to see if it can add other secret patterns to the weapon!"

Looking around, there were not many people. He was worried that others would recognize that he could not forge. After thinking about it, Xu Feng made a decision, "Let's try it in Jiang Lanjie."

Within Jiang Lan’s realm.

Xu Feng summoned Leishanju and took out several kinds of metals from it.

Sitting cross-legged, a set of B-grade metal smelting formulas emerged in Xu Feng's mind.

"The forging method in this underground world is completely different from that in the outside world. It is more like the ancient forging method on Earth. The first step is to refine the ore. The second step is to heat the various metals to the point where they can be fused, and then fuse them into a weapon embryo. By hammering the weapon embryo, impurities are removed and the degree of material fusion is increased. The third step is quenching."

When Xu Feng referred to this forging method, he couldn't help but admire the ancestors of the dwarves.

Although the steps seem simple, the melting points, densities, and properties of metals in the universe are different. It is not easy to fuse various metals into a new metal.

The ancestors of the dwarves had already figured out the properties of various metals. For example, the solubility of Cold-Marked Iron and Flame Crystal Gold, both of which are B-grade metals, differs by more than 5 degrees. If they are fused together, both will lose their properties and become a pile of scrap iron that is not even as good as A-grade metal.

However, in a specific semi-fusion state, combined with a semi-spiral structure forging, it can exert the hardness and toughness of C-grade metal.

Xu Feng alone knew of tens of thousands of metals in the universe. However, the ancestors of the dwarves had researched ways to fuse millions of metals without the support of high-tech civilization. They relied on the dwarves' day-and-night research and forging to achieve today's results.

After thinking about it carefully, Xu Feng understood why the dwarven forging knowledge was open to all dwarves. Some dwarves, in addition to forging practice, were studying metal matching methods.

It turns out that with the wisdom of the dwarf ancestors, they had long known that if they wanted to research more powerful forging technology, they could not rely on just one genius or a group of geniuses, but needed countless ideas and research from the entire ethnic group combined together to develop the current unique forging technology.

"The dwarves need the three principles of fire, gold and water to forge. Isn't the Fire-Eyed Water Ape clone good at these three principles? Perhaps forging with the Fire-Eyed Water Ape clone will have unexpected results!"

With a thought, the Fire-Eyed Water Ape clone appeared beside Xu Feng.

"Let's refine the simplest first-order force weapon first. Use B-grade metal black iron crystal and several A-grade metals. As long as they can be completely fused, we can form a blank first-order force weapon, the forging hammer."

With a thought, a standard dwarven furnace and supporting tools appeared in Jiang Lan's world!
While scanning the tribe, Xu Feng used the clone of the Wutong Sacred Tree to analyze the composition of the furnace and ordinary forging equipment, and found that they were just made of some materials below Grade B metal. With Xu Feng's current strength of the ninth level of the universe, he easily completed the analysis and could naturally manifest it easily in Jiang Lan's world.

The Fire-Eyed Water Ape clone did not start forging weapons immediately, but sat down calmly and recalled all the knowledge he had read in the dwarf books.

This homework may seem redundant, but it plays an incomparable and important role.

Each step circled in his mind until Xu Feng finished simulating everything and was sure that he had mastered all the subtle details. Only then did he open his eyes and stand up calmly.

Although it was the first time that Xu Feng started forging, he felt neither sad nor happy in his heart, and was completely immersed in a state of emptiness.

He opened the furnace, took out the black iron crystal and black iron, and put them in exactly according to the heating order and quantity in the book.

Xu Feng's mental power did not relax for a moment, and the metallic activity of the two materials in the furnace was always under his monitoring.

Gradually, he discovered a strange change, that is, each metal seemed to have different vitality, these vitality had their own characteristics, and it was impossible for them to intersect. However, under the smelting of the flame, these vitality slowly changed a little.

Some of the vitality is still as strong as a thousand-year-old mountain, without any sign of shaking. However, the activity of some metals is not stable, and has begun to blend with each other to become a new activity.

Of course, since there are many types of metals, and Xu Feng is actually just a novice in forging, although he can sense the differences, he does not know the meaning of these different energies.

After a long time, when Xu Feng completed all the processes and smelted for an hour, when he felt that the activity of various materials had reached its maximum, he used a specific secret technique to wrap them with the force of fire attributes and maintain them to the temperature with maximum vitality.

Until all the materials are taken out, they are forged into a weapon embryo using a special hammering method and then thrown into the furnace.

Suddenly, a fiery red light shone through the gap, and the temperature on the furnace increased little by little.

Xu Feng's mind was immediately highly focused. Although this was his first time forging something, and it wasn't a high-level weapon, it was an extremely important matter for him, and he didn't want to fail no matter what.

The mental power penetrated into the furnace layer by layer, and slowly, he discovered the benefits of the affinity of the law of fire in this regard. After being blessed by the dwarf secret method, the mental power attached to the law of fire attributes seemed to be particularly easy to pass through the furnace, causing very little obstacles, even much easier than adding genetic energy.

The dwarves have no spiritualists, only warriors, so they can usually only use secret methods to add the law of fire to their genetic energy for observation.

This feature alone makes Xu Feng far ahead of the dwarves in terms of fusing materials.

The more he understood the forging process, the more he was shocked by the dwarves' forging skills.

Without any technological technology, it is possible to forge B-grade metal into a first-order force weapon. Although it is just a blank weapon, it is also extraordinary.

According to Xu Feng's perception, the metal and flame in the furnace were undergoing strange changes.

Under the catalysis of the fire power, various activities quietly underwent various changes. Various metals seemed to have different changes.

At this moment, a wonderful change had taken place in his body. He pressed one hand lightly on the furnace, but the scorching temperature seemed to have no effect on him at all.

Through contact with the furnace, his mental power took in all the changes inside.

As the medicinal properties and vitality of various metals were constantly stimulated, the mixed pot of metal vitality became more and more chaotic. Although Xu Feng had tried his best to deduce the principles, he still found nothing in the end.

After a long time, he finally gave up.

The knowledge of forging is extensive and profound, far beyond the understanding of a rookie like him who has only been exposed to it for a short time. If he really wants to fully master it, it will be impossible without ten years of research and experimentation.

If Tuka was still here, he would be surprised to find that Xu Feng opened the furnace for inspection much less often than he did when forging. And this is one of the most important conditions for forging advanced forging in the future.

When forging low-level weapons, there are naturally not so many requirements. However, if you want to forge high-level weapons, the forging process is extremely complicated. You cannot take out the furnace to check the situation at all. You can only rely on genetic energy to explore the situation in the furnace.

Therefore, even in the entire Tucson village, only Tuka's uncle Mantu has the ability to forge level 3 force weapons.

Finally, after two hours of forging, Xu Feng's eyes lit up slightly, and he vaguely felt that the most important step in fusing into a weapon embryo was about to come.

However, at this moment, he had a feeling that the fire power in the furnace seemed too weak.

This feeling was so abrupt. It suddenly emerged when he sensed the vitality of the weapon embryo.

In just a moment, he had made his choice.

He used the secret method of the dwarves to activate the flame, exerted the power of the flame, and gently tapped the furnace with his hand. The temperature of the flame instantly doubled, and even the red color of the entire furnace seemed to become much brighter.

Xu Feng concentrated on sensing the changes in the metals, and finally a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

(End of this chapter)