Swallowed Star: A Universe of Its Own

Chapter 259 The Power of the Earth
The tall dwarf was stunned. Indeed, the more complete the earth pattern of a dwarf, the more likely he is to be a powerful blacksmith. Because only a complete earth pattern can make a weapon more powerful.

The armored dwarf said to the tall dwarf, "Noli, you go ahead and do your work. I will take this master to the Ironforge furnace for the forging test!"

Noli responded to the armored dwarf respectfully: "Okay, President Bronzebeard."

Then Bronzebeard took Xu Feng out of the forge hall and came to a huge gate hundreds of meters high in the center of Ironforge, and greeted the dwarf guard next to him.

The dwarf activated some kind of mechanism and the door slowly opened.

As soon as the door was opened, a wave of hot air hit me in the face, and at the same time, an old dwarf with gray hair walked out of the room on the right side of the door.

"Bronzebeard, long time no see. What's up? Bring your juniors here to meet me?" He looked at Bronzebeard who came in from the door and greeted him in a lustful manner.

"Sidi, stop talking nonsense. I am bringing this forging master to take the test of the God of Forging." Bronzebeard said awkwardly.

"Ah?" The old dwarf was stunned and looked at Xu Feng carefully. Xu Feng's cosmic strength was far beyond Sidi's expectations. Those who could test the God of Forging were generally master blacksmiths (immortal level). Xu Feng was too young. "Then please ask this young man... Master, come to me first to register..."

After Xu Feng filled out the information, Tongxu respectfully took Xu Feng into the space behind the door. It was a circular platform tens of kilometers wide with a hollow center. The hollowed-out part in the center of the platform was a deep red magma lake, with a long bridge more than 30 kilometers long and four kilometers wide built in the center.

More than 10,000 tall furnaces with dwarven characteristics stand on the bridge, continuously converting the energy in the lava into the power of earth fire.

Xu Feng discovered that only less than half of the more than 10,000 furnaces, or more than 5,000, were being used by the dwarves.

Only master-level blacksmiths are qualified to use the furnace in Ironforge. Just looking at the number of dwarves present, it means that the dwarf tribe has accumulated at least 5,000 blacksmiths after a long period of time!
Bronzebeard brought Xu Feng to one of the furnaces, took out a recording device that looked like an eye, and said to Xu Feng respectfully, "Master Furnace, according to the rules, you only need to forge a fifth-level force weapon to pass the assessment."

"The difference from the master-level assessment is that you need to prepare the assessment materials for the God of Forging yourself! But you can also use the power of earth fire to forge weapons. The entire assessment process needs to be recorded through the Blacksmith's Eye."

"If there are no problems, the assessment can begin immediately!"

"Of course, we can start now."

Xu Feng walked in front of the forging table. This time he planned to forge a force weapon among the earth-based weapons that he was best at, the Earth Blade!

With a wave of his hand, he took out dozens of precious ores, including lapis lazuli, cold iron ore, cloud iron, refined copper, etc.
Close your eyes and recall every step and detail when you forged the Earth Blade.

The Earth Blade uses one of the most perfect ore ratios researched by countless dwarf ancestors. It is a weapon that tests the forging skills extremely well. Although it only uses D-grade ore, if the forger's forging skills reach an extremely high level, it is also possible to forge a 5th-grade Force weapon.

Not only do the types of ores consumed double that of ordinary fourth-order force weapons, but it is also extremely difficult to remove impurities from each type of ore. The difficulty of removing impurities from each type of ore is comparable to the black carbon ore that Xu Feng used in the master-level assessment.

The forging method of the Earth Blade is different from that of other weapons. Since many types of ores are used, a special forging technique, the folding forging method, is required.

The folding forging method, as the name suggests, is to fuse various ores into embryos, and then the blacksmith will fold the embryos multiple times and forge them. Each time they are folded, the materials on the embryos will be fused more tightly, and the characteristics of various ores can be brought into play, making the blade tougher and sharper while increasing the energy amplification of the weapon to the user.

Weapons made using the folding forging method will have multiple layers of irregular patterns on their surface.

The more times it is folded, the more layers of patterns will appear on the weapon, which means the degree of fusion of the materials is high and the quality of the weapon is higher!

As long as the number of lines exceeds 100, the forged Earth Blade can reach the level of a 5th-order Force weapon. !
Because the material extraction of the Earth Blade is very complicated, the three clones in Jiang Lan's world and Xu Feng's original body stopped practicing and focused their attention on the Tai Sui clone.

Soon Xu Feng analyzed the fusion temperature and fusion time of each ore.

Then he methodically threw dozens of ores into the furnace and refined them!

From time to time, he took out pieces of ore and hammered them to remove or melt impurities in the ore, appearing to be extremely experienced.

Bronzebeard and Sidi opened their eyes wide and stared at Xu Feng.

The layman watches the excitement while the expert watches the details. Just from Xu Feng's few movements, they can conclude that this forging master has extremely solid basic skills and possesses an excellent affinity for the laws of fire and gold.

With each strike, the ore shrinks a little bit, and there are no cracks on the surface of the ore, which shows that with each strike, Xu Feng accurately knocks the impurities out of the ore without destroying the structure of the ore.

To be able to do this requires more than just rich experience.

It also requires an extremely high affinity for the Law of Fire and the Law of Gold to accurately feel the heating conditions of the ore in the furnace, take it out when it reaches the best state, and find the location of impurities when knocking.

Sidi looked at Xu Feng's movements and felt ashamed. He had studied with Tongxu and was studying ore refining. He had practiced day and night for hundreds of billions of years, but he still couldn't reach Xu Feng's current level. But Xu Feng was only at the cosmic level, so he couldn't be more than 1000 million years old!

Half a day later, Xu Feng finally refined all the ores to an extremely perfect point.

Xu Feng felt how important the power of earth fire was for forging ore. The smelting time of various ores was saved by half under the power of earth fire.

"It's a pity that this power of earth fire only exists in Ironforge. I wonder if there is any fire in the universe that is comparable to the power of earth fire?"

The fire of stars came to Xu Feng’s mind!
"The star fire in my body is also one of Master Qin Yu's weapon refining conditions. Maybe it will have unexpected effects when used for forging!"

Xu Feng decided to try forging weapons with starfire after this assessment.

Now let’s focus on completing the forging assessment!

After giving up the idea of ​​experimenting with forging weapons with starfire, Xu Feng turned his attention back to the ore that had just been produced.

These perfect ores were only the first step in forging the fifth-order force weapon, the Earth Blade. After Xu Feng fused the various metals into an embryo, he did not immediately shape it, but forged the various ores into thin metal sheets, and then stacked them together in a specific way.

This is also the special and difficult aspect of the folding forging method. Before forging and shaping, various materials need to be stacked and folded continuously, and the various metals need to be fused to a certain degree before they can be forged into weapon embryos.

In order to prevent the ore from cooling down, the folding time becomes extremely limited, so the ore must be refined quickly. The more folding time there is before it cools down, the more layers can be folded.

After folding, various materials are forged into a cubic metal embryo, and then the most critical folding process begins.

Ding ding ding ding~!

Xu Feng knocked the cube-shaped metal embryo into a flat shape, then folded it once, and hammered it flat again!
The process seems simple, but every time you strike the metal, it requires incredible concentration and affinity with the laws of gold.

Because the material inside the metal embryo has not completely solidified together at this time, too much force will make the metal embryo easy to crack, and too little force will prolong the folding time, and it will not be able to stack enough layers before cooling!

To achieve this, in addition to sophisticated experience, one also needs to have a deep understanding of the situation of metals, which requires an extremely strong affinity for the laws of gold.

The higher the affinity for the Law of Gold, the clearer the internal situation of the metal embryo will be, which parts of the metal are not completely fused, which parts have higher toughness, how much force is needed to strike, and whether to use Yin force or Yang force. The better the grasp will be.

Bronzebeard watched Xu Feng's skilled hammering technique in fascination and praised sincerely: "It's perfect. Although the hammering speed is very fast, there is not a single crack on the metal embryo. This proves that the furnace master never made a mistake in every hammering!"

Sidi also had a high level of attainment in the control of flames, but he also admired Xu Feng's forging skills: "Not only that, his ability to control flames is also extremely powerful. With the blessing of the power of fire, the vitality of the metal embryo is still maintained at its peak!"

"According to the current stacking situation, as long as there are no mistakes in the next two steps, there should be no problem in forging a fifth-level force weapon!"

Ding ding ding ding~!

Before long, the metal embryo had been stacked 9 times and the texture reached 512 layers.

Xu Feng felt that the materials in the metal embryo were almost fused, so he put the embryo into the iron furnace to heat it and began to shape it!
"The power of this earth fire is truly magical. Not only can it maintain the activity of the embryo, it can even slightly increase the activity of the embryo during the heating process. It is of great help in forging weapons!"

Xu Feng was also looking forward to the star fire even more!
Sensing through the power of fire that the embryo in the furnace had been heated to a sufficient temperature, Xu Feng decisively took out the embryo and began forging!
Hammer after hammer, Xu Feng's forging hammer hit the weapon embryo, and a pleasant sound came out, like beautiful music.

"It's great, the rhythm is so well controlled, even the sound of forging is so pleasant."

Half an hour later, Xu Feng completed the embryo forging, and then placed the knife-shaped weapon embryo into the quenching solution that had been prepared long ago.

"Zi~!"

Although the quenching step can only be felt by the forger himself and the effect cannot be seen by outsiders, Bronzebeard and Disi still stared at the weapon, paying attention to whether the weapon can be quenched successfully!
Under Xu Feng's precise control of the power of water, every part of the Earth Blade was improved to a perfect level. Until he felt that the Force weapon had reached the most perfect state, Xu Feng decisively drew out the Force weapon and nodded with satisfaction.

"The forging went really well this time. After quenching, it has reached the pinnacle of a fifth-level force weapon!"

Then comes the most important step: awakening the spirit!
Xu Feng activated the secret patterns of the earth on his body, and then used the dwarves' unique secret method to enchant his own patterns of the earth onto the Earth Blade!

Just like the tens of thousands of enchantments in the past, the Mark of the Earth only needed to be enchanted once and could be easily imprinted on the blade!
"Suck!" Bronzebeard and Sidi took a breath of cold air at the same time.
"It actually succeeded after just one attempt at enchanting!"

"Impossible. The more complex the earth pattern is, the more difficult it is to enchant! Even the most outstanding one would not be able to succeed in enchanting 10 earth patterns of the core of the earth in one go!"

The most outstanding person mentioned by Bronzebeard refers to his ancestor, who is also the most outstanding forging master of the dwarf clan, Bronze Furnace, a legendary existence who forged precious treasures!
Xu Feng looked at the Earth Blade with satisfaction. With the blessing of the power of earth and fire, this could be said to be Xu Feng's most outstanding work to date.

He handed the Earth Blade to the examiner Bronzebeard and said, "Mr. Bronzebeard, this is the weapon I forged. Please determine whether I have passed the test."

After seeing Xu Feng's forging process, even without spiritual awakening, he could deduce that the Earth Blade had most likely reached the peak of a tier 5 Force weapon.

But Bronzebeard still checked it carefully and found no problems. He also sighed: "Master Furnace's forging skills are so superb that they can be called perfect."

Bronzebeard used the dwarven's unique identification technology to strike and hit the axe in various ways.

Not surprisingly, the hardness, sharpness and toughness all reached that of a 5th-level Force weapon.

Bronzebeard used the secret method of the dwarves to check the enchantment effect of the Earth Blade!

I was shocked!
Bronzebeard looked at Sidi beside him in surprise and said, "It's the power of the earth!"

Sidi, who was standing by, asked Bronzebeard with his big eyes, "What did you say? It's the power of the earth?"

"Bronzebeard, you can't be kidding me. If the enchanted effect is really the power of the earth, then this Earth Blade has reached the level of a divine weapon!"

"Oh my god, that's impossible... The last time I saw a divine weapon forged was three million years ago, and the material used was just a bunch of D-grade metal..."

Bronzebeard smiled bitterly and said seriously: "If you don't believe me, check it yourself."

Bronzebeard reluctantly handed this fifth-level force weapon to his good friend Sidi.

Sidi naturally knew what kind of person Bronzebeard was, and knew that what Bronzebeard said made sense, so he believed what Bronzebeard said.

But forging a divine weapon is too scary. Divine weapons are weapons that only the most advanced blacksmith gods (Fenghou Immortal) are qualified to use.

(End of this chapter)