While the three of them were chatting, two streams of light, one golden and one white, flew out from the building with chimneys in the distance, and came to the three of them in an instant.
"Owner!"
"Sister!"
Qingmei stared blankly at Lan Ying in front of her. She was wearing a gray cloth robe, with a delicate windmill gourd stuck in her bun, spinning non-stop.
Strangely:
"Why are you here?
Besides, why are you dressed like this?"
Lan Ying pouted and said:
"Hmph, I don't want to be an eyesore by doing bad things with that bad guy as soon as I come back."
Qingmei's face flashed red for the first time, and she glared at Zhang Ke fiercely.
Before she could speak, Lan Ying said happily:
"I came here with Wanxiang. It's very interesting inside."
Qingmei couldn't help turning her head to look over, but saw that Wanxiang's eyes were blurred, as if he was still confused.
On the shoulders of her petite body was an octagonal hammer not much smaller than hers, swaying as if she might fall asleep at any time.
'Does this look interesting?'
Zhang Keqian smiled. Yesterday, he was worried that Lan Ying would interfere with the good things, so he tempted her to enter the secret realm to play with Wanxiang.
Just looking at the current state of everything, he didn't understand what was happening.
Lan Ying shouted excitedly:
"Senior sister, you don't know that Wanxiang is so powerful, no matter how hard the stone is, she can smash it!"
‘???’
If it were an anime, a series of light bulb colons would appear above the three of them.
Wanxiang, who was in a daze, suddenly perked up when he heard Lan Ying mention his name. All that was left on his cute little face was a pair of big twinkling eyes.
He raised his head slightly, with a proud expression as if he was ready to compliment me.
Zhang Ke said with a smile:
"Wanxiang is the most powerful, but what have you done?"
Wanxiang was originally a red-armored Taoist soldier summoned by Zhang Ke. Later, by chance, he gained sanity and was recognized by the 'Twelve Yuan Chen Dharma Pillars', and then he was promoted to the realm of Yuanshen.
But her mind has remained in that of a girl.
Lan Ying had another accident. When she was wandering around, she accidentally bought the innate spiritual treasure [Big Windmill].
This treasure fits her perfectly, and it spontaneously blends with her natal flying sword.
But similarly, some changes have also occurred in the mind.
To this end, Qingmei specifically searched from historical documents and found that many similar situations had occurred in past history.
It seems that innate spiritual treasures also have a limited lifespan, and can even take on the states of infants, teenagers, adults and old age just like living bodies.
Therefore, it is suspected that Lan Ying and Wan Xiang became what they are now due to the spirituality of the innate spiritual treasure.
Upon hearing Zhang Ke's inquiry, Wanxiang wiped his nose with his hand that was not holding a sledgehammer.
He raised his head proudly, shook his shoulders, and turned into a ray of golden-red light that flew towards the large chimneys in the distance.
Lan Ying dodged and flew up at the same time, shouting:
"Sister, come with me!"
Zhang Ke and the other three looked at each other in disbelief and dodged and flew up. There was no need for Zhang Ke to move at such a close distance.
"Is this the place you use to refine the floating warship?"
Arriving under several large buildings with black smoke rising from them, Ding Xiaoxiao asked casually, and then frowned slightly as he looked at the black smoke that shot straight into the sky.
"Will this black smoke affect the secret realm?"
Zhang Ke smiled bitterly and said:
"It will have some impact.
This is the waste gas emitted when extracting materials. I asked the Great Weapons Sect, but they didn’t have any good solutions."
The buildings used by Zhang Ke to refine the floating warship are actually not simple.
He built it based on the requirements for refining a floating warship and some concepts in his dreams.
The most important of them are the six large chimneys, which are the blast furnaces for refining materials.
Materials science is always the key to limiting the use of objects to their limits.
As for the method of refining floating warships, Zhang Ke didn't care.
If the method of integrating runes into warships can be completely analyzed to the extent that low-level practitioners and even ordinary people can refine them, then the weapon refining technique in the cultivation world will usher in an era of industrial standardization.
At that time, with the help of industrial assembly lines, as long as there are enough materials, floating warships can be refined on a large scale.
The floating warships on the field outside are actually just samples. Zhang Ke wants to find the most suitable warships for future wars.
But this point has not yet been broken through, because the legal patterns such as rune patterns, magic patterns, and array patterns cannot yet be industrialized, and the array patterns on each floating warship still need to be refined individually.
After several people entered the hall, the first thing they saw was that under the operation of hundreds of people, golden-red molten steel continuously flowed out of the slot under the blast furnace.
Hundreds of people have a clear division of labor and introduce the molten steel into steel-bearing drums in an orderly manner and then transport them to different buildings for continued refining.
The advantage of Taoist manifestation is that things that require machines to do in the dream world can be done here with human power.
There are many other groups performing this kind of work in these buildings.
These people turned a blind eye to the arrival of Zhang Ke and others.
With the cultivation of a few people, they can completely block their perception and put themselves in a state of blending with the surrounding environment at any time.
Maybe you can't hide it from high-level practitioners, but it's enough to deal with these people in front of you.
Neither Qingmei nor Ding Xiaoxiao showed any doubts or curiosity about the people appearing in front of them.
A long time ago, they had seen countless secret land natives here.
This is also the main reason why Ding Xiaoxiao is envious of Zhang Ke's secret realm.
Generally speaking, the secret realm of the cave created by the True Monarch Yuanshen who has just achieved the 'Dongtian Realm' is desolate and lifeless, and even the laws of the great avenue are chaotic.
I remember when Zhang Ke and True Lord Furong fought in True Lord Tianya's secret realm, that secret realm was not only small in area but also had no sign of life. It was just a desert.
In a secret realm like Zhang Ke's where yin and yang move, the five elements are complete, and the laws are complete, as long as the cultivation level can keep up, it actually has the conditions to advance to the Dao Lord realm.
Especially since there are actually a large number of humans in this secret realm.
This is a human being born naturally under the rules of the secret realm of heaven, and is part of the secret realm of cave heaven.
After the practitioners of the 'Dongtian Realm' first appeared, there were practitioners who moved a large number of creatures from the Blue Realm into the secret realm, including humans.
However, it is difficult for ordinary creatures to adapt to the rules of the secret realm, and they die in large numbers in a short period of time.
Even if there are no dead creatures, it is difficult to give birth to offspring, and only one ten thousandth of the creatures can gradually integrate into the secret realm.
During that dark age, countless creatures and even races were exterminated, causing great damage to the natural ecosystem.
To put it bluntly, this kind of behavior is poaching the corners of the blue world, and will be rejected by the will of heaven and earth.
Later, no one did this anymore. They could only slowly cultivate and expand the secret realm bit by bit. You can imagine how long it took to accumulate.
The reason why True Lords of the 'Dongtian Realm' Yuanshen rarely advance to the rank of Taoist Lord is that they are unable to perfect their own secret realm of Dongtian, which accounts for 60% of the reason.
Looking at the molten steel being continuously produced at this moment, Qingmei and Ding Xiaoxiao finally understood where Zhang Ke's confidence lay.
The molten steel produced in the blast furnace has another name in the spiritual world.
Black iron!
A material that is in extremely high demand.
Of course, the molten steel in front of you still cannot meet the requirements of Xuan Tie, and it needs to go through various other processes to be qualified.
But even in the world of cultivation, it is not easy to refine a piece of black iron to the standard.
An ordinary Xiantian realm weapon refiner apprentice can temper no more than ten kilograms of black iron in one day.
But the molten steel in front of me can produce tens of thousands of molten steel at a time.
"Sister, come here quickly!"
Just as Qingmei and Ding Xiaoxiao were checking how the blast furnace was operating, Lan Ying's cry came from a distance.
The dissatisfaction in his words was palpable.
The three of them smiled and ducked into a quiet room.
In a quiet room that is more than ten feet in diameter, a black steel table that is three feet long and seven feet wide is lined up in the middle of the quiet room.
Above the head is a bright rune-patterned lamp, and shelves are neatly placed in the corners on three sides. There are many refined steel parts placed on the shelves.
Along the other wall are eight rows of cabinet shelves, with steel blocks one foot square stacked neatly.
Seeing the three people coming in, Lan Ying stretched out her hand and a steel block flew up and landed on Taian.
Wanxiang on the side could only stand in front of the case in the air because he was too short.
I saw Wanxiang pointing towards the steel block, and a little golden red flame flew out of his fingertips and landed on the steel block, dyeing it red.
"whee!"
Lan Ying laughed playfully, reached out and took off the windmill gourd from her bun, brought it to her mouth and blew it gently.
"Huh~~!"
"Crash--!"
The windmill pages rotated rapidly, and a Xun wind condensed into gray and white blew directly onto the golden-red steel block.
The steel block quickly turned into a golden red color inside and out under the burning of Nanmingli fire and the blowing of Xunda wind.
Immediately afterwards, Wanxiang turned the huge octagonal hammer in his hand, and in an instant, golden-red flames enveloped the hammer head.
Then he hit the steel block on the steel table with a backhand hammer.
"Hey——!"
There was a sound of gold and iron clashing, and the one-foot-square steel block flew out thousands of sparks under the hammer, turning into a ball of golden-red iron that was only six inches in size.
"Huh!"
Zhang Ke immediately noticed something strange about it.
With a move of his left hand, the iron piece flew directly into his hand, and the terrible high temperature did not cause any harm to him.
"call!"
Zhang Ke blew on the golden-red iron block, and the flame disappeared instantly, and the color of the iron block also turned into a blue color in an instant.
Qingmei turned his head and took a look, and saw that there were layers of lines on the small iron block, as if it were naturally formed, and the entire iron block had a very soft luster.
"Thousand-forged black iron!"
Ding Xiaoxiao on the side murmured to himself.
Zhang Ke turned over the Thousand Forged Black Iron in his hand and looked at it for a while, then squeezed it hard with his left hand.
The tile-blue iron block was kneaded into long strips like clay, but it did not break as expected.
Seeing this scene, Qingmei couldn't help but feel shocked in her heart.
How strong is Zhang Ke's physical strength? He can even crush a thousand-forged black iron.
In the world of cultivation, there are three levels of black iron, divided into ten levels, one hundred levels, and one thousand levels.
Ten-forged black iron is generally only used in the magic weapons used by Xiantian realm practitioners. Hundred-forged and thousand-forged black iron correspond to magic weapons and spiritual treasures respectively.
The fine forging of black iron is difficult and complicated, and it cannot be upgraded to a certain grade just by forging it.
For each level of forging, it is necessary to constantly observe the internal structure of the black iron and adjust the focus at all times to prevent the black iron from becoming a scrap.
When Zhang Ke was in the golden elixir realm, he used his natal talisman refining ability to refine waste products like this.
According to Zhang Ke's understanding, black iron has its own separate molecular structure. Once this structure is destroyed, black iron will become useless.
It is already difficult to refine a hundred-forged steel. As for the black iron produced by a thousand-forged steel, only a few sects that are good at refining weapons in the Azure Realm can provide it stably.
Taking the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' as an example, the weapon refiners in the sect cannot forge more than 500 kilograms of thousand-forged black iron in a year.
One can imagine how surprised Zhang Ke was when he saw Wan Xiang hit a piece of thousand-forged black iron with a hammer.
Turning around, I saw Wan Xiang holding his head high and arms akimbo, clearly waiting for praise from everyone.
"Amazing!"
"marvelous!"
"Everything is so amazing!"
Zhang Ke praised loudly and raised his thumb.
Wanxiang's big watery eyes narrowed into slits when he smiled, and the corners of his mouth were raised and he kept twisting his body.
If a tail were added to the back of her butt, the phantom would definitely be shaking out at this moment.
Zhang Ke quickly walked to the steel case and dropped the Thousand Forged Black Iron in his hand on the case.
"Wanxiang, how did you do it?"
Wanxiang scratched his head and said:
"Just smash it. It's very interesting and you can create various patterns!"
Several people were speechless. There are always some things that cannot be explained rationally.
Zhang Ke speculated that it might be because the Nanming Lihuo controlled by Vientiane played a role in it.
After all, it is one of the 'Nine Divine Fires' in the world.
Maybe it also has the effect of Lan Ying's innate spiritual treasure.
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Turning to look at the smiling Lan Ying, Zhang Ke suddenly had a thought flash in his mind.
The index finger of his right hand was pointed in the void, and a white-golden light burst out from the fingertip, instantly forming a structure of a [Small Vajra Pan Talisman Array] in the air.
"Wanxiang, can you integrate this formation into Thousand Forged Black Iron?"
Wanxiang came close to the talisman array manifested in the air and looked up and down a few times.
Turning to Lan Ying and saying:
"Sister Lan Ying, blow the wind!"
As he spoke, a little golden-red flame flew out from his hair and landed on the thousand-forged black iron.
Lan Ying responded with a crisp response, then brought the windmill gourd to her mouth again and blew on it.
"call!"
The gray-white Xun wind blew over the thousand-forged black iron again, and the wind helped the fire, and the light of the golden and red flames suddenly became brighter.
"Sister Lan Ying, turn up the wind."
Wan Xiang shouted at Lan Ying.
"OK."
Lan Ying slightly turned the windmill gourd in her hand, and the Xun wind spiritually rotated around the Thousand Forged Black Iron.
Wan Xiang raised the sledgehammer in his hand and suddenly brought it down.
"Hey——!"
The lingering sound echoed in the quiet room. When the sound wave hit the wall of the quiet room, it was instantly expelled by the sound dispersing array.
Then Wan Xiang reached out and picked up the Thousand Forged Black Iron on the steel case and handed it to Zhang Ke's hands.
"Give!"
Zhang Ke looked at the Thousand Forged Black Iron in his hand dumbfounded and said suspiciously:
"Just this moment?"
When he looked down, he saw countless regular patterns on the blue surface of the Thousand Forged Black Iron Tiles.
Wanxiang actually integrated the [Little Vajra Pan Talisman Array] into this Thousand Forged Black Iron with just one strike.
'It's incredible!'
Zhang Ke thought to himself that even he would never be able to do this.
He looked at Wanxiang's hammer suspiciously, stretched out his hand and said:
"Show me the hammer!"
'brush!'
Wan Xiang suddenly took the sledgehammer off his shoulder and hid it behind his back, his little head shaking like a rattle.
"This is just an ordinary hammer, nothing fancy."
But her small body is not as big as the standing hammer, and I don't know how she thought the hammer could be hidden.
There is no three hundred taels of silver here!
Zhang Ke and others looked at everything speechlessly.
After a while, Wan Xiang looked at Zhang Ke pitifully and said:
"Master, you won't steal my hammer, will you?"
Veins popped up on Zhang Ke's forehead, and Ding Xiaoxiao beside him couldn't help covering his mouth and laughing.
"Don't worry, I won't rob you. I'm just taking a look."
Wan Xiang reluctantly handed the sledgehammer to Zhang Ke's hand.
It is a long pole with a straight handle and an octagonal hammer head, six feet long and about the same thickness as a chicken. Countless prohibitions are engraved on the purple-gold hammer head.
Zhang Ke used the 'spiritual probe' to blend into it and explore it carefully, and found that nine different laws were aggregated into a prohibition.
This hammer is actually an acquired first-grade spiritual treasure.
Turn the handle of the hammer and you will see two cloud seal patterns at the bottom.
【Vientiane】
"Everything..."
Zhang Ke carefully tasted the meaning of these two words, thought for a moment and returned the [Wanxiang] hammer to Wanxiang.
Looking at Zhang Keluo's thoughtful expression, Ding Xiaoxiao couldn't help but ask:
"What did you think of?"
Zhang Ke calmed down, looked at Qingmei and Ding Xiaoxiao, and said with some excitement:
"Perhaps I have found a method that can change the way of refining weapons in the spiritual world."
Qingmei was shocked, the meaning of these words was a bit shocking.
"What method?"
Zhang Ke perfected the inspiration that flashed through his mind.
"Wanxiang's [Wanxiang] hammer inspired me."
As he said this, he couldn't help but chuckle twice. This hammer seemed to belong to Wanxiang, even the name was the same as hers.
"This hammer has the ability to refine and enchant, so it is a treasure for the weapon refiner.
But it is just an acquired spiritual treasure, which means it can be refined artificially."
Ding Xiaoxiao said doubtfully:
"This hammer is indeed a treasure, but at best it is just a spiritual treasure that can be refined and enchanted with magic.
Even if there are ten more hammers like this, it will only speed up the refining process.
What’s more, without Wanxiang’s ‘Nanming Lihuo’ and Lanying’s [Big Windmill], it would never have been possible to take shape.
How can this be called a change in the way of refining weapons?"
Ding Xiaoxiao's knowledge, which has not been baptized by industrialization, is still limited to the inherent thinking mode.
Zhang Ke didn't feel comfortable explaining it in words, so he simply raised his hand and punched out a puff of emery.
Following his thoughts, the emery soon combined into a strange instrument with six hammer heads.
The shape looks a bit like a rice-pounding instrument in the secular world, but it has six hammer heads.
Then Zhang Ke separated some emery and placed it under the strange artifact.
Qingmei could clearly see that this was imitating Xuan Tie.
I saw Zhang Ke's fingers moving slightly, and the six hammer heads of the strange tool made of emery in the air fell downwards, and immediately impacted on the simulated black iron.
Since this is all just simulation, there isn't much movement.
Countless patterns instantly appeared on the simulated black iron, and the simplest 'Liuhe Formation' suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Qingmei and Ding Xiaoxiao suddenly understood Zhang Ke's thoughts.
"Hey, you mean to refine multiple [Wanxiang Hammers] and use the power contained in them to burn formations?"
Zhang Ke smiled ‘haha’.
"No, my idea is to refine as many [Vientiane Hammers] of different sizes and shapes as possible to form different hammer groups, which can be used to quickly and massively refine magic weapons at once.
I call this approach industrial streamlining!”
"Ss—!"
Qingmei and Ding Xiaoxiao were stunned.
As long as Zhang Ke's ideas are extended, you can know how terrible his approach is.
After thinking about what might happen, Ding Xiaoxiao hesitated and said:
"In this case, wouldn't the weapon refiner be... useless anymore?"
Zhang Ke had already connected the thoughts in his heart and said with a slightly comfortable smile:
"If this is not the case, how can you dare to say that you can change the way of refining weapons?
If this technique spreads and sects all over the world work together, it may be able to provide a chance of victory in the future catastrophe."
Qingmei thought for a while and said:
"It's not that simple. Even if you refine the [Vientiane Hammer], not everyone can control it, right?"
Zhang Ke nodded and said:
"This is natural. It's just an idea now. It's not easy to complete this plan.
There are still many key points involved, which require years of exploration and deduction.”