Just like a blacksmith making iron, this kind of weapon refining technique is very time-consuming.
It took him a whole week just to purify the ores and remove impurities.
After three cartloads of ore were smelted and purified in the furnace, only two palm-sized pieces of metal were produced.
The black metal block with a little starlight is called starlight iron, which is the most basic and most commonly used cultivation material in this plane.
Well, it is almost equivalent to iron in modern industrial society.
Although this thing is not valuable in the world of cultivation, and the output is huge, it is obvious that without starlight iron, those magic weapons cannot be manufactured.
The other fiery red piece is Flowing Flame Gold.
If Starlight Iron is the main ingredient necessary for weapon refining, then Flowing Flame Gold is one of the auxiliary ingredients.
If you want to create a magic weapon with fire attributes, you need to add this kind of flowing flame gold.
Of course, only these two types of ores are produced within a hundred miles of Lengmu City.
If you want other ores, you have to go to other cities to collect them.
This is why everyone wants to join the sect.
Those casual cultivators spend most of the year on the road.
No way, if this were not the case, they would simply not be able to gather the materials they needed for alchemy and weapon refining.
There is no sect above them that provides them with shortcuts to exchange various elixirs and magic weapons.
Everything needs to be prepared by themselves.
Otherwise, if they want to obtain a magical weapon or a bottle of elixir, they can only rely on robbing houses.
However, it is not a good idea to rob homes in the Nancui area where various sects are entrenched. Once you are wanted, you will have no choice but to hide in the mountains and forests, and will never have the opportunity to enter the city to trade.
For those casual cultivators, if they don't have enough benefits, they won't dare.
But for Fang Xiaoyue, the content of starlight iron and flowing flame gold in this ore was so low that it completely exceeded his imagination.
This is not surprising. Yang Feihe has never refined ore himself. The materials he uses when refining weapons are starlight iron that has been refined by the sect. He has no idea how low the starlight iron content is in the ores outside.
Moreover, ore with high content has long been collected by various sects, so the ore that Fang Xiaoyue's grocery store can receive must have lower content.
As a result, Fang Xiaoyue's previous plan to sell poorly cooked spicy chicken in grocery stores was completely ruined.
The raw materials are so expensive, even if you make something and sell it in a grocery store, wouldn't you be causing trouble for yourself?
Of course, before refining the weapon, he first evaluated these two materials.
With his current technical level, there would be no problem in returning to his original world as a senior mechanical engineer.
After a little testing, he came to a conclusion.
Starlight iron is very hard and tough. If taken to the original world and used to make fighter jet engines, the performance of fighter jets can be improved several times!
In fact, the level of research and development of fighter jets is determined by the level of materials science.
The better the materials, the easier it is to build a fighter jet.
Use materials like starlight iron to build an engine, and even if it is tied to bricks, it can make it fly into the sky.
It's that simple.
The flowing gold itself contains a large amount of heat, and can continuously absorb the surrounding heat. When the internal force or true energy is stimulated, it can release the absorbed heat.
After briefly understanding the properties of the material, Fang Xiaoyue began to throw the purchased gray burning stones into the stove and light them.
To put it bluntly, this gray burning stone is the cultivation version of coal. Whether it is an advanced weapon refining or a blacksmith-style weapon refining, gray burning stone is needed as fuel.
Ash-burning stones can release an astonishing amount of heat in a short period of time after burning, and the more ash-burning stones are burned together, the higher the temperature they maintain.
Utilizing the combustion characteristics of ash-burning stone, any material can be melted, which is why the refiner chooses this kind of ash-burning stone as fuel.
The entire process of refining does not need to be described in detail.
After all the gray-burning stones in the furnace were burning, Fang Xiaoyue put the starlight iron and the flowing flame gold in together.
The weapon refining knowledge in Yang Feihe's memory is not very advanced, and Fang Xiaoyue, a novice, would not be able to refine any high-end magic weapon.
He just wanted to refine a knife that fit his hand.
It is precisely because of this that when smelting materials, the operational requirements are very low.
The two materials were put in the furnace together. After a while, they started to turn red and purple and became somewhat softened.
Fang Xiaoyue hurriedly took it out of the stove with pliers, pressed it on the anvil and beat it hard.
When it comes to this anvil and hammer, you should originally buy special refining tools.
After all, ordinary tools simply cannot process these materials.
But special refining tools, even if they are not cauldrons, are very expensive. They are made of starlight iron mixed with soul gold powder.
Generally speaking, the use of non-specialized refining tools will cause a great loss of materials, and it is easy to produce defective products.
Fang Xiaoyue had a broken mechanical converter in her hand.
The anvils and hammers transformed from this thing are more useful than the weapon refining tools Yang Feihe has seen before.
Bang bang bang...
A series of beating sounds continued to be heard from the yard.
A waiter ran to the back and went to the hut. When he saw Fang Xiaoyue swinging a sledgehammer in the yard, his jaw almost dropped in shock.
Although the man was a native of Lengmucheng and had seen warriors and cultivators, Fang Xiaoyue's six or seven-year-old body wielding a sledgehammer that was a little longer than his height looked very visually impactful.
Fortunately, this guy was smart and didn't dare to look any further. He went to the latrine and went to work in the grocery store in front of him.
Fang Xiaoyue didn't have time to pay attention to the guy. After a series of hard knocks with the sledgehammer, the Starlight Iron and Flowing Flame Gold were smashed tightly together.
But this isn't the end, it's just the beginning.
He needs to fuse these two materials together.
When the material is not soft enough, Fang Xiaoyue will throw it into the stove to heat and soften it.
It's not that he doesn't want to use the stove to melt and fuse the materials directly.
But after this thing melts directly, it will come into contact and fuse with the burning ash burning stone below. In that case, the material will be scrapped directly, and there will be no second end.
It took three days of knocking before the two materials were completely integrated.
Only then did Fang Xiaoyue knock it into a short knife.
This is also a helpless matter. There are only so many materials. Even if he wants to make a majestic Qinglong Yanyue Sword, the materials are not enough!
After that, according to the requirements in Yang Feihe's memory, some runes were engraved on the back of the sword.