Now, Qin Yi finally understood why no matter where he was, the number of weapon refiners was far less than the number of alchemists.
If you want to learn how to make weapons, there are so many things you need to learn.
Moreover, it takes a long time to successfully create an artifact.
It is not like alchemy, where you can refine a batch of elixirs in a short period of time.
Just like the last time Wu Yan helped him repair the Seven Kills Sword, although he only completed the first two steps, it took more than ten days.
Although it is said that repairing takes more time than casting, it is unmistakable that weapon refining pays attention to slow work and meticulous work.
The reason why there are so few alchemists here is because the entry barrier for alchemists is extremely high. Without strong fire control talent and memory control, it is absolutely impossible to become an alchemist.
Compared with alchemy masters, the entry threshold for weapon refiners is not high, and anyone can try to refine weapons.
However, if you want to become a weapon refiner, you must get the guidance of a famous teacher. It is very difficult for a person to become a master by himself, like Alchemy.
Because, if a weapon refiner wants to be successful, he needs rich experience in weapon refinement. Otherwise, mistakes are likely to be made in key places.
In addition to having a good teacher to guide you, you must also have great perseverance.
Because the process of refining weapons can be said to be very painful. Not only does it require concentration and strong spiritual power as support, but it also requires a super strong body to support oneself in tempering the artifacts you want to refine.
During this period, the distribution of material proportions, the control of flame temperature, the grasp of striking force, and the memory of the shape of the artifact to be refined are all matters that must be paid attention to!
If it is said that those who can become alchemists are talented people, then all weapon refiners are people who have gone through many hardships and have extremely high perseverance!
However, no matter where they are, the popularity of weapon refiners is far inferior to that of alchemists. Even the treatment they receive is somewhat skewed.
In fact, the reason for this phenomenon is not that there is a distinction between high and low professions. It is just because weapon refiners are so rare. So rare that people have almost forgotten that there is such a kind of existence.
In addition, as mentioned before, it is a fact that there are few weapon refiners, and truly powerful weapon refiners are even rarer.
In fact, a truly famous weapon refiner is even more respected by people than an alchemist.
It's a pity that there are too few such people!
In addition, the weapon refiners are isolated from the outside world when they are refining the weapons. Moreover, the retreat lasts for a long time! They simply don’t have time to go in front of people and show their presence!
This has resulted in a situation where only a few people are aware of the existence of truly famous weapon refiners. And almost all of the weapon refiners who have been traveling around and promoting themselves have little ability.
This aspect is very different from that of the alchemist.
Although there is a threshold for becoming an alchemist, there are quite a few people who can barely become alchemists.
But there are very few people who become weapon refiners, because even if there are powerful weapon refiners, they cannot recruit many disciples and teach them one by one!
Therefore, the alchemist can establish a sect and find people to inherit his mantle. And let them continue to accept disciples and alchemists.
As for the weapon refiners, because it is difficult to find more successors, they can only rely on various forces, or simply live alone.
Obviously, as a result, the weapon refiner rarely shows up in front of people, so fewer and fewer people know about it, and he is less and less valued.
Every warrior is inseparable from the weapons, armors and other things made by the weapon refiner.
But just like eating, everyone has to eat, but how many people can do it. After eating, ask who grew the rice?
It is no exaggeration to say that the weapon refiner is an extremely important profession, but it is also a profession that is easily ignored.
It is precisely because of this that even if the impetuous world knows the existence of weapon refiners, they will never think of learning weapon refiners!
But compared with them, Qin Yi is obviously different!
His purpose in learning weapon refining is different from others. Even if he becomes a qualified weapon refining master in the future, he will only serve himself and the people around him. If you want him to help others refine weapons, this
It's simply impossible!
At this time, Qin Yi carefully read the contents on the jade slip from the beginning.
As his understanding of weapon refining deepened, he felt more and more that there was a big difference between weapon refining and elixir refining.
Alchemy pays attention to the control of the temperature of the flame. Starting from the hot cauldron for alchemy, the control of the flame is already required.
But in refining weapons, although the control of flames is also required, it is not as strict as alchemy!
The first few steps are not too difficult, but the real difficulty is at the end.
Especially tempering!
A truly high-quality weapon will need to be tempered more often.
Tempering is an important step in increasing the hardness and lethality of weapons.
Ordinary weapons only need to be tempered once. But such weapons can only be used by ordinary mortals.
Once such a thing comes into the hands of warriors of Qin Yi's level, it has almost turned into a pile of powder before it is even used.
As for weapons that are truly used by warriors, they have to go through at least three or four temperings. Really advanced weapons have to go through more than six temperings. If they can withstand the test and continue, then it is considered a success!
As for Qin Yi, who wants to repair the Seven Kills Sword, what he has to do now is to complete the process of shaping, polishing and tempering.
He has no plans to start refining weapons by himself yet. After all, if he wants to start these things, he first needs to have a map.
The atlas is the guide you need when refining a weapon. It is just like the elixir recipe when refining an elixir. It is a very important thing.
Although Wu Yan also left some diagrams among the jade slips, they are still too complicated for the current Qin Yi.
Therefore, he decided to repair the Seven Kills Sword first. In this way, not only could he fulfill his wish, but he could also use it to practice and familiarize himself with the most important aspects of weapon refining.
Only in this way can he have the confidence to continue the next step of refining the weapon.
"However, there are too many things that need to be paid attention to when it comes to knowledge about tempering."
Qin Yi rubbed his forehead, with a wry smile on his face, shook his head and said: "It seems that I have indeed underestimated the art of weapon refining! In the past few days, I'd better get familiar with this knowledge first, and then start.