Chapter 143 – 142: Black Crow Stone? Black Gold!
Zhang Haoxuan felt a bit helpless and strengthened the injection of his bloodline power. The flas spouting from his palm had already turned a gold-red color. The intense gold-red flas reached an extrely high temperature, and the temperant furnace itself began to gradually glow red. anwhile, the color of the Black Crow Stone inside was also starting to turn increasingly red.
“The temperant furnace can’t be heated any further, otherwise it will burn up,” Zhang Haoxuan cautioned.
“It’s enough. Please continue to heat it, teacher,” Tang San said as he picked up the tongs beside him and clamped the piece of Black Crow Stone that had undergone the greatest color change due to Zhang Haoxuan’s direct fla tempering.
This piece of Black Crow Stone had been scorched red, radiating intense heat the mont it was clamped.
Tang San placed it on the anvil, stabilized it with the tongs in his left hand, and his forging hamr in his right hand began to swing.
Mysterious Heaven thod had been cultivated to the sixth level. Under the operation of the Mysterious Heaven thod, the hamr felt as light as nothing, and with a “clang,” the first strike smashed heavily onto the Black Crow Stone.
Zhang Haoxuan clearly saw that the usually extrely hard Black Crow Stone was actually flattened. He imdiately showed an expression of surprise. Under his high-temperature tempering, the hardness of the Black Crow Stone had indeed decreased!
Tang San’s movents did not stop. The forging hamr in his hand followed each half-turn of his body, striking again and again. Even while controlling the tongs with his left hand, his right hand’s forging hamr was still able to leverage the power from the twist of his body, making each strike stronger than the last.
Although this was not the complete Disorder Splitting Wind Hamr technique, it was already very astonishing.
With each heavy strike, the Black Crow Stone continually deford, and as it changed shape, black powder scattered in all directions.
Zhang Haoxuan watched Tang San forge and noted with amazent that when Tang San held that forging hamr, his entire deanor seed to change; it was as if the hamr was a natural extension of his body, almost giving the impression of perfect harmony between man and hamr.
Tang San himself felt the sa. The hamr—back in his previous life, his second Martial Soul was a hamr! Known as the strongest existence in terms of power, it was always the final trump card and the most powerful lethal weapon when facing formidable enemies.
Unfortunately, in this life, he hadn’t brought any of that with him. But the feeling of wielding a hamr was still there.
“Clang, clang, clang!”
“Clang, clang, clang!”
The forging hamr struck down repeatedly, and that piece of Black Crow Stone was rapidly shrinking, yet it began to exhibit so bizarre changes.
The initially pitch-black stone started to emit a tallic luster as it shrank in volu. The sowhat dark gold color also grew richer with each of Tang San’s strikes. Every heavy blow seed to brighten its color, slowly acquiring the taste of tal.
“Is this…” Zhang Haoxuan’s pupils contracted—tal? The Black Crow Stone could actually be forged into tal like other tal ores? There had been attempts in the past, right, but none had succeeded. Was it because the tempering temperature was not high enough? Or was it that forging required a sufficiently powerful force?
While he was filled with doubts, all of a sudden, the Black Crow Stone under Tang San’s hamr erupted into a dazzling light, a ray that shot up nearly ten feet high. The light continued to flash for several seconds before it disappeared without a trace. The Black Crow Stone had also beco a piece of dark gold tal, with a volu of less than one-fifth of its initial size.
Tang San squatted down to closely examine the tal. The original hardness of the Black Crow Stone was still there and had beco even stronger. When the Black Crow Stone turned into the Black Gold before him, its toughness had increased by an unknown multiple.
Black Gold, in his previous life, was definitely a rare tal as scarce as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. Its greatest characteristic is its inertness, not reacting strongly to any attribute. The extrely tough Black Gold, under its own inertia, could nearly resist the invasion of most attributes. Whether used as a weapon or as armor, it was an excellent choice.
When Tang San first saw those pieces of Black Crow Stone, he wasn’t sure if they were Black Gold Ore. Not until his second look, leveraging the improved Spirit Rhinoceros Eye, did he make a more accurate judgnt, basically confirming that the Black Crow Stone was indeed Black Gold Ore.
Now that the forging was complete, not only had he confird the Black Gold Ore, but its purity was also quite high.
Although Black Gold was not a particularly precious rare tal, it was the most suitable for making forging hamrs, with an incredibly strong bearing capacity. Moreover, it was great for creating hidden weapons, capable of easily piercing through the various attribute defenses of enemies.
This was also why Tang San had nearly bought out all the Black Crow Stone. It could be used to make hidden weapons. At the mont, he was actually lacking effective ans of attack, but with hidden weapons, that would be a different story.
“What is this?” Zhang Haoxuan asked, looking at Tang San with a surprised face.
Tang San shrugged his shoulders and said, “I don’t know either. I just wanted to forge so tals and then try to create so hidden weapons recorded in the Mystic Sky Records. Teacher, this tal seems quite tough.”
Zhang Haoxuan raised his hand to draw the successfully forged Black Gold into his palm and silently felt it, squeezing it hard with his hand. Just as Tang San had said, the quality of this Black Gold was exceptionally high, very tough. At least, it was one of the hardest tals he had ever seen.
Is this also possible?
Is this turning waste into treasure?
“Teacher, let’s continue. Let’s strive to refine all of these Black Crow Stones this afternoon,” Tang San said.
Zhang Haoxuan could not help but ask, “What was that light emitted just now?”
Tang San looked innocent and said, “I don’t know either!”
He couldn’t possibly tell his teacher that it was called Thousand Refining, a reaction of rare tals when forging reached a certain level, could he? Thousand-refine spirit, Thousand Refining. Although his cultivation base was far from what it had been in his previous life, forging to this top-level effect was still very easy for him. Without Zhang Haoxuan present, he could have even further refined the tal. However, for now, there was no need; he would simply refine these Black Crow Stones. The biggest problem with Black Gold Ore was that it required extrely high temperatures for forging. Once it beca Black Gold, it no longer needed such high temperatures. The temperature of the forging furnace was enough for the necessary tempering. Thus, the only thing that really restrained Black Gold was actually fire, especially high-temperature fire attributes. Under high temperatures, Black Gold would soften. Apart from that, it was nearly fearless against any other attributes. As for not being resistant to high temperatures, Tang San would think of other ways, such as pairing it with another tal for alloy forging.
But for now, there was no need to think so extremly, as pure Black Gold was already an excellent material for creating hidden weapons.
Zhang Haoxuan continued to temper, and Tang San continued to forge. Zhang Haoxuan quickly noticed that at first Tang San seed sowhat unskillful, but gradually, he swung the forging hamr more and more proficiently. The hamr whirled through the air with a vigorous wind, and now and then, it would send out bursts of light. The rhythmic beating, as if carrying a special lody, echoed continuously within the blacksmith shop.
After years of observation, Tang San had long realized that the forging level of this world was actually quite average, which might also be related to the world’s overly abundant resources and the Monster Clan and Spirit Clan’s own strengths being too powerful. Of course, he couldn’t reveal forging techniques that were much higher than the level of this world, but he could still display so basic forging.
As Tang San molded each piece of Black Gold, he didn’t rush to shape them, but instead focused on refining all the Black Crow Stone into Black Gold first, which was the most important. This required Zhang Haoxuan’s bloodline fla, and once the Black Gold was achieved, it could be forged using just the blacksmith shop, which he could manage on his own.
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