On the day of the bronze slting, Chi Shao also ca along, together with Gou Teng, Shi Qiu, Nan Xing, and two warriors responsible for assisting, to witness the birth of the Vine Tribe’s Bronze Artifacts.
"Clatter clatter..."
Jiang Xuan poured half a bag of charcoal broken into pieces into the slting furnace, then laid a layer of crushed malachite and azurite.
In this way, a layer of Copper Ore, a layer of charcoal, slowly stacked until the entire slting furnace was filled.
Subsequently, he followed suit, filling another slting furnace with charcoal and Tin Ore.
After completing all this, Jiang Xuan rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "Alright, light it up!"
Jiang Xuan placed so dry wood at the air intake of the slting furnace and lit it with a torch.
Once the dry wood caught fire, it easily ignited the charcoal at the bottom of the slting furnace, burning increasingly vigorously.
The two warriors each took a fan made of palm leaves, responsible for fanning the air intake.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
The continuous wind quickly ignited all the charcoal in the entire slting furnace, with flickering flas appearing above the furnace.
Nan Xing curiously looked at the furnace amidst rolling heat waves and asked Jiang Xuan, "Leader, can these broken stones really be lted into... tal?"
The others also looked at Jiang Xuan, clearly finding this notion too incredible.
In their limited knowledge, they had never heard that shattered stones could stick together to make large tools.
This contradicted their common sense.
For instance, when polishing Stone Tools, a slight mishap would break the fine stone, resulting in only a defective piece.
Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "Won’t you know after it’s done burning?"
The crowd had no choice but to wait patiently, checking the slting furnace from ti to ti, only seeing the white light of the flas.
As ti dragged on, Chi Shao, Gou Teng, and others went about their tasks.
Ti passed rapidly.
With the two warriors diligently fanning, the charcoal in both slting furnaces burned less and less, and the ores completely lted.
By noon, the charcoal had turned into a pile of white ash, and the ores in the furnace condensed into a large red-hot mass, still emitting high heat.
By evening, Chi Shao and others received a notice to return to the wooden hut.
Jiang Xuan widened the fire outlet at the bottom of the two slting furnaces, then scooped out a large lump of copper and a large lump of tin.
"Leader, is this the... tal?"
Nan Xing was utterly shocked, unable to associate the two large, irregular, dirty lumps on the ground with the tal Jiang Xuan said could be used to create sharp weapons and tools.
Gou Teng, Shi Qiu, and the two warriors who had been fanning all day also didn’t think the stuff seed valuable.
Only Chi Shao remained calm, knowing Jiang Xuan would provide a reasonable explanation.
Jiang Xuan poked at the copper-like slag and said, "These two lumps are indeed tals, but they’re currently stuck with carbon ash and dirt, making them look ugly."
"Once I clean them up and re-slt them to remove the excess impurities, you’ll see solid, beautiful tal."
Jiang Xuan instructed the two warriors to fetch several jars of water with large Pottery Jars, then proceeded to chip off so of the ash and dirt on the surface of the copper and tin, washing them clean with water.
Afterward, he took out a Stone Axe made of superior stone.
With tin being relatively soft, the Stone Axe made of superior stone easily chopped it into pieces.
Jiang Xuan chopped the tin lump into seven or eight pieces and placed them into a large two-handled Pottery Jar.
Then, he took the Pottery Jar with the tin pieces to another hut.
This hut also had a slting furnace, but with a wider diater, capable of easily holding the two-handled Pottery Jar.
Jiang Xuan once again poured a large amount of charcoal into the slting furnace, placed the two-handled Pottery Jar on the charcoal, and lit it up.
The two warriors crouched beside the slting furnace’s air inlet, fanning the air forcefully with their fans.
Chi Shao and others watched Jiang Xuan’s actions intently, eager to see if these previously ugly "tals" could surprise them.
Soon, all the charcoal in the slting furnace was burning, and the temperature rose sharply, even the bottom of the Pottery Jar began to glow red.
The tin inside the Pottery Jar started to slowly lt into tin water.
Once all the tin in the Pottery Jar had lted, Jiang Xuan took out a clay mold with many rectangular grooves.
Then, he hooked the two handles of the Pottery Jar with two hooked wooden sticks, quickly lifted it up, placed it on the ground, and tilted the jar to let the tin water flow into the grooves of the clay mold.
After filling three rectangular grooves, only a small amount of tin water and so impurities remained in the Pottery Jar.
"Just be patient for a while, and let it cool down."
After waiting half a day, everyone was hungry, so food was brought in by the warriors, and they ate to the side first.
Once they were full, the tin in the clay mold had solidified from tin water into tin blocks.
Jiang Xuan turned the clay mold over and spilled the rectangular tin blocks onto the ground.
Jiang Xuan put down the clay mold, picked up one of the still warm tin blocks, and knocked it against his hand.
"Ding ding ding..."
The tin collided, making a crisp tallic sound.
"Co, take a look everyone, this is one type of tal, tin."
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