This is the academy crafting room. Two hundred furnaces, Two hundred hummers and a study room. Today, I will teach you what crafting is.
"There are two ways to craft materials to make weapons, Casting and forging. Casting is melting the materials and putting them on mold and forming artifacts. It can be mixed with other materials and makes artifacts stronger, harder. By controlling the fire, it can move impurities away from the material." "artifacts are at a different level. One must not only forge or cast and also have knowledge about maths, pulleys and gears.
Forging uses fire to soften the material and shape it. After that use water to harden it. Repeatedly making the process and form artifacts.
The casting technique is handed over generation after generation and no one knows who found the way of casting. Forging appeared 2500 years ago.
Before Tang dynasty rule, There were many tribes that were fighting each other. Every tribe has his own power and no one can take over another. At the Tang tribe, a man called Yan Dan appeared. He used extreme fire to soften the iron and make a sword. His sword can cut a five thousand jin stone in one swing. With his techniques, the Tang tribe became unstoppable. They attacked one tribe after another.
"The casting sword is hard. They can easily break. Forging is different. It is not easily broken. A tribe called Chi You, cast a unique sword with unique metal and fought back. The Tang tribe was lost. Later the Tang tribe became bigger and swallowed the Chi You tribe. Founded the Tang empire."
"Yan Dan founded the Gale Hummer sect. But the Chi You tribe also founded a clan called five metal sect. They are rivals to this day. They are Casting academy and Forging academy."
"And there is mechanical crafting. All these three techniques can make artifacts."
"Teacher Wei Zhaung, I heard that to make an artifact, you need at least ten year. Is that right?"
"Right, You not only need ten year but also knowledge."
"A great sword relied on furnace fire. Material, water quality, steel, temper techniques. Even weather can be connected. Beside the sharp blade of the sword. It is through the sounds it makes during impact and shininess of the blade determine whether the forging process was done in the highest quality."
You need to crave the scripture on the sword during the process.
"Teacher: How about casting, it only needs to melt the material. No need for scripture."
"Yes, but to become an artifact. It is far from that. You have to control a thousand materials to form an artifact. Forget about melting, collecting needs at least 7 years. Once Chi You clan leader cast a sword with a hundred thousand materials. It is ranked six in the sword manual."
"Rank 6th, sword Wolf fang?" Everyone was surprised.
Teacher Wei, Who made the rank one sword, Ask if Heaven sword?
"Ask the heaven sword was forged by our founder Kong Min. He forged it for Xia Ci, the founder of our Qin Dynasty. He used five elements, Gold, silver, bronze, iron and tin and forge in the volcano fire. He took twenty years to complete it."
"It killed the Tang emperor with a strike from a mile away." "After that battle, Ask the Heaven sword disappeared from this world."
Teacher Wei walked to the Furnace and made more heat to the iron. The iron is changing color into yellow red. He grabbed the iron ore with a clipper and put on the anvil.
"Now I teach you air splitting hummer technique. This technique is very important in forging the most basic and effective technique. First collect your Qi into the lower dantian and transfer them into the muscle of two legs."
"Lower your body and lift the hammer. When you hit the material, use your Qi in all three muscles at the same time.
When you get the iron ore, you can feel the rebound force from the iron. Use that force and lift your hummer again. After that use your Qi and Hit again."
"Did you all see how I hit?" "Now all of you take your hammer and hit like that. I will personally watch over you."
When Xiao Li got back to his cottage, he was super exhausted. He used all of his Qi in hammering. The extreme heat from the furnace makes him more tired. At the Bai family work house, he didn't need to work like that, he just needed to check the components that he required. Now he makes it by himself. He had no energy left.
He starts mantra chanting to meditate and replenish his qi. He got it from an old book that was written in a very ancient language and only two pages long. He didn't know the origin of the book. He looked at ancient records but there is nothing about that book.
When he recites the book content, he feels peace and his Qi circulates faster. From that time every time he cultivates his Qi, he recites the mantra.