Chapter 486: A Wonderful Apprentice

Without credits, it will be difficult to practice in Wanhun Mountain. +,

The Hall of Thousand Souls has a set of unified standards for recruiting disciples, and there will be some basic credits as the starting credits for the disciples.

The resources needed for students to learn and practice are spent from this credit. Once the credits are exhausted and cannot be supplemented with credits, it is likely to become a vicious circle and walk into a dead end.

Sun Hao's basic credits reached 320 points, which is more than double that of ordinary students. Sun Hao calculated that these credits are enough for him to study and practice in Qiling Temple for about a year. Had to think again.

There are more than 20,000 white-collar disciples, and there are only 300 in the Qiling Temple. Most of them are disciples who have failed in other soul halls and tried to learn a craft. , very few.

Forging apprentices, there is no credit reward.

Joining the Artifact Hall, Sun Hao became an apprentice of artisan refining, and began to formally and systematically practice artifact refining.

The first lesson, Wanhun Mountain, Master Luo, the master of the Artifact Spirit Hall, gave the lecture in person, which slowly kicked off Sun Hao's art refining career.

Apprentice refiners can only refine mortal swords or agricultural tools. First-level refiners can refine magical weapons, second-level refiners can refine spiritual weapons, and after third-level refiners, they can be called refining. Once you become a weapon master, you can refine magic weapons.

Master Luo is short, slightly chubby, with fair face, neatly combed hair, meticulous, and a smile on his face to give lectures to the students: "The punishment type is Fanzheng, Jin Ximei, skillful workmanship, fire and medicine, and Mo Xie. But if you don’t peel it off. If you don’t sharpen it, you can’t break the rope; if you peel it off, if you sharpen it, you’ll cut the bowl, cut down the ears of cattle and horses..."

At the beginning of the chapter, Master Luo described several major steps in the refining process.

According to Master Luo, smelting can be divided into seven major steps: "formulation, adjustment, smelting, casting, scraping, repairing, and sharpening".

According to the different refining utensils, each step has different requirements.

Following Master Luo's lecture, Sun Hao discovered that refining equipment was compared to alchemy. More distinctive personality, alchemy is more standardized, and refining equipment is more publicized.

Although Master Luo listed the seven major steps of refining equipment, these seven major steps are only very general steps, and they are only suitable for most utensils.

In fact, the refining of many utensils does not need to go through these seven steps, but there are also many utensils that must be refined according to the seven steps.

Compared with the more standardized steps of alchemy, refining equipment is undoubtedly more diverse.

Of course, not to say. Alchemy is easier than refining equipment, and the difficulty of alchemy lies in the recipe. It lies in finer control. In comparison, as far as Sun Hao has come into contact with so far, the precision requirements for refining weapons are much lower.

Artifact refining is very individual. Those who know how to make swords may not be able to make good knives, and those who know how to make knives want to make good hammers must also study hard.

Because he wanted to restore the Chenxiang Sword, and because the sword is one of the main utensils in the mainland, the first thing Sun Hao learned was the way of refining the sword.

Start with refining swords and practice your own way of refining weapons.

The "seven major steps" of refining that Master Luo said is precisely based on the refining steps summarized in sword refining.

After Master Luo finished his lecture, he drifted away. The white-collar disciples, according to their own needs, learned by themselves and practiced the art of refining weapons. Of course, if they wanted to refine tools, materials, etc., they had to exchange credits.

After listening to Master Luo's lecture, Sun Hao was not in a hurry to start, but calmed down and carefully read the records about sword refining in Qi Lingdian.

For more than a full month, most of this group of white-collar disciples have already started to refine weapons, and three or five disciples with better foundations have successfully advanced to the first-level refiner. After obtaining 100 credits, Sun Hao put down the experience of refining weapons , Step into the "Sword Room" and start your own refining.

The Sword Room, also known as the "Sword Furnace", is a stone hall. Extremely high and wide, from back to front, according to "heaven, earth and man", it is divided into three entrances.

The sword room is divided into inner and outer floors, the outer is surrounded by refractory kiln bricks, and the inner is like a residential house, with copper beams and stone pillars, and an "inner furnace" for fire forging. The sky furnace emits fire, the ground furnace gathers essence, and the human furnace smelts. It is said that when a fierce sword is born, there are often living people who die for the sword.

To learn how to make a sword, first learn how to make a sword.

Model making, that is, making models for casting. Jian Fan is mostly made of clay, then put into a kiln to be dried by fire, and then trimmed. The texture is like pottery, so it is called clay fan or pottery fan.

The pattern making is based on the shape design of the sword, and whether the sword is regular and coordinated, well-proportioned and beautiful depends on whether the pattern is fine.

When secular craftsmen refine their swords, the pattern making also lays the foundation for future decorations. For example, the patterns and famous inscriptions cast on the sword body must be engraved in advance on the inner wall of the sword pattern.

For monks to refine swords, there are two difficulties and key points in making models. One is the quality of models, that is, the quality of clay sculptures is very important.

In Wanhun Mountain, clay sculptures are the standard configuration, and there is no choice; second, the engraving of the pattern on the fan is also the top priority.

The texture of the model is related to scraping and repairing, and hanging Xiaohe repairing. In fact, it is to endow the sword with unique performance. The texture is actually equivalent to the rune, solidifying certain abilities such as "boost attack", "amplification speed", "Additional fire damage"... and other strange abilities on the sword.

If you can't make a pattern, the lines are too complicated and messy, no matter how strong your ability to scrape and refine is, you can't make a sword.

This step is not difficult for other monks. According to the gourd painting, all kinds of swords have various unique lines, and they can be familiarized after three to five days.

However, after Sun Hao started to practice the sword, he found that this step was not easy.

Sun Hao discovered that the lines in the mud fan, to be precise, should also be a kind of rune. Moreover, it is also a rune with the opposite of yin and yang.

Sun Hao, who was used to writing runes on the front, was really not used to this writing method with opposite yin and yang for a while.

The 300 white-collar disciples in the same period took three to five days to make a model, and it took ten days or so to make a relatively standard clay model.

However, Sun Hao was stuck for three months at this step.

This made the white-collar disciples of the same period exclaim in surprise.

At this time, among the 300 white-collar disciples, more than 100 disciples have successfully advanced to the first-level refiner.

Of course, it is easy to become a first-level refiner, but it will take a long, long time to become a second-level refiner.

This group of disciples were all selected from the Island of Thousand Souls by the Hall of Thousand Souls. They are all outstanding in cultivation and understanding, and many disciples have the foundation of refining weapons. Refiner.

For three months, Sun Hao practiced hard.

I don't know how many mud embryos have been smelted.

The instructors of the Artifact Hall shook their heads, and Wang Hui, the instructor of the sword room, even wanted to persuade Sun Hao to transfer to the hall. He felt that Sun Hao really didn't have the talent for refining weapons. Sun Hao's behavior was a waste of cultivation resources.

Mud Embryo, just spent more than 30 credits, is there any?

Such disciples should be transferred to other temples.

In two months, during the second month of Sun Hao's practice system, Wang Hui couldn't help it.

Holding the mud model that Sun Hao had smelted, he found Master Luo: "Master, look, look, this kid has smelted another clay embryo. Master, the handyman disciples below have all raised their opinions. Since there are more Sun Hao , The frequency of their mud mining is several times higher than before, this Sun Hao..."

Before he finished speaking, Master Luo made a casual move, and the refined clay model fell into his hands. With a sweep of his consciousness, Master Luo was slightly taken aback, and then said with a smile: "Xiao Wang, this Sun Hao is quite good. He is just practicing, as for the servant disciples, if they don’t do it, they will leave, my Wanhun Palace is still short of servants?"

Well, Wang Hui died down, he didn't understand, what's so good about Sun Hao's mud embryo?

If it weren't for Master Luo's confession that Sun Hao's matter needs him to nod in person to make a decision, Wang Hui would have swept Sun Hao out long ago.

It is a brand new experience to write runes with opposite yin and yang.

Not only must it be written well, but it must also be inscribed on the clay model.

Not only must it be inscribed well, but it must not be deformed after being baked in the kiln.

These elements are not easy to achieve.

Fan making is the foundation of sword refining. Sun Hao, who has always attached importance to his basic skills, just like this, stayed in the sword room and wasted with the mud embryos.

It takes three months.

Finally, Sun Hao fully understood the standard operation of this step.

Wang Hui no longer cared about Sun Hao, and Master Luo seldom paid attention to Sun Hao directly.

Sun Hao did not make a sound, and made the first sword model that he thought was relatively standard. On this sword model, Sun Hao engraved two runes, the effect is to increase attack power and speed. More practical sword gain.

In the eyes of other white-collar disciples shaking their heads, Sun Hao happily started the second step of his refining. <