Chapter 78 The First Work

  The Qian family was able to dominate one side and become one of the three pillar families of the Zhen Cai Imperial Dynasty, precisely because once the Elf King's bloodline awakened, it would definitely be possible to become a Demon-Fighting Dual Cultivator. When activating the Elf King's bloodline and entering the Elf King transformation combat state, combat strength would increase again.

  "Even if I can't dual cultivate with a demon... "Qian Jin grabbed his magic hat and said confidently: "I can also become a great warrior."

  The village in the endless world was still peaceful and quiet, Black saw Qianjin appear at the door, his turbid eyes had a bit more light: "There are three orders there, you finish these transactions first, exchange some money to buy some anti-fatigue medicine powder."

  Business? Curious, he walked over to the stove and picked up three pieces of cowhide, slightly stunned. This business was different from what he had imagined. He thought it would be making some kind of weapon, but instead it was a kitchen knife customized by Wang Dabao from the village head, a hoe customized by Lukedaxi from the west end of the village, and a sickle.

  "Their requirements are all very high, you go down and take a look at the book first." Blake pointed to the room: "The leftmost bookshelf at the entrance, the far right end of the lowest level."

  "The Essentials of Forging", blowing away the choking dust on top, it turns out to be a comprehensive book about forging.

  Whether it's a knife, a gun, or armor, or even a kitchen knife at home. They are all tools and have some commonalities. The weight of the hammer depends on different positions and has different requirements. This is calculated based on the thickness, length, width, heaviness, and material of the tool to determine the amount of force applied to each strike...

  "What's geometry?" Kei was slightly stunned, Black's description of forging sounded like a subject needed for building houses in the True Strategist Dynasty, which was summarized by Holfsky hundreds of years ago. Most people who mastered this subject were craftsmen, if not for accidentally reading some books in the Kei family library, he really couldn't understand what Black's book was talking about.

  "Forging Techniques" is simpler and more straightforward than Holzschuh's geometry, belonging to the type of work that is easy to understand. Even someone like Qian Jin who is not a craftsman can quickly understand the so-called laws in Black's works.

  Hmph...

  "Have you finished reading? If so, come out and let's do business. You'll have to read that book for two hours every time you come..."

  "Oh, I see." Qian Jin was somewhat reluctant to put the book back on the shelf. This "Forging Techniques" had completely overturned his previous understanding of blacksmithing. A weapon wasn't just a matter of forging it into shape, nor was it just about using high-quality wrought iron or refined iron, or compressing other metals at high density.

  A weapon forged requires consideration of many things, such as the wind resistance when chopping and slashing, the wind resistance when sweeping horizontally, the wind resistance when lifting, and the obstruction of different angles to block the opponent's slash, how to reduce the force received and exert greater power...

  Complicated! This is a super complicated subject! Far from what Franklin and others understood it to be!

  Qianjin picked up the simple kitchen knife diagram again, and suddenly found that each position of the knife on the diagram had different bright spots. The strength of those bright spots was different, representing different hammering forces.

  This is not a special ability of the blueprint, but rather Qianjin's intuition after reading "Forging Techniques", in fact, there are no light spots on the blueprint.

  In an instant, Gan Jing understood how to forge the vegetable knife. The large iron hammer in his hand, under the operation of the iron breathing method, heavily smashed towards that ordinary iron ore.

  Iron ore, refined iron, iron essence! Qian Jing directly smashed out the iron essence, according to his understanding of "Forging Techniques", he hammered it repeatedly, and the large iron hammer in his hand also changed continuously.

  Sometimes it's a 200-jin heavy hammer, and sometimes it's a small hammer of three to five jin. A kitchen knife requires different forces at different positions. It wasn't until then that Gan Jing truly understood that if he could use one hammer to forge an instrument, it would be a very difficult task.

  Clang! A spark flew out, the bright red kitchen knife plunged into the icy water bucket, making a hissing sound, and then a white mist rose up to envelop an area of about one square meter.

  The kitchen knife was pulled out of the water, shining with a cold icy light. Gan Jing squatted beside the bucket and placed the kitchen knife on an ordinary whetstone to start the final task: sharpening!

  The metallic and stone scraping sounds echoed in the room, one after another. The highest level of knife sharpening is to wash the edge, which is not a special function, but a sublimation of technique! Just like forging iron, some people can forge ten-grade fine iron, while others can forge iron essence, which is a leap in quality.

  The ear-piercing sound of sharpening knives stopped, and the kitchen knife on the whetstone reflected a cold light under the sunlight, as if it were sharp enough to cut through skin!

  "Is this my first work?"

  He gripped the kitchen knife tightly, swinging it back and forth towards the sky, feeling even more triumphant in his heart. Although it was just a kitchen knife, it seemed to be a pretty good piece of work too.

  "Player's hard work pays off, completes blacksmith task, gets kitchen knife, becomes a blacksmith."

  The voice of the system spirit came, and Dryn's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at Blake, who had picked up a gleaming knife from the ground. He weighed it for a moment before suddenly flinging his arm out! The knife flew through the air!

  With a subconscious swing of the kitchen knife in his hand, he knocked away the flying dagger. The two "weapons" collided with each other, producing a crisp and ear-piercing metallic collision sound, rubbing out a string of beautiful sparks. The battle knife was chopped into two halves by the kitchen knife!

  "Really?!" Qian Jin stared at the kitchen knife in his hand in disbelief.

  "Not bad." Blake took another drag on his cigarette: "Although the appearance is a bit ugly, it's still a decent fighting knife."

  Players practice diligently and learn the first hammer of the eighteen hammers of Shang Feng.

  "Eighteen Fists of Fury? Qian Jing hastily opened his attributes and found that the previously unnamed skill finally had a name."

  Blake swung the thousand-pound iron hammer in his hand and slammed it against a piece of iron ore, then tossed the heavy hammer aside and said irresponsibly, "Got it?"

  What the...? Qianjin couldn't help but laugh and cry, what kind of thing is this? In the past, we at least fought for a few hours, today it's just one round? Luckily I was serious about watching, and had the foundation of Shengfeng 18 Hammers' first hammer, otherwise this time would have been really embarrassing.

  "First finish your business, then play with the weapon you want, and practice this hammer."

  Blake dropped his words and for the first time didn't crouch back into the corner of the wall, but instead walked out of the yard with his hands behind his back.