6 Making an Iron Ruler. (1/2)
Art of Pulverized Iron
Usage: Allow the usage of (7) strand of Inner Qi to process Iron Ingots. Pulverized iron will then receive a 5% increment in their quality. Capped at 30%.
Durability: 1/1
Art of Tempering
Usage 1: Allow the usage of (1) strand of Inner Qi to temper weapons. Each hammering will increase the weapon quality by 1%. Capped at 10%.
Usage 2: Increase user physical body defense by +1
Durability: 1/1
”Not bad, not bad. I will buy this two manual. Take this 1,000 gold coins away.” Zhang Wu Ji tosses the pouch with two strands of 500 gold coins to the attendant, and hold the two books like an idiot. How can other people understand what he was doing by standing idly with two art manual in his hand?
”Upgrade! Upgrade!” in fact, Zhang Wu Ji was busy upgrading the first book, Art of Pulverized Iron into its +5 stage before he proceeds to the Art of Tempering to +3 first. For the remaining two upgrades, he will either need to use the energy from the Golden Book Manual to replenish himself.
And out in the public, it will be difficult for him to ask random strangers to touch his book, thus he decided to do it later, and inspect the newly upgraded Art of Pulverized Iron first.
Art of Pulverized Iron +5
Usage: Allow the usage of (6) strand of Inner Qi to process Iron Ingots. Pulverized iron will then receive a 5% increment in their quality. Capped at 40%.
Durability: 2/2
Special: luck in finding medicinal herbs increased by 2%
”What? Why did a special ability like this appear on a book related to metal arts? My god, are you fooling with me now? So if I suddenly upgraded a sword to have the ability to hammer iron, then what use would it be?” Zhang Wu Ji wanted to faint when he saw the special ability the book obtained.
Luckily, the rain has stopped, thus he managed to found the open gap for him to quickly return to the Zhang's Manor. On his way, the crowd on the road begin to grow in numbers, added with the rain a while ago, the floor was still soaked with muddy water.
Feeling unhappy if his cloth is dirtied by the water splashed by human's steps, Zhang Wu Ji took the back alleyway to return to his family manor. But halfway pass the alleyway, he noticed a small yellowish stalk of grass growing in the wild.
”It won't hurt to touch it for a moment.” he bends his knee and went to touch the grass.
Kind Heart Grass
Usage: improve the quality of soil if planted across the field. Great as a fertilizer when withered, release spores when withered.
Durability: 10/10
”What? This small little plant actually have the durability of 10! Does this means its life source is extremely powerful?” Zhang Wu Ji considered a while but took the stalk of grass home to put them on the soil. Since he was trying to get newer seeds from the plants he tried to cultivate, the addition of Kind Heart Grass will increase the quality of his plants.
When he went home, the item he purchased from the Smith is here. As for now, he can only order Da Zui and Da Yang to transfer the item into the shed and had the servant empty she so he can use it as a temporary forge for himself.
After going straight to plant that Kind Heart Grass on the plot of land, Zhang Wu Ji went to the inspect the process of turning the shed into a temporary forge. When he reaches the location, he pushes open the door and noticed that the servant of his already arranged tools in a way it will be comfortable for him to use.
Two crates full of firestones were placed by the side of the furnace for their young master to use as he wished, but at the other side of a corner, an additional set of tools can be seen.
”These two guys are quite smart for their looks. If I managed to get something good from the exploration, I will give some to them first.” Zhang Wu Ji makes a promise in mind and went back to his room. As usual, he will ring the bell to have three servants come to him and touch his Golden Body Manual.
After two times of ringing the bells, he upgrades the remaining manual to +6, before he went to the temporary forge. Here, he repeated the previous process once again, and end his day with almost all item upgraded into their +5. But after a day of tiring works, he finally can sleep happily, because the preparation for his next day is already completed in a single day.
And in his upgrading spree, he managed to get three of them with a good ability after the final manual, while the others are just considerable.
Art of Tempering +5
Usage 1: Allow the usage of (1) strand of Inner Qi to temper weapons. Each hammering will increase the weapon quality by 1%. Capped at 15%.
Usage 2: Increase user physical body defense by +5
Durability: 1/1
Special: Increase the speed of extracting metal minerals from ores by 5%
Bronze Hammer +5
Usage 1: Increase the speed of removing impurities by 1.5% each hit
Usage 2: Increase the speed of molding metal by 1.5% each hit
Durability: 27/27
Special: Every 10 hits will generate 1 Super Hit equals of 5 hits. Super Hit can be stored. (0/2)
Stone Furnace +5
Usage 1: Increase the melting speed by 1.5%
Usage 2: Increase the heating speed by 1.5%
Durability: 25/25
Special: the Heating process will only take 15 seconds to get ready.
Bronze Anvil +5
Usage 1: Increase the speed of molding metal by 5%
Usage 2: Increase the quality of molded metal by 0.5%
Durability: 27/27
Special: Each weapon hammered on this anvil will have +1 damage on their status.
In the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji headed straight into his new forge to begin processing the materials. If he processed all the Iron Mineral Ore in the forge, he will roughly obtain a total of 1 ingot to 1 1/2 ingots for the Pure Iron, about half ingot for the Sentient Iron, and a quarter ingot of Crystal Iron.
In fact, their amount of percentage of ores determines the rough amount of the metal he could get from them. To begin with his work, Zhang Wu Ji first utilized the Stone Forge ability to increase its speed of melting point, before he begins to transfer the molten into a crucible.
This was the first step for him to obtain the initial form of the ingot before he begins to remove their impurities. For a simple ingot like this, It will take him at least five times to seven times of hammering before it can be counted as a pure piece of Pure Iron Ingot.
Of course, at the same time, he will need to make sure that the flame separates the Sentient Iron from the initial Pure Iron Ingots. To complete this process, Zhang Wu Ji needed to constantly touch the metal to inspect them, making sure that the piece of ingot only contains pure Goethite and no Magnetite and Silica within at all.
This might be difficult to achieve for a normal blacksmith, but for a cheater like him, it was like a quality scanner at work. Completely scan and determine the quality of a metal before they were sold.
With the bell in hand, Zhang Wu Ji utilized the right of being a young master of the house to its limit. Although there were only two more days before the appointed time to enter the Qing Spirit Woods, Zhang Wu Ji did not lose himself to wait for it but to work hard in a different profession.
Once, his father sneaks into the forge when he was sleeping in the Pill Making Room. And when he took the three pieces of ingot into the hand, he was completely shocked.
”How can this brat produce such a Pure Iron of this quality? Did the teacher passes him with a special art to refine the metal into this level?” Zhang Qing Feng was shocked by the Pure Iron in their 15% Quality. Their impurity was still at 40%, which is the most difficult part for Zhang Wu Ji to process them.
And at the side of the Pure Iron, he noticed smaller quarter ingots and a tiny Pill size beads. It was respectively the Sentient Iron and the Crystal Iron, known as Magnetite and Siderite. The Siderite or Crystal Iron was the most difficult material to obtain in the Iron Class, where their total yield was only 1% of the total production.
But before his eyes, Zhang Wu Ji actually refined a pill-size bead of Crystal Iron!
Did he intend to craft his own magical tools? In this world of Ping An Continent, Magical Tools, also known as a spiritual case, are one of the most magical item every crafted by those masters of their profession.