8 Unknown Secret of Two. (1/2)
”young master, are you sure you need that much of firestones in the shed?” his two servants almost cannot believe what they were hearing when Zhang Wu Ji requested for a total of 15 buckets filled with firestones.
For a normal family, a Firestone is enough to provide enough heat to warm a house during the night, and for Medicinal Concoction, the maximum limit of Firestone to be used is 8, where it was only applicable when proof heating the medicine in their final process.
As for a blacksmith, a fired furnace will only require 20 firestones at their maximum limit. Any further will be completely wasted because the flame can no longer increase any further than 20 firestones. But with the capacity of burning for 6 hours, the length is far more than enough for a blacksmith to craft his weapon.
If a bucket can fill 200 firestones inside, then fifteen buckets are equals to 3,000 firestones. In the eyes of the seller, they might think that the buyer is intending to burn the whole city overnight.
But as a servant, they have no choice over this matter and went out to collect as many firestones as they could. The Firestones are nothing valuable. It was easily found from any nearby mountain caves with strong Yang Energy. Like stones that were scattered all around every corner of the world, the Firestone can be found in any location without difficulties.
While waiting for his servant to deliver the item he requested, Zhang Wu Ji took the leisure to separates the material according to their types. Through the extremely detailed information given by the system, he can perfectly distribute all his treasures before he runs a major modification on them.
As for the treasures, they weren't anything special, but broken swords, tools, and other materials that were tossed away and was delivered from one place to another because they were unable to walk across the passage of time.
Some of them were rusty, and most of them were broken. As for those still intact, they were either unusable or losing an important part in their structure.
But for him, this all was a part of what his world call it; Recycled Metal. Through a very detailed process and careful handling, he can properly harness all the material and reserve them to be collected together, before he proceeds with refining them into a proper ingot of various metal once again.
After he completed the separating process, his task begins. Taking each of them one at a time to be melted and cast, Zhang Wu Ji depends completely on the hammering process and did not spend any of his available strands of Inner Qi to activates the Art of Pulverized Iron.
Reason?
He has a mountain of materials waiting for him to work with them, why would he spend a few days for the sake of refining a high-quality metal first?
Plus, the material stinks! Because they were thrown aside in the wild for the only god know how long it was. So, as the first step of his recycling, Zhang Wu Ji have to completely mold them together into separated ingots first, and then begin to rework each of them.
But because most of them came from unknown sources, the work to separates them before rework is a seriously long process. The tidying process took him three more days, making his total Strands of Inner Qi reaching 23 now. The three day of only work and rest generates a fatigue that leaves him asleep for the whole day before he wakes up in the next afternoon.
With all the so-called trash has been cleared and refined into separated little plates, Zhang Wu Ji needed to start working on them, to combine them together for a higher purity ingot. With his Art of Pulverized Iron still on their 40% cap, He completed the work by spending one and a half day on them.
The end results of all the work were 5 Iron Ingots in their 40% Quality, 13 Bronze Ingot, which only in their 3% quality, and a small part of Silver, Gold, and six smaller gemstones in different colors.
Unexpectedly, the other materials weren't able to be enhanced in their quality, because his skill is only usable on Iron Type materials. But it was still a good effort for the bronze ingot to reach 3% quality, based on his current blacksmithing skills.
With the five Iron Ingots in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji decided to spend two of the ingots to craft some weapons for those following him to the Qing Spirit Woods previously. This is his own way to show his appreciation and other's effort.
According to his memories, he remembered that among the ten servants, five of them were using a medium length sword as their primary weapon, while three of them were using spears, and two using a twin-headed broad-ax.
With 32 kilograms worth of Pure Iron, it was not difficult for him to craft the five swords, three spear-heads and two twin headed broad-ax. But the difficulties to look for a proper wood strong for spears and axes are more difficult.
He takes a chance on the third day to look in the lumber mill but failed to obtain a proper wood that was suitable to be used with the two kinds of weapons. Only after asking around he managed to found out that the Ironwood is the best material to be used as the shaft for a polearm or heavy weapons.
Without waiting any longer, he went into a woodcutter hut not far from the Ji Liang Town to purchase five of the processed Ironwood to be used on the weapon. The Woodcutter was kind enough to sell him the wood first, although he needs it as well to create a new handle for his woodcutter axe.
After hearing what the woodcutter needs, he went back to prepare a proper woodcutter axe head first, before he took the head back to the hut to deliver his promises. The moment he saw the woodcutter attached the handle and head together, a usable axe is formed.
As a return of kindness, he helped the woodcutter to upgrade the axe to +5, where it now carries a special ability to increase the speed to take down a tree. In a way, this was the best ability it can provide to an honest woodcutter.
At this moment, his total strands have increased to 25, three quarter away from becoming a full-fledged 1st Stage Inner QI Fighter. After he distributed the ten weapons to the servants, each of them was drowning in happiness because their young master actually crafted the weapon personally for them.
In a way, this expression of gratitude does help Zhang Wu Ji to buy their loyalty to remain in Zhang's family, it also helps him in a way to obtain more support from the servants in the future.
As for the remaining Pure Iron, he crafted them into ten Riot Shields. Completely taken Zhang Qing Feng's expectation by a surprise. What's more, he labeled each of them with a pattern that helpful for him to arrange them in a proper formation.
Reasons?
Six of the Riot Shield carries defensive properties that can help reduce impact, damage, and increase durability, while the remaining four carries the ability to reflect damage and throwing weapon against the opponent.
Zhang Qing Feng was unconvinced at first, but after he tried to give Zhang Wu JI a lesson, he ends up having a bruise on his face, all thanks to the offensive shield effect. In the end, he was convinced, although it was a terrible lesson for an Inner Qi Warrior.
With this little expedition and task are finally completed, he regains his day to do everything as he likes. Although in his hand there were still a few unused ingots, it wasn't that suitable for him to utilize them now, because he still lacks the skills to properly harness the usage.
”Young master, It's been quite long you didn't go out to have a look on the street, and we heard that there will be a merchant coming to the Li Jiang Town today to sell his wares, should we go and have a look?” his two servants who have been bored to death because their master was too busy to entertain them.
Since they were assigned to be by Zhang Wu Ji side at all time, they were not allowed to do anything else except under their young master's order. As for the plot of plants he had Da Zui taking care, the time for harvest just come yesterday, and after some meticulous attention on them, all the seeds that came from the plant were expected slightly better than the one planted a month before.
Violet Meridian Seed
Usage: planted and grown to Violet Meridian Grass when matures.
Yield: three stalks on maturity. Two seeds produced when the root withers and dies.
Quality: Basic / Middle
Soothing Flower Seed
Usage: planted and grown to Soothing Flower when the bulb blooms.
Yield: one bulb each seed. The Soothing Flower will produce seeds if the flower is allowed to withers.
Quality: Basic / Middle
In the differentiation of quality, they were divided into five different categories, but each of them varies from one to another in a very distinctive way. The category are [Basic], [Advance], [High], [Spiritual], and [Saint]. And in each of the category, they were [Early-Middle-Advance-Later-Peak] differentiation, to further divides the quality control even further.
As for his seed in hand now, all of them were rank up from Basic / Early to Basic / Middle category, which is quite a good improvement. As for the Middle category seeds, their condition is confirmed to produce two seeds when withers and seeds will be available if the flowers allowed to grow.
This was a better quality seed when compared with the normal quality one sold in the Botanist Hall. But since he was not in a hurry for the plants, It would be sufficient for him now to keep the seeds for the future.
Since it was a good day for him to visit the streets, Zhang Wu Ji followed the two servants as they lead him out to look at some merchandise, as well to enjoy some of the street foods. Their journey went smoothly without any issues until they reach the location where the Merchant is bargaining with the customer wish to buy his product.