He was born as a blacksmith, but he dominated the world

Chapter 226: Broken Glory

The Southern Blacksmith Camp now has nineteen more master craftsmen, seventeen of whom had joined earlier, and two of whom had won the master craftsman competition with their superb skills.

The fact that they can win in such a competition shows the strength of these two people.

After returning to the South Blacksmith Camp, Jiang Lin was pulled by Blacksmith Qi and forced to say a few polite words.

Something like work hard and you will have a bright future.

Everyone laughed as they watched him "escape in panic".

After this matter was over, it was back to the old days of forging iron.

It is worth mentioning that Zuowang Tower received a large number of high-quality weapons "sponsorship" from Jiang Lin, and the efficiency of hunting monsters was significantly improved.

Almost every two or three days, a few second-grade monsters can be brought back.

Jiang Lin basically bought all of these monsters. He used the good ones to make iron, and stuffed the less valuable ones directly into the Hengyu furnace for smelting.

With the replacement weapons being delivered every now and then, the lighting progress of the third branch of the Hengyu Furnace is also slowly increasing, and has now reached about 80%.

"With another one or two hundred weapons with good foundations, plus the collected monster remains and the like, it should be possible to upgrade to lower-grade spiritual weapons."

After staring at the branches of the Lingmiao Treasure Tree for a while, Jiang Lin looked at the progress of several skills.

[Skill 1: Firemaking Lv8 (Proficiency 20326/30000)]

[Skill 2: Tempering Lv8 (Proficiency 183262/200000)]

[Skill 3: Quenching Lv6 (Proficiency 695/800)]

[Skill 5: Blade Sharpening Lv6 (Proficiency 302/800)]

[Skill 4: Level 3 furnace method, the body is the furnace, the mind is the hammer, gold essence and fire essence are the materials, to forge an indestructible golden body. The current progress is gold essence 9128.1/10000, fire essence 2203.4/2000, which can increase one's own skills to a certain extent]

In addition to blade sharpening, several other skills, including the furnace method, are not far from upgrading.

The fire essence has been fully collected and is overflowing.

According to the current blacksmithing efficiency, hammering and quenching may be the first to be promoted, followed by firing and furnace baking, and finally sharpening.

However, the gap between them is not too big, only about three to five days at most.

After fighting for many consecutive days, I felt a little tired again.

Although the furnace method can improve endurance, it also has its own limits.

After standing up and stretching his muscles, Jiang Lin walked out of the blacksmith camp and headed towards Kyoto City.

Whenever you feel tired, taking a walk around Kyoto is the best choice.

After entering the city, Jiang Lin wandered around casually, looking here and there.

In fact, there is nothing I want to buy. The real good stuff has long been taken away by powerful clans and is hard to find on the market.

However, this kind of casual walking and looking around can indeed reduce the nervous tension caused by fatigue.

Jiang Lin strolled leisurely along several streets and suddenly stopped in front of a street stall.

The stall was run by an old man with pale hair, a frail appearance, and one of his eyes was empty, which looked a little scary.

A piece of coarse cloth was spread on the ground in front of him, with a broken knife placed on it.

A pile of fragments, to be exact.

The whole knife had been broken into dozens of pieces, and was barely pieced together to form a shape.

People passing by just took one look and then lost interest. It is broken into pieces like this, even gods cannot save it.

However, from the surface gloss of the fracture, one can see that it is somewhat extraordinary.

Jiang Lin had never seen such a broken weapon before, so he squatted over out of curiosity. The old man looked at him with his only remaining eye and his lips slightly parted.

"Eighteen thousand... one thousand six hundred taels..." He said this number hesitantly, and it was obvious that he was not willing to lower the price.

When people passing by heard the price, they couldn't help but sneer. Such fragments were sold at such a high price.

The old man seemed to know that his asking price was too high. His lips trembled slightly as he took the initiative to explain, "This sword is called Mo Yue. It was made by Gongsun Xu, a master craftsman from Tongzhou three hundred years ago. The materials used include the fourth-grade demon beast Mo Yue Spider, Earth Spirit Essence Stone, Yin Yang Rainbow Flower, Baiyun Gold, etc. Once it is made, it will be a top-grade spiritual weapon, priceless."

Jiang Lin picked up a piece of debris and glanced at it, and a prompt immediately appeared in his field of vision.

[Fragments of good quality, can be used for fusion forging]

The evaluation of the grade of the precious weapon is just that its quality is acceptable.

Obviously, this is indeed spiritual weapon grade, so it has a good quality evaluation.

Jiang Lin had never heard of the various materials the old man mentioned. Combined with the clues in his vision, he could conclude that he was not lying.

If it is a complete, high-quality spiritual weapon, there will be many people who will buy it even if it is sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver.

But if it is broken into pieces like this, its value is too low, and it can even be said that it is useless if you buy it back.

But Jiang Lin felt a little excited in his heart. Just because others couldn't use it didn't mean he couldn't use it either.

I have the skills of fusion forging, so I can use them to upgrade the quality of other weapons.

In addition, Hengyu furnace can also be eaten.

Such excellent material foundation is much better than the weapons sent from the border army camp.

However, Jiang Lin did not immediately show any intention to buy it. He just said, "Old man, it's not easy to sell it in such pieces."

The old man said bitterly, "It is indeed not easy to sell, but... the foundation is good..."

The last few words were spoken in a fainter voice.

No matter how good the material is, it will be useless once it has been made into a weapon.

In this world, no one can separate materials that have been fused together.

The fusion of different materials is also rather troublesome, especially when the grade is higher.

Therefore, Jiang Lin first forged the weapons and then integrated the black crystal iron, which surprised the old masters.

"If it's really a good thing, you probably can't bring it to Kyoto." Jiang Lin said again.

The old man's lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't utter a word.

Jiang Lin held up three fingers and said, "Three hundred taels, I want these fragments."

He wasn't talking about weapons, he was talking about fragments.

There was a hint of hesitation in the old man's eyes, because three hundred taels was the highest price he had ever heard.

Many people were even only willing to pay a few dozen taels, saying that after all, it was once a top-grade spiritual weapon, and they bought it back as a souvenir.

But the old man finally gritted his teeth and shook his head: "Not for sale."

A top-grade spiritual weapon that could be sold for tens of thousands of taels in its intact state, even though it was broken into pieces like this, he was reluctant to sell it for three hundred taels.

Jiang Lin persuaded, "I can give you a little more, but not much. If you really want to sell it, why not tell me a price and negotiate."

Perhaps because of his sincere tone, the old man hesitated for a moment and finally said, "The minimum is eight hundred taels."

This is already the lowest price he can accept. If it is any lower, he would rather die than sell it.

Jiang Lin pretended to consider it, then decisively took out eight hundred taels and handed it over, then reached out to roll up the fragments with a cloth and take them away.

But the old man held his hand. Jiang Lin couldn't help but frowned: "It's the eight hundred taels you asked for. I've already paid you the money. You're not asking for a higher price, are you?"

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