Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

Mo Yuming found Master Long and Master Hu and told them about his situation. However, neither of them knew how to solve it. They then tested their spiritual energy circulation on the spot according to Mo Yuming's method, but the situation Mo Yuming described did not occur.

Having no other choice, Mo Yuming had to come up with another idea.

When leaving, I asked the two men if they had any fire-based cultivation techniques. They replied that they practiced earth and metal-based techniques, and if I wanted fire-based techniques, I should go to Master Leopard, Master Lightning, or Master Thunder, as they were the true practitioners of fire-based profound arts.

But Leopard Lord, Dian, and Lei were all assigned to the Peerless Castle. Mo Yuming thought for a moment, then decided not to rush to find them and returned to his own residence.

The construction of the arsenal is the most urgent task now; as for the cultivation techniques, we can discuss them later.

Since I can't yet master the smelting methods of this world, I'll use my own methods to smelt the ores of this world and see what kind of finished product I can get.

Mo Yuming built a clay kiln that was ten feet high in the courtyard.

With the help of Captain Sun Min, the iron ore, coal, and stones were broken into pieces and put into the kiln in proportion, and then the charcoal fire was lit to start firing the kiln.

To accelerate the burning speed and temperature of the charcoal, Mo Yuming also tried to input fire elemental energy into the kiln.

The input of this fire elemental power does not require precise control, so it doesn't matter if there are fluctuations or obstacles in the elemental power.

Mo Yuming even occasionally channeled wood elemental energy into the kiln.

Under Mo Yuming's instructions, Sun Min continuously blew air into the kiln and added more furnace materials.

It was indeed a magical world; the kiln materials were burning rapidly under Mo Yuming's control.

With the support of the fire and wood elemental powers inputted by Mo Yuming, it burned even more fiercely.

Before long, the kiln emitted tremendous heat, making Mo Yuming and Sun Min sweat profusely.

Seeing this, Mo Yuming quickly tried to use his earth elemental power to condense a layer of earthen wall to enclose the kiln body.

The effect was quite good; the heat emitted was greatly reduced immediately.

However, with all three elements of profound arts operating simultaneously, Mo Yuming couldn't keep up for more than a quarter of an hour and quickly stopped the wood-element technique.

Mo Yuming can still barely maintain the simultaneous operation of two cultivation techniques. Although it takes much more effort than operating one technique, it is not very difficult.

Time passed second by second, and the temperature inside the kiln rose higher and higher.

From the furnace opening, you can see that the furnace charge inside the kiln has melted, and the extremely high temperature causes the kiln to emit a dazzling golden light.

After all the raw materials prepared in the courtyard were added into the kiln, Mo Yuming ordered Sun Min to open the slag outlet of the kiln.

Soon, a stream of molten slag, resembling lava, flowed from the slag outlet. After removing the excess slag, Mo Yuming opened the discharge port, and a stream of golden molten iron slowly flowed out of the outlet into the square mold placed below the outlet.

The experiment was successfully completed smoothly following Mo Yuming's ideas. Three hundred catties of ore were smelted into more than two hundred catties of iron ingots, which was a very high output.

This is mainly due to the quality of the iron ore. Since the iron content in the ore is as high as 80% or more, and the composition of the slag is also very simple, it is much easier to separate.

Mo Yuming was thrilled as he looked at the large iron ingot he had forged.

The iron ingot has been forged, but it's unclear whether the product produced by this method is the same as the iron ingot forged by other weapon refiners.

Mo Yuming didn't know.

Because Mo Yuming's weapon-refining skills were still in their infancy, he had no idea what the performance of the products they forged was like.

However, this was no challenge for Mo Yuming.

After the iron billet cooled, Mo Yuming ordered Sun Min to divide it into six pieces, and then sent people disguised as merchants or mercenaries.

Send these six iron blanks to the weapon-forging workshops in Shangyuan City and Luoxia City respectively, and pay them to forge weapons.

The weapon refiners that Mo Yuming took to inspect the ore field last time were all shop owners in Shangyuan City. Because these people had selfish motives, Mo Yuming gave up on recruiting them and sent people to secretly monitor their actions.

As long as they did not do anything that harmed the interests of the Great Xia Empire, no measures were taken against them. Therefore, they were able to continue operating their shops in the city.

Mo Yuming specially sent two iron blanks to two of the shops for experimentation.

Let's see how they view these two experimental subjects.

The other four pieces were delivered to a blacksmith who ran a shop in Luoxia City. Since they were iron blanks, not ore, they were subject to secondary processing.

Moreover, most of the weapon refiners here use ore to refine and process products for customers; very few people bring iron ingots that have been refined by others to the weapon refiners to process products.

Therefore, when sending items to these weapon refiners for processing, one must have a set of excuses to deceive them.

However, ironwork is so common that any excuse can be made to get away with it.

As for how these people were to come up with an explanation, Mo Yuming told them to figure it out themselves.

Whether you say it was stolen, found, or bought from the black market, as long as you can find a reason to convince the weapon refiner, that's fine.

The most important thing is to get the evaluation of these iron blanks from these weapon refiners.

The results came out quickly. The two iron blanks sent to Yuancheng were processed into two longswords and a large knife the next day. Of course, the fastest processing was done after a considerable tip was paid.

The two iron blanks were crafted by a level-two craftsman and a level-one craftsman, respectively.

According to the report from the person sent, the weapon refiner who forged the greatsword was a first-level weapon refiner. His evaluation of the iron blank was that it was refined quite well and the impurities in the iron blank were removed relatively cleanly.

The level-two weapon refiner who forged the two longswords had a poor opinion of the iron blanks, saying that the refining temperature was not high enough, there were still many impurities, and the refining technique was also inadequate.

He also said the iron ingot was probably made by a novice apprentice. If that's the case, he'd rather buy ore again and process it.

Hearing this, Mo Yuming smiled slightly. From these words, Mo Yuming already knew who this weapon refiner was.

However, Mo Yuming did not take the blacksmith's words seriously. After the finished product was successfully forged, Mo Yuming knew very well what quality the iron ingot he had forged was.

He is now waiting for the results of the other four iron blanks.

Because of the distance, the finished product for Luoxia City won't be available so quickly; it will take at least a day to get a result.

Sure enough, two days later, the four of them delivered the weapons they had forged.

The feedback he received was pretty much what Mo Yuming had expected.

The first-level weapon refiner in Luoxia City couldn't discern the quality of the iron blank;

The second-level weapon refiner concluded that the quality was good, and the impurities were removed relatively cleanly, but the quality of the iron ore was average, just ordinary common iron.

The third-level weapon refiner's assessment was that the ore refining method was different from theirs, and it was probably refined by weapon refiners from Yingzhou. The refining was quite good.