Chapter 49: Fighting Soldiers!

  One hour... two hours... three hours...

  Qian Jin was still using the iron-smith breathing method while swinging his hammer, but after three hours, his body could no longer absorb hot air, and his arms began to show signs of numbness, so he had to use Dou Jing to persist.

  Another three hours passed, and the dry and vigorous energy was completely consumed. This punch was much more difficult than before, with each strike consuming ten times the amount of energy as before.

  It's okay, Iron Breath can be used again after all stamina is consumed in combat.

  "Your Smithing skill has increased..."

  "Your Blacksmith Breathing Technique proficiency has increased..."

  "Your Smithing skill has increased..."

  "Your Iron Lung skill level has been upgraded..."

  The dull sound of ironing, the system spirit occasionally pops out a prompt, but the dryness immersed in practicing hammering can't hear this prompt at all.

  In the last hour, Qian Jin's hammering finally looked like it was going to work, with over a hundred hammer strikes without breaking one. Blake hid in the corner, watching Qian Jin's state, and for a moment he was so stunned that he forgot to smoke his pipe: "Stop!"

  Clang...

  The iron hammer fell to the ground, and Gang Jing's entire body scattered like a broken frame, lying on the ground in a big character shape. Compared to sharpening his knife before, he was now exhausted a hundred times more, and he didn't even have the strength to pinch a bug to death. All the muscles in his body were involuntarily twitching, and the difficulty of this hammer strike was thousands, tens of thousands of times harder than everything he had learned before!

  Player: Qian Jin

  Blacksmith: Level 8

  Blacksmithing: Level 8

  Sharpness: First Class

  Sharpening: Max Level

  Special Skill: Iron Forging Breathing Method First Layer

  Fighting Spirit: Level 6

  Special Skill: ?? Eighteen Hammers (One Hammer Incomplete, Proficiency 1500)

  "9000 proficiency points for one hammer? Qian Jin cursed: "What kind of hammer is this? Not even the name is displayed, and it's already so hard to master from the first hammer?"

  Turn off the attribute, and it's still very comfortable in the heart. In this endless world of hard training, one's own strength can be said to be flying up on a dragon.

  "Learned pretty well." Blake came to Qianjin's face with a faint tone and said, "There is still some time, I will tell you about the basic common sense of blacksmithing."

  Qian Jin nodded slightly, thinking to himself that he had finally been taught some basic common sense. These past few days, the more people outside praised him, the more he felt a pang of guilt in his heart. He didn't even understand the most basic principles of being a blacksmith and was too afraid to ask others too many questions.

  "Whetstone, simply put, is a high-level knife sharpening technique." The old man didn't care whether the ground was clean or not and sat down on the yellow earth with a thud: "As a warrior, you should know that every weapon, or rather every piece of equipment, has its own lifespan just like humans do."

  Qianjin recovered some physical strength, feeling that lying down was too disrespectful to the other party, and hurriedly forced himself to get up. Normally, Blake nodded in agreement. As a warrior student, regarding the lifespan of weapons and equipment, this subject would also be touched upon in school.

  So-called, the lifespan of a weapon, for example, a knife that has been used for a long time will lose its sharpness and needs to be sharpened again. However, the number of times each weapon can be sharpened is limited, and when this number is exceeded, the weapon becomes useless, or in other words, it dies.

  The same knife can be sharpened seven times by an ordinary blacksmith, but a high-level blacksmith can sharpen it twelve times, or even thirteen!

  Warriors need to take good care of their equipment and weapons as much as possible, reduce the number of times they go for repairs, in order to guarantee the lifespan of their weapons.

  "What I'm teaching you is how to revive a dead blade, which is different from ordinary sharpening. It can bring a weapon's dead edge back to life." Black's face, full of wrinkles, was beaming with pride: "As a true master blacksmith, one must not only know how to forge and temper iron, but also how to repair various equipment. Otherwise, you can't just make a new weapon every time one breaks, can you?"

  "Master Blacksmith?" Kane's eyes widened in surprise, swallowing hard. He had just heard that morning how prestigious Master Blacksmiths were in the blacksmithing world. Could he really become one? If so, he wondered if Old Man Franlin would be shocked to death.

  "Hmm, as long as you work hard, you'll have opportunities." Blake replaced some new tobacco for the pipe and made two puffs on the burning stove: "You're also an eighth-level blacksmith now. When you reach tenth-level blacksmith, after taking a promotion assessment, you should be able to become a forging master and learn how to forge basic weapons."

  "Rank 10?" Gan Jing's excitement made him forget his fatigue: "Doesn't that mean, Rank 10 refined iron? I know this, it's said that the materials for a Dou Soldier require Rank 10 refined iron! So, doesn't that mean I have a chance to forge my own Dou Soldier?"

  "Ptoo! No guts!" Blake spat a wad of phlegm on the ground, glaring at Qian Jin: "You think you know about Dou soldiers? A tenth-level fine iron-crafted Dou soldier is, in terms of materials, just second-rate... no, third-rate... no, it's bottom-of-the-barrel goods!"

  Qian Jin suddenly shut up in front of the professionals, seriously listening to Blake's explanation of the Dou soldiers, not daring to be distracted for a moment. For any warrior, they all hope to have their own Dou soldiers, even a set of Dou armor!

  Although any weapon can be imbued with Qi, the quality of the weapon determines its ability to conduct Qi. Better weapons allow for faster transmission and condensation of Qi, while extremely powerful Qi may even shatter a weapon during transmission, making the weapon's own quality even more crucial.

  To adapt to the warriors, there is a certain dividing line in the weapon equipment, and all the weapons that are of high quality can be called Dou Bing. The most important points among them are the material quality of the weapon itself, the conductivity of Dou Qi Dou Jin, the degree of condensation and adhesion, etc.

  "The true art of forging requires Iron Will, not just iron will!" Blake raised a finger and said faintly: "Iron will and iron will are just different in the order of characters, but the difference is huge. This thing called iron will, it's not something you can forge just because you're a blacksmith, it has its own special techniques. Otherwise, even if you're a blacksmith, wanting to forge iron will would only rely on your foundation and good luck, piling up various metals on your shoulders and relying on luck to strike it big."

  The dry and crisp sound of gunfire is accompanied by continuous nods, otherwise the price of fighting would not be so expensive.

  "There are two ways to make this thing called Iron Essence," Blake said, his face lighting up with a rare enthusiasm. "One is by forging it from a pile of iron, which is called Pure Iron Essence. The other is by mixing in higher metals, which is called X-Iron Essence."

  "So, which one is better?" Gan Jing felt that Blake had opened a window for himself that he had never had before, and he hurriedly asked to understand these things.