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Chapter 29: Can you be called a young person if you are not passionate?

The meal ended quickly, and Zhang Wei had a very happy chat with Xiao Yunshan and others. He also learned a lot of knowledge and stories that were not widely circulated in the world of immortal cultivation from Si Junpeng and Jiang Shun.

This benefited Zhang Wei a lot, and he couldn't help but sigh that this partner was indeed worthy of being listed as one of the four essentials for cultivating immortals along with wealth, law, and land. Just two friends in the late stage of Qi Refining helped Zhang Wei avoid many detours.

After agreeing to meet again in the future, Zhang Wei left Izumo City and slowly sailed his black-sailed boat into the mist.

The period was very peaceful. Although a few cultivators were seen on the road, no robbers blocked the way.

Of course, it was also possible that it was because of Zhang Wei’s late Qi Refining cultivation that these people ran away even faster than when they came.

Just like that, after another day, Zhang Wei finally returned to Yundu.

At this time, Zhang Da had already arranged for someone to clean the house, and the furniture was also arranged overnight thanks to Zhang Wei's financial ability, so after Zhang Wei came back, he moved directly into his own home in Yundu.

That night, Zhang Wei was in his own room.

"So this is what refining is. I've learned it."

Zhang Wei put down the equipment refining notes, and after reading the preface, he let out a long sigh as he had a preliminary understanding of equipment refining.

It was different from many novels I read in my previous life. In this world, there was no such thing as engraving runes on magic weapons. Refining was refining, and the refiner was only responsible for refining magic weapons. Engraving runes was the job of the spirit rune master.

A magic weapon specially engraved with runes is called a talisman weapon, but the role of a talisman weapon is more auxiliary. Almost no cultivators use talisman weapons in direct combat.

On the one hand, it’s because it’s expensive.

The talisman needs to be made by cultivators who are proficient in refining both instruments and talismans. The resources and energy consumed are much higher than simply refining a magic weapon.

On the other hand, the runes engraved on magic weapons are too easy to be damaged.

As the saying goes, the more sophisticated something is, the easier it is to break. The runes on a talisman are like sophisticated electronic components. Even the slightest damage will affect the operation of the entire talisman, turning it into a useless talisman.

During a fight, magic weapons would also be damaged due to violent collisions. If more sophisticated talismans were used to fight, the runes engraved on the talismans would probably change after one collision.

Even if it is only slightly damaged, it is enough to affect the flow of spiritual energy within the talisman. These mistakes can be fatally dangerous to the cultivators who are fighting.

Therefore, unless it is a disposable item, cultivators will use white board magic weapons when fighting.

In fact, the simpler the operation and the less likely it is to break, the more popular the magic weapon is among cultivators.

In short, the magic weapon used in fighting is the eight-character mantra.

Cheap, simple, durable and long-lasting!

However, although it has deviated from the rune lineage, it does not mean that refining equipment can be made simply by melting and purifying various spiritual materials.

By browsing the notes on refining instruments, Zhang Wei discovered that if he really wanted to describe the art of refining instruments in this world, it would be the immortal cultivation world's version of materials science.

Well, at the beginning, I fell into one of the four major sinkholes.

However, the materials science in the world of immortal cultivation does not only include inorganic substances such as metals, but also the demon materials of monsters, spiritual plants, and spiritual trees can be used to refine weapons.

You can even use some spiritual objects such as divine wind, strange fire, spiritual water, spiritual energy, etc. to integrate them into the magic weapon to add more magic to it.

If one simply melts various spiritual materials and forcefully combines them together, the quality of the resulting magic weapon embryo would probably be very impressive.

Every magic weapon has strict requirements on the type, quality and proportion of spiritual materials. Any problem in any of them will cause the final magic weapon to be completely different from what one expected.

Therefore, the formula of each magic weapon is the refiner's own secret, and will never be passed on unless something unexpected happens.

Because behind this is not only the capital for the weapon refiner to make a living, but more likely it is the result of the blood and sweat of countless ancestors.

If there is no recipe, one can only use a single material to refine the magic weapon to avoid accidents.

But in this case, the power of the magic weapon will be greatly limited by the materials, and it may not even be able to fully exert the power that the materials themselves should have.

For example, if you use a second-grade spiritual material to refine a magic weapon, you will probably only get a first-grade one in the end. This is a huge waste of spiritual materials, and the cost is even higher.

For example, the refining notes in Zhang Wei's hand at this moment, although describing the various key points in refining, did not contain the secret recipe of the foundation-building master. It only recorded two magic weapon formulas that had been passed down from ancient times to the present, and could still stably obtain the corresponding spiritual materials.

The names of these two magic weapons are Qingguang Sword and Xuanjia Shield.

The two are one for attack and one for defense. If you can refine either one of them, you can be considered a formal weapon refiner.

What shocked Zhang Wei even more was the recipes of these two magic weapons.

"Use fire to heat a large amount of pig iron and melt it into boiling hot liquid... Repeatedly heat it and hammer it with spiritual power thousands of times to remove impurities... Finally, you can get a spiritual material called Thousand Forged Iron Essence. It is the main material for refining magic weapons."

Zhang Wei snapped the notepad shut again when he saw this. He pinched his brows and complained, "Isn't this the same method of tempering steel? Except that it uses spiritual power instead of human power to pound it, and the number of poundings is a little more, the process is no different. Could it be that it's because pounding with spiritual power makes it more flavorful?"

Then Zhang Wei opened the notebook again and looked at the remaining recipes.

"Silver is used as the thread, gold is used as the joint... In addition to drawing talismans, can silver and gold also be used to refine weapons? But it seems to make sense. After all, silver and gold can both conduct spiritual energy. Since they can be used to draw talismans, why can't they be used to refine weapons?"

Seeing this, Zhang Wei finally understood why the owner of Yunshanglou said that if you want to buy the Zuifeng Bow, you have to use real gold and silver. It turns out that gold and silver are also very useful to weapon refiners.

Silver and gold, as excellent conducting materials, covered the magic weapon like a big net. Then the cultivator could use this big net to conduct his spiritual power to every corner of the magic weapon, and then control the input of spiritual power to achieve the purpose of fine control.

If you look at it this way...

“It feels like a remote control.”

After reading the remaining recipe materials, Zhang Wei slowly closed the notebook, then with a complicated expression, he took out the broadsword that had always been with him from the mustard bag and gently stroked the blade of the broadsword.

Zhang Wei made this broadsword specially for practicing martial arts. He used the knowledge of tempering steel from books in his mind, as well as some special formulas, and guided the blacksmith in his family to make it.

On the day the knife was made, the blacksmith himself said that this was the best knife he had ever made in his life, and it was considered a divine weapon in the martial arts world. Who knows, in the future, there might be some bloody storm surrounding this knife.

And then... then Zhang Wei never saw the blacksmith again.

However, since then, the quality of ironware sold by the Zhang family has improved significantly, and business has improved a lot.

But today, after Zhang Wei read the contents of the weapon refining notes, he had to start to doubt. Since the smelting method of the Thousand Forged Iron Essence was similar to the Hundred Forged Steel recorded in the book.

If he really used this hundred-refined steel as the raw material to refine a magic weapon, does that mean that the high-strength steel or alloys smelted using the methods in the books on metal smelting in his mind can also be used as materials for refining higher quality or other types of magic weapons?
Then wouldn't the formula problem that restricts me as an equipment refiner be half solved?

Zhang Wei's heart became more and more excited, and he couldn't wait to try it.

But unfortunately, the Thousand Forged Iron Essence can still be obtained by continuing to forge the Pu Dao. But Zhang Wei currently has no other materials, including silver. After all, his mustard bag only has 100,000 taels of gold and some precious spiritual materials left by Master Luoxia. There is no high-end stuff like silver!

"Forget it, let's go to sleep. I have to report to the Imperial College tomorrow!" Zhang Wei lay down on the bed depressed and covered himself with the quilt.

Early the next morning, Zhang Wei, who had not slept the whole night and whose mind was full of thoughts about how to refine the weapon, walked out of the room yawning.

It happened that Zhang Da came back with a basket at this time. Seeing Zhang Wei get up, he immediately put the basket on the stone table in the middle of the yard and said, "Second Master, this is Yundu's specialty breakfast cloud steamed buns."

Zhang Wei sat down, picked one out at random and put it in his mouth.

After visiting Chuyun Market, Zhang Wei realized that immortal cultivators were also human beings, and they also had to deal with worldly matters. Eating a meal of more than ten taels of spirit stones like in Zuixianlou was basically out of the reach of most immortal cultivators.

In order to survive, immortal cultivators also eat mundane food. They can also extract spiritual energy from these mundane foods, but it is not as easy as eating spiritual food.

The steamed buns were slightly sweet and very soft, making Zhang Wei feel like he was eating steamed buns made on a machine assembly line in his previous life. But it was not bad when paired with pickles and rice porridge. For the ancient Yun Kingdom, it was worthy of the name of Yunduo steamed buns.

"Hire a cook when you have time, so you don't have to go out to buy food every day." Zhang Wei said.

"Yes, Master. These past few days I have been discussing with an old chef from the restaurant on the next street to see if I can poach him."

Zhang Wei nodded. "Well, don't worry about the money. We can't suffer any hardship. The money I've earned over the years is enough for the two of us to live a comfortable life for a few years."

"By the way, Zhang Da, you should sit down and eat something too."

Zhang Wei pointed to the stool opposite and said.

"Second Master, actually I had already eaten on the way back." Zhang Da scratched his head and said with a smile.

"Okay then." Zhang Wei did not force it. After all, in this era, there was a difference between master and servant. He asked, "By the way, Zhang Da, do you know how to get to the Imperial College?"

Zhang Da nodded immediately and said, "I know. I have found out everything in the past two days. The Imperial College is located on a main road near the imperial palace in the southern part of the city! However... I heard that things have been a bit unsettled in the Imperial College these past two days."

Zhang Wei asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Da explained, "I heard that a group of students from the Imperial College wrote a petition to the emperor, listing the ten major crimes of the Yang family and asking him to execute Yang Guifei to restore peace to the world. As a result, the emperor was furious and arrested all the students from the Imperial College who were causing trouble. They were locked up in the prison and starved for two days and were not released."

Wow, writing a petition on a bus to purge the emperor's court, these students from the Imperial College are really bold. Should we say they are indeed full of vigor and vitality?
You really are not afraid of death.

Zhang Wei touched his chin and said, "He's not going to kill anyone, is he?"

Under normal circumstances, any emperor with a normal mind would not kill the tribute students of the Imperial College. But now this copy of Li Longji, who loves Yang Guifei to the point of being insane, is obviously not in the sequence of emperors with a normal mind.

What if this old emperor really has gone crazy and would rather give up the world than not want to make a beautiful woman smile?

Zhang Da said: "I heard that there was such an idea, but later it was persuaded by a group of ministers. However, Emperor Yun was still very angry and said that he wanted to strip these people of their honors."

"Because of this incident, the Emperor Yun's original plan to personally attend your class of tribute students' enrollment has also been cancelled. Second Master, are we still going to the Imperial College?"

Zhang Wei waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about him. We just need to live our own lives. Report what needs to be reported and go to school. Can the emperor arrest me, a latecomer who has done nothing? Or does a tribute student of the Imperial College have to meet the emperor before he can be recognized?"

Zhang Da responded: "Yes!"

After eating and drinking, Zhang Wei got on the carriage prepared by Zhang Da and squeaked all the way to the Imperial College.

Just half an hour later, Zhang Wei, who was resting with his eyes closed in the carriage, suddenly heard a mournful and tragic speech.

"What a tyrant, what a tyrant!"

"You are persecuting pillars of our country for a witch who brings disaster to the country and the people! Heaven is blind!"

"This Dayun Kingdom is doomed to fail!"

When Zhang Wei heard those outrageous words outside, he knew that he had arrived at the gate of the Imperial College.

When he lifted the curtain of the carriage, as expected, as soon as he stepped out, he saw two ferocious guards passing by, carrying a scholar who looked extremely embarrassed.

Even though he was grimacing at the rough actions of the guards, the scholar still shouted loudly in an almost distorted voice.

"Senior Hou! I, Zhao Chengliang, am here to accompany you!"

"Hunjun! Hunjun!"

"My fellow students, please don't just stand by and watch! Today, the tyrant emperor is killing our loyal people. Tomorrow, the tyrant emperor's butcher knife will be pointed at you!"

"Shut up!"

The escorting guards became impatient and rudely slapped the scholar twice, knocking one of his back teeth out. The scholar's face swelled up rapidly, becoming like a pig's head, and he was slapped unconscious.

After his ears were quiet, the guard was satisfied and carried the scholar away.

Zhang Wei, who was standing next to him, witnessed the whole thing.

"hiss---"

Zhang Wei took a deep breath, not knowing whether he was marveling at the brutality of the imperial guard's enforcement or at the stupidity of the scholar.

It’s so damn iron!

After watching the stubborn senior leave, Zhang Wei looked around and found that like himself, there were also many students at the gate of the Imperial College watching the tribute student who issued the warning leave.

Judging from the fire in their eyes, they were extremely restless at the moment. They were afraid that if someone else instigated them, these tribute students would do as their predecessors had done a few days ago and take a bus to the palace gate to write a letter and criticize the Golden Palace.

If Zhang Wei was still in school in his previous life, he might have been one of them, and maybe even become a leader and gain some reputation.

But unfortunately, Zhang Wei, who had seen a lot of filth in modern society before traveling through time, and a lot of filth in the feudal era after traveling through time, said that he had become a pathetic and shameful adult, and that his passion had been thrown into the time tunnel of traveling through time twenty years ago.

And after hearing and seeing so many things, Zhang Wei vaguely felt that something was wrong. In the past two days, so many scholars seemed to have discussed it beforehand, and they started a group with a strong purpose. It was hard not to make him feel that there was a big hand behind this, planning something.

As for these passionate tribute students, they are just pawns used by the manipulators in the game. No matter how good the banner is, it cannot withstand the impure purpose of the departure.

So Zhang Wei, who noticed this, gave an order directly to Zhang Da.

"Go away! Don't stay with these people!"

(End of this chapter)