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

Chapter 14: Crafting Weapons with Your Own Hands

For eight consecutive days, Jiang Lin, apart from making fire, continued to eliminate the defects of his own set of iron tools after the other blacksmiths left.

A sledgehammer, a small hammer, fire tongs, iron shears, anvil, drill, iron axle, and iron ruler, a total of eight items.

Rubbing his sore wrists, Jiang Lin gathered all the iron tools into a pile.

【Iron ruler of average quality】

[Anvil of average quality]

【Average quality drill bits】

……

All ironware is prefixed with "average quality", which means it has been upgraded to a high grade.

Jiang Lin tried it with other people's iron tools. He used two hammers to hit the iron tools together and it only took a few hits to make a dent.

There is still a big gap between good quality and poor quality ironware.

Touching the smooth and bright iron ruler and looking at the harvest of eight days, I feel very satisfied.

Various skills and techniques are not far from being upgraded again, especially the fire-making technique. I thought it would take a long time to reach a proficiency of 5,000.

But with special approval from Zhao Yankui, he was able to improve his proficiency quite quickly by serving three furnaces every day.

By now, Jiang Lin has become very accustomed to burning three stoves at the same time, which makes him think that if he can have his own stove in the future, he must get a few more furnace cavities.

The fire essence has been almost collected, but the gold essence is still a long way off.

Jiang Lin originally thought that eight pieces of iron tools were enough to complete the collection of gold essence, but he did not expect that except for the sledgehammer and the anvil, the gold essence provided by other iron tools was getting less and less.

This may be because these iron objects are not the most important part in the casting process.

In addition, his skill of being observant did not improve along with his training skills, which made Jiang Lin quite confused.

Is it possible that this skill can no longer be upgraded?
However, he was not too disappointed. Judging from the current results, they were already amazing enough.

For Jiang Lin, the most important thing is gold essence. He really wants to know what benefits the upgraded furnace baking method will bring him.

After all, compared to casting, the furnace baking method is an improvement on itself, and its significance far exceeds other methods.

However, judging from the current progress, the best way to quickly collect gold essence is to forge a high-quality weapon by yourself.

Jiang Lin glanced at his hammering proficiency. He only needed thirty-six hammers to upgrade. By then, the accuracy should be 100%, which means he can formally learn the hammering technique.

Do you want to max out your proficiency tonight?

Before he could come up with an answer, Zhao Yankui's angry voice could be heard outside the blacksmith shop: "This hypocrite, this sinister villain! I knew he wouldn't let it go, but I didn't expect him to be so despicable!"

Seeing Zhao Yankui and Qi the Blacksmith coming in, Jiang Lin quickly put down what he was holding and said, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

Blacksmith Qi said worriedly, "Jiang Lin, you are in trouble now."

Jiang Lin was a little confused. How could it be so bad?
Zhao Yankui said in a deep voice: "I don't know how Dong Songchang persuaded Master Sijiang to add a test specifically for apprentices before the regular test this year. If you fail, you will be punished with thirty strokes of the cane."

The caning used in the Daqian Dynasty was not with a wooden stick, but with an iron stick.

Those who are weak might be beaten to death by thirty sticks.

Although Jiang Lin was surprised, he was not too nervous. Before he could speak, Zhao Yankui said, "If the test was about fire-making skills, you would definitely be the best. But that sinister Dong Songchang actually put you on the list of apprentices in the forging area in advance." Qi the blacksmith said, "The apprentice test will be tomorrow. The two of us will practice with you tonight and try to pass it!"

Having said that, Qi the Blacksmith and Zhao Yankui obviously had little confidence.

Jiang Lin has been busy making fire recently and has never touched a hammer. Now that he is suddenly asked to take a test on hammering skills, it is inevitable that he will fail the test.

Although caning may not necessarily result in death, what if Dong Songchang did something during the caning?

Zhao Yankui was very annoyed. It was obvious that Dong Songchang was targeting Jiang Lin, otherwise how could he not have heard any rumors and have such a thing suddenly come up?

Seeing the two blacksmiths looking worried, Jiang Lin became calmer.

"It just so happens that I want to try to make a weapon myself, so I would like to ask Master and Master Qi for guidance."

"You are quite steady, you don't seem scared at all," Zhao Yangkui said.

Jiang Lin smiled and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. It's just an apprenticeship test. Master, don't you have any confidence in your apprentice? Maybe I can win first place in the test."

Zhao Yankui's lips trembled, but he didn't say anything, mainly because he was afraid of hurting Jiang Lin's self-esteem.

Even though the apprentices in the hammering area of ​​the Southern Blacksmith Camp are not very skilled, they have been honing their skills here for several years. They are definitely better than you who have barely hit anyone with a hammer.

He sighed and said, "Okay, it's good that you have this drive. Now, what kind of weapon do you want to make?"

"Master, what do you think is good?" Jiang Lin asked.

Zhao Yankui took a deep breath and said, "Let's start with the sword. This is the simplest weapon."

"It's all up to you, Master. But if I want to do it myself, you can just give me some guidance." Jiang Lin said.

Zhao Yankui did not refuse. After all, the test required Jiang Lin to do it himself.

The so-called "sharpening a gun in the face of battle" is a waste of unhappiness.

Under the guidance of Zhao Yankui, Jiang Lin found a large piece of pig iron and started the furnace.

In order to save time, he directly raised the fire temperature to 1,500 degrees and completed the firing at the fastest speed.

"I'll hold the embryo for you." said Qi the blacksmith.

"Thank you, Master Qi." Jiang Lin handed over the fire tongs.

Blacksmith Qi took it in his hand and let out a light exclamation.

This pair of tongs looks very special, with a smooth black surface. Compared with those used by other blacksmiths, they are obviously of higher quality.

Jiang Lin raised the hammer and said, "Master Qi, I'm going to start smashing it."

Blacksmith Qi didn't have time to think about the quality of the tongs. He nodded quickly and said, "Let's get started."

Jiang Lin didn't say anything and hit the red-hot iron block with a hammer.

Sparks flew everywhere. Blacksmith Qi was holding the blank with one hand, and habitually reached for the hammer with his other hand.

As a result, the hammer hit him so hard that his whole body went numb and he was horrified. How could there be such great power?
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