Start with a blacksmith shop.

Thinking of this, Li Zhenhua recalled the scene in the school laboratory earlier.

I've only seen this metal testing machine once.

Just after Li Zhenhua thought of this device, a metal material testing machine appeared in the room.

This time, Li Zhenhua confirmed that the device he had seen once could indeed be materialized.

If that's the case, then can those devices that we've never seen before also be brought to life?

What kind of equipment had he never seen before? Then Li Zhenhua thought of a large steelmaking furnace.

But this time nothing happened in the space, just like before.

It seems that this is a device that has never been seen before, and there is no way to realize it in this virtual laboratory!

With a touch of regret, Li Zhenhua then adjusted his mind.

The ability to visualize what we see is an amazing feature.

From now on, it will be like having a private laboratory.

Thinking about it this way, Li Zhenhua immediately felt that he was really awesome.

Inside the laboratory, Li Zhenhua was testing various functions, such as whether the materialized blacksmith's furnace could be ignited, and whether the metal material testing machine could test the tensile strength and other values ​​of the material!

This experiment continued until the next morning, while Li Zhenhua was testing the ductility of a piece of metal in the room.

A rooster crowed from the room.

Upon hearing the crowing sound, Li Zhenhua knew that it was the rooster that often woke him up.

"Damn, I can still hear that wretched chicken squawking here! It's really persistent!"

At this moment, Li Zhenhua knew he should get up, but he was still in the laboratory. How was he going to get out?

Li Zhenhua had just thought of this when he left the laboratory.

When I opened my eyes, the ceiling above me was still bare, with only a single light bulb.

"Huh? I'm out? It's that easy? But when I said I was coming out, why didn't I get any response?"

Li Zhenhua then thought that since he had come out, could he go back in?

"Go in!"

After just a moment's thought, the scene before Li Zhenhua changed once again.

He returned to the virtual laboratory, to a very empty room with nothing in it.

"Alright, I'm in now. I can come and go as I please, that's great!"

The virtual laboratory is not very useful to Li Zhenhua now, as he has no work that requires the use of a laboratory.

The rooster has crowed; it's time for him to go out and work.

After getting up, washing up, going downstairs to exercise, and taking care of my personal matters...

Li Zhenhua went into the yard and turned on the electric heater.

They turned on the cameras at Guo Shugui's two fixed positions and switched them to video recording mode.

The steel, which had already undergone two folding and forging processes yesterday, was stuffed into the electric heating furnace.

Soon the red-hot iron block was clamped out again and placed on the air hammer to be hammered.

Clang, clang, clang

The iron block was smashed and deformed, transforming into the shape Li Zhenhua desired.

Li Zhenhua completed the process of folding and forging the raw materials once again.

Two people walked in from outside, but Li Zhenhua didn't even look up.

He knew that these must be his two assistants.

Sure enough, as soon as Guo Shugui arrived, he immediately got into the zone, took out his handheld filming equipment, and confronted Li Zhenhua.

Liu Xiaodong also came to Li Zhenhua's side and began his own work.

Two days passed quickly, and the materials, through the combined efforts of the three, underwent their fifteenth folding and forging.

After folding it fifteen times, Li Zhenhua had a piece of forged steel in front of him.

This patterned steel was folded fifteen times, more than 32,700 times, to create a beautiful pattern.

"Hua Zi, is this patterned steel? I heard people say it's called hundred-chain steel, isn't it?"

I think we've only gone through fifteen rounds of folding and forging.

There are still over eighty more refinements to go before reaching the hundredth refinement level!

Guo Shugui lay on top of the patterned steel, carefully observing it, and asked his question.

I noticed that the steel also has patterns, but these patterns are different from those of Damascus steel and are not as clear.

"Haha, Guoba, you don't actually think that 100-times-refined steel really requires folding and forging a hundred times, do you?!"

Then you're really wrong. If this steel could be folded a hundred times...

Putting aside everything else, the metal fatigue of the material alone can make the steel of extremely poor quality.

This "hundred-times-refined steel" doesn't mean it has to be folded a hundred times; it's a general figure.

The steel we produced this time was only the result of fifteen trials.

Moreover, in my experience, this has already reached its limit; if it's folded just once more, the steel will be ruined.

Upon hearing Guo Shugui's words, Li Zhenhua immediately explained the meaning of "hundred-refined steel" to him, so that they wouldn't be embarrassed if they didn't know it when they went out.

The two immediately became sycophants as Li Zhenhua explained things to them.

"Thanks to my brother Zhenhua for the explanation, awesome 666!" the two shouted at the same time.

"Alright, you two, stop it. You're making me feel embarrassed!" Li Zhenhua replied to the two of them, feigning shyness.

Upon hearing Li Zhenhua's words, both of them felt nauseous at his sudden change.

A feeling of wanting to vomit but being unable to do so washed over both of them.

"Okay, okay, stop joking around."

Now that we have the materials for making the blade blanks, we will proceed with the blade blank making process.

Upon hearing Li Zhenhua's words, Guo Shugui and Liu Xiaodong also abandoned their previous playful attitude.

"Hua Zi, let's begin."

"The sooner we finish, the sooner we can get some rest," Liu Xiaodong said to Li Zhenhua.

The iron block was once again fed into the electric heating furnace and quickly turned red-hot.

Li Zhenhua picked out the red-hot iron block and placed it on the anvil, while Liu Xiaodong stood to the side holding the sledgehammer.

Ding ding ding ding ding...

Guo Shugui would point the camera at Li Zhenhua for a while, and then at the deforming iron block.

Liu Xiaodong's sledgehammer struck the iron block, while Li Zhenhua's small hammer struck the anvil.

Guo Shugui couldn't help but shout out, "Eighty! Eighty! Eighty! Eighty! Forty! Eighty! Eighty!..."

Liu Xiaodong was vigorously swinging the sledgehammer when he suddenly heard Guo Shugui shouting from the side.

It almost strained his back; upon hearing that sound, he could already picture it in his mind!

Liu Xiaodong put down the sledgehammer and said to Guo Shugui, "What are you doing! What are you doing! What are you doing!"

Looking at the changing style of the Spring Festival Gala skit, Li Zhenhua suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion.

"Can you two be serious for once? We're doing serious business here."

If you two want to perform a skit, can you do it when we have some free time?

Your art style changed way too fast!