Chapter 32 Sword Forging Master

Just as I spoke, the old blacksmith had turned his gaze to my direction: "Young man, are you very patient!"

It seems that the old blacksmith has known about my arrival for a long time, and maybe it is a test.

I was secretly happy in my heart, but at the top I said seriously: "It's not that I have good patience, but that every time you hit me, I feel a new feeling, as if there is a truth in your movements."

This is not a lie. Although this feeling is very vague, the knocking action does contain something that is indescribable. Just like a martial arts master, his every move he usually contains profound martial arts philosophy.

"Haha, the young man is pretty! You can actually see this." The old blacksmith happily touched the thick beard on his chin that looked a little yellow due to the high temperature of the stove, and looked at me and said, "For your patience, I can build a weapon for you for free."

Creating weapons? Now I use the most bows and arrows, and I already have the "golden hunting bow". I believe that it will definitely be the first among the bows. I also have the sword. The Tiger King Battle Sword is silver equipment. Although it is not very good in terms of attributes. However, I usually use the bows and arrows as attack methods and cooperate with trap techniques, so I rarely use the Tiger King Battle Sword now.

I didn't need the same other things. I realized at this time that I didn't need any equipment, and I was still here for nearly a day. I smiled bitterly and shook my head, so stupid.

My wry smile shook my head but in the eyes of the old blacksmith, I turned into another meaning.

"What, are you afraid I can't build good weapons?" The old blacksmith was a little anxious: "No matter what weapon it is, as long as you sign up for it, I promise to build it for you."

As he said that, he glanced at me and said, "Look at you as a hunter, then I will build a hunting bow for you. I promise at least it is silver equipment."

Hey? Silver equipment? The old blacksmith is so powerful? I looked at the old blacksmith again, and the old blacksmith also put on a very good look of his master's style. The interesting old man is completely different from the calm personality he had when he was hitting the iron.

I don’t need silver equipment, but it’s a good idea to make money with it. But when I think of the other party’s confident look, I kept making things difficult for him and said, “I don’t need silver equipment. I need an arrow that can shoot through the ‘Red Refining King Snake’. I wonder if you can build it?”

"Red Refining King Snake?" The old blacksmith looked surprised and said suspiciously: "With your strength, you can actually reach the top of Tianshan Mountain? It's impossible, you are just a hunter now."

"Of course it's impossible for me to be alone, but what if I add an evolved bald eagle king?" Hehe, Xiaobai's existence is my greatest arm helper, otherwise I will be in danger even when facing the red snake, let alone the Red Refining King Snake at the monster level?

"It's incredible. Now you have learned the art of subjugation. It seems that there are talented people in the world!" When the old blacksmith heard my words, he sighed, like a real person, which made me amazed at the extraordinaryness of the so-called intelligent program.

Seeing that the old blacksmith was inclined to fall into his own contemplation, I hurriedly asked, "So, can you create such an arrow?"

Hearing my words, the old blacksmith was slightly stunned and replied: "Of course, if anyone else in Pangu City could create such an arrow, then there is only one person - Qu Yezi."

Qu Yezi? The famous sword-making master Qu Yezi in the Spring and Autumn Period? The five famous swords he cast, such as pure hooks, Yuyan, Panying, Zhanlu, and Juque, were passed down through the ages.

I was a little confused. The inconspicuous old man in front of me was actually Qu Yezi. My waiting was just not wanting to miss an opportunity. Is it true that the old saying: It is hidden in the city?

In his random thoughts, Qu Yezi continued: "However, casting such arrows requires some special minerals and other materials. Without these, I would be 'a good cook without rice'!"

Is this still an NPC? Even the sentence "A good cook cannot cook without rice" can be said, and I am speechless. However, I dare not ignore the words of this sword-casting master and asked, "What are you needed, I promise to find it for you."

Qu Yezi smiled and touched his beard and said, "It's not something particularly good. Thousand-year-old cold iron, manganese ore, tungsten ore and ten thousand-year-old stone milk; of course, there are no thousand-year-old cold iron and ten thousand-year-old stone milk, and a hundred-year-old one can make do with it, but the things made are much worse."

It’s okay to say that manganese ore and tungsten ore are rare ores, but they are not difficult to find. Players who practice blacksmith skills will definitely have a few pieces in their hands. At most, Kongkonger will help you. I believe this is easy to do; but the thousand-year-old cold iron and ten thousand-year-old stone milk are too outrageous. The former, as the name suggests, should be the main material for casting arrows, and is a very rare treasure; the latter is even more precious. It is said that every drop of ten thousand-year-old stone milk can increase the internal strength of a samurai. Even if you don’t have internal strength, it will still greatly enhance your physical fitness. But now Qu Yezi actually uses it to cast arrows, which is really strange.

"Master, although I have heard of these things, I don't know where these things are." I said helplessly.

"I have many problems. In order to find the materials for sword casting, I traveled thousands of miles, so I know the origin of these materials very well. Manganese ore and tungsten ore are just additives, which are very ordinary, so I won't say much about it. And I have seen the thousand-year-old cold iron in two places, namely the 'lava cave' of Zhuque City and the 'Five Stone Mountain' of Nuwa City; ten thousand-year-old stone milk is hard to see in the world, but by chance, I discovered something in the 'ten thousand-year-old cave' outside Pangu City. In fact, the arrow you need to cast does not necessarily require ten thousand-year-old stone milk, but if it is quenched with the diluted ten thousand-year-old stone milk, then the cold iron arrow will never be damaged."

Never be damaged? What is this? After the system is upgraded, the relevant regulations on durability have also changed. In addition to the unchanged "equipment with lower durability will be completely damaged", every reduction in durability means that the attack or defense of the weapon and equipment will be reduced a little. At the same time, the lower the durability, the additional attributes of the weapon and equipment will also be reduced accordingly.

The only way to improve the durability of weapons and equipment is to repair it through blacksmiths or cast again in serious cases. Even if the former is repaired perfectly, it will reduce the maximum value of durability; while the latter depends on the casting skills of the blacksmith. If the skill is too weak, perhaps a piece of equipment that can be used may be scrapped like this.

Therefore, it is impossible to "never damage". But if you think about it, if you want to use the above powerful materials, it may be possible. However, such a cold iron arrow can probably become an immortal weapon. You are secretly happy and decided to find these materials no matter what.

"Master, I will definitely find these materials." I assured Qu Yezi seriously.

"Okay! OK! OK!" Qu Yezilian said three words "Okay" and said happily: "It's good that you have this determination. However, there are great difficulties and cannot be completed in a short time. I will give you a year. If you can find these things within a year, then I will not only create cold iron arrows for you for free, but in the future you will be able to cast equipment, I will only charge you half the price."

Haha, why would I not agree to such a good thing? I asked about the specific situation of several places such as "Lava Cave". I left the iron shop in Quyezi and returned to "Longhuxuan".

After dinner, I hurriedly went online to prepare my "treasure hunting plan".

According to Qu Yezi, the "lava cave" in Zhuque City is a cave formed after the eruption of a volcano. The magma in the cave is rolling and the temperature is extremely high, which is difficult for ordinary people to bear. However, in this extremely hot environment, extremely cold "cold iron" has been generated. This is really "natural creation, everything is strange."

It is very difficult to get into a "lava cave". First of all, you need to fly over a cliff that is twenty feet long, which is not a problem for me. Secondly, you need to wear high-temperature resistant equipment, which is quite troublesome, but I believe it can be solved. Lastly, there is a guardian beast in the "lava cave" that protects the "cold iron".

Just like the Red Refining King Snake that protects "Snow Lotus", "Cold Iron" is also protected by monsters at the level of monsters. Its name is "Flame Beast". It looks very similar to the "Qilin" in ancient legends. It emits raging fire all over its body. It can easily release various advanced spells with fire attributes, and its attack power is very powerful.

Of course, it also has weaknesses, that is, it is fear of the derivative Taoist technique of water-attributed Taoism - ice-attributed Taoism. But for me, I can't do this at all, so I can only give up.

The "Five Stone Mountain" in Nuwa City is named after the five-colored stones left by Nuwa repairing the sky in ancient times. "Five Stone Mountain" has five attributes (gold, wood, water, earth, and fire). These monsters are between monsters and boss-level monsters and can use some spells of their own attributes. I think there are ways to deal with them. After all, my novice is at this level, and with my hunter skills, I should be competent.

As for the "Wan Grottoes", it is a huge grotto in the west outside Pangu City, with countless inverted stalagmites inside, and the monsters are of great level. According to the players who came back from there, the monsters there are generally one or two higher than the monsters outside, perhaps because of the environment.

Looking for ten thousand-year-old stone milk from the huge grottoes is like looking for a needle. However, I don’t care very much about whether I can find ten thousand-year-old stone milk. Even if I can’t find it, Qu Yezi can cast cold iron arrows, but it lacks the attribute of “can never be damaged”. This is not the most important thing to me.

I contacted Kongkong'er and asked him to help me purchase some manganese ore and tungsten ore. Of course, I also told Xiaolong to post a notice on the acquisition of both. Everything was ready, and I rode Xiaobai toward the target - Nuwa City.

Nuwa City is located northeast of Pangu City. Passing a vast hill and a large river (Canglan River), you can see the architectural style of Nuwa City with a very classical charm. Although I was very interested in Nuwa City, I did not enter the city and directly bypassed the huge city and flew to the "Five Stone Mountain" in the north.

"Five Stone Mountain" is easy to identify. In a huge lake, the five mountains are arranged in a circular shape. Although Qu Yezi told me that I had to defeat five monsters to get "cold iron", I did not tell me specifically what monster I was going to face. The statement "Five Elements" is too general.

I was about to fly to the "Five Stone Mountain", but suddenly a water column rose from the lake. If it weren't for Xiaobai's alertness, I would have ended up with a "swallowed chicken". In a blink of an eye, I saw the culprit slowly surfaced, and it was an octopus.

Octopus? Yes, the eight tentacles are very clear; this can be determined by the name - the blue octopus.

I felt very funny when I saw its name. It was already funny to appear in this inland lake, and it was also a blue octopus. The blue octopus is worthy of its name. Its whole body is light blue and slightly green. The eight tentacles are very thick, and the sound of breaking through the air is caused by waving.

When you look at the "reconnaissance technique", the level is between 45 and 50. According to previous experience, the real level is estimated to be at level 60 or 70. Then this blue octopus should be the water-based monster among the five monsters mentioned by Qu Yezi.

It is best to have mutually restrained spells when dealing with monsters with water attributes. But I don’t have any spells, and the only long-range attack method is bows and arrows; coupled with Xiaobai’s ability to fly over, the blue octopus cannot cause substantial damage to me, and the blue and black poisonous juice it spits cannot reach me at all.

As I kept shooting with bows and arrows, the blue octopus began to retreat and slowly sank into the water. I was powerless to do anything about the blue octopus that sunk into the water, and the bows and arrows could not play any role. In desperation, I had to let Xiaobai fly directly over the lake from a high altitude, which was a pity for such a good monster.
Chapter completed!