"The Witch King Returns!"

Amid the desolate singing, a guide from the clan suddenly pointed at the valley and shouted excitedly.

Everyone looked over and saw a large group of people carrying a few huge things, rushing out, laughing and cheering all the way, looking very lively.

Several guides of the clan clan ran desperately into the valley. Soon, their extremely excited roar came: "Damn the devil!"

"Wow!"

The Five Ghosts gathered at the entrance of the valley were in a violent turmoil, and a large number of hunters rushed towards Xu Chen and others who had returned victoriously.

The remaining group of women, children, young and old were all so happy that they burst into tears.

This group of man-cannibal demons were like heavy mountains that could not be overturned by pressing on their heads, which made the entire tribe breathless and could not live a normal life like other tribes.

The devil died, and they could finally live the same peaceful life as before.

And they also believe that without the demons, the curse imposed by the gods on their heads will soon disappear, and the tribe will usher in happiness and light again.

"Your Majesty the Witch King!"

Xu Chen and others walked to the valley entrance surrounded by a large group of hunters of the Five Ghosts. The great witch, with women, children, young and old, lay on the ground, and welcomed his return with great devotion, and the title also became the title of respect for him by the Jia tribe.

Although no one understands what His Majesty the Witch King meant.

But this is Xu Chen's exclusive name.

It is said that the Ba tribe, Wu tribe and Gonghuo tribe are called this way and express the most noble awe.

Xu Chen, who returned from the Demon Slaying Victoriously, felt very relieved when he saw the grand welcome ceremony of the Five Ghosts Clans of such a large scale.

Although I wasted two days to kill these withered people, all the efforts are worth it.

It can be seen that this ghost-like tribe finally fully accepted and recognized its future status and was willing to collectively fall under its linen and shorts.

However, when he approached and raised his hand to help the witch up, he found that blood was flowing on her face, which looked even more terrifying and terrifying.

Several clan guides quickly explained that the witch was praying and blessings for them in a way of self-harm. This made Xu Chen's little anger left by hiding ghost fire when he entered the valley because of hiding ghost fire.

This once powerful tribe is so miserable that it can be understood even if it does something even more unreasonable.

Besides, this old witch is not bad either. She just wants her tribe to get rid of the demons and curses.

"Look, this is the man-cannibal demon that scares you, there are five in total..."

Xu Chen asked the hunters to throw the five giants killed on the ground.

When looking at these terrifying demons who are bigger than humans, with a face but with a giant bird's body, while the men, women, and young men of the Five Ghosts tribe were frightened and avoided, some people began to throw stones at them in anger.

Someone took the lead and was out of control. Countless stones crackled on the Giant Wither like hail. So the five Giant Wither, which had already been messy, quickly became messy and unrecognizable.

"Wait, stop smashing it, I still have any help with the feathers!"

Xu Chen quickly stopped him loudly.

After the clan guide and the translation of the paintings, the people of the Five Ghosts seemed to have found a more satisfying way. They rushed up and began to tear the giant withered feathers. So after a wave of feathers were flying all over the sky, when hundreds of people finished venting, the five giant withered feathers had become unbearable, and they turned into ugly pheasants with wings.

However, this still cannot make these five ghosts vent their hatred. They want to carry these demons back and eat them. So a large group of people helped Xu Chen pack his feathers, then carried the five scarred and hairless giant birds and went home cheerfully.

Several adults and children who acted as bait were unscathed and brought back to the patriarchs of several tribes for comfort.

Next, naturally, it was a routine grand bonfire dinner.

After the five big birds were dismantled, they put them on a bonfire and started barbecuing.

However, Xu Chen was not interested in this kind of human-eating giant bird. He asked the hunter who accompanied him to take out a pottery pot and pot to start cooking wheat beans and meat granules and other dry food to satisfy his hunger. As for the other people accompanying him, he would ignore whether he could eat a meal of demon meat. It is worth their praise for the rest of their lives.

...

Three days later.

Devil's Valley.

More than a dozen large and small piles of stones that were piled in the weeds in the past have been cleaned up.

All the remains of the weeds were collected and buried collectively at the foot of the mountain not far away.

The burial of bones is made of stones from the past.

But it piled up together and was larger in scale, like a huge grave.

When the demon was destroyed, it became a safe place. This huge tomb will also represent the burying of fear and looking forward to a happier and peaceful future.

After the clearing of the river stall, a two or three acres of land was built with a circle of wood and stone, and several wooden houses and several smelting furnaces were built inside.

Xu Chen and a group of Ba tribe hunters are leading the men, women, and young people of the Five Ghosts to participate in this hot project.

Xu Chen not only helped the Five Ghosts tribes kill the demons entrenched here, but also helped the Five Ghosts tribes find ways to drive away the curse.

Because the Five Ghosts Clan have been cursed by gods, the already sick tribe members will not be able to fully recover, but as long as they live in another place, they can gradually get rid of the curse and give birth to healthy and normal offspring in the future.

In addition, lead ore is a stone contaminated by demons and contains terrible toxins. Although applied to the body can cure skin diseases, it will cause deeper poisons in the body and cause various diseases, making people ugly and terrible. To eliminate this toxin, in addition to not being able to apply it to the body in the future, it is to completely burn this ore with fire and refine it into another metal.

This new metal can be used to make weapons that are sharper and stronger than stone swords, stone axes and beast teeth bones, which is the kind of daggers given to the Great Witch.

This is also a skill taught by the gods, which can just restrain this curse and stop spreading, and even turn poison into treasure.

After receiving these two methods of completely expelling the curse proposed by Xu Chen, the Great Witch of the Five Ghosts and all the tribesmen were grateful and expressed their willingness to mine and smelify this curse stone for Xu Chen for free in the future, but hoped that Xu Chen could help find a suitable new territory.

Xu Chen naturally couldn't ask for it, saying that he could help find a place with abundant water and soil in Gonghuo Bain and guide the construction of houses to farm so that they can live in peace.

The Five Ghosts are even more grateful. The Great Witch even said that as long as the clan members can get rid of the curse and give birth to a perfect and normal clan members to reproduce and survive, the Five Ghosts will be willing to help him mine and smel this metal from generation to generation.

So the two sides hit it off and the current hot construction scene was created.

The melting temperature of lead is very low, metal can melt after more than 300 degrees, and the temperature of smelting ore is even lower. Just a normal firewood temperature can be melted and smelted quickly.

The Ba people can now even smelp copper, and smelting this low-temperature metal is even more difficult.

Therefore, after three days of construction, this simple metal smelting plant is completed.

On the fourth day, Xu Chen, under the view of all the men, women, young and old, personally guided a group of men of the Five Ghosts to start the smelting of the first furnace of lead ore.

The smelting furnace is not high, only more than one meter. Because there are no bricks, it is built with stone and soil. Below is a fire stove, and above is a round semi-enclosed blast furnace. The inner wall is smoothed with clay. In order to gather heat and facilitate the addition of ore and slag, a circle of earth platforms is also built with stone and soil around the smelting furnace. The entire smelting furnace looks like a small fire kiln structure.

After the internal furnace is smoked dry, the cleaned galena ore is put in, and the firewood and grass are burned continuously.

Because there is no carbon and coal, this closed smelting furnace can only be used to smel sulphur-containing galena, which is useless for white lead ore that needs to be reduced with carbon. White lead ore is a mutant ore after oxidation and desulfurization in the air for a long time, so the quantity is not large. The lead ore in nature is almost all mainly galena, so this small soil blast furnace can only be used for desulfurization and reduction.

But this is enough now.

Although this consumes wood a lot and causes heat waste, the least valuable thing at the moment is wood.

The melting point of lead is indeed very low, which surprised Xu Chen.

The lead ore was put in and then started to melt after only about an hour of burning. As soon as the melting began, the aggregation effect would generate more concentrated heat. The furnace of ore melted quickly. The surface slag was constantly turned and the wet wooden stick was constantly turned to pick out, and then the lead ore continued to be added inside. The melted lead water was constantly melting the lead ore behind. After this continuous accumulation, three hours later, the stove was like a pot of red soup, and the onlookers were constantly exclaiming.

"It's almost done!"

Xu Chen was already sweating all over at this time and could no longer hold on. After ordering the fire, he used a spear to pry open a stone at the outlet of the juice. Then a red metal liquid flowed out along the juice, and then tilted downwards along a groove into the simple sand mold that had been made.

The temperature is low in the cold winter, and the melting temperature of lead metal is only more than 300 degrees, so it cools very quickly. Soon the metal liquid flows into the sand mold, and it quickly turns from a red color to a dark red color, and then turns blue-white. However, as the temperature drops further, it quickly turns into a dark gray color.

Lead should be blue-white and has a very beautiful color, but it is very easy to oxidize when exposed to air and heated. The surface will soon form an oxide film. Therefore, the lead sinker you see on weekdays is gray, and you can only see the true color in it by breaking it apart.

Because the melting points of lead and tin are extremely low, they will inevitably become the earliest metals in the history of human smelting, and were discovered longer than copper.

The huge atomic weight of lead also determines that it is a heavy metal with a high density. No matter how large the elements are, they are all radioactive. Therefore, lead is a strange thing in the metal world, heavy, toxic, without radioactive, extremely low melting point, soft and weak, so it can't do anything.

But for Xu Chen's current situation, the emergence of lead is undoubtedly of epoch-making significance.
Chapter completed!