Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 170: Continue practicing!
Lu Huang said, continue practicing...
If someone else said this , Tang Zheng would probably feel a little disappointed.
But who is Lu Huang? He is a famous caster on the continent. The number of people he has killed with the magic weapons he has cast in his life is probably more than the number of people Tang Zheng has seen since he entered Xingyao Continent!
Although there are more powerful casters above Lu Huang, but at least for Tang Zheng, he is almost a big shot that Tang Zheng should not come into contact with now.
Moreover, whether it is the seriousness in his attitude towards casting or his passion and dream for casting, Lu Huang has completely impressed Tang Zheng.
As Tang Zheng continued to pick up a few broken stones without saying a word, Lu Huang couldn't help but look at him several times.
Lu Huang did not dare to overestimate his emotional intelligence. He could only slightly feel that when Tang Zheng successfully used the crushing method to process a piece of stone for the first time, he poured a bucket of cold water on him, as if there was something wrong...
However, Tang Zheng did not show any "inappropriate" behavior, which made Lu Huang think more highly of his character.
"With such a character, it's never too late to get started..." Lu Huang praised silently in his heart, and became more determined to bring Tang Zheng into Bailianfang.
Tang Zheng did not force himself to continue, but took a short break. When he picked up the second broken stone, he heard Lu Huang say "Hurry up", and he immediately sped up his processing speed.
Selection, grinding, purification, crushing...
Tang Zheng's star power continued to flow in his palm. He took every step very carefully. He had obviously increased the speed, but when he finished, he found that it seemed to take longer than the last time.
What was processed out of the second piece of broken stone was not the transparent crystal like last time, but a small ball of black dust.
Taiyin Yuantie!
However, his process was different from that of Lu Huang. Although the broken stone he got was several times smaller than that of Lu Huang, Lu Huang had a piece of iron particle flashing with cold light in his hand, while he could only make a pile of powder.
This time, Lu Huang didn't need to say anything. Tang Zheng took a short break and picked up the third piece...
It was quiet and silent beside the cold pond.
Lu Huang's constellation was always behind him. The six bright stars were not only dazzling, but also exuded an invisible pressure. Not only the beasts nearby, but even the monsters that wanted to come to the nearby stream to drink water did not dare to show up. They went far downstream to drink a few sips of water and then left quickly.
Time passed little by little...
The cold air around him was getting heavier. Tang Zheng kept dealing with the broken stones. When he looked up again, he found that it was already dark.
Maybe it was because they had eaten too much at lunch, or maybe it was too important to process the materials, so no one seemed hungry yet.
Luo Fei, who was sitting next to Tang Zheng, carefully weighed the amount of each kind of ore and did not dare to relax for a moment. He had the heaviest workload. Nine of the fourteen fan ribs used ore, a total of thirty-nine types, and all of them needed him to process.
Although Lu Huang's workload was not the largest, it was the most difficult. The remaining five of the fourteen fan ribs and the seventeen kinds of materials were all difficult to purify or fragile, and many of them were even raw materials.
Finally, Tang Zheng's gaze fell on Hua Yingxiu...
Behind her, on the constellation of a seven-feathered peacock, three bright stars were adorned on the peacock's tail feathers like gems, and looked particularly beautiful in the night. On her hands were two extremely thin silver needles, and the star power extended on the silver needles, with dots of pink. The strands of red spider golden silk followed the two silver needles and entered a layer of star power, gradually turning into a thin gauze with silver glow like moonlight, and spread out like a miniature waterfall.
His fan has a total of four layers, and the red spider golden silk is used for the outermost two layers. Seeing the pleasing fabric in Hua Yingxiu's hands, Tang Zheng can't wait to see the finished product!
"Come on." Seeing Lu Huang, Luo Fei and Hua Yingxiu all concentrating on the materials in their hands, Tang Zheng did not take a break this time and directly dealt with the next broken stone.
…
The night gradually deepened.
Tang Zheng had extracted more than twenty kinds of things from the broken stones, and Lu Huang didn't say a single word except to keep throwing broken stones at him.
Tang Zheng fully understood that this was simply the alien version of the sea of questions tactic!
Don’t ask anything, just practice first.
When Tang Zheng was able to make the more than 20 kinds of extracted substances into shapes and powders, Lu Huang nodded...
"Passed?" Tang Zheng asked more cautiously this time.
"Well, processing broken stones... is qualified." Lu Huang nodded again.
"..." Tang Zheng was glad that he didn't ask whether he could deal with the Fu Bi Shattered Stone.
As Lu Huang spoke, he threw over another crystal clear stone.
As soon as Tang Zheng received it, he felt a strong chill coming towards him. He subconsciously circulated the star power in his palm in the same way as receiving materials.
When he saw the stone, his expression changed slightly.
That stone!
He remembers it so clearly!
Last time, he was accidentally tricked by a six-eared white plum deer and accidentally slipped into a cold pond of clear water. When he climbed up with two daggers crossed and reached the entrance of the cave, his [Unsheathed] accidentally pierced such a stone.
At that time, it was this ice stone that caused Tang Zheng's sword to freeze rapidly and become heavier, and he unfortunately fell into the cold pond!
This time, even though Tang Zheng used the same method to process materials and held the Ice Stone in his hand, he could still feel the shocking cold air coming...
It was a chill that almost froze one to the bone!
If it weren't for his amazing willpower, Tang Zheng would have almost thrown the ice stone far away from his hand.
"Processing ordinary stones only makes you familiar with the entire process of the crushing method. In fact, you have only taken the first step in mastering the entire crushing technique. Next, through the ice stone, you can take the real technique of the crushing method to a higher level." Lu Huang said, and then immediately lowered his head and continued to process his own materials.
"Yeah." Tang Zheng responded.
By selecting and removing so many impurities from the rocks he now has a much deeper understanding of the properties of different materials.
From the very beginning, when I got an ordinary stone, the whole process from selection to final crushing took more than half an hour at the beginning to just over a quarter of an hour now, which is a rapid improvement.
Now, the only thing left to do is to practice again and again to master the technique of stone crushing.
There is really no shortcut in the field of casting!
It will definitely not work if you just stay at the theory like he did before. Even if you have a high level of comprehension or great talent, the best you can do is to reduce the number of times you practice from 10,000 to 8,000.
Tang Zheng didn't think any more and started to use the stone crushing method on the ice stone.
As soon as the star power extended into the ice stone, Tang Zheng felt that the star power resonance of this stone was much higher than those stubborn stones picked up from the ground.
Except that during the process of extending the star power, the chill from the ice stone was still constantly eroding his star veins, but the first step of selection was completed smoothly.
Soon, very conspicuous star power veins began to flash on the ice stone.
Grinding, start!
Tang Zheng moved his fingers slightly, and he immediately found that this time, it was far less easy than before.
The hardness of ice stone is completely different from those ordinary stones. Therefore, the force required for grinding has also undergone a huge leap. Tang Zheng found that he could only grind off a little bit of impurities and debris on the ice stone each time.
At this speed, it would take until tomorrow morning to grind away a piece of ice stone, right?
His star power can't sustain grinding a piece of ice stone all night long...
Tang Zheng took a deep breath and did not hold back. Instead, he sped up the circulation of his star power. After about an hour, the grinding step was finally completed.
He paused for a moment, letting his two sore and swollen arms rest for a while, before moving on to the purification step.
Similarly, purification also caused Tang Zheng a lot of trouble.
The high hardness of ice stone not only requires a lot of strength, but also requires extremely precise control of that strength. If you are not careful and use too much force, a large piece of the originally usable stone will be removed!
Purification once again consumed a lot of Tang Zheng's time.
However, when he saw the thumb-thick, crystal-white stone lying in the palm of his hand, he felt a slight sense of accomplishment.
A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step!
There is still one final pressing process to get the final material!
Tang Zheng gathered all his strength and mobilized his star power, rushing towards the crystal white stone in his hand.
The last step didn't take too long.
After a moment, Tang Zheng suddenly relaxed his whole body, retracted his star power, and began to breathe heavily. He had been circulating the star power for such a long time in one breath that he could hardly hold on any longer.
However, when he looked at the ice stone in his hand, he was completely stunned.
The ice stone was still the same size as a thumb, and its texture had not changed at all.
In other words…
It is still exactly the same!
"This simply proves the famous saying, life is like squatting on the toilet. After working hard for a long time, all you get is just a fart!" Tang Zheng said self-deprecatingly while looking at the ice stone in his hand.
Gathering his star power, Tang Zheng tried again...
After struggling for a while, he found that he really had no way to deal with this ice stone. It was useless to mobilize the star power frantically, and it was also useless to reduce the contact area.
In short, the difficulty of crushing the ice stone was far beyond Tang Zheng's imagination!
If we say that crushing ordinary rocks before only turns carbon into diamonds.
Then, the feeling of crushing ice stone is like crushing a diamond into a white dwarf!
"Come again!" Tang Zheng looked at the ice stone in his hand, and a long-lost fire ignited in his heart, "Oh, I just don't believe it..."
