Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 76 is out, full resonance hilt
Bang!
As soon as Ban Yiluo finished speaking, a circle of black smoke rose from the rain and shine stove.
"Cough cough cough cough..." Ban Yilou was choked and tears were streaming down his face. Fortunately, Zhang Xing did not make any mistakes.
"Hold on, hold on, Master!"
"Fuck, my life will be lost in your hands sooner or later!" Ban Yiluo took a deep breath and steadied the weathervane in his hand.
But the next moment, Ban Yilou felt his star power become chaotic...
The weather and rain stove in his hand actually had a crack in the middle.
"It's broken!" Ban Yiluo shouted.
"It can be done..." Tang Zheng quickly sped up the process.
Bang, bang.
Two more wisps of black smoke rose up, covering Tang Zheng and Ban Yilou with dust.
Ban Yilou noticed something was wrong and said, "Danger! Get out of the way. Your hasty actions will only make things worse..."
Tang Zheng raised his head and corrected him, "This is called being in a mess! I can't do everything by myself!"
"That's not the point!" Ban Yiluo yelled.
The crack made a cracking sound and then split crookedly up and down.
Tang Zheng complained: "I spent more than twenty taels of purple gold to buy a well-known furnace, how come the quality is so poor?"
Ban Yilou rolled his eyes at him and said, "Don't you even look at what kind of materials you threw in there?"
"The furnace is bad, so you blame the materials?"
"You are a normal person, you take the Ten-Ingredient Pills every day, and see if you will die or not?"
"..." Tang Zheng curled his lips, "Forget it, I'll have another one later."
"No more to sell!" Ban Yiluo tried his best to stabilize the foundry furnace. "The Qingyu furnace is already the best furnace in the cabinet. Other furnaces are even more vulnerable in front of your materials."
Boom, bang, bang, bang…
As he was speaking, a sound like firecrackers came from the stove!
"Be careful." Tang Zheng didn't care about the finished product anymore. He pushed Ban Yiluo away and used star power to cover the entire furnace.
The power of the sun extends into the furnace.
The power of the moon, controls the stars!
"Annealing." Tang Zheng had just cast both the handle and the blade of the dagger, and the only thing left was the last step - annealing.
From the notebook that Ban Yiluo took out, we can see that the annealing step is the most difficult!
Because annealing requires the use of star power to keep the semi-finished product at a constant temperature for a certain period of time before it can be slowly cooled down. If there is any error in the control of the star power, the annealing will fail.
Ban Yiluo had already stepped aside, watching the cracks in the furnace gradually grow larger, his breathing becoming heavier.
If Tang Zheng had three stars now, with the power of the sun and the moon in his first life palace, he might really be able to complete this casting.
Unfortunately, Tang Zheng only has one star.
Bang bang bang.
Clank... Clank...
Tang Zheng couldn't hold on for too long.
Sure enough, not long after, the Qingyu furnace in his hand finally broke free from the constraints of his star power and broke into two halves!
The two parts of the weathervane also fell to the ground.
The famous high-end foundry furnace was destroyed just like that.
Tang Zheng's face was dark as he picked up the two parts from the ground.
Both items were black and looked very unlucky.
"Give it to me!" Ban Yilou quickly snatched the two parts from Tang Zheng's hands, "Tsk..."
"Burned into charcoal?" Tang Zheng's mind gradually opened up, "Could it be that I just happened to develop a new material?"
Ban Yiluo glared at him unhappily.
Using a furnace worth twenty-five taels of purple gold, plus materials worth one hundred taels of purple gold, even if new materials are really developed, who can afford it?
Ban Yiluo took a basin of ice water from the ice cellar and cleaned the two parts of the dagger.
Tang Zheng took another closer look and his heartbeat suddenly slowed down.
The handle has different shades and colors, just like a leaf in the forest. When held in the dark, the color is darker, but when held under the light, it emits a layer of soft light. The blade is as thin as a cicada's wing, reflecting the cold and sharp murderous intent...
Ban Yiluo took Tang Zheng back to the outer pavilion. He fumbled under the counter for a long time and pulled out a glove-like object.
There was only one glove, but it was a half-finger glove with very complicated lines on it. Even Tang Zheng couldn't find the starting and ending points at a glance.
After Ban Yilou put on the glove, his star power began to circulate. He grasped the handle of the knife, and the star power spread out...
The array patterns on the glove were lit up in circles. Ban Yilou's star power kept on watching. The more he watched, the wider his eyes became: "Seventy... eighty... ninety, it's actually over ninety!"
"..." Although Tang Zheng didn't know what he was doing, he roughly knew that this might be one of the ways to measure the resonance of star power.
"Ninety-four!" Ban Yiluo finally shouted, "Star Force Resonance Degree Ninety-four! This is... a fully resonant hilt!"
Tang Zheng gave him a strange look: "Fully resonant hilt?"
"Fully resonant hilt!" Ban Yiluo excitedly held up the hilt and swung it around like a three-year-old child.
"Full resonance... shouldn't it refer to a star power resonance of 100..."
"Star power resonance degree is 100?" Ban Yilou looked at him as if he were a primary school student. "How could you come up with that!"
"Can't you do it?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Of course not!" Ban Yilou said, "When the star power resonance is above 90, the star power can basically be extended without any delay, so it is called 'full resonance components'. With full resonance components, it is easy to cast a high-resonance finished product!"
Although Ban Yilou was a little surprised by the result, he was still mentally prepared.
After all, he saw more than just the dagger!
It’s also the money invested in this dagger!
You know, this is just a one-star dagger, but its cost is already several hundred taels of purple gold.
Ban Yiluo estimated that the people at Bailianfang would vomit blood when they saw the finished dagger.
Those are all precious, rare and valuable materials!
Most of the casters in the Bailian Workshop in Wulong Town may never have touched it once in their lives, let alone have the honor of using it once.
"Hehe, hehehehe." Ban Yilou laughed accidentally.
The knife handle is a relatively easy part to cast successfully.
Although the furnace couldn't hold up, he managed to forge a fully resonant hilt without any major problems. So much money and his guidance to Tang Zheng over the days were not wasted!
Ban Yiluo picked up another part, the blade, with great anticipation.
…
The star power circulates.
On Ban Yilou's glove, the array patterns lit up in circles again.
However, this time his expression was far less relaxed than last time.
The star power was urged again and again, but the speed at which the array pattern lit up became slower and slower, and finally stopped.
Ban Yilou took off his gloves: "Star power resonance degree is 68... Actually, it is already a very good blade..."
After the parts are cast, there is only one last step left - running-in.
Once every component of a weapon has been run-in, it can be used directly.
But Ban Yiluo did not start to adjust the two parts.
When the star power resonance degree reaches 60, it is actually very good. At least, it is qualified to enter the Jubao Pavilion cabinet!
However, the dagger of Master Lu Huang of Bai Lian Fang had a star power resonance degree of eighty-two, and the bet between Tang Zheng and Bai Lian Fang was also based on the number eighty-two.
Sixty-eight is indeed very good.
But not enough...
It’s not enough!
Tang Zheng felt that he had underestimated Bailianfang.
Bailianfang used less than a single piece of purple gold to forge the dagger with a star power resonance degree of 69 in the Jubao Pavilion - Yunxi.
But even though he used hundreds of taels of purple gold and various precious materials, he could only raise the blade's star power resonance degree to sixty-eight!
Moreover, the highest-ranking warrior in Bailian Workshop of Wulong Town is only a two-star warrior.
However, he also has a three-star warrior, Ban Yiluo, who helps him control the stars almost the entire time!
"How about we give it a try after running them in?" Tang Zheng shook his head, thinking about the last step. "One part is 68, the other is 94... the averages seem to be about the same..."
" Average?" Ban Yilou looked at him suspiciously.
"Just add sixty-eight and ninety-four together, and then divide it in half."
"You really think too much." Ban Yilou didn't want to look at him any more after hearing this. "Try it? Did you listen carefully to my lectures?"
"Uh, cough cough cough..." Tang Zheng touched his nose. When he was practicing martial arts, he was indeed a little distracted sometimes.
"How can two parts with a star power resonance difference of more than 20 degrees be integrated? Huh? Tell me, how is it possible to integrate them?"
The reason why casting requires that all parts of a weapon be cast in the same furnace is for the consideration of subsequent running-in. The star power resonance of parts cast in the same furnace will be closer, and running-in will be easier.
So, the last step seems to be impossible to complete?
Tang Zheng was thinking, he couldn't just hand over the hilt to Bailianfang like this...
Their bet was "a dagger" rather than "half a dagger", so if there was only a hilt that met the conditions of the bet, they would definitely not be able to deliver the goods!
"Alas, there's nothing we can do." Ban Yiluo shook his head. They had already used such an extreme money-piling tactic, mobilized three-star manpower, and even broke the best weather and rain furnace in the cabinet, but it was still not as good as the work of a one-star craftsman in Bailianfang. It was indeed a bit discouraging.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, let me take a look." Tang Zheng hasn't given up yet.
This dagger determines his secondary equipment. He cannot give up easily if he can trick Master Lu Huang into forging it for him.
Tang Zheng was sitting at the counter, holding the two cast parts in one hand and the casting notes with the word "Lu" written on the bottom of the cover in the other hand, and he started to read them carefully...
