Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 77 We are all technology geeks
The writing style of that casting notebook is not organized in a step-by-step manner, and it is obvious that it was written in a self-contained way.
But it just so happens that Tang Zheng is not a serious casting apprentice, and many things recorded in this notebook are easy to understand, which is just right for him.
The life skills in the previous life are completely different from those in this life. There are more difficulties, deeper knowledge, and they also involve the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements. But didn’t Tang Zheng solve them one by one?
There is no reason for him to just give up just because the world has changed, right?
"Master." Tang Zheng looked at the notes and asked, "There is a note here in your friend's notes... As long as we strictly follow the same furnace casting, the difference in the star power resonance will not be even ten."
"Yes, we were cast from the same furnace!" Ban Yiluo said.
"..." Tang Zheng stroked his forehead, "If we infer from the results, of course we are not!"
Technically, they used two stoves - a complete weather-proof stove, and a broken weather-proof stove.
Although they are indeed two different forms of the same furnace, they are probably different in many properties such as the conduction of star power that they have no way of knowing.
Ban Yilou frowned, "But, you shaped the blade first, it doesn't make sense that the handle, which was formed later, would have a higher resonance of star power..." He stopped halfway through his speech, "The handle... could it be because..."
Tang Zheng nodded. This was his only guess.
Most of the shaped handle was annealed by him while he was controlling the stars, and the power of the sun and the moon was almost entirely shaped on the handle.
Ban Yilou opened his mouth and uttered in astonishment: "As expected, they are the two most suitable main stars for casting... and unprecedentedly, they are in the same fate palace!"
"Then...what should we do now?" Ban Yiluo was not a professional caster. He was good at repairing array patterns, so he was at a loss for words.
"Let me try ." Tang Zheng picked up the two parts and jumped into the cabinet again.
Ban Yiluo did not insist on checking his Purple Gold Order and ran in.
Tang Zheng looked at the foundry furnaces, picked up a furnace that was slightly inferior to the rain and shine furnace, took out some materials, prepared two pills, and started the furnace directly!
Tang Zheng did not ask for anything, and Ban Yilou simply did not help this time, but just sat aside and watched.
A purple-gold constellation rose up behind Tang Zheng...
His star power extended from the palm of his left hand into the furnace, and at the same time, he asked Ban Yilou to process the several materials he had just picked out one by one, and then added them in one by one.
Ban Yiluo looked at the materials he was holding, which were all materials for making knife handles, and didn't understand what he meant.
The hilt is already a fully resonant hilt, so why forge another one?
As for the blade, Tang Zheng definitely couldn't cast it!
The star power needed to bake wood and the star power needed to process metal are simply incomparable, both in terms of thickness and time required. With such a small amount of star power, it is absolutely impossible for him to complete the casting of the blade.
Therefore, he did not plan to try to cast the blade...
Tang Zheng swallowed a pill, maintaining the stable solar star power like a raging fire burning in a furnace, while his right hand slowly and steadily completed the shaping like carving a piece of art...
Ban Yilou looked at the materials he threw in, his face twitching a little bit: "Why don't you say something? What do you want to do?"
If the people from Bailianfang were here and saw Tang Zheng using these extremely precious materials so casually, it would definitely be a huge trauma to their hearts!
However, Ban Yiluo immediately felt that he had already suffered a lot before destroying Bailianfang...
What Tang Zheng shaped was not a blade or a handle, but something that looked like a fish bone, with a vertical trunk and many horizontal branches!
Tang Zheng swallowed another pill and completed the annealing.
boom!
Although Tang Zheng's speed was much faster than when he was casting the dagger just now, the furnace still could not withstand such a high-energy forging method and directly broke into several pieces.
Ding, the crafted fish bone fell to the ground.
Ban Yilou quickly picked it up and washed it, then took up his gloves and tested it, with a panicked look on his face: "Star power resonance degree is eighty-seven..."
The star power resonance is very high. If the value of these materials is ignored, it is simply staggeringly high.
But the question is, what the hell is this fish bone?
Could it be that Tang Zheng was planning to use this fish bone as a knife blade?
Ban Yilou shook his head: "Bai Lian Fang will not admit that this thing is a knife blade..."
The problem is still on the blade...
Tang Zheng was unable to cast the blade, and this remained an unsolvable problem!
"You should first grind the knife handle together with this." But Tang Zheng had no intention of finishing the work. He just took a short break and took a new furnace.
"..." Ban Yiluo finally understood that he would not give up until he broke all the foundries in the cabinet!
Ban Yiluo was sharpening the knife handle and fish bones.
Because they were not cast from the same furnace, it was not particularly easy to run-in them. However, with the forced running-in of Ban Yiluo's three-star power, it was still firmly embedded in place.
Now this dagger is very strange...
The part below the handle is not a blade, but a slightly curved fishbone that looks like a whole small fish.
This look makes me want to laugh.
"And then?" Ban Yiluo asked.
"Refine the handle and blade again." Tang Zheng said.
"You are not cast from the same furnace, I'm afraid..." When Ban Yilou picked up the blade again and inserted it into the fish bone, he swallowed it back without finishing his sentence!
I didn't feel any resistance at all!
There is no way that two things can be cast from the same furnace.
However, during the running-in process, he simply circulated his star power slightly and easily embedded the entire blade into the fish bone.
"More supporting techniques!" Tang Zheng snapped his fingers with a smile.
If there is only one connection between the two parts, then of course the rejection reaction will be very strong.
But what if there are many joints like fish bones? The resistance shared by each joint will of course be much smaller!
Tang Zheng still remembers a question asked by the interviewer during a practical exam in his previous life.
For that question, the interviewer gave them a light bulb and asked them to measure the volume of the light bulb. They didn't have to be very accurate, as long as it was approximately the same.
But even if it was just a "nearly" requirement, those children would not be able to calculate it, because the math curriculum at the time did not even teach them how to calculate the volume of regular objects, let alone irregular objects.
Finally, the interviewer filled the light bulb with water and poured it into the measuring cup in front of them, then asked them: "When a road is obviously a dead end, can't you knock through the wall next to you and go to another road?"
Forcing the blade and handle to fit together is a dead end.
Therefore, Tang Zheng added a fish bone between the blade and the handle.
More support technology!
"Don't be too happy too soon..." Ban Yilou picked up the gloves, measured it, and shook his head as expected: "The overall star power resonance is only 72!"
Seventy-two, for any forging apprentice, is definitely a very high achievement.
However, Ban Yiluo did not forget how much money they spent!
They had already spent five hundred taels of purple gold and used more than a dozen materials to increase the star power resonance, but the finished product they cast was still ten points less in star power resonance than the one that Tang Zheng had bet on with Bailianfang.
I have to admit that Bailianfang is Bailianfang...
Even if Ban Yilou disliked Bai Lian Fang, he had to admit that Bai Lian Fang's technology was truly unbeatable!
However, even as he was lamenting the final result, Tang Zheng had not stopped yet.
He threw the finished dagger that Ban Yiluo had already sharpened back into the furnace!
The gentle power of Taiyin quickly enters the furnace!
This time, it was the Sun Power Palm Star...
"What on earth do you want to do?" Ban Yilou couldn't bear to watch any longer. "It has just been cast and hasn't cooled for more than two hours. It will break, it will break..."
However, Tang Zheng's Taiyin power has been protecting the entire dagger.
Afterwards, he did almost nothing but kept pouring fang bat blood into it.
Even while taking drugs, his star power was not enough , so he had to speed up.
Facing the remelted blade, Tang Zheng quickly emptied the remaining half bottle of fang bat blood...
The processed fang bat blood was a deep red semi-fluid substance that poured over the entire dagger, being fused and re-fused layer by layer.
The deep red blood seemed to be smeared on it, blending into the dagger layer by layer.
Soon, the furnace once again couldn't withstand the high-energy casting and shattered.
However, Tang Zheng's processing has been completed!
When he quickly cooled the knife and picked it up again, Ban Yiluo's eyes widened.
The color of the blade has completely turned into the deep red color of fang bat blood!
“This…this…” He quickly took it and measured the star power resonance with his gloves, “Eighty-three!”
A full eleven points increase!
This is the star power resonance degree, and it is extremely difficult to increase it even a little bit!
However, after the casting was completed, Tang Zheng was able to improve it by eleven points in one go. What does this mean?
It completely overturned Ban Yilou's understanding of casting!
"Hehe." Tang Zheng laughed, "Coating technology!"
As for the multi-point support technology, Tang Zheng actually only sketched out a rough outline, which was finally completed by Ban Yilou.
However, the coating technology using fang bat blood was completed personally by Tang Zheng who controlled the star power.
"Multi-point support technology... coating technology..." Ban Yiluo looked at the finished dagger thoughtfully, "Have you ever learned casting from a famous casting master?"
"Never..." Tang Zheng shrugged.
Coating, in his previous world, was something used on almost every metal!
Especially the knives, which are anti-rust, anti-corrosion and anti-wear. He has never seen a knife without a coating.
There are even coating materials that allow knives to pass security checks, which can be said to be a very common thing.
But in this strange world, there is no concept of coating at all!
Ban Yilou had a complex look of excitement on his face: "So... when are you going to Bailianfang?"
Although the material used for this dagger is so disgusting, according to the rigid rules, Tang Zhengzheng actually took out a dagger in Wulong Town with a higher degree of star power resonance than the one in Bailianfang.
"No, I'm not going to Bailianfang!" Tang Zheng shook his head, smiled, and casually took down a stack of handmade invitations in a wooden box from the cabinet of Ban Yilou...
