C239 Smelting ore (1/2)
”I'm sure you've heard about it from that old man Prius. In fact, whether it is alchemy or crafting, both of them were once included in alchemy. They were separated later on, but they are still intrinsically related.”
”Well, I heard from Professor Prius that I'm going to learn alchemy!”
Long Tianhao nodded his head, proving that he indeed heard it before.
”I didn't expect that old man to be willing to teach you alchemy. You are lucky. That old man's alchemy skills are very strong. It's very rare in the world. Alright, I have to learn alchemy.”
Familiarity with materials was the first step, but that was the foundation of the basics. The next step was the most important step, just like alchemy.
The purer the material is, the better the tools you can forge. Therefore, what you need to learn today is to smelt ores. ”
”Oh, it's purification again. Oh my god, I nearly collapsed this morning. I still have to do it now.”
Long Tianhao's crazy words, suddenly had a bitter expression on his face, and his mouth started to cry out.
”You, no matter what you learn, you have to take it step by step. There is nothing you can do. If you don't want to learn, I won't force you.”
”Eh, teacher, don't be angry. I was just joking. I'll learn, I'll learn. Where is the ore?”
Seeing that Artifact Kuang was about to leave, Long Tianhao was shocked and immediately tried to curry favor with him.
”That's more like it. This mouth cauldron is for you. Although it is only an ordinary item, it is enough for you.”
The Artifact Maniac was obviously just trying to scare Long Tianhao. Seeing Long Tianhao's appearance, the Artifact Maniac also smiled slightly, and with a flip of his hand, took out a Furnace similar to the one Long Tianhao used to concoct the pills earlier. However, looking at it closely, one could see the difference between the two.
The most obvious difference was that this cauldron did not have a lid. It also had three legs, but on the cauldron's body, there were four dragon heads, which looked very lifelike.
”Eh, Teacher, does crafting equipment also require cauldrons?”
”Nonsense, don't tell me that you want to learn blacksmithing. A high level refining technique obviously needs to use a cauldron. Only in this way can you control the intensity of the fire.”
With regards to his own student's degree of ignorance, the artifact madman was truly speechless. He did not even know where this fellow came from, and actually knew nothing at all.
”Oh, I didn't know, but now I understand. Teacher, why don't you demonstrate it to me first?”
”Alright, I'll demonstrate it to you so that you won't make any more mistakes. Watch.”
The artifact crazily nodded his head as he took out a silver ore. At the same time, he placed his palm on top of the artifact cauldron as the dou qi in his body suddenly circulated.
A strong fire affinity Dou Qi surged out of his arm and entered the cauldron, causing it to suddenly burn. However, from the looks of it, although it was powerful, the flame did not come out of the cauldron.
”This cauldron has a Spatial Magic Formation, and at the same time, it also has a flame conversion device. As long as you inject fire attribute Dou Qi into it, the function of the Spatial Magic Formation is to isolate the connection between the cauldron and the outside of the cauldron, so that the flame won't leak out.”
Seeing Long Tianhao looking at the Artifact Cauldron with a puzzled expression, the Artifact Crazed Man could not help but explain.
”Now look closely and see how I extract this mineral.”
The artifact fanatic threw the ore in his hand into the cauldron. When the ore fell into the fire, it actually did not fall to the bottom layer, instead floating within the flames and allowing the flames to wrap around it and roast it.
”To remove the impurities from the ore, the first thing you have to do is to melt the ore. If you can't even melt the ore, then it's impossible to purify it. This requires excellent control of fire, or else the consumption of Dou Qi will be extremely huge.”
”Therefore, most people would prepare a pill to recover their battle qi. You can also do that, especially since you're an alchemist. To you, this is a very simple task.”
From this, it could be seen that this little bit of consumption was nothing to an artifact fanatic. A set of profound Cultivation Level, combined with an exceptional amount of control over fire, refining a little mineral was indeed nothing.
The silver-white mineral began to quickly melt under the wrapping of the wild flame. Not long later, it completely melted into a wiggling liquid. If one's eyesight was good enough, it would be possible to see that there were many impurities within the metal liquid.
”After the ore is melted, I will have to rely on my skills to remove the impurities within it, just like this.”
As he refined the ore, he explained to Long Tianhao. Following his control over the flames, the metal liquid also had traces of impurities being refined out.
The flame was reduced to nothingness. Following the continuous removal of the impurities, the volume of the metal liquid also shrank.
This kind of refinement lasted for around ten minutes before the artifact expert stopped and withdrew his Dou Qi. That cluster of metal liquid also swiftly solidified and turned back into a silver-white metal block. However, it was currently a metal block.
It was much smaller than the previous one. At the same time, its luster was much more resplendent. It was likely that the impurities had been removed.
”This is the general process. Of course, if you learn alchemy then it will be much easier. Alchemy has its own special way of extracting minerals, which can save you a lot of energy. However, you should just do it honestly now.”
After all, this will be of great help to your ability to control fire. There are twenty pieces of metal here, and you just need to refine them one by one to the size of my piece. ”
The artifact madman took out twenty similar silver-white colored metal pieces, placed them on the table, and had Long Tianhao finish refining them.
”Yes, Teacher.”
Long Tianhao's face was solemn, he also understood that the reason why the Artifact Craftsman could refine the metal so quickly was because he relied on his strong strength and profound control of fire. If it was him, he would even need to spend a lot of effort to melt the metal.
Long Tianhao walked to the front of the cauldron, and imitated the appearance of an Artifact Madman, as he placed his hand on the cauldron. Fortunately, his Fire Attribute Qi was considered rich, otherwise, he could only use magic, circulating his cultivation technique, causing the qi in his body to surge violently.