"This is the weapon forging method of the Mechanical Hall. It can achieve the desired result regardless of distance or proximity."
When another voice came, Xu Yunfan was surprised to find that there was a short and strong old man standing next to Zhan Yan, with an iron gauntlet on his left arm.
The head of the Mechanical Hall, Mo Han, built the entire Tiangong Cave Mechanical City by leading the Tiangong Department and the Mechanical Hall over a period of fifty years.
Xu Yunfan bowed and said, "Master Mo!"
Mo Han waved his hand, his eyes fixed on the sledgehammer in Zhan Yan's hand.
Zhan Yan laughed heartily: "Don't even think about it, old man. I spent two months trying to get this treasure."
Mo Han snorted softly, "I already know the forging techniques well. I may be able to forge another one in the future."
Zhan Yan said, "Without the painstaking efforts of the craftsman, without the blood and energy of the master, your mechanism is nothing but a hollow piece of material. Even if you recast it for a hundred years, it will still be nothing but scrap metal."
"Old man, just wait and see. The Tiangong Cave Mechanical Hall has existed since before the Great Zhou Dynasty was established. When the time comes, I will take it out and make you kneel before me and call me grandpa!"
Mo Han was a little furious. This old man had come to him humbly to beg him before, but now that he had the Thunder and Fire Qilin Hammer, he started to act arrogantly.
Zhan Yan laughed three times and stopped talking to avoid making Mo Han angry.
Fu Jin couldn't help but step forward, rubbing his rough hands against his body before stroking the spiral patterns on the hammer handle with his calloused fingers. "Master? This Thunderfire Kirin Hammer is forged with meteorite iron mixed with lightning-struck charcoal?"
"wrong!"
Zhan Yan plunged the heavy hammer into the quenching pool. When the cold pool water was heated, the white mist evaporated and the clanging sound of metal clashing against metal could be heard, like the sound of a hammer beating a drum, which made people's hearts stop.
"The main material is the iron from the sky that fell in Youzhou three hundred years ago, combined with sixty-four pounds of South China Sea thunder-patterned steel. Of course, your junior brother also brought in a little finishing touch. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to cast it."
Zhan Yan didn't even turn his head, his bloodshot eyes staring quietly at the final quenching.
The moment the water in the pool boiled, twelve strong men suddenly pulled the iron chain, and the entire Thunder and Fire Pool began to slowly tilt!
Xu Yunfan watched as the crimson hammer gradually turned dark and bright in the quenching liquid. Suddenly, a brilliant light appeared between the scaly patterns on the hammer head, and lightning and fire patterns were interwoven between the patterns on the hammer handle.
"The most ingenious part about this hammer is its reverberation mechanism. I have to admire the ingenious thinking of the Mechanical Hall."
Hearing Zhan Yan's praise, Mo Han finally stopped puffing out his beard and glaring, and became very calm, but the upturned corners of his eyes betrayed the pride in the heart of this hall master.
Zhan Yan suddenly swung the hammer and smashed it against the basalt platform. At the moment when the hammer head touched the ground, a copper spring more than three inches long suddenly popped out from the mechanism at the end of the handle.
Seventy percent of the force of the heavy blow bounced back into the air along the copper spring, and the cast iron floor within a radius of ten feet seemed to be lifted up by an invisible giant hand. Fu Jin hurriedly pulled Xu Yunfan back three steps, but was still hit by the flying gravel.
"It relies on the purple copper mechanism at the end. It doesn't have the rank of a divine weapon, but it has the appearance of a divine weapon. It's really eye-opening."
Xu Yunfan suddenly noticed the octagonal copper pillar standing by the pool, each side of which was engraved with tiny calligraphy: "This is..."
"The complete copy of 'Qianjun Forging Essentials'. Didn't Fu Jin say that if you wanted to learn forging weapons, once you had won the True Transmission Ceremony, you could descend to the Thunder Fire Pool and forge weapons with me."
"here?"
Xu Yunfan glanced at the thunder and fire pool below. This forging platform had been there for too long, and the surrounding temperature was hundreds of degrees. If one stayed there for too long, one would be dried out.
"Are you backing down now?"
Xu Yunfan naturally wouldn't let anyone look down on him. "Master, that's not the case. I'll come down as soon as the True Transmission Ceremony is over."
"good."
Zhan Yan laughed heartily as he inserted the Thunderfire Kirin Hammer into the cold water pool that had been prepared for a long time. The scalding heavy hammer emitted steam, making a sizzling sound. The steaming mist quickly enveloped the forging platform, but was dried up by the high temperature of the surrounding thunderfire pool in the blink of an eye.
Fu Jin, who was standing next to him, wiped the iron dust off the copper pillar with his sleeve, full of emotion.
"From ore selection to quenching, there are a total of 721 steps. Master spent twelve years here forging before he mastered the forging method of Thunder Pattern Steel."
He pointed to the rotating fine iron wheel at the bottom of the pool. "Do you see that silvery-white molten iron? That's the magnetic separation wheel driven by twelve water wheels. It's the fine iron that's been sifted for thirty days and nights. It's the best material for forging sharp blades. Unfortunately, there are only five or six craftsmen in the Weapon Casting Hall who can forge blade-grade weapons. It's a rare achievement to produce two or three blades a year."
"It's done."
At this moment, Zhan Yan pulled out the heavy hammer and threw it towards Xu Yunfan: "Try to feel it!"
The moment Xu Yunfan received the hammer, his knees sank, and the blue bricks under his feet suddenly cracked into spider web shapes.
But when he swung the war hammer, his body exerted force, and the trajectories of the seven meteorite beads sliding inside the handle perfectly matched the force path of the cloak hammer technique.
The wind pressure caused by the hammer breaking through the air actually cut the torch three meters away in half!
"Ordinary treasures need three days of warming up to be sharpened."
Fu Jin looked at it with envy, "Your Thunderfire Kirin Hammer carries a murderous aura. The whistling sound of the wind when you swung it just now is something I've never seen before in my life."
Just as Xu Yunfan was about to speak, the ground suddenly shook violently.
Several fire dragons suddenly shot up from the center of the Thunder Fire Pool. Zhan Yan's expression suddenly changed: "The earth vein dragon breath is about to erupt! Retreat quickly!"
Before he finished speaking, twelve strong men had already opened the brass gate on the wall, and thirty cast iron chains as thick as buckets fell down, driving down the black steel top cover above, locking the boiling pool of thunder and fire tightly.
Amid the roar, everyone quickly evacuated, and Xu Yunfan tightly gripped the handle of the hammer that was still buzzing.
On the dark-bright hammer surface, the star spots flickered with the residual heat, as if the falling galaxy in the night sky was imprisoned in this small space.
After coming out of the Thunder Fire Pool Cave, Xu Yunfan saw Zhan Yan, who looked exhausted and had bloodshot eyes. He was probably the same as Zhan Yan, who had already stayed up all night for more than ten or twenty days.
He fell to his knees, his heart filled with sincerity.
"Thank you, Master!"
Looking at Xu Yunfan, the experienced Zhan Yan could not help but hear the emotion in his words. He couldn't help but smile, and felt that the fatigue of the past few days disappeared.
After helping Xu Yunfan up, Zhan Yan patted his shoulder, thought for a moment, and said, "Your senior brother and I are both old. From now on, the future of the Weapon Casting Hall will be on you."
Xu Yunfan said seriously, "I will definitely live up to Master's expectations!"
Mo Han, who was watching from the side, felt a little sad. Although the Mechanical Hall was large and had thousands of disciples inside and outside, how many of them could carry the burden now? He waved his sleeves.
"I don't want to play anymore. Let's go."
Zhan Yan went to rest. He had only slept a few times in the past two months and now needed enough rest.
"Junior brother, can you lend it to me for a bit?"
Fu Jin was full of excitement and was ready to go.
Xu Yunfan handed the heavy hammer over with a smile. As soon as Fu Jin took it, he shuddered as if he had been electrocuted and withdrew his hand. When he opened his hand, he saw that his knuckles were actually broken by the Thunder and Fire Kirin Hammer, leaving a bloody hole.