Heaven lost a system

Chapter 100 The Blacksmith
Gong Shuyuan led Lin Qiu forward while introducing Lin Qiu to the machines and equipment in the forging hall: "These are all forging equipment. The forging here refers to the process of removing impurities. Only after a piece of metal has been tempered many times can the inside be transformed." Most of the impurities are removed, which is what it means to make steel a hundred times."

"It's a metal heater. Ordinary metals simply can't maintain their shape at this high temperature."

"This is the quenching pool. The water in the pool is not ordinary water, but ice water transported from the Land of Ten Thousand Years Glacier."

Lin Qiu looked at the water in the quenching pool, and wondered in his heart, is the ice transported from the glacier different from ordinary water after it melts?

Nowadays, some mineral water outside casually advertises that the water source is transported from a certain snow mountain. Water that originally costs two yuan is sold for thousands of yuan, and the price has directly increased thousands of times. But This kind of mineral water can actually be enthusiastically sought after by many people.

Lin Qiu was thinking at the time, poverty really limited his imagination, how can a bottle of water make so many tricks?

At this moment, when Lin Qiu saw the pool of water, he suddenly had the urge to bend down and take a sip.

It shouldn't be cheap to ship it from the glacier, right? !

I don't know what it smells like?
Fortunately, Gong Shuyuan didn't know what Lin Qiu was thinking at this time, otherwise he might have hit Lin Qiu's head with a hammer.

"In forging, there are differences such as annealing, normalizing, quenching, and tempering. I have roughly talked about these in class last time. Although these are the knowledge that blacksmiths must master, they are not really the core."

"It's like these now. The iron blades forged can only be regarded as weapons, not magic weapons!" Gong Shuyuan pointed to a wall in front of him, on which were displayed a variety of weapons, and said slowly to Lin Qiu.

Lin Qiu pondered for a moment: "Then what is a magic weapon? In other words, what are the characteristics of a magic weapon?"

Gongshuyuan nodded: "This is the crux of the problem. The magic weapon is called a magic weapon because it can withstand the input of spiritual power. Ordinary steel weapons cannot withstand the baptism of spiritual energy at all!"

Gongshuyuan casually took a long sword from the wall, and the cultivation in his body circulated, infusing a trace of aura into the long sword. In an instant, fine cracks suddenly appeared on the sword, which was originally as smooth as a mirror. Immediately afterwards, the sword body cracked, and it shattered completely, and the original smooth sword body turned into pieces and fell down.

Gong Shuyuan threw away the hilt of the sword in his hand, and said calmly: "The key to the magic weapon's ability to hold spiritual power lies in the raw material. No matter how ordinary iron is made, it will never become a magic weapon. Iron has no spirituality, and the so-called spirituality here can be understood as the traces of the avenue left by the aura of heaven and earth on the metal."

"Iron without spirituality is scrap iron!"

Lin Qiu listened carefully. Gong Shuyuan had never talked about these knowledge in class.

Gong Shuyuan continued to walk down, while Lin Qiu led Lin Xiaojing along the way.

"Teacher, I remember you said in class that now medium-level magic weapons can be mass-produced, so can we also mass-produce medium-level magic weapons here?" Lin Qiu asked.

Gongshuyuan paused slightly: "Medium magic weapons can indeed be mass-produced, but the problem is that there are not so many spiritual irons in China that can support your unlimited production. I know what you want to ask, does this technology exist in China?" Yes, but here in our college, there is no such thing at present, and it is impossible to have it.”

Lin Qiu was stunned: "Where is that?"

Gongshuyuan glanced at him: "In a place you don't know."

Lin Qiu: "..."

Now that I know, do I still have to ask you? !

But Lin Qiu didn't continue to ask, he knew that Gong Shuyuan was vaguely reminding him, don't ask if you shouldn't know.

After walking out of the forging equipment hall and walking through a long corridor, Gong Shuyuan led Lin Qiu and Lin Xiaojing to a thick door.

Gong Shuyuan stretched out his palm and pressed on an LCD screen on the wall on the right side of the gate. The next moment, the four big characters of identity confirmation were displayed on the screen. Immediately there was a click, and the gate began to open slowly.

Lin Qiu looked at the display screen in surprise. This thing was actually unlocked by palm print?
Lin Qiu led Lin Xiaojing to follow behind Gong Shuyuan, and the three of them entered the gate. Lin Qiu found that it was a huge studio with a forging table in the center of the room, and all kinds of forging tools were hung around the walls.

"This is the forging room. Only a true blacksmith can have an independent forging room here." Gong Shuyuan said.

"A real blacksmith? Are there fake blacksmiths here?" Lin Qiu asked suspiciously.

Gongshuyuan was silent for a while: "The staff who control the forging equipment are not counted. Even if you can forge an inferior magic weapon through the equipment, strictly speaking, you still cannot be regarded as a blacksmith."

"Blacksmiths have strict boundaries, that is, you must forge an inferior magic weapon with your own hands in order to be called a blacksmith."

Lin Qiu was even more puzzled at the time: "Don't you use your own hands to control the machine?"

Gongshuyuan: "..."

Gongshuyuan's face turned dark.

Did I ask you to challenge me? !
Gong Shuyuan's face was serious: "Machine and equipment are only auxiliary after all. No matter how advanced the technological power is now, it is impossible to forge the best magic weapon by machine. If everyone wants to rely on machinery and equipment, then one day, forging this door will be possible. Craftsmanship will always disappear in the world."

Lin Qiu thought about it, and it seemed to make sense.

In fact, Gongshuyuan sighed deeply in his heart, because technology is getting more and more advanced now, and even intermediate magic weapons can be mass-produced, who else is really willing to learn forging?

With the advent of the new era, many people have seen the prospect and market of forging, but to be honest, there are really few who are willing to learn forging in a down-to-earth manner.

It is enough to know how to operate, so what else is needed?
This is the voice of how many beginners!

But if everyone gave up learning forging, as time goes by, the high-level magic weapon will become out of print, let alone the best magic weapon.

Gongshuyuan really wanted to change this situation, and he had said to others more than once that the gap of middle-level magic tools might be filled in a short period of time by relying on machinery and equipment, but in the long run, if no one learns forging, high-level magic tools will never be Where did it come from?

But many people think Gong Shuyuan is too unfounded.

Baobuqi will invent the forging technology that can forge high-level magic weapons, even top-quality magic weapons in the future?

At that time, is the craft of forging still necessary to exist?

Gong Shuyuan could not refute this.

It is true that science and technology are developing rapidly, but he always believes that magic weapons forged by machinery and equipment are soulless magic weapons at all.

"If you just want to learn about forging, I can show you the equipment for making magical instruments, and I can also have someone teach you how to operate them slowly. As for the forging room, you don't need to come here again in the future."

"And if you really want to learn forging, I can set aside part of the time every week to teach you forging in person. But let me tell you in advance that learning forging is an extremely difficult process, and you have to be mentally prepared " Gong Shuyuan turned around and looked at Lin Qiu with deep eyes, and said slowly.

(End of this chapter)