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"Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Bing..." After thirty-six consecutive hammers forging, Ou Chuyang took advantage of the recoil force of the last heavy hammer and swung the blacksmith hammer to pull a "hammer flower" in the air. The spiral force passed from the blacksmith hammer through his arm, waist, hips, and knees to his feet. Then the toes rotated, causing the whole body to rotate for a circle, and the force rose from the soles of his feet and returned to his arms.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Bing..." With the inertia of this force, Ou Chuyang completed the 36-hammer forging again, completing the first cycle of "Steping on the Snow and Finding Plum". The whole process was flowing without any stagnation.

"The third level of 'Steping on the Snow and Finding Plums' has been completed!" Ou Chuyang said happily.

Since Ou Chuyang broke through the Sword Master and realized the "Starry Sky Spiral Slash", he applied the method of power rotation to the casting method of "Steping the Snow and Looking for Plums" and decomposed the 216 hammers into six cycles, each cycle of thirty-six hammers, and each cycle of thirty-six hammers were used to rotate the force, and the old force had not disappeared and new force was generated.

In this way, Ou Chuyang successfully explored his third level of "Steping on the Snow and Finding Plum". Although he didn't know if the third level that Mei Qixin mastered was like this, Ou Chuyang would not be stubborn. As long as he could achieve the effect, all methods would be the same. All roads lead to Rome and he could walk his own path, Ou Chuyang was even happier.

After casting a superb craftsmanship again, Ou Chuyang felt that the third level of "Steping on the Snow and Finding Plum" had been fully mastered. Now, it is time to reach the realm of a swordsman.

The mark of being promoted to a sword caster is to independently complete the casting of a good treasure utensil. The factors that determine the quality of the sword are mainly the sword material and its purity, followed by the number of Qi and meridians, and finally the capacity of the sword pier, the material of the scabbard and the appearance decoration.

In order to help Ou Chuyang reach the realm of a sword-casting master, Di Zhenjie had already sent people to deliver sword materials and raw materials for casting good treasures.

Wugang stone is not the tungsten steel alloy on the earth, but a special ore produced in Nanwushan, Zhongzhou. After smelting, Wugang stone forms Wugang, with a dark color and extremely dense, and is one of the hardest secondary sword materials. Wugang is hard, but also extremely brittle and cannot be used as the main material of the sword body alone. Therefore, Ou Chuyang chose Wujin for forging.

The black gold, all black and golden, is one of the most flexible among the second-level sword materials. A soybean-sized black gold can be pulled into black gold wire dozens of feet long, which shows how flexible it is.

Earth Fire Source Crystal, which is the commonly used smelting fuel by Mei Qixin. Ou Chuyang has played it many times and is very familiar with it.

In the first step, Ou Chuyang began to personally smel the black steel stone. The smelting formula of the black steel stone recorded in the Meixintang Letters eliminated Ou Chuyang's effort to explore.

According to Mei Qixin's records, smelting black steel stone with 60% earth fire source crystal plus 40% black carbon powder can obtain black steel with a purity of about 75%. The black steel is hard and smelting is extremely high, so the purity is difficult to improve. Even if Ou Chuyang has the assistance of electrolytic water-generating oxygen-enhancing combustion method, it has only increased by three percentage points, and smelting black steel with a purity of 78%.

The black gold is very easy to melt. The purity of the black gold melted by Ou Chuyang is more than 99%, which is estimated to be close to a thousand gold.

Ou Chuyang's current purpose is to advance to the sword-casting master, and he did not get too entangled with these details. He planned to wait until he was free to study how to further improve the purity of the sword material.

Mei Xintang and the apprentices all watched Ou Chuyang's entire process of smelting sword materials, and burst into surprises from time to time:

"Master Mei's move was indeed extraordinary. The smelting sword material is much higher than that of ordinary smelters, which is really eye-opening."

"Of course, let's study hard with Master Mei, and we will never be afraid of not having a chance to make a comeback in our lives."

"It's a pity that Master Mei will not accept disciples now, otherwise I will be the first to become a disciple."

"What are you anxious about? After Master Mei successfully advances to the sword-making master, he will definitely open the door and accept disciples. But it's not your turn, my senior brother. I came on the first day Mei Xintang opened the door."

"What's the point of a senior brother or a junior brother? It's the real thing to learn from Master Mei."

"That's right, Master Mei never hides everything. He teaches everything, and is much better than other masters."

"Stop making trouble. Master Mei has finished refining the material and is about to start making swords!"

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The problem of sword material and its purity was solved, and Ou Chuyang began to forge. Before forging, he first integrated two sword material, Wugang and Wujin.

The black gold is too soft. If you use the three-piece combination method and use the black gold to make the sword from the spine, the surface of the sword will easily scratch. Therefore, Ou Chuyang used the rolling method and wrapped a black gold bar up, down, left and right, and forged it.

In this way, the hard black steel completely wraps the flexible black gold. The forged sword body surface is extremely hard, the spine is extremely flexible, hard and soft, and both hard and soft are combined.

The red and hot sword material was splashing with Ou Chuyang's continuous beating, and the sparks continued to spread and blend. The third level of "Steping on the Snow and Finding Plum" fell, and it just happened to be forged once. Ou Chuyang folded the sword material forward and backward and continued to forge it.

Once folded and forged, the sword material will become two layers; once folded and forged, the sword material will become four layers; if you folded and forged ten times, you can get thousands of layers of steel that have been tempered for thousands of times.

Mars were splashing everywhere, sweating profusely, Ou Chuyang looked solemn and meticulous. The apprentices were dazzled and praised repeatedly. Mu Wanqing also interrupted her practice and quietly watched Ou Chuyang's iron through the window.

Every time Ou Chuyang raises his hand and every blow, it is not only a fusion of force and beauty, but also seems to contain a mysterious sword-making charm. Looking at him making a sword, it is really like a pleasure.

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The forging of the sword blank is completed, and the next step is a very critical link: ventilation.

Qi and meridians have three major functions:

First, the essence of the sword energy in the sword crystal stone must pass through the sword body qi veins from the sword sheath qi gust, and then pass into the sword gust through the sword eye, and finally be absorbed into the dantian. Therefore, the number of qi gusts and the quality of the sword eye gem are also one of the core elements that determine the speed of cultivation. If a genius with the nine-level sword gust uses a good craftsman weapon with only one qi gust to practice, his cultivation speed will also be greatly affected.

Second, the sword energy in the sword holder's body is transmitted to the sword eye on the hilt through the sword gate in the palm of the palm, and then the sword eye is introduced into the sword body qi veins, and finally it can be shot out and become a sword gang sword. Through the sword skill with Chu Yuanyi, Ou Chuyang has fully understood how important a good sword is to the swordsman's bonus. He also has a deeper understanding of how important the sword in this world is.

Third, the essence of the heaven and earth sword energy contained in the sword crystal stone is introduced into the sword body through the scabbard air valve, warming the sword and nurturing the sword soul. Although Ou Chuyang still cannot touch the legendary concept of sword soul, it is definitely extremely important and cannot be ignored.

Ou Chuyang held the black steel hammer tightly and began to arrange the qi veins carefully.
Chapter completed!