In the blink of an eye, a whole night passed by.

Li Hongyun woke up in reality, his head was still a little buzzing.

"It's so difficult!

"This night, I couldn't forge a qualified knife, and I'm so angry!

"What I got is a fake talent, right?

"...I can't say it's useless, but it's still a long way from success."

Thinking back to the whole night of yesterday's struggle, Li Hongyun felt disillusioned that his work was in vain.

Every time the knife that I worked so hard to forge failed to pass the test due to various reasons!

The first two times it broke directly when chopping hard bones.

Afterwards, Li Hongyun learned from the experience and considered whether it was because of the high carbon content, so he forged it more. As a result, this time, the hard bone was not broken when cutting, but the blade was bent...

After that, he also encountered various problems, such as it was not sharp enough to cut through the leather, and the center of gravity of the blade was not good, so even if he used all his strength, he could not cut through a dead pig with one strike, etc.

The most annoying thing was that one time his knife seemed to be pretty good, but because of poor control of the material, the blade was shortened.

He tried the knife first, but it turned out that the blade was too short to cut through the dead pig with one blow.

There was no other way. He thought about whether he could fix it, so he found another piece of iron and tried to force it on. It turned out to be futile. There was no such technology as electric welding in ancient times. The result of the forceful joining was the knife and the piece of iron.

They are basically useless and can only be remade.

Angry!

At first, Li Hongyun even felt that the talent he had was of no use. How could he be observant? His observation and memory could be significantly improved?

But after several failures, he thought about it and found that this talent did work, but the effect was not very obvious.

His powers of observation and memory have indeed improved. In the game, he can clearly remember the color of the flame at a certain time, the state of the sponge iron, the approximate temperature of quenching, etc.

But the problem is that these are difficult to directly translate into success.

He did remember every previous failure, but because the entire process of forging weapons was too cumbersome, with countless overlapping steps working together, it was difficult for him to determine which link had the problem.

For example, the problem of blade blade breakage may be due to the carbon content, impurities in the blade, or some other reasons...

Without being able to determine the specific cause or locking down the specific link, it is still too difficult to figure out exactly what is going on.

In short, after a night of tossing, Li Hongyun was a little disheartened.

As a European emperor, he actually does not often encounter such frustrating situations.

Open the forum and see what other players are saying.

Sure enough, other players were basically in mourning.

"The new trial dungeon is too outrageous! It actually allows players to forge swords using ancient methods??"

"That's outrageous. Let alone the ancient method of forging a knife, I can't even handle the modern method..."

"I think it is acceptable to directly give players some steel with a certain carbon content. Now it is too difficult to start directly from the step of iron sand and let the players start from sponge iron!"

"The key is that this ancient skill of forging swords has long been lost. Nowadays, even professional craftsmen basically rarely do this kind of thing. They all use ready-made steel and power hammers to make weapons.

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"Can anyone give me a guide? I really want to know what the exclusive talents and skills of god-level talents are..."

In addition, there are many people who share their previous gaming experiences.

Or, to be more precise, a failure experience.

Some players got stuck in the first step. They didn't know that iron sand was a better raw material, so they just threw the unbroken iron ore into the furnace and burned it. As a result, after burning for a long time, the iron ore was still iron ore.

Stone, a lot of charcoal and time wasted in vain.

Some players threw iron sand and charcoal in and found that they could not produce qualified sponge iron at all. It is not known whether it was because the furnace was damp underground or because the temperature of the furnace was not enough.

There are also some players who have come up with sponge iron after a lot of troubles, but they directly forge large pieces of crude steel without sorting. The final result is of course half the effort with half the effort.

Of course, there are also some talented players who either have relevant knowledge reserves in reality or are forging enthusiasts themselves, and their progress is much faster than other players.

But these people basically encountered various problems.

Because when they forge knives, they also use modern methods. The raw materials are basically ready-made steel or steel balls, which can be directly melted and forged to get a good knife blank.

And forging does not require them to do it themselves, it is basically done by a power hammer.

At this time, we started directly from the smelting and sorting steps, which instantly stumped a large number of people.

But after all, there are still big players like Cui Huowang among the players. After a night of hard work, he has built a good weapon, which is just one step away from passing the test on the sword testing platform.

Not long after, Cui Huowang came up with a relatively detailed preliminary strategy.

The basic content of this guide is similar to the information Li Hongyun consulted before. It starts from different processes such as smelting, sorting, forging, and quenching, and educates players about various details that need to be paid attention to during the forging process.

The difference is that Cui Huowang's guide also adds various pictures and descriptive text to introduce the key points of memory at each stage in detail.

For example, during smelting, the approximate proportions of iron sand, limestone powder, and charcoal, the specific arrangement method, how to use the color of the flame to judge the furnace temperature, how to add a small amount of materials, how to sort the crude steel produced,

Which part of the blade can be used for different sponge irons, the detailed timing of quenching, etc.

Players who were originally a little discouraged couldn't help but cheer up again after seeing Cui Huowang's strategy.

Okay, Lao Cui is reliable!

Many players suddenly have the illusion of "I can do it".

It's just like any other game. When you first get started with a new system, everyone is confused and doesn't know how to pass the level. This is the most anxious time.

But once a detailed strategy guide and a good-looking finished film appear, players will instantly have the illusion that "that's how it is" and "it seems to be no problem at all for me."

Li Hongyun was even more encouraged.

Because on the one hand, he discovered that his progress was similar to that of many real-life forging masters. Does this mean that he is extremely talented?

On the other hand, regarding Cui Huowang's strategy, Li Hongyun verified each other with the contents in his memory, and he actually came up with several guesses, guessing which part of the problem he had in forging the knife before.

"Continue to check information during the day, and continue to fight at night!"

Li Hongyun cheered up again and waited for the arrival of the evening.

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In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Li Hongyun took a deep breath and threw the knife he had just finished building aside.

In the open space next to it, there are already more than ten knives with different shapes. Some knives are broken, some are bent, and some knives have not been put on the sword test stand at all. They were abandoned by Li Hongyun as soon as they were made.

Because he knew that a knife of this quality would never pass the test, so he had better not humiliate himself.

However, after so many failures, the network woven from various experiences in Li Hongyun's mind finally took shape.

At this time, he already had a lot of details in his mind, and he kept all the key points of every step in mind.

What kind of sponge iron is most suitable for forging knives, when should it be quenched, and how to remedy some problems...

These are all built using massive resources.

If it were in ancient times, the iron sand and charcoal wasted by Li Hongyun would have been enough to bankrupt hundreds of ordinary families.

But in this trial, he could work hard without worrying about bankruptcy.

Because raw materials are in unlimited supply.

"Do it again!

"I hope my luck will work this time!"

After all the details are roughly in place, what the swordsmith needs most is probably luck.

Because ancient iron smelting was affected by too many factors, the emergence of magical weapons was often the result of the combination of the right time, place, and people, and was mixed with many metaphysical factors.

It’s no wonder that in ancient times, there were many superstitious behaviors about making swords with human blood.

Of course, from a modern perspective, "sacrifice one's life with the sword" in ancient times does have some legitimacy.

Because the human body itself contains a large amount of fat, when firepower was insufficient in ancient times, the instantaneous combustion of the human body could quickly increase the temperature, and the carbon content in the human body also helped the carbon content in the sword to reach a more appropriate range.

But in fact, using livestock or animals to sacrifice swords has the same effect.

It's just that the ancients believed that all things have animism, and believed that sacrificing animals to swords was a disrespectful act, or sacrificing humans to swords would be a better way to show sincerity... There's no way to say.

In short, in ancient times, people who were unlucky could not become an excellent swordsmith.

After a period of smelting, another furnace of crude steel came out.

Li Hongyun was already very experienced at this time, and immediately ordered his craftsmen to use hammers and chisels to smash the crude steel, which was still very hot, into small pieces while it was still hot, then cool it and sort it.

He picked out a few pieces of sponge iron that seemed to be of good quality and prepared them as raw materials for forging knives.

Heating, forging, heating, forging...

After many such boring cycles, Li Hongyun finally took action.

He took the iron drill from the blacksmith's hand and said, "Okay, I'll do the rest myself!"
To be continued...