Chapter Thirty-Six The Road to Innovation
As soon as everyone met, they suddenly found that the "Four Young Masters of Yujing" were all here in the defensive lineup of the city's formation eyes. This also means that the younger generation of Yujing began to join the family affairs one after another.
For a moment, all the people with a little face in various family forces rushed up, centering on the four people, saying hello and making friends.
Especially Fu Mingxuan is the most crowded. He has been away from Yujing for a long time in the past few years. Although he goes home every few years, he is still in a hurry. Many small families with insufficient status have never seen him.
Yan Kaiting was the first to escape. This man had a bad temper and was so famous that someone came up to flatter him a few times. Seeing that his face was dark and he didn't show any joy, he didn't dare to bother him.
Han Fenglai had already retreated behind the Sun Huabiao. He would have been asked about this outfit, but now the scene is not like a war preparation but a party. No one has to pay attention to whether he is the Fu family or the new strongman of the Yan family.
Yan Kaiting strode over, tilted his head and saw him, and said, "What are you doing here? Come with me!" As he said that, he entered the central courtyard connected to the four corners of Huabiao. Han Fenglai was still holding the gonghou in his arms, and hurried over to follow him.
That yard is the cornerstone of the formation eye, which is closed in normal times, and in wartime, it is the command site of this area, allowing only the strong men from each family to lead the team.
There is no extra landscape in the yard. Brown jade is covered with every inch of the floor, and the interior walls are made of the same material, but the color is slightly lighter, as if they were carefully selected during construction.
In the center is a building in the shape of a hall. At this moment, the doors on all sides are wide open. You can clearly see that there is a large magic weapon with a dense eaves and tower inside. Light belts flash around it, and strings of runes appear from time to time.
There were some tables and seats in the open air in the courtyard, which were shown to be temporary furnishings for the guards to use, not permanent objects here. At this moment, no one sat in the courtyard, and only a few servants wearing the city lord's mansion were shuttled through the tables and making final preparations.
Yan Kaiting sat down casually and asked Han Feng to sit down as well.
There were wine and snacks in the food box next to the table. Yan Kaiting picked it up and took a look. It was a very light-tasting plum wine. He shook the wine bottle at Han Fenglai and said, "Do you want a bowl?"
Han Fenglai opened his eyes wide and shook his head flatly, "No."
Yan Kaiting casually stuffed the slender-necked porcelain bottle back to the food box, which seemed to be that he had no interest in drinking.
Seeing that the two of them were about to fall into silence again, Yan Kaiting seemed to have finally thought of a topic.
"There is a saying in the craftsman's industry that the 'model-opening' method of making magic weapons was created by Master Yu Shi. Although it pointed out a shortcut to the refiner to create magic weapons higher than his own ability, it also cut off the life path of many small craftsman's mansions. Is there any such statement?"
Han Fenglai was stunned when he heard this. Seeing Yan Kaiting’s curious but distracting eyes, he was sure that he was not hinting at the expansion and merger of "Yetian Workshop" when he asked this question.
Jue Yu Shi is a strong man on the Futu List and a genius weapon refining master. He is not keen on refining spiritual weapons and immortal weapons, but likes to make various clever gadgets. Many people who have never come before their ideas are amazing works.
However, the weapon refiner can be said to be exploring the avenue. For the monks who use weapons, it is still to improve their survival possibility during their practice. Therefore, if the power of those objects is limited or simply has no power, in addition to being amazed for a moment, only female cultivators may prefer to collect and play with them.
The complete process of refining a weapon is divided into six stages: smelting, purification, shaping, casting, opening a formation, and setting. The seventh stage of the spirit of the spirit will never be used in the lifetime of most people.
In this process, those who must rely on the workshop fire dragon furnace and magic circle painting tools can only be called craftsmen, and those who have their own way of fire refining are real weapon refining masters. It can be seen that among the thousands of cultivators, the number of cultivators who refine weapons is actually limited.
However, whether it is a craftsman or a weapon refiner, before the Venerable created the "model opening" method, the process of making an object was completed independently.
However, the emergence of the "model opening" method changed this process. This was another subversive pioneering after the appearance of drawings in the history of refining weapons.
The drawings fix the production methods of some commonly used weapons and magic weapons, so that they are no longer unique secrets. Opening the mold is to melt, purify, shape, and cast four sections that most affect the quality of weapons embryos, and use fixed molds, fixed fire seeds, and fixed fire dragon channels to assist in forming, reducing the impact of the refiner's own operation.
A person always has some shortcomings in a certain section, just like craftsmen who are not fire genus are mostly hard to purify, while craftsmen who are not delicate enough may be slightly rough in shape. If the first four sections are fixed, the quality of the final product will be greatly flattened.
Of course, a smelting mold that can replace human power, not to mention the difficulty of making the actual product, but only the material that is not refined itself is a treasure, not to mention the resources to be consumed in the next few stages.
Therefore, the method of "opening molds" is almost impossible for individuals and small craftsman houses to achieve, but for large craftsman houses, it is an excellent shortcut to improve the overall quality.
Just like the weapons made according to the drawings will only be popular products, the basic embryo of the molding machine is stable in quality, but it cannot be the best.
However, the path to practicing Taoism is so short of resources, let alone such combat weapons that will never be enough. Many casual cultivators can only use ordinary weapons, and even if they cut off a few more ferocious beasts, they will be in short supply. A long time ago, magic weapons were once unique to various sects and were not sold to casual cultivators at all. The only way to obtain them is in the black market, or they can only kill and rob.
The method of "opening molds" seems to be good for all parties.
Many medium and high-end weapons with one or two difficulties in technology are the first to greatly improve the yield rate and soon become popular in the market. Users have obtained a larger supply. Manufacturers rely on this method to gain their own strengths and jointly make finished products that are better than they have to refine them separately.
However, detaching from individuals, at the workshop level, the top craftsman's expansion and merger of subordinates quickly formed.
The weapon refiner is still the highest-end resource and his status has not shaken at all. However, the skilled craftsmen, the special products of the craftsman's mansion, the various attributes of the craftsman's mansion, and the basic materials have become the focus of the craftsman's mansion's struggle.
The reason is very simple. Five hundred craftsmen are easier to screen and combine and combine to form more "die opening" production lines than one hundred craftsmen. And more special products, whether they are single screens or simple combinations, may produce new products suitable for "die opening".
Speaking of this, Han Feng came to Yan Kaiting for a look, and didn't know if this mansion owner, who is said to have almost no experience in the field of the craftsman's mansion, could understand it.
Yan Kaiting cross-legged with elbows, held his chin, and kept posing in a thoughtful posture. At this time, Han Feng stood up, and he immediately responded, as if he was indeed listening.
"Well, I understand that as long as the cultivator's weapons are always short of weapons, the process of refining will always have the possibility of innovating. Even if this time it is not the method of 'opening the mold', it may be the change of 'opening the formation' and 'setting' later changes." Speaking of this, Yan Kaiting touched his chin and said, "'opening the formation' is actually a universal magic array. Array cultivation is originally a major method!"
Han Fenglai's eyes flashed slightly and said, "Many weapon refining masters are weapons, and they are fellow practitioners of the formation." He couldn't tell whether Yan Kaiting's court was really gaining something, or was it easy to say it.
Yan Kaiting nodded seriously and said, "Oh."
Seeing that he was about to end the topic with another word, someone else came in outside the courtyard.
This time, the one who escaped was Lu Li, the leader of Yujing, who was in the "Golden Valley Garden".
Lu Li is a gentle young man in his twenties. His face is slightly round and his eyes are not big. When he smiles, he turns into two crescent moons. From the hair to the dark cloud-patterned silk shoes on his feet, it is said that harmony is the most important, and good fortune is the best.
He is the famous Mr. Haohao among the "Four Young Masters of Yujing". Not to mention Tu Yuyong and Fu Mingxuan, they have a good relationship with Yan Kaiting, and they are friends who can go to the flower boat to have fun together. However, recently, Yan Kaiting's Linxi master who was chasing "Yilan Zhou" in the court recently, Lu Li held a banquet, but he didn't call him after calling him several times.
When Lu Li saw Yan's court, he didn't even bother to make a fuss. He found a place nearby to sit down, and smiled and said, "Oh, Brother Ting'er looks good, this is a sign that everything he wants is accomplished!"
Yan Kaiting choked for a moment. Since he fell in love with Shuyu, Lu Li has always used this to make fun of him, but at this moment, he couldn't proudly tell him that he had done his best.
So Yan Kaiting could only look at him and said, "The secret is to tell you, no thanks! A beauty with a mahogany is placed on the desk and will allow you to sleep well." He said this, isn't he just talking nonsense, isn't he a room full of mahogany?
Lu Li is familiar with Yan Mansion and has also entered the "Flower Garden". He smiled and said, "This wood is not available in the north, so it is not easy to buy. Can you dismantle a piece of wall board and use it for me?"
In order to prevent Yan from continuing to lose poverty with him, Lu Li did not wait for Yan to interrogate the trial, and gestured to the outside door, saying, "Mingxuan and Yong Ge'er will come in soon. They are already arranging defense outside."
Yan Kaiting nodded lazily, looking uninterested.
Lu Li didn't think it was strange, and he was still chatting with him in a mess.
But when he heard carefully, Lu Li's words were very sensible. How many things have happened in the past two days? In his mouth, he was full of romance and no extra question. Even Han Fenglai, who was sitting beside Yan Kaiting, didn't ask.
At this time, the strong men from each family began to come in one after another, and the number of people was not large. Generally, the four major families would lead three, four major officials or guest officials, and the rest of the families had only one or two. Not every family force present was qualified to send people in.
The courtyard where the array eye is located is so big, it is meaningless to fill a human head. Especially the hall where the magic weapon is located, the guardian needs to be able to accurately control the power to avoid accidental injury from the ultimate move. If you have a little strength, don’t come in and cause trouble.
When Fu Mingxuan and Tu Yuyong came in together, more than 30 people gathered in the courtyard, and basically all arrived.
The host here is of course nominally the City Lord's Mansion. A great elder of the Tu family gave a defense explanation to everyone, and Tu Yuyong stood aside as a accompanying him.
There is nothing special about the Great Elder's speech. Yujing City has to practice every year and all the processes are familiar with them. However, everyone still listens carefully at the seat. Even Yan Kaiting, who participated in the first time, gave face and kept a serious face throughout the whole process. The Great Elder couldn't help but feel relieved.
This was the first time Tu Yuyong appeared on behalf of the City Lord's Mansion in public. He looked quite arrogant. As soon as the statement was over, he did not return to the seat in the Tu family area, but instead ran to Yan Kaiting excitedly and sat down without asking.
Tu Yuyong saw Han Fenglai on the other side. After looking up and down, he turned to Yan Kaiting without asking much questions, and hit him and said, "Brother Ting, I can't see that you have made great progress recently. Come on, you and I don't need spiritual weapons, fight another battle!"
The two of them have been fighting since childhood, so how could Yan pay attention to him in court? Tu Yuyong refused to give up easily, just sat down and said, "After tonight, I don't know life and death, why are you still hiding it!"
The two of them didn't know how long they had been, but a proud voice suddenly came from beside them, "The villain won again, can we give advice to the master of Yan Mansion next?"
Chapter completed!