Chapter 197: Forging - 197
Before he began to forge, Zhou Fan decided to change locations. He had been on the same mountain top for more than a million years and felt that a change of scenery was natural.
After wandering around for a while, Zhou Fan found a nice looking cave. As he went in, he discovered that it went extremely deep into the ground.
Even after walking for a thousand miles, he had not reached the end. After walking what he estimated to be a hundred thousand miles, Zhou Fan found the cave's end. Surprisingly, it ended with a little dome shaped room that had only a pillar going through the middle.
Zhou Fan estimated that he was around thirty thousand feet deep. It wasn't much compared to the distance between the surface of the world and the core, but it was definitely one of the deepest caves on the planet.
Zhou Fan knocked down the pillar in the middle of the dome shaped cave and left only the stub of it. The stub was about the same height and length of a tree stub.
Zhou Fan removed some of the stone in the middle of the stub, enhanced the rest of the stub to the god realm, and put some fire in it.
The fire was enough to melt many god realm ores, but it wouldn't melt the stub since not only was the stub very strong, but he was controlling the fire to have minimal effects on the stub.
The next thing Zhou Fan needed were ores. He still had many god realm ores left over from when he was practicing formations, but there was no were near enough to last him the entire tenth rank. Even if he did have enough to last him the entire tenth rank, he didn't have any other rank ores on him.
Therefore, Zhou Fan needed to go collect ores. He almost directly teleported out of the cave system himself, but he remembered the fact that he had an array he had never used that could do that for him.
In a very little amount of time, Zhou Fan set up a teleportation array. He wanted to use it, but there was still a problem. There was no exit from the teleportation array. He still needed to make a receiving teleportation array that would mark the place he would teleport to.
Since he still wanted to teleport out of the cave, Zhou Fan shot his divine sense outwards and let it build the array for him. Since he had never used his divine sense to do such a thing, despite it having the ability to many realms ago, it took a while for him to build the array.
The process took him about a minute before the teleportation array was finally finished. Using some of his Qi since there was no power source on the arrays, Zhou Fan stepped into the teleportation array.
In an instant, he appeared on the surface of the world. Well, he wouldn't exactly call it a surface since he was essentially standing on a pile of vines, but he was outside of the cave.
As he looked around at the world, he was struck by a hint of genius and came up with a name.
"The Plant World." He said out loud. Such a name perfectly described it without missing a single detail.
Zhou Fan proceeded to fly out of the plant world and teleport around nearly the entire silver river galaxy cluster before he finally came back. A long time had passed, but the life Qi rain had never stopped and nothing had really changed.
Speaking of life Qi rain, it didn't really need to exist for Zhou Fan to get materials anymore. He was only keeping it to help the planet out. Before he left, he planned on seeing whether or not the planet had evolved enough to survive without the life rain.
If it wasn't able to, then that was a pity. Zhou Fan found the same teleportation array buried under a couple tens of feet of plants. He dug it up and cleared the area around it with Qi before he used it again and returned to the cave.
Unlike the other teleportation array, the cave teleportation array hadn't changed at all. Not only had the array not changed, but the entire cave had stayed the same.
The fire was still burning and it was still a dome shape with only a teleportation array to the side and a stub in the middle.
Zhou Fan went over to the stub and stood near it. He then took out a ball of ore from another world. The ore was already at the Qi gathering realm, so he didn't have to worry about upgrading it at all.
Zhou Fan threw the ore in the fire and controlled it to slowly burn it. Once the ore was red hot and easily mendable, Zhou Fan took it out without touching it by using his Qi.
He let it float in the air and used some more Qi to hit it, which slowly turned it into the shape he was hoping for. After a minute, the ore took the shape of a sword.
Zhou Fan created an upside down dome in the ground and filled it up with cold water. He then stuck the sword in the water, cooling it down and finishing the first part of the forging process.
The sword was completed once it was cooled, but there were still some optional steps to make the sword stronger. One of them was the process of adding formations to the sword.
In his study of formations, he had found that there were some formations specifically meant for forged items.
Some that fit on the sword were the sharpening formation, the strengthening formation, which increased the hardness of the sword, and some elemental formations that would add some sort of elemental effect to the sword.
Zhou Fan decided to add first rank sharpening, strengthening, and flame formations to the sword.
While it would be harder to add formations as the amount increased, Zhou Fan could put thousands of first rank formations on a sword with no difficulty.
Chapter 198: Forging Master - 198
After adding the three formations he had decided upon, Zhou Fan looked at the sword. The metal it was originally forged out of was gray, but due to the fire element formation on it, it had a slight red hue.
It was very slight, but it was still noticeable to a normal human. The sword was now completely finished since Zhou Fan didn't plan on adding anything else.
In order to see how good the sword was, Zhou Fan swung it a couple times. He didn't swing it very hard, but it made a sound of cutting the air.
After swinging it around a couple more times, Zhou Fan turned around and threw the sword at the cave wall. The tip of the blade perfectly collided with it, causing a slight and miniscule white scratch that could barely be seen to be etched onto the cave wall.
Not only was Zhou Fan not upset at the result, but he was thrilled. He never expected a mere 1st rank sword to leave a mark on cave walls that had reached the 5th rank.
There were only a few reasons why it had. One, the sword had a sharpening and strengthening formation, along with the fire element formation. Although the arrays were only first rank, it greatly increased the sword power. Two, the wall was very weak despite being at the 5th rank. Its power was spread out to a thin area and it only really had enough durability to resist a core formation attack before being destroyed.
That meant that the sword, when thrown fairly fast, could leave a scratch on a core formation cultivator.
It wasn't a bad result at all, but Zhou Fan quickly ignored it and continued with the rest of the first rank forging skills.
In a week, he had become a first rank forging master. It only took that long because he had to completely master the manipulation of the heat, material, and hammering. Also, he had to learn different techniques for different weapons.
Zhou Fan increased the flames' heat and the water's coldness in preparation for the 2nd rank materials.
The first ore he threw in was some obsidian at the second rank. It quickly got hot, and Zhou Fan picked it up with Qi before he began to shape it.
While normally obsidian could not be melted and was a somewhat fragile rock, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the dao and the elements changed everything. Even something like obsidian acted like common steel in his hands.
It wasn't really anything to be proud of since even a nascent soul realm cultivator with some skill in forging could do it, but Zhou Fan still felt it was something worth being proud of in the end.
Once again, the first weapon Zhou Fan was making was a sword. Like before, even the hilt would be made up of the ore, which was obsidian in this case. He felt no need to make some sort of handle since the weapons were so low rank and that technically wasn't even a part of forging. That fell under another sub category of forging, leather making.
It was unnecessary to practice it since he would naturally have some skill in it once he mastered forging completely.
Once the sword was completely shaped, Zhou Fan dropped it in the cold water and let it cool. While he could have immediately cooled it himself, he was still trying to do it the basic way.
After a couple of seconds, the sword cooled down and completely solidified. Next, Zhou Fan needed to add formations.
Once again, he added the sharpness formation and the strengthening formation. Instead of a fire formation this time, he decided to add a water formation. It would make the sword sharper and flow better.
After adding the formations, Zhou Fan looked at the sword to make sure that he hadn't missed anything.
Once he confirmed that he hadn't, he tossed the sword at the exact same speed at the exact same wall, just inches away from where the first one hit.
This time, the sword left another mark. The mark was wider by about an inch and deeper by about half an inch, but there was no serious damage and the wall was nearly completely unharmed.
Despite the fact that the mark was barely bigger, Zhou Fan wasn't surprised. The second sword actually had more than twenty times the power of the first one, but the wall wasn't weak at all.
The first mark was so small it nearly didn't exist. The fact that the second one actually left a noticeable mark was quite impressive.
Once he stopped looking at the wall, Zhou Fan left the second sword on the ground, where it landed next to the first that had been sitting there.
It took him just about a month to become a second rank forging master. He had done nearly the same thing as before, with only a few variations and a few new techniques. What took so long was that the difficulty was higher. He still hadn't failed a forging yet, but that could all be chalked up to the fact that he was in the god realm, although he was lowering his overall power, and his immense talent.
He didn't wait long before he moved on to the first third rank ore. He took it out randomly, and the ore turned out to be a piece of gold.
Zhou Fan increased the flames' heat and the water's coldness before he threw the piece of third rank gold into the fire.
It quickly melted and Zhou Fan picked it up with Qi, beat it into shape, and dipped it in water.
As per usual, he made a sword. It looked exactly like all the other swords he had made, besides the fact that the color and material was different.
After adding the sharpness and strengthening formations, Zhou Fan decided to make the elemental formation a gold formation.
It perfectly fit with the sword and its power was great.
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