Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

Chapter 251 The Iron-Making Journey Begins Again

"We must prepare for the worst and take precautions. We must take into account everything you have said. We must not only prepare to deal with the pressure from the Blue Kingdom, but also guard against the counterattack from the Red Kingdom. Even if Wu Ji is temporarily unable to start another war, we are afraid that she will become angry and fight us to the death."

Therefore, I suggest that the troop deployment be done as I said. In addition, General Sun should arrange as many Falcon Guards as possible to infiltrate Jingzhou.

General Su intensified the recruitment of new soldiers and urged the National Security Bureau to take over the security of Zhongyuan City, so as to replace the five thousand soldiers stationed in Zhongyuan City as soon as possible.

"I'll go to the mine first to work with Elder Huo to improve a batch of weapons and enhance the combat effectiveness of our soldiers," Mo Yuming concluded.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"

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Never fight a battle unprepared; this is Mo Yuming's principle. Originally, his trip to the mine to learn weapon forging was also for the purpose of designing new weapons.

If it weren't for the unexpected incident, the new weapons would almost be ready for mass production.

Previously, Elder Huo designed a demon-repelling bullet that required sensing spiritual energy to explode. Although the design was ingenious, it could only be used on demon-repelling arrows and could not be made into a magic crystal bullet.

Because the magic crystal cannon is fired by using runes in the barrel to activate and stimulate the magic crystal energy in the projectile, although the magic crystal projectile is activated in the barrel, it does not explode, but is ejected from the barrel in the form of an energy beam.

If the projectile designed by Huo were used, it would explode directly in the barrel instead of being ejected.

It has little practical value when used solely for warding off evil arrows, but it would be a decent weapon in other applications. Although a design concept has been developed, many uncertain parts still need optimization.

Some of his designs and ideas were difficult to explain to Elder Huo and the others, and even if he did, they would find them hard to understand. Therefore, Mo Yuming wanted to wait until he had mastered weapon crafting before making them himself.

Now that my soul power has increased significantly and my control over fire elemental energy has improved several times over, I believe that practicing drawing runes should no longer be difficult.

Mo Yuming's approach to weapon forging differed from others. After failing to forge an iron ingot, he decided to skip that step and instead practice drawing runes before refining iron. He believed that once he could draw runes, refining pig iron would be a piece of cake.

Upon arriving at the small courtyard of the mine headquarters again, Mo Yuming took out Elder Huo's Spirit Gathering Brush and began practicing drawing runes.

Just as Mo Yuming had predicted, after his soul power increased, he was able to sense the spiritual energy stored in the Spirit Gathering Brush much faster. After a little familiarization, he was able to control the spiritual energy in the brush. He found a talisman and tried it. The spiritual energy in the brush flowed out from the tip of the brush like a hair and then smoothly merged into the talisman, forming a spiritual energy vein.

Once these spiritual energy channels form a specific pattern, a rune is completed.

Mo Yuming was thrilled and quickly chose the simplest basic rune to begin practicing and drawing it.

Thin strands of spiritual energy flowed from the Spirit Gathering Brush, embedding themselves into the interior of the talisman paper according to their own paths. Then, strands of spiritual energy covered the surface of the talisman paper, and the two layers of spiritual energy intertwined to form an exquisite pattern.

Although it is the simplest basic rune, it is composed of dozens of spiritual threads of various shapes, which intertwine to form a very special energy field.

When external spiritual energy is activated, the spiritual energy threads that make up the pattern will generate spiritual energy fluctuations, thereby triggering corresponding scene effects.

The first rune was drawn somewhat clumsily, but after a quarter of an hour of effort, it was finally completed. Mo Yuming breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the rune on the talisman paper, and immediately wanted confirmation.

This is a flame rune. When detonated, it will ignite a ball of flame, the size of which will vary depending on the quality of the rune.

If the base material of the rune is good and the drawing technique is exquisite, it will ignite a large flame several feet high, which will burn for at least several dozen breaths. If the base material of the rune is poor and the drawing is very rough, the flame may only be the size of a candle flame, and will only last for one or two breaths at most.

Mo Yuming activated the rune in his hand with his spiritual energy and then threw it out. With a clear 'bang', the rune quickly burned and formed a fist-sized flame, which extinguished after nine breaths.

"Not bad, I was able to draw the first rune successfully. It seems that all my efforts have paid off," Mo Yuming muttered to himself.

Being able to draw runes on talisman paper is only the first step in learning rune drawing. The next step is to draw more complex runes and start drawing runes on tools. Even the same rune is much more difficult to draw on tools than on talisman paper.

After drawing continuously for three hours, it was already evening. A large number of basic runes appeared in Mo Yuming's training room, totaling nearly a hundred. Mo Yuming's speed in drawing runes also increased from one per quarter of an hour to ten per quarter of an hour.

The quality also improved. At the beginning, one out of every three to five drawings would be wrong and scrapped. Later, it became wrong every ten or so drawings, and finally, there were no wrong drawings at all.

Exhausted, Mo Yuming walked out of the training room, let out a long sigh, and went to the courtyard. The servants who were responsible for taking care of his daily life saw that he was practicing in the training room, so they did not disturb him. They simply placed a plate of delicious pastries and some fruits on the table in the courtyard and then left.

At this time, Old Huo had also come out of the factory and arrived at the villa.

"Young Master, how is the rune crafting going?"

"These are today's results, Elder Huo, please take a look!" After Mo Yuming and Elder Huo sat down at the tea table, Mo Yuming took out all the runes and handed them to Elder Huo for inspection.

"These were drawn in the first hour, these were drawn in the second hour, and these were drawn in the third hour..."

"Young Master, did you really draw this?" Old Master Huo asked in surprise after examining the runes carefully.

"Is there a problem?" Mo Yuming didn't understand what Old Master Huo meant.

"No problem, of course no problem. I remember that Young Master only started drawing runes today!"

"I started practicing that day, but something unexpected happened and I didn't succeed in the end."

"I really don't know what to say. Although the runes drawn by the young master are just some basic runes, the precision and accuracy of the drawing have surpassed those of first-level weapon refiners and reached the level of second-level weapon refiners. Some second-level weapon refiners are not even as good as the young master!"

Even if these runes were taken to the Refiners' Association, no one would dare say they were poorly drawn! If you told everyone that this was drawn by the young master on his first day, probably over 90% of the refiners would be too ashamed to remain in the association!

Old Master Huo said excitedly.

"Also, young master, you've been drawing continuously for three hours. Don't you feel exhausted?"

"I am a little tired, but I'm not completely exhausted!" Mo Yuming answered honestly.

"Young Master, please don't say anymore. Your achievements have already made us old bones feel ashamed. To be honest, even I would be exhausted from continuously drawing these basic runes. My physical strength might be able to keep up, but my mental strength definitely wouldn't be. I would need to rest for a while after at most two hours."

"I'm just young and energetic, not as good as Old Huo said!" Mo Yuming said modestly.

"Old Huo, do you have any finished products of the kind of anti-magic bullets you designed and made?"

"I've tried refining a few. If you want them, I'll give them to you tomorrow. How many do you need, young master? If you don't have enough, I can make a few more tomorrow!"

"Let's prepare three first, and we can talk about the rest later. Does the factory have a furnace? I want to try iron smelting tomorrow." Mo Yuming originally had a furnace for iron smelting, but it was kept in the Fuyuan Hotel in Shangyuan City and he hadn't brought it over.

"We have several furnaces, but now that we have a blast furnace, who needs that one? Just tell the servants to move it over tomorrow. If the young master needs anything else, I'll order them to send it over tomorrow as well."

"I'm just practicing weapon crafting; some ordinary iron blanks and some black iron blanks will suffice!"

"Alright, young master, please rest early. I won't disturb you any longer. I'll have them deliver it to you first thing tomorrow morning!"

After finishing his speech, Old Huo got up to take his leave and went back to his courtyard.

Mo Yuming rested alone in the courtyard for a while, ate a few pastries, and then returned to the training room.

After three hours of drawing, Mo Yuming was exhausted, though he hadn't overexerted himself. He took out a drop of 'Water Essence' and drank it. Although 'Water Essence,' a sacred spiritual treasure known as the 'Fountain of Life,' was incredibly precious, with each drop worth a fortune, Mo Yuming didn't feel any pain drinking it. Among all the treasures he possessed, 'Water Essence' was the most abundant, weighing at least several hundred kilograms. Even if Mo Yuming drank one drop every day, it would last for hundreds of years.

Mo Yuming discovered that besides rapidly restoring physical strength and repairing injuries, 'Water Soul' had a function that other spiritual medicines lacked: unlike other spiritual medicines, after drinking it, the user would not be harmed by the rapidly released medicinal power if they could not fully control it, or even explode and die.

The medicinal power contained in 'Water Essence' will not be released quickly, but will accumulate and be consumed in small amounts until it is completely used up. If Mo Yuming hadn't happened to drink a few drops of 'Water Essence' to restore his strength before the Hua Chen incident, the excess 'Water Essence' stored in his meridians would not have been able to continuously repair his broken skin.

If it weren't for this, Mo Yuming's situation would definitely be even more dangerous, and he might even die physically.

So from then on, Mo Yuming would drink a drop of 'Water Soul' every day to restore his strength.

With the help of the 'Water Spirit', Mo Yuming practiced the 'Soul Wheel Guidance' several times, and his physical strength and spirit were restored to their best state.

Currently, his sea of ​​consciousness is continuously absorbing the energy of the crystal brain fragments, and his sea of ​​consciousness is rapidly strengthening. Based on the classification rules of the profound skill realm, Mo Yuming judged that his current soul power realm should be equivalent to the peak of the third level of the Heavenly Rank, and it will not be long before he rises to the fourth level of the Heavenly Rank.

The reason his soul power was so strong was likely related to the previous Transformation Realm. That event caused a huge commotion, and theoretically, his dantian and spiritual sea should have already entered the Transformation Realm. However, the result was that only his cultivation of various elemental profound arts improved slightly, while his earth element profound arts actually decreased. To this day, there is still no sign of him making any further progress.

On the contrary, his sea of ​​consciousness, which was originally supposed to take shape after breaking through to the Heavenly Rank, formed ahead of schedule and achieved remarkable results. Mo Yuming felt that his sea of ​​consciousness benefited from the Witch Clan's technique 'Soul Wheel Guiding'. Since cultivating 'Soul Wheel Guiding', Mo Yuming's sea of ​​consciousness had improved exceptionally quickly.

After a drop of 'Water Spirit' entered his throat, it quickly dissipated into his meridians. Instantly, it was as if hundreds or thousands of valves in his dantian and the meridians throughout his body had been turned on at the same time, and abundant spiritual power gushed out. His whole body felt extremely comfortable, his spirit was greatly invigorated, and his fatigue was swept away.

It's already night. I originally wanted to practice the Illusionary Flute Demonic Sound, but I felt it would disturb others' rest. Now that I'm in a very good mental state, I'm practicing the 'Blazing Sun Hammer' to prepare for tomorrow's iron smelting.

Early the next morning, just as dawn was breaking, several members of the Huo family from the factories and mines brought over furnaces and a pile of refining materials.

After washing up, Mo Yuming went to the training room, checked the materials, and then resumed his weapon-forging journey.

Using fire-attribute spiritual energy, following the fire-inducing technique, I began to draw the fire spiritual energy within my body to gather between my fingers. The meridians in my arm began to heat up, and soon red light appeared at the tips of my index and middle fingers.

With a light touch of his fingertip, the cauldron trembled, a flash of fire appeared in the furnace, and the magic array within the cauldron began to operate, causing the fire elemental energy in the air to rapidly converge into the furnace.

Ignition successful! Mo Yuming was secretly delighted and quickly focused on controlling the spiritual fire in the furnace, while preparing to put the ore into the furnace.

Last time, it took several hours and hundreds of attempts to ignite the furnace, leaving him exhausted. This time, however, he succeeded on the first try. Mo Yuming finally understood why he had failed. It was mainly because his cultivation level was too high at the time, with too much of a bubble in his cultivation. This caused fluctuations in spiritual energy output each time he circulated his energy, preventing the cultivation technique from functioning properly.

Now, after experiencing astral projection and spiritual energy refinement, his profound cultivation has become much more solid, and his soul power has increased several times over, so everything has fallen into place naturally.

Mo Yuming controlled the heat and then threw in the ore at the right time. This time, he was refining low-grade ordinary iron.

Soon, the iron ore was engulfed by the flames in the furnace. The ore began to turn red and then began to melt. Under the control of spiritual power, the ore melted into molten iron, and the impurities in the ore began to peel off, turning into ash that scattered to the bottom of the furnace.

The pure molten iron churned and tumbled continuously in the furnace. Then, under the control of Mo Yuming's soul power, it began to condense and take shape, floating out of the furnace and landing on the iron block. At this moment, Mo Yuming activated the 'Blazing Sun Hammer' profound skill, wielding the iron hammer in his hand to begin hammering the iron block.

Mo Yuming was like an old blacksmith who had been forging iron for many years. He swung his large iron hammer up and down, each strike landing precisely on the iron block. He controlled the force and position perfectly. After a series of dense hammering sounds, the red-hot iron block began to deform and shrink.