Chapter 1659 Forging!

The tenth test is related to forging.

What appeared before Ye Chuyun was a forging workshop.

In the center of the workshop stands a furnace, within which strange flames burn.

The flames were not the usual crimson red, but a nearly transparent pale white, radiating heat that even slightly distorted the surrounding air.

Beside the furnace stood a statue of a burly man, holding a huge forging hammer in his hand. He was muscular, wore a leather apron, and had a face as stern as a rock.

The moment Ye Chuyun stepped into the workshop area, the burly statue seemed to come alive, its eyelids lifting and its gaze falling on Ye Chuyun.

"Challenger, I am Duan Tianqiong." The burly man's voice was powerful and resonant. "The tenth test, 'Temperature Refinement'."

He pointed to the pale white furnace of flames and a light screen that suddenly appeared beside it.

The light screen displayed a variety of metals and minerals, each with a price tag.

All transactions are settled using attribute points.

"The rules are simple," Duan Tianqiong said succinctly, "Use the divine forging fire in the furnace, along with these materials, to personally forge a weapon."

"Weapon requirements: The quality must reach the Aura level, the sharpness must be no less than 80, the toughness must be no less than 90, and it must contain a trace of armor-piercing effect."

The screen then displayed detailed explanations of terms such as "Aura Level," "Sharpness," "Toughness," and "Armor Penetration Effect," which constituted a rather complex and stringent set of evaluation criteria.

"You can buy any materials you want, and there's no limit to the number of times you can try," Duan Tianqiong continued.

"However, each time the furnace is lit and materials are put in for forging, attribute points are continuously consumed as fuel for the Divine Forging Fire."

"The amount of fuel input directly affects the furnace temperature and forging efficiency."

"You will be responsible for the cost of materials and fuel."

"There are no shortcuts in the process; you can only rely on your skills and resources."

"Craft a weapon that meets the requirements and submit it to me for appraisal. If it passes, the test is complete, and you will receive a reward."

"Now, the test begins."

As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Tianqiong stood to the side with his arms crossed, like a real statue, saying nothing more, but his eyes still sharply watched everything in the workshop.

Ye Chuyun's heart sank as she looked at the rare materials on the light screen, each worth tens or even hundreds of thousands of attribute points.

This really stumped him.

He can come up with solutions for fighting, strategizing, and even fishing, but he hasn't delved too deeply into forging yet.

It's possible that his forging skills are currently inferior to those of Niu Dali and Yan Song.

This test was clearly aimed at him, a blatant attempt to harvest the attribute points he possessed.

But there was no turning back; we had no choice but to go on.

Ye Chuyun sighed, preparing herself to lose a large number of attribute points.

He first carefully studied the material properties description on the light screen, as well as the fuel input standards for the Divine Forging Fire.

It starts at 10,000 attribute points per second, and to maintain the heat sufficient for smelting high-level materials, the consumption can even reach 100,000 points per second.

"Let's test the waters first." Ye Chuyun gritted her teeth and selected a few relatively inexpensive basic materials with good compatibility in their descriptions, spending about 500,000 attribute points.

Then, with a thought, he began to inject attribute points into the furnace.

hum!

The pale flames suddenly shot up, and a terrifying heat wave swept over us.

Ye Chuyun threw the materials into the flames.

He tried his best to use his divine sense to perceive the melting state of the materials and attempted to control the heat.

However, there is a huge gap between theory and practice.

This was his first time using the divine forging fire, and his control over the heat was extremely unfamiliar, while his understanding of the material's properties remained purely theoretical.

Because of the excessive heat, the materials clashed during the smelting process, exploding directly inside the furnace and turning into a pile of charred waste. The hundreds of thousands of attribute points invested in materials and nearly a million in fuel costs were all wasted.

Ye Chuyun's eyelids twitched, and her heart bled.

That's a loss of nearly 1.5 million attribute points.

He refused to believe in superstitions, summarized the lessons learned from his failures, and concluded that the problems lay in the combination of ingredients and the timing of cooking.

The second time, he changed the material combination, carefully controlled the fuel input, and tried to smelt in a gentler way.

However, due to insufficient heat, the materials failed to fuse perfectly. After barely forming a sword blank, it failed in the final tempering stage. The sword blank lost all its spirituality and became a piece of ordinary iron, with all its performance indicators falling far short of the requirements.

Another loss of over a million attribute points.

The third time, the fourth time...

Ye Chuyun seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.

He kept trying and making mistakes, and kept investing massive amounts of attribute points.

Every failure means a huge loss of attribute points.

He was buying attribute points for materials and maintaining the attribute points for the furnace's fuel, as if being greedily swallowed by a bottomless pit.

During this period, he forged many weapons. Some were barely sharp enough but not tough enough, some were incredibly tough but lacked any spark or vitality; and many more failed at the melting or shaping stage.

Inside the forging workshop, Ye Chuyun was completely absorbed in his work, his forehead covered in sweat, but his eyes became increasingly focused.

Through countless failures, he did gain some practical insights into the properties of materials and the control of heat.

But the price of this realization is far too high.

Time passed without Ye Chuyun remembering how many times he had opened the furnace. When he looked at his panel and saw that the nearly ten million attribute points that had once given him peace of mind had now been reduced to less than four million, the immense pressure almost overwhelmed him.

"Do we really have to exhaust everything to succeed?" Ye Chuyun stared at the pale flames, her eyes filled with resentment.

He laid out all the semi-finished and defective products he had created and began to study the differences and defects in their internal structures.

Gradually, Ye Chuyun grasped some key points.

He even felt that he could forge the weapons required by the Sky Dome.

He carefully selected a set of materials that could theoretically perfectly meet the requirements of "aura", "sharpness", "toughness" and "armor penetration", spending 1.5 million.

Then he lit the furnace and began Ye Chuyun's most focused forging to date.

With his mental energy highly concentrated, he carefully followed each step of the process: melting, fusing, shaping, forging, and tempering.

When the final tempering process was completed, a longsword with a pale blue aura finally floated above the furnace.

[Successfully forged the "Unnamed Longsword"!]

Ye Chuyun, panting heavily, took the longsword down and handed it to Duan Tianqiong, who had been watching silently from the side.

"have a look."

Duan Tianqiong took the longsword, his expression revealing neither joy nor anger.

He stretched out his rough fingers and lightly flicked them across the blade.