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Chapter 10 Tempering
This small hole was very strange. The sizes inside were all the same. After crawling out about ten feet, Su Ming saw the end in front of him and his movements slowed down.
He gradually approached the exit cautiously. At first glance, he was stunned for a moment and then took a deep breath.
This is a fire cave, with countless cone-shaped stones hanging upside down. The surface is dry and cracked, as if it can break away at any time. The ground is originally pitch black, but there are strips of red rocks scattered here and there, reflecting the place in the brown. The heat inside is several times stronger than outside.
Not far away, there was a dark skeleton. The skeleton was about eight or nine feet long. Su Ming recognized it at a glance. It should be the bones of a python.
On the skull of the python, there is a bone horn as thick as an arm, and the color of the horn is also pitch black.
Su Ming had never seen such a long python, but he had vaguely heard from his grandfather that there was a kind of python on Wulong Mountain very early on. It was extremely ferocious. This kind of python had horns on its head and was called It is a horned python, and the sharpness of its horn can often become a treasure offered to the tribe.
In their Wushan tribe, there is the bone horn of a horned python, which has been passed down by the clan leaders of the past generations.
"Could it be a horned python?" He inspected the python's skeleton with his eyes, then looked at the small hole where he was, and vaguely got the answer.
While pondering, Su Ming took out a leaf of herbal medicine from the basket behind him and threw it downwards.
The herb fell erratically, making a sizzling sound when it touched the ground. After about a quarter of an hour, it slowly dried up.Then he tried a few more times, and finally determined that although the heat of the ground here was not weak, he could withstand it for some time, as long as he did not touch the red rocks.
At this moment, Xiaohong was already impatient. If she hadn't known that this place was dangerous, she would have jumped out long ago.
Su Ming climbed out cautiously, jumped down, and stepped on the ground. Immediately, his feet made a sizzling sound, and a wave of heat spread throughout his body along the soles of his feet, but it would not burn the soles of his feet for a short time.
After Xiaohong entered the fire cave, she was immediately sweating profusely from the heat. After thinking for a long time, she returned to the small cave again. She said nothing and didn't come in. Instead, she left in a flash and ran away to play somewhere.
Su Ming did not persuade him, but walked forward quickly with the basket on his back. He could guess that this place should be connected with the inside of the Black Flame Peak, and there might be a place suitable for quenching.
After walking not far, there was an empty space in front of them. It was unknown where it led. There were some potholes on the ground. The heat was much stronger here. Su Ming could even feel the heat under his feet.
He hesitated for a moment, and just when his steps were about to fall, a heat wave suddenly erupted, causing Su Ming to scream and retreat. His pupils shrank, and he saw a flame as thick as an arm coming from the ground in front of him. A pit suddenly appeared, instantly reflecting the cave in the light of the fire.
Su Ming took a deep breath and stepped back again, until he pushed to the entrance of the hole, and then looked at it intently. It took half an hour for the flames to gradually dissipate, but not long after, another pothole erupted again. flame.
Over and over again, each other continues.
"Fire..." Su Ming stared at the potholes, his eyes slowly revealed a bright light, and he was even more surprised.
"There is indeed a fire here! However, it appears intermittently, not that kind of stable eruption..." After Su Ming was overjoyed, he pondered for a moment and felt a pity.
“That’s all, although you may be able to find a better place by entering the mountain directly from the top of the mountain, but this place is better hidden, and if there is danger, I can leave quickly.
Then I will temporarily regard this place as the first quenching cave in my life! "Su Ming looked excited and looked around again while murmuring.
"With the fire, there is still a lack of a waste cauldron...I can make one myself!" Su Ming's eyes fell on the scattered stones on the ground.
"These rocks have been here for so many years and have not been incinerated into ashes. They are obviously extremely heat-resistant and should be able to be quenched..." Su Ming scratched his head, changed the herbs under his feet, jumped down again, and chose a piece. The big stone seemed to be more suitable. After hesitating for a moment, I touched it, but it didn't feel too hot, just warm.
After deciding to use this big stone as a material, Su Ming took out his medicine knife. This knife was very sharp and he often took it out to polish. With this knife, Su Ming used all his strength to chop at the stone. .
This was a boring process, but Su Ming had long been used to it and was not impatient at all. But while he was cutting, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind and he looked at the bones of the python not far away, especially the bones on its skull. black horns.
After pondering for a while, Su Ming walked quickly, looked around the skull for a while, and then knocked on the python bone. With this knock, only a crashing sound was heard, and the bones immediately became broken into pieces. The end spilled all over the place.
Among the broken pieces, there was only a black bone horn that was not shattered.
"This corner is indeed extraordinary. I was just wondering how the python got in." Su Ming picked up the bone horn and scratched it on the wall nearby, and immediately made a scratch. This scene did not faze Su Ming. Accident.
"I just don't know why this horned python had to crawl in from the outside..." Su Ming couldn't figure it out, so he walked to the big stone with the bone horn and started cutting it.
With the help of this corner, a few hours later, a quenched stone furnace that was fifty or sixty-six percent similar to the desolate cauldron in Su Ming's memory was formed. Su Ming even made an extra lid to keep the interior of the desolate cauldron. The heat does not escape.
"Try it first." Su Ming looked excited as he pushed the deserted cauldron to the potholes, pressed his mind, and slowly waited.
Several more hours passed, and with flames erupting again and again, flames finally broke out in a pothole in front of Su Ming and close to him.
Almost at the moment when the flames burst out, Su Ming pushed the quenching stone furnace fiercely, causing the desolate cauldron to cover the pit where the flames burst out.
Su Ming looked nervous. Whether it can be quenched depends on whether the desolate cauldron can withstand the high temperature.
Soon, the stone furnace turned red, the heat wave dispersed, and the sound of cracking echoed, but a large number of cracks appeared on its surface. Su Ming felt a thump in his heart, but after waiting for a long time, he did not see the stone cracking. Then I slowly felt relieved.
"One hour... each tempering only lasts for one hour, which shouldn't be enough..." Su Ming's eyes showed deep thought. It can be said that he put all his efforts into tempering.
"You can do it this way!" Su Ming took a few steps back. Although he had an idea in his mind, he did not act rashly. Instead, he stood where the ground was not sour or too hot, staring at the potholes. It takes a whole day to watch.
During this period, the little monkey came by, felt it was too hot, left some wild fruits, and ran out to play again.
As for the stone desolate cauldron, it has withstood the test. It has not been broken despite several flame impacts.
"The flames erupting from these small holes in the ground have some rules, but there are no rules..." A day later, Su Ming took the bone horn and swung out to those potholes, quickly creating a ravine on the ground , connecting one of the pitted holes to the bottom of the desolate cauldron.
He did not pause in his movements, and drew six strokes in a row before quickly retreating. Not long after, when a flame burst out from one of the small holes in the pit, it was obviously diverted and poured into the bottom of the stone furnace along the ravine on the ground.
"It's done!" Su Ming watched for a while, looking for gaps to draw five more ravines. He continued to observe for a whole day, determined his method, and extended the fire on a large scale, and then he felt relieved.
In fact, he also hesitated. The lines and connections of these ravines were not drawn randomly. It was necessary to keep the flames at the place where the Wild Cauldron was located neither too large nor too small, otherwise abnormalities would easily occur.
After all, in his observations, there were several times when flames erupted in several potholes at the same time. If the connection was wrong, it would be dangerous.
After solving these two most basic problems, Su Ming calmed down, and according to the scenes in his memory, in this Black Flame Peak, he started the first quenching in his life.
The food to be eaten was taken care of by the little monkeys, or Su Ming went out to hunt some small animals, dragged them here and cooked them under the fire.There was also the matter about the Grandpa of the Montenegro. When Su Ming went out hunting during this period, he met a hunting team from his tribe and informed him of the matter.
Time passed day by day. This was his quenching place. From time to time, annoyed voices would be heard. In half a month, Su Ming's eyes were already red. In this half month, he had refined it countless times, but unexpectedly Not once did it work!
He is now at the first level of the Blood Coagulation Realm in practice, and has four blood lines. As long as he can get two more, he can step into the second level of the Blood Coagulation Realm.
Once he reaches the second level, Su Ming can perform his first barbaric technique in the Barbaric Image inheritance he obtained!
This was Su Ming's dream, and it was also the source of motivation that kept him refining medicine stones.
But the failure of this month's quenching has made Su Ming almost disheartened, but the stubbornness in his bones made him unwilling to give up like this.
"I don't believe it! Xiaohong, help me collect the medicine again!" Su Ming muttered, throwing the basket towards the grinning little monkey at the entrance of the cave, and continued to refine it.
The little monkey caught the basket, grinned, turned around and ran out.
One day, one day, one day...
Fail, fail, fail...
Until another half month passed, in the afternoon of this day, Su Ming stood in front of the barren cauldron with disheveled hair, holding two kinds of herbs in his hands, both were red, one had six petals and the other had five petals.
"Which one should I use..." Su Ming knew he didn't have much time to think, so he gritted his teeth.
　
(End of this chapter)