In the deserted black forest, there was another earth-shattering noise. Flames, accompanied by countless gravel and iron slag, splashed everywhere.
Sui Xiong jumped into the river not far away. Listening to the sizzling sound of the hot gravel and iron slag coming into contact with cold water, he couldn't help but sigh.
"How many times have I failed!"
He looked at the scene of the explosion. The ground was a mess, with scattered stones and mud mixed with iron ore, peat, and bits of iron slag — this was the result of his "blast furnace ironmaking."
"What on earth is wrong?"
After failing so many times, even an art student felt that something was wrong. Sui Xiong dared to bet his moral integrity that there must be a fatal flaw in his blast furnace ironmaking technique. It was very likely that he had made a mistake in some key point. But no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure out what exactly was wrong.
Iron ore and coal reacted at high temperature, reducing the combined iron into iron atoms — in his memory, this should be what high school chemistry taught.
Although Brother Xiong was an art student, he was still admitted to a university. Redox reaction was a key point in high school chemistry, how could he forget it?
But … why was it wrong?
He had iron ore, coal, and high temperature. And in order to make the reaction full, he specially mixed coal and iron ore evenly, just grinding them together.
But why didn't the result be extinguished while burning, or exploding while burning?
What was the problem?
Sui Xiong wasn't ignorant and incompetent. He didn't come to ironmaking without any preparation. Before starting, he also ran to the blacksmith shop to ask and observe ironmaking techniques.
The ironmaking technique in this world was roughly like this: Build an oval-shaped furnace with a short chimney using a mixture of mud and straw. Below the furnace, there were two air inlets and a slag outlet. Then, layer after layer of iron ore and charcoal were stacked inside, and the fire was slowly lit. As the fire burned, the charcoal and iron ore were slowly added layer by layer.
This was a very slow process that produced a lot of useless iron slag. It took a long time to get some iron pieces full of holes. Then use the furnace to heat these iron pieces red, slowly forge them, remove bubbles and impurities, and finally get the usable iron.
In general, this method was not very efficient, and it consumed a lot of manpower and resources. Therefore, the price of iron in this world was very high, and the price of ironware was also very high.
In fact, many places in this world still used bronze wares.
Of course, in a magical world, there was naturally a way to solve problems with magic, and that was the magic furnace.
Magic could produce shockingly high heat, so naturally, it could melt iron ores. With the addition of a reducing agent, the molten iron could be smoothly obtained, and then pig iron could be obtained. After that, wrought iron could be obtained by forging with charcoal, and finally, steel could be obtained by mixing the raw and wrought iron.
This method of smelting iron was very efficient, and the quality of the iron produced was also very good. The only problem was that it was very expensive.
The cost of the Magic Furnace was astonishing, and the operation process required the assistance of several Magicians. Furthermore, it consumed precious Magic Crystals as fuel. Usually, a few hundred gold coins would be spent every time the furnace was opened, regardless of whether it was successful or not.
In this way, the price of steel was still very high, and the output was still very tragic.
The Church of the Goddess of Wealth had once calculated that, under the current conditions, the cheapest way to produce iron was actually to let high-level Magicians use the "Plane Travel" spell to directly go to the Earth Elemental Plane to find pure iron ore veins …
Sui Xiong also learned that the dwarves passed down a special skill that could raise the temperature of magma, melt iron ores in it, and then use a secret method to directly extract molten iron from it.
The iron ingots obtained through this method were the famous "Dwarf Steel" or "Lava Ingots." Among the known types of steel, it was the highest grade.
… Naturally, the output was also the lowest.
Not to mention the fact that suitable lava was not easy to find, even if suitable lava was found, there were very few masters who could use that special skill. Even for most dwarves, this skill was just an ancient legend, and no one had ever seen the real thing.
If it weren't for the fact that there were dwarven steel products passed down through the ages, many people would probably even suspect that it was just a rumor.
Sui Xiong's plan was to develop a low-cost and efficient ironmaking technique. In his impression, even in the backward areas of the earth, steel was definitely not a rare thing. Didn't the African tribes all have machetes in their hands?
Of course, he certainly didn't know that those machetes were all "Made-In-China."
But it really wasn't easy to come up with such a technique!
With a deep sigh, he flew out of the river and once again cast the spell to build the blast furnace.
"The explosion was because of poor ventilation. I should work more on ventilation …"
Obviously, the experiment had to continue.
This experiment might have a major impact on the future development of this world, but in fact, the one presiding over the experiment at the moment was only one of Sui Xiong's battle avatars. His real body stayed in the Holy Kingdom's "shelter" and was doing something big.
"Oscar, are you hatching an egg?" Javier looked at Sui Xiong, who was lying motionless on the ground, and asked with a smile, "Hens incubate eggs with their eggs under their bodies, but you incubate eggs with your eggs on top of your head. That's really strange!"
Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh and said, "This isn't an egg. Have you ever seen a god hatch from an egg?"
At the moment, he was lying on the ground, and his body had turned into the shape of a concave round tray. In the center of the tray, a white cocoon of light was placed steadily. From the bottom of the tray, a powerful divine power continuously flowed into it. Dozens of tentacles were connected to the light cocoon. On the one hand, they played a fixed role, and on the other hand, they guided and fine-tuned the divine power, making subtle adjustments to the things inside the light cocoon.
Because the light cocoon was opaque, no one could see what was inside. In fact, even if they could see it clearly, it was useless, because there was currently only chaos inside, and there was nothing formed at all.
The thing inside the light cocoon was the "Angel of Love" that Sui Xiong had swallowed when he attacked Cloud City.
The predecessor of the Angel of Love was the God of Healing, a good god who was very good at healing spells and even became a priesthood. However, this god had bad luck. No one knew how he fell into the hands of the Sun God, and his priesthood was taken away, and he was transformed into an angel.
Sui Xiong had swallowed it and obtained the legacy of the Sun God before he died. So, he built such a system and used himself as the evil doctor's biochemical modification tank. He tried to return the Angel of Love to its original form, and then turn it back into the original God of Healing.
This matter seemed to be easy to say, but it was extremely difficult to actually do. He had failed several times at the beginning, and the Angel of Love had also been blown into a chaotic mass of fragments. Fortunately, he had prepared well before. He used the light cocoon to wrap the Angel of Love inside. No matter how many failures and explosions occurred, the materials were not damaged, and he could continue to work hard, trying to improve it in the direction he wanted.
But even if the materials were not damaged, his divine power and energy would be consumed. After all, if the light cocoon debugging tank was considered a machine, even if the Angel of Love as the material in the machine could be intact, the divine power as the mechanical power, and the energy needed to control the machine would inevitably be consumed.
So he had to take a break every once in a while to let himself breathe, and at the same time, summarize the research experience of the previous period, so that he could carry out the next stage of the experiment.
"How long are you going to do it?" Morani asked curiously. "It seems to be a long time, right?"
"Three days is not short, and a hundred years is not long," Sui Xiong said with a smile. "Anyway, this is the most important work for me in the next few years. When it is successfully modified, we will add a nanny to our team, and that will be the end of it."
"That will take a long time … I have asked people during this time, from the time when the Sun God captured the God of Healing alive to the appearance of the Angel of Love, I am afraid that thousands of years have passed," Javier said.
Sui Xiong sighed and said helplessly, "In fact, I am now in a difficult position. If I stop debugging, the divine power and divinity of the Angel of Love will be lost a lot, and the possibility of success next time will be greatly reduced. So even if it takes a long time, I can only bite the bullet and do it until I succeed. "
"And … in fact, this debugging work is also very good for me." He continued, "In the process of debugging, I also learned a lot of things, and summed up a lot of valuable experience. So even if the experiment takes a long time, it is not a waste of time. "
His friends suddenly realized that whether he succeeded or not, he could gain a lot. No wonder he had been working hard during this time, without the slightest intention of retreating and giving up.
Sui Xiong rested for a while and began to mobilize his divine power again, using the power of his soul to subtly control them. He tried to harmonize the chaotic divinity in the light cocoon, trying to form a complete structure.
Of course, this structure was not randomly arranged. It had to be combined into the priesthood of "healing."
This was an extremely difficult thing. Even if he had obtained the information about the priesthood of healing from the Sun God, it was not easy to copy it.
There were many famous paintings in the world, but there weren't many good painters who could copy a famous painting to be exactly the same as the original.
The information given to Sui Xiong by the Sun God was really all-encompassing and profound. It formed a complete priesthood system, which could be used as a basis to build a simple but at least complete world. In addition, it contained almost all the known domain knowledge. It could be regarded as a professional encyclopedia for the gods, and it was the highest level.
But Sui Xiong himself, for the time being, did not have the ability to use this encyclopedia freely.
It was not that his divine power was insufficient, but his knowledge was insufficient.
Many things that were taken for granted by powerful gods like the Sun God, and those common sense things that did not need to be explained, for Sui Xiong, they needed to be researched and figured out by himself. There was no way to achieve it overnight.
But it was also for this reason that the benefits he could get from this information were far more than those great Divine Powers like Lefon.
Before the Sun God died, he made several copies of his wisdom and experience in one breath and entrusted them to all the powerful existences or masters with potential that he thought might threaten the God of Light. Among them, the main gods like the Orc God System, the Nature God System, and the War God System, even if their original ability was not as good as the Sun God's, it would not be too far off. They were even better than the Sun God in what they were good at. For them, this information might just be a supplement to the side issues that they did not care about, or it might just provide some valuable ideas on some difficult issues that they did not necessarily need to work towards. That was all.
At their level of power, each of them already had their own path to walk. Even if there were great benefits, they would never change their own path.
As the saying goes, if I learn from you, I become a snake; if you learn from me, you become a phoenix; if you learn from me, you become a crow. Every strong person had their own understanding of power and the world. They all had their own ideas and pursuits for the road ahead. The Sun God had only taken one more step than them. In the end, he was defeated by the God of Light, which greatly reduced the accuracy of this step. In this case, how could those powerful gods rely too much on this information that was difficult to distinguish between true and false?
But Sui Xiong was different. Although he also knew a lot of knowledge about domains and divine power, he was still a beginner among the gods. The information that the Sun God gave him was like giving a complete set of scientific and technological information to a poor new country, plus a lot of precious experimental data. Although the things at the highest level might not be correct, at least up to the "world leading level" was not only complete but also detailed.
With such a set of information, the rest was to gradually learn and understand according to his own actual situation, integrate it, and improve his own hard power.
If one day, Sui Xiong could learn and understand all the information that the Sun God gave him, then he must have stepped into the level of great divine power. He could then pursue the realm above the great divine power, which was called "great divine power."
Perhaps … among the many pieces of information that the Sun God had sent out, the information that he had given to the great divine powers was actually wasted. The information that could really fulfill his dying wish and bring trouble to the God of Light was given to this inconspicuous jellyfish god who did not even have a priesthood.
Perhaps … many, many years later, Sui Xiong could really embark on the road to pursue the highest realm because of this information. At that time, there would inevitably be a fierce struggle between him and the God of Light.
Of course, that would be a long, long time later. For Sui Xiong now, the most important thing at the moment was nothing more than two things.
First, take your time to adjust slowly and strive to change the loving angel back to the God of Healing as soon as possible, adding a strong healer to his team.
Second, seize the time and work hard to strive to complete the research and development of the blast furnace as soon as possible, opening the iron age of the territory, and blowing the horn of the industrial revolution!
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