"It's not that powerful!"
Hearing the name Vitality Pill, Liuzhi Zhang was startled. That wasn't the name of the pill. However, he quickly understood what Wang Chong meant.
"This is an Acquired Pill! It's a new pill recipe that a young Alchemist in the palace recently researched. It has never appeared before. It's very difficult to refine, and it has exploded many times. Right now, it's only a few defective products. It hasn't been perfected yet. This kind of defective product that was first refined cannot be presented to the Holy Emperor or the princes in the palace. If there's a problem, their heads will fall off. "
"In the end, they brought it here. I can't help it. This is a hard sell. Every month, there would always be some pills like this that were forced to be distributed. They're expensive and not very good! "
At the end, Six-fingered Zhang had an embarrassed look on his face.
"Defective product?"
Wang Chong turned around with a surprised look. He looked at the pill on the table again. Sure enough, the pill didn't emit pure Vitality, but some other impurities.
He was too shocked before, so he didn't notice it.
"This … what you see is actually just a layer of wax on the outside. This way, the impurities in the pill can be sealed. "
Liuzhi Zhang said embarrassedly.
This was a small trick in alchemy. He was an Alchemist himself, so he naturally knew about it.
Wang Chong's eyes flickered, but he didn't say much. He grabbed the Acquired Pill on the table and stuffed it into his mouth. After the skin of the pill broke, a messy smell immediately came out.
"It's the smell of medicinal herbs, and it should be the kind of high-grade spiritual herbs!"
Wang Chong suddenly came to a realization. The Alchemist probably wanted to extract the spiritual energy in the medicinal herbs, and then use some special method to refine something like the Vitality Pill.
However, this matter was obviously not that easy.
"Gulp!"
As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Wang Chong mumbled and quickly swallowed the pill. A wave of heat exploded in his body, quickly spreading to his limbs and bones.
Wang Chong felt warm all over.
With the help of the Dan Qi, Wang Chong felt that his strength had increased by a notch in just a moment. Compared to before, the Essence in his body had also increased a little.
After a while, when the medicinal efficacy of the pill disappeared, Wang Chong finally calmed down.
What Six Batches Zhang said was right. This was indeed not some Essence Qi Pill. There was only a small amount of Essence Qi in the elixir, not as much as Wang Chong had imagined.
Liuzhi Zhang didn't think much of it. From an Alchemist's point of view, a defective product was worthless. But Wang Chong was different.
"I didn't expect that I could actually use money to buy something similar to the Essence Qi Pill!"
Wang Chong's heart rose and fell, and it was difficult for him to calm down.
To a martial artist, the most precious thing was undoubtedly "Yuan Qi". In the Imperial Palace, there was actually someone who could refine something similar to the Essence Qi Pill. This truly shocked Wang Chong.
Wang Chong finally understood why this Alchemist's secret alliance was so mysterious. The items were sold at such a high price, yet there were so many powerful forces that flocked to it.
There were many things here that couldn't be bought with money in the outside world. This was truly a priceless treasure.
"How much does one Acquired Pill cost?"
Wang Chong asked, opening his eyes.
"6,000 taels!"
Liuzhi Zhang said. He wasn't talking about silver here, but actual gold. This was an Alchemist used by the Imperial Palace. He had never sold an elixir that was priced in silver.
"How many can you refine in a month?"
"Three!"
Liuzhi Zhang said.
"I want all of them. Bring them all over for me! "
Wang Chong said.
"Ah!"
Six-fingered Zhang was astonished. "But this is a defective product of the elementary level!"
"I know."
Wang Chong smiled and said in an unquestionable tone.
The last one was a healing elixir. Although it looked ordinary, how could a healing elixir concocted by the Imperial Palace's Alchemist be comparable to an ordinary one?
With two elixirs, Wang Chong left the Falling Jade Pavilion.
…
After solving all the problems at once, Wang Chong focused all his attention on the seven chi long saber. This was Wang Chong's second weapon, which was very important to Wang Chong.
Moreover, one wouldn't know the cost of daily necessities. Previously, when Wang Chong received more than 600,000 taels of gold, he felt that he would never be able to finish spending it.
But when he really put it to use, he felt that he was spending money like water. Joining the Alchemist's secret alliance cost him more than 200,000 taels of gold. After giving Wei Hao fifty to sixty taels of gold, and adding other miscellaneous items, Wang Chong only had about 200,000 taels of gold left.
At this rate, he was afraid that he would soon run out of money. If so, he would fall back to his previous' penniless' state.
"It's about time for me to bring out my new work!"
Wang Chong thought to himself.
Driving the car, Wang Chong made sure that no one was tailing him before entering the cavern of the Wei Clan's smithy once more.
The surroundings of the smithy were silent. Wei Hao had already given this place to Wang Chong. As long as Wang Chong needed it, this place could become Wang Chong's personal smithy.
The Wei Clan had many businesses, and smithy was only one of them. Take this smithy as an example. As long as Wei Hao made up for its loss, even his father, the Duke of Wei, wouldn't be able to notice that something had been done to it.
"Help me guard the outside, don't let anyone get close!"
Wang Chong arranged for Li Zhuxin to guard the outside before entering the cavern alone.
Wang Chong was already very familiar with quenching weapons. Even though "quenching" was very important to a weapon, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, it wasn't actually that complicated to operate.
The key was the change in thinking and the change in the quenching fluid.
The "quenching" that Wang Chong had mastered was completely beyond this era.
Walking into the cavern, Wang Chong poured the "quenching fluid" that was a mixture of sesame oil, sheep oil, butter, and asphalt brought by the Western Region merchants into the metal trough.
Then, he went to the nearby area to cut some pine branches, piled them on the ground, and started burning them.
The temperature at which WuZi Steel was quenched was very important. Otherwise, even if one mastered the right quenching fluid, the quality of the final product could be worlds apart, and it might even turn into a waste product.
From night till dawn, Wang Chong was extremely busy. Around daybreak, the morning sun rose. A sizzling black smoke rose from the metal trough.
A moment later, Wang Chong took out a pair of metal pliers and fished out the narrow, thin, and thick saber from the trough. Oil flowed everywhere, and a shiny saber with beautiful patterns appeared in front of Wang Chong.
This was the world's first narrow, thin, and thick saber. When the morning sun shone in from outside the cavern, it reflected a dazzling, cold light.
Just by looking at it, Wang Chong could feel that this saber was extremely sharp and indestructible.
Clang!
With a flash of cold light, the metal trough containing the quenching fluid was immediately cut into two. It was so soft that it looked like it was rotting.
"Good saber!"
Wang Chong looked at the saber and smiled. Even without the praise of others, Wang Chong could feel that this saber was probably even sharper than his WuZi Steel sword.
This saber combined the skills of the world's number one swordsmith, Tuoba Guiyuan, and his epoch-making skills. In terms of quality, it had already reached the peak of this world.
Moreover, the unique arc and weight of the blade were enough to make it the favorite of experts in the Saber Dao!
"It's a pity that I only use swords!"
Wang Chong thought to himself.
He used a sword for his' Single Character Consecutive Slash 'and this saber wasn't suitable for him. However, even a swordsman like Wang Chong couldn't bear to let go of this saber when he held it in his hands. Needless to say, those saber experts would feel the same way.
This saber wasn't just sharp. Its exterior design was originally very suitable for slashing, slashing, and slashing!
"Now, all that's left is to temper it!"
Wang Chong thought to himself.
To many people, a saber like Wang Chong's was already a finished product. Even if he took it out, it would be sought after by tens of thousands of people. However, Wang Chong knew that this wasn't the way to go.
Although such a saber was sharp and easy to use, it was easy to break. If it was too rigid, it might not be a good thing for a saber.
If he didn't solve this problem, it might be broken at a crucial moment in the hands of a top-notch martial artist.
In this world, although there weren't many people who forged sabers, there were definitely people who understood sabers. At least, many people knew the principle of 'rigid but easy to break'.
For those top-notch martial artists, they could use brute force to hit the middle of the saber or close to 70% of the hilt. They would most likely be able to break the saber with brute force!
If that happened, the reputation of WuZi Steel in this world would be ruined. The reputation that Wang Chong had painstakingly built up would also be destroyed.
In the future, it wouldn't be so easy to make money from Hyderabad ores.
That would be destroying his own reputation!
Of course, Wang Chong wouldn't do such a thing!
Therefore, he had to 'temper' it!
Many people thought that after 'quenching', the saber and sword were considered complete. However, almost no one knew that after quenching, there was actually another process called 'temper'.
This was the last process in the entire process of forging a sword, and it was also the highest and pinnacle of the process!
In this world, many people hadn't even mastered the skill of 'quenching', let alone the epoch-making skill of 'temper'.
This was a skill that Wang Chong had mastered alone. At the same time, it was his biggest and final secret in the field of swordsmithing.
Without the technique of temper, a weapon like the seven-foot narrow, thick saber would never be made. If it was made, it would only be a joke and not a real weapon.
Temper could eliminate the 'quenching' and the small internal cracks caused by the hammering of the saber and sword. It could also repair and prevent the saber from deforming.
This was one of the reasons!
In addition, 'temper' could further increase the performance of the saber and sword in all aspects, including sharpness, hardness, durability, and most importantly, 'toughness'!
'Toughness' might not sound like much, but if one thought about it, adding 'toughness' to an extremely hard weapon was incredible.
It was like wrapping a piece of ice in a fire and not melting it.
Once a seven-foot narrow, thick, thick saber had 'toughness', even if it was just a little bit, it would make a huge difference in performance!
With 'toughness', the saber could be considered to have truly made up for its shortcomings and become a real top-notch weapon. Moreover, he wouldn't have to worry about being snapped by the fingers of those top-notch fighters in battle!
With 'temper', he could add 'toughness' to a weapon. This meant that in this world, Wang Chong had truly mastered a never-before-seen weapon-making technique!
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