Chapter 3 Preparation

After successfully passing the assessment of patrolling the sea at the Changfeng Pearl Field, Zhang Tie returned to the Qianlong Hall, had lunch in the Lingtian Courtyard, returned to his residence to get the money, and then came to the Artifact Court.

When Zhang Tie came to the Artifacts Academy before, he turned in the aquamarine iron ore here. This time, he came to prepare for the first evolution of the ancestor's bloodline and ordered some things in the Artifacts Academy.

The utensil yard was extremely noisy, the blast furnace in the yard was sizzling with heat, hundreds of people were coming and going, and the sound of iron knocking could be heard everywhere, among those people coming and going, some were seniors from Lingtian yard.

"It's not so easy to become an apprentice craftsman. Do you think this is a big girl who is embroidering?" Zhang Tie had just entered the second gate of the Artifact Academy, when he heard a rough shout from inside, " Hold the heavy hammer in your hand, maintain a good strength and rhythm, see if there is no steam forging hammer machine, when can the strength and rhythm in your hand be as smooth and powerful as that machine for twelve hours in a row Stable output, when will I teach you new things, even a machine is not as good as, and you want to be a rune refiner, you are daydreaming..."

I don't know who is being reprimanded in the yard. Hearing the hot words, Zhang Tie also shrank his head secretly. The path of a rune refiner is extremely difficult. I don't know what the path of an alchemist is like? Sure enough, every step of the way forward for this top profession is extremely difficult.

After entering the outer core area of ​​the Artifact Academy, Zhang Tie went directly to the weapon shop in the core area. The weapon shop in the Artifact Academy is a five-story attic. The higher you go, the higher the price of the things you sell. Because what Zhang Tie needed this time was not very advanced, so he wandered around the first floor of the weapons shop.

When he was in Iron Blood Battalion, Zhang Tie had visited the armory of the Iron Horn Legion twice, so he had already cultivated some foresight. At this moment, he casually walked around the first floor of the armory shop, picked up the display on the first floor. Looking at those weapons, Zhang Tie was secretly surprised. The quality of these ordinary weapons on the first floor was obviously higher than that of the lieutenant-level equipment in the armory of the Iron Horn Legion of the Norman Empire. These things, if you get the Iron Horn Legion, are basically high-quality goods.

On the first floor of the entire weapon shop, within a space of hundreds of square meters, there are rows of weapon racks. On those weapon racks, knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, battle-axes, hooks, forks, whips, maces, etc. Hammers, hammers, shovels, cudgels, lances, sticks, crutches, meteor hammers and other weapons of all sizes, and some weapons whose names even Zhang Tie couldn’t name. Maybe men just like these things. With these gleaming weapons, Zhang Tie felt his adrenaline surge, and his eyes began to shine.

Just as Zhang Tie was looking at a two-meter-long terrifying sword with a weird style on the weapon hanger in front of him, and recalling his "Proof of a Man", a person had already walked in front of Zhang Tie.

"Junior brother, do you want to buy weapons?"

Zhang Tie turned his head and saw that it was a senior from Lingtian Courtyard, "Exactly, I want to buy something here!"

"Hehe, look at it slowly, junior brother. If the junior brother has enough money, there are better boutiques upstairs to choose from. Each weapon on the second floor costs more than 100 gold coins, and the weapons on the third floor cost more than 500 gold coins. The ones on the first floor cost more than 3000 gold coins, and the ones on the fifth floor are all rune weapons, so it’s best not to go up and look at them, you will only feel that life is boring after seeing the prices of those weapons..."

Hearing what this senior brother said was interesting, Zhang Tie burst out laughing, "Do you also want to be an advanced rune refiner here, senior brother?"

"It's easier said than done..." The young man who was talking to Zhang Tie had a bitter face, "I'm not even a master craftsman and apprentice now, I just spent half a year turning a hammer in an iron workshop,

After barely passing the pass, they were sent here to get acquainted with the quality, heat, materials, forging skills, design ideas and style of every weapon here on the first floor, while helping people look at the shop. It can be regarded as waste utilization! "

"Senior brother is too modest, how many people want to come here to see the shop, but they are not qualified!"

"By the way, what kind of weapon does my brother want to buy, and my brother can also give you some details!"

"I want to see the flying spears or javelins here first!"

"Throwing weapons, come over here and see how these are..." The senior guarding the first floor of the weapon shop directly took Zhang Tie to another weapon rack, where the weapons were displayed. What caught were a few flying spears. Zhang Tie casually picked up a flying spear and looked at it. After trying the feel, the familiar feeling reappeared. The quality of these flying spears here is definitely something that Zhang Tie has seen before. Best of all, the thick and thin undulating spear body designed according to the principle of aerodynamics is full of an unspeakable beauty.

"Brother, how do you sell the flying spears here?"

"The flying spears displayed here are all sold in groups. Each group has 9 flying spears, equipped with a backpack-style metal spear bag, with a total weight of 116 kilograms. It is powerful and the price is 34 gold coins! Besides these, you see Look at this..." The brother guarding the armory said, and casually took a short flying spear, and with a flick of his hand, the flying spear, which was originally only more than 30 centimeters long, suddenly became more than one meter long , "This is a retractable and hidden flying spear, which is more convenient to carry. It can be easily carried on the body when not in use. When using it, the retractable spear body will come out. A set of this kind of flying spear There are 42 of them, suitable for short-distance encounters with the enemy!"

Zhang Tie took it and took a look. This retractable flying spear is really ingenious in structure, and it is very convenient to carry on the body. But his goals are not these.

After putting the retractable and hidden flying spear on the weapon rack, Zhang Tie asked, "Brother, can you order flying spears here?"

"Of course, as long as the younger brother can tell the request, the utensil workshop can make it for you!"

"Well, look, I want to order a batch of special flying spears. The specific requirements are as follows..." Zhang Tie took an ordinary flying spear and explained the flying spears he ordered to the senior brother. request.

The flying spears that Zhang Tie requested were divided into many groups, one group of normal-sized flying spears, one group of flying spears that were one inch shorter than normal-sized flying spears, and one group of flying spears that were two inches shorter than normal-sized flying spears A group of flying spears that are three inches shorter than normal-sized flying spears, and so on, each group of flying spears is one inch shorter than the previous group of flying spears. In the end, the flying spears ordered by Zhang Tie, It is only three to five inches long—in other words, something of this size can no longer be called a flying spear, because this thing is much shorter than the head of a long spear.

The senior brother in the armory shop listened in astonishment. He had never encountered such a strange custom-made request, but he would not ask what Zhang Tie was going to use these things for. In Lingtianyuan, everyone had Everyone's secret, too much curiosity is not a good thing.

"Junior brother, in this way, you will have to order at least forty sets of flying spears. It is not cheap to order so many flying spears!"

"Well, I know it's not cheap, but the quantity I require for each set of flying spears is six, which should save some money."

"This can indeed save one-third of the money. Come with me, and I will calculate for you how much money you need!"

Zhang Tie and that senior brother came to the counter on the first floor of the weapon shop. The senior brother took out a pen and paper, and after recording the ordered items that Zhang Tie requested on the pen and paper, he wrote down the calculations on the paper. stand up.

"Junior brother, if you want to meet your customization requirements, you need at least a gold coin!"

When Zhang Tie heard the 418 gold coins, Zhang Tie also thought about it a little. For a newcomer in Lingtian Academy, this amount of money is indeed not a small amount. Now that I live by myself, I have to plan carefully. I think back when I salvaged aquamarine iron ore, I only had a few silver coins after working so hard every day. Now even if I have money, I can’t spend it recklessly.

"Brother, can you save a little?"

"This flying spear needs to be made of a special alloy. The material cost plus the manual cost and some necessary costs and profits are already the minimum.

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"Well, my batch of things are just consumables. I don't need to use special alloys. I just need to use steel with higher durability. Can it be cheaper?"

"That's it!" The senior brother wrote and drew on the paper again, "If ordinary high-strength steel is used, the cost can be saved a lot, let me see... then you only need 189 gold coins! Are you sure you only need to use high-strength steel? In this way, these things may not be damaged in a few years!"

A few years, hehe, should be enough for me. It shouldn't take me that long to evolve my ancestral bloodline this time.

"I'm sure!" Zhang Tie nodded.

"To book something here, you have to pay the money first, did you bring the money?"

"Bring it!" Zhang Tie readily paid 189 gold coins.

The senior brother issued him a receipt, "You can come and pick up these things in three days!"

Zhang Tie didn't expect that he could get the items he ordered in three days, which was too fast.

After leaving the Artifact Academy, Zhang Tie returned to the Academic Affairs Building of Lingtian Academy, confirmed the compulsory cultural courses he would study in the first year, and paid the money by the way.

The cultural courses Zhang Tie chooses are "General History of Human Race" - "Summary of Mainland Humanities" - "Geography" - "Bright Carta" - "Family System and The Wealth of Nations" - these cultural courses are all Zhang Tie's weaknesses , is also something that is impossible to learn during the compulsory education stage in Heiyan City.

These courses are cultural compulsory courses that can be learned only by paying gold coins and not requiring family contribution points. After paying the gold coins, Zhang Tie can come to the classroom of Lingtian Academy to listen to the teacher at any time in the following year. Teach the content of these courses. For each course, Lingtian Institute arranges three teachers to teach. The teaching time and teaching progress of these teachers are all staggered. You can freely choose to study in any teacher's class according to your own schedule.

Even if you don't go to class, at any time within a year, as long as you feel that a certain subject of yours has passed the test, you can apply for the exam at any time. If you can't pass the exam within one year, then, sorry, if you want to re-learn this course next year to qualify for the exam, you have to pay again. All the resources in Lingtian Courtyard are not for your unlimited use.

After getting the curriculum schedule of these cultural courses and his own exam serial number, Zhang Tie finally had the feeling of starting to study in Lingtian Academy and officially becoming a member of Lingtian Academy.

After busying with Qianlongtang, Zhang Tie ran to the pier to complete today's release. After returning from the release, he had dinner at the restaurant in Lingtian Courtyard and returned to Songtao Pavilion. Zhang Tie received a letter sent to him by his family. 's first letter.

A week ago, Zhang Tie's sister-in-law finally gave birth to a fat boy for Zhang Tie's elder brother. The fat boy weighed four pounds and six taels when he was born. The first person in the third generation of Zhang Tie's family finally came to this world , 16-year-old Zhang Tierong was promoted to uncle, and the whole family was very happy. Zhang Tie's father named the fat boy——Zhang Chengan.

Chengan...Chengan...can you really be Chengan? Thinking of the human jihad that broke out at some point, Zhang Tie suddenly felt that the responsibility on him was much heavier.

For the next three days, there were no surprises. Knowing that he already had a little nephew, Zhang Tie worked harder, and worked hard every day to improve his strength and increase his knowledge.

In the morning, one hour before those girls arrived at the Changfeng Pearl Field, Zhang Tie had to rush to the Pearl Field as a sea patrolling night fork, check the waters near the Pearl Field, and drive away sharks and other dangerous marine life If you can't drive them away, try to kill them without bleeding.

After clearing the field, Zhang Tie wandered around the outer waters of Zhuchang with a few other patrolling Yachas, forming several underwater security lines and mobile checkpoints in Zhuchang. This is a very hard job. I spend more than ten hours in the water every day. During this time, apart from floating up to the surface of the sea to take a breath every once in a while, even the rest has to be done underwater. As for eating and drinking, that is totally wrong. possible.

The job of patrolling the Yaksha is to come back after the pearl divers and girls in the bead field have completely disembarked in the evening, after confirming that there is no one in the bead field, and seeing the lighthouse on the top of the castle next to the bead field. .

To be able to do this job well, water skills, physical strength, will, and sense of responsibility are all indispensable.

On the second day when Zhang Tie met Liu Xi and they met for a drink, while drinking with senior brother Liu Xi, Zhang Tie met a few friends of senior brother Liu Xi at the dinner table. In Tianyuan, they got along very well with each other, and they became acquainted after a meal. After knowing that Zhang Tie was already patrolling the sea, everyone admired Zhang Tie's water quality for a while. And through the mouths of these new acquaintances, Zhang Tie also learned more about the situation and various rules of Lingtianyuan.

At least it was at this time that Zhang Tie officially heard that there was a Qianlong list in Lingtian Academy. Long Tiangong list, anyone who can be among the best in any of these four lists, once that person leaves Qianlongtang, he will immediately be reused by the family and become a unique figure. These four lists are truly the highest ranks in Lingtian Academy. The goal of all the people who are selected into Qianlongtang to study in Lingtian Academy is to hope that one day they can see their names on these four lists.

The people whose names now occupy the four lists are all above level seven, the most outstanding figures in Lingtian Academy.

"Where can I see these four lists?"

"Hehe, Junior Brother just came to Lingtian Academy and is not familiar with it. You can see these four lists in Qinyun Hall. Qinyun Hall is the news distribution place of Lingtian Academy and exchanges items and various information with everyone. place." Liu Xi replied.

Zhang Tie secretly wrote down the lists and the names of Qinyuntang, thinking about when he would go to see who is famous in Lingtian courtyard.

Speaking of the list, Zhang Tie suddenly remembered the two senior brothers who were chasing and killing the sea monster Deng Tong when he came to Qianlong Island by boat for the first time. The two senior brothers had different styles. Impressive, Zhang Tie guessed that maybe those two people might be on the list of Qianlong's combat power.

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On the third day, after Zhang Tie came back from the pier after finishing his errand of patrolling the Yaksha, he came to the Utensils Yard. The long and short flying spears he ordered were ready, and those flying spears were packed into three big boxes...

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