Chapter 143: Iron and Fire (Part 3)

(Every chapter needs to be re-read and carefully read more than two times, correcting typos, wrong sentences, and the relationship between upper and lower. It is very tiring. Please forgive me. This is a slow effort.)

After unloading the black iron, the settlement was settled on the spot, and Zhang Hao left with his people. Zhou Xueyao stayed here, to be precise, was stayed by Zhou Jue.

Zhang Hao didn't go home immediately, but went to the City Lord's Mansion. If you want to open up the sea road, you must unite all the forces that can be united. The power of the country cannot be ignored. In terms of formation, he is also ready to seek help from the city lord.

Zhang Hao cut to the chase, directly explained the plan to Liu Jingming, and finally said: "City Master Liu, this is the end of the matter. The Zhang family and the Artifact Refining Guild are going to jointly produce the Dutian Lie Huo Formation.

But to ask for living space from the sea, it is inevitable to collide with sea monsters, so I want to borrow a master of dot formation from the city lord. "

Liu Jingming's face was a little weird: "We just met yesterday, right?"

"Yes."

Liu Jingming smiled, "Why didn't you mention it yesterday?"

"I didn't think well yesterday, so I don't know how to speak."

"Okay, how sure are you?"

"Is the city lord asking about refining? Or boiling the sea?"

"Both."

"That's 100% sure!" Zhang Hao said firmly. In other words, there is no way out, and there is no other choice but success.

Liu Jingming looked at Zhang Hao for a while, and then slowly said: "This matter... I can't decide, I need to report to His Majesty! Oh... By the way, I also notified His Majesty about the master yesterday, you can go back and wait .”

Zhang Hao nodded, he just came to inform, how the country will arrange it, and he can't control it. A country has a national operating form, which is different from families and sects.

In fact, in this matter, although he wants to seek the help of the country, it is also Zhang Hao's statement-we have not forgotten the country, and we do not eat alone. Zhang Hao approached Liu Jingming twice, in fact, to 'repeat his position'. This is called having the right attitude.

Obviously, Zhang Hao's repeated statement made Liu Jingming very happy-this young man can do things.

No, Zhang Hao got up to leave, and Liu Jingming personally sent Zhang Hao to the gate of the city lord's mansion.

After Zhang Hao left, Liu Jingming personally wrote a letter, ordering it to be sent to the imperial capital as soon as possible, and to be handed over to the emperor himself.

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Back home, Zhang Hao went straight to the smelting base, watching everyone busy.

If you want to forge a formation foundation of 100,000 jin, you must rely on mechanical power.

In three days, Huang Mingshan and others designed a new production device. They remodeled the truss of the smelting furnace, and used thick iron pillars to support the height of more than ten meters. There are thick iron cables and heavy pulley blocks on the top. These iron cables can completely lift 100,000 catties.

In order to strengthen the iron chain, the lower end of the iron chain and the hook are reinforced with arrays and seals. After seeing Zhou Xueyao's method of using the seal, Zhang Hao also learned a trick. Seals can also provide protection.

A small seal is enough to raise the high temperature resistance of the iron chain to a higher level.

The smelting furnace next to it didn't stop, and the molten iron just out of the furnace was poured directly into the steelmaking formation without waiting for it to cool down. Furnaces of molten iron were tumbling, and the smelting base was as hot as waves. Even though Zhang Hao had reached the peak in the middle stage of foundation establishment, he was still sweating profusely.

The fans outside the smelting base kept blowing wind, but it could only bring faint coolness.

In order to increase the speed of smelting, the Zhang family had to use spirit stones to strengthen the ground fire. This made the temperature of the smelting base even higher.

The hot and fiery molten iron keeps accumulating, and within the formation barrier of steelmaking, the molten iron remains in a molten state; and the molten iron is filled with a black iron trough reinforced with formations and seals.

More than 50 tons of molten iron feels like a raging ocean, flowing slowly in the three-meter-diameter furnace; the slightly tumbling molten iron reflects the power of industry, and the red-hot light shines with the light of hope.

After another furnace of molten iron was poured in, Huang Mingshan closed his notebook and shouted: "A total of 51 tons of molten iron is enough; prepare the Reiki cooking device."

The so-called aura cooking device is the core technology of 'steel cooking'. At the bottom, high-grade spirit stones are used to catalyze the flame formation, and at the top is coke extracted from petroleum.

These cokes contain thick but mixed auras; however, these auras will all become active and high-quality auras after being 'cooked' under high temperature and pressure.

At high temperature, the carbon element contained in the coke will also evaporate and penetrate into the molten iron to complete the carburizing process. Although it is black iron, black iron can still be carburized to increase its strength.

After the preparation of the cooking device was completed, Huang Mingshan and others checked that it was correct, and the formation was completely closed.

"Steam cooking steel" is now using the "Binding Mountain Array" from Yuxue Villa. Compared with other formations, this formation can withstand greater pressure and higher temperature, and it can be easily mastered by Huang Mingshan and others, it can be expanded to a size of ten meters, and it is easy to operate.

In constant exploration, Huang Mingshan and others discovered that the higher the temperature and the greater the pressure, the less spiritual energy will be used, and the better the steel material will be.

However, the aura should not be too little. According to estimates, each ton of steel still needs an aura equivalent to a million low-grade spirit stones.

The formation is closed, and the coke in the formation is quickly melted under the burning of the flame formation, and the mixed spiritual energy is released. Soon the inside of the formation was hazy.

About half an hour later, the aura in the formation began to become irritable and tumbling continuously, and the aura also began to rapidly turn red and incandescent; the next moment, the aura formed a vortex, circling rapidly, and shrinking rapidly; a few minutes later, all His aura was absorbed by Xuan Tie.

Although he has watched such a scene several times, seeing it here still amazes Zhang Hao.

Huang Mingshan and the others skillfully opened a corner of the formation to dissipate heat first; seeing a black floating layer began to appear on the surface of the molten iron, Yu Yueyun personally hung iron ropes on the stove. The furnace began to tilt, the gate was opened, and more than 50 tons of molten iron was in a viscous state and poured into a mold buried in the ground.

The mold shape is divided into two parts. The lower part is the main body with a diameter of one meter and a length of eight meters; the upper part is only 30 cm in diameter and presents a barb state, which is convenient for lifting.

The first half cooled down quickly, Yu Yueyun excitedly hung the hook of the iron chain on the barb, and then began to calculate the cooling time of the second half.

In order to speed up the cooling, in order to save time, the bottom cooling method was used. When the temperature of the steel column surface dropped to about 900 degrees, it was confirmed that the steel had solidified, and Yu Yueyun ordered the hoisting.

The cumbersome hoist that had just been tested successfully began to operate with a rattling sound. The iron cables were stretched straight, and several workers continued to oil the pulleys and trusses. The technology is still very rough for the time being, so we can only operate in this way, and explore and accumulate technology.

The trusses at a height of more than ten meters creaked, and there was a harsh sound of steel rubbing between the pulleys, iron cables, and trusses. The red-hot steel columns are inaccessible.

The orange-yellow steel column weighing more than 50 tons was hoisted out from the ground little by little. The barb on the top of the steel column is slightly deformed, and it seems that it cannot bear the heavy body.

"Be careful, be careful, don't shake too much, hold on, hold on!" Yu Yueyun shouted, "Slow down, slow down. Everyone get out of the way, be careful of danger."

Zhang Hao also stood far away. The current industrial technology is really a bit... a test of guts.

Lifting more than 50 tons of objects in one breath, plus the strength of iron cables, pulleys, hoists, etc., the truss almost bears a weight of 60 to 70 tons.

Slowly, slowly, the steel pillar finally came to the top of the pool with difficulty; Yu Yueyun directed the iron pillar to fall little by little.

Just as the steel pillar was approaching the water surface, a cloud of steam appeared on the water surface; when the steel pillar finally entered the water, there was a thumping sound and the bubbling sound of water bubbles, and a hazy cloud of smoke instantly filled the air, submerging the entire base.

The formation was running rapidly, pumping out the water vapor continuously, but it couldn't be exhausted no matter what.