My Cultivation System

Chapter 177 - Common Process To Refine A Wepon

After finishing his words, Glaser ran away; however, before he could even take a couple of steps, Louis said, "Idiot, why do you always like to roam without wearing a shirt? Go and wear your shirt first before bringing the discipline hall's student captain here."

His tone seemed like he was annoyed at his sixth brother for being striding the entire outer sect without having a shirt.

"Yes, yes, senior brother Louis,"

Glaser only noticed now that he still didn't wear a shirt and hurriedly nodded his head before running to his cultivation abode.

'With fools like these, as my junior brothers, I don't know what am I going to do with them,'

Louis shook his head as he took out some cultivation book from his storage ring and started reading it while waiting for Henrick to come out from the building.

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Inside the weapon hall,

In the main hall, Alaster looked at the door and silently thought, "Why are they even bothering to coming to the weapon hall if they didn't want to refine any weapons?"

For the weapon hall, every month, they have to prepare a specific number of weapons and have to deliver them to the inner sect and at the same time, they have to complete the orders from the cultivation families from Vlester city.

However, since the yearly outer sect tournament was around the corner of this month, all the weapon hall's disciples were given a break on the orders of Master Marcel.

Moreover, Master Marcle acted as though he was doing Alaster some kind of favour and ordered his sixth and seventh disciples to help Alaster in refining the weapons.

'Damn that old fart intentionally making things difficult for me,'

When he saw how Master Marcel's disciples who were supposed to help him in refining the weapon were intentionally wasting time, he cursed the leader of the weapon hall.

Even though Alaster was the vice-leader of the weapon hall, the inner sect would only give him the orders and so he was responsible for delivering them on time. If he was unable to deliver them on time, he would be punished and his position as the vice-leader would be taken away.

"I have only 10 more days to complete the orders,"

Alaster shook his head as he tried to go back into one of the weapon refining rooms.

"Elder Alaster,"

Exactly at the same time, Henrick's voice came from the entrance that stopped Alaster from entering the weapon refining room.

"Henrick, you came,"

After seeing Henrick's face, Alaster's previous displeased expression turned into a happy one.

"Master agreed to become your half-disciple, Master. So, when are you are going teach me,"

Henrick politely replied to Alaster and at the same time, he asked him when would he start teaching him.

"Let's go into the weapon refining room first,"

Alaster revealed a smile as he nodded his head before asking entering the weapon refining room.

Both of them didn't have the slightest clue of what happened outside as they went into the weapon refining room.

'Woah'

Henrick was surprised at the weapon-refining room the moment he entered the room because it was so clean along with all the tools inside the room.

"Did you think, since this is a weapon-refining room, it would be filled with smoke and ash?"

Alaster noticed the surprised look on Henrick's face as he asked him.

"Yes,"

Henrick nodded his head as he thought, 'Come to think of it, the workshop in the 'Weapon refining trial' was also very clean, right?'

Back then, he was too focused on completing the trial and increasing his challenger's level. So, he didn't bother about it much; however, after seeing the clean workshop here, he was surprised.

"The first thing in either alchemy or weapon refining is to have a clean workshop,"

Soon, Alaster started his lessons with Henrick, "With a clean workshop, you can refine a good weapon...at least in my view."

At the end of his line, he rubbed the back of his head.

Everyone had their own views and approaches in either cultivation or any other profession.

So, Henrick didn't disagree with Alaster when he thought back to the clean workshop in the inheritance building.

"Now, let me ask you a question. What is the most important thing for a weaponsmith?"

Seeing that Henrick nodded his head at what he said, Alaster asked him a question.

"I think it's our internal fire energy,"

Henrick was already a rank 1 weaponsmith and moreover, when he refined the dagger in the trial, he felt as long as his internal fire energy was pure, he could melt any type of metal with it.

"That's right," Alaster nodded his head as continued, "However, in your case it is different."

He didn't wait for Henrick's reply as he continued,

"Since you are still a muscle-strengthening realm, you can't refine a weapon with your internal fire energy. So, you have to refine it by the most common process."

Generally, a cultivator could not bring out his internal fire energy unless they break through to the energy condensation realm. So, Alaster suggested Henrick use the most common process.

The common process means using normal forging techniques with the help of external heat and external force to refine a weapon.

"But master, isn't that just a waste of time?" Henrick almost never hesitated to ask questions to his master. So, he asked the doubt in his mind and at the same time, he felt he was a little too brazen when he asked that. 

So, he tried to explain it more clearly with respect, "I mean, we can just wait until I reach the energy condensation realm before refining a weapon. Right?"

"What you have said has some sense but do you know all the best weaponsmiths in this history gained enlightenment while using the most common process in their early stages?"

Alaster nodded his head as he revealed something that Henrick didn't know before.

"Moreover, I too got enlightened with some refining technique. So, I hope you too do that same,"

Alaster revealed the most important thing that made Henrick understand why the common process to refine the weapon was important.

"I understood, master,"

Henrick nodded his head and asked, "What should I begin with?"

"For now, you are supposed to watch me while refining a weapon",

Alaster replied to Henrick with a smile and without wasting any time, he started the common process to refine the weapon.

Took out a small metal block and threw it into the furnace in the center of the room and threw some wood below the furnace to increase the fire.

"While the metal block is heating in the furnace, you have to start preparing the mould,"

After saying that, Alaster went to a corner of the room to pick some special sand of unknown origin for Henrick and started preparing the mould with it.

"See properly how I am preparing a mould. You can prepare your own mould too. However, the mould should not be too dry or too wet; otherwise, it will fall apart,"

Within no time, Alaster prepared a mould and without wasting any time, he used a holder to hold the furnace and started pouring into the mould he prepared earlier.