Chapter 208: Purification Test
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
His high score of over 90 only meant that he had a solid foundation.
However, the young men who had passed the test had a different opinion of Wu Mo’s operation.
“Tsk, how boring. You’re playing around with a silver ingot?”
“It’s to attract the elder’s attention. He must have synthesized many kinds of metals.”
“Let’s wait and see. He won’t be able to complete the three-star or four-star ranking test so easily. By then, it will be clear who has better skills.”
One of the young men with delicate features looked at Wu Mo with a hint of disdain as he spoke.
The people around them stole a few glances at Wu Mo too. They felt that the latter was a strange person.
While the young blacksmiths were waiting, the two invigilators immediately entered each test slot and collected all the materials, preparing to start the second round of the test.
Soon, the materials for the second round of testing were placed on everyone’s work desk.
Seeing that everything was ready, Elder Ai Bo, who was sitting on the judging panel, immediately announced in a muffled voice, “Alright, everyone, go back to your positions and prepare for the second test.”
Everyone immediately returned to their previous stations. Wu Mo pulled open the curtain and looked at the two materials on the work table. He instantly understood what the test for the two-star rank was.
Just then, Elder Ai Bo’s voice rang outside.
“The second stage will now begin. All blacksmiths, please melt the two materials in front of you into liquid within 10 minutes.”
Elder Ai Bo’s voice reverberated in the testing area, accompanied by the clicking sound of the timer.
The blacksmiths who were taking part in the test began to process the materials.
Wu Mo was no exception. He lit up the furnace and immediately looked at the two materials in front of him.
The Iron Bone Leaf was a common green plant that grew in no man’s land. Perhaps it was due to the influence of spirit power, but the trunk of the Iron Bone Tree would grow stronger and stronger until it reached more than three meters in height.
The leaves that grew on its branches were all hundreds of square centimeters in size, larger than an adult’s palm. Moreover, the leaves were extremely resistant to heat, often melting at more than 2,500 degrees Celsius.
However, due to its wide range of uses, many chambers of commerce would sell the juice of the Iron Bone Leaves, which no longer required calcinating.
The other material was the Ice Pistil Flower. It was as white as a blooming Epiphyllum and was particularly beautiful. This material was mostly used to balance energy or applied to clothes to keep them dry in the summer.
Its ability to remain cool in the summer meant that it was particularly intolerant to high temperatures, with a melting point of only 50 degrees.
Everyone knew what these two items indicated.
The Iron Bone Leaf needed to be calcined for at least eight minutes because of its tolerance to high temperatures. By then, the furnace would overheat, and it would be impossible to melt the Ice Pistil Flower.
Therefore, they had to put the two materials into the melting at the same time in the beginning. Then, they needed to adjust the temperature and calcinate them to remove all impurities.
Temperature control was the test for the two-star rank.
Of course, to those young people who had been born into good families, this was not a problem at all.
Seeing that the furnace had started working, Wu Mo immediately put the two materials into the calcining vessel.
After that, he began to control the mechanism on the fire outlet and constantly adjusted the temperature in the furnace. He tried to melt the Ice Pistil Flower while calcining the Iron Bone Leaves.
Soon, the temperature within the furnace continued to rise.
Under Wu Mo’s control, the furnace’s temperature on the left was only about 40 degrees, while the temperature on the right had reached more than 1,000 degrees, and it was still rising.
Due to the different temperatures, the Iron Bone Leaves still had a touch of green vitality.
There were no flames in the area on the left, and the Ice Pistil Flower was wrapped in the residual heat of the flames.
At this point, the white petals of the Ice Pistil Flower had already become somewhat withered, and the blossoming pistil was dancing in the rising heat.
It seemed like it could wither at any time.
With Wu Mo’s adjustments, the materials on both sides were close to their melting point.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.
The first to melt was the Ice Pistil Flower. Influenced by the flow of heat, its petals withered, and a snow-white liquid slowly dripped down, finally flowing into the container below.
Its slightly yellow pistil also slowly disappeared. At this moment, most of the white flower had already dissipated into the furnace, turning into ash that was expelled.
On the other side, the Iron Bone Leaves finally showed signs of fusion under the constantly rising temperature. It had been five minutes, and everyone was still working in an orderly manner.
Ten minutes passed by quickly, and the timer on the judges’ table beeped before long.
Under the invigilators’ supervision, the dozen or so blacksmiths, including Wu Mo, immediately exited their stations.
Just like before, they lined up to wait for the elder’s assessment.
Each of them was holding an alloy vial, which contained two liquids of different materials.
This time, he was checking the purity of the liquid.
If the materials were not completely melted and there were dust particles, they would fail.
If the purity of the liquids was above 80, it would be considered a pass.
The first blacksmith to be assessed immediately put the two bottles into an instrument’s mouth. In the next second, the purity tester gave the readings for the two liquids respectively.
[Ice Pistil Flower Extract: 84%, Iron Bone Leaf Extract: 83%.]
The test results were over 80%. That meant the blacksmith had passed the two-star ranking test.
Of course, these results were nothing out of the ordinary to the two guild elders. Ten minutes was more than enough time. As long as these young blacksmiths paid attention in class and did their training in school, they could easily complete the task.
In truth, they felt that these children were all quite talented and were probably students of some noble academy in the capital. Whether it was in terms of their foundations or temperature control, they were all better than average.
It was likely that any elimination would only occur during the four-star test.
As for the five-star ranking test, Ai Bo felt that these people were too young and would likely be unable to complete it for the time being.
Sure enough, the final result was within the expectations of the two elders.
No one had any problems with such a simple test. Even the worst one had reached 82% purity.
However, it was worth mentioning that the young man who had previously forged the silver ingot to 91 points of hardness also excelled this time.
Beep, beep, beep. [Purity measurement complete.]
The instrument that measured purity made a sound, and then two rows of data appeared on the screen.
The expressions of the surrounding young blacksmiths became strange.
[Ice Pistil Flower Extract: 93%.
[Iron Bone Leaf Extract: 94%.]