Chapter 144: The Art of Replenishing Armor
In this way, Ye Qing settled down in this place called "Jilongjiafang". For him, when he first arrived, he chose such a place to become the apprentice of the Bujia craftsman, which is very suitable for him to learn about some news about warriors in Hongdu City. The Bujia business is actually not far from or close to the warriors, and he can often come into contact with some warriors. It exists in the circle but is far away from the struggles between warriors. This is also an important reason why Ye Qing chose it.
As an apprentice, Ye Qing needed to get up very early, clean the entire shop first, then fill the jar in the blacksmith's house with water, and then eat breakfast. Three meals a day are a little light, but it is much better than ordinary people...
If it were others, I was afraid that I would not be able to do these things, but Ye Qing was a traitor from the Mengshan Martial Arts Hall and had suffered all kinds of hardships. In his eyes, these miscellaneous work was just a few trivial matters. So he would complete his work meticulously on time and seriously every day. However, the warrior who was connected to the six routes did a competent choreography, which was quite useless.
There were originally six apprentices in Jilong's Bujia Shop, but now they are gone and scattered. Now there are only two people left. One is a blacksmith named Heizi, who is honest and loyal. The other is Lang Nan who is looking at the store every day. Compared with Heizi, Lang Nan is talented and intelligent, but Lang Nan seems to be too smart. He is not thinking about this Bujia Shop, and he is a little careless about Bujia.
Ji Long was very satisfied with his newly acquired disciple named Ye Qing. He worked hard and meticulously. He completed everything he ordered meticulously and never was lazy. Moreover, unlike his other senior brothers, when he had nothing to do, he just stayed in his room without any bad habits. Apart from being a little colder and older, Ji Long really had nothing to pick on for this novice apprentice.
Ji Long is already seventy-four years old, and for ordinary people, he is considered a long life. The older he is, the less flexible his body is as before. Many armors that can be easily repaired in the past are now afraid to promise easily, so he has become more and more eager to find a successor he likes over the years, but he has disappointed him a few years later. In fact, Ji Long's disciples were both talented at first, but after a long time, he was not focused on replenishing armor, and they all left the "Jilong Jiafang".
The disciples' departure is ultimately due to the martial arts style of Dahong Kingdom. For those with a little talent, as long as their family conditions are relatively affordable, they will send their children to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts, hoping that they can become martial arts students in Dahong Kingdom and enter the officialdom with martial arts.
The Bujia Craftsman not only have no status, but also a low-level merchant, and cannot enter the elegant hall. Therefore, after saving enough money, those apprentices naturally do not want to stay in Jilong Jiafang. For them, staying here will be isolated from the colorful world outside. The Bujia Craftsman has no future at all, who would be so stupid that he will spend his whole life with him?
In the blink of an eye, Ye Qing had been to Jilongjiafang for half a year. He was taciturn and his lukewarm expression was hard to get close to. Moreover, he never greeted others on his own, so he seemed to have become a transparent person. The only thing that made Lang Nan happy was that he had to take care of all the miscellaneous items in Jilongjiafang, which made him happy and leisurely.
Ye Qing didn't care about these things. He went to the market in Hongdu twice in the past few months. The Chengyu Martial Arts Formation only lacked three types of refining materials. He walked around the market and actually asked him to find all the refining materials for the formation!
Ye Qing was overjoyed. He quietly returned to Jilongjiafang to use the Ten Directions Martial Seals to copy twenty sets of martial arts formations to refine materials. It took him nearly ten days to refine twelve sets of jade martial arts formations.
The energy in the Ten Directions Martial Seals is almost consumed. The more complex the materials are, the more energy the Martial Seal will consume.
In this way, Ye Qing started practicing in Jilongjiafang. Except for making some miscellaneous items every morning and helping Jilong in the morning, he spent the rest of his time practicing the Five Ancestors' Dragon Rise Art every day! The jade martial arts formation is not an ordinary thing. With the help of the martial arts formation, his cultivation speed jumped thousands of miles.
Early this morning, Ye Qing stood beside Ji Long as before and helped him.
Ji Long put down the armor in his hand, rubbed his eyes hard with his hands, closed his eyes and rested for a while, and then said: "Ye Qing, I see your efforts during this period. Although I am old, my eyes are not blurred. I know who is working and who is lazy! So I am going to teach you some armor-filling techniques today!"
Ye Qing knew that what Jilong was talking about was Lang Nan. This kid had been in Jilongjiafang for three or four years and had already become slick. As long as he could be lazy in anything, he would never waste any more energy.
Ji Long knew that Ye Qing was not happy and said slowly as he looked at him and said, "I will ask you to help you in the past six months. What are you going to gain?"
Ye Qing didn't know how to answer for a while, and when it comes to gains, he still had some. The only thing that disappointed him was that Ji Long repaired most of the armors of some warriors. These armors were uneven and mostly of poor quality, which was really useless to him.
After thinking for a long time, Ye Qing nodded and shook his head again.
A look of disappointment flashed in Ji Long's eyes. He sighed and nodded and said, "It's no wonder you! Purifying the armor is a very profound knowledge! But now this craft is spread less and less. Now, the only one in Ji Long's family is left in Dahong Country..."
Ji Long saw Ye Qing listening and said with thoughtful eyes: "Actually, what I have taken you to see in the past six months is just some of the most basic armor-fill techniques. In fact, the armor-fill craftsman is not as unbearable as mentioned outside. Even the armor of the warrior and even the armor of the martial artist can be repaired!"
Ye Qing frowned when he heard this. He suppressed the excitement in his heart and listened to Ji Long's introduction.
"The ancestors of the Ji family are the children of the refining weapons. They have been passed down to me for ten generations. The Ji family has replenished armor for generations to make a living! The so-called replenishment of armor means repairing the incompleteness of armor and restoring its own abilities!"
Ji Long stood up and found an armor in the house. Although this armor was gray all over, it was connected by source energy crystals on the belly and back. The only regrettable thing is that there was a hole the size of a fist on the chest of this armor!
Although Ye Qing didn't have a wide range of knowledge, he could still recognize the warrior's armor.
Ji Long looked at Ye Qing and said solemnly: "If you were asked to repair this armor, what would you do?"
Ye Qing thought for a moment. If he had repaired it with needles and thread and some special materials like ordinary armor, it would be obvious that it would be impossible to repair it. He said half-truely: "This armor seems to be different from the past!"
"Not bad! There are still some achievements in the past six months!" Ji Long nodded repeatedly and said happily: "This is called Hu Xiaokai, which is a warrior armor. Ordinary methods must not be repaired! If you want to repair it, there are only three methods: art of re-arming armor, inlaying technique, and art of combining armor!"
"The first type of armor-repair technique is to use the warrior's source energy crystal for repair. This repair method is faster, but it can only restore the armor to five points of its strength! The second type is the inlay technique, which is to embed gems at the size of a fist to restore the armor to seven points of its strength! The third type is the art of armor-combining technique. The art of armor-combining technique is to recombinate two pieces of armor and some materials. This repair method is the highest level of the armor-repair craftsman. It can not only restore the repaired armor to its own strength, but also improve a level!"
Ye Qing took a breath of air conditioning when he heard this!
Chapter completed!