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"At least a ton of Wind Spirit Iron and Mysterious Lightning Gold in stock? What about the space-attribute Thousand-Mechanism Copper?"
Hearing that rare metals sold by the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce had at least one ton stored in the sect treasury, Chu Chengzhou nodded, then asked further.
The rare metals needed for battle armor weren't excessive. Since he planned to fuse nine different metals, if calculated by average, one ton of each type would be sufficient for himself and his several sisters.
Ning Fengzhi waved his hand. "You can rest assured. A few years ago, our sect discovered a massive copper mine in Fasinuo Province. The Thousand-Mechanism Copper I mentioned was excavated from that mine as a byproduct mineral."
"Although the proportion of Thousand-Mechanism Copper as a byproduct is low, the copper mine is enormous. When calculated properly, the total amount of Thousand-Mechanism Copper is actually quite substantial."
The current continent's various industries had very low demand for rare metals, leaving little market. However, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had never stopped mining rare metal ores.
This wasn't because the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had nothing better to do—knowing the market was small yet persisting in mining, creating oversupply—but rather an unavoidable situation.
Most rare metals were byproduct minerals, like Thousand-Mechanism Copper.
It was true that Thousand-Mechanism Copper had no market, but copper ore certainly did—and the market demand was enormous. When mining copper ore, the byproduct mineral Thousand-Mechanism Copper inevitably came along too.
After smelting the copper ore into copper ingots, due to different metal melting points, the byproduct metal mineral Thousand-Mechanism Copper would be separated out.
Thousand-Mechanism Copper was a rare metal with prestigious space attributes—they couldn't just throw it away, could they?
As for selling it cheaply—would the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect lack a few coins? They'd rather let it gather dust in storage than sell it at a loss.
Thus, with no market demand and no one wanting to buy it at full price, Thousand-Mechanism Copper was stored in the sect's treasury.
Additionally worth mentioning—the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had discovered this massive copper mine not because of its size, but because of the Thousand-Mechanism Copper byproduct mineral within it.
Thousand-Mechanism Copper was a rare metal—and a very rare spatial attribute metal at that—which could be detected by the treasure-hunting ability of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul and evaluated as a valuable treasure.
But if it were just an ordinary copper mine, since ordinary copper metal wasn't considered a "treasure," no matter how large the mine was, it couldn't be detected by the treasure-hunting ability of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul.
It could be said that Ning Fengzhi became the continent's largest mining mogul not only because his inherited martial soul possessed treasure-hunting abilities, but also because most rare mineral deposits of metal, gemstones, and other resources on the continent were byproduct minerals of large ordinary mineral deposits.
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An hour later, having left the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Chu Chengzhou flew through the air to a desolate mountain a hundred li east of Tian Dou City.
The facts proved that turning to his father-in-law during difficulties was indeed useful. Without mentioning other matters, when leaving the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Chu Chengzhou's storage soul tool now contained several tons of Wind Spirit Iron, Mysterious Lightning Gold, and Thousand-Mechanism Copper.
For Ning Fengzhi—the continent's biggest mining mogul—though he might lack other things, gold soul coins and rare metals were definitely not in short supply.
His True Spirit Flag martial soul materialized in hand. His seventh soul ring lit up brightly as his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger summoned spirit Xiao Hei appeared—its size deliberately suppressed to look like a small black cat.
"Xiao Hei, go over there and guard your master properly."
Pointing to the distance, Chu Chengzhou said to Xiao Hei.
"Roar~"
With a low growl, Xiao Hei nodded and walked to the distance, squatting down.
Of course, the purpose of summoning Xiao Hei wasn't merely for guarding.
At critical moments, Chu Chengzhou could utilize the Spirit Transformation characteristic of his True Spirit Flag martial soul—entering a fused form with himself as the main body and summoned spirit as auxiliary—elevating his base strength from Level 99 Limit Douluo to Level 100.
Although Chu Chengzhou at his current Level 99 Limit Douluo base could already unleash or activate God-level attacks and defenses, if his base strength reached Level 100, his offensive and defensive limits would be significantly raised again.
However, Chu Chengzhou's method of elevating his base strength to hundredth level wasn't limited to entering Spirit Transformation form.
After activating the all-attribute enhancement soul bone skill: Holy Dragon's Power from his external soul bone: Holy Light Dragon Armor, his strength could similarly reach the Level 100 threshold.
Subsequently, Chu Chengzhou took out from his storage soul tool nine different rare metals: metal-attribute Gold Essence, water-attribute-leaning Deep Sea Sunken Silver, fire-attribute Crimson Demon Essence Gold, earth-attribute Mysterious Yellow Copper, wind-attribute Wind Spirit Iron, lightning-attribute Mysterious Lightning Gold, light-attribute Mithril, dark-attribute Nether Iron, and space-attribute Thousand-Mechanism Copper—a total of nine rare metals with different attributes.
Uncertain about how these nine rare metals should be combined to achieve optimal performance after fusion-forging, Chu Chengzhou took four hundred pounds of each type.
With nine metals each having four hundred pounds, that amounted to three thousand six hundred pounds total. After removing up to ten percent impurities, there would still be over three thousand two hundred pounds.
Battle armor one thousand pounds, great bow one thousand pounds, forging hammers five hundred pounds each, the remainder for arrowheads—perfect!
Of course, this was just an expectation. Combining all nine rare metals in equal one-to-one ratios would certainly be unreasonable. Adjustments would be made during the fusion-forging process, but ensuring at least three thousand pounds remained after heavenly refinement was sufficient.
Otherwise, the quantity would be too small to craft a complete set of the strongest heaven-forged equipment needed for himself all at once.
Crimson soul power surged from his hands, landing on the nine rare metal ingots floating before him in mid-air. Soon, under the heating of fire-attribute soul power, the total three thousand six hundred pounds of nine rare metals melted into a large white-hot molten metal mass.
Immediately after, blue water-attributed soul power was injected. After slight cooling, Chu Chengzhou flipped his hands—Heavenly Refined Four Symbols Deep Silver Hammers materialized. Chaos soul power infused, the Four Symbols Deep Silver twin hammers radiated a misty cyan glow and flew up, striking the floating mixed metal sphere.
This time, Chu Chengzhou didn't attempt one-strike thousand-refining, one-strike spirit-refining, or even one-strike soul-refining. Instead, he controlled the Four Symbols Deep Silver hammers at a measured pace while carefully sensing the subtle changes within the metal sphere with his spiritual power.
Just as he had thought earlier—fusing nine different attribute rare metals was similar to fusing corresponding nine-element soul powers. Using the metal-attribute rare metal Gold Essence as an anchor point, Chu Chengzhou detected the incompatibilities between Gold Essence and the other eight rare metals.
Though this feeling of incompatibility was extremely subtle, Chu Chengzhou's perception was sharp enough to detect it.
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