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In the inaccessible black forest, there was another earth-shaking loud noise, and the flames were accompanied by countless gravel and iron slag, flying everywhere.

Sui Xiong jumped into the river not far away. Hearing the sizzling sound of the hot gravel and iron slag on his body when it met the cold water, he couldn't help but sigh.

"How many times have I failed!"

He looked at the scene of the explosion. The ground was a mess, with scattered rocks and mud mixed with iron ore and peat, and bits and pieces of iron slag mixed in - this was the result of his "blast furnace ironmaking".

"What's wrong?"

After failing so many times in succession, even an art student could sense something was wrong. Sui Xiong dared to bet on his integrity that his blast furnace iron-making technology must have fatal flaws, and it was likely that he had made some key mistake. But after much deliberation, he couldn't figure out where the mistake was.

Iron ore and coal react at high temperatures, reducing the combined iron into iron atoms - in his impression, this should be taught in high school chemistry classes.

Although Brother Xiong is an art student, he is still admitted to college seriously. Oxidation-reduction reaction is a key point in high school chemistry, and there is no way he can completely forget it.

But...why is it wrong?

He has iron ore; he has coal; he also has high temperature. And in order to make the reaction complete, he even mixed the coal and iron ore evenly, just grinding them together.

But why does it end up either burning and extinguishing, or burning and exploding?

What exactly is the problem?

Sui Xiong was not an unlearned person, and he did not come to ironmaking without any preparation. Before starting to work, he also went to the blacksmith shop to inquire about and observe the iron-making technology.

The iron-making technology in this world is roughly like this: Mix mud and straw to build a furnace with an oval barrel and a short chimney. There are two air inlets and a slag outlet below the furnace, and then add a layer of iron ore and charcoal. Stack one layer inside, light the fire and burn slowly. While burning, slowly add charcoal and iron ore layer by layer.

This is a very slow process that will produce a lot of useless iron slag, and it will take a long, long time to burn it to get some iron blocks full of holes. These iron blocks are then red-hot in a forge and slowly forged to remove bubbles and impurities, and finally the actual iron is obtained.

Generally speaking, this method is not efficient and consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. Therefore, the price of iron in this world is very expensive, and the price of iron tools is also very expensive.

In fact, bronze vessels are still used in many parts of the world.

Of course, in a magical world, there is also a way to use magic to solve problems, and that is the magic furnace.

Magic can produce astonishingly high heat, which can naturally burn iron ore. By adding a reducing agent, molten iron can be obtained smoothly, and then pig iron can be obtained. Carbon can then be reforged to obtain wrought iron, and finally the raw and wrought iron can be mixed to obtain steel.

This method of making iron is very efficient and the quality of the iron produced is good. The only problem is the high price.

The cost of the magic furnace is staggering, and it requires several magicians to assist during its operation, and it also consumes precious magic crystals as fuel. Often when a furnace is opened, a few hundred gold coins are lost regardless of whether it is successful or not.

As a result, the price of steel is still high and the output is still tragic.

The Church of the Goddess of Wealth once calculated an account. Under the current conditions, the lowest-priced way to produce iron is to have a senior magician use the "plane travel" spell to go to the earth elemental plane to directly search for pure iron veins. …

Sui Xiong also learned that the dwarves have a special technique that can increase the temperature of the magma, melt the iron ore in it, and then use a secret method to directly extract molten iron from it.

The iron ingots obtained by this method are the famous "dwarf steel" or "lava ingots", which are the most advanced among the known steels.

...The output is naturally the lowest.

Not to mention that suitable lava is difficult to find. Even if suitable lava is found, there are very few masters who can perform that special skill. Even for most dwarves, this skill is just an ancient legend. No one has ever seen the real thing.

If it weren't for the fact that there are still dwarven steel products handed down from generation to generation, many people would even doubt whether it was passed down through false rumors.

Sui Xiong's plan is to develop a low-cost and efficient iron-making technology. In his impression, even in backward areas on earth, steel is definitely not a rare thing. Haven’t you seen that in African tribes’ vendettas, everyone is armed with a machete?

Of course, he definitely didn't know that those machetes were "Made-In-China".

However, it is really not easy to come up with such a technology!

Sighing deeply, he flew out of the river and cast his spell again to build the blast furnace.

"The explosion was caused by poor ventilation. I should work more on ventilation..."

Obviously, the experiments will continue.

This experiment may have a major impact on the future development of this world, but in fact, the person presiding over the experiment at the moment is just a combat incarnation of Sui Xiong. His body remains in the "sanctuary" of the Kingdom of God and is doing a big thing.

"Oscar, are you trying to hatch an egg?" Weyer looked at Sui Xiong, who was lying motionless on the ground, and asked with a smile, "A hen hatches an egg by placing it under its body, but you hatch an egg by placing it It’s really weird on top of your head!”

Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh and said, "This is not an egg. Have you ever seen an egg that hatched a god?"

At this moment, he was lying on the ground, and his body turned into the shape of a round tray with a concave middle. In the center of the tray, a white cocoon of light was placed steadily. From the bottom of the tray, powerful divine power continuously flows into it; dozens of tentacles are connected to the light cocoon. On the one hand, they play a fixed role, and on the other hand, they channel and fine-tune the divine power to make subtle adjustments to the contents of the light cocoon.

Because the light cocoon is opaque, no one can see clearly what is inside. In fact, it's useless even if you can see clearly, because it's just chaos inside now, with nothing formed at all.

The thing inside this light cocoon is the "angel of love" that Sui Xiong swallowed when he attacked Cloud City.

The predecessor of the Angel of Mercy is the God of Healing, a kind god among the gods who is very good at healing spells and even became a priest. However, this god was very lucky and somehow fell into the hands of the Sun God. He was deprived of his priesthood and transformed into an angel.

Sui Xiong swallowed it and received the inheritance given by the Sun God before his death, so he constructed such a system and used himself as Doctor Evil's biochemical brewing tank, trying to return the Angel of Kindness to its origins and transform it again. Back to the original god of healing.

This thing seems to be just a few words to say, but it is extremely difficult to actually do it. He failed several times in the beginning, and the Angel of Mercy was blown into a chaotic mass of fragments. Fortunately, he was well prepared and wrapped the Angel of Love in a cocoon of light. No matter how it failed or exploded, the material was not lost and he could continue to work hard and try to improve it in the direction he wanted.

But even if the materials are not wasted, his divine power and energy will be wasted. After all, if the light cocoon debugging tank can be regarded as a machine, even if the loving angel as the material in the machine can be intact, the divine power as the mechanical power and the energy required to control the machine will still be continuously consumed.

Therefore, he would take a break every once in a while to let himself breathe, and at the same time summarize his previous research experience so that he could start the next stage of experiments.

"How long do you plan to do this?" Morani asked curiously, "It seems like it will take a long time, right?"

"Three days is not a short time, and a hundred years is not a long time." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "Anyway, this will be my most important job in the next few years. When will I successfully transform it and add a wet nurse to our team? When will it be over?”

"It will take a long time... I have asked someone during this time. It must have been thousands of years from the time when the Sun God captured the God of Healing alive to the time when the Angel of Mercy appeared." Weyer said.

Sui Xiong sighed and said helplessly: "Actually, I am already riding a tiger. If I stop debugging, the Angel of Mercy will lose a lot of its divine power and divinity, and the possibility of success next time will be greatly reduced. So no matter how much money is spent, Time, I can only bite the bullet and keep working until I succeed.”

"Besides... in fact, this debugging work is also very beneficial to myself." He continued, "During the debugging process, I also learned a lot of things and summarized a lot of valuable experience. So even if the experiment No matter how long it takes, it’s not a waste of time.”

Friends suddenly realized - it turns out that he can gain a lot regardless of whether he succeeds or not. No wonder he has been working hard during this period and has no intention of giving up.

Sui Xiong rested for a while, and then began to activate his divine power again, using his soul power to control them in subtle ways, trying hard to reconcile the already chaotic divinity in the light cocoon, trying to form a complete structure.

Of course, this structure is not a random arrangement, they must be combined into the priesthood of "healing".

This is an extremely difficult matter. Even if he has obtained the information about the healing priesthood from the Sun God, it will not be easy to follow the example.

You see, there are many famous paintings in the world, but there are not many good painters who can copy famous paintings exactly like the originals.

The information that the Sun God gave Sui Xiong was really all-encompassing and profound. It formed a complete clerical system. Based on this, a world that was simple but at least complete could be constructed. Coupled with the domain knowledge that covers almost all known categories, it can be regarded as a professional encyclopedia for gods - and it is the highest level.

But Sui Xiong himself is not yet able to use this encyclopedia freely.

It's not a lack of divine power, but a lack of knowledge.

Many things that are taken for granted by a powerful deity like the Sun God, those common sense things that are so simple that no explanation is needed, for Sui Xiong, he needs to study and figure it out on his own, and there is no way to solve it overnight.

...But it is precisely for this reason that the benefits he can get from this information are far more than those of powerful gods such as Le Font.

When the Sun God was dying, he copied several copies of his wisdom and experience and entrusted them to all powerful beings or potential masters that he thought might threaten the Lord of Glory. Among them, the main gods of the orc god system, nature god system, and war god system, their original abilities are not much worse than the sun god, even if they are not as good as the sun god, they are even better than the sun god in what they are good at. clever. For them, this information may just supplement the side issues that they originally didn't care much about, or it may just provide some valuable ideas on some difficult points that they may not necessarily work in that direction, and that's it.

Everyone who is as powerful as them already has his own path. No matter how great the benefits are, they will never change their path.

As the saying goes, if I learn from you, I will become a snake, and if you learn from me, you will become a crow. Every strong person has their own understanding of power and the world, and their own ideas and pursuits for the future. The Sun God just took one more step than them, but was finally defeated by the Lord of Light, which greatly reduced the correctness of this step. In this case, how could those powerful gods rely too much on this information that is difficult to distinguish between true and false?

But Sui Xiong is different. Although he also knows a lot of knowledge about the field and divine power, he is still a beginner among the gods in general. The information given to him by the Sun God is like giving a complete set of scientific and technological information to a poor new country, plus a lot of precious experimental data. Although the highest level of things may not be correct, at least the things up to the "world's leading level" are not only complete, but also detailed.

After getting such a set of information, what remains is to gradually learn and understand it according to one's actual situation, integrate it and improve one's hard power.

If one day, Sui Xiong can learn all the information given to him by the Sun God, then he must have stepped into the level of powerful divine power and can pursue the realm above powerful divine power, which is called "great divine power".

Perhaps... among the many pieces of information sent by the Sun God, those sent to powerful divine powers are actually just wasted. The one that can really realize His dying wish and bring trouble to the Lord of Glory is the one sent to this inconspicuous jellyfish god who doesn't even have a priesthood.

Perhaps... many, many years later, Sui Xiong may really embark on the road of pursuing the highest realm because of this information, and then there will be a fierce battle between him and the Lord of Glory.

Of course, that is a long, long time in the future. For Sui Xiong now, the most important things at the moment are nothing more than two things.

First, be patient and slowly debug, and try to turn the Angel of Mercy back into the God of Healing as soon as possible, and add a powerful nurse to your team.

Second, seize the time and work hard, and try to complete the research and development of the blast furnace as soon as possible, open the steel age of the territory, and blow the horn of the industrial revolution!