Unexpected (Bonus Chapter for 600 Accumulated Monthly Tickets)
Men were naturally fond of weapons like swords and blades. Even Zhou Xu was no exception.
At that moment, holding the saber in his hand, Zhou Xu already showed signs of being unable to put it down.
However, he also knew that there were two more sabers waiting for him to inspect.
"Which one has diamond added to the crystal iron?"
Hearing the question, Li Gan hurriedly presented that saber with both hands.
Taking the saber, Zhou Xu exerted some force. With a ringing clang, the blade, whose color was somewhat unusual, immediately appeared in everyone's line of sight.
Perhaps because diamond had been added, the entire blade displayed a subtle, hazy color that was neither black nor gray.
Instead, the patterns on the blade, formed through repeated folding and forging, appeared much deeper.
However, those patterns were also much sparser than those on the first Pattern Steel saber.
"The patterns on this saber are fewer because it underwent fewer rounds of folding and forging?"
"Yes."
Li Gan nodded quickly.
"After conducting lengthy research and testing on this diamond, I discovered that once it was smelted together with crystal iron, forging it afterward became extremely difficult."
"Adding diamond can indeed effectively increase the metal's hardness, but correspondingly, its brittleness and forging difficulty also increase. If one is not careful, it will crack during the folding and forging process."
"Taking this into consideration, I reduced the number of folding and forging rounds. Only then was I able to proceed successfully to the next step."
"Even so, during the quenching stage, this saber still carried a high risk of breaking."
"Furthermore, even when forging proceeded successfully, the time and effort required to forge this saber were basically twice that of the Pattern Steel saber