Ming Capital Blacksmith Association is located on the east side of the city. It is a silver-white building with a height of 78 floors and a square and simple shape.
Different from the simple style of the Heaven Dou City headquarters, the design of the Ming Capital branch is full of modernity. The exterior walls are inlaid with large areas of soul-guiding glass, which glows with a cold luster in the sunlight.
At the same time, there is a huge glass dome on the top of it. Under good weather conditions, you can even see scenes dozens of kilometers away.
Long Yuan stood in front of the building, looked up, and then walked in.
The hall is spacious and bright, the floor is paved with smooth marble, and a huge metal sculpture stands in the center, which is a forging hammer, symbolizing the identity of the blacksmith.
The front desk staff saw Long Yuan and stood up quickly.
"Sir, how can I help you?"
"Where is Zhen Hua?"
The staff was stunned for a moment. "President Zhen Hua? He is at the top Ascension Platform, but--"
"I got it." Long Yuan turned around and walked towards the elevator.
The staff member opened his mouth and wanted to say "You can't go up without a reservation", but after seeing the badge on the table that symbolized the status of level eight Saint Craftsman, he swallowed his words.
The elevator goes straight to the top floor. The door opens, and you see a corridor covered with dark carpets, and at the end is a heavy metal door.
Long Yuan walked over and reached out to push the door open.
There was a corridor inside, and after passing through three gates in a row, he came to a huge rooftop.
The rooftop covers an area of more than 2,000 square meters. There are no walls around it, and there is only a metal guardrail with a height of half a person. It looks extremely empty.
The ground of the platform is engraved with dense Soul Guidance Array patterns, emitting a light blue light.
There is a transparent dome above the head, and sunlight pours down from high places, illuminating the entire platform.
Zhen Hua stood in the center of the platform, with his back to the entrance, looking down at the pattern of the magic circle under his feet. Beside him stood two staff members wearing Blacksmith Association uniforms, holding record boards in their hands, reporting something in a low voice.
"President, all the arrays of Ascension Platform have been debugged, and the output parameters of Energy Core have been calibrated to the best state."
"Yeah." Zhen Hua nodded, "Estimate how much energy consumption will be if Heavenly Forging is performed?"
"According to the current energy reserve, it is enough to support three days of high-intensity output."
Zhen Hua was silent for a moment. "If it's not enough, go get two more spare Energy Core."
The staff member was stunned for a moment. "President, with two spare cores, the energy reserve will exceed ten days--"
"Go and adjust." Zhen Hua didn't look back.
"Yes."
The staff member was about to turn around when he saw the figure at the door and stopped.
Zhen Hua turned around and saw Long Yuan, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"Here you come? I thought you were going to wait a few more days."
In fact, he knew that Long Yuan had arrived as early as when the door was opened. The reason why he said this was just to make a joke.
Long Yuan walked over and glanced at the array pattern on the platform. "It's quite complete."
"Of course." Zhen Hua patted the metal ground beneath his feet, "This Ascension Platform is the core of Ming Capital Blacksmith Association, or in other words, the entire Ming Capital Blacksmith Association serves this Ascension Platform."
Long Yuan has no doubt about him. After all, he still knows the role of Ascension Platform. This can be regarded as one of the most important real estate properties of the Blacksmith Association.
Not to mention anything else, the glass dome outside is made of the same material used by the Federation aircraft carrier.
I don't know how much resources Zhen Hua spent to knock it out from the military.
And those staff members can also be called family members in a sense. Their whole family is supported by the Blacksmith Association from birth to death.
"So why don't you give me this Ascension Platform?"
Zhen Hua smiled, "You are really rude."
He waved the two staff members to leave and turned to walk to the edge of the platform. There was a metal table with two cups of steaming tea on it.
"Sit." Zhen Hua sat down on the chair and picked up a cup of tea. "As long as you take my place, of course this Ascension Platform will be yours. Even if you sell it as scrap, I will have no problem with it."
Long Yuan glanced at him. Even if Zhen Hua said so confidently, he would be the first one to jump out.
Ignoring Zhen Hua's joking, Long Yuan sat down opposite him, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
"Tang Wulin is settled?" Zhen Hua asked.
"Well, Ling Hongchen is quite sensible."
Zhen Hua raised his eyebrows. "That old guy Ling Hongchen is like this, he looks a lot like Qiangu Dongfeng."
After saying this, he put down the tea cup and said seriously, "When are you going to start the Heavenly Forging matter?"
"You can do it at any time." Long Yuan said, "Are the materials ready?"
Zhen Hua stood up, walked to the center of the platform, squatted down, and lightly traced his fingers on the lines of the magic circle. The light blue light flowed along with his fingertips, like activated veins.
"Ming Capital Blacksmith Association has the top material library in mainland China. Whatever you want, I can get it for you."
"Huh? So confident?"
Long Yuan also stood up and walked to his side. "I remember you said that Heavenly Forging needs a special guidance method, which cannot be accomplished simply by relying on strength and skills."
Zhen Hua nodded. "The essence of Heavenly Forging is to make metal resonate with heaven and earth. This is the key step for the life created by Soul Refinement to change from weak to strong."
He paused and looked at Long Yuan: "But it sounds so simple, you still have to try it yourself to know how difficult it is."
Long Yuan was silent for a while. "So how about giving me a piece Gold of Life?"
Zhen Hua was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said, "You kid really dare to ask for anything. Are you here just to entertain me?"
"Didn't you say that you can find me whatever I want?"
"You..." Zhen Hua was angry.
Long Yuan shook his head. "No, you, I think you should take a look at your material library first."
Zhen Hua laughed, "You kid, are you here to rob?"
Long Yuan glanced at him. "You can get me anything you want, but you broke your promise on the spot. I must confirm it myself."
Zhen Hua: "..."
He sighed, turned around and walked towards the elevator. "Okay, follow me."
Although there is a lot of metal stored inside Ascension Platform, you still have to go to Material Warehouse to really see the amount.
The material warehouse of the Blacksmith Association is on the underground floor. It needs to go through three metal doors. Each door requires Zhen Hua's iris and fingerprint double authentication to open.
Long Yuan followed Zhen Hua through corridors and finally entered a huge underground warehouse.
The temperature in the warehouse is much lower than outside, and there is a faint metallic smell in the air.
Various rare metals are neatly arranged on the shelves, some glowing with silver, some with red luster, and some are almost transparent and almost difficult to detect with the naked eye.
Zhen Hua walked in front and introduced as he walked, "This row is for basic metals with various attributes. Although they are common, the quality is the highest level. This row is for mutant attributes, ice, wind, thunder, light, and darkness. Over there are high-level rare metals, and each piece is priceless."
Long Yuan walked very slowly, his eyes lingering on every shelf.
He didn't reach for it, just looked at it.
Sooner or later it's his thing, there's no need to rush.
Zhen Hua did not rush him. He stood aside and occasionally took over the topic. "That piece is Star Profound Iron. It is said that there are only about ten meteorites from the outer world in the entire continent. If you want, you can take it."
Long Yuan looked at the silver-white metal and shook his head. "The hardness is too high, Fusion Forging is troublesome and not suitable."
Zhen Hua raised his eyebrows but did not refute.
The two of them stayed in the data library for nearly an hour.
Long Yuan finally picked only three pieces of metal - one piece of Thousand Refined Heavy Silver, one piece of Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron, and a small piece of Void Silver.
Zhen Hua looked at the three pieces of metal and twitched the corner of his mouth. "You've been shopping around for an hour and you just picked these three?"
He was already prepared for heavy bleeding.
"That's enough." Long Yuan put the metal into Storage Soul Tool.
Zhen Hua was silent for a moment and nodded.
"That makes sense."
The two walked out of the material warehouse and returned to the top floor Ascension Platform.
Zhen Hua stood on the edge of the platform, looking at the skyline of Ming Capital in the distance, and was silent for a long time.
"Long Yuan." He suddenly said.
Long Yuan looked at him.
"You know, my biggest wish in this life is to witness Heavenly Forging with my own eyes." Zhen Hua's voice was very soft, "I don't mean to complete it myself, but to witness it with my own eyes."
Long Yuan said nothing.
Zhen Hua turned his head and looked at him. "That means there is a successor. To be honest, you are the most talented person I have ever seen. I have reached the limit of what I can achieve in Heavenly Forging technology, but I am always limited by my body. Even an ordinary Heavenly Forging requires a long time to practice. It's really..."
Long Yuan was silent for a while and said calmly, "You will see it."