She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 751: [738] Beast World Farming 48 (2 updates)

Looking at it this way, the abundance of handsome men actually stripped away their uniqueness; by contrast, her beautiful Purple Mink self stood out like a crane among chickens among the females.

If it had been in her previous life, naturally, it would have been good, but in the Beast World, she felt it was not good at all; her face was destined to be a cause of trouble, so she had to take some measures when necessary.

After eating, they buried the fire on the spot and set off again. As for that topic of discussion, in the end, it fizzled out without conclusion.

While passing by a small hill, the attentive Tangtang happened to notice.

"Why is there not a single blade of grass on that hillside? And why is it green? Go down there, and I’ll take a look."

When she went down for a closer inspection, she discovered it was a Stone Mountain slope covered in green stones. Tangtang frowned and casually walked to one side, picked up a rock, and smashed it. To her surprise, the smashed green stone turned out to be softer than the one she had picked up, and the hole she’d made revealed a red interior.

What was this?

Tangtang held the rock and observed it carefully, feeling that the existence of this hill of stones would lead to a significant discovery.

She tried smashing the stone with the method used for pottery making, but it simply wouldn’t take shape. So she placed it in the container used for firing pottery and began the process. After heating, she found that the stone debris had become even softer, and the surface’s layer of green paint-like substance had vanished, leaving a very attractive red color.

Since it couldn’t be used for pottery, did it mean it could be made into something else?

Tangtang then took a piece of stone and poured the red, soft material onto a smooth stone, first smashing it into thin plates and slices, and then shaping it into labor tools similar to stone knives and stone axes, unexpectedly achieving the desired form.

Seeing the finished objects, Tangtang couldn’t help asking Liang Tian in the space, "Could this be natural copper ore?"

The Bronze Age came before the Iron Age; she had not anticipated that she would follow this sequence, first creating pottery and then discovering copper ore?

Liang Tian’s response came from the space, "Not bad, you do have some insight. However, you must know that this is a direct application of natural copper; you haven’t yet reached the stage of smelting."

Tangtang agreed wholeheartedly, "Yes, I remember pottery requires temperatures below 800 degrees, so it’s impossible to melt copper ore with a melting point of 1083 degrees. At 800 degrees, at most, the copper ore can only be made very soft, like what I’m doing now. So, what method would be used to increase the melting point? If this cannot be increased, dealing with iron ore in the future will be even more difficult."

But discovering copper ore was still exciting for Tangtang. She knew that in ancient times, the ores were on the surface, and wasn’t it because the surface ores had been exhausted that people in her previous life mined underground?

So, compared to her previous life, she now considered herself to have a significant advantage.

Tangtang felt it was necessary to bring some back home to contemplate a solution.

She had to figure out how to increase the melting point to deal with ores that had higher melting points in the future.

With Jin Han’s help, she collected dozens of natural copper stones of various sizes. Jin Han, having seen the knives Tangtang struggled to make over two days, couldn’t calm his inner shock for a long time. But considering she could make pottery jars from mud, it didn’t seem impossible for her to make knives from these stones, he thought. It was just that their ways of thinking were different after all, for he would never take an interest in stones.

"Let’s look some more and see if there’s more ore like this. Any color will do."

The area she found was green, commonly known as Peacock Green, and there were also blue copper, Brass, shining copper, Dark copper, and others, potentially over a hundred varieties including other metal elements. Because her attention had previously been on food, she had never considered this aspect, but now that she had encountered it, she felt it was time to focus on iron ore and copper ore.

Thus, what was meant to be a food-finding journey turned into a stone-hunting expedition. In the end, after nearly twenty days of searching, she brought back nearly half a space of stones. After bringing these stones home, she dumped them in a corner of the wall and daily took out two to experiment with in her homemade furnace.

She was so engrossed that she even forgot about cooking and weaving.

She remembered that increasing the melting point had something to do with charcoal.

Her home’s furnace was made from clay, with ventilation holes.

When firing pottery jars usually, the fire would be set below, and the shaped pottery jars placed above, then burned.