Chapter 180 Art also has an upper limit
Xu Xin refined some more steel fire and gave them to Li Wenxi. At the same time, he also gave Li Wenxi some coal.
According to his observation just now, a piece of coal (green) can make the furnace burn for an hour, which is shorter than the burning time of a piece of green grade wood.
But coal is easy to obtain. You don’t know how long it will take to mine that pile of coal, and you can get more than ten or twenty yuan with just one pickaxe. Compared to a green-level tree, which only yields five pieces of wood, it really costs a lot. Much easier to obtain.
The main thing is that coal increases furnace efficiency.
"This is coal!" Li Wenxi was also surprised, "It can actually improve the efficiency of the furnace! Have you found a coal mine?"
"Well, it's near my tree house, buried five or six meters underground."
"It turns out it was buried underground. I said I have never been able to find the coal mine... You have found everything underground!" Li Wenxi blinked, "Could it be that your alchemy ability helped you find it?"
"It should be similar to your ability to find ore." Xu Xin raised the corner of his mouth and said.
"...Hey, I'm going to help you practice steel!"
After hanging up the video, Xu Xin came to the art room and sat in front of the sculpture and painting workbench.
At his current speed, he can produce a small carving in fifteen minutes and 40 points of decoration in an hour.
After eating an orange to keep his mental power at its peak, Xu Xin picked up the carving knife and immediately entered the state.
Soon, the first carving, the small carving promised to Li Wenxi, was made. This time he carved a little beauty standing with hands on her hips. The proportions of head, body and legs were perfectly restored, and even the figure was perfectly restored. .
The beep reminded him that he had added ten points of decoration. Xu Xin put the small carving aside, took out a green-level crystal, and continued carving.
Immersed in the carving, Xu Xin could not feel the passage of time. Soon, small carvings were created from his hands. The images of the small carvings were all animals, such as blood-striped rabbits, blood-striped cats, and blood-striped cats. Sailfish, these are the three intermediate mutant beasts he has killed.
Until the fourth carving, the carving of the blood-striped swordfish emerging from the water, was completed, Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief, put down the carving knife, and leaned on the back of the chair. He looked at the time, four carvings, no more, no less, exactly one hour.
Really good, one hour, 40 points of decoration.
However, this time the beep has changed.
[It is detected that the mutated swordfish red crystal carving (green) is placed in the treehouse, the treehouse decoration degree is +10, the current treehouse decoration degree: 319.68 (266.4+53.28)]
[The number of crystal carvings (green) in the tree house has reached the upper limit, and further increase will not increase the decoration level. 】
...Sure enough, there is an upper limit for the number of crystal carvings of the same level, but the upper limit is much higher than that of unprocessed basic materials.
Art also has its upper limit.
Xu Xin calculated. Before today, he had carved a statue for each of Coco, Mimi, Ah Fu, Silver King, Ai Fei, and the two little guys, a total of six green-level small sculptures. Now he has Inside are the carvings that will be given to Li Wenxi and the carvings of three intermediate mutant beasts.
In total, there are ten.
The upper limit of the number of crystal carvings (green) is ten. Each crystal carving (green) can increase the decoration level by 10 points. Ten is 100 points. Coupled with the 20% increase in decoration level rewarded in the last event, these crystal carvings (green) , bringing him a total of 120 points of decoration.
There are many, after all, green-level crystals that have not been processed can only add a total of 6 points of decoration. His piece of unprocessed amethyst crystal can only add 5 points of decoration.
However, Xu Xin was still a little disappointed. He actually hoped that the decoration could be infinitely increased. Now it seems that we still need to use other materials and methods to increase the decoration.
There is no need to worry for now, he can also use mahogany paper to paint to increase the decoration, and mahogany is also one of the carving materials.
Taking out another green-level crystal, Xu Xin started carving again. After all, one of these statues was going to be given to Li Wenxi, so he naturally wanted to make up for it.
The carving is completed, it is a small carving of a wild boar. As expected, there is no hint of increased decoration this time around.
Xu Xin put the statue on the bookcase and was about to contact Li Wenxi to inquire about the refining of the steel block. Suddenly, a notification sounded in his ear.
[Sculpting proficiency is achieved, and the artist level is upgraded to entry level. 】
...The artist level has been improved?
Xu Xin immediately clicked on the [Artist] option and found that the line of small print about the level had changed.
Artist level: Advanced level.
The artist level has reached the next level and advanced!
The prompt said that he was promoted due to his proficiency in carving. Xu Xin calculated and added the two sculptures given to Li Wenxi. He made a total of twelve small sculptures, and then he finally advanced to the entry level.
His own level is indeed entry-level, but with the blessing of the Deep Sea Pearl (Blue), the artist level has been improved to the advanced level!
Can advanced artists already handle blue-level crystals?
Xu Xin immediately took out a blue-level crystal. Compared with green-level crystals, blue-level crystals are much larger. The green-level crystal is only the size of an egg, but the blue-level crystal is as big as a fist.
This blue-level crystal still has several traces carved by him last time. That time he only carved a few cuts and then couldn't cut anymore.
When Xu Xin mentioned the carving knife, that immersive feeling reappeared, making him overjoyed.
As expected, he can already handle blue-level crystals and make blue-level engravings! This made him feel a little disappointed after learning that crystal carving had an upper limit, and he immediately became immersed in carving.
I don't know how long it took, but the vibration of his watch woke him up from his state. It was Li Wenxi who sent a video call.
Although he felt as if he was carving smoothly and with divine help when he was carving, the completion of his blue-level carving was very low at this time, not even 10%.
Looking at the time, Xu Xin frowned.
An hour has passed since he started carving this blue-level crystal!
This...can't even complete 10% of it in one hour? !
This blue-level carving is really time-consuming! Look at it this way, if you want to complete a blue-level carving, even if you don’t do anything, it will take a whole day!
...It's such a waste of time. For now, let's use other methods to improve the decoration level. After all, he can make many green-level artworks in an hour.
Green-level painting and green-level mahogany carving can both improve the decoration. After upgrading to the advanced level, he should be able to create art faster.
First, fill them up to the upper limit, add some increase points to the art room, and then think about higher-level blue crystal statues.
The watch was still ringing, and Xu Xin connected the video.
"What are you doing? You haven't answered the question for so long." Li Wenxi asked in confusion, holding a piece of metal with a bright silver metallic luster in her hand.
"I'm carving it for you," Xu Xin raised the little beauty carving in her hand and teased, "You almost made me waste all my efforts and almost broke your legs."
"Ah? Oops, then... it's not broken, right?" Li Wenxi's voice suddenly became much softer, and she asked cautiously with an "I was wrong" expression on her face.
"I lied to you, it's okay, it's perfect." Xu Xin threw the statue in his hand.
Li Wenxi's eyes widened and she quickly stopped her: "Hey, don't throw it away! What if it breaks? That's 'me'!"
Xu Xin took the statue and stood it on the table. He had already seen the steel block in Li Wenxi's hand. The steel block was emitting blue light, and it was obviously a blue-grade steel block.
"How is the refining of the steel block? Is it fast?" Xu Xin asked Li Wenxi while initiating the transaction.
Li Wenxi also directly accepted the deal, holding the statue in his hand and looking at it with admiration.
"Quick, a lot has been refined. Well, wait a moment, I'll put the statue in place first!"
She got up and walked to another room, carefully placing the statue on a shelf. Also on the shelf is the statue that Xu Xin gave her before, with a sculpture of her lying on the sofa.
After doing this, she sat back on the sofa and picked up the silver-white steel block that she had just placed on the wooden coffee table.
"That's it, the steel block! I have refined some of the green-level and blue-level steel blocks. The refining time of this steel block is also related to the level. The time for refining the green-level steel block is much shorter than the blue-level steel block. Hmm... …It only takes tens of seconds to refine one piece of green level, and it takes fifteen minutes to refine one piece of blue level.”
As expected, professionals should be allowed to do professional things.
It takes Xu Xin 50 minutes to refine a blue-grade steel block by himself, but Li Wenxi can do it in 15 minutes.
And she also has many furnaces. With the help of the increase in the smelting room, even if there are many furnaces, it can ensure that the indoor temperature will not be too high, which will not cause a fire. You can also enter the smelting room to control the furnace without cooling. This directly increased the refining speed several times.
"Moreover, a bottle of steel fire can continuously refine five green-grade steel blocks, but it can only refine one blue-grade steel block. By the way, does your steel fire consume a lot of materials?"
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A portion of Steel Fire only requires one kilogram of mutated vine juice and 25 coals, which is not a lot.
Coal is currently inexhaustible. Even though Ai Fei dug more than a thousand pieces of coal, the coal mine seemed to have remained unchanged.
Even if the mutant vine juice is exhausted, with his current strength, he can jump repeatedly to the edge of the protected area to attract the vines to drill out, then kill them and collect the juice.
"It's not very material intensive. Give me the steel block first, and I'll see what I can make first."
"Okay."
Li Wenxi also sent him all the steel blocks.
"...So rich?" Looking at the materials in his hand, Xu Xin felt a little numb.
Xu Xin gave her a total of twenty shares of steel fire, and she also returned him twenty-eight shares of steel blocks.
Among them, only ten are green-grade steel blocks, and the remaining eighteen are blue-grade steel blocks!
The moment he got the steel block, he quietly unlocked the formula for steel. (End of chapter)