Chapter 678 The harsh first round
In the hot summer, the fire-toxic sun desperately poured out the blazing light. Mercury steamed with thick water mist, and the square was set up on three sides, and behind the mountain was an endless sea. The water mist floated over the sea, covering the sky above the square with a thick layer of mist. It was like a mirage, full of fantasy colors.
On the Nine Cloud Throne, the masters of major clans stood in the clouds, staring at the magnificent square below, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of monks. This kind of speech was extremely important. Under the leadership of Zhuo Canghong, the deputy head of Tongtian Pavilion, the masters surrounded him on the second floor of the hosting platform in half.
The square immediately became quiet, as if everything was silent, silent. The hot eyes below were at the same time, and with the excitement and passion from the heart, an inexplicable sense of tension gradually arose in the square...
The flags were flying and roaring in the air. Zhuo Canghong was also very excited to be lucky enough to host the grand event. His deep eyes were filled with awesome brilliance. Zhuo Canghong was very satisfied with the admiring gazes shot from below. After calming down, Zhuo Canghong spoke his opening remark loudly.
"Zhuo is very happy to be able to host this grand event instead of Nanguo Pavilion. The purpose of the weapon refining conference is to select outstanding people from thousands of fellow practitioners, and to follow the Nanming Immortal Fire to add another super expert to our Immortal Realm. And I am also very pleased..." Zhuo Canghong raised the jade slip in his hand and said: "There are so many weapons refining talents in the Immortal Realm participating in this grand event. In the first half, after the knockout round assessment, we were lucky enough to select 1,300 masters who passed the assessment from 7,567 people. What I have on hand is the promotion list."
Zhuo Canghong paused and deliberately left some time for the monks below to discuss. As expected, after his words of motivating fighting spirit, waves of chaos suddenly appeared below.
The number of weapon refiners reached more than 7,000, which is indeed a considerable number. Last time, only more than 3,000 people participated, but this time it exceeded more than doubled.
Zhuo Canghong continued: "I won't say much, let me announce the rules for the next contest. Please invite all the fellow Taoists who have advanced to gather in the square."
After saying that, countless rays of light rose up from the bottom of the square, and no one missed this opportunity for performance. No matter how much capital a master had, he took out all the money. For a moment, the entire square showed a colorful and spectacular color.
Above the stands, the masters from the five sects, three clans and one pavilion also stood up one after another, with a total of ten people, including Lu Chen.
The weapon refining masters of the five sects and three clans are extremely powerful and do not need to be selected in the knockout round, but after the real competition begins, they will be treated equally. As we all know, the one who is most capable of taking the lead this time is Li Xiu of the Weapon Treasure Hall and Huang Hanchong of the Huang family. The one who is slightly weaker is undoubtedly Wu Hao. However, Lu Chen appears as a dark horse. In other words, the one who is most likely to win the title of Immortal Craftsman is the four.
Of course, Li Xiu has the highest hope, Huang Han is the next...
This has little to do with cultivation. Refining weapons requires understanding, which is different from one's own cultivation. For example, a cultivator who has used fire for many years is not as good as a master who has been sinking into the sea of weapons every moment and carefully pondering the form of weapons and the aura of weapons.
"Haha, my friend, I wish you success and a success." Wu Xingman did not cheer Wu Hao up, but instead looked at Lu Chen and said blessings.
The same is true for Emperor Huangquan. Jinghui's little eyes were filled with expectations and curiosity, and he smiled and said, "My friend, you should let me open my eyes. Otherwise, the conference will be very boring."
This sentence was extremely explicit, and if Lu Chen could not get the name of the immortal craftsman, they would just show off and it would be meaningless. And they concealed it, and the two experts in the artifact refining were even more indignant.
"That's right." Li Xiu hummed with an unhappy nose and said sarcastically: "Lu Chen, don't lose too early, otherwise Li will win, and it will be meaningless."
Lu Chen glanced at Li Xiu. He had had several contacts with this guy and had fought a battle. Lu Chen basically understood who Li Xiu was, that was the one who was so arrogant that he was the eldest and the second, and the third. He was the third. He was not convinced at first, but he was surpassed by himself in his cultivation. Li Xiu had been dissatisfied. It was obvious that he wanted to use the weapon refining conference to attack him well.
"Don't worry, you won't go down before Fellow Daoist Li." Lu Chen hit back, showing a calm smile. He said very much, but he didn't underestimate Li Xiu in his heart. After all, a person who was once as famous as Green Fight would not be much worse.
On the other hand, Huang Hanchong had a look of contempt flashed in his eyes without any concealment, contemptuous of Lu Chen and Li Xiu. When he was confident, he had more. So far, no one had seen him refining weapons because he wanted to make a big splash.
"Hmph, after refining the Qikun Sword, I thought I was invincible in the world. I don't know what it means, today I will let you see what a real immortal craftsman is and what a weapon is refining?" A harsh sentence was made, and Huang Hanchong, a Taizhou Huang family, shot into the square first. He landed on the ground, stirring up a large area of dust. Under the pressure of that momentum, the nearby monks immediately scattered far away.
Then several masters went down one after another. Lu Chen was the last one, not as arrogant as Huang Hanchong, but was like a willow catkins in the wind, standing in the square slowly and naturally. A gentle aura slowly emerged, without domineeringness or murderous intention, and only a calm and gentle style.
The two completely opposite ways of entering the venue caused a small sensation. It is not difficult to see that Huang Hanchong came with resentment and his own heart; on the contrary, Lu Chen faced his old opponent with a temperament, without showing domineeringness, and extraordinary temperament. From this point of view, Lu Chen's cultivation in his state of mind seemed to be even better than Huang Hanchong, and he was much more approachable.
The title of the God of Killing has made the devil on Lu Chen's back famous, and there are all four-level stars in the Immortal Realm, Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Huang. But today, it seems that the rumors are not entirely true. Judging from the situation, it seems that Huang Hanchong is even more hateful.
"Mind state. This state of mind is only possessed by those who are extraordinary. Not bad, not bad." Wu Xingman gently tapped the treasure chair under his seat with a crisp sound.
Zhuo Canghong was only three or four people who were watching Lu Chen. He took a casual look at the number of people and felt that it was almost done. Zhuo Canghong nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, I'll announce the first round of assessment questions."
As he said that, dozens of figures suddenly appeared on both sides of the host stage. Each of them was holding a Qiankun bag marked with the promotion number. The numbers on the small label made people wonder what Tongtian Pavilion was going to do.
Zhuo Canghong looked down and smiled slightly. Then he waved his hand. An amazing wave of air surged out like a fountain in the sleeves of the early Mahayana period. Then the monks holding the Qiankun bag released their hands one by one. The Qiankun bag marked with the number flew to the corresponding monks participating in the meeting as if they had long eyes.
Each person had a bag. Before everyone could open it, Zhuo Bufan took out a very thick high incense and inserted it into a small incense tripod. This incense was twice as much as that of ordinary incense.
Zhuo Canghong shouted: "The Eighteen Swords of Qikun that you have just refined from the earthly stone, and the Domain Ice Stone with a weight of one qian. The rule is to refine a top-grade spiritual weapon, with a time limit of one stick of incense. Start."
Without giving anyone a reaction, Zhuo Canghong lit a red light, igniting the long fragrance in Zhuo Bufan's hand...
"Wow...what the hell, how is this possible?"
The square was like a pot of boiled boiling water, and it became chaotic. More than 1,300 masters of weapon refining, nearly 99% of them were shocked.
Lu Chen was also a little surprised. This test question is not difficult anymore, more than twice as difficult as the knockout round.
The eighteen flying swords are all made of earth-black stones. Without the energy of other high-grade ores, it is already the limit to refining medium-grade spiritual weapons, and it is impossible to refine high-grade spiritual weapons. And this time there is no extra earth-black stone to replenish. It is important to know that the eighteen flying swords have been formed. If you refine another weapon, you will have to break the original magic weapon and re-melt the energy essence. If you originally broke the rules, you will not lose much. After the eighteen flying swords are completely melted, there will be no more left. Unless the fire control ability, eyesight, and spiritual sense are excellent, you can use every drop of energy most effectively. Even so, you cannot refine high-grade spiritual weapons.
Tongtian Pavilion had thought of this a long time ago, and added a monday domain ice stone to improve the quality of the magic weapon.
Lu Chen knew about the domain ice stone. It is indeed a good material for refining top-grade spiritual weapons, but it only costs one cent, which is a bit too stingy. Besides, the domain ice stone is an ore of the Ice surname, and it is especially difficult to test fire. It is another extremely difficult to melt the raw material of the broken and remelted earth-blade stone into the domain ice stone of one cent.
The two difficulties are superimposed on each other, which is at least ten times more difficult than in the knockout round.
"Fire... or fire..." Lu Chen suddenly thought of something, his frown slowly stretched, and he thought to himself: Tongtian Pavilion must have their intention to do this, constantly testing the weapon refiners' grasp of flames. Is the Nanming Immortal Fire really so powerful?
"Don't care." Lu Chen seemed to have figured out something, but he couldn't figure it out. Who knows where Tongtian Pavilion Nan Guo Gerong's intention was? No matter how long it was, I didn't have much time, so I'll pass this level first.
The idea was certain, Lu Chen didn't think about it, and was about to arouse the Black Evil Heart Fire when he suddenly heard a burst of exclamations: "What a powerful flame, there are actually four trunks..."
"call!"
Lu Chen looked in the sound, and he looked like a man, he was really colorful and colorful.
I saw several people standing in the same line with him in the field: Li Xiu, Huang Hanchong, Wu Hao, and a monk in black clothes and black hats each activated his true fire and began to melt.
These four fires have different colors. Li Xiu's fire is green and has a strong fire, which has a strong vitality.
Huang Hanchong's fire was golden, and there was a dazzling golden light on the outermost layer of the fire. Lu Chen and Huang Hanchong fought many times, but everyone only saw him using a sword, and no flames appeared. But refining weapons and fighting are two different things. It is normal for others not to use fire, but this fire is no less than Li Xiu.
Wu Hao is the Blue Fire, the unique natal true fire of the Demon Sect, and the Nine Yang Heavenly Fire.
The man in black was also very terrifying. He actually had a thunder fire. The fire was fierce and purple light soared into the sky.
The four people's natal true fire has reached the level of Nine Yang Heavenly Fire. After years of practice (8), the natal true fire will gradually change with the spiritual root surname. Therefore, it will have different colors.
The four people's natal true fire can be described in the four words "extremely harsh". It is like comparing fire to the landlord Laocai, and their medium-grade spiritual weapon magic weapon under them is compared to the farmer who rents a land. The landlord will not stop until the farmer's last bit of labor is squeezed out, and the natal true fire will never stop until the magic weapon is squeezed out, and it is filled with a breath of domineering and madness. The flying sword in the hands of the four people turned into nothingness after ten breaths, leaving only more than ten drops of pure liquid floating in front of them.
It is difficult to refine magic weapons in about two incense sticks. The first difficulty lies in smelting and purification. However, these four people almost used the blink of an eye to extract the essence of Qikun Eighteen Swords, which shows that the skill of refining weapons is very shallow.
Everyone took out all their skills to treat the game solemnly. Lu Chen certainly could not show weakness. With a shallow smile, Lu Chen's mouth showed a dimples that were so light that it was not easy to detect. With a fierce luck, a ray of outrageous black fire soared into the sky. Accompanied by the fire, Qikun's Eighteen Swords were burned into flying fire in an instant, and the essence of the magic weapon's slurry was leaping. The speed was nearly ten times faster than Li Xiu and the other four.
"Boom!" The five true fires of the life are blooming in different colors, with the same domineering aura, rushed straight to the sky, forming five huge fire clouds, and finally kicked off the long-lasting prelude to the conference...
Chapter completed!