Cultivation starts from being a ghost

Chapter 323 The Competition Begins

The food and wine were served, and the four of them drank each other for a round, and then listened to Kong Ming discussing the hero spectrum, "Which one of the younger generation is the most talented in refining weapons? Spiritual root is the most suitable attribute of spiritual root for refining. His master is a master of refining. It is said that Ma Buchang became a refining master after only seven years of learning refining. Now he is only 40 years old and can produce the best in refining. It's a magic weapon, and it can be called the youngest refining master in history."

The brothers and sisters of the Su family had obviously heard of Ma Buchang's name before, and they were not surprised, but Qin Chuan was amazed. Forging is a technical job, which requires not only talent, but also continuous honing skills. Even this Ma Buchang It takes only 40 years to learn how to refine weapons from birth. The average person spends 40 years to get the name of a weapon refiner at most. You must know that although there is a difference between a refiner and a master refiner, the gap between Equivalent to the difference between a middle school student and a college student, this horse gait length is definitely a monster-level existence.

"Then according to Fellow Daoist Kong, which one is the second?"

"Hehe, fill up the wine first!"

Qin Chuan smiled, filled him with wine, and then helped the Su brothers and sisters pour it again.

"The second thing is Qi Huaishan, who is known as the six-fingered master. This person has a great advantage in refining materials, and the Qi family is a family of refining tools. Qi's treasures are all famous for being able to maximize the characteristics of materials and being good at carving. In my heart, Ou Qianyan ranks third in the list. This person..."

"Hmph, can Ou Qianyan also rank third?" Someone interrupted Kong Ming suddenly.

The four of them looked together, and it was the horse-faced young man who was speaking across the table from them.

"Oh, who do fellow daoists think ranks third?" Kong Ming said angrily.

"Of course it's my brother Duan!" The horse-faced youth pointed to the red-faced monk sitting opposite him.

"Surnamed Duan, could it be Duan Tianhong from the Artifact Sect?"

"No, it's Duan!" The red-faced young monk said proudly, obviously enjoying the feeling of being recognized, but Kong Ming's next sentence made his face look ugly, "So you are Duan Tianhong, in my opinion , you can barely rank in the top twenty!"

"Hmph, what right do you have to comment on others?"

Su Yifei who was at the side smiled, "You should have heard of the name of Kong Ming, Master of Everything, right? His level of crafting is probably higher than yours, right?"

Kong Ming waved his folding fan and said modestly, "My level of crafting is not worth mentioning, and I may not even rank in the top five!"

You also call it modest?Qin Chuan was speechless for a while, but he fell on the jade slip and saw Kong Ming's name. Not only that, the Su brothers and sisters were also among them, presumably they were all masters of refining weapons.

Duan Tianhong and the horse-faced young man were finally moved when they heard the words "Kong Ming", and wanted to come over to make friends, but they were too boastful just now, they couldn't hold back their faces, so they had to pay the bill and leave the restaurant angrily.

After a small episode, the four of them continued to talk about the score of heroes. Qin Chuan gained a lot of knowledge.

Four days later, the Artifact Refining Contest in the Northern Division officially opened. The Anxi Kingdom Lord and the branch president of the Artifact Refiner Alliance presided over the opening ceremony. The onlookers can be described as a huge crowd. More than [-] people, this number is probably more than the total number of refiners in the entire Hanhai Continent.

Qin Chuan was a little skeptical, what kind of underground fire room can accommodate more than 1000 people forging weapons at the same time, and there are so many spectators?
Soon he knew that his worries were unnecessary. The location of the refining weapon was a secret realm similar to the Vientiane space. Only twelve sub-spaces were enough to accommodate all the monks participating in the refining competition. The audience could view the competition through the crystal jade The grand occasion will not affect the performance of the contestants.

Dugu Xinyue carried out the "pre-war mobilization" for the last time, and then five people went to draw lots. Qin Chuan got No. 910 No. [-] and went to No. [-] space to compete. The other four people were also cleverly separated, and none of them were in the same group. middle.

Wang Mingchuan, the director of the Refiner's Branch and Qin Chuan's acquaintance, reiterated the rules of the competition: "Everyone young and handsome, the time for the first round of refining is set at three hours, and this round is made with designated materials. Prepared for you, what kind of magic weapon to refine depends on everyone's wishes. After the refining is over, the appraiser designated by the alliance will make a judgment. very well;
Twenty points will be awarded for refining low-grade magic weapons, and [-] points will be added for small top-grade magic weapons, which is [-] points;

Those who refine the medium-grade magic weapon will get [-] points, and the small top-grade magic weapon will add another [-] points;

Eighty points are awarded for refining a weapon into a high-grade magic weapon, and [-] points for a small top-grade weapon;

A magic weapon that has been refined to a level above the highest level gets a full score of [-].

Individuals ranked in the top [-] can enter the next round. The group ranking is determined by the sum of the total points of all contestants at the end. The alliance will determine the corresponding rewards for each sect and Xiuxian Country according to the group ranking.

Alright, now the contestants are invited to enter the ground fire space! "

Qin Chuan and others entered the teleportation barrier in front of Jingbi one by one. He accidentally found that the guy in the restaurant who called himself Duan Tianhong was in the same group as him, but the two had no friendship, so naturally there was no need to say hello.

After a slight dizziness, he entered a dark red world, the air was filled with the smell of sulfur, and a long river of lava flowed in front of him.

The lava river was divided into many partitions, and the number was marked on the stone platform in front of the partition. Qin Chuan found No. 12. At this time, the patrolling monks placed the materials prepared in advance on the stone platform.

Emery, Wannian cold iron, Wujin, Taiyin stone, and a jade box sealed with a magic seal.

Seeing these materials, Qin Chuan couldn't help taking a deep breath. Except for the contents of the jade box, which is not sure, the other four materials are the four materials mentioned in the "inside information". If the fifth material is If it is a water attribute monster pill, it can basically be concluded that the topic of this competition has really leaked out.

Opening the jade box, an icy breath came out, in stark contrast to the heat of the earth fire space.

"It's not a demon pill, it's an ice soul bead!" Qin Chuan knew it well. If it was a water-attribute demon pill, with the materials in front of him, it could be refined into a water-attribute magic weapon, or an ice-attribute magic weapon, but Now the thing in the box is the Ice Soul Orb, so the only option is to refine it into an ice attribute magic weapon, and the Ice Soul Orb belongs to the treasure of heaven, material and earth, so this magic weapon has the possibility of being refined into a top-quality magic weapon, otherwise it will last forever It can only be refined into a top-grade magic weapon.

Except for the Ice Soul Orb, the other four materials needed to be refined. Three hours was a bit tense. He had to start refining and smelting immediately. As for what kind of magic weapon to refine, he could think about it while refining.

I tried the fire-focusing formation method first, and felt that the temperature of the ground fire was a bit low. The refining of materials is related to the final success or failure of refining magic weapons. If impurities are found in the materials in the end, it is impossible to purify them again. Therefore, He took out a few fire-attribute spirit stones, crushed them and threw them into the ground fire to increase the temperature of the ground fire.

Wannian cold iron is the main material, so he was the first to smelt it. The melting point of this metal is similar to that of ordinary black iron. The current temperature of the ground fire is enough for it. This sand is mainly to increase the hardness of the magic weapon.

People participating in the competition are busy and have no time to pay attention to other things, while the audience watches the progress of the competition through Jingbi.

"Senior Wang, brother Qin just crushed the spirit stone and threw it into the ground fire to increase the temperature of the ground fire?" Dugu Xinyue asked suddenly.

Wang Yiyuan nodded, "That's right, all experienced craftsmen understand this, but your nephew didn't do this, when the material is not purified enough, even if the crafting is successful, the quality of the magic weapon is not high! "

Dugu Xinyue said indifferently: "I didn't have high hopes for him in the first place, I just let him come to see the world. It's not like you don't know how he got his qualification as a craftsman!"

Of course Wang Yiyuan knew it well, because it was through his back door, and he didn't want to get entangled in this topic, so he pointed to the No. [-] ground fire space, "Look at the guy who used the purple fire, he took advantage of the smelting stage with this skill, As long as you don’t make mistakes later on, you will definitely be able to enter the next round!”

"I've heard of him. It seems his name is Qi Huaishan. It is said that his hands have six fingers!"

"Hehe, I've heard the nickname of the Six-fingered Master before!"

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The purification and smelting process took the most time. The refiner who possessed the spiritual fire undoubtedly took advantage of this. Among them, Qi Huaishan was the fastest. It only took more than half an hour to complete the purification of the four materials, and then Start profiling materials.

When he took out a small balance, Dugu Xinyue and Wang Yiyuan looked at each other in unison, and they both saw each other's depression. This should have been the "killer weapon" of the five contestants from the Black Mountain Empire. It's no secret anymore!

An hour later, Qin Chuan also began to smelt the materials in proportion, and so far he still has an advantage over most of the contestants, but the smelting method he adopted was beyond everyone's expectations. He did not put all the materials in one go. Together, it is divided into several equal parts and smelted separately.

There are many masters and master-level figures present in the Artifact Masters Alliance. Seeing this situation, they can't help but shine. The benefits of doing this are extremely obvious. It can greatly reduce the difficulty of smelting, because the greater the amount of materials, the greater the difficulty of smelting.

Wang Yiyuan couldn't help being amazed, and even Wang Mingchuan came over, "Brother Wang, you have produced a real talent under your control this time. This small improvement has greatly reduced the difficulty of refining weapons. You How come no one thought of this before?"

"Hehe, we old fellows are all mentally rigid, and Kid Qin has more abilities than that!" Wang Yiyuan smiled mysteriously, and said no more.

While Qin Chuan was still smelting, the first magic weapon of the Artifact Refining Competition had been successfully produced, it was made by the six-fingered master Qi Huaishan. At this time, half of the stipulated time had passed.

In order to save time, the Alliance of Artifact Refiners ordered the patrolling monks to take the newly refined flying knives to the appraisal table and hand them over to five appraisers for appraisal.

After Wang Mingchuan obtained the appraisal result from the appraiser, he announced on the spot, "This Ice Soul Throwing Knife made by the No. 230 No. [-] refiner, Qi Huaishan, is of high quality and beautiful shape. It gets [-] points!"

In all fairness, just talking about the appearance of this magic weapon, it can be sold at a higher price than ordinary top-grade magic weapons. It doesn't matter if it looks too bad, so Qi Huaishan suffered a bit, and from his expression, he knew that he was not satisfied with the result.

The first talisman was the top-grade talisman, which caused a commotion in the audience. Some people even bid to buy it on the spot, but because the materials came from Anxi State, the organizer, how to deal with these talismans was decided by Anxi State in principle.

The head of the Anxi Kingdom's business alliance also knew how to make fun of it. He announced that there would be an auction after the first round of competition. Much higher.

I don't know if the booing played a role, but the first failed crafting work also appeared. A monk in No. [-] Earth Fire space refined a flying sword. When he input mana to test, the flying sword It broke by itself.

There are many factors that cause this situation, but the most common one is incomplete smelting, or the purity of the material is not enough. If it is the first case, there is still a way to remedy it. After all, there is still more than one hour available, and it is time to carry out the second smelting , if it is the second type, it will be completely useless.

The craftsman could only bet on the first situation, so he immediately smashed the magic weapon into pieces for a second smelting.

As time went by, people successively completed the refining of magic weapons, and then these magic weapons were handed over to appraisers for on-site appraisal.

The speed of magic weapon refining is fast, which in itself shows that the refiner is highly proficient. The continuous appearance of more than a dozen small top-grade magic weapons and low-grade magic weapons proves this.

Of course, there were also many failures. Because of time constraints, it was too late for the second smelting, so they were completely useless.

With the appearance of the second top-grade magic weapon, the first climax of the competition came. The creator of this magic weapon was Kong Ming, a new friend Qin Chuan had just met. His magic weapon, in addition to the icy effect when attacking , as well as the "flare" effect, which can unexpectedly affect people's vision. It was unanimously rated as the best of the top-rank magic weapons, and won the first high score of [-].

Seeing how he greeted the audience frequently, many craftsmen were not angry, but they had to endure it because their skills were not as good as others.

There are good ones, but naturally there are bad ones. Following Wang Mingchuan's announcement of the appearance of the first top-grade magic weapon, Dugu Xinyue had the urge to be ashamed to see others, and used the spiritual materials for refining top-grade magic weapons to refine the top-grade magic weapon. Weapons, this is not an honor but a shame, and it is even worse than simply refining and scrapping.

"Tsk tsk, Dugu Xinyue, you're not a bad nephew!" A handsome young man in a golden robe sneered.

"Lu Yu, you don't have to be complacent, the craftsman in Fengxian Kingdom just made a low-grade magic weapon of extremely poor quality!"

"Poor quality is also a magic weapon. It's better than not being popular, right?"

But at this time, another magic weapon was appraised. When Wang Mingchuan announced that the magic weapon was a middle-grade magic weapon, the young man in the golden robe laughed loudly, "Dugu Xinyue, have you nothing to say this time?"

Dugu Xinyue's face was extremely ugly, but when she saw that two monks in the No. [-] space had finished refining, and one of them was Qin Chuan, she couldn't help but be full of anticipation...
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The condition is too bad, just make do with it!

(End of this chapter)