As Uncle Zou gave the order "Start", more than thirty candidates started moving at the same time.
As soon as he saw the blacksmiths skillfully opening the furnace and lighting the fire, Zou Tiezhu's eyes suddenly became bright, like a child seeing his favorite toy.
Although his forging skills are good, everyone's forging methods are different, and it will definitely not go wrong if you learn more from other people's methods.
Blacksmith is a mysterious profession for laymen, but for those in the industry, everyone's forging techniques are actually secrets that are not passed down to others.
Blacksmiths are very precious to themselves and do not want their skills to be learned by others or to be surpassed technically, so they usually do not share their forging experience with others.
If it were normal times, Zou Tiezhu would never see other people forging. But today, Zou Tiezhu would not miss this rare learning opportunity.
The twelve blacksmiths waved their hands at the same time, skillfully turning on the stove and lighting the flame. The twelve people had twelve different methods. However, their speeds were about the same. No one could win above the first stage. who.
Zou Tiezhu was so overwhelmed that he could only choose one of the people whose forging techniques were very different from his own to observe.
The descendant of this aristocratic family also has the surname Zou and the given name Lian. He should come from a small family in Zoucheng and is more or less related to the Zou family.
I saw that as soon as this disciple of a well-dressed family started forging, his whole temperament immediately changed. His expression was dignified and focused, and he did not dare to show any signs of neglect or relaxation.
The flame he used was the fire of extinction that was transformed into the power of his own Five Elements. This kind of flame is characterized by high temperature but extremely unstable. Without strong spiritual power and courage, it would be difficult to control this kind of flame. flame.
Zou Tiezhu compared himself with Zou Lian, and he could see that in terms of controlling flames alone, this descendant of the aristocratic family should be on par with him.
After lighting the flame and lighting the furnace, Zou Lian placed the raw materials to be processed on the forging furnace to heat them.
"Jue iron." Zou Tiezhu immediately saw what the raw materials Zou Lian was processing, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
This type of iron ore, called Jue Iron, is green in color and hard in texture. If it wants to be melted, even the fire of annihilation will take more than an hour.
In this way, Zou Lian was already losing out in terms of time.
Zou Tiezhu originally wanted to switch to another player to watch, but he didn't expect that as soon as Zou Lian put the raw materials on it and fixed it with a clamp with one hand, he took out a forging hammer and hammered it violently and rhythmically with the other hand.
Zou Tiezhu took one look at the forging hammer and knew that he wanted to scream, so he immediately put his hand in his mouth to gag it.
This forging hammer is completely red, but it is made of fine red iron stone. It is a well-known hammer in the forging world. Zou Tiezhu has wanted this kind of hammer for a long time, but this kind of hammer is expensive. Even if he sells himself to Ling Xiaoye still can't afford it.
Zou Lian completely ignored Zou Tiezhu, who was studying secretly beside him, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to forging.
"Ding...dang...ding...dang..." The rhythmic sound of hammering sounded, and Chi Lian's hammer fell on the jade stone again and again. The originally extremely hard jade stone began to slowly change its shape, and gradually Forming.
Looking at the shape of the embryo, Zou Lian prepared to forge an iron sword.
"Why didn't I expect that the embryonic shape can actually be cast during the process of melting the raw materials? Alas, fixed thinking kills people." Zou Tiezhu sighed on one side, while on the other side his eyes widened and he continued to watch carefully.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on Zou Tiezhu's rigid thinking. Forging techniques like Zou Lian's are not suitable for most blacksmiths. Zou Lian has the Fire of Annihilation and the Red Hammer, but other blacksmiths may not have them.
Another reason is that when Zou Lian swung the hammer, he concentrated several kinds of soul power to help change the shape of the embryo. This kind of forging technique requires extremely powerful soul power and soul power control ability, and it is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can do. of.
Of course, Zou Tiezhu could naturally do the second point, so he didn't think this forging technique was that difficult. He lamented that he hadn't thought that he could do it like Zou Lian.
Zou Tiezhu continued to observe Zou Lian. On the other side, Ling Xiao's alchemy competition also entered a fierce stage.
Although Xuan Tian Continent does not have a medicine refining sect like the Blue Moon Realm of Yaotian Continent, every major sect has a medicine refining branch to provide pills to the sect.
An outstanding chain soul master is not necessarily an excellent alchemist, but an outstanding alchemist must be an excellent chain soul master.
These guys with youth-level strength skillfully controlled the heat, put in the medicine and collected the medicine dregs, and concentrated on refining the elixir. However, their methods of refining the elixir were almost the same, which was more exciting than the forging competition over there. The level is much different.
Among the thirteen people who refined medicine, Ling Xiao was the highlight among them.
While everyone was still fussing about making a fire, Ling Xiao had already started to put the medicine; while everyone was putting the medicine, Ling Xiao had already started to refine the medicine residue and replace it with new medicinal materials.
In terms of speed, he always outperformed those opponents. Moreover, the other twelve people were all sweating profusely. Ling Xiao was the only one who was very leisurely. He could even take out a kettle during the process of refining the medicine and easily Have a few sips of water.
Fortunately, the twelve opponents didn't see Ling Xiao's leisurely look, otherwise they would have gone crazy and lost control.
After the flames roared for more than half an hour, Ling Xiao opened the lid of the alchemy furnace with his iron broom without saying a word, and wisps of cyan hazy light and a faint scent of medicine instantly spread throughout the hall.
It only took a little more than half an hour for Ling Xiao to finish refining the medicine, and sat back in his seat very comfortably, watching the other people's competition.
Although many people were surprised that Ling Xiao was able to refine green-level elixirs with his orange-level strength, they still believed that Ling Xiao had no chance of winning.
Because all of Ling Xiao's twelve opponents were at the green level, the pills they refined were at the lowest level.
Of course, there are still differences in advantages and disadvantages between green-level and green-level elixirs. Those who have used them longer than Ling Xiao may be able to beat Ling Xiao at any time.
And those experts have already seen that the Qing-level elixir refined by Ling Xiao is just the most common Qing-level eyesight pill.
Mingmu Pill is used to treat eyes. Although it is of high grade, it has no other special effects. It is extremely useless to use it for competition purposes.
About a quarter of an hour later, another person finished refining the medicine.
With the earth-shattering sound of the furnace lid banging, an elixir that was several times richer in aroma than the elixir refined by Ling Xiao finally came out of the furnace.
The insider looked at it and shook his head gently. Ling Xiao, the guy who had great success in the first game, lost.
The elixirs refined by the people behind were better than the last, and the last one even refined a blue-level elixir, which made everyone marvel.
As expected, none of the disciples who came to participate in the competition looked at something worthless.
After about two hours, all candidates finished their work and took out their results for evaluation.
Ling Xiao stood beside the alchemy furnace with a leisurely expression, without taking out the medicine from the alchemy furnace, and smiled as he watched those people "drying" their elixirs, weapons, armors, and treasures there.
Just like yesterday, a masked man carefully looked at the items on hand of these candidates and selected three items as winners.
The first one is the jade-stone sword forged by Zou Lian, a blue-level attack weapon; the second one is the blue-level treasure refined by Ouyang Xun, a candidate of the Mingtian Sect, the armor-piercing flying shuttle.
The third item is of course the blue-level elixir, Sansheng Zaizao Pill, refined by Nangong Yurong, a candidate from the Diqian Sect who was refining the elixir with Ling Xiao.
Zou Tiezhu watched Zou Lian enter the second round of selection, and was secretly happy in his heart. But when he learned that Ling Xiao was eliminated, that joy immediately disappeared.
He still hoped that his lord could achieve something, but unfortunately, his lord failed.
But Zou Tiezhu looked at Ling Xiao's indifferent expression, which didn't look like the mood a loser should feel at this time. He couldn't help but secretly wonder: Could it be that he didn't care at all.
After the first round of screening, the masked man who was the judge looked at the time spent in the three-person competition. Finally, he decided that Ouyang Xun, the candidate from the Mingtian Sect, had the advantage in time and should win first place.
"I declare that the winner of the third round is..."
"Wait." Just when Zou Bo was about to announce the winner, a voice interrupted him.
Everyone looked together in the direction where the sound came from, and they saw the person who impressed them deeply, Xiao Lang.
Uncle Zou didn't mind Ling Xiao interrupting him and said with a slight smile: "Mr. Xiao, what else do you have to say."
Ling Xiao said leisurely: "You don't even look at my treasure and you make a conclusion so quickly. Isn't it a bit disrespectful to me?"
Everyone couldn't help but rolled their eyes with a burst of disdain. You guy didn't even dare to show the elixir you refined to others, so you said you were respectful.
Ling Xiao knew what they were thinking and said with a smile: "It's not that I don't want to take out the elixir I refined, but the elixir I refined has just been refined. Brother referee, can you come over and take a look? .”
The masked man walked to Ling Xiao's alchemy furnace without saying a word and took a look inside the furnace.
There are hundreds of Mingmu pills densely placed in the alchemy furnace. Based on the number, Ling Xiao seems to be able to take the first place.
But this competition is not based on quantity, but on quality, so it is useless to refine more low-level elixirs.
The masked man shook his head: "Mr. Xiao, are you kidding me?"
Ling Xiao chuckled and pushed the Mingmu Pills aside with a small iron rod.
Immediately, a ray of purple light burst out from the alchemy furnace, reflecting the entire hall of thousands of people in purple.