A Demon’s Path

Following Uncle Zou's command to "start", more than 30 candidates started to move at the same time.

Seeing those blacksmiths skillfully turning on the furnace and lighting the fire, Zou Tiezhu's eyes suddenly became bright, as if a child saw his favorite toy.

Although his forging technique is good, everyone's forging technique is different, so it's definitely not wrong to learn more from others.

Blacksmithing is a mysterious profession to laymen, but to fellow practitioners, everyone's forging techniques are actually untold secrets.

Blacksmiths cherish themselves, and they don't want their skills to be learned by others, and they don't want to be surpassed in technology, so they usually don't share their forging experience with others.

If it was normal, Zou Tiezhu would not see other people forging at all, but Zou Tiezhu would not miss this rare learning opportunity today.

The twelve blacksmiths waved their hands at the same time, skillfully turned on the stove, and lit the flames. The twelve people had twelve different methods. However, their speeds were comparable, and no one could beat the other in the first round.

Zou Tiezhu was dazzled, so he could only choose one of them to observe, whose forging technique was quite different from his own.

The descendants of this aristocratic family are also surnamed Zou and surnamed Lian. They should be from a certain small family in Zoucheng, and they are more or less related to this Zou family.

I saw that this disciple of a noble family who was usually well-clothed and well-fed, had a different temperament immediately after he started forging, his expression was dignified and focused, and he did not dare to be negligent or slack in the slightest.

The flame he uses is the extinguished fire formed by his own five elements. This kind of flame is characterized by high temperature but extremely unstable. If there is no strong spiritual power and courage, it is difficult to control this flame flame.

Zou Tiezhu compared himself with Zou Lian, and he could tell that in terms of controlling the flames alone, this son of the aristocratic family should be on par with him.

After lighting the flame and heating the furnace, Zou Lian put the raw materials to be processed on the forging furnace to heat up.

"Jue Tie!" Zou Tiezhu saw what the raw material Zou Lian was processing as soon as he fired, and couldn't help but gasped.

This kind of iron ore called Jue Tie is emerald green and hard. If it wants to be melted, it will take more than an hour to burn even if it is a dead fire.

In this way, in terms of time, Zou Lian was about to lose out.

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 material on it, after fixing the raw material with a clip with one hand, he took out a forging hammer with the other hand and hammered it violently and rhythmically.

Zou Tiezhu glanced at the forging hammer and knew that he wanted to scream, so he immediately put his hand in his mouth and stuffed it.

This forging hammer is red all over, but it is made of high-quality red-trained 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 Xiao, he still can't afford it.

Zou Lian completely ignored Zou Tiezhu, who was secretly learning art, and devoted himself to forging.

"Ding... Dang... Ding... Dang..." There was a rhythmic sound of hammering, and Chilian's hammer fell on the iron stone again and again, and the originally extremely hard stone began to change shape slowly, gradually take shape.

Seeing the appearance of the embryo, Zou Lian was going to forge a treasured iron sword.

"Why didn't I expect that the embryo can actually be cast in the process of melting the raw materials, alas! Fixed thinking kills people!" Zou Tiezhu sighed while continuing to watch carefully with his eyes widened.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Zou Tiezhu's rigid thinking, forging techniques like Zou Lian are not suitable for most blacksmiths. Zou Lian owns the Fire of Nirvana and the Red Hammer, but other blacksmiths do not necessarily have it.

Another reason is that when Zou Lian swung the hammer, he concentrated several kinds of soul power to help change the embryonic form. This kind of forging technique requires extremely powerful soul power and the ability to control soul power, which is not something ordinary blacksmiths can do. of.

Of course, Zou Tiezhu can naturally do the second point, so he doesn't think this kind of forging method is so difficult, he sighs that he didn't expect to be able to 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 Xuantian Continent does not have a refining sect like the Blue Moon Realm of Yaotian Continent, each major sect has a refining branch to provide pills to the sect.

An excellent chain soul master is not necessarily an excellent alchemist, but an excellent alchemist must be an excellent chain soul master.

These guys with the strength of the green level skillfully controlled the heat, released the medicine to take the medicine residue, and refined the elixir with a high degree of concentration. However, their methods of refining medicine are almost the same, and they are much less exciting than the forging competition over there.

Among the thirteen alchemists, only Ling Xiao was the bright spot among them.

While everyone was still tossing about making a fire, Ling Xiao had already started to release the medicine; while everyone was putting out the medicine, Ling Xiao had already started to refine the dregs of the medicine and replace it with new medicinal materials.

In terms of speed, he always forcibly overwhelmed those opponents. Moreover, all the other twelve were sweating profusely, but Ling Xiao was very leisurely. Take a few sips of water.

Fortunately, those twelve opponents didn't see Ling Xiao's leisurely look, otherwise they would definitely lose control of the fire because of their madness.

After the flames tossed and tossed for more than half an hour, Ling Xiao used his iron broom to slap open the lid of the alchemy furnace without saying a word, and wisps of blue hazy light and a faint medicinal fragrance instantly spread throughout the entire hall of ten thousand people.

It only took a little over half an hour for Ling Xiao to finish his medicine refining, and sat back in his seat very comfortably, watching other people's games.

Although many people were surprised that Ling Xiao could refine a green-level pill with orange-level strength, they still thought that Ling Xiao had no chance of winning.

Because, Ling Xiao's twelve opponents are all Qing-level, and the minimum pills they refine are also Qing-level.

Of course, there is still a difference between green and green pills. Those people took longer than Ling Xiao, and they may beat Ling Xiao at any time.

And those experts have already seen that the green-grade elixir refined by Ling Xiao is just the most common green-grade bright eye pill.

The Mingmu Pill is used to treat the eyes. Although it is of a high grade, it has no other special effects. It is useless as a competition.

About a quarter of an hour later, another person finished refining the medicine.

With the earth-shattering sound of the slamming of the furnace lid, a elixir with a slightly stronger fragrance than Ling Xiao's refined elixir finally came out of the oven.

The insider looked at it and shook his head slightly. Ling Xiao, the guy who had a lot of glory in the first match, lost.

The pills refined by the people behind were better than the last one, and the last one even refined a blue-level pill, which caused everyone to be amazed.

Of these disciples who came to participate in the competition, none of them were fancy or not.

After about two hours, all the candidates finished their work and took out their results for evaluation.

Ling Xiao stood beside the pill furnace with a leisurely expression, without taking out the medicine in the pill furnace, and watched those people "drying" their pills, weapons, armor and treasures there with a smile.

Just like yesterday, a masked man carefully looked at the items on hand of these candidates and selected three of them as the winners.

The first is the Jueshi sword forged by Zou Lian, a blue-level attack weapon; the second is a blue-level treasure refined by Ouyang Xun, a candidate for the Underworld Sect—the Armor-breaking Flying Shuttle.

The third one is of course the blue-grade pill, Sansheng Zaizao Pill, which was refined by Diganmen candidate Nangong Yurong who was refining the pill with Ling Xiao.

Zou Tiezhu watched Zou Lian enter the second round of evaluation, secretly happy in his heart, but when he learned that Ling Xiao was eliminated, that kind of joy immediately disappeared.

He still hoped that his lord could achieve something, but unfortunately, his lord failed.

But seeing Ling Xiao's indifferent expression, Zou Tiezhu didn't seem like a loser should have the mood at this time, so he couldn't help but secretly wondered: 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 elapsed for the three-player competition. Finally, he judged that Ouyang Xun, a candidate from the Netherworld Sect, had an advantage in time and should win the first place.

"I declare that the winner of the third round is..."

"Wait!" Just as Uncle Zou was about to announce the winner, a voice interrupted him.

Everyone looked towards the direction where the voice 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, "Young Master Xiao, what else do you want to say?"

Ling Xiao said leisurely: "You don't even look at my treasures to make a conclusion so quickly, isn't it a bit disrespectful to me?"

Everyone couldn't help but rolled their eyes, a burst of contempt. You guys don't even dare to show the elixir you made to others, how can you respect it?

Ling Xiao knew what they were thinking, and said with a chuckle: "It's not that I don't want to take out the elixir I refined, but that the elixir I refined has just been refined. That referee brother, can you come over and have a look at it?" ?”

The masked man walked to Ling Xiao's alchemy furnace without saying a word, and looked into the alchemy furnace.

Hundreds of bright eye pills were densely placed in the alchemy furnace, and it seemed that Ling Xiao should be able to take the first place based on the number.

But this competition is not based on quantity, but on quality, so no matter how many low-level pills are refined, it is useless.

The masked man shook his head: "Young Master Xiao, are you joking?"

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 Ten Thousand People in purple!