Everyone looked on with a face of astonishnt.
It turned out that Lin Feng wasn’t being obstinate; his answer was indeed accurate and correct.
Yet the judge actually accused Lin Feng of sophistry and ruled him out of the competition.
No one doubted the words of the horse-faced elder, known as Shan Gu, who was not only a King Level Upper Grade Artifact Refiner but also the Deputy Hall Master of the Heaven and Sea Pavilion Artifact Refining Hall.
Given the stature and skill in Artifact Refining of the horse-faced elder, it was impossible for him to lie.
The face of the middle-aged judge twitched incessantly, feeling a scorching pain on his face, he sensed the mocking glares from others, as if they were laughing at his incompetence, laughing at his unfitness to judge.
The middle-aged judge unconsciously lowered his head, and in his heart, he was also secretly annoyed—if it wasn’t for Lin Feng, how could he have lost face like this!
At this mont, he couldn’t help but bear a grudge against Lin Feng!
A hint of a smile appeared on Lin Feng’s face; it seems that Heaven and Sea Pavilion still has so capable people!
This horse-faced elder deserved his status as a King Level Artifact Refiner; he truly was incomparable to others.
Following that, Lin Feng walked back; since he had passed the first round of material arguntation, of course, he couldn’t just leave like that.
A short while later, the argunt over materials continued, with a few competitors still behind Lin Feng.
However, the middle-aged judge no longer had the face to continue presiding and was replaced by another dark-skinned middle-aged man.
This dark-skinned middle-aged man, tall and burly with a slightly rough appearance, was also a Level Five Upper Grade Artifact Refiner.
"I am Zhao Quan, a Level Five Upper Grade Artifact Refiner of the Heaven and Sea Pavilion, and I will be presiding over the competition from now on. Let’s continue," the dark-skinned middle-aged man announced loudly.
Soon, the first round of material arguntation ca to an end.
The first round eliminated more than half of the participants, leaving around three thousand people.
"Now we shall proceed to the second round of the competition, Artifact Refining!"
Zhao Quan stood up and proclaid loudly: "In this round, all contestants will forge the sa weapon, a Level Five Low Grade Cold Ice Blade. As long as you can forge a Cold Ice Blade within an hour and the quality is High Grade, then you pass; otherwise, if you exceed the ti limit or the quality is poor, or the forging fails, you will be eliminated."
After hearing Zhao Quan’s words, many people’s faces grew tense; the Heaven and Sea Pavilion set quite a tricky task!
In the realm of Artifact Refining, weapons with Ice Attribute are the most difficult to forge.
As it’s well known, Artifact Refining mainly relies on flas for lting, and weapons with Ice Attribute naturally conflict with flas.
Thus, even if it’s only to forge a Level Five Low Grade Cold Ice Blade, the difficulty is no less than that of a typical Level Five Middle Grade weapon.
"Here are five hundred identical Artifact Refining Furnaces; five hundred people form a batch to begin forging, with materials provided uniformly by the Heaven and Sea Pavilion," Zhao Quan said, pointing at the hundreds of Artifact Refining Furnaces in the middle of the arena.
He then took a Storage Ring from the previously presiding middle-aged man, waved his arm, and portions of Artifact Refining Materials fell onto each of the Artifact Refining Furnaces in the center of the area.
"Begin!" Zhao Quan announced loudly.
Then, five hundred competitors imdiately stepped forward to start forging the Cold Ice Blades.
The Level Five Low Grade weapon, Cold Ice Blade, required fifty-seven types of materials, all of which had already been prepared in full by the Heaven and Sea Pavilion, giving each participant the exact sa materials.
The complicated forging began, and among the five hundred people forging in unison, so were faster than others.
Ming Yu was among the first group participating in the forging; she was the quickest, only taking slightly less than a half an hour to successfully forge her blade.
A pale blue longsword appeared in her hands; the sword, asuring over three feet long, emitted a powerful chill without any Qi Force infused, making the air around Ming Yu seem to freeze, turning the moisture in the air into tiny ice crystals, falling to the ground with a crackling sound.
Ming Yu’s expression was calm, but her eyes brimd with strong confidence; she believed that, aside from the Level Six Artifact Refiner Shan Gu, no one within the Artifact Refining Tower could surpass her in the art of Artifact Refining.
Even the judges from the Heaven and Sea Pavilion wouldn’t be able to outmatch her, at best only equal to her.
After Ming Yu’s successful forging, more and more people succeeded one after another.
But there were also many who failed in their forging, the majority due to the sa reason: the Cold Ice Attribute and the flas caused strong conflicts, causing the materials in the furnace to shatter.
The Artifact Refining competition did not grant a second chance; once failed, one would be eliminated.
Ti slowly slipped away, and one Artifact Refiner after another succeeded.
Soon, an hour passed, with over two hundred people having successfully forged their blades, several dozen eliminated, and about half still forging.
The judge Zhao Quan stood up, glanced over those who were still forging, and said, "An hour has elapsed, and all of you are eliminated."
Upon hearing this, each of those individuals revealed a bitter look; it wasn’t that their forging skills were insufficient, but that the ti given to them was too short!
One after another, the failed competitors left the field dejectedly.
Subsequently, Zhao Quan got up and walked out to the center to examine the quality of the forged Cold Ice Blades.
"High Grade quality, pass!"
After re inspection of Ming Yu’s forged Cold Ice Blade, Zhao Quan nodded in satisfaction.
"High Grade quality, pass!"
"Low Grade quality, eliminated!"
"Middle Grade quality, eliminated!"
"High Grade quality, pass!"
Zhao Quan inspected each forged Cold Ice Blade one by one, and a large number of people were eliminated.
The Heaven and Sea Pavilion’s standards were very high; only those that reached High Grade quality could pass. Even if you managed to forge successfully within the stipulated ti, if the quality of the Cold Ice Blade did not et the standard, you would still be eliminated.
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