"Everyone, be quiet!"

With Aoba's coquettish shout, the inside and outside of the square finally became quieter, "Now, please take out the jade plate and the 'Bright Stone' from your respective drawers!"

Many refiners immediately took action, opening the drawers one after another, and took out the white jade plate and a white gem the size of a fist inside.

Suddenly, on each iron table, there was a brilliant white light.

Many refiners were secretly relieved in their hearts, but there were also many refiners who secretly complained bitterly in their hearts. It is true that this "Bright Stone" is indeed not a low-grade gem that is particularly difficult to melt, but that was when there was enough time, and now, it is only a short half an hour.

"Everyone, get ready!"

Aoba raised his tone slightly, and after a slight pause, a crisp and melodious voice like a yellow warbler resounded throughout the square, "The first level of the 'Instrument Refining Competition', now...... Let's go!"

Almost as soon as her words fell, the huge hourglass under the high platform flipped over.

"Rustle!"

The loud sound of falling sand filled the void.

Aoba smiled and walked back to his seat, while in front of the thousands of iron tables, almost all the refiners quickly grabbed the "Light Stone" and closed it between their palms.

Around the square, everyone whispered, but inside the arena, the atmosphere was extremely tense.

"Hoo, hoo......"

In the faint and almost inaudible whisper, in front of dozens of iron tables, the red fire lit up, and they all urged the real fire in a very short time and manifested it outside.

Tang Huan also held the gem in both hands, but he didn't immediately urge the true fire, but turned his eyes, and the two gazes quickly scanned the surroundings.

"It's a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger!"

Seeing that cluster of flames, Tang Huan couldn't help but secretly praise, he thought that the speed at which he urged the true fire and manifested it was fast enough, but he didn't expect that there were so many people who were not much slower than him, if Tang Huan guessed correctly, among these people, I am afraid that there are still middle-level refiners.

In just a few moments, dozens of iron tables lit up with flames.

"Huh?"

Tang Huan was about to retract his gaze, but he felt something in his heart, and immediately looked towards the left front.

Dozens of meters away, there was actually a beautifully dressed young man looking at him, probably with the same idea as him, first observing the strength of the competitors.

That guy hasn't even picked up the "Bright Stone" yet.

Seeing Tang Huan's view, the young man's eyebrows were slightly raised, and his eyes showed a provocative look, and then he turned his head forward proudly, holding the "Bright Stone" with both hands.

"Whew!"

In an instant, a small flame ignited in his palm, but it immediately formed a fire and swelled into a mass the size of a basin.

At this time, the flames manifested by the many surrounding refiners were only the size of a sea bowl, but the man in the gorgeous costume was several times larger than all of them. Such a striking picture could not be seen by the people around the square, and the next moment, the exclamations echoed one after another.

"It's such a strong flame, it can't be a mid-level refiner, right?"

"That person doesn't know where he came from?"

"Becoming a mid-level refiner before the age of twenty is really promising. ”

“……”

The young man seemed to notice the movement around him, and his face turned pale.

But at that moment, a few meters behind the man, there seemed to be a sneer.

"Whew!"

On the iron table, the flame the size of a sea bowl swelled rapidly to the point of being as big as a basin, and it was not inferior to the young man's flame.

The young man looked back, his face changing slightly, his lips moving slightly, as if he had cursed.

Tang Huan also subconsciously looked over, but found that the owner of the flame was actually a tall and graceful woman in a yellow dress.

The woman looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, with beautiful facial features, a beautiful face, fair skin, long hair as red as fire, and pupils with a faint blue color, which was slightly similar to some Westerners Tang Huan had seen in his previous life.

When she looked at the young man in front of her, there seemed to be a sarcasm between her eyebrows.

Tang Huan glanced at it again, and found that it was not only the young man and the woman in the yellow dress who were full of flames, but there were already several more flames of that size. The owner of one of the flames is still a petite and delicate baby-faced girl, estimated to be fourteen or fifteen years old.

"It's time for me to start too!"

Tang Huan took a light breath, calmed down his mind, and between his thoughts, within the dantian, the "Jiuyang Divine Furnace" and the spirit wheel began to rotate at the same time, and the blazing heat shuttled through the spiritual veins with the true qi, and soon reached the palms of his palms, turning into flames, and gradually wrapping Tang Huan's palms.

Almost to the size of a sea bowl, the flames stopped growing.

This time, Tang Huan didn't make a big show like he did when he participated in the assessment of a low-level refiner in the Divine Weapon Pavilion two months ago. After all, as long as you pass this first level, you can get a low-level weapon, and it is impossible for the Divine Weapon Pavilion to reward two more because someone has performed better.

Keeping a low profile can also catch those powerful competitors off guard at key moments later.

In the distance, the richly dressed young man had a fierce flame in his palm, and the gem juice continued to drip down. After a while, he couldn't help but glance back again, his face instantly became even more ugly, and then glanced in the direction where Tang Huan was, and his expression improved a lot.

"Huh?"

On the high platform, Aoba's eyes slowly swept over the group of refiners.

After a while, Aoba was stunned, and a slight look of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes: "Why is this kid's performance not as good as it was two months ago?" But then, a smile appeared on her face, and she muttered in a low voice, "What a little slippery head, and he still knows how to hide it." ”

"Hidden?"

Mu Kui smiled, and also lowered his voice, "On the surface, it looks clumsy, but if you look closely, you will find that his flames are several times purer than they were two months ago. In the end, Mu Kui's eyes were already full of surprise that could not be concealed.

"Oh?"

Aoba's beautiful eyes widened, and after a while, he involuntarily gasped and exclaimed, "That's really the case, how the hell did this guy do it?"

If you want to make the flame pure, you must first refine the fire.

But the fire of the refiner is quite pure, and it is very difficult to refine it at all, let alone several times more pure, and the other party is only a low-level refiner, which is even more difficult to do, which is like compressing a bowl of dough into the size of a duck egg.

"Aoba Pavilion Master, Brother Mu Kui, which refiner are you talking about?" The old man on the side couldn't help but ask, he was Hai Kun, the owner of the Xinghai Weapon Shop.

"The owner will find out later. Aoba suppressed the shock in his heart and sold Guanzi.

“……”

"Master Gu Yi, Master Bexin, how is my little niece doing?"

A strong man in armor raised his hand and pointed to a delicate little girl in the crowd below, and said with a smile.

"At such a young age, the true fire is already so strong, very good, hmm, it should already be a mid-level refiner, right?" Gu Yi stroked his long beard lightly, and smiled brightly.

"With the strength of the little princess, it is more than enough to pass the third level. Bexin also smiled.

"What's the third level, this little girl is here for the leader of the 'Instrument Refining Competition'. The strong man in armor burst out laughing.

"This 'Instrument Refining Competition', not only the eldest princess of the Moyun Empire, but also the second prince of the Sharon Empire, and the little princess of our Tang Empire, such a grand occasion, in the next few decades, I am afraid it will be difficult to reproduce. Next to the strong man, another old man in armor also laughed loudly.

"Not bad. Gu Yi squinted and smiled, "Look at this time, who can win the leader of the 'Weapon Refining Competition'!"

"Needless to say, it must be the precious little princess of our Tang Empire, haha. The strong man smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into two small slits.

“……”

Gu Yi and Bexin glanced at each other and smiled noncommittally, if the low-level refiner who forged that spear was not there, this little princess of the Tang Kingdom might still be able to win the crown, if that person was there, her hope would be relatively slim, and I don't know which of the thousands of people below that little guy is?