Yuan Ji took Qi Yue and Qi Ying to an underground palace room, and the heat wave in the palace was even more unbearable, and from time to time there were loud shouts.

Qi Yue looked around, the underground palace area was very large, and there was a cylindrical furnace in the center. The furnace was three feet in diameter, and the surface was carved with black runes, which had been burned red.

The lower end of the furnace is connected to the earth, and the top passes through the canopy, leading to the second floor of the refining hall.

At the same time, there were young middle-aged men around, wielding the hammer in their hands and hammering the weapons in their hands fiercely.

Burned red, hammered a thousand times and then immersed in a tank of cold water, they sneered and evaporated white smoke. Then it is placed in a small furnace next to it to continue calcining, and then continue to hammer with an iron hammer, dip it into a water tank, and quench it repeatedly.

Qi Yue's eyes lit up, the Xuan power of these craftsmen was all above the five layers of quenching, they were all wearing vests, almost naked upper bodies, sweating like rain at the moment, and shouting endlessly.

"Temper and weed out the dross. Qi Yue sighed.

Yuan Ji glanced at Qi Yue unexpectedly, and snorted: "It seems that the children of the family are not all waste, they are quite knowledgeable. However, if you want to become a qualified refiner apprentice, you must pass three tests, the first of which is to temper the simplest yellow-level weapon three thousand times, and temper it three times in cold water. ”

"Temper three thousand times?" Qi Ying frowned, and began to curse Yuan Ji secretly in her heart.

This Master Yuan had a strange personality and said impatiently: "As long as the two of you can temper three thousand times in half an hour, even if you pass the first assessment, of course, the shorter the time, the better." Just pass the assessment, and if you fail, I'll get out! Ah Yong Ah Hui, you two count for them, and I'll go to bed first. ”

After speaking, Yuan Ji ignored everyone and went straight to sleep.

"Yes. The two sturdy men saluted respectfully, handed the hammer to Qi Yue and Qi Ying respectively, and said angrily: "Come on, start now, don't delay time." ”

"A group of turtles, a puppet ......" Qi Ying scolded secretly in her heart, the hammer was stained with sweat, and the room was full of big men, almost naked, staring at her, which made her extremely uncomfortable.

Qi Yue took the hammer with a look of anticipation.

He only has fivefold Xuan power, but with the help of black Xuan power, qi and blood retrograde, plus all these years of desperate refining of the body, the Xuan power that has erupted is even close to the ninth.

He was eager to give it a try, but how far could he go?

The two of them began to temper almost at the same time, wielding the sledgehammer in their hands vigorously, and constantly striking the sword on the boulder with both hands.

The boulder was so hard that the hammer could not be damaged in the slightest.

"Bell! bell!"

The sound of the hammer smashing kept coming out, and Qi Yue couldn't stop mobilizing the black Xuan Force to hammer it, and he felt very enjoyable, and gradually Qi Yue had a trace of enlightenment.

Every time the hammer rammed down, it would be gently bounced up by the boulder, and Qi Yue could use this rebound force to twist his waist, exert force with his legs, and quickly move the hammer to continue ramming.

In this way, a cycle is formed, saving time and effort.

When the craftsmen saw this scene, they looked at them with appreciation.

On the other hand, Qi Ying, because her clothes are in the way, and she dislikes the dirt around her, she thinks too much, and her shots are slower and slower each time, and she is more tired every time.

Qi Ying barely finished tempering a thousand times, and Qi Yue had already finished two thousand times here.

In the end, in the surprised eyes of everyone, Qi Yue only took half an hour to complete the first assessment, while Qi Ying was flustered and desperately wielded the hammer, tired and half dead, which was barely over.

After Yuan Ji learned the results, he looked at Qi Yue's eyes and then took the two of them to the first floor of the main hall.

Yuan Ji said: "The second test is the knowledge of refining, I plan to refine two yellow-level medium-grade medium-sized battle swords, which require eight kinds of materials, and there are two material halls here, and the materials are the same." The list of materials is hung on the wall of the material hall, and it will be taken within a quarter of an hour, and the type of portion must not be wrong, otherwise get out. ”

Then Qi Yue came to the material hall on the left side and looked at the list.

"Two catties of malachite, eight catties of furnace carbonite, three catties of obsidian, one catty of red blood sand, six catties of dark iron ......"

Qi Yue walked into the hall and pondered: "Only the Red Blood Sand and Xuantie are expensive, and the other six materials are not expensive, it seems that the grade of this battle sword will not be too high." ”

Qi Yue sneered, Yuan Ji, as a refiner, was somewhat suspected of cutting corners and coping with things, a yellow-level medium-grade medium-sized battle sword could even be sold for a hundred taels of silver.

And the cost is estimated to be only fifty taels, which is doubled.

"It's so dark!"

Qi Yue's eyes were hot, the refiner was indeed a rich profession, if he could become a first-level refiner, he would not live as poor as he did now.

Qi Yue had already read a lot of classics about refiners, and he had also learned a little about various materials, so he quickly found all the materials and weighed them.

Half an hour later, Qi Yue returned to the hall, Yuan Ji checked it slightly, and found that the type of material was accurate, and the deviation in the weight was very small, and Qi Yue was very surprised.

And Qi Ying didn't come out for a long time.

A quarter of an hour later, Yuan Ji frowned and looked at Qi Ying's materials, and said impatiently: "Girl, you failed to pass the assessment, your tempering speed is so slow, and you are so careless in treating the weight of materials, if you use your materials to refine your tools, you will already become scrap iron! Your refining ability is not as good as this Qi Yue, you can get out." ”

"What? I obviously came out in a quarter of an hour!" Qi Ying said unconvinced: "Why can he pass! I don't accept it! You are not fair!"

"How dare you provoke Master Ben?"

Yuan Ji glared, pointed at Qi Ying and scolded: "Girl, you are a little female disciple of the family, how dare you question what I said? Don't say it's you, even if it's your family master Qi Yunshan, you have to be respectful when you see this master, what kind of thing are you! This is not your Qi family, if you don't get out of here, the weapons refined by this master will not be sold to the Qi family in the future!"

Qi Ying was scolded so much that she was completely dumbfounded.

Since she was a child, she has been the pearl of the Qi family, her appearance and figure are incomparable, her parents are spoiled, and the children of the family compete for love, she can't look down on her.

Because of this, she thinks that she is naturally delicate and superior, and she cannot bear any grievances.

But today, she was scolded all the time!

She thought that she was of noble birth and had a talent for refining, so she would definitely be valued by the refiner.

Unexpectedly, the person who was delusional and embarrassed the Qi family was not Qi Yue, but herself! She actually failed to pass the assessment.

On the other hand, Qi Yue, the cousin she had always looked down on, the waste in the family's mouth, actually shined in the Tiangong Mansion, his forging ability was twice as strong as her, and his refining knowledge was also better than herself.

This made Qi Ying in a trance, is this still the same person compared to Qi Yue in the past?

Qi Ying felt that her cheeks were hot, and she felt remorse in her heart.

Just before, she looked down on Qi Yue, thinking that he would definitely be eliminated, and the person who became the refiner's apprentice must be herself.

But as soon as those words came out, it made her even more ashamed, ashamed and remorseful.

Qi Ying peeked at Qi Yue with some frustration, thinking that Qi Yue must be gloating at the moment, and the villain was victorious, secretly rejoicing.

However, Qi Yue's face was expressionless, he didn't even look at her, his eyes were focused on the refining materials, as if she didn't exist from beginning to end, and she was not worthy of Qi Yue's ridicule at all.

Qi Ying's face became even more sad, and her heart was full of remorse and guilt for Qi Yue, full of apologies.