After two inspections, the Qin Heavenly Prison went down, and it took almost ten breaths for Silver Dust to announce the start of the game.

Each contestant was sandwiched between the two Imperial Forest Army men, and was sent to the designated position as if escorting a prisoner, before that, their position was determined by lot, and that lottery was made by Qin Tianjian's people, and there were not many opportunities to reverse the means.

The Iron Mountain Conference could not be completed in a day, and the forging masters who came from all over the country and even from all over the world, after a months-long audition, there were still two thousand people left, four hundred people at a time, and even if there was an extra day, it would only be five games. Today was delayed for half a day, so there were only two pitiful ones, from the afternoon until the sun set.

These four hundred people are all young people, probably about the same age as Wan Jianxin, and there are also some older ones, they all participate in the competition of the Treasure Dao, obviously the best among the young generation of forging masters in the whole world, Yinchen heard the old forging master say that the audition is actually very cruel.

The first Iron Mountain competition was the casting of a rather complex combination, or the core components of an automatic self-striking clock, including a chronograph core, a dial, and a pendulum. At the same time that the people of Qin Tianjian handed out the drawings, the judges also got a large drawing that was magnified many times. The old forger diligently ordered the two apprentices to unfold the drawings, and he pulled the silver dust to look over little by little, and the silver dust just swept it with his eyes, and knew that it was actually an enlarged version of a Western pocket watch.

The Seventh Dynasty is not the Manchu Qing Dynasty that was killed that day, there is no closed country, and there is a need to create divine soldiers, so the self-striking bell is naturally made, but without the crooked nuts of the "strange skills", the appearance, function, and accuracy of the self-striking bell are all backward, and the domestic self-striking bell is still only a sought-after commodity for the middle and lower class people.

"Will this gear be made of 'Wind Iron'?" Yinchen pointed to a key position in the drawing, where a gear is drawn, throughout the whole picture, you can find that the quality of the gear almost determines the quality of the whole clock, the gear is not round, the teeth are uneven, the clock will be faster for a while, slow for a while, seriously affect the final time accuracy, and this gear is in the most frequent stress position, Shuofeng iron is only several times better than the crucible steel, I am afraid that it will not take long, it will be deformed Shuofeng Iron toughness and tensile strength are very good, but the yield strength is still very miserable。

"My lord has good eyesight!" The old forging master flattered: "This gear, the better one should be made of ten thousand copper Xuanjing, and the almost one should be made of thunder light iron, this time the Iron Mountain Meeting, with Shuofeng iron, is actually the same as the interception question of the liberal arts imperial examination, depending on everyone's ability......"

"Got it. Yinchen's face was expressionless, and his gaze moved to the venue again, he knew that if such a key thing was made with Shuofeng Iron, then the quality of the whole work would not be good, at most it would be just a low grade, and it was likely that there were many people who could not make gears within the specified time, and they were directly reduced to zero.

"Did you make more than 100 grades in previous years?" asked Yinchen casually.

"Yes, but not much, basically they can fight within a hundred. Five or six hundred, I can enter the top ten, and the last Iron Mountain Conference, the best result was eight hundred and thirty-two. ”

"What time in the first year?"

"No, it was in the thirty-ninth year of Renyi, and the first year was actually called the Little Iron Club, which was organized by the people, and there was only one competition, mainly for lion dance and chess entertainment. The old blacksmith explained: "That kind of small meeting, if you can produce dozens of things, you can make people talk about it for a while, and it is not strictly checked, and cheating occurs from time to time......"

"What's the matter!" Yinchen listened to the old blacksmith's small talk, and suddenly narrowed his eyes, and his tone became cold. The silver pupils suddenly shone with a lot of golden crosshairs, he raised his hand and sent out a lightsaber, and then reached out and held it in the air, the lightsaber went straight down, fell into the river of golden water, disappeared, and then there were invisible ripples in the air.

Radiant rain, synthesizing space-time.

The space seemed to be abruptly closer, and Silver Dust's gaze almost ignored the space, falling directly on the square table marked 141. At a certain moment just now, a trace of blue-yellow metal reflection flickered in Silver Dust's field of vision, causing him to be alert. At this time, almost all the blacksmiths were still dealing with the huge and cold iron ore, and the silvery-white reflection was endless, and there should be no other color reflection.

When he zoomed in, he realized that there was a thin layer of sand standing on the surface of the iron ore, as if it had not been cleaned.

That's not ordinary sand, how can you not know the silver dust who is proficient in forging, it is the "Thunder Demon Silver" that is repeatedly emphasized in the "Remnant Soul Sutra" that must be grabbed, under the same quality, the price of the Thunder Magic Silver is about 1.22 million times that of ordinary iron ore.

Thunder Magic Silver, a rare mineral that changes the composition and properties of ores, is like a magical solution in minerals, which can completely turn Shuofeng Iron into a substance as hard as Ten Thousand Copper Xuanjing, and there are even legends that this kind of thing can turn stones into gold.

Of course, Thunder Demon Silver is much more expensive than gold.

"What's wrong?" Before the old forger could react, he saw the Master Divine Master turn over and jump down from the castle tower, the fantasy wings on the pendant emitted a ghostly light, and behind the silver-colored figure, a pair of bright white wings were spread.

Silver Dust flew down, and at this time, some people in the Royal Guards also sensed that something was wrong, raised their shield hammers, and rushed towards Table 141.

"Stop, how can you have this stuff on that ore?" Silver Dust sped up in front of the man, and the man's body trembled violently, and he fell to his knees with a plop.

"The big ones spare their lives! the little ones don't know ......."

"Presumptuous! The Lord Commander is here in person, what else do you have to quibble? Don't you know that the fact that the adults of Qin Tianjian have drawn a charge on the inspection ticket means that there will never be a problem with everything here? What kind of thing are you, you dare to suspect Qin Tianjian coming?" At this time, a captain of the Imperial Forest Military Academy and a group of people had already rushed here and surrounded the No. 141 contestant.

"Your Excellency...... The little one is really wronged......"

"What kind of person framed you and would use the Thunder Demon Silver?" Yinchen wiped the sand-like powder on the surface of the ore with his index finger: "The adults of Qin Tianjian should know that these ores have been carefully washed, right?"

"Your Excellency, before the ore is delivered, it must be soaked in water for three days, and then it must be washed with a lot of water, and even ordinary sand cannot be stained at all. The captain arched his hand and said: "What's more, the thunder demon silver"

"Not an associated mine of iron at all. The silver dust stopped, turned around, and waved his hand, the meaning was very clear.

"Your Majesty's life, Your Excellency's life, Your Excellency's life!" the contestant kowtowed like pounding garlic, but he was still dragged down by the Imperial Guards to a small house on the edge of the square.

A quarter of an hour later, Jasven, the servant of the Criminal Department, said to Yinchen, who had returned to the city tower: "My lord, the interrogation has come out, that person is a blacksmith from the town of Three Pages in the occupied area, and occasionally obtained the Thunder Demon Silver, which took a year of hard work to grind into fine powder."

"You have to deal with it. Yinchen's expression was very indifferent: "I think he is not the last person today."

As he was talking, as if to verify his words, two more people cried and struggled, and were dragged down by the Royal Guards, and tables 121 and 343 were also empty.

"People die for money, my lord! this bonus is enough to buy a big mansion in a nearby city!" Jasven sighed.

Yinchen shook his head, "Do you want to be executed in public?" This sentence came to his lips and was swallowed back by him.

However, the copper pillar of the cannon was finally erected outside the noon gate, and the heart-rending scream, like a whole sheep roasted at a bonfire party, actually made the originally somewhat dull atmosphere warm.

Man, after all, is a sacrificial animal.

Time passed minute by minute, the number of people in the square did not decrease, but more and more, Yinchen knew that those people were rushing to see the results, the players were clanging, sweating hard work They were not interested, only focused on the final result, according to the experience of the previous Iron Mountain Club, only the best grade could ensure that they entered the final competition. The middle grade, but the accompanying list, the lower grade, that is basically an ending that is placed in the display cabinet to comfort it.

After waiting for an hour, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites shouted: "It's time!" Then I saw several teams of Imperial Guards coming up, throwing ice cubes into the furnace, while driving the still busy forging master down brutally, nearly 400 people, more than 150 people have been forged, and in which of the works are marked with their names, some of these people sit there in a daze, and the other part is engraved on the surface of the finished product Some verses, patterns or something, waiting for the sound of "time is up" When it reached his ears, he calmly placed the finished product respectfully in the center of the square, cleaned it up briefly, bowed to the stove, and Shi Shiran went down, walking very chicly. Yinchen looked at the top of the city tower, nodded and said, "These more than 100 people have good means, they should be able to be shortlisted." ”

"My lord, I only took more than 100 finished products for the results. The old forging master respectfully explained on the side: "Although the Feng Shui Silence Technique is just a Juyuan Formula, it also consumes a lot of materials, how can it be used by everyone? ”

"It's really strict. ”

"That is, although there are few forging masters in the world, how can there be hundreds of thousands of people, and a hundred people are selected from hundreds of thousands of people, so of course the competition is fierce, and the proportion of layoffs is also very high. ”

Soon, the venue was emptied, and the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army rearranged the arena with all hands and feet, and Yinchen and the old forgers carefully studied the more than 100 works presented, and the rest that were not completed were thrown into the bamboo basket, which was probably to be disposed of. In the official Iron Mountain Conference, semi-finished products and waste products will be scrapped, while in the private Iron Mountain Conference, semi-finished products will be sold to the blacksmith's apprentices for study, or returned to the forger to take back for further improvement.

"That's good. One of the judges pointed to work No. 175: "Exquisite workmanship"

"It's just that the surface of the donkey dung eggs is shiny. Silver Dust conjured a small porcelain bottle, took some arcane magic liquid, dipped it in a cotton swab and applied it to the work, and then chanted the spell, three seconds later, a purple aura lit up, and the whole work became translucent, and you can see the relatively complex structure inside, only to see that on the key gear, the subtle cracks are extremely clear.

The forgers let out a low almost, and several judges joined hands to condense the gathering yuan style of Feng Shui Silence Technique, and a timid wind converged, blowing up and down several times like a scanner, and then it rose into the air, condensed into a character in front of all the judges, and dissipated after three or five seconds.

"Ninth class. "At this time, the clerk had already recorded the results.

The forges sighed. There is no room for the inferior divine soldiers to survive in this kind of conference.

Next, the old forgers are not superstitious about their eyesight, the finished products one by one with the polyyuan type test, 173 works, out of the top two pieces, more than 60 pieces, the rest are the next grade, the results were announced at the time, the audience below heard the two pieces of the top grade out, all cheered.

In his opinion, these so-called entries are not as good as the handmade gadgets sold on the roadside stalls in his hometown, there are cracks, dark wounds, cavitation on the core gears, peeling, this kind of thing, it is unbearable.

Moreover, within an hour, none of these contestants actually smelted iron ore into Shuofeng iron, all of them were inferior soft iron, and Yinchen didn't know if they were in a hurry, or didn't know how to forge Shuofeng iron at all?

The material is the most critical element, and it can even be said that the material is directly equivalent to the grade.

"Uncle. Silver Dust instructed the old blacksmith, "Go and bring those scraps and find a way to test the material." ”

"Why is this so, my lord?" the old smith didn't quite understand: "Those things ......"

"I'm worried that some people have made Shuofeng Iron, but they haven't forged it, so it's obsolete. Together, the materials account for the best of the best, and we can't abandon the basics because of the judging criteria. ”

"My lord, don't you know that Shuofeng iron is not forged by time at all, but by fire? As soon as the fire arrives, it will be fine immediately, and there is a lot of time to process and shape it later, and the skilled spirit forger can be forged in less than a quarter of an hour, and the soft iron, it happens to be a poor grasp of the fire, repeatedly forging, and there is no high-grade material mixed in, one wrong step to become like this, is it even ...... this one?" At this time, another judge objected, and the judge's eyes were also full of doubts and even a little jealousy.