"Two days ago, Lao Li also told me about the current situation of the Shangyang City branch, although there are many third-order and fourth-order smelters, most of the smelters below twenty are only at the level of the first order, and most of the second-order smelters are over twenty years old, and there are only a handful of them!" Fang Yu said worriedly. br />

"How can it be so little!" said Hei Kai, who was also taken aback.

"Young, Lao Hei, you don't want to think about it, over the years, our Shangyang City branch has always been at the bottom of the three divisions in the Southern Regions, and the resources we have obtained are also the least among the three branches, which of those who can reach the second-order smelter before twenty has no talent and no teacher? Which branch do you think they will choose?" Fang Yu rolled his eyes and said, "If nothing else, it's you, Lao Hei, didn't you become a second-order smelter at the age of twenty-two!"

Hearing this, Hei Kai nodded silently, indeed, like an alchemist, the promotion path of a smelter requires not only talent, but also resources. A second-order smelter before the age of twenty, if there is no resource support behind him, it is indeed more difficult to achieve, not to mention that the smelter itself also needs the martial arts realm, and cultivation will take up most of the time, so talented smelters will generally choose a branch with more resources, and the Shangyang City branch obviously does not have an advantage in this regard.

"That's right!" After a moment of silence, Fang Yu suddenly raised his head and said, "Old Hei, I remember that your granddaughter seems to have passed the certification assessment of a second-order smelter, right? She should only be sixteen years old this year, this talent is much stronger than you and me back then!"

"Where and where, it's hard to say if you can pass it!And this little girl has been spoiled by his parents since she was a child, and her temper is not very good!" Although Hei Kai shook his head and said that his granddaughter was not, his words revealed his love for his granddaughter, which made Fang Yu, who had been with Hei Kai for almost ten years, smile helplessly.

"Then in that case, let's settle on your granddaughter first! I'm looking for the others in the registration list to see if there are any suitable candidates, and you've been paying more attention to some new young people recently, and trying to find a way to get five second-order smelters under the age of twenty!"

"Okay! Anyway, there are still two months before the agreed date, which is enough for us to figure out a way!" Hei Kai also nodded and said.

"This little brother, do you need anything to come here?"

As soon as Lin Liang walked into the hall with the sign of the assessment office, a sweet voice came from the side. Lin Liang turned his head and saw a girl looking at him curiously, and hurriedly said, "Ah, what, I'm here to participate in the certification assessment of the second-order smelter!"

As soon as the words fell, a familiar voice came from a distance, and I saw the beautiful figure I met before, that is, Wu Xiu'er looked at it from not far away, and said sarcastically to the people around her: "Yo, I didn't expect this soil bun to really come to participate in the assessment, and I don't look at how many catties and taels I have!"

Hearing this, the people around him also kept looking at Lin Liang and echoing Wu Xiu'er's words, and the atmosphere instantly fell into embarrassment. At this time, the girl who asked before handed Lin Liang a form and said, "This is a form that must be filled out to participate in the certification assessment, you can register and fill it out first!"

Lin Liang took the form, handed the girl a grateful smile, and began to fill in the form that the girl handed him, and after a while, after the form was completed, Lin Liang handed the completed form back to the girl.

"Lin Liang, eighteen years old, born in the Birth and Destruction Sect?" The girl muttered the information Lin Liang filled in on the form, and said with a smile: "So your name is Lin Liang?" Lin Liang nodded, and the girl continued to look down, and when she saw the empty certification process column on Lin Liang's form, she couldn't help frowning, and raised her head and asked, "Haven't you been certified as a first-order smelter?"

"No, this is my first time in the Instrument Alliance. Lin Liang shook his head and replied frankly.

"Then it's a bit of a problem!" muttered the girl.

"Hahaha, I'm really going to laugh to death, a soil bun that hasn't even been certified as a first-order smelter actually wants to directly participate in the certification of a second-order smelter, it's really worthy of a soil bun!" Wu Xiu'er, who heard Lin Liang's answer, laughed uncontrollably, leaning forward and backwards with laughter, unable to stop.

"Is there any problem?" Ignoring Wu Xiu'er's taunt, Lin Liang frowned and asked the girl.

"It's not a big problem, but it's really a bit troublesome!" the girl glanced at Wu Xiu'er, who was laughing irrepressibly, and said, "Because in the regulations of the Instrument Alliance, to participate in the first-order smelter certification examination, you must first pass the first-order smelter certification assessment, which means that if you want to participate in the second-order smelter certification assessment, you must first have the first-order smelter certification qualifications! Didn't your elders tell you about these before you came?"

"No, my uncle only called the Shangyang City Instrument League Branch to participate in the certification assessment of the smelter. Hearing this, Lin Liang shook his head, then frowned and said, "That means that I am going to take the certification assessment of a first-order smelter first?"

"Yes. The girl nodded, but said with some hesitation: "But this kind of smelter certification assessment is carried out for a fixed period of time every year, and now it is this year's second-order smelter assessment, and you have to wait for another half a year to participate in the first-order smelter assessment!"

"In other words, the next time I participate in the second-order smelter, it will be a year later?" Lin Liang shook his head and said, "I don't have so much time!"

The girl was about to speak, but a calm voice sounded in the hall: "Have all the people who participated in the second-order smelter certification assessment here today?"

When everyone's eyes looked, they saw a middle-aged man dressed in a smelter's robe appear in front of everyone, and under the small hammer symbol representing the identity of the smelter, four gold stars were marked, indicating that the person in front of everyone was a real fourth-order smelter!

"Let me introduce myself first, my name is Li De. Looking at the dozen or so people in the hall, although he was a little puzzled by Lin Liang, who was standing a little far away, Li De still spoke: "I am a fourth-order smelter, and I am also the person in charge of this year's second-order smelter certification assessment......

Li De's words were interrupted by Wu Xiu'er before he finished speaking, only to see Wu Xiu'er walking up to Li De with a smile, and called sweetly: "Uncle Li, I knew that you were in charge of ...... this year" As he spoke, he suddenly lowered his voice and kept pointing at Lin Liang, who was standing in the distance.

Li De, who listened to Wu Xiu'er's words, showed a wry smile on his face, he was also very clear about Wu Xiu'er's temper, his own talent was really good, and he was the granddaughter of Master Heikai, but he was too willful. But fortunately, this time the incident can be regarded as the past, and when he looked at Lin Liang in the distance, he suddenly saw the eyes of the girl behind Lin Liang.

Li De was stunned at the time, but then thought about it and said, "What, the last one, are you here to participate in the certification assessment of the second-order smelter?"

"Yes!" Lin Liang replied respectfully, "But it's the first time I've come to the branch of the Instrument Alliance, and I don't know that I have to pass the certification assessment of a first-order smelter before participating in the certification assessment of a second-order smelter, so I ......"

"Okay, don't bother, for the sake of your first time, anyway, there is still time now, come with me to participate in the certification assessment of the first-order smelter first!" Saying that, Li De beckoned to Lin Liang and said to everyone in the hall: "You wait for a while, and the certification assessment will start immediately!"

Wu Xiu'er, who was about to see Lin Liang being kicked out of the hall, was stunned, and looked back at Li De in disbelief, but Li De had already turned around and walked towards the depths of the assessment office.

"Hmph, I didn't expect you to come here!Master Lin!" When Lin Liang's figure disappeared in front of everyone, the original girl stomped her foot and said angrily, and turned to walk out.

"By the way, who is your master?" Li De asked casually as he walked through the passage.

"Oh, my senior uncle is the Huo Xing Huo Elder of the Life and Destruction Sect!" Lin Liang thought about it, but still didn't say anything about the old man, after all, his own ability was also from the Huo Xing Sect.

"Huo Xing, where have you heard this name?" Li De stopped suddenly, muttered to himself suspiciously, and instead pointed to a door on the side and said, "Go in, this is the certification assessment of the first-order smelter, and there will be results in the time of a stick of incense, I will wait for you outside." ”

Lin Liang nodded, pushed open the door and walked in, leaving Li De alone outside the door thinking suspiciously: "Huo Xing, where did you hear this name?"

In the hall, after Li De left, a third-order smelter came to continue to preside over the certification assessment of the second-order smelter, and the others had already gone to participate in the assessment, leaving Wu Xiu'er waiting in the hall alone, and he had told Li De about the situation before, but Li De actually took him to participate in the certification assessment of the first-order smelter, which made her feel that her face had plummeted, and she wanted to see if the dirt bun could pass the first-order certification assessment.

After a while, the figures of Li De and Lin Liang reappeared in the hall, and when they saw that Wu Xiu'er was the only one left in the hall, Li De and Lin Liang were stunned. Li De was stunned for a moment because he didn't expect Wu Xiu'er to be waiting for him here, although he was because of that person's relationship before, but he didn't want to provoke the person in front of him!

"How is it!Uncle Li, this dirt bun must not have passed, right?" As soon as she saw Li De, Wu Xiu'er immediately ran up and asked sweetly.

Hearing this, Li De frowned slightly, and turned to Lin Liang behind him and said, "You go to the first room there and wait for me first, and I will come to preside over the certification assessment of the second-order smelter for you later!"

Lin Liang nodded and walked in the direction pointed by Li De, but Wu Xiu'er looked incredulous, shook Li De's hand and said, "Uncle Li, this soil bun has actually passed the certification assessment of a first-order smelter?"