Chapter 14: Preliminary Round

"This competition is to promote the new concept of the foundry in the city and create a new era of foundry for the purpose, and advocate the all-round development of foundry in the new era......" The host began to read the opening remarks on the stage, and the audience couldn't wait, "Hurry up and start!

"Okay, okay," the host wiped his sweat, it was really a poor mountain and a bad water, and he didn't let people finish his words, "The prize of this competition is...... One of the acquired spiritual roots!"

The stage and the stage are boiling instantly, the acquired spiritual root is the dream of many people, with the acquired spiritual root, people who do not have the innate spiritual root can cultivate, this is a treasure with no price.

"I'm bound to get it. Zhao Hao smiled slightly, with this acquired spiritual root, he could find a way to defeat the people of those two demon domains and carry out follow-up cultivation.

"That thing must be our Ling family!" Ling Yun said to the head of the family, "Father, with this acquired spirit root, our family will be even stronger and not be oppressed by the Long family!"

"Well, good boy, just do your best. The Ling family master said.

"This thing is going to be decided by our Long family. Long Liangchen, the representative of the Long family, said, "Our Long family hasn't scared anyone yet, even if it's not our home field, but what the Ling family and the foundry union sent to their mouths, how can they not want it?"

"Brother Liangchen is right!" said Long Ao, another contestant from the Long family.

"Victory belongs to the Long family!" said the younger brother Long Tianye.

"There are a lot of competitors!" Zhao Hao said as he looked at these menacing people.

"According to the original work, Zhao Yi easily entered the finals, and I don't need to be so nervous, after all, my casting skills are much stronger than Zhao Yi. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, we will compete in the first game, which is to remove the impurities in the iron block, and the time for a stick of incense will be marked with a serial number and handed over to the three elders of the foundry union. The top 50 will advance to the second round. ”

"What? At least a hundred people who participated in the competition, will half of them be eliminated in the first round?" The contestants were a little dissatisfied, and the elders of the foundry guild did not pay attention to the opinions of these people, but waved their hands directly, and the host shouted, "The timer begins!"

"Oops, it's on, hurry up. ”

More than 100 contestants immediately stopped talking, and one of them picked up a hammer and began to smash the iron. Zhao Hao sat on the ground and smashed slowly, "This group of manpower masters are very ordinary, they only know how to use brute force." ”

Zhao Hao's gaze shifted to the rich children again, "Well, sure enough, they have received advanced teaching, and these rich children are more particular about their strength when they fight iron." To put it bluntly, this is still a game for rich kids!"

"Yes, it's all good...... In addition to ......" Zhao Hao's gaze shifted to Ling Yun, Ling Yun was unexpectedly assigned to the worst and most difficult piece of iron, who made him the protagonist, this is all a routine, and then there will be a bad street plot such as the protagonist trying his best to arouse the power of the spiritual root of the gods, and the protagonist is just advancing to the fiftieth place.

"Why can't this piece of iron be thundered...... "Ling Yun used the hammer hard, even the hammer was a little deformed, but the change in the iron was still not much.

"There's one last bit of time, and it's going on...... It's going to be eliminated. Ling Yun said silently, "No, for the sake of the family, I must win this game!"

Ling Yun roared angrily, and a golden light fell from the sky and hit his hammer, and then hit the iron through the hammer, scaring everyone around him.

"Yes...... Did you use the power of the Spirit Root?" commented the casters around him.

"It's time!" said the host.

"Ahh......h

Zhao Hao stood up and looked at his iron, "Well, the condition is not good, but it is no problem to advance." The big movement just now, it was Ling Yun who used the spirit root of the gods again, this spirit root is simply like a bug, alas, but unfortunately it was originally designed for this invincible protagonist, not Zhao Yi, the loser in the city. ”

"The time has come, everyone, please indicate your name and serial number under the supervision of the disciples of the Foundry Guild, and we will hand it over to the elders of the Foundry Guild for ranking!"

"Well, how are you?"

"I'm definitely finished, I guess the first hundred are enough to choke, let's go back to the shop and strike iron honestly!"

"Yes, those of us who don't have spiritual roots, no matter how hard we try, we still can't do it!"

The people around Zhao Hao began to complain that he had no spiritual roots or something, Zhao Hao looked at them, and thought to himself, the passers-by he wrote down in his essays at the beginning were all really fleshy people in this world, did he really face up to this profession when he first wrote novels? Do you treat the people you write about as living people? Or do you regard yourself as the creator god and write about a person at will?

Zhao Hao thought about it for a long time, and the elders of the Foundry Guild immediately came up with the rankings.

"First place, Mo Ziyang. ”

"Mo Ziyang ......" Zhao Hao thought about it, Mo Ziyang was the chief disciple of the Foundry Master Union, which was equivalent to Gongsun Yan's status in the Alchemist Union. At the age of twenty-five, he broke through the eighth-level casting master, an out-and-out genius, and a dark horse in this competition. A powerful character in the early part of the novel. He won the first goal of qualifying, and there was no dispute.

"Second place, Long Liangchen. ”

"Hahaha, Brother Chen, you are the second!" Long Ao and Long Tian said happily.

"Shame on people, what is there to be happy about a second. Long Liangchen looked dissatisfied, "I did my best! It's only second, it seems that Mo Ziyang is my biggest opponent, find a way to let him be eliminated in the second level." ”

"Third place, Ling Chop. ”

Ling Chu is Ling Yun's cousin, and he has always had a good relationship with Ling Yun, and when Ling Chu heard that he was the third, and his cousin who cultivated higher than himself had not yet read the ranking, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"Brother, is this the case?" Ling Qi asked.

"It's okay, just wait. Ling Yun said.

"Fourth place ......"

“......”

"Twenty-fifth, Zhao Hao. ”

"Oops, it's finally me. Zhao Hao heard that he was twenty-five, and nodded with satisfaction, "Not bad, you must know that Zhao Yi is in the top ten in the original book, and many people are plotting in the second level." My trick is called real people not showing their faces. ”

In fact, Zhao Hao made him cautious because of the smashing incident a few days ago, he can't be too high-profile, and it is easy to burn himself, so he must hide his true strength first.

The host continued to read the list, Ling Yun became a little anxious, and the head of the Ling family saw his son's state, so he asked, "Yun'er, what's wrong?

Ling Yun shook his head, "Father, I actually only swung an effective hammer once in the competition. ”

The Ling family master frowned slightly, "What's the matter, I remember that your casting level has improved recently, why do you only swing a first-level effective hammer?"

"This ...... When I was tempering that piece of iron, I felt that even with all my strength, it would be as if it were a waste of iron. Ling Yun said.

The head of the Ling family knew that his son's temperament and temperament would never lie in front of his father, so there must be something wrong with the scrap iron.

"It's better to tell the foundry's union to see what the mystery of the scrap metal is. The Ling family master said.

"Absolutely not," Ling Yun stopped, "Everyone knows the relationship between the Foundry Guild and our Ling family, if we go to find someone from the Foundry Guild at this time, even if we are reasonable, we can't tell." It's a small matter if the son can't be promoted, if the Ling family has a bad reputation in Page City, it's a big deal!"

The head of the Ling family nodded with satisfaction, "It's worthy of my son Lingyun, I really have the strength of Lingyun, okay, just bear with it for a while." ”

Just when the Ling family was disheartened, the host read, "Fifty, Ling Yun." That's all the 50 finalists, so take a break and the second round will start soon!"

Zhao Hao smiled, sure enough, it was still the same old routine, and the protagonist was always the last to be admitted.

Ling Yun was a little surprised, only that hammer had an effect!

"Kid, behave well. The Ling family master said.

Ling Yun clenched his fists, he must make a good appearance in the second level, and he must not embarrass the Ling family.