The day before the competition, the Lihuo Sect announced the rewards and venues for the competition, and also provided some refining platforms at the foot of the Heavenly Volcano Mountain for all refiners to familiarize themselves with the use and characteristics of the Heavenly Fire.

The rewards for this intermediate refining competition are not trivial, as long as the refiners who enter the re-examination will be rewarded with a set of high-grade refining tools worth nearly a thousand spirit stones, which are high-quality products from the Fire Sect and are generally not sold to the outside world.

The rewards for the top three in the retest are similar to what Miao Ren said, the top three all have a requiem pill, which rewards rare spiritual materials worth 10,000, 8,000 and 5,000 spirit stones respectively, which are basically magic weapon materials for refining magic weapons, which is not trivial.

The rest of the refiners have different rewards, which are very generous.

This made the refiners enthusiastic, and everyone was ready to do a great job.

Unlike previous years, where the venue for the intermediate refining competition was set up in the Fire Hall of the Lihuo Sect, the venue for this competition was set up in the Heavenly Fire Hall of the Lihuo Sect. The Heavenly Fire B-word Hall is located halfway up the mountainside of the Heavenly Volcano from the Fire Sect, with a total of six. One of the halls is the largest one except for the three A-brand Tianhuo halls, which is the place for the retest.

The Jiazi Heavenly Fire Hall is located at the peak of the Heavenly Volcano, which is the core refining holy place of the Fire Sect, and is generally not open to the public.

Zhang Yifan is very proficient in the use of earth fire, but he doesn't know how to use this heavenly fire. He really didn't have a bottom in his heart, so he decided to go to the Heavenly Fire Refining Instrument Platform provided by the Fire Sect first to familiarize himself with the use of Heavenly Fire.

The Heavenly Volcano from the Fire Sect was not tall, and it was even a little short compared to the other peaks.

The whole mountain is about 1,000 zhang high, divided into upper, middle and lower three layers, protected by a large formation prohibition, and the dense fog is filled all day long, making people unable to see the whole picture of the mountain. Moreover, there are patrols from the Fire Sect around the mountain from time to time, and they are heavily guarded.

The Heavenly Fire Refining Instrument Platform provided by the Fire Sect was at the foot of the Heavenly Volcano Mountain, and Zhang Yifan was able to enter it after showing his identity card.

As soon as he entered the Heavenly Volcano, Zhang Yifan felt a heat wave rushing towards his face, although it was winter at this time, Zhang Yifan felt that this place was even hotter than summer, but it was all the body of a monk, and it was not a big deal.

The Heavenly Fire on the Heavenly Volcano is actually a volcanic fire. Compared with earth fire, the power is greater, the speed is faster, and it is more difficult to master, of course, the advantage is that the material is refined more thoroughly, the refining speed is also faster, and the quality of the magic weapon refined is generally better.

The Heavenly Fire Refining Instrument Platform is located in a huge square, and there are hundreds of them, which are usually used by the refining masters of the Lihuo Sect to master the Heavenly Fire and be familiar with the characteristics of the Heavenly Fire.

At this time, there seemed to be a lot of refiners here, and there were only a few of the hundreds of platforms left, most of them were refiners who had not had much contact with the heavenly fire, and they were hurrying up to practice at this time. Seeing this, Zhang Yifan hurriedly occupied one.

There is not much difference between the Heavenly Fire Refinery Platform and the Earth Fire Refinery Table, Zhang Yifan has initially mastered the method of opening after watching the operation of the Jade Jane. But when Zhang Yifan turned on the Heavenly Fire, he realized how difficult the Heavenly Fire was to control, it was very soul-consuming, and he needed to concentrate very much on using the Fire Control Formation of the Magic Plate Control Refining Instrument to control the size of the Heavenly Fire.

In addition, the control of the temperature of the heavenly fire also needs to be carefully inducted, and the control needs to be stable, otherwise it is easy to fail the refiner.

However, when Zhang Yifan began to adapt to the characteristics of Tianhuo, he found that this Tianhuo was really easy to use, and the refining materials were not only fast but also effective.

Zhang Yifan has been practicing the use of Tianhuo, and he forgot the time in it, and four hours have passed.

"This fellow Daoist of the Burning Sky Valley, the time has come for you to use the Heavenly Fire Refinery Platform. There are other refiners waiting here, you see..."A deacon from the Fire Sect said politely to Zhang Yifan.

"Okay, I'll take it. Zhang Yifan knew that each refiner only had four hours of practice time, so he withdrew from the Heavenly Volcano with some regrets, and he felt that he hadn't used it enough.

However, at this time, he had completely mastered the method of using the Heavenly Fire, although it was not particularly fine, but it was enough for this competition.

Out of the Heavenly Volcano, Zhang Yifan returned to his residence, first asked his master Xu Ziwu for a peace as usual, and then began to recuperate and prepare for tomorrow's competition.

There was no word all night, and the time came to the beginning of the morning.

The refiners were taken by the deacons of the Lihuo Sect to the square in front of the Yizi Heavenly Fire Hall located halfway up the Heavenly Volcano.

Compared to the open-air environment of the refining platform, the Yizi Heavenly Fire Hall is full of huts. In order to avoid being peeped at by other people's refining techniques, the Lihuo Sect prepared a refining hut for each refiner. However, the refining hut will be equipped with a monitoring bead artifact for the judging refining grandmasters to check and prevent anyone from cheating.

Every refining master has his own pride, disdainful of peeping at other people's refining techniques, even if he is interested, he will exchange them privately, which is also the rule of previous refining conferences, guaranteed by the Fire Sect, no one dares to break it.

There were more than 130 refiners participating in this competition, and a Heavenly Fire Hall could accommodate nearly 100 people at the same time, so the Fire Sect arranged for all the refiners to conduct the initial test in the No. 2 and No. 3 Heavenly Fire Palaces.

At this time, Zhang Yifan found Jin Chan, who had met before, in the crowd, and found that the other party was also looking at him, so he said hello, causing a commotion among the people in the Fire Sect, and looked at Zhang Yifan from time to time, pointing and pointing, making Zhang Yifan a little inexplicable.

Subsequently, a refining master from the Fire Sect announced the content of the preliminary test of the intermediate refining weapon, causing an uproar.

"Fellow Daoists, the old man is away from Gongsun Fu, the deputy hall master of the Fire Sect Refining Hall, and the preliminary content of this intermediate refining weapon competition is announced below. Listen, I won't repeat it. ”

"This competition is divided into two sessions: refining and identification, and in the morning, the spiritual materials are refined, and the five elements materials need to be refined, and the results are divided by the degree of refinement. Those who refine the eighth layer are good, and get six points, those who are nine are excellent, and those who are close to perfection are worth ten points. Note that as long as one of the five spirit materials is below the eighth level of refinement, it will be classified as a failure and the game will be stopped. ”

Before Gongsun Fu finished speaking, the monks began to be a little impatient, this time the refining test seemed to be extremely strict, and no deviations were allowed. You must know that the refining method of the Five Elements materials will also be different according to the attributes, which is a great test of a refiner's basic skills.

"Silence, after listening to the old man, I will give you a chance to ask questions when the time comes. Gongsun Fu's powerful aura was displayed, his face sank, and the scene suddenly quieted down, so he continued.

"In the afternoon, there are five kinds of spiritual material characteristics, and you need to tell the properties, characteristics and functions of the material, and the more complete the information, the higher the score. Ten points for each spiritual material, anonymously assessed by the three refining masters. There is only one rule, and those who say one wrong thing about each spiritual material will not be scored, so if you are not sure, it is best not to write. ”

"Those with a total score higher than 80 points will enter the retest, and the higher the score obtained, the re-examination will be allowed to extend the refining time, up to one day. Okay, I'm done, I'm going to give you a cup of tea and ask questions. Gongsun Fu said expressionlessly.

"Senior, may I ask if everyone is facing the same spiritual material?" someone asked.

"In the morning, the refining competition is all the same spiritual material, and in the afternoon, five of the ten spiritual materials are randomly identified. ”

"May I ask Senior Gongsun, does failing the refining in the morning mean that you have lost your qualification for the competition, and you can't participate in the identification competition in the afternoon?"

"Yes. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the refining and not to fail. ”

"Gongsun Daoyou, will you lose your qualification to enter the re-examination if you make a mistake in identifying the materials?" asked a refiner who had cultivated in the foundation building period.

"No, it will only affect the recognition score. ”

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"Okay, the hour has come, you verify your identity and receive the number token and enter the corresponding refining hut, and the competition will officially start in a quarter of an hour. A tea time passed quickly under the questioning of everyone, and Gongsun Fu asked everyone to draw lots and wait for the game to begin.

Zhang Yifan drew the No. 27 and was assigned to the No. 2 Tianhuo Palace.

There is still a quarter of an hour before the competition starts, and Zhang Yifan is first familiar with the Tianhuo of the No. 2 Tianhuo Palace.

After some operation, Zhang Yifan found that the heavenly fire here was much better than the heavenly fire at the foot of the mountain, not only was the control simple, but the temperature control and size control were easier and more stable, and the power range was larger, which made Zhang Yifan a little happy, and finally did not have to worry about the failure of spiritual material refining due to the mistake of controlling the heavenly fire.

"The competition has officially begun!" There was a monitoring bead in the room, and there was an order from Gongsun Fudi.

Then a formation mechanism located in front of the refining platform was activated, revealing the materials that needed to be refined this time.

Three-striped golden stone, thorn wood, black dew, flame stone mine, clay drinking clods.

Zhang Yifan recognized the above five spiritual materials at once, and he didn't feel a little headache. These five spirit materials are not so precious, they are all basic materials, but they are all notoriously difficult to refine, and if you are not careful, you will fail, and it is difficult to reach a high level of refining.

However, because Zhang Yifan usually receives a lot of monks' refining lists, four of the five kinds have been refined, and only the thorn wood is produced in Qiongzhou, so only I heard that it has not been refined.

But this is not a big problem for him, his refining level is very high, and he has also been praised by Xu Ziwu. At present, the problem is how to improve the degree of refinement, the higher the degree of refinement, the more points there are, Zhang Yifan wants to get a full score.

The time for refining the competition was only two hours, and Zhang Yifan didn't think about how long it would take to pay attention. He first started refining the spiritual materials he was familiar with, and then finally concentrated on refining the thorn wood.

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In a secret room away from the Fire Sect Heavenly Volcano, Gongsun Fu and the three refining masters who served as the judges of this intermediate refining competition stood in front of the monitoring formation, observing the performance of the more than 130 refining masters.

"Brother Gongsun, this very dexterous little girl is the disciple of the Gui Sect who is in the body of the Nine Forgings? Xu Ziwu asked with some surprise.

"Haha, let Brother Xu smile, exactly. This disciple's name is Jin Chan, and she is 16 years old this year. It's kind of a few qualifications. Gongsun Fu said with a smug smile.