From the grandstand of the square, the Nine Clouds Throne to the bottom, and hundreds of thousands of monks bustling nearby, all watched this once-in-a-lifetime amazing spectacle with intent.

The 1,300 refining masters revealed what they had learned in their lives at the same time, and the colorful and dazzling light of fire rendered the entire sky in a rich and colorful way.

The Domain Mercury Square is extremely wide, a full ninety miles in a radius, and above the green brick paved and smooth square, there are 1,300 Grandmaster realm masters with extraordinary refining strength.

It's like 1,300 cooks, standing together neatly, holding the sacred fire they are most familiar with, cooking delicious and delicious dishes.

There are 1,300 refining masters on the square, all of whom have their own skills and concentrate their concentrations, among which Lu Chen, Li Xiu, Huang Hanchong, Wu Hao and the black-clothed and masked monk occupy the largest territory. These people all have extraordinary skills and powerful cultivation, especially the unknown monk, the strength he has shown is the worst in the early stage of the tribulation, and the purple fire in his hand is not inferior to any of Lu Chen. And that's just an estimate.

Lu Chen paid attention to it a little and didn't pay too much attention to it, after all, the most important thing at the moment was the conference.

The rules of the first round of the battle were extremely harsh, and there was no need for Tongtian Pavilion to provide a spectrum, because the refining master himself had a better understanding of magic weapons than ordinary people, and which refining master did not survive refining thousands of magic weapons. As long as the requirements of the assessment are met within the specified time, it is fine.

However, this assessment surprised everyone, and it seemed that even Huang Hanchong and Li Xiu did not get the news in advance. While their faces were full of solemnity and exhaustion, everyone was staring at the prototype of the magic weapon that had not yet taken shape, was about to take shape, and had already taken shape in front of them, and did not dare to wander a little.

Lu Chen was no exception, he was refining an ordinary form flying sword, the reason why he chose this way and didn't take out all his strength was because Lu Chen had already sensed something.

The Black Evil Heart Fire was wrapped in eighteen drops of pure slurry, and Lu Chen was not in a hurry to transform into shape, holding a black evil heart fire in his right hand, which was slowly scorching the domain ice stone. This stone is produced locally, that is, the domain mercury, which is mined from the seabed outside the mountain, and the quality is good, but it cannot be regarded as a treasure, and it is more than enough to refine high-grade spiritual weapons. However, since it comes from a cold place, it is very challenging to extract the essence that can be used from the cold ice stone.

Ability to resist fire......

Everyone in the refining process calls fire holy, and the holiness in their hearts is said to be holy fire. As soon as everyone is a refining master, everyone must fully grasp how to control their natal true fire and do whatever they want......

And from the beginning of the knockout round, the assessment questions set by the Tongtian Pavilion were very much a test of the monk's ability to resist fire, and the first round of the test was still like this, and the difficulty was at least ten times more than before, which had to make Lu Chen suspect that the Tongtian Pavilion itself had an ulterior secret.

Molten soldiers, need to control fire energy......

Purification requires control of fire energy......

From this point of view alone, if you do two steps at the same time, you are doing two things. It is also testing the ability to resist fire, and this method has invisibly increased the difficulty of the assessment.

"Fire ...... Or is it a fire ......" Lu Chen groaned in a low voice, not squinting, and at this moment, a roar of a fryer came from a position on the left behind him.

"Poof!"

There is no need to turn his head to look, it must be some guy who is in a hurry, and he was in a hurry, and he was eaten by the natal true fire, which led to the failure of the refining weapon, and the roar must be the self-explosion caused by the magic weapon just about to condense into a form, and the energy chaos. When he first came into contact with the refining weapon, this often happened to Lu Chen, and it was no longer strange.

"Domain Ice Stone ......" Lu Chen glanced at the Domain Ice Stone that was still gathering in his hand, Sen Sen's cold air was slowly passing with the momentum of the black fire, the energy of the cold current was very strong, and Lu Chen felt that dozens of thread-like cold qi had penetrated into his palm. Fortunately, this cold air couldn't hurt Lu Chen, and he didn't care too much.

It can be said that there are two difficulties in the first round, the first is purification: the magic weapon of the flying sword is destroyed and re-purified and the purification of the domain ice stone is achieved to achieve double purification, which is the first difficulty.

And the second difficulty is to fuse the energy of the domain ice stone and the earth stone together. The most testing part is also here. The difficulty lies in the fact that the two are not the same grade of ore in themselves, and the purity of energy is also different. And there is also a difference in the content of the monk's natal true fire, not all the energy of the domain ice stone of a penny weight is fused into it. This has a lot to do with the shape, size, and use of the magic weapon you want to refine.

For example, the main ingredient is the earth stone, how long is the sword, and how thin is the blade?...... Even the size of the hilt, pool, and body of the sword needs to be clearly judged in the divine sense, so that the most powerful and natural magic weapon can be transformed. Otherwise, it is possible that like the monk just now, he will be defeated and retreat.

The same magic weapon is refined by two different monks, and the weight of the materials used will be deviated according to their cultivation, the level of fire energy, and the comprehension of the weapon.

The degree of Dharma, cultivation, and comprehension...... Only by taking it into account can we refine the most powerful magic weapon.

There is no possibility of learning from this, and it is also the reason why Tongtian Pavilion allows everyone to get together, and is not afraid of being peeped at by everyone who is also a refining master.

Difficult...... Difficult...... Difficult......

In short, one word: difficult.

And this is only the first round, there are still two rounds, how difficult can it be? Lu Chen is looking forward to it.

The way of refining weapons and the way of cultivation are the same, taking the strengths of all families and making up for the shortcomings of the others; cultivating perseverance and hard work; playing with survival in death and chance; which master of supernatural powers has not been tempered by a lot of hard work? Who does not have the capital to be admired?

Lu Chen did not underestimate any opponent, and he also did not underestimate himself. Only by weighing the pros and cons and gaining insight into the opportunities can we stand out from the extraordinary and become a person of the people.

Lu Chen's appearance looks very arrogant and arrogant, but in fact, he is as careful as dust, and while raising fire and burning soldiers, he painstakingly ponders the hidden mysteries in the two rounds of assessment questions of this conference. After thinking about it comprehensively, Lu Chen suddenly found that the first two rounds of the battle were testing the monk's ability to resist fire, and the difficulty had increased greatly. It seems that in the knockout round, can Tongtian Pavilion and the Five Sects and Three Clans not know that there are too many people participating in the conference this time? Then why are you preparing a mountain range and digging out nearly a thousand caves for the monks who participated in the conference to be evaluated? Obviously, the number of people participating in the conference was too large, and the bigwigs from all walks of life who held the conference had already expected it, so they deliberately prepared difficult assessment questions to brush down thousands of people.

There are still 1,300 people participating in the first round of assessment competition, although the difficulty has increased tenfold, but with the skills of the monks currently participating in the competition, there should not be too few people who can advance. But then there were only two competitions, and if there were too many people, it would be difficult for the real masters to stand out. Therefore, Lu Chen felt that after this competition, the difficulty of the next time would be higher, even outrageously high.

Medium-grade spiritual weapons, high-grade spiritual weapons, and the next one should be the best spiritual weapon. Although the best spiritual weapon is precious, in today's immortal realm, there are not a few people who can refine it, and Tongtian Pavilion will definitely have other means to come up with it. What Lu Chen could guess was not low-quality ores, not instruments that were difficult to refine to the point of frightening. Most likely, it will be a test of the ability to resist fire, and if so, wouldn't it be forcing the monks attending the conference to complete the first round of the test as soon as possible, leaving more time to rest?

"It seems like I'm in a hurry. Lu Chen muttered, a little distracted, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was inappropriate. Zhuo Canghong has always used time and difficulty to pressure the monks to speed up the refining speed, could it be some conspiracy?

"Is it a trap?" After pondering for a long time, Lu Chen's inspiration moved, and he suddenly felt cold, thinking about the failure of a monk behind him just now, and his lonely exit, that monk's refining method did not seem to be low, a high-grade spiritual weapon, it should not be difficult for him. It was in this situation that he failed.

Lu Chen suddenly opened his mouth, and the two ore slurries that were about to fuse together were interrupted by Lu Chen's mana, and turned his head slightly, Lu Chen paid special attention to Li Xiu and Huang Hanchong, and suddenly found that although these two people fused the materials together with fire, they did not rush to transform into shapes, but stared at a viscous solution mixed together by two ore materials.

Both of them were in a hurry, but there was no next movement in their hands, and they seemed to be a little drunk and didn't want to drink......

"Fooled. Lu Chen was suddenly startled, and secretly exclaimed, "No, there is something wrong with the domain ice stone?"

His heart trembled suddenly, Lu Chen didn't dare to be careless, he gathered his mind and released his divine sense, trapped the slurry formed by the domain ice stone, and observed carefully.

There will be no problem with the Earth Mystery Stone, the flying sword is made by everyone by hand, and it is impossible to refine it successfully if there is a problem. If you want to say that the problem must be on the domain ice stone.

The cold ice slurry was like a ball of ice and snow, only the size of a fingernail, and the cold air attached to it was biting, how could ordinary people think that the conference would do tricks and feet on the materials to deceive the monks who participated in the conference. Thinking like this, Lu Chen felt that something was wrong, so he immediately denied himself, and said in his heart: "Refining Grandmaster, you must have a clear understanding of thousands of materials, isn't it necessary to choose materials before refining? What materials are good, what kind of magic weapon is suitable for refining, and how many impurities are included...... These are all issues that the Refining Grandmaster needs to consider. Some ores contain impurities that are unfavorable to the magic weapon, and if this material must be used, it is natural to use the natal fire to remove the unfavorable factors, which is also a great test of the ability to resist fire. ”

"Fire resistance ability? Is it fire resistance ability again?" Lu Chen thought secretly, and things seemed to show a deceitful face. Sneaking a glance at Zhuo Canghong in the stands, the old man's pupils were full of treacherous brilliance. As a result, Lu Chen was even more sure that there was a problem in the domain ice stone mine.

Sinking his mind, Lu Chen carefully analyzed the domain ice stone with his divine sense, and sure enough, he found a bright white line in it. With the infinite magnification of the divine sense, the lines are actually alive, constantly wriggling in the innermost part of the slurry, like an earthworm, the whole body is snow-white......

"Cold leeche?" Lu Chen suddenly remembered the record of the fierce beast of the cold leech when he was idle not long ago in the Chishui Courtyard and looked through the classics collected by Green Bucket about the battlefield of ancient gods and demons.

This beast is as weak as hemp silk, invisible to the naked eye, similar to the cold air, it is a kind of water spirit root fierce beast, like to eat fire gas refining and cultivation, because the speed and quantity of fire gas are pitiful, it has always been ignored, but the monks who are really persecuted by the cold leeches regard this thing as a great enemy. To put it bluntly, the leech is like a parasite, although it is not terrible and has no way to harm the monk, but it can eat away at the fire spirit root monk's natal true fire little by little, and it is extremely difficult to find. It is easy to make the infinite increase in the monk's breakthrough time unknown.

Lu Chen finally understood, what harsh conditions, what time limits, what inferior materials, all these were simply illusions, in order to force the monks attending the conference to ignore the most important leeches and speed up the refining speed. In this way, the monk's defeat made sense. In fact, if there were no leeches, the monk would have been promoted, but he couldn't find the leeches, so in the process of refining the weapon, he originally thought that the fire was used properly, but in fact, a little bit of fire could be absorbed by the leeches without noticing. When sealing the demon, the energy of the magic weapon was directly out of balance, which led to the result of failure.

"It's not good, Tongtian Pavilion is preparing to eliminate most of the refining grandmasters in the first round. ”

"The knockout round is just an introduction, and the real big elimination is in the first round. If you don't take this step well, you will face failure directly. Although there is still a lot of time, but if it fails, the Qikun Eighteen Swords will be destroyed, and Tongtian Pavilion will not re-refine it for the second time. ”

"Peng, Peng, Peng!" As if to verify Lu Chen's guess, as soon as the thought came up, there was a sudden explosion of magic weapons behind him, and there should be many (9) monks who were on the road.

"How is that possible?

"My magic weapon ......"

"What the hell, how can it fail?"

......

The low cries sounded one after another, Lu Chen raised his head and looked at Zhuo Canghong on the hosting stage, and sure enough, the corners of the old thing's eyes were slightly curved, and the corners of his lips were also smeared with a faint and sly smile.

"It's so *** cunning. Lu Chen scolded in his heart, and secretly said that a group of old guys were full of bad water, but it was normal to think about it. Testing the monk's ability to resist fire is also testing the eye of the refining master, if you can't find this, what kind of immortal craftsman should you be?

When Lu Chen thought of this, he suddenly became enlightened. Since the leech was discovered, all the obstacles had disappeared, Lu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and with a smile, the black heart fire poured out unscrupulously, directly penetrating the surface of the domain ice stone and killing the cold leech......

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