In the last minute, the second round of the Skyhill Sword Seminar was about to begin.
There was nothing but silence on the Thousand Edges Mountain.
Ordinary tourists and magical equipment enthusiasts were gathered in every corner of the mountain, looking forward to the match through the giant light beams in the sky.
The professionals of the noble families of refining and the Cultivation sects, on the other hand, were analyzing the match nervously in the special observation rooms inside the Thousand Edges Mountain.
The laymen were there for the fun, while the professionals were there for the tricks. On the light beams of the experts of the circle, other than the video of the match, a series of data and lines were also displayed, in which the techniques, habits, advantages, and weaknesses of each expert were analyzed in detail.
The super experts of the three Crystal Suit Centers did not let go of any of the experts and were looking for talents that were worth recruiting.
The workers who had been busy the whole morning finally had a moment of rest. They gathered in the lounge and watched the match through the mini light beams.
Most of the workers were college students from the two best colleges in Heavenly Saints City. They were all young people, and they were chatting noisily.
Most of them were paying attention to Mo Tianshui and Huangpu Xiaoya. Xie Anan was the only one who was hiding in a corner and watching the match between Li Yao and Long Yunxin.
"Anan, what are you watching? Why are you not with us? "A chubby girl jumped at her from behind and shouted," Ah. Are you watching the match between Long Yunxin and Zhou Xiaoyu? The match between the two seeded experts is indeed interesting. "
"Yes. Yes."
Blushing, Xie Anan replied in a hurry.
Hardly had she concluded her sentence. The match began.
Xie Anan had no time to care about anything else. She was fully focused on the match of the 23rd group.
Long Yunxin and Zhou Xiaoyu, the two seeded experts, were already in the zone the moment the match began. The flames of spiritual energy flowing around their bodies were much brighter than before, as if they were enshrouded in furious fire. Their hands were so dazzling that even their fingers could not be seen clearly.
Thousands of streaks of brilliance were unleashed from their hands, which swept toward the materials on the ground like tides.
The second round. The structural designs of magical equipment were regulated and could not be changed in the slightest. The materials to be used were the most common metals. Even the strengthened alloys were few and far between. There was not the slightest trick.
But for a top-notch craftsman. It was completely possible to remove the impurities in the ordinary materials through the surging of spirit energy and slightly improve the quality of the materials.
This step was the pretreatment of the materials, also known as "spiritualization".
Artifacts refined with spiritualized materials were much stronger than ordinary artifacts. Of course, the method of spiritualization was up to each individual.
"The seeded contestants are indeed different from the rest. Most of the refiners directly start their crafting furnaces. He threw the materials into the furnace and began to refine the components. All the seeded contestants, on the other hand, were surging with spiritual energy. Let's begin to spiritualize the materials. Later, we can enlarge the image and observe the difference between spiritualized materials and normal materials. They are definitely different. "
"Alright. Other than Mo Tianshui and Huangpu Xiaoya's group, we will also pay more attention to the 23rd group where Long Yunxin and Zhou Xiaoyu are. The two seeded contestants will meet in advance. Sparks are flying everywhere! "
"Also, according to the analysis of our two guests, there is one more thing. In the 23rd group, other than the two seeded contestants, there is a dark horse that deserves our attention. Don't blink. We will now switch the main picture to the mysterious contestant Li Yao. Let's see if he is spiritualizing the materials like the seeded contestants. This is Contestant Li Yao. We can see that he … "
"Well, we can see that he …"
The host suddenly stammered.
Xie Anan was dazed, too. Her mouth opened wide.
Li Yao did not spiritualize the materials like the seeded contestants, but he did not start refining in a hurry like the common refiners, either.
Li Yao started up the crafting furnace and operated it at the lowest speed possible. Then, he randomly picked up a hammer from the maintenance tools and walked to the side of the crafting furnace. He knocked here and there, and from time to time, he would stick his ear to the crafting furnace and listen attentively, as if he was very serious.
"What is he doing?" Xie Anan was completely confused.
"Well, Contestant Li Yao's behavior is very weird. Is there something wrong with his furnace? That's impossible. All the furnaces have passed the most rigorous tests before the competition. According to our monitoring platform, his furnace is functioning normally, too, "the host stammered.
Li Yao hammered harder and harder, and his speed was also faster and faster. In the end, he simply climbed to the top of the crafting furnace like a big monkey, swung the hammer, and hammered like a storm. Very soon, his entire body was covered in grease, and his face turned black.
A moment later, he jumped off the furnace and returned to the operation platform in satisfaction. He opened his fingers and waved them, rolling up more than ten maintenance tools.
BOOM!
The hammer in Li Yao's hands turned into a black shadow and smashed at the most vulnerable part of the furnace — the tubes of spiritual energy.
One of the tubes was immediately bent by him.
Li Yao licked the corner of his mouth. His eyes were pitch-black and his pupils seemed to have been opened by ink, completely occupying his eye sockets. Taking a deep breath, his hands turned into a cluster of gray mist as he began to operate on the crafting furnace.
"Master Dustless, what is Contestant Li Yao doing?"
The host had only intended to switch the main picture to Li Yao for a few seconds and return to the two trump cards after a brief introduction. But Li Yao's unexpected move completely stunned him. He could only turn to the old professor for help.
Master Dustless's voice was filled with astonishment, too. "He is fine-tuning the furnace."
"Fine-Tuning?"
"That's right. Every brilliant refiner has their own unique refining habits. When they encounter a strange furnace, the first thing they do is to fine-tune the furnace to suit their own techniques and styles."
The host said, "I'm well aware of such rules. However, by controlling the crystal processor through the operation light beam, one can set the parameters of refining and adjust the furnace to create a unique environment for refining.
"Of course, that is the case today. But a long time ago, the crystal processor technology was still underdeveloped. Setting the parameters through the light beam could not satisfy some extreme needs. Some of the old-school refiners didn't believe in crystal processors completely. They believed in what they saw with their eyes, what they heard with their ears, and what they touched with their hands. Therefore, refining furnaces that were fine-tuned with their hands were more suitable for their tastes.
"However, this is indeed a very old rule. The crystal processor technology of the Flying Star Sector is so advanced, but I've never heard of any school that has such a rule in the past two hundred years.
"Could it be …"
The host grew excited, as if he had found a breaking point. "Alright, ladies and gentlemen. We have retrieved Li Yao's profile. Li Yao is from the Great Horn Exo Society, but he was born on an ancient battlefield at the edge of the cosmos. It is said that he has been wandering among the remnants of the ancient battlefield since he was a child and trained with an unknown eccentric. Can we assume that he is the only successor of a school that has been lost hundreds of years ago?"
"A successor of a school that has been lost hundreds of years ago?"
Many of the audience were excited.
"Are you kidding me? Hundreds of years ago? The hosts nowadays are getting more and more shameless. "
Some of the audience curled their lips and even protested to the authorities through the Spiritual Nexus, asking them to switch the main picture back to the two monster-level experts. Why were they watching a John Doe smashing the furnace with a hammer?
Li Yao hammered the furnace for more than half an hour. The tubes of the furnace had been deformed beyond recognition. Two of the units had even swapped their positions. Steam was spurting out from the joints of many tubes.
Although the ventilation rune arrays on the ceiling of the refining room were fully activated, they could not completely disperse the rolling white mist. Enshrouded in the hazy steam, Li Yao seemed to be riding on a cloud, mysterious and unpredictable.
The competition between Long Yunxin and Zhou Xiaoyu had reached the climax. Both of them had finished the spiritualization of the materials and started the refining process. The dense data on the light beam was changing nonstop. They had no time to bother about anything else.
Long Yunxin raised her head occasionally and glanced at the opposite side, only to discover that Li Yao's refining room was filled with smoke and fire, as if a coal furnace was burning.
She couldn't help but sniff. Then, she devoted herself to her operation again.
Xie Anan was rather anxious. Her watery eyes were bulging, and she almost couldn't wait to dive into the light beam and blow away the steam to see what was going on.
Vaguely, she could only see that Li Yao had selected dozens of materials casually without spiritualizing them at all.
"What's going on? Why are you not spiritualizing the metals? This is the boundary between a super expert and a top-tier expert. With your capability, you should know it very well, shouldn't you?"
Xie Anan was so anxious that she stomped her feet.
Li Yao threw the first batch of 27 kinds of metal materials into the inlet one by one. He tapped a few times on the operation light beam casually, as if he was setting up the refining environment very casually. Then, he walked to the side of the furnace again and opened his hands, slightly touching the surface of the furnace.
BOOM!
Suddenly, two thunderbolts exploded below his palms and drove away all the steam in the room like two violent tornadoes.
"Hiss."
The loose refining suit with excellent elasticity bulged, revealing muscles that looked like dragons. Li Yao's body seemed to have expanded to twice its original size. The muscles on his back interweaved and formed a hideous face that looked like a roaring lion.
The thunderbolts from the mini crystal processor were so shocking that Xie Anan felt dizzy.
The entire lounge was silent. All the staff looked at her in shock. "Anan, what's going on over there?"
Inside the studio, although the main picture was switching between Mo Tianshui and Huangpu Xiaoya, the two guests were paying attention to Li Yao's progress through a small surveillance light beam nearby.
The thunderous noise almost shattered Master Dustless's white eyebrows. He exclaimed in shock, "Hitting the Cow Through the Mountain."
"Contestant Li Yao blasted his spiritual energy into the furnace through the thick wall and spiritualized the materials inside." To be continued, Contestant Li Yao used the technique of 'Hitting the Cow Through the Mountain'.
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