The host was dazed. "You can do that? Why is he doing that? "
"He is trying to buy more time."
Bi Luoling did not disguise the admiration in her eyes. She said, "Contestant Li Yao has wasted too much time modifying the furnace in the traditional way.
"It must be noted that refining is not a skill that can be completed faster as one is stronger.
"For example, if you want to extract the essence of the Iron Vine Flower, you have to refine it in a flame of 3,352 degrees for 55 minutes and 43 seconds. You can't do it one second more, and you can't do it one second less.
"Even if a Yuanying expert comes in person and can trigger the flame to 5,000 degrees instantly, they can't shorten the refining time by even half a second.
"Contestant Li Yao has wasted more than half an hour. From the general point of view, he has automatically given up the game.
"To make up for the lost time, he has adopted the method of spiritualization while refining.
"Spiritualization work in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment through a thick furnace has a high demand on the perception of spiritual energy and the construction of spiritual models of the refiner. Even in the Red Line School Crystal Suit Refining Center, only a handful of experienced specialists have done it occasionally. However, the failure rate is very high. Most of the time, it is not necessary."
Master Dustless continued. "It seems that Contestant Li Yao is very confident in his techniques. He believes that he will not fail and that he can make up for the lost time. I'm more and more curious about him now. It is said that he has had a lot of fortuitous encounters. It seems that he has truly entered the world of Cultivators. Anything weird can happen in such a boundless world. What an eye-opener!"
Inside the refining workshop, Li Yao stuck his hands to the furnace. Spiritual energy burst out from the depths of his cells and congregated into tides that were rolling nonstop. Then, he sensed the subtle vibrations on the wall of the furnace. He sensed the changes of the materials carefully.
For more than an hour, except for the occasional delivery of new materials, he kept the same movement. His muscles bulged again and again. He squeezed out the limits of his spiritual energy and his soul.
The high temperature curled his hair, burnt his eyebrows, dried his lips, and cracked them. But he didn't care at all.
His soul … It was as if it had penetrated into the thick walls of the furnace and was constantly being squeezed under the high temperature and pressure of the furnace, mixing with all kinds of metal materials.
All kinds of materials were mixed and mixed. Then, under the stimulation of hundreds of rune arrays, they were kneaded like a ball of mud by the unparalleled pressure. The runes emitted the most dazzling mystic light and pierced into the depths of the liquid metal, causing mysterious changes to the tiniest structure. The structure of the core crystal kept changing, turning into a brand new alloy.
The alloy that was as broken as mud was sent to the space below the furnace where the temperature was lower.
In this place, the shape of the shaping rune arrays had been preset by the crystal processor. Through high pressure, the alloys were slowly squeezed into the basic form of components.
This was only the beginning.
After that, they would go through dozens of procedures such as rapid freezing, quenching, high-pressure forging, embedding rune arrays, and so on. Sometimes, the same procedure would be repeated several times before a qualified component could be produced.
For ordinary people. This process was extremely boring.
However, for Li Yao, such a job was more like organizing a bunch of civilians who were too lazy to be recognized and polishing them. Using the harshest military law to train them into an army of iron and steel that strictly obeys orders and prohibitions, they radiated an invincible and invincible might.
He enjoyed the process and entered a perfect state where he forgot about everything else.
He was just a nameless young man from the border. Maybe it was not enough to attract the attention of the ordinary audience, but many experts in the circle noticed his anomaly.
"Huh? This contestant Li Yao, his furnace seems to be different from others. Its efficiency is very high."
"That's right. The temperature and pressure limits of his furnace, as well as the transition between high and low temperature, are all slightly higher than other people's furnaces."
"The overall performance parameters of this furnace are at least three times higher than other people's furnaces. What's going on? The organizer is too careless."
"It's not the organizer's fault. He made some minor adjustments to the furnace in the beginning. Quick, replay the process of his adjustments and study it carefully."
In many observation rooms, the seniors in the circle of refiners all noticed Li Yao.
A large number of data analysts were operating on the light screen, analyzing his movements.
As the analysis data came out one by one, many ferocious people's eyes shone with interest.
"Who is this contestant Li Yao exactly? His refining style is somewhat primitive, with a hint of militarism. It is completely different from the mainstream schools right now. "
"He is gambling."
"Fifty-four minutes of minor adjustments to the furnace will certainly give him better performance. But there won't be much time left for refining. The refining of many components will take at least two to three hours no matter what."
"Refining three pieces of magical equipment in five hours? Can he really make it in time?"
Time went by one second after another.
Four hours later, most of the refiners had finished the refinement of a lot of components and entered the last phase.
When a component was just taken out of the high-temperature and high-pressure furnace, its internal structure was still very unstable even though it had been treated by the coolant. Tiny remnants of chaotic spiritual energy were still inside the component, which was known as' internal stress'.
In the words of the ancient Cultivators, such materials, together with 'smoke and fire', would be inferior if they were used to refine magical equipment.
The internal stress would be completely removed if the components were left to rest for three to five years.
However, most of the refiners wouldn't waste their time like that. Just like spiritualization, different sects had their own methods to remove the internal stress, too.
But no matter which sect they were from, it would take at least half an hour to remove the internal stress.
Some of the mediocre refiners, who didn't know the Cultivation arts to remove the internal stress, had already started assembling the components dutifully.
Li Yao, on the other hand, was still refining the components one furnace after another.
Another half an hour had passed. There were only thirty minutes left.
Almost all the refiners had finished the refinement of the components. The top experts had already begun to remove the internal stress with their own expertise.
But Li Yao was still refining.
It was not until the last twenty minutes that he finished the refinement of the last batch of components.
The freshly baked components were piled up like a mountain on the operation platform. Steam was rising from them.
"There's no time."
Many experts who were paying attention to Li Yao shook their heads.
There were only twenty minutes left. It was impossible to remove the internal stress of all the components no matter what. If he were to assemble the components just like that, then the slight advantage brought by the optimization of the furnace would be... It was completely canceled out.
Almost five hours of crazy training had consumed a lot of his mind and body. Li Yao seemed to have turned into a dry root. His eyelids were drooping. His expression was sluggish. The last bit of brilliance in his eyes, which were as deep as ink, disappeared.
His movements had also become as slow as the budding of a large tree.
He raised his hands. Blue electric arcs blossomed from his fingertips and rolled up the components that were piled up like a mountain. Then...
Spinning.
Thousands of components seemed to have formed a whirlwind of steel. Surrounded by the electric arcs that were constantly released from Li Yao's fingertips, the whirlwind was spinning rapidly.
This method of removing the internal stress through spinning was quite popular in the refiners' circle. The experienced refiners who were watching the battle were not surprised.
But the next second, the corners of their eyes were all trembling.
They saw that the whirlwind of steel in front of Li Yao was spinning faster and faster. Together with the dazzling electric arcs, it interweaved into a huge whirlpool, generating a powerful suction force.
The hammers, pincers, and all kinds of discarded metals on the table jumped up and were sucked into the whirlpool.
"Zap, zap, zap, zap."
Inside the whirlpool of steel, an ear-piercing noise was suddenly heard.
Countless metal materials with sharp edges were crazily colliding with each other. Dazzling sparks were bursting out like fireworks in the daytime.
Countless powdery objects. They were fluttering and falling from the bottom of the whirlpool of steel. But they were attracted by the suction force of the whirlpool and lingered around the whirlpool. Like a light gray mist, they were spreading out.
The whirlpool of components was like a hungry monster. It was swallowing the hammers, pincers, and the metal waste, grinding them into the tiniest iron powder.
The internal stress inside the components was crazily swallowing and grinding them. Disappearing into nothingness.
Ten minutes later, Li Yao's ten fingers were moving weirdly. The deep blue electric arcs that were spurting out of his fingertips interweaved into hundreds of lightning tentacles, connecting all the components together like a pearl necklace.
Sparks were flying everywhere. Electric arcs were exploding. The dreamlike lightning bolts were falling down. The electric currents seemed to have given life to every component. They were like unicellular organisms that had gathered together. They were connected, pulled, combined, and expanded.
After five minutes of splendid performance …
Chainswords, vibration sabers, and fiery axes were completed perfectly.
At this moment, on the giant spiritual energy clock at the center of the refining room, the last flame of spiritual energy was extinguished.
The game was over.
Li Yao groaned as if he had been heavily punched in the chest. He staggered. The sparks and the lightning disappeared in the blink of an eye.
In front of him, three pieces of magical equipment that were slightly black and unadorned were floating in the air. They were slowly revolving around him like three naughty little beasts that were capturing the last strand of electric arcs in the air and eating them.
"Tick tock, tick tock."
Li Yao's ten fingertips were all cracked. Especially his two thumbs, the skin and flesh were completely torn apart. Boiling blood was spilling on the ground, giving rise to faint white smoke.
"My blood is almost burning."
Li Yao raised his thumb and sucked it.
After struggling with all his might, the hot blood mixed with the taste of steel and sweat was always particularly sweet and refreshing.
Chapter 4 Today
Old Bull tried his best. He really tried his best.
How could Old Bull not want to finish everything in one go, to shock everyone, to his heart's content, and to call it a day?
But he really couldn't do it. Old Bull's skin and flesh were torn apart, and his fingers were trembling.
Let Old Bull take a break and think about what to write next.
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