Half an hour later, hundreds of materials were prepared. Li Yao and Huangpu Shiyi stood on one side of the warehouse, each with a workbench in front of them. Below their feet was a large defense rune array that was emitting gold brilliance and forming a translucent, circular barrier around them.
Black Stone, White Dew, and the rest of them, on the other hand, were hiding in a corner of the warehouse.
The crafting of crystal bombs was not to be underestimated. Although they were all experts, nobody could guarantee that they would not explode halfway through.
"In the first round, we will use twenty-seven materials. Ten minutes. Let's have some fun!"
"Come on!"
A weird smile appeared on Huangpu Shiyi's face. He suddenly bulged his eyes, and cracks appeared around his eye sockets. Taking a deep breath, he extended his withered hands and opened his fingers!
"He!"
Huangpu Shiyi bellowed. Streams of blood spurted out of his pores and circled around him quickly!
A weird thing happened!
His flesh, blood, and vigor seemed to have been drained in the moment. He suddenly shriveled and shrunk, turning into a skeleton!
His face, on the other hand, was only a thin layer of skin that dangled above the bones. The thick veins on his face interconnected like countless overlapping scars. He couldn't have looked more hideous!
All the blood and strength were absorbed by his withered hands. His hands expanded rapidly as if someone had blown on them. They were even more translucent than the hands of normal people, as if they were carved out of jade. Eccentric brilliance was beaming out of them!
His left hand, which was born with six fingers, was full of soul-stirring charm. When he moved his left hand, thousands of ripples were raised in the air!
"Hehe. Hehehehe!"
On Huangpu Shiyi's skull, the two bloodshot eyes were even more protruding. He appreciated his hands in fascination while he laughed hideously and grinned at Li Yao. "Come on!"
Li Yao was somewhat surprised, but he did not say anything. He simply nodded gloomily.
The first round began!
Li Yao's hands suddenly disappeared and turned into thousands of phantoms, sweeping away all the materials on the table. They were being polished and assembled quickly in midair!
Huangpu Shiyi, on the other hand, was not in a hurry. He did not start at all. Instead, he observed his flawless hands in fascination and narcissism. She murmured, "What beautiful, delicate, and perfect hands!"
"If it weren't for the fact that you've consumed too much of my life force and can only last for an hour at most, I really wouldn't bear to replace you!"
"I've made up my mind. After I put on Huangpu Xiaoya's hands, I will refine all of you into magical equipment and keep you company with me forever …"
Huangpu Shiyi rubbed his dry cheeks with his hands and uttered chilling noises. He was fascinated for five minutes. Only then did he suddenly attack!
It was fine if he didn't make a move, but when he did, it was world-shaking! Thunderous booms rang out one after another in front of him. White mist in the shape of umbrellas appeared one after another, spreading rapidly in all directions!
Huangpu Shiyi instantly entered the supersonic state of his hands!
"Brat! Don't think that you're so great just because you can break through the sound barrier! "
"Perhaps you can be considered a figure among the Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators. However, you must remember that there is always a mountain beyond a mountain, and a sky beyond a sky!"
"In the world of refining, you are nothing but a frog. You're just a frog at the bottom of a well. You still have a long way to go, and you still have a lot of walls to hit! Today, I will let you have a taste of it. The feeling of being completely crushed by me. Haha. Hahahaha! "
At this moment, Huangpu Shiyi seemed to have returned to thirty years ago. He seemed to have become the person who crushed the entire competition in the Skyhill Sword Seminar in front of millions of spectators. The 'lunatic' who had challenged the leader of the Mo family!
He laughed crazily. His hands were as fast as lightning and caught up with Li Yao. He finished the first crystal bomb ten seconds earlier than Li Yao did!
"Huchi! Huchi! Huchi! "
Li Yao was like an infuriated bull. His eyes were bloodshot, and he was sweating profusely. He breathed heavily and stared at Huangpu Shiyi.
Huchi. Huchi. Cut the crap. Let's start the test! "
Huangpu Shiyi grinned. After coding his mini crystal bomb, he sent it to the test bench together with Li Yao's work.
The magical equipment used to test the power of the crystal bomb, on the other hand, was like two hemispherical iron shells. When they were combined and sealed by rune arrays, they would be a giant iron ball that had no gaps at all.
The hollow iron ball was connected to a crystal energy scale through a hollow tube.
As long as the bomb was detonated, its power would be poured into the crystal energy scale through the tube. As the indicator on the scale rose, the specific power of the bomb would be calculated.
When the two pieces of magical equipment were placed next to each other and the two scales stood side by side, it was easy to tell which one was more powerful than the other.
Li Yao was quite nervous. He stared at the scale without blinking.
Huangpu Shiyi, on the other hand, was at ease. A confident smile was beaming out of his skull.
"BOOM!"
The two bombs were triggered at the same time!
Outside of the two dark, hollow iron balls, almost a hundred rune arrays were glittering at the same time, confining the power of the explosion inside. The destructive force, which had nowhere to run, could only flow into the crystal energy scale through the tubes after being transformed and weakened!
"Shua!"
Two streaks of redness spurted out like two fountains. Huangpu Shiyi's was obviously faster. Very soon, it was one third higher than Li Yao's. Even when Li Yao's redness was gradually falling, Huangpu Shiyi's did not stop until five seconds later!
It meant that the crystal bombs refined by Huangpu Shiyi were not only powerful, but also had a short activation time and a long duration. The damage would still be horrifying even after three to five seconds after the explosion!
In the first round, Li Yao suffered a crushing defeat!
"Do you still want to compete in the next two rounds?" Huangpu Shiyi smiled.
"Yes!"
Li Yao's face was gloomy as he gnashed his teeth.
In the second round, eighty-five materials were used to refine a mini bomb in twenty minutes!
"Li Yao, I was just playing with you with the capability of the peak of the Building Foundation Stage.
"This time, I will activate the real capability of the Core Formation Stage and show you how terrifying a refiner in the Core Formation Stage can be when they are infuriated!"
While speaking, Huangpu Shiyi slowly opened his hands. Spiritual energy flowed out of his pores and danced around his body, blurring his body and making him look more and more mysterious and otherworldly.
He closed his eyes. Sensing with his spiritual root, Li Yao found that Huangpu Shiyi was like an erupting volcano in his abdomen. The infinite spiritual energy was entangled and condensed into a pool of thick, half-solid liquid!
Core Formation Stage! His spiritual energy was gradually developing into a solid state. It was the Core Formation Stage!
Huangpu Shiyi burst into laughter. His hands were not moving at all. He opened his fingers, but hundreds of silver spiritual threads pierced out and tied up all the materials!
Huangpu Shiyi's fingers were shivering slightly, as if he were manipulating a marionette. With the tiny twitches of the muscles on his fingers, the hundreds of spiritual threads were manipulated agilely and quickly!
It was almost as if Huangpu Shiyi had grown a hundred fingers all of a sudden!
Li Yao's face suddenly turned extremely awful. He grunted and started refining.
Twenty minutes later … When he finished his work, his hands were bleeding. Holes deep enough to see the bones were on his index and middle fingers. Smoke was even popping up from his fingers!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You've been working very hard!"
Huangpu Shiyi chuckled. "It's a pity that the harder one works, the better the result of refining! Li Yao, let me teach you a thing or two about the refining experience of the super experts first. We can definitely achieve a supersonic hand speed, but we don't usually do that.
"Because speed alone is not enough for the arts of refining! Even 'precision' is not the most important thing!
"The most important thing is. You have to sense, feel, and listen to the materials according to their different features before you perform the unique processing!
"Remember, even if the materials are the same. There will be the tiniest changes depending on where the materials are collected and when they are placed!
"Only by grasping this kind of change can one be considered to have reached a higher level and truly entered the realm of super experts!"
"You are still far from it!"
The result of the second test showed that Huangpu Shiyi was still in the lead. His bomb was at least one third more powerful than Li Yao's bomb made of the same materials!
Li Yao's eyes were bloodshot. He mumbled, "Impossible. It's impossible. I am the best refiner. I am the best!
"Come on. Let's do it again! There's a third round! I'm going to craft a powerful bomb! I'm going to blow you up! "
Huangpu Shiyi said casually, "You've lost. I can see that your mental state is not suitable for refining right now. Just stop now! I have high hopes for you. If you train yourself with me, you will reach my level one day, too.
"Haha. Hahahaha! You are scared. Scared! "
Li Yao laughed crazily and pointed at Huangpu Shiyi's nose. "You don't dare to have a third round with me. You've reached your limit, haven't you? You can't hold on any longer, can you? "
Huangpu Shiyi glared at him. Fury was beaming out of his skull. He sneered, "Alright. In the third round, the crystal bomb I craft will be at least twice as powerful as yours. Come on!"
The third round, 174 materials, thirty minutes. The crafting of the medium-sized crystal bomb began!
This time, Huangpu Shiyi had been staring at Li Yao's face since the beginning.
He discovered that Li Yao's face was indeed crazy, perhaps because he had never been crushed by anyone before. Now he was excited, now he was frustrated, now he was cramping, now he was desperate, and now he was exhilarated.
Li Yao's hand speed was accelerated to the maximum. He entered the supersonic state without bothering about anything. The sweat on his body was evaporated and formed a vague mist around him together with the sonic barrier.
The cluster of smoke blocked Li Yao's hands, making it impossible for Huangpu Shiyi to see what kind of bomb he was refining.
However, judging from his shivering hands and his unstable mental state, Huangpu Shiyi was not optimistic about his crafting this time. It might not be as good as the previous two rounds.
Time went by one second after another.
Fifteen minutes. Twenty minutes. Twenty-five minutes. Twenty-eight minutes. Twenty-nine minutes!
Li Yao had gone completely crazy. His face was even more hideous than that of Huangpu Shiyi, who had only skin left. He mumbled, "Not enough. This is not enough. I need to make it stronger. I need to carve another attack rune array. Another …"
"Blow you up. I'm going to blow you up!
"I won't lose. I'm the strongest!"
Right then, Li Yao shivered, as if his finger had been pierced through by the carving knife. He exclaimed, "Ouch!"
A weird spiritual wave dashed out in front of him at a high speed!
Huangpu Shiyi knew what was going on too well. His face suddenly turned pale. "Not good. It's going to explode!"
His voice hadn't faded away when a huge fireball exploded in front of Li Yao with a bang. In a flash, his entire body was completely swallowed up!
"Save him!"
Huangpu Shiyi shrieked!
He was about to get his best disciple, with countless techniques waiting to be excavated. How could he allow his disciple to die uncannily at such a critical moment?
Not just death, even if his disciple was heavily wounded, his head blown up, and he couldn't even remember the techniques, it would still be unacceptable!
Not far away from Li Yao, the air suddenly became blurred, with ripples spreading out!
Su Jiuzhen, the ace assassin who had been lurking around Li Yao and spying on him for more than half a month, finally showed up!
Su Jiuzhen did not want Li Yao, a promising new Immortal Cultivator, to be destroyed in such a place, either.
The ambitious young man had fast hands, and his brain was even faster than his hands. After two years of refinement, he would be a great help to the Lotus King!
After multiple tests, Su Jiuzhen had completely trusted Li Yao.
Without any hesitation, he showed up and dashed toward Li Yao, trying to drag him out of the ocean of fire!
At this moment, inside the defense circle where Li Yao was, flames were soaring to the sky, and black smoke was everywhere. It was impossible to tell what was going on inside at all!
Fifth update to you!
Ten updates in the first two days of November!
It wouldn't be wrong for such an old bull to ask for monthly votes, recommendation tickets, or subscriptions, would it?
There were too many monster-level contestants on the monthly votes ranking. It had only been two days, and they had already been crushed to a pulp.
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