Day 8.
Another twenty or so weapon refiners gave up and left. Basically, there were problems with the forging materials, and there was not enough time to start over, so they had to give up.
During this period, Quan Jiaying had already used spiritual fire to forge the knife into shape, and then further manipulated the spiritual power to carve and perfect the details of the knife.
The gray-silver handle was carved with intricate convex lines, like twisting dead branches spreading towards the shiny blade, except for the lines that hadn't been carved yet.
The texture patterns on a knife determine the limits of the monk's future use of the knife, and rare patterns are complex and varied, so Quan Jiaying carefully used a blue paint brush to slowly trace the patterns to be engraved on the knife in advance.
Three months ago, influenced by the ideas of the two repaired wind patterns, Quan Jiaying picked up the book on incomplete patterns again and read it again. Compared with that year, his level has improved a lot and he can understand the pattern structure better, so he decided to continue using the patterns he had repaired.
The ice-breaking pattern and the whirlwind pattern were painted on the front and back of the blade respectively. Both were incomplete patterns, and Quan Jiaying spent a long time to repair them. After the painting was completed, the blue ink dried instantly, and then a fine spiritual power rose from his fingertips, slowly carving out the pattern along the trace.
When doing this step, even Quan Jiaying had sweat on his forehead. He was nervous: this was the most critical step. If he was not careful, the whole knife would be ruined.
After all, it is very common for weapon refiners to fail at the last step and have to start all over again.
At the same time, another refining room also attracted much attention.
"You're crazy! You don't even need a Yanqing brush."
"I think it will fail."
“Waste of materials!”
The disciples of Po Yuan Sect who were watching were talking about it. It turned out that Xiyu had also begun to take shape, but he didn't use any Yanqing or blue brush at all.
Painting the blue material on the magical instrument will not affect the material properties and is easy to remove, making it a must-have for instrument refiners.
In the refining room, Xiyu was concentrating on carving patterns on the blade of a knife, not knowing that there was no such thing. Being used to being stingy, he didn't want to spend an extra low-grade spirit stone.
The eldest sister engraved the incomplete and rare patterns on a jade slip and let them deduce them by themselves. Every time Xiyu deduced a pattern, he would draw it on the ground, trees, and hands every day. He had already become very familiar with it and there was no need to use a paintbrush to trace it in advance.
While controlling her spiritual power to carve patterns on the blade, she thought that the Foundation Establishment Stage was indeed different. The spiritual fire was also much stronger, and she could refine better materials.
Because she missed a step, Xiyu finished before Quan Jiaying. The moment she stopped, everyone watching outside knew that she had succeeded.
“…I didn’t fail.”
“I didn’t expect he had some skills.”
"I don't know what level that magic weapon will be at yet."
The disciples of Po Yuan Sect standing around whispered.
"She is a weapon refiner in the early stage of foundation building, and cannot compare with Jiaying." An elder next to the head of Poyuan Sect said, "She can't even refine the materials completely."
Quan Shen put his hands on his knees and said slowly after a moment: "Just looking at her calmness and courage, she is indeed stronger than Jiaying in the early stage of foundation building."
At this time, it was already the eleventh day.
Xia Er and Ming Liusha are almost done refining their own magic weapons, but Ye Su is lagging behind them.
Because she had been thinking about how to use all the materials in a magical instrument, she finally decided to make a crescent shovel, with a crescent-shaped front end and an axe-shaped shovel handle at the back, with two rings hanging on the left and right.
The crescent shovel is not difficult to refine. The key lies in the two palm-sized rings hanging on the axe-shaped shovel at the back.
Generally speaking, these two things are optional, they are just for the sake of appearance and sound, but Ye Su changed it. The two rings she hung up can be removed and used as another kind of magic weapon.
Ye Su spent the next four days refining the ring.
Elder Zhang's eyes fell on the unfinished crescent shovel that Ye Su was standing beside, and his eyebrows twitched. No matter what kind of magic weapon was refined, the weapon refiner had his own preference and style. He thought that someone who could refine a magic weapon like the Mist Killing Flower, which was ethereal and carried murderous intent, should be able to refine a magic weapon that was ethereal and lethal, and definitely not this kind of big and rough... Crescent shovel.
Too ugly! Too blunt!
Compared with the fog-killed flowers, there is a world of difference.
Elder Zhang put out a hand and covered his eyes. He felt hurt.
Ye Su naturally had no idea what outsiders were thinking, and even if she did, she wouldn't care. All her attention was on the two rings.
These two rings can even be worn on the hands as hidden weapons. She also added sound stones inside. When they collide with the crescent shovel, the sound they make will make the opponent uncomfortable.
…
When the fifteenth day is up, everyone comes out of the refining room, and only those who have completed the refining of the magic weapon will pass the competition. They will then hand in the magic weapons they have forged and refined to the elders for public testing in the trial field to determine the top ten.
Quan Jiaying walked out of the refining room. He had put so much thought into refining the magic weapon that he was not very concerned about the result.
On the other hand, Xiyu, Ming Liusha, Xia Er and others could not hide their fatigue, but their eyes were full of excitement.
"Big sister, this trip is worth it!" Xia Er squeezed through the crowd to Ye Su's side, "There are so many good materials, and I can actually refine them, and it doesn't cost money!"
"Big Sister, what magic weapon did you refine?" Xiyu was in the refining room at the back. When she came over, Ye Su handed in the magic weapon she had refined in the morning.
"Crescent shovel." Ye Su installed the ring at the last moment.
In order to pile up all the materials within the specified time, the crescent shovel made by Ye Su was very rough. The column was originally supposed to be engraved with patterns, but she did not do so.
However, the magic weapon has basically taken shape and can be used. When the time comes, she can take the refined magic weapon away, and she can continue to carve it.
"I used six kinds of materials." Xiyu was obviously very satisfied with his refining this time. "I touched the remaining four materials and let it go if I couldn't refine them."
"Third Senior Sister, you only touched it once? I touched each material at least twice." Xia Er almost drooled when he thought of the materials that had not been refined.
Ming Liusha stretched out his finger: "Five, times."
The three of them had just established their foundation, their spiritual fire was unstable, and there was a time limit, so they had no way of refining all the materials. They could only choose a few necessary materials to refine suitable magic weapons.
As they were talking, the crowd in front began to move towards the Poyuan Gate Trial Field.
These people stayed in the weapon refining room for a full fifteen days, barely closed their eyes, and were exhausted physically and mentally. They should have gone to rest. However, at this moment, everyone was excitedly waiting for the results, so they didn't mind a little longer. So when they arrived at the trial field, the elders came down directly to test the refined magic weapons.
This step is crucial. Some magical instruments that look well-refined would shatter on the spot once they were brought onto the stage and infused with spiritual power by the elders before they could be used.
"How could that be? I clearly made it!"
"impossible!"
Looking at the shattered magic weapons on the stage, some weapon refiners were in disbelief, and those who could not endure it so much fainted directly.
Rong Chuqiu stood in the middle of the trial field to maintain order. She raised her hand and pressed it down, and all the disciples of Poyuan Sect immediately fell silent. Influenced by them, other wandering cultivators also quieted down.
"Refining a weapon is a complex and huge matter." Rong Chuqiu glanced at everyone in the audience and said solemnly, "The shape is only the first step in refining a weapon. A true magic weapon needs to withstand the cultivator's tremendous spiritual power to reach its full potential."
Originally, there were not many people who could refine a magic weapon within fifteen days. After excluding those magic weapons that could not withstand the shattering of spiritual power, there were only less than fifty magic weapons that could be truly used, and the majority of them were from the disciples of Poyuan Sect.
"Senior Sister, can we get the reward?" Xia Er leaned his head forward and looked up eagerly.
"They can be in the top ten." Ye Su said confidently. The level of the disciples of Po Yuan Sect seemed to be average. Among the magical weapons that passed, only a knife was decent.
If the elders of Po Yuan Sect knew what Ye Su was thinking, they would probably be furious on the spot. Not only could they not compete with Zhan Jin Sect, but if they put the magic weapons refined by the disciples of Po Yuan Sect out to sell, any family with good magic weapons would be eager to get them.
Rong Chuqiu swept his hand, and forty-eight usable magic weapons flew up and hovered in the air above the trial field: "If any outside weapon refiner enters the top ten, he will be rewarded with materials and can also join Poyuan Sect and become an inner sect disciple."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was a commotion below.
As for the people from Qianji Sect, all they could hear were the words "material reward". By coming to Poyuan Sect, they could not only get some spiritual energy, but also take away refined magic tools and a material reward.
Ye Su thought: In the future, I must let my fellow junior brothers and sisters also come and share in this good thing.
The elders on the stage began to use forty-eight magical weapons to chop at the trial stone one by one, observing the power of the weapons, recording them, and then discussing the ranking of the top ten magical weapons.
"... Next is the Plum Sword made by Fang Xiu." Elder Zhang on the stage shouted as usual, and swung the sword at the trial stone, leaving a deep mark on it with just one strike.
This trial stone is different from the originally selected trial stone. It is harder and is specially used for refiners in the foundation-building stage to test magical instruments.
The disciples of Po Yuan Sect couldn't help but cheer and called out "Senior Brother Fang".
Fang Xiu was quite proud. Although he was not as good as his junior brother, he was still considered one of the best disciples in Po Yuan Sect.
However, his pride did not last long, as Ming Liusha's black whip, Xia Er's moon spear, and Xiyu's uneven knife all left marks deeper than his.
Among them, the marks caused by the uneven knife were the deepest, almost cutting the trial stone in half.
Perhaps due to the preference of materials this time, Ming Liusha and Xia Er both chose to refine magical weapons that they were not very good at, and the power was indeed slightly weaker.
Soon it was Quan Jiaying's turn to test the magic weapon. Several elders looked at each other, and finally Elder Zhang was the one to test it.
As the knife was swung, it brought with it a cold and icy feeling. That was not the end. When the knife was swung, the spiritual power at the tip of the knife spun rapidly like a whirlwind, and as soon as it touched the trial stone, the whole piece cracked directly, and finally slowly slid to the ground.
After a moment of silence, all the disciples of Po Yuan Sect began to cheer.
At this time, Quan Shen suddenly said: "Change the trial stone."
The area around the trial field suddenly became quiet, because the trial stones moved in this time were for use by Jindan realm refiners. Normally, only the magic weapons refined by the deacons of the Poyuan Sect could leave traces on them.
Elder Zhang once again tightened his grip on the knife handle and swung it away.
"… "
"Junior brother, you are awesome!" Fang Xiu suddenly turned his head and patted Quan Jiaying's shoulder hard.
At this moment, the newly moved trial stone on the stage was deeply scarred. Even an ordinary refiner in the middle stage of the Golden Core Stage might not be able to leave such a deep scar.
Quan Jiaying heaved a sigh of relief, but her expression did not show it: "There are still a few magical instruments behind."
"Those last few items are obviously not good." Fang Xiu was very excited. "Junior brother, your ranking on the Hundred Youths List will definitely rise this time. You may even be stronger than those two people from Zhan Jin Zong."
Quan Jiaying shook his head. He had fought with the disciples of Zhanjin Sect several times, and those two were extremely strong.
At this moment, the disciples of Po Yuan Sect around were still immersed in the power brought by Quan Jiaying's knife, and had no intention of looking at the magic weapons behind them. Anyway, they were definitely not as good as Senior Brother Quan.
"The last magic weapon is Ye Su's crescent shovel." The elder on the stage shouted.
Hearing this, Quan Jiaying's eyes fell on the crescent shovel with a strange expression. This magic weapon was made too sloppily, so it was hard for him to believe that the Mist Killing Flower was made by the same person.
He tilted his head and looked at Ye Su in the crowd from afar. Her forging level seemed to have dropped too quickly.