Huangfu Tian knew this was the truth, but he still felt unwilling to accept it.
It was obvious that his talent in alchemy was not inferior to the others, but it was just that the bone-replenishing pill was not something he was good at.
The results came out very quickly, and the top three places were all taken by the Miaodan Sect.
Huangfu Tian refined eight pills and two mid-grade pills, and only got fifth place.
The Miaodan Sect's score suddenly increased by ten points, reaching a full forty points, far ahead of other sects.
Seeing that things were developing as he expected, Miaodan Sect Leader was in a good mood.
"As usual, the weapon refining competition will begin in two days. All disciples from the five sects who come to participate can participate, and the top three will be decided based on the quality of the finished products."
The people from the other four sects were not in such a good mood. They all cursed the Miaodan Sect in their hearts for being cunning and shameless.
But in fact, when it was their turn to play at home, their eating habits were not necessarily better than those of the Miaodan Sect.
The left elder of Hanshan Sect had an unpleasant expression on his face. Hanshan Sect's score was only 26 points, ranking at the bottom together with Xiaoyao Sect.
The next step, equipment refining, is their strong point, and they must catch up with the score in this area.
The Wanjian Sect also has the same idea. Most of the disciples of the Wanjian Sect are sword practitioners who are good at using swords and refining swords.
As for the Buddhist practitioners of the Wuliang Sect, they are good at making talismans.
Even if they didn't get any points in the weapon refining part, they still had a place in the talisman making part.
Only the Xiaoyao Sect seems a little embarrassed. It may be said that they have no strengths, but each of the Nine Peaks of Xiaoyao has its own strengths.
Whether it is alchemy, weapon refining, talisman making, beast taming, etc., he is involved in all of them.
However, the balanced development of Xiaoyao Sect's disciples is both an advantage and a disadvantage.
Yue Lingzheng sighed softly. It seemed that in this competition among the five sects, Xiaoyao Sect was destined to be a runner-up.
Elder Wu was also in a heavy mood as he analyzed the next three competitions.
"Besides the disciple from Qifeng, only Lanzhi can refine weapons. As for making talismans, there is only one disciple who is proficient in it. As for taming beasts, the other sects are not good at it, so maybe we can compete for it."
Yue Ling was smiling bitterly, "Even if we can win a few points in the beast taming area, we are still far behind. The ring competition..."
Elder Wu was silent for a while.
The disciples of Xiaoyao Sect all have their own strengths, but in terms of absolute strength, those like alchemy cultivators, weapon cultivators, formation cultivators, and talisman cultivators are actually not as good as pure sword cultivators.
Although sword cultivation also has its limitations, and after learning sword to a certain level, the requirements for the cultivator's comprehension are extremely high, but it is undeniable that sword cultivators with outstanding talents have the strength to surpass cultivators of the same period and fight across levels.
"The next time the five sects compete, Xiaoyao Sect will be at the main venue."
Yue Lingzheng sighed and changed the subject, "When the time comes, maybe we can shuffle the cards again."
Just like the Miaodan Sect, which was ranked last in the last five-sect competition, but this time it took advantage of its home advantage and temporarily took the lead over the other sects.
Even the most powerful Wanjian Sect was suppressed.
Elder Wu was not so optimistic. Among the five major sects, Xiaoyao Sect was originally weak. If its ranking continued to decline this time, the sect’s resources in the next thirty years would be further compressed.
As one grows stronger, the other shrinks, and the gap between them and other sects will only grow wider.
But right now, she didn't have any good solution.
I hope that in the next competition, the disciples’ performance will be better.
The equipment refining competition two days later was held as scheduled.
Wanjian Sect and Hanshan Sect each sent out eight disciples to participate in the competition. Together with two from Xiaoyao Sect and two from Wuliang Sect, a total of twenty people participated in this weapon refining battle.
After obtaining the materials for refining weapons, all the disciples of the Wanjian Sect began to forge flying swords without exception.
The spiritual weapons forged by the disciples of Hanshan Sect are of various types.
The twenty disciples on the field were seen dissolving the spiritual ore in their hands in an orderly manner.
After the spiritual ore is polished into a ball of nearly flowing, shiny liquid, it is then forged into various shapes using spiritual power.
In this way, the embryo of a spiritual weapon was formed.
Simply forming the embryo is only the first step. There is still a long way to go before they can grow into a true spiritual weapon.
In the competition arena, the disciples were sweating profusely, hammering the spirit weapon embryos in their hands with special tools.
The disciples of Xiaoyao Sect were paying close attention to the developments in the arena, with anxiety in their eyes.
"What is Lanzhi doing? Others are refining the embryo, but she has only just finished refining it. She is too slow and is far behind others."
"The spiritual weapon embryo in her hand is too small. What can be refined with such a small amount? A dagger?"
"Compared to spiritual weapons like flying swords, daggers are smaller in size and much less powerful. Even if they are successfully refined, I'm afraid they can't compete with the Wanjian Sect and Hanshan Sect."
Lanzhi was unaware of her fellow disciples' concerns.
When she was refining weapons, she was always focused.
When she got the materials, she originally wanted to refine a flying shuttle, but as she watched the spiritual ore gradually melt, she had a new idea.
Lanzhi continued to polish the original embryo in her hand, making it more and more round, and getting closer to the idea in her heart.
Zhou She looked at it for a long time and finally confirmed that what Lanzhi made was not a dagger.
He said uncertainly, "What she holds seems to be... a hairpin?"
"Hairpin? Are you kidding me?"
The others found it absurd when they heard this.
Hairpin-type spiritual tools are very delicate and difficult to forge, and will fail if one is not careful.
Even if one successfully creates a spiritual hairpin, it is very easy to fail when drawing the formation.
Zhou She has a different opinion on this.
"Although the spirit hairpin is difficult to refine, if it succeeds, it is very likely to stand out from other spirit tools. Anyway, refining other spirit tools may not win."
When everyone thought about it, it seemed to be true, so they stopped talking and continued to check the situation on the field.
The weapon refining competition lasted for a total of seven days. In the first few days, everyone on the field was refining the embryos. It was not until the fourth day that some people gradually completed the refining of the embryos and began to draw formations on them.
The spiritual hairpin in Lanzhi's hand has also been refined to the final step and has taken shape.
People from other sects were also very surprised when they saw that the spiritual weapon she was going to make was a hairpin.
"The hairpin is delicate and exquisite. It is not easy to draw a formation on it. Even a well-known weapon cultivator may fail. This female cultivator from Xiaoyao Sect will most likely fail."
"Xiao Qi from the Wanjian Sect has already begun carving the fourth-level formation. He is not only a powerful swordsman, but also a talented weapon refiner."
"Ye Yu'er of Hanshan Sect refines something very strange. It looks like a pair of scissors but not a pair of scissors, and like a dart but not a dart. But judging by its color and sharpness, it must be very strong."
Everyone watched and whispered about several popular candidates.
Suddenly, a "click" sound attracted their attention.
It turned out that a disciple of the Hanshan Sect accidentally made a mistake when carving the formation, which resulted in the destruction of the original spirit weapon embryo and the failure of refining.