With full expectation, Ye Li tapped the talisman pen in his hand heavily, and the first stroke of the fourth talisman character he comprehended appeared on the talisman paper.
The wide talisman paper now has three talisman characters printed on it, but it does not look crowded or messy. Instead, it has a sense of harmony and unity.
As the number of runes increased, this feeling became stronger. It was obvious that all these runes came from the same complete rune, which was the original rune representing the original power of fire.
When the stroke of Ye Li's fourth talisman appeared on the talisman paper, a red light reappeared in the area of his natal talisman that represented the root of the fire element, and continued from his third talisman, outlining a new stroke.
Feeling all this, Ye Li felt extremely happy. It seemed that the talisman he had just comprehended could indeed allow his talisman root to continue to grow.
With excitement, Ye Li's mental fatigue disappeared a lot. With concentration, he quickly drew the fourth talisman on the talisman paper.
At the same time, next to his natal talisman, red light began to quickly condense into a fourth talisman, floating next to the previous three talismans.
This indicates that the purity of Ye Li's talisman root has increased again. If he can release the talisman, his flame will be blue even without the help of the Extreme Flame Finger.
The purity of this talisman root has surpassed that of a large number of people, including Ye Tianyi.
Ye Li had fought with others so many times, but he had never met an opponent whose flame was blue. After all, it was not easy to reach the blue flame level relying solely on innate talent.
As for relying on elixirs and spiritual objects to improve the talisman root, in a small place like Ye Li's, probably no young man can afford it.
When he drew his four runes on the yellow paper, the other four people in the first row also finished drawing their own runes and smiled with satisfaction.
Pei Ku saw that everyone had stopped writing and said, "It seems that you have finished drawing the runes, so we will see how everyone's understanding is going.
Now, first of all, contestants who have not drawn a total of 18 runes may leave their tables. The number you have comprehended is not enough to meet the minimum requirement for this competition."
Generally, there are not many people who have only one talisman root. Contestants who have two or more talisman roots only need to use the power of each attribute to comprehend one talisman character, or even less than one talisman character, and can draw more than eighteen talisman strokes.
Pei Ku believed that since he couldn't even do this, his comprehension ability was too weak and he didn't have the qualifications to be a weaponsmith at all. Even if they were just recruiting apprentices, they would not accept such an untalented person.
After hearing his words, fifteen of the twenty-five contestants left their seats and stood aside, with a look of embarrassment on their faces.
Looking at their expressions, Pei Ku said: "You don't have to feel embarrassed. After all, you are just lacking in innate talent. The fact that you can enter the finals is enough to show that your acquired efforts are no worse than others.
However, as a weaponsmith, I still have to tell you that the weaponsmith industry itself is very dependent on talent. If you want to become a weaponsmith, you need to think about it more.
After all, if you don’t have insight into the source of power, then your ability to comprehend spells will be very low, and it will be difficult for you to achieve great success in casting in the future.”
His original intention was not to discourage these contestants, but to make them clearly understand their own abilities.
After all, not everything in this world can be achieved through hard work, at least this is not the case for weaponsmiths.
These people are all hard-working. If they didn't waste their time practicing weapon forging, perhaps they would achieve even greater success in their practice in the future.
After hearing his words, the dozen or so contestants all showed a thoughtful look on their faces.
After Pei Ku glanced at them, he didn't say anything else, but looked at the remaining ten people.
"First of all, congratulations to the ten of you for reaching the final stage of the competition. According to the standards of my Weapon Foundry, the ten of you are now qualified to become apprentices!"
After hearing his words, half of the ten people showed excitement on their faces, but the five in the first row did not show any expression.
Ye Li had no intention of becoming a weaponsmith, and the others seemed to be interested in becoming Ou Qianxie's last disciples, so they did not take the status of apprentice seriously.
Ou Qianxie had already walked to the front of the stage and stood next to Pei Ku.
When Pei Ku saw his master coming up, he naturally stepped back half a step and let Ou Qianxie continue to host the competition.
Ou Qianxie smiled and looked at the remaining ten people, then said in a loud voice, "It seems that the rest of you have gained some understanding of the Origin Runes with the help of my Nine Spirit Balls.
You all want to become weaponsmiths, so you should also know that weaponsmiths need extremely high insight when casting talismans, so that they can see the changes in the patterns in the material and guide them to form runes.
If you don't have enough comprehension and insight, you won't be able to refine good talismans.
Okay, I won't say any more nonsense. Now start with the person at the end and bring up the runes you drew."
Hearing Ou Qianxie's call, a contestant standing at the back hurriedly brought his talisman paper to the stage.
Ou Qianxie took the rune he drew, took a look at it, and said, "You drew a total of twenty-one runes, corresponding to three attributes, earth, fire, and wood.
Each attribute has only seven strokes, which is not even enough for a character, which shows that your understanding of these attributes is only superficial.
Also, when you draw the runes, the connections between the runes are not smooth, which means that your control over the spirit energy is not precise enough. This is where you need to improve."
After Ou Qianxie commented on the runes drawn by the contestant, he asked him to stand aside and placed his rune paper on the long table behind him.
Next, the second person from the back row handed over his talisman paper.
Ou Qianxie made another comment. This person had one less stroke than the previous one. He only drew two characters and one more stroke.
But he himself only has two talisman roots, so his understanding of the source of power is deeper than that of the man just now.
However, since the total number of runes was less, his final ranking in this competition could only be lower than that of his opponent.
Ou Qianxie commented on each of them one by one. Although he pointed out various problems to these contestants, they were not dissatisfied at all. Instead, they were full of joy.
For them, being able to be commented on by a master like Ou Qianxie is a joyful thing.