Qing Lian stood with his hands behind his back in mid-air on the assessment platform, and no one noticed his presence.
His face was gloomy.
Today is the third day of the assessment.
Over the past three days, more than a thousand people have come to participate in the assessment.
But none of them met his expectations.
These disciples couldn't even distinguish between black jade copper and black-patterned copper.
Or they've mistaken the difference between the five-colored flames and the five-element flames.
Even worse, some people don't know anything about weapon crafting and come up here purely to try their luck.
"Each generation is worse than the last."
Qinglian thought to himself.
Although the Divine Sword Sect was not known for its weapon crafting.
However, it is also possible to refine earth-grade treasures.
But now the art of weapon crafting is in serious decline.
Nowadays, even Xuan-level spiritual artifacts are difficult to forge.
These people nowadays simply cannot accept his mantle.
Qinglian shook his head and sighed.
Could it be that he possesses extraordinary weapon-refining skills?
Is this skill destined to be lost forever?
Just then, a burst of laughter suddenly erupted from the square below.
"Hahaha, this drug-using person also wants to participate in the assessment!"
A group of disciples pointed at a medicine man who was only at the Qi Refining stage and burst into laughter.
Even worse, some people directly resort to insults.
"Doesn't this person who's been drugged have any self-awareness at all?"
"With your condition, you should just go back to Danfeng and refine medicine!"
The square below was crowded with people at the registration and assessment point.
The disciple in charge of registration asked, "What's your name?"
"Chen Tianwen!"
Chen Tianwen calmly gave his name.
The disciple recorded Chen Tianwen's name.
Then he said, "To prevent disciples from wasting resources under the guise of assessment, the sect stipulates that if someone is eliminated in the first round, they will lose one of their arms. Are you aware of this?"
"know."
Chen Tianwen nodded.
He heard about it.
Because too many people tried their luck the past two days.
A lot of resources were wasted.
The sect's higher-ups were furious.
The regulation to amputate the hand was issued.
This discouraged many people who were just there for the spectacle from participating in the assessment.
Even so.
There are still quite a few people who can't even pass the first round of assessments.
The disciple nodded.
In the past two days, he has met countless people like Chen Tianwen.
They participated in the assessment with the expectation of instant success.
As a result, he couldn't even pass the first round of assessments.
It was only when his hand was severed that he regretted it.
Then he added, "The assessment is divided into three rounds. The first round is to refine mortal artifacts, the second round is to refine spiritual artifacts. After passing the first two rounds, the third round will be personally assessed by the Supreme Elder."
"Ordinary artifacts" and "spiritual artifacts" are terms cultivators use to refer to magical artifacts of different grades.
Generally, yellow-rank magical artifacts are called ordinary artifacts.
Ordinary artifacts are relatively easy to craft, and can be used by everyone from those at the Golden Core stage to those at the Qi Refining stage.
The next higher rank, Xuan-grade, is called a spiritual artifact.
Because of its immense power and the difficulty in refining it, it is usually only possessed by cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage or above.
The rarer Earth-rank magical artifacts are called treasure artifacts.
Celestial-grade magical artifacts are also known as immortal artifacts!
After the disciple finished speaking, he asked again to confirm, "Medicine Man, are you sure you want to participate in this assessment?"
"confirm."
Chen Tianwen answered without the slightest hesitation.
"This drug user really isn't afraid of losing his hand."
"He's already reduced to being a drug user, what's there to be afraid of losing a hand?"
"Yes, poisoning from erysipelas is far more terrifying than losing a hand!"
The disciples watching the spectacle continued to discuss it amongst themselves.
However, Chen Tianwen's face remained completely expressionless.
He strolled over to the location of the first round of assessments.
This is a high platform with more than a dozen iron furnaces, from which thick black smoke billows out of the chimneys above.
A dozen or so disciples, shirtless, wielded iron hammers, striking the iron blanks with a clanging sound.
"Here, this is the recipe for the equipment you need to create for the assessment. Make sure you memorize it."
A disciple came over and tossed a thick book to Chen Tianwen.
Chen Tianwen took it and looked at it.
The book cover featured a picture of a sword.
The Green Steel Sword is a Yellow-rank mortal weapon.
Main ingredients: Blue steel, red copper, flame boron...
Additional ingredients: Stardust, Mysterious Gold Sand, Spirit Core Rock...
...
The thick book contains detailed records of all the raw materials and auxiliary materials needed to forge the Qinggang sword.
There are only about forty kinds in total.
It's far inferior to Danfang.
However, unlike alchemy, weapon crafting requires much stricter techniques.
How to shape each material, how to quench it, how to fuse it together, and how many hammer blows are needed.
If you miss even one hammer blow, the pieces might not fuse together properly.
One more blow and it might explode.
It involves more than 700 steps in total, almost as many as a second-tier pill formula.
However, just as Chen Tianwen was reading half of it...
boom!
A loud bang came from the high platform.
It turns out he was a disciple who accidentally added an extra hammer blow when fusing the Xuanjinsha and Yanpeng.
This hammer blow caused the flame to explode, blasting the disciple away.
However, that's not all.
Several disciples stepped forward and chopped off the left hand of the disciple who had been blown away.
The disciple whose left hand had been cut off screamed in pain.
Many disciples who were watching the spectacle from around the platform showed expressions of reluctance.
"Next up, Chen Tianwen!"
On the stage, the elder presiding over the examination shouted.
"exist!"
Chen Tianwen responded and quickly walked up with the Green Steel Sword Manual in his hand.
The elder's eyes flashed with surprise when he saw Chen Tianwen dressed as a medicine man.
However, he did not reveal any other emotions, and simply said, "The assessment will last for one and a half hours!"
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