Chapter 71: Thousands of Hammers

"Crackling~~!!"

Pure golden lightning arcs wrapped around Han Lan's arms, spreading to the palm of his hand and turning into a vivid golden little thunder dragon.

"Thunder-type blacksmith? This is rare. Most blacksmiths are mainly fire-type. Judging from this young man's thunder power, he must be among the best among the soul types." Mochizuki Famous Sword observed Han Lan with a vicious eye. After a while, he made a rough guess.

Han Lan knew that the amplification multiple of the Soul-level Nine Mysterious Golden Thunder was different from ordinary people, so on the way to Osaka City, he had used the disguise breath-condensing technique to simulate it into a six-fold amplification of the top-grade Thunder-type Soul Seed.

The pure golden little thunder dragon wrapped around the black steel stone and began to temper continuously. A large number of thunder and arcs continued to penetrate into the black steel stone and began to violently electrolyze and temper.

While controlling the Jiuxuan Golden Thunder tempering materials, Han Lan also looked at the blacksmiths around him from the corner of his eyes.

Although this International Blacksmith Competition has not reached the level of huge crowds of people, who can come to participate in the competition has two skills? ?

But even so, not everyone of high-level blacksmiths can find the forging flame that suits them best, especially the one with a high multiplier that suits their own forging techniques.

All the blacksmiths are concentrating on tempering the black steel stone, and the firelight shines on each of their faces, whether they are young, old, or very strong.

For a moment, the only sounds left in the large venue were the crackling sounds of blazing flames and thunder, as well as the whispers of people in the stands.

While everyone was tempering, the giant hourglass on the rostrum of the venue was slowly falling.

Time flies, and two and a half hours have passed in the blink of an eye. Most blacksmiths have beads of sweat on their foreheads. This is not because they are not good at learning, but because the process of tempering this black steel stone consumes extremely much magic energy and mental energy. , and also has very high requirements on the quality of Flame and Thunder.

When only one-fifth of the hourglass was left, most of the blacksmiths withdrew their flames and were ready to accept the quality certification from the organizer.

At this time, on the forging platform, only Han Lan and two older forging masters were still quenching black steel stones.

Twenty minutes later, the two older forging masters also stopped burning the flames in their hands, and at this time, there were still ten minutes left before the end of time.

The eyes of everyone present immediately focused on Han Lan, who was the only one who was still tempering. The wild and violent golden little thunder dragon was entangled on the black steel stone, and a large number of arc fangs erupted from the mouth of the thunder dragon to continue tempering.

After a while, there was only a little bit of residual sand left in the giant hourglass, and the time came to the last minute.

Wangyue Mingjian took the microphone from Zhang Benyihan and was about to announce that the time was up. Xizhe shook his head imperceptibly at him. Wangyue Mingjian understood and waited for the last minute.

"Okay, fellow contestants, I announce the time..."

"Sorry, I'm a little late..."

"Tsk, you're really lucky to be able to get it out in the last minute, but the quality of the materials tempered in such a hurry is probably not very good, right?" A bald middle-aged man said in a strange voice in a low voice.

"Practice more if you are good at it. Don't play if you can't afford to lose. It's normal. The International Blacksmith Competition lacks everything except contestants..." An older blacksmith not far away squinted his eyes slightly. He glanced at Han Lan and sneered.

Wangyue Mingjian on the high platform glanced at Han Lan who was finally finished, shook his head, and announced: "Since everyone has completed it on time, let's start preparing for the next test."

After Wangyue Famous Sword finished speaking, he lifted up a piece of black cloth on the high platform, revealing a precision mechanical instrument with a faint red glow underneath.

"This is a purity measuring instrument that can accurately test the purity of the materials you refine."

Mochizuki Mingjian pointed to a groove on the instrument and said: "Here is where the test materials are put." After that, he pointed to some characters that were flashing on the screen and said: "And here, is where the test materials are placed." It is a place that shows purity. It is based on ten stars, with ten stars being the highest, one star being the lowest, and four stars passing.”

"Okay, now, put the graphite steel stone you tempered into it and start testing it."

As Mochizuki Famous Sword finished speaking, everyone in the venue looked at each other, and then a middle-aged blacksmith at the front walked up with gritted teeth.

"Five stars, next one."

"Four stars, qualified."

"Three stars, eliminated."

The bald middle-aged man who had previously mocked Han Lan also walked up and started testing, "Five stars, next one." Upon seeing this, the bald middle-aged man glanced at Han Lan provocatively.

The elderly foreign blacksmith who had previously mocked Han Lan also started testing, "Seven stars, excellent."

"Young man, listen to my advice, you can't handle this kind of competition," the hook-nosed elderly blacksmith said indifferently.

"Haha", Han Lan only responded to him with two words.

"Seven and a half stars!" The voice of Wangyue Famous Sword attracted the attention of everyone present. Han Lan also turned to look. This achievement was obtained by another older blacksmith, and he was not a foreigner. It was Huo Tuo, the forging master of the Oriental Pearl Mage Tower.

"Young man, it's time to take care of yourself," Wangyue Famous Sword urged, and Han Lan walked up to the high platform and put the black graphite steel stone in his hand into the detection groove.

After the screen of the testing machine shook for a while, a huge red "nine" slowly appeared...

"Nine stars...first place!"

The most fearful thing was that the air suddenly became quiet, and everyone was silent as if the silence button had been pressed. It took a moment for anyone to speak.

"This is impossible. How can he be a nine-star? This must be cheating!" The bald middle-aged man screamed in shock. He couldn't stand that someone younger than him had better grades than him. This was unscientific. No, this was not magic.

"Oh, this testing instrument was distributed after the Asian Magic Association unified certification. Are you questioning the testing process of me and Mr. Xizhe?" Wangyue Mingjian glanced at the bald middle-aged man and said coldly.

"Junior dare not," the bald middle-aged man said with a pale face.

"Okay, the first round of the audition elimination has ended. The first place is Han Lan, the second place is Huo Tuo, and the third place is Douglas Wilson.

The audience in the venue also applauded the birth of the first place.

These eight contestants advanced to the quarterfinals. The second round of the competition will officially start at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Now leave in an orderly manner," Wangyue Mingjian announced that after the first round of the competition, everyone returned to their residences one after another.

There was no conversation that night. Early the next morning, Han Lan and the others came to the large stadium again to start the second round of the quarterfinals.

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