Chapter 72: Ice Heart Tears
"Welcome all contestants to the second round of the International Blacksmith Competition. I am Zhang Ben Yi Han from Hokkaido, nicknamed Liu Sheng Dou Jiang. Now let us invite eight contestants to enter one after another. Everyone applaud and welcome them!"
The familiar duck voice echoed in the arena. Everyone seemed to have full-level magic resistance and was automatically immune. They all stood in front of their forging tables.
"The rules of this quarterfinal are that eight contestants will compete in four groups at the same time to compete for one to four places. The four contestants who advance will be eligible to participate in the finals." Wang Yue Ming Jian took the microphone handed over by Zhang Ben Yi Han and announced in a deep voice.
"Now please ask the eight contestants to prepare the forging materials. The rules require forging a high-level soul-level magic tool/magic weapon. The timer is 72 hours. Start now!" With the order of Wang Yue Ming Jian, the eight contestants, including Han Lan, took out the various forging materials that had been prepared long ago from the storage magic weapon.
Deep Sea Marrow Silver (purple), Secret Soul Holy Silver (purple), Soul Nurturing Mother Jade (purple), 100 Drops of Ice Spirit Cold Spring (blue), Han Lan took out these four materials from the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlit Night, and activated the [Eye of Truth]!
"Crackle~~!!"
The pure golden lightning arc wrapped around Han Lan's hands, merged into one and spread to the palm, turning into a vivid golden thunder dragon.
"Senior Wangyue Mingjian, I need to summon my dimensional partner to help me complete the forging of high-level magic tools. Can you arrange a more spacious place for me?" Han Lan looked at the people on the platform and said.
"Of course."
After Wangyue Mingjian nodded in agreement, he immediately arranged for several site masters to come and expand the forging platform where Han Lan was with earth magic, freeing up a circular open space of more than 100 meters.
"Dimensional summons!!"
The moon-white dimension gate suddenly opened, and the Thunder Wing Sky Demon Scorpion, which had shrunk by half, rushed out quickly and rubbed Han Lan's trouser leg obediently.
Although it was shrunk by half, the house-sized thunder pattern giant claws were still frightening. Three pairs of huge crystal stone wings extended from the dark purple thick armor, and the curved scorpion needles like a sky-supporting tail were raised high.
"Commander-level dimensional beast?!"
"It's better to keep these resources to train your own son's contracted beast instead of squandering them."
The people in the stands were talking about it, but Han Lan had no time to pay attention to their thoughts. Through the mental connection, he ordered the Thunder Wing Sky Demon Scorpion to drive the Purification Thunder and the Blood Weeping Thunder. He himself controlled the Nine Mysterious Golden Thunder to start electrolyzing and quenching the deep-sea marrow silver.
In addition, he had to guide the Purification Thunder and the Blood Weeping Thunder to join the forging process.
Time passed quietly. On the high platform, a larger giant hourglass timer was erected. The yellow sand fell slowly. Eight contestants were busy forging materials under the stage.
Half a day later, the Secret Soul Holy Silver also quietly joined the forging process.
At dawn the next day, it was the Soul Nurturing Mother Jade.
At twelve o'clock noon, the Deep Sea Marrow Silver had turned into a ball of blue liquid, and the impurities of the Secret Soul Holy Silver were also refined out, becoming silvery. As for the Soul Nurturing Mother Jade, it became more gentle and jade-like under the refinement of the three soul thunders.
"Now." Under the guidance of Han Lan's mental power, the three soul thunders turned into long whips that surrounded the materials, drove them together and began to merge.
"Zizi, crackle." The Deep Sea Marrow Silver and the Secret Soul Holy Silver burst out a large amount of slurry and mist at first contact. However, after the Soul Nurturing Mother Jade emitted waves and joined, a strange balance was reached between the three, slowly merging.
Time continued to pass. At ten o'clock in the evening, the faint moonlight projection stone was lit in the large venue, and the soft moonlight fell on the eight contestants and the spectators in the audience stand.
At this time, the three materials in front of Han Lan had been fused to the last step, replaced by a ball of silver-blue semi-solidified liquid, after the 100 drops of ice spirit cold spring that had been quenched were integrated into it.
Han Lan began to use his mental power to guide the silver-blue semi-solidified liquid to shape, stretch, extend, and micro-carve, and the silver-blue liquid began to gradually turn into a rounded drop shape.
The soft and cold waves blew across Han Lan's face, and the fatigue brought by two consecutive days of forging also dissipated a lot at this moment. Success (dawn) is just around the corner!
An hour later, Han Lan dispersed the Nine Mysterious Golden Thunder and put the Thunder Wing Sky Demon Scorpion into the "Dimension Gate" (Demon Ten Thousand Beasts Garden).
At this time, the only thing that appeared in front of Han Lan was a light blue jade necklace. The five silver threads on the necklace pendant were claw-shaped and wrapped around a silver-blue bead the size of a longan. A faint and gentle spiritual fluctuation mixed with a hint of coldness spread out.
"It has both the characteristics of the spiritual system and the characteristics of the ice system, so let's call it Ice Heart Tears." Han Lan named it.
[Eye of Truth] Activate!
[Tears of Ice Heart]
[Quality: Purple (Soul Level)]
[Abilities, 1, Mind Purification - Guardian (protects the souls of marked creatures in a large range, purifies negative emotions, forms a mind shield to protect, and can also concentrate all mind shields to protect a single target) can be stored 1/5 times]
[2, Nourish the Soul (the wearer's mental power level and soul strength will slowly increase)]
[3, Passive: Mind Strengthening (increases the basic power of mind magic by 1 times)]
[4, Ice Ring (releases a large-scale frost ring to repel and freeze all objects in contact, and can also freeze and imprison a single target) can be stored 1/5 times]
[5, Deep Sea Protection (increases the basic power of water/ice magic by 1 times)]
"Not bad. Although it did not reach the expected heaven-level orange quality, it was also due to the lack of golden materials." Han Lan nodded with satisfaction.
Glancing at the competitors around him, they were still forging enthusiastically and did not dare to be distracted at all, even if they had noticed that Han Lan had finished forging the magic tool.
Han Lan leaned on the forging platform, closed his eyes, and meditated on his magic and spiritual power, waiting for the end of the second round.
At 17:00 sharp the next day, the last contestant also completed the forging of his magic tool. Zhang Benyihan, who had already had lunch in advance, was so excited that his voice changed.
He picked up the microphone and began to announce: "Since all the senior blacksmiths have completed the forging of magic tools, then the international blacksmith master judges will jointly conduct a functional test to select the top four contestants."
After saying this, Zhang Benyihan handed the microphone to Mochizuki Mingjian, who had a beard. He took the microphone and said, "Good afternoon, friends from the forging world. The second round of the competition has ended, so what happens next?" Start functional testing in sequence.”
A middle-aged blacksmith with a foreign face walked up to the high platform quickly, "Junior Abdulaziz Hassan, the forged work is a high-level soul-level shield magic tool, a steel-rock giant shield, with hard resistance to the small commander level." Senior blacksmiths please appreciate the defensive power of the demon’s full blow.”
He handed a small gray-brown shield to the staff next to him and gave it to several international forging masters for testing. After a while, the test results came out.
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