Chapter 1429 cksmithing and Alchemy Competetion (5)


    "This..."


    "Oh no..."


    Also witnessing how Xuan Hao slowly exined the mistakes that had been made during the forging process of the dagger, the few who had harbored hope for him to not be skilled when it came to cksmithing, all simultaneously shared a look of despair. Understanding that there was no chance of them progressing to the next stage of thepetition.


    "What is this? Did you just randomly toss in a few spiritual herbs into water and turn it into a soup of some sort? Look, there are even unrefined chunks of spiritual herbs floating around inside of it… Disqualified!"


    "A transcendent grade spiritual metal grinded and used as coloring for an artifact of this quality? Disqualified… And pray you don''t run into any of the other cksmiths again after leaving the city…"


    "This pill… Shouldn''t this be a healing pill? But… As a poisonous pill, it gets 37 points."


    In the end, it didn''t take long before arge number of people were eliminated, while a few who thought they would get disqualified ended up just barely making it through to the next round through a stroke of good luck.


    Even then, the time it took for Xuan Hao to go through each of the participants one by one, still ended up taking around half a day. Making some among the audience rather happily listen, while arge majority of the ones who had returned in hopes of things bing interesting began to groan painfully after listening to Xuan Hao methodically going over each of the creations presented by the participants.


    Luckily, this time around, it didn''t take that long and Elder Song quickly jumped in following Xuan Hao returning to his seat. Exining the next part of thepetition that would be focused on testing the group of participants alchemy or cksmithing knowledge. Having thempete among each other on different subjects and eliminating those who fail to keep up with the rest in terms of knowledge.


    Of course, this did end up favoring those from the Star Shattering Sect, as the knowledge avable to someone from arge sect would inevitably far surpass that of a wandering cultivator.


    So, with that in mind, Elder Song made sure that the elders of the Star Shattering Sect wouldn''t end uppeting with the outsiders and instead had thempete between each other. In turn, making the onespeting feel grateful towards him and the Star Shattering Sect, as they understood that this was them making sure that they didn''t try and oppress them with their background to win thepetition. n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    "Another… Boring challenge…"


    "Aren''t these kinds ofpetition supposed to be more interesting…?"


    "Perhaps… The Star Shattering Sect is trying to make this as boring as possible? You know, trying something new."


    To no one''s surprise, the second challenge didn''t make the audience members the slightest bit happy, as it didn''t take more than a few minutes for the ce to once again clear out of those not interested in alchemy or cksmithing. Once again leaving behind the group of eager wandering cksmiths and alchemists who were overjoyed at this new development, as it would get them a much-needed opportunity to learn more about all kinds of spiritual herbs and spiritual metals that they didn''t have any information on beforehand.


    Because of this, outside of the wandering cksmiths and alchemists that decided to stay behind, there were also a few wandering cultivators who understood the value of this information and remained to listen in.


    After all, even though the alchemy and cksmithing knowledge shared might not be that valuable to someone like them, the information on different spiritual herbs and metals was, as it could directly help them identifying something valuable if they happened to find a spiritual herb mentioned today that they had no idea about at the moment.


    Along with that kind of attitude and under the tight watch of Elder Song and a few other elders of the sect, thepetition proceeded smoothly without running into any problems along the way.


    Following which thepetition smoothly proceeded through third, fourth and fifth challenge of thepetition over the next week. Ending up with 10 people by the end of the second week of thepetition.


    Among the remaining 10 participants still left were both Bai Ning and Qing Yi, who had singlehandedly dominated their respective part of thepetition. Showing off the brilliance of the Star Shattering Sect in the process.


    Of course, even with them around, there were still quite a few of the wandering alchemists who had ended up showing off and had managed to exceeded expectations and beat some of the elders from the Star Shattering Sect in the process.


    In the end, outside of Qing Yi, Bai Ning and the elders of the sect, there were two wandering cultivators who had managed to make it all the way to the top ten.


    Unfortunately for both of them, they were both skilled in the art of cksmithing and ended up having to face off against Bai Ning in the final part of thepetition where two winners would be chosen, one among the cksmiths and one among the alchemists.


    By far, facing off against Bai Ning could be considered the worst possible fate for these two wandering cksmiths, as they essentially stood no chance against this single-minded person solely focused on the Dao of cksmithing.


    At least if they had ended up facing off against Qing Yi, they would have stood somewhat of a chance, as she wasn''t entirely focus onprehending the Dao of Alchemy like Bai Ning was focused on the Dao of cksmithing.


    Even then, as the five cksmithspeted with each other, the two wandering cksmiths managed to achieve the rather surprising ranking of number two and three. Surpassing the other two elders of the Star Shattering Sect left among the cksmiths in the process.


    As for the alchemy part of the finals? Qing Yi managed to win it without much suspense, as the elders of the sect participating in thepetition were still far from reaching her current level of alchemy. Possible only her master and Pei Yang had surpassed her inside the sect at this point in time.


    All things considered, this still ended up going in a way that both Xuan Hao and Elder Song had not expected, as the sect ended up forking up some rather precious rewards for the second and third ce winners of the cksmithing part of thepetition. Rewards that was originally intended to be used on nurturing their own cksmiths.


    Unfortunately, there was not much they could do about this, as the rewards for thepetition had long since been announced by the sect itself in an attempt to attract arge number of people to either watch or join thepetition.


    "Can''t waste the sect resources like this! I will definitely have to recruit those two and have them join the sect to avoid losing the precious resources of the sect to outsiders!"


    Even then, Elder Song wasn''t saddened for long, as he soon focused his attention on recruiting these two talented wandering cksmiths to join the sect. Seeing it as the best way to recover the resources that had been handed out by the sect and ensure that they stayed within the sect itself.


    Seeing this, Xuan Hao decided not to say anything.


    Instead, he focused his attention on the different people among the audience who hade to watch the finals. Trying to see if he could get lucky enough to spot the spy that might have been sent out by the Blue Sea Empire.


    But… Finding no sess and once again finding himself admiring the skillful disguise methods of the Blue Sea Empire. Even though he was able to perfectly hide themselves from someone like himself, Xuan Hao soon focused his attention on a few of the more talented people among the audience members. Noting them down for Elder Song to recruit after he finished getting those two wandering cksmiths to join the sect.


    Not just to enhance the strength of the sect by adding more disciples to the now ratherrge number of disciples inside the sect, but also to give the proper impression that the Star Shattering Sect had indeed held thepetition to recruit disciples.


    In a sense, thebined aspect of thepetition that tested both cksmiths and alchemists at the same time was to attract even more people, something befitting of an ancient hidden sect when it came to their recruitment practices.


    Hopefully, after everything was said and done, Xuan Hao just sincerely hoped that the Star Shattering Sect would end up being viewed as an ancient hidden sect by the Blue Sea Empire.


    After all, this was the main reason why he had participated in thepetition in the first ce, as Elder Song would have been more than enough to take care of thepetition under normal circumstances.


    Not to mention, thepetition would almost certainly have been more exciting and different if it wasn''t for the fact that they had tailored it around how those ancient hidden sects were rumored to hold theirpetitions when trying to attract talent for a specific profession like alchemy or cksmithing.


    If not for that, Elder Song would have definitely tried his best to make thepetition a bit more entertaining for those who hade to watch thepetition instead of solely focusing on testing the participants and trying to pull out all of their talents.


    Though good for measuring the talents of those participants and even the audience members, it was not the most exciting thing to watch for those not proficient in alchemy or cksmithing…