Chapter 151: Unlearned and Incompetent?

Soon, more than a quarter of an hour had passed. The cultivators in their respective assessment voids had already started to move and began to forge swords according to their own ideas. However, only one person was still sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, and it seemed that he had not yet thought about what kind of sword he wanted to forge.

"There are only three hours in total, and more than a quarter of an hour has passed. The man named Huan Yin is still sorting out his thoughts. What's wrong with him? Is he planning to forge a fourth-grade immortal sword?" A disciple of Yijian Peak who was watching was surprised.

"Fourth-grade immortal sword? Look at what materials are given in this assessment. Unless Bai Qizun, who is sitting high on the cloud platform, personally takes action, with the level of these participating disciples, being able to forge a third-grade immortal sword is already the limit. In my opinion, he is suffering from the fact that the materials are too ordinary and he doesn't know how to forge a second-grade immortal sword." Another Yijian Peak disciple laughed.

"In my opinion, this test is difficult and easy. If you can find a breakthrough, it will be easy to pass." A middle-aged man looked at the busy test-taker in the light curtain, with a gleam in his eyes.

"Brother, what do you mean?"

"In this round of selection, the types of materials are limited, but the quantity is unlimited. Smart people will directly use heavy single leaves as a material to forge swords. Although this material is relatively difficult to control, the simplicity is that only this material can be made into a sword, which saves the complicated process of matching materials. Therefore, as long as you can use the heavy single leaf as a material well, with the quality of the heavy single leaf, it is not difficult to forge a second-grade immortal sword?"

"Brother, what a brilliant idea!"

At this moment, in the sky curtain, about sixty test-takers used only heavy single leaves as a material to forge swords according to the onlooker's statement. However, most of the disciples did not use this most convenient method. I don't know if they didn't think of it, or if they had other better ideas.

Finally, Huan Yin opened his eyes and stood up. Then he stretched out his hand and a large piece of fine iron appeared in his hand. Huan Yin did not even look at the fine iron in his hand, and threw it directly into the burning sword furnace.

Huan Yin did this set of actions without hesitation, obviously after careful consideration. But fine iron is too common. Among the more than 600 light screens, no other participating instrument cultivators chose fine iron as the material except him. And judging from the size of the fine iron used by Huan Yin, he clearly wanted to use fine iron as the main material.

"The man named Huan Yin thought about it for half an hour, and finally chose fine iron as the main material? Is there something wrong with his brain? Any random material would be better than fine iron." Huan Yin's actions immediately caused discussions among the onlookers, because he seemed very special from the beginning of sword forging, and now, his choice is even more special.

At this moment, even Bai Jinfeng, who was sitting high on the cloud platform, frowned. Huan Yin made him understand the way to understand materials, so he respected Huan Yin very much. But at this moment, even he felt that Huan Yin's choice was really not very good. Even if he were to participate in the weapon master selection test in person today, he would not make the same choice as Huan Yin.

Huan Yin naturally did not expect that his actions would attract the attention of the outside world. He was moving very quickly now, and it was obvious that the time he spent thinking before was not wasted. He had fully sorted out his sword-making ideas before, although no one agreed with his ideas.

After the refined iron entered the sword furnace, Huan Yin reached out and summoned a large piece of fire-assisting stone, and then threw it directly into the furnace without even looking at it.

This time, Huan Yin stood by the sword furnace and observed for a while. It seemed that he felt that the fire in the furnace was not big enough, so he summoned another piece of fire-assisting stone and put it into the furnace again.

Soon, the refined iron in the furnace had completely melted into a pool of liquid, floating in the furnace fire. Weapon repairers who use refined iron to forge swords often consider adding auxiliary materials to proceed to the next step at this time, but Huan Yin did not do so. He just stared at the liquid in the sword furnace, and did not seem to have the intention to proceed to the next step immediately.

This observation lasted only a few breaths, and Huan Yin actually summoned a third flame-boosting stone again and put it into the furnace fire.

"What is he going to do? The refined iron has already melted, why is he still increasing the fire in the furnace?" This time, the one who spoke was an old man sitting in the field. This old man was an old-generation weapon master of Yijian Peak, and his sword-making attainments were quite extraordinary. But at this moment, he didn't understand what Huan Yin was going to do at all.

"His sword furnace is almost reaching its limit. If he continues to add flame-boosting stones, the sword furnace will explode. Doesn't he even understand the most basic principles?" Another old man frowned, and it seemed that he disagreed with Huan Yin's approach.

"Master, in my opinion, the casual cultivator named Huan Yin is just a little talented in identifying materials, but he knows nothing about the whole sword-making. At the beginning, he chose refined iron as the main material, and I already thought so. Now he keeps adding flame-assisting stones, probably to increase the fire so that he can speed up the sword-making later. After all, he spent so much time thinking before, and now he probably thinks it's too late to do this." A young Yijianfeng weapon cultivator next to the old man sneered.

As soon as the young weapon cultivator spoke, the two old men who spoke nodded, and the one called "Master" said: "He is ignorant and incompetent, and it's useless to let him think for a long time! It's just nonsense!"

As soon as the old man finished scolding Huan Yin, he saw him bring in another small flame-boosting stone. However, this time, Huan Yin did not put the flame-boosting stone directly into the furnace. Instead, he repeatedly observed the fire in the furnace several times before carefully putting the flame-boosting stone in.

"Nonsense, ignorant junior!" The old man was obviously extremely dissatisfied with Huan Yin's repeated addition of flame-boosting stones.

Bai Jinfeng had already stood up from his seat and even took two steps forward. At this moment, there was only the light curtain where Huan Yin was. However, this time, he no longer felt that Huan Yin's behavior was inappropriate. To be precise, he could not understand what Huan Yin was doing.

Originally, adding flame-boosting stones was just a simple action, and Bai Jinfeng did not think it was anything at first. But as Huan Yin added more and more flame-boosting stones, he began to worry that Huan Yin might explode the furnace. But he saw clearly the small piece of fire-boosting stone that Huan Yin added just now. The addition of that fire-boosting stone can be said to have just pushed the fire in Huan Yin's sword furnace to the limit. If a little more is added, it will cause the furnace to explode.

As a weapon master, Bai Jinfeng naturally could not foolishly think that Huan Yin was lucky to push the fire in the sword furnace to the limit. It is obvious that Huan Yin determined this degree after careful observation.

To control the degree of fire to such a degree, I am afraid that only a very experienced weapon master, or even a weapon master or above, can do it, so Bai Jinfeng saw Huan Yin's extraordinaryness at a glance.

However, the more extraordinary Huan Yin behaved at this moment, the more Bai Jinfeng could not understand what he was going to do. Because the materials he used were too ordinary, and constantly boosting the fire seemed to have no meaning.

In Bai Jinfeng's puzzled eyes, Huan Yin once again looked at the fire in his furnace, and then actually sat down cross-legged again, and even closed his eyes, and seemed to be meditating.

Bai Jinfeng was stunned, and all the weapon cultivators around who were paying attention to Huan Yin were also stunned. Huan Yin's expression was always calm, making him look very confident. However, he also seemed very arrogant.

In this way, all the other weapon cultivators in the light curtain were busy for a whole hour, while Huan Yin sat in the test area for a whole hour. An hour later, Huan Yin stood up again and looked into his sword furnace.

Huan Yin made another move, which soon attracted the attention of the onlookers. They also soon discovered that the flame in Huan Yin's sword furnace had returned to normal levels, as if the effect of the flame-boosting stone had completely disappeared.

"What's wrong with his sword furnace? The effect of the flame-boosting stone can't end so quickly. Why did his furnace fire inexplicably become smaller?" An onlooker asked, pointing at the light curtain where Huan Yin was.

As soon as this was said, many weapon cultivators who had not noticed this problem also instantly saw the phenomenon that the man just mentioned, and they all frowned. At this moment, not to mention them, even the many old-generation weapon cultivators sitting around, and even the five people on the cloud platform, did not understand why Huan Yin's furnace fire was so small for no reason.

Finally, after observing for a few breaths, Huan Yin reached out again to summon a new material. Counting the flame-assisting stone, this material is only the third material Huan Yin has used so far.

The material Huan Yin summoned is called Chengxue, which is a very common ordinary auxiliary material. Add a small amount of this material to the main material of sword casting with water attributes, and the resulting sword will change from the original water attribute to ice and snow attributes. Generally, sword cultivators who are accustomed to ice and snow magic often use this material when casting swords.

However, Huan Yin's swords have only used refined iron as a material so far, and there is no water attribute at all. What is he using this Chengxue for?

Bai Jinfeng is increasingly confused about what Huan Yin wants to do. He knows that Huan Yin is a master of identifying materials, and Huan Yin cannot take the wrong material. However, he has never heard of Chengxue having other uses.

"Am I too ignorant?" Bai Jinfeng thought to himself.

Not only Bai Jinfeng felt this way, but all the other cultivators were stunned when they saw Huan Yin take out Cheng Xue's weapon. Huan Yin, a master of identifying materials, was he going to re-explain this commonplace material to everyone at the test site today?