Chapter 1526 Divine cksmith Competition
?1526 Divine cksmith Competition
"Let thepetition for the Void Meteoroid Core begin!" Zi Xuan dered shortly after the three Divine cksmiths arrived at their workstations.
When thepetition began, the three Divine cksmiths used their divine sense to check the materials. Each of them brought their own material, and none of them knew what the other would bring until the day of thepetition. This made it so they couldn''t spend half a year preparing for thepetition.
Once they identified all of the materials, they sat down and closed their eyes to run simtions within their mind.
"What are they doing?" Someone who wasn''t knowledgeable about the process asked out loud.
The person next to him, a renowned cksmith, exined, "They are currently crafting the weapons in their mind. An experienced cksmith has the ability to recreate the process of creation inside their head, and the more skillful they are, the more urate it''ll be."
"Since they''re not just crafting a single weapon but seven weapons, each with a different grade, they need to allocate the materials for each weapon properly, or they might not have enough materials."
Four dayster, Eternal cksmith was the first one to emerge from his meditation and immediately got to work. He retrieved several materials from the pile and started refining them.
"Judging by the materials he picked, he''s going to start crafting an Ancient-grade treasure. It''s not too easy and not too difficult—perfect for a warmup." One of the cksmiths there exined.
Heaven and Earth cksmith emerged from his meditation six hours after Eternal cksmith and immediately went to work.
"Looks like Heaven and Earth cksmith ns on starting at Spirit-grade, working up the grades one by one."
Tian Qiyuan remained in meditation, seemingly unaffected and undisturbed by the noisesing from the other two.
A few hours after Heaven and Earth cksmith began his work, he finished his first creation, a shortbow, and ced it on a disy rack with seven slots.
Heaven and Earth cksmith was renowned for crafting the finest bows, daggers, and gauntlets in the Nine Heavens and was expected by many to focus on creating these weapons during thepetition.
"Oh! Even though it''s only a Spirit-grade treasure, its aura is stronger than many Earth-grade treasures!" The audience inspected the result with their divine sense.
Heaven and Earth cksmith immediately proceeded to work on the second treasure, which, as someone had anticipated, appeared to be Earth-grade.
Three more days passed in the blink of an eye, and Eternal cksmith had just finished his first creation. It was an Ancient-grade spear.
Just like Heaven and Earth cksmith, Eternal cksmith appeared to be focused on his strengths, which were spears, swords, sabers, and anything with a simr shape.
Meanwhile, Heaven and Earth cksmith was already on his fourth creation at Divine-grade.
As for Tian Qiyuan, he was still meditating.
"Exalted cksmith may produce higher quality treasures, but his speed isgging behind the other two, and it''s not by a small margin, either."
"I wonder what''s taking him so long."
"Only time will tell."
Meanwhile, Eternal cksmith began working his way down to Divine-grade.
Sometimeter, as Heaven and Earth cksmith finished his Divine-grade treasure and began working on his Ancient-
grade treasure, Tian Qiyuan finally emerged from his meditation and walked to his pile of materials.
Both Heaven and Earth cksmith and Eternal cksmith gave him a quick nce thatsted half a second before ignoring him again.
Once Tian Qiyuan picked his materials, it was clear that he intended to follow Heaven and Earth cksmith''s path by working his way up from the lowest grade.
The moment Tian Qiyuan started refining the materials, his skills also became clear. Although his mental simtions appeared slower than the other two, his craftsmanship was clearly superior. Each time his hammer struck the material, it produced a harmonic sound that soothed the heart.
When the audience heard this noise, several individuals there suddenly closed their eyes and began cultivating. They quickly realized that it was easier to cultivate while listening to the sound of Tian Qiyuan''s hammering, feeling as if they were being guided by it.
In fact, even the other two Divine cksmiths found themselves hammering to Tian Qiyuan''s rhythm, as though they were hypnotized by it.
''Fuck! Why does the hammer feel so much better in my grasp when I follow his rhythm?!'' Heaven and Earth cksmith gritted his teeth in frustration when he realized this.
Eternal cksmith also sighed inwardly. He''d been a cksmith for hundreds of thousands of years by this point, but he''d never felt such peace when hammering at the anvil.
''What''s so different between the way he hammers and the way I do it?! I cannot tell!''
What frustrated him the most was his inability toprehend their difference. This sort of phenomenon only happens when one''s skill is drastically superior to the other.
Both Heaven and Earth cksmith and Eternal cksmith felt defeated by the sound of Tian Qiyuan''s hammering alone, but they couldn''t afford to mess up in thispetition and told themselves that thispetition was more than just about quality. Moreover, no matter how high-quality Tian Qiyuan''s treasures maye out, there was always the chance he would mess up at the very end.
''Let''s see if he can keep this up for the rest of thepetition!'' Eternal cksmith started hammering his weapon more fiercely, creating a separate rhythm that directly shed with Tian Qiyuan''s.
Not wanting to lose to either of them, Heaven and Earth also created his own cadence, one that would go fast and slow at a specific rate.
Even though there were three distinct rhythms, none of thepetitors were distracted by the others; each was entirely focused on their own cadence.
Half an hourter, Tian Qiyuan''s cadence stopped when he finished his first creation, which turned out to be a gauntlet.
"He finished the Spirit-grade treasure so quickly! Several times faster than Heaven and Earth cksmith!" The audience didn''t miss this detail.
After putting his creation on disy, Tian Qiyuan immediately began working on the next grade.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
The audience was surprised when Tian Qiyuan''s cadence sounded different than before. This time, it was slightly quicker, with pauses every five strikes.
Half an hourter, Tian Qiyuan finished the Earth-grade treasure, a bow, spending the same amount of time he spent with the Spirit-grade treasure. Typically, it takes longer to craft higher-grade treasures due to the stronger materials used, but that logic did not seem to apply to Tian Qiyuan.
The same phenomenon urred when Tian Qiyuan crafted his Heaven-grade treasure, which took the form of a saber.
"How''s he doing that?! I have never heard of anyone crafting a Heaven-grade treasure in less than half an hour!" The cksmiths watching were left stunned.
"Fuck! It''s too amazing! Do you think he''ll do the same with Divine-grade?!"
"Surely, that won''t happen."
"It can''t happen! My heart won''t be able to take it!"
As Tian Qiyuan began working on his Divine-grade treasure, his cadence sped up again. It''d be clear to the audience that Tian Qiyuan increases his cadence the higher the grade.
Half an hourter, Tian Qiyuan hung his finished product on the disy, catching up with Heaven and Earth cksmith. The audience stared at the Divine-grade spear with awed expressions, many of them in disbelief.
"Don''t tell me he''ll do the same thing with Ancient-grade…"
"That would be ridiculous!"
"Won''t the quality suffer if he''s working this fast?" Someone asked.
"That will depend on his skill.
The audience expected Tian Qiyuan to spend half an hour with the Ancient-grade treasure. However, he didn''t start working and sat down to meditate again.
"Huh? He''s meditating again? I thought he finished with that already."
"Perhaps he''d only managed to craft up to Divine-grade initially?"
"If it already takes him so many days to craft up to Divine-
grade, how long will it take him to finish Ancient-grade and above? Weeks? Months?"
"This doesn''t make any sense. One typically works faster in their mental simtion than in reality. Exalted cksmith is somehow doing it in reverse!"
"Truly an unfathomable existence…"
Several dayster, Tian Qiyuan emerged from his meditation at the same time Heaven and Earth finished his Ancient-grade treasure.
As for Eternal cksmith, he''d also finished every grade below Ancient-grade.
Both Eternal cksmith and Heaven and Earth cksmith started working on their Mystic-grade treasure on the same day, with Eternal cksmith being an hour ahead.
While they started refining their materials for the Mystic-
grade treasure, Tian Qiyuan began working on his Ancient-
grade treasure.
The audience held their breaths as the timer neared thirty minutes, wondering if Tian Qiyuan would be able to create another miracle.
When thirty minutes passed and Tian Qiyuan was still hammering away at the material, many sighs of relief could be heard from the audience, most of theming from cksmiths.
"Thank the heavens he didn''t finish in thirty minutes. I would''ve quit my career as a cksmith if he did."
However, after another twenty minutes, the cksmiths who sighed in relief earlier began holding their breaths nervously again, as they could tell that Tian Qiyuan was on the verge of finishing.
"Heavens! It hasn''t even been an hour! What kind of ridiculous speed is this?! Even the Heaven and Earth cksmith and Eternal cksmith took several days to craft an Ancient-
grade treasure!"
Meanwhile, both Heaven and Earth cksmith and Eternal cksmith were too absorbed in their work to pay attention to anything else.
After putting up his treasure, Tian Qiyuan returned to meditating. However, nobody dared to make fun of him for being slow anymore.