“We will begin when all the participants are ready.831Please respect copyright.PENANACjF50Imhua
“Remember this; when else should you go all out besides now?!” Fung Seung bellowed, all eight participants excitedly jumping to work. But unlike his well-prepared competition, he moved slowly and unhurriedly.831Please respect copyright.PENANAMYqyE8lwWn
Yau Suet Chung patted the jade on his waist, a weird item half a man’s height appearing before him, catching even Chui Yim’s attention.831Please respect copyright.PENANAHExp0xwR67
“Is that…his glacier bench?” Chui Yim had heard of water-casting but had yet to witness it in action. Yau Suet Chung’s weird item stood a meter tall, with the width of two human wingspans. It was a water-casting glacier bench; hollow in the middle and looked just like a huge, portable well.831Please respect copyright.PENANAlHoiAW94EN
The sides of the bench were blue and cold, and the crowd could feel a chill as soon as Yau Suet Chung took it out.831Please respect copyright.PENANAk8FRHLe7Rw
Fung Seung couldn’t help but nod to himself. Indeed, worthy of being grandmaster Mok’s disciple…This bench should be personally crafted by grandmaster Mok himself.831Please respect copyright.PENANAXn3nagnhYR
Moreover, the bench was made out of precious ultrachill jade, a rare ingredient found only at the North Pole. Since the territory fell under the Blazing Skies Mountain, it was monopolized and sold at extravagant prices.831Please respect copyright.PENANAa56vzYX8E1
Even so, it didn't reduce the importance of this item to water-casters. Mok Ching Sau once mentioned that it was a necessary ingredient to create grade four gliph weapons despite low temperature being its only strength.831Please respect copyright.PENANAuMg67ktTYo
Ultrachill jade was formed from the water beneath the North Pole. Because of the extreme cold, even fire couldn’t melt the jade, which was considered one of the coldest ingredients. Just using a little jade in water-casting would increase the product’s durability by seventy percent!831Please respect copyright.PENANA6Zhe04wwvL
As for Yau Suet Chung’s bench, it was made entirely out of ultrachill jade…It definitely cost no less than a grade four gliph weapon.
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Meanwhile, Chau Fook Sau sat cross-legged on the ground, fiddling with something while many bottles sat around him. Unlike water-casting or fire-forging, which required a workbench, grass-refiners only needed to knit or weave their product.
Everyone around Chui Yim was busy except for him. He walked to Yau Suet Chung’s side to watch his forging, inadvertently causing a commotion, but the crowd could do nothing.831Please respect copyright.PENANASEfspSUq6i
This segment was timed, and with the participants’ skills, they’d definitely manage to complete their work before sunset, so each participant was given the freedom to divide their time accordingly. Thus, it was entirely Chui Yim’s prerogative to waste his time watching Yau Suet Chung.831Please respect copyright.PENANA7zwQidTWPh
Yau Suet Chung sneered. He didn’t stop Chui Yim as he was secretly pleased that the world’s greatest forging genius was watching him. Heh, I’ll take this chance to show you what a real blacksmith is like!831Please respect copyright.PENANA0Mlm8vlNb3
Excitedly, Yau Suet Chung patted the jade on his waist, several bottles appearing and landing at the bench’s side neatly, like a sparrow building its nest. Yau Suet Chung swiftly poured the contents of the bottles into the bench skillfully.831Please respect copyright.PENANAElQVrbzdEb
Plop plop plop…831Please respect copyright.PENANAPff0Iczl2q
There was already lake water in the glacier bench, making it similar to a cold well. The moment the liquids were poured into the bench, clear sounds were heard as they froze and sank to the bottom of the bench.831Please respect copyright.PENANAZck3XgdE9H
“Interesting.” Chui Yim caressed his bald head. He could feel the well’s low temperature. With his state, he could tell that the water in the “well” was also of an extremely low temperature, and this water was actually the main component of the bench! 831Please respect copyright.PENANAmtoHsFM6i1
The liquids froze the instant Yau Suet Chung poured them into the well, but the lake water in the well remained fluid. Yau Suet Chung reached out his hands and moved his fingers rapidly, pouring more liquid from the other bottles, the contents similarly freezing. No longer as arrogant as before, Yau Suet Chung turned serious and put his hands into the glacier bench.831Please respect copyright.PENANABXzCdRfjXz
Creak creak…831Please respect copyright.PENANAN19O5OoLJP
Yau Suet Chung’s arms were covered with energliph to protect him from the cold temperature. With that, he mixed the ice in the water together. Chui Yim could somehow see a long item forming, but he wasn’t able to identify the weapon.831Please respect copyright.PENANAKXWpxVFFZy
“Cloud Palace outer sect representative! You’re too close; please don’t disturb the other participants!” Just then, Fung Seung couldn’t take it anymore and shouted.831Please respect copyright.PENANArFyrH3SBuv
“Oh.” Chui Yim smiled apologetically and stepped backwards, but he only stood there, seemingly not bothering to participate.831Please respect copyright.PENANAIYwqSahvKj
Time flew past quickly, and Yau Suet Chung wasn’t the only participant to progress. There was soon another unique aura felt from the other side of the arena!831Please respect copyright.PENANArB4eDQC5AK
Chui Yim turned over subconsciously to see that there was a tree trunk which was the size of a human in front of Chai Fook Sau! The latter was holding a huge knife and chopping at it continuously as countless shavings flew everywhere. Kam Chin-Kee, who was spectating found it interesting to watch and felt that it was somehow similar to sculpting.831Please respect copyright.PENANAsyl8GRxZC9
It was just that the knowledge and skills applied in the two fields were totally different. Besides having a pleasing appearance, gliphs and gliphism were important for the sculpture to resonate with heaven and earth to create special effects.831Please respect copyright.PENANAJO3jaSKN4S
However, things were different for gliph weapons. Gliphism was less important to gliph weapons, and all the blacksmiths needed to do was cast it into an appropriate shape. However, rather than using just one type of wood, grass-refined weapons were way more complicated as weapons were used to fight fierce battles, so durability and countless other factors needed to be considered.831Please respect copyright.PENANAv4hvy3OUsh
It seemed similar, but it was fundamentally different.831Please respect copyright.PENANACj5dVg8U9p
Even Chui Yim was left with his jaws wide open, this wasn’t his first time watching a grass-refiner work, but he had never seen a blacksmith using such a large tree trunk. As Chai Fook Sau shaved down the trunk, he poured various liquids onto it from time to time, causing many changes.831Please respect copyright.PENANAPEiRYBTXUb
Chai Fook Sau was fast, and he was obviously very skilled.831Please respect copyright.PENANAgfog8MBtHY
It seemed that no matter which world they were in, the fundamentals were most important for blacksmiths. Be it Yau Suet Chung or the steady Chai Fook Sau; they were both skilled blacksmiths.831Please respect copyright.PENANADQQuoOaZvO
Having strong fundamentals was the prerequisite to creating a legendary weapon.831Please respect copyright.PENANAMqUNFME53G
Soon, the huge tree had been shaved down into a long wooden rod by him; this rod was formed out of the tree’s core and essence. Its shape was enough to guess that Chai Fook Sau was making a spear, rod, or another similar gliph weapons that were long.831Please respect copyright.PENANAlIYk1CCz1b
Meanwhile, Yau Suet Chung had started forging too, and he seemed to be making a bladed weapon.831Please respect copyright.PENANAbDHsEyHQG2
At this moment, both Chai Fook Sau and Yau Suet Chung were in the midst of casting. Chui Yim had now lost interest and started working.831Please respect copyright.PENANAZp3FcztCIA
He made his way to a workbench, and to the crowd’s surprise, he took out the weird metal piece from yesterday. Even Fung Seung was shocked. Why did he take this out again?831Please respect copyright.PENANA4sbCPJCL7v
He had watched Chui Yim create this metal piece yesterday, and after concluding that it wasn’t against the rules, he remained silent and watched Chui Yim closely.
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