Chapter 629: Tournament 4
The second day of the tournament arrived in the blink of an eye.
At this time, Yu Nianzhen, Jiang Yue, and Ao Tian were sitting in the main box while Xiaolan was hosting the event.
"Weapon refiners, please come on stage." She said.
When they heard the announcement, the weapon refiners didn’t day.
"Grandpa and father are participating." Jiang Yue observed.
"That girl Yu Xiaoqi is also competing."
"Azhen, isn’t that Qing Rui?" Jiang Yue tipped his head towards a young man.
Seeing the person, Yu Nianzhen smiled and spoke.
"He no longer has blue hair." He said.
"He looks more mature." Jiang Yue sighed and continued to look around.
"Gu Cheng is also among the weapon refiners."
"Gu Dong is blessed with talented grandchildren."
As the two talked, all the weapon refiners gathered on stage.
At last count, there were one hundred and ninety-nine weapon refiners.
Of the one hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and fourteen were Zhenyue people while the remaining eighty-five were martial artists.
"Is our Zhenyue family especially talented at weapon refining?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be surprised when he saw the distribution.
"Maybe." Yu Nianzhen shrugged and continued.
"Although the alchemists were not a complete disaster, I hope the weapon refiners will do better."
"I know what you mean." Jiang Yue nodded.
Soon after, Xiaolan introduced the rules.
Like the alchemy competition, the weapon refiners could choose among five weapons: sword, hammer, shield, whip, or fan.
However, the basic points were different from the points given in the alchemy competition.
After all, there was a big gap in the difficulty of refining offense and defence weapons or hard and soft weapons.
With a flap of Xiaolan’s wings, a screen appeared in the void.
Basic points:
Sword – 10 points
Hammer – 20 points
Shield – 50 points
Whip -70 points
Fan -100 points
"It’s fair." Jiang Yue nodded.
"Swords are the most commonly used weapons in the Cangxing world." Yu Nianzhen stated and continued.
"First, it’s because they have high attack power. However, the main reason is because they are mostly cheap and readily available."
"Mmm." Jiang Yue nodded.
"Swords require the least materials and are easy to refine. Also, they are not time consuming. For this competition, refining a sword is a low-risk choice."
"However, those who choose the sword will likely not enter the top twenty ranking."
While Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue discussed, Xiaolan introduced the other rules.
Level points:
Level one – 10 points
Level two – 20 points
Level three – 30 points
Level four – 40 points
Level five – 50 points
Grade points:
Low grade – 10 points
Mid-grade – 30 points
High grade – 60 points
Peak grade -100 points
Rewards:
First place: Level three Beast Fire, level four furnace, ten million immortal stones.
Second place: Level four furnace, five million immortal stones.
Third place: Ten pieces of level three refining materials, three million immortal stones.
Fourth to tenth place: Two million immortal stones.
Eleventh to twentieth place: One million immortal stones.
Additional rewards: permission to enter a small secret realm.
After revealing the rewards, Xiaolan continued.
"The time limit is forty-eight hours and everyone has three chances." She said.
"Our treasury will be empty after this tournament." Jiang Yue sighed.
"We will leave it to the Ying guards to figure out." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Xiaoxu, within one hundred years, let’s settle everything we must do. After that, we will retreat at our private secret realm and not come out for at least one thousand years."
"Okay." Jiang Yue immediately agreed.
On one hand, he wanted to escape the hustle of raising a big family and on the other, he and Yu Nianzhen needed to retreat.
"With the origin source stones, we have a chance of advancing to the immortal king realm." He said and soon continued.
"I want to advance before the others return from the Reincarnation world."
"It’s not impossible." Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue nodded.
"They are about to start." Ao Tian reminded.
When the two looked, they saw the weapon refiners were choosing furnaces and refining materials.
"They are choosing more carefully than the alchemists." Jiang Yue said and nodded in approval.
"They learnt from yesterday’s lesson."
"It would be strange if they didn’t learn from their predecessors."
Half an hour later, the weapon refiners finished choosing their furnaces and refining materials.
Seeing the leftover materials, Jiang Yue smiled.
"Most of the leftover materials have been tampered with."
"Both grandpa Jiang and Uncle Jiang chose materials for a fan." Yu Nianzhen observed.
"They are ambitious enough." Jiang Yue chuckled and looked around.
"Yu Xiaoqi plans to refine a whip. Gu Cheng has chosen a shield and Qing Rui has chosen a fan. Ying Qi also plans to refine a fan. What a group of ambitious children."
"I am suddenly looking forward to how this competition will end."
"There is still forty-eight hours before the end." Yu Nianzhen reminded, rubbing his lover’s hair.
"Look at how carefully they are cleaning their furnaces and materials." Jiang Yue laughed.
"Who would dare to be careless after yesterday’s events?" Ao Tian said and the other two agreed.
After that, the three silently watched the competition.
Unlike the alchemy competition, few furnaces exploded.
When they did, it was not because of tainted materials or furnace but because of improper refining.
However, few that fell couldn’t get up.
After exploding the furnace, the weapon refiners would meditate to recover and then start again.
Forty-eight hours later, only thirteen weapon refiners failed to refine a weapon.
"Not bad." Yu Nianzhen said.
"It’s better than not bad." Jiang Yue laughed.
"I didn’t expect our Zhenyue Archipelago had so many weapon refining talents."
"Let’s hope we can find some mineral ore veins. Otherwise, our weapon refiners will have to rely on importing refining materials."
"Azhen, should we suppress our cultivation and take a walk around the Cangxing world? If we do this, I guarantee someone will try to bully us. That way, we can extort some mineral ore veins."
"It’s easier to directly rob people." Ao Tian said with an excited expression.
"Master, Yue’er, if you want, I can..." He started but Jiang Yue shook his head in refusal.
"Don’t think about it."
"What do you mean? Aren’t you also planning to rob people?"
"We plan to rob those who provoke us. Why would we take the initiative to rob others? We are not bandits." Jiang Yue said in a self-righteous voice.
When he heard this, Ao Tian rolled his eye but still advised the two.
"If you want mineral ore veins, you can look for them on the stars and other bodies surrounding the Cangxing world."
"We can do that but let’s search the sea first." Yu Nianzhen suggested.
"Speaking of the sea..." Ao Tian started with a solemn expression.
"What’s the matter?" The swordsman questioned.
"The sea beasts have been a little restless lately."
"Restless? Should we expect a sea beast tide?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Maybe." Ao Tian frowned.
However, before Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue could continue to question him, Xiaolan’s voice reached their ears.
"Level two mid-grade hammer, seventy points."
"Level one high-grade whip, one hundred and forty points."
"Level two low grade shield, eighty points."
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"Level three high grade fan, one hundred and ninety points."
Three hours later, Xiaolan finished scoring all the weapons.
Seeing the results, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue looked at each other with shocked expressions.
"This..." Jiang Yue muttered and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"It’s unexpected." Yu Nianzhen said while looking at the ranking on the screen.
First place: Jiang Chen – 230 points
First place: Qing Rui – 230 points
Third place: Ying Qi – 190 points
Fourth Place – Gu Cheng – 180 points
Fifth place: Yu Xiaoqi – 160 points
Fifth place: Jiang Qin – 160 points
"Qing Rui is an unprecedented dark horse. His refining talent is truly exceptional." Jiang Yue praised.
"Grandpa Jiang is also a rare talent. He actually refined a peak grade level three fan." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Gu Cheng also refined a peak grade level three shield. Yu Xiaoqi is also surprising. I didn’t expect the little girl to be so talented."
"Azhen, we should work harder to get better inheritances and resources for these weapon refiners."
"I know what you mean." Yu Nianzhen sighed.
After the reward ceremony, everyone dispersed and the two retreated to their ancient palace.
When they were seated on their usual sofa, Jiang Yue turned to Yu Nianzhen.
"Azhen, should we go to the sea to take a look?" He asked.
After all, dragons were sensitive to the sea and sea creatures.
Since Ao Tian mentioned the sea beasts were restless, something was definitely going on in the sea.
"We can take a look when the tournament is over. However, we don’t necessarily have to solve it."
"Do you want to train our people?"
"We were less than twenty when we faced our first sea beast tide. If possible, we should let our people experience this kind of thing. Those who can survive will survive and those who can’t will die."
"I understand." Jiang Yue sighed.
