“We will begin when all the participants are ready.821Please respect copyright.PENANABnDxAWYheT
“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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAtkLHJRvQkn
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAV0iAzfTXvu
“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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAnMoJM7K8PH
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAMOEQyq1mQq
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAqtdk5cdrng
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANA8MLsTU26za
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAoYgvkbSJUS
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!821Please respect copyright.PENANAkquhwOrjcR
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAbFtd2GQZIl
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANABDTiE5ZeEI
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!821Please respect copyright.PENANAdYhMlm8oEj
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANASR0OGKMGDO
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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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAtNvXmGWp5R
“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! 821Please respect copyright.PENANAmTRVeVWik4
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAhkDDb5zzYq
Creak creak…821Please respect copyright.PENANAszZry3uH7d
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAHxM8r3LG2R
“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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAEVIk9McnUh
“Oh.” Chui Yim smiled apologetically and stepped backwards, but he only stood there, seemingly not bothering to participate.821Please respect copyright.PENANA8Q4Kf7LUft
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!821Please respect copyright.PENANAzdGrQ7VcO8
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANASJEi2ZeVzc
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAuNAOrf8Tkc
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAX0IY7ngxbi
It seemed similar, but it was fundamentally different.821Please respect copyright.PENANANJTbBoyBvc
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAaaLWbVI5jA
Chai Fook Sau was fast, and he was obviously very skilled.821Please respect copyright.PENANAC4Z2YSqMot
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAqMuhL3pi9f
Having strong fundamentals was the prerequisite to creating a legendary weapon.821Please respect copyright.PENANA6Z16uEQEM3
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANAJHQDfIv5Rg
Meanwhile, Yau Suet Chung had started forging too, and he seemed to be making a bladed weapon.821Please respect copyright.PENANAZIxaM8K1Fc
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.821Please respect copyright.PENANANA4gywIOaq
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?821Please respect copyright.PENANAisf94YhlBN
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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