Chaos Heavenly Emperor Technique

Chapter 1308: Chapter 1309: Old Dog Qing Xuaan!

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Ning Guichen stiffened all over and glanced in the direction of Qing Xuanzi. An Inner Elder had ordered him to deliberately make things difficult for the candidates in a public test. If outsiders found out, what would become of East Spirit Immortal Pond’s prestige?

However, the other party was a high-standing Elder, and he was just a small disciple. If he didn’t comply, Qing Xuanzi might deliberately make trouble for him in the future, and he would hardly be able to take a step within East Spirit Immortal Pond.

After all, he was just an ordinary Inner Sect Disciple, not like Lin Mu, a True Disciple with backing and support.

”Hey, Junior Brother Ning, what are you daydreaming about?”

Lin Mu saw that Ning Guichen’s face suddenly turned somber, and his silence made him seem like a dazed wooden statue. He waved a hand in front of him, and Ning Guichen snapped back to reality, nodded, and awkwardly smiled, saying, ”Nothing, let’s continue the test.”

Saying so, Ning Guichen looked towards Ling Feng with a hint of apology in his eyes: Sorry, the Elder’s orders, I dare not defy them!

Next, the more than two hundred talented individuals eligible for promotion lined up, while the eliminated contestants either left in disappointment or stood aside to watch. However, without exception, the expressions on their faces were quite unfavorable.

After all, they were renowned talents in their respective families, sects, or even in the Empire, and yet they couldn’t even enter the gates of East Spirit Immortal Pond. This result was truly hard to accept.

Meanwhile, the few contestants who received the qualification token sat on the viewing platform prepared for them. They no longer needed to compete with the others.

”Ahem!”

Ning Guichen cleared his throat and raised his voice, ”The second round of the test is called ’Iron Melting Gold.’ Soon, I will distribute a piece of refining material to each contestant. The quality of these materials is the same. Rely on your methods; you only need to completely refine the material in front of you in the shortest time possible.”

”What?”

Before he finished speaking, someone began to question, ”Junior Brother Ning, I’m a Wood Element Elemental Power user. Isn’t this test deliberately putting me at a disadvantage?”

Ning Guichen shook his head, smiling as he explained, ”Don’t worry, Junior Brother. This test is primarily for our Flowing Fire Hall. Besides, there are assessments from Xuanlei Hall, Jingfeng Hall, Earth Spirit Hall, and Void Sky Hall. Your performance in our Flowing Fire Hall’s test may not be great, but it just shows you’re not suitable for our Flowing Fire Hall. It doesn’t affect your results in other halls’ assessments.”

”I see.”

The cultivators with Wood or Water Elemental Power attributes sighed in relief. This round was clearly designed to filter out those with exceptional Fire attribute elemental power.

”Indeed, that’s the case.”

Ning Guichen smiled faintly, personally walking to each contestant to distribute a piece of material. When it was Ling Feng’s turn, Ning Guichen gritted his teeth and handed over an extremely difficult-to-refine piece of Immortal Metal to Ling Feng.

This material, even for him, would take a full three hours using Fire Element True Essence to possibly succeed in refining, while Ling Feng, with his level of cultivation, probably couldn’t refine it even in three days and nights.

Ling Feng took the Immortal Metal, feeling its weight. His brow slightly furrowed as he observed that the metal others had to refine was clearly different from his own.

Ning Guichen glanced at Ling Feng, shook his head, and showed a hint of apology before moving to the next contestant to hand out metal materials.

”It looks like that old rat wants to use this method to make me fail the test!”

Ling Feng smirked. The plan was good, but practically, how could Immortal Metal be too difficult for his fourth-rank Swallowing Flame?

In fact, Ning Guichen’s conscience was still decent, so Ling Feng didn’t take out his anger on him. The real culprit in all of this was that damned Qing Xuanzi.

Quickly, Ning Guichen finished distributing the materials, lit the incense burner in front of him, and said lightly, ”You have the time of one incense stick. If you can’t complete it within the time, your score for Flowing Fire Hall will be considered zero points.”

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately urged their elemental power. Some Fire Element cultivators had already begun to activate their Primordial True Fire to try and refine the metal in front of them.

The metal Ning Guichen distributed was a material called Golden Crow Stone, resistant to fire and heat, making it a very difficult metal to refine.

But the Immortal Metal he gave to Ling Feng was the Golden Crow Stone Mother, more than ten times harder to refine than the Golden Crow Stone. Even a High-level Fire Element Human Emperor couldn’t refine it within the time of one incense stick.

Therefore, Ling Feng’s score in Flowing Fire Hall was bound to be zero.

However, this was just Ning Guichen’s wishful thinking.

On the high platform, Qing Xuanzi’s lips curled slightly. He only knew that Ling Feng had strong Spiritual Power, so he thought Ling Feng would undoubtedly fail at this round.

However, while everyone was still grinding their teeth, urging their elemental power to refine the metal materials, Ling Feng’s palm suddenly flashed with a crimson-purple flame. Then, he loudly declared, ”Junior Brother Ning, I have completed it!”

”What?”

Ning Guichen almost jumped up in surprise. This had been only about ten breaths of time, and Ling Feng had refined that Immortal Metal?

This was utterly impossible!

Even with his power, trying to refine the Golden Crow Stone Mother would take more than three hours, yet Ling Feng did it in just ten breaths?

”Wow, no way, that’s too fast!”

”Damn, I just started activating my Primordial True Fire!”

The surrounding contestants were dumbfounded. While they hadn’t even begun, Ling Feng was already finished?

Moreover, they had no idea that the metal Ling Feng refined was indeed the Golden Crow Stone Mother!

Qing Xuanzi’s eyelids twitched wildly. He pondered how long it might take him to refine that Golden Crow Stone Mother. In the end, his brows furrowed more and more because the time he needed to expend might be at least as long as one incense stick.

What on earth is strange about this young man?

Ning Guichen quickly walked to Ling Feng. He clearly knew what item he had given Ling Feng, but upon seeing the metal in Ling Feng’s palm, his face suddenly changed drastically.

As it turned out, Ling Feng not only completely smelted the Golden Crow Stone Mother but also forged four characters into the material.

”Old Dog Qing Xuan!”

Ning Guichen, upon seeing these four characters, hastily covered them with a palm and twitched his lips, lowering his voice, ”Junior Brother Ling, you can’t make jokes like this!”

Ling Feng shrugged, letting Ning Guichen take the Golden Crow Stone Mother, and said calmly, ”Junior Brother Ning, may I know how my score is this round?”

Ning Guichen took a deep breath, looked at Ling Feng, then up towards Qing Xuanzi on the high platform, hesitated for a long time, and dared not speak.

”Hmph, this round, your score is excellent!”

With Qing Xuanzi’s abilities, how could he not see the four characters Ling Feng smelted into the Golden Crow Stone Mother? However, since he was guilty of deceit first, he couldn’t point it out. He could only grit his teeth and endure, reluctantly grading Ling Feng’s performance as excellent.

After all, under the eyes of so many spectators, if Ling Feng, who refined the metal material in ten breaths, wasn’t excellent, then the rest probably wouldn’t even qualify as poor.