Chapter 88: Fellow Daoist is actually a member of the Qimen Dunjia

  At the exit of the underground refining room, a long table appeared at some unknown time.

  Mr. Aoki and the middle-aged man sat calmly on one side of the long table, while young Sube stood beside the middle-aged man.

  "Elder, do you really believe that the disciple of the Instrument Sect can make a treasure appear and refine his body with just a furnace?" This question had been on the middle-aged man's mind since before, but he had been suppressing it without asking. However, as time passed, this question grew in his heart like a sprout, growing bigger and more unbearable, until he finally couldn't help but ask.

  When Zi Feng heard the middle-aged man's words, his eyes lit up and he immediately perked up his ears to listen carefully. He was also extremely curious about this matter in his heart. After all, at that time, even other disciples of the Qizong sect thought that Qingmu would refuse Kong Fang's bizarre request, but unexpectedly, Qingmu agreed in the end.

  Qingmu Elder smiled calmly, with a flash of wisdom in his eyes.

  "He can't actually... I don't know either." said the old man Aoki with a smile.

  "That elder you..." The middle-aged man looked at Aoki Elder in surprise.

  Zi Feng's expression suddenly twitched, and he thought that Qingmu Elder had seen something, but unexpectedly, Qingmu Elder gave them such an answer.

  "It's just a mere 600 points of contribution, it doesn't mean much to us, why not give it a try?" said the elder Aoki with a sigh.

  "But Elder, if he can't succeed, you'll lose a lot of face. If the other Elders find out about this, who knows how they'll mock you?" The middle-aged man said with some helplessness.

  Paying an extra 600 points of contribution is indeed nothing to them, but if Kong Fang didn't do it, Elder Qingmu would definitely be wearing a hat that says "poor judge of character", and the other Elders absolutely wouldn't mind teasing Elder Qingmu about this.

  "Just let them come and make a joke of me if they have the chance." The old man Akagi sneered, looking very confident.

  Aoki Elder actually had his own thoughts in mind, but he didn't want to say his guesses out loud until the result came out.

  "In the first round of screening, that kid was the first to successfully refine a weapon and armor. Although those two treasures didn't have the Fire Refining Golden Body, they were still top-notch lower-grade Post-Heavenly Spirit Treasures. Afterwards, he confidently asked for double pay in the Wood Mansion, and the task of making the equipment blanks was all handed over to him. If he didn't have some tricks up his sleeve, would he dare to come to our Wooden Lineage Temple to act arrogant? He wouldn't not understand that these 600 contribution points aren't so easily obtained." The elder Qingmu's mouth corner revealed a hint of an unfathomable smile, calmly and composedly waiting for the result.

  Suddenly, Qingmu Elder looked towards the exit of the underground refining room. Then, the middle-aged man and Zifeng also turned their heads in that direction.

  All they saw were those fellow disciples who had been arranged to help and had all run out, each with a hint of shock on their faces.

  Seeing the three elderly Aoki, more than a dozen Mokusei followers immediately stopped and bowed respectfully.

  Aoki nodded, while the middle-aged man beside him couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "You look shocked, what happened in the underground refining room?"

  Among the twelve Wooden Path disciples, one of them walked out excitedly and replied: "The person who made the furnace was too fast in refining the equipment. Every time we went to deliver materials that others had processed to him, the previous batch of materials had already been taken away by him. His refining speed alone could even catch up with the other twelve people."

  The always calm and composed Qingmu elder had a hint of a smile on his face, while the middle-aged man exchanged a glance with Zifeng beside him. The two couldn't help but feel some curiosity in their hearts, wondering how Kong Fang was able to do it. One person was actually able to keep up with the refining speed of twelve people. Although making the vessel blank was slightly faster than removing impurities, one person being able to keep up with the speed of twelve people was still a bit too exaggerated.

  "That... um..." The disciple of Moku Gyō who was speaking suddenly looked at the three Jōka with some hesitation, his voice becoming somewhat hesitant.

  "Say what you want to say." Qingmu elder said with a faint smile, his mood was quite good now, just relying on the speed of alchemy, he already had some confidence in Kong Fang.

  He immediately became excited and asked in a row: "Is the person who made the vessel embryo from the Vessel Sect's Vessel Demon?"

  The other disciples of Mokuji also looked at the elder Qingmu, with excitement and curiosity in their eyes.

  Qingmu Elder was shocked, and the middle-aged man beside him as well as Zi Feng standing next to him were also stunned. If they hadn't known long ago that Kong Fang was only an inner sect disciple, upon learning of his refining speed, they might have thought that Kong Fang was a member of the demonic cultivators.

  "He is not a tool spirit." The old man shook his head and waved his hand: "You all retreat first."

  The twelve men respectfully responded in unison and then left this place.

  Before long, Wang Wei and others also came out of the underground alchemy room. After twelve people came out, they stood on both sides, all looking inward at the exit of the underground alchemy room.

  Soon, Kong Fang also walked out. He found that everyone was staring at him, and his expression changed, not knowing what had happened.

  "Did it succeed?" Wang Yun asked hastily as soon as he opened his mouth.

  Others also looked at Kong Fang, wondering if any of the more than ten treasures had appeared with the Fire Refining Golden Body.

  Kong Fang smiled and said, "Let's let Qingmu Elder decide."

  Seeing Kong Fang's smile, Wang Wei and others' hearts skipped a beat, and they already had some guesses.

  Kong Fang arrived in front of the long table and took out more than a dozen treasures from his storage ring, placing them on the long table.

  The old man Aoki and the middle-aged man stood up to take a look.

  There is a big difference between treasures that have undergone the fire trial and those that have not. There are several ways to distinguish them, but the easiest and simplest method is to input mana. When treasures that have undergone the fire trial input mana, the caster will feel that the mana has no stagnation in the treasure at all, and can flow smoothly, just like the mana flows in the body.

  It didn't take long for the old man Aoki and the middle-aged man to check all the treasures. The two of them first looked at each other, and both saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.

  They initially just hoped that the chance of Huo Lian Jin Shen appearing would be around 1%, but after checking all the treasures, the two were shocked to discover that nearly 2% of the treasures had actually appeared with Huo Lian Jin Shen.

  Kong Fang stood opposite the long table, a bitter smile in his heart, knowing that this time he had gone a bit too far.

  "Is Fellow Daoist a member of the Tool Spirit Clan?" Thinking back to what those disciples from their own sect had said, Qingmu Elder also began to suspect Kong Xuan's identity and couldn't help but ask, despite having just denied those disciples' guesses.

  Wang Wei and others looked at Qingmu in surprise, they were very clear that Kong Fang had only been an inner disciple for half a year, how could he be one of the Moqi, and was there such a young person among the Moqi?